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Indian Oceanby Michael Pearson
Routledge 2003; US$ 39.95In this stimulating and authoritative overview, the autor looks from the sea to its shores - the land areas it influences through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. more...
Modern South Asiaby Sugata Bose; Ayesha Jalal
Routledge 1998; US$ 28.95This is a social, economic, political and cultural history of modern South Asia from 1700 to the present. In a work of synthesis and interpretation, the authors offer an understanding of the sophisticated historiography of this area. more...
Indian Ocean in World Historyby Milo Kearney
Routledge 2003; US$ 29.95To appreciate the extraordinary role of the Indian Ocean in world history you have to compare it with other seas. This is where long-range, high-seas navigation was probably born. Myth credited Buddha with feats of pilotage. The legendary Persian royal ship-builder, Jamshid, was said to have crossed ?the waters and passed from region to region with celerity?. more...
Modern South Asiaby Ayesha Jalal; Sugata Bose
Routledge 2003; US$ 37.95A new edition of this leading textbook that offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies that shape the lives of more than a fifth of humanity. more...
Perspectives of mutual encounters in South Asian history, 1760-1860by J. Malik
BRILL 2000; US$ 203.00This volume explores the issues of cultural reciprocity between Europeans and South Asians. In doing so, prevailing assumptions about these complex relationships are examined. more...
Circumambulations in South Asian historyby J. Gommans; O. Prakash
BRILL 2003; US$ 177.00This volume, written by a small number of scholars on colonial and medieval Indian history, ethnohistory and the new military history of South Asia, forms a tribute to one of the leading scholars in the field of Indian history, Professor Dirk Kolff. more...
South Asians in the diasporaby K.A. Jacobsen; P.P. Kumar
BRILL 2004; US$ 252.00This work deals with a phenomenon of increasing global significance, the South Asian diaspora. The case studies explore and analyze the social, religious and cultural reality of people in the diaspora belonging to Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. more...
South Asia in the Worldby Ramesh Thakur; Oddny Wiggen
United Nations University Press 2004; US$ 43.00Presents issues of particular relevance to the region, and explores the potential for improvement both in domestic and international efforts at alleviating the problems of South Asia. more...
Querying the Medievalby Ronald Inden; Jonathan Walters; Daud Ali
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 95.00The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the representations of pre-colonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious nationalists to identify Hinduism as the essence of national identity in India and Buddhism as the essence of nationality in Sri Lanka. more...
Superpower Rivalry in the Indian Oceanby Selig S. Harrison; K. Subrahmanyam
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 145.00Focusing on a major area of superpower rivalry embracing the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, 42 littoral states and one-third of the world's population, Indian and American authors examine the factors leading to the escalation of tension in this region and the effects of India's military power. more...









