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The Sole Spokesman
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 32.00Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review more...
Self and Sovereignty
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 52.95Self and Sovereignty surveys the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonisation and the partition period. Commencing in colonial times, this book explores and interprets the historical processes through which the perception of the Muslim individual and the community of Islam has been reconfigured... more...
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 38.00A comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia. more...
The Pity of Partition
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 27.95Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, and... more...
Modern South Asia
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 37.95The South Asian subcontinent is home to nearly a billion people and has been the site of fierce historical contestation. It is a panoply of languages and religions with a rich and complex history and culture. Drawing on the newest and most sophisticated historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia is written in an accessible... more...
Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 32.00Successive Indian governments have remained committed to market-oriented reform since its introduction in 1991. In a well-argued examination of the political dynamics which underlie that commitment, Jenkins challenges existing theories of the relationship between democracy and economic liberalisation. more...
India Working
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation. Successive chapters explore a range of topics including labour, capital, and the state. The author's conclusion challenges the notion that liberalisation releases the economy from political interference. more...
Remembering Partition
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 27.00Gyan Pandey's book is a compelling examination of the violence that marked the Partition of India and how it is remembered. It is also a critique of history-writing and nationalist myth-making. This is a book for historians of South Asia, sociologists, and all those concerned with the Indian subaltern story. more...
Seeing the State
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 38.00How do poor people in India understand and make use of the state in their daily lives? The authors consider key debates in development studies on participation and good governance to answer these questions. They study the extent to which poorer people can engage the political process as citizens. more...
Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 43.99Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily unfriendly to the liberal state, but neither philosophical analysis nor empirical argument has convincingly established that conclusion. Examining the problem from a variety of perspectives, including law, philosophy, history, political theory, and religious studies, the essays in Theology and... more...
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