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ECONOMICSECONOMICSIndia’s Late, Late IndustrialRevolution: DemocratizingEntrepreneurshipSumit K. MajumdarThere is a paradox at the heart ofthe Indian economy. Indianbusinessmen and traders arehighly industrious and ingeniouspeople, yet for many years Indianindustry was sluggish and slow todevelop. One of the major factorsin this sluggish development wasthe command and control regimeknown as the License Raj. This regime has gradually beenremoved and, after two decades of reform, India is nowawakening from its slumber and is experiencing a late, lateindustrial revolution. This important new book cataloguesand explains this revolution through a combination ofrigorous analysis and entertaining anecdotes about India’sentrepreneurs, Indian firms’ strategies and the changing roleof government in Indian industry. This analysis shows thatthere is a strong case for a manufacturing focus so that Indiacan replicate the success stories of Asian countries such asJapan, South Korea and China.Sumit K. Majumdar is Professor of Technology Strategy inthe School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas,Richardson.32 B&W illustrations 44 tables9781107032996 452pp HB ` 895.00The Service Sector inIndia’s DevelopmentGaurav NayyarA striking aspect of India’s recentgrowth has been the dynamism ofits services sector. In 2010, itaccounted for 57 percent of thecountry’s GDP and 25 percent of itstotal employment. The results donot conform to the growthexperience of currentlyindustrialized countries or otherdeveloping economies. Is theincreasing share of the service sector in India’s total outputsimply notional, as several activities that were earlierclassified in the industrial sector are now subsumed inservices’ value added, or because the relative price ofservices has increased over time? No. The sector’s growth isreal – it is linked to household final demand, policy reformsand increased service exports. Is this service-led growthprocess sustainable? That remains an open questionbecause the service sector is highly heterogeneous, rangingfrom software services and business process outsourcing towholesale and retail trade and personal services. Thesesubsectors vary considerably in the context of differenteconomic characteristics that are important fordevelopment.Gaurav Nayyar is an economist in the Economic ResearchDivision of the WTO Appellate Body, Geneva.9781107035324 312pp HB ` 895.00Development Disparitiesin Northeast IndiaRakhee BhattacharyaIndia’s recent reform measureshave transformed thesocioeconomic landscape of manystates; however, it has left a fewothers behind. DevelopmentDisparities in Northeast Indiaattempts to determine NortheastIndia’s place in the country’seconomic growth map. It examineswhether India’s liberalization hasinfused any hope into the Northeastern states of India. Thisbook objectively analyses Northeast India’s intra-regionalvariations and relates these to a pan-regional analytic gridthereby connecting it to the rest of India.The book opens a debate by examining critical issues likethe colossal gap between supply steered policies of thecentral government and demands of the people in thisregion. It also addresses the issues of rampant corruption,dismal failure of governance and an insurgent economythat drives a sinister parallel economy within the region.This book will be of interest to graduate students,researchers, academicians and policymakers.Rakhee Bhattacharya, a fellow with the Maulana AzadInstitute of Asian Studies, Kolkata is engaged in research onthe issues of security and development in Northeast India.1 Map9788175967984 192pp HB ` 695.00The Financial InclusionImperative andSustainable ApproachesDeepali Pant JoshiThe need for Financial Inclusion isfast emerging as an internationalpolicy issue at the macro level. TheFinancial Inclusion Imperative andSustainable Approaches is acomprehensive account of variouscomponents of the FinancialInclusion. It presents a blueprint tocombat poverty and highlights thecritical role of banks and the microfinance sector. This bookis comprehensive and gives a contemporary treatment ofmajor issues facing the Indian Economy today. It combinesacademic rigor and objectivity with clear presentation. Inthis incisive book, the author asks searching questions andoffers carefully thought out answers. This book will be avaluable source of reference on the subject for bankers,policy-makers, teachers and students of economics.order online at www.cambridgeindia.org1

ECONOMICSDeepali Pant Joshi is presently Chief General Manager withthe Reserve Bank of India based at Mumbai9788175968004 292pp HB ` 695.00Policy Options to AchieveFood Security in SouthAsiaSurabhi Mittal &Deepti Sethi (eds)Agriculture in South Asia andmany other parts of the world isapparently caught in a lowequilibrium trap. The features ofthis trap are low productivity ofstaples, supply shortfalls, higherprices, low returns to farmers,product diversification, causingfurther shortage of staple food. The question of foodsecurity has a number of dimensions that go beyondproduction, availability and demand for food. Foodavailability does not ensure food security. Thus, distributionand access of population to food is equally important forfood security. Food availability can be achieved throughbetter distribution mechanisms and alternatively throughimports to ensure food security.This book identifies major issues of food security in theSouth Asian countries. Each chapter of the book throwslight on issues such as initiatives and policies taken up in aparticular country to achieve the goal of food security, andalso critically evaluates the effectiveness of these policies.Discussing the SAARC food bank to ensure food security inSouth Asia, the book also suggests measures to overcomethe identified current constraints and make the policiesmore effective.The book would be of interest to postgraduate students,academic researchers, SAARC offices, and organizationsdealing with agriculture research.Surabhi Mittal is a Senior Scientist at the InternationalMaize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). Sheserved as a Senior Fellow at the Indian Council for Researchon International Economic Relations (ICRIER).Deepti Sethi is a Research Assistant at the Indian Councilfor Research on International Economic Relations.9788175968097 242pp HB ` 695.00Banking and FinancialSystemsV. Nityananda SarmaBanks are the most significantplayers in the Indian financialmarket. The Indian banking systemhas played a crucial role in thesocioeconomic development ofthe country. After 1990, theGovernment of India formulatedpolicies supporting liberalisation,privatisation and globalisation. Thebook keeps pace with thesechanges and captures the central themes and concerns ofcorporate financial management. The topics covered in thebook are discussed in a fairly self-contained manner. Itaddresses contemporary financial components such ascapital market, money market, banker and customerrelationship, cooperative banks, regional rural banks, RBI, SBI,development banking and banking technology. Besides, itexplains the assessment of working capital and theappraisal of term loans from a practitioner’s point of view.V. Nityananda Sarma was a Reader at the GovernmentCollege for Women, Begumpet, Hyderabad.9788175966376 552pp PB ` 395.00Food for Policy:Reforming AgricultureSurabhi Mittal &Arpita Mukherjee (eds)Food for Policy: ReformingAgriculture is the first book ofits kind to highlight thereforms needed to achieve a‘second Green Revolution’which will then make way foran ‘evergreen’ revolution inIndia. Although there has beenmuch discussion on reformingthe Indian agriculture sector and making it globallycompetitive, it continues to be plagued by variousconstraints and the reform process has been extremely slow.This book is a compilation of articles by experts whoprovide comprehensive solutions for the Indian agriculturesector. A unique feature of this book is that it builds on theexisting work on reforms and trade in agriculture whilefocusing on the gaps in the current literature. There are veryfew books today that try to address issues such as agribusinessand non-farm employment. Food for Policy:Reforming Agriculture fills this lacuna by covering a widerange of areas including agriculture trade policy, pricepolicy, infrastructure development and supply chainefficiency.Surabhi Mittal and Arpita Mukherjee are Senior Fellows atthe Indian Council for Research on International EconomicRelations (ICRIER).9788175966215 274pp HB ` 795.00Social Banking: Promise,Performance andPotentialDr Deepali Pant JoshiSocial Banking: Promise,Performance and Potentialprovides an overview of theIndian banking scenario fromboth a historical and a theoreticalperspective. It discusses thedevelopment of Social Banking,its working and its relevance forthe present and the future. Thebook presents the contribution of banking institutions in2 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

ECONOMICS/ HISTORYpromoting savings and investments and extending thereach of banking services.The author argues the case for large-scale Social Bankingand microfinance for the alleviation of poverty. She alsoprovides an extensive analysis of the remarkable traits thathave made Social Banking a success in India and enabledthe Indian banking system to reach millions of low-incomesavers and borrowers. It clearly demonstrates thetremendous potential embedded in well-designedinstitutional interventions.Through this book, Dr Deepali Pant Joshi has made animportant contribution to the understanding of theperformance of Social Banking in India and its potential foruplifting the weaker sections through viable enterprises.The author combines the professional expertise of a seniorbanker with the social commitment and analytical rigour ofan economist. This book addresses an issue that has highpriority on the national agenda and will be a valuablesource of reference on the subject for bankers, policymakers, teachers and students of economics.Dr Deepali Pant Joshi is presently the Chief GeneralManager of Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai.9788175962811 200pp HB ` 495.00A Field of One’s Own:Gender and Land Rights inSouth AsiaBina AgarwalThis is the first major study ofgender and property in South Asia.Bina Agarwal argues that thesingle most important economicfactor affecting women’s situationis the gender gap in commandover property. In rural South Asia,the most significant form ofproperty is arable land, a criticaldeterminant of economic well-being, social status, andempowerment. But few women own land; fewer control it.The author investigates the complex barriers to women’sland ownership and control, and how they might beovercome. The book makes significant and originalcontributions to theory and policy concerning land reforms,‘bargaining’ and gender relations, women’s status, and thenature of resistance.Bina Agarwal, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.1 figure 13 maps9788185618647 572pp PB ` 295.009788185618630 572pp HB ` 395.00India Working: Essays onSociety and EconomyBarbara Harriss-WhiteBarbara Harriss-White describesthe working of the Indianeconomy through its mostimportant social structures ofaccumulation. Successivechapters explore a range oftopics including labour, capital,the state, gender, religiousplurality, caste and space. Theauthor’s conclusion challengesthe prevailing notion that liberalisation releases theeconomy from political interference.Barbara Hariss-White is Professor of Development Studiesat Queen Elizabeth House, and Fellow of Wolfson College,University of Oxford.9788175962309 335pp PB ` 495.00HISTORYMigration and Diaspora inModern AsiaSunil S. AmrithMigration is at the heart of Asianhistory. For centuries migrantshave tracked the routes and seasof their ancestors - merchants,pilgrims, soldiers and sailors -along the Silk Road and across theIndian Ocean and the China Sea.Over the last 150 years, however,migration within Asia and beyondhas been greater than at any othertime in history. Sunil S. Amrith’s engaging and deeplyinformative book crosses a vast terrain, from the Middle Eastto India and China, tracing the history of modern migration.Animated by the voices of Asian migrants, it tells the storiesof those forced to flee from war and revolution, and thosewho left their homes and their families in search of a betterlife. These stories of Asian diasporas can be joyful orpoignant, but they all speak of an engagement with newlandscapes and new peoples.Sunil S. Amrith is Senior Lecturer in History at BirkbeckCollege, University of London16 B&W illustrations 5 maps 4 tables9781107020245 240pp HB ` 895.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org3

HISTORYThe Malabar Muslims: ADifferent PerspectiveLRS LakshmiThe Muslims of Kerala, primarily inthe northern region of the statecalled Malabar, are referred to asMappillas. This book is a study ofthe social and institutionalchanges of the Malabar Muslimsduring the colonial period. Itpresents the Mappilla communityin a wider Indian context andanalyses its social, economic,religious, theological, political and educational aspects indetail. Particular emphasis has been laid on their womenwho are socially more powerful than their counterparts inthe rest of the subcontinent.The Mappilla tharavaadus, which are matrilineal jointfamilies, and kaarnotis, the female matrilineal heads of thesefamilies, are central to the understanding of the socialhistory of this community. The British colonial systemdisrupted this traditional social order. The book argues thatMappillas do not per se represent a monolithic community,but show inter- and intra-regional variations and socialhierarchies. The position and status of the Mappillacommunity in the twenty-first century has been comparedwith its Muslim counterparts in the other regions of thecountry.The book would be of interest to academics, researchersand graduate students of South Asian History andSociology. NGOs working on the social welfare of minoritiesand general readers interested in the Islamic community ofthe west coast of India will find this book useful.LRS Lakshmi teaches history at Lakshmibai College,University of Delhi.9788175969155 230pp HB ` 595.00Armies, Wars and theirFoodD. Vijaya RaoIn the history of mankind,armies fought at the behest ofa ruler to conquer and expandterritories. In due course, warcrafts were devised and warlogistics were developed.However, armies’ foodremained much the same asever for a very long time.Eventually science andtechnology played a crucial role in bringing army foods andnourishment to the expected level of modernity,commensurate with advancements in other features of thewar craft. Armies, Wars and their Food traces the evolution ofmilitary rations and provides insights into the concept ofnutrition for military from the point of a food scientist.The principal theme of the book is the historicaldevelopment of armies and the supply and delivery systemsprevalent at different periods of time. Providing a readysource of historical perspectives on the armies, it discussesthe role of science and technology in instigatingimprovements in military ration.The book will appeal to students of food science andnutrition, army, navy and air force establishments, foodindustry laboratories and research and developmentorganizations. General readers interested in the history ofscience and military history will also find this book useful.D. Vijaya Rao is a Fellow of the Association of FoodScientists and Technologists, India.121 illustrations & figures 114 tables9788175969186 554pp HB ` 995.00Global South Asians:Introducing the ModernDiasporaJudith M. BrownBy the end of the twentiethcentury some nine million peopleof South Asian descent had leftIndia, Bangladesh or Pakistan andsettled in different parts of theworld, forming a diverse andsignificant modern diaspora. In theearly nineteenth century, many leftreluctantly to seek economicopportunities which were lacking at home. This is the storyof their often painful experiences in the diaspora, how theyconstructed new social communities overseas and how theymaintained connections with the countries and the familiesthey had left behind. It is a story compellingly told by one ofthe premier historians of modern South Asia, Judith Brown,whose particular knowledge of the diaspora in Britain andSouth Africa gives her insight as a commentator.Judith M. Brown is Beit Professor of CommonwealthHistory, University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow ofBalliol College.9788175963832 213pp PB ` 395.009788175963849 213pp HB ` 595.00Strange Riches: Bengal inthe Mercantile Map ofSouth AsiaRila MukherjeeThis book attempts to understandthe commercial and social historyof erstwhile Bengal in terms of itslinks with its neighbouringcountries in the northern region ofthe Bay of Bengal. It touches uponthe key issues in both maritimeand territorial history such as theearly medieval trade revolutionand its impact on the borders of Bengal. The discussionfocuses on Southeast Bengal - the most economicallydeveloped area of Bengal in terms of transport networks,agriculture, artisan products and trade. Most of this areaunderwent two major transformations in the twentieth4 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

HISTORYcentury: once as a result of the formation of East Pakistan in1947 and a second time after the formation of Bangladeshin 1971. The volume concludes with certain major issues ofconcern between India and Bangladesh at the turn of thetwenty-first century.Rila Mukherjee teaches History at Jadavpur University,Kolkata.9788175963245 452pp HB ` 795.00Ancient HistoryThe Making of RomanIndiaGrant ParkerLatin and especially Greek texts ofthe imperial period contain awealth of references to ‘India’.Professor Parker offers a survey ofsuch texts, read against a widerange of other sources, botharchaeological and documentary.He emphasises the socialprocesses whereby the notion ofIndia gained its exotic features,including the role of the Persian empire and of Alexander’sexpedition. Three kinds of social context receive specialattention: the trade in luxury commodities; the politicaldiscourse of empire and its limits; and India’s status as aplace of special knowledge, embodied in ‘nakedphilosophers’. Roman ideas about India ranged from thespecific and concrete to the wildly fantastic and the bookattempts to account for such variety. It ends by consideringthe afterlife of such ideas into late antiquity and beyond.Grant Parker is Assistant Professor of Classics at StanfordUniversity.11 halftones 3 maps9780521193962 376pp HB ` 895.00Deciphering the IndusScriptAsko ParpolaOf the writing systems of theancient world which still awaitdeciphering, the Indus script isthe most important. Itdeveloped in the Indus orHarappan Civilization, whichflourished c. 2500-1900 BC inand around modern Pakistan,collapsing before the earliesthistorical records of South Asiawere composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive,mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations.Professor Parpola’s ideas about the script, the linguisticaffinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of theIndus religion are informed by a remarkable command ofAryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources,archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. Heoutlines what is known about the Harappan culture and itsscript, presents a decipherment of a small number ofinterlocking Indus signs, and proposes a method which willpermit further progress in decipherment.His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script waslogo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to theDravidian family.Asko Parpola, University of Helsinki.141 half-tones 8 tables9780521795661 396pp PB ` 995.00Medieval HistoryScience, Technology andSocial Formation inMedieval AssamSanjeeb KakotyThe beginning of the Ahomdynasty in eastern Assam datesback to AD 1228. This kingdom,which was one of the longestreigning dynasties in India,continued till the beginning ofnineteenth century. This bookdiscusses the reasons behind thedurability of this state. It analysesthe factors that contributed both to development of Ahomand its eventual downfall through an examination oftechnology, production and system of governance.The author proposes a new categorisation of the Ahomstate, which he calls the paik mode of production. Thisinvolves examination of the specific tools and technologiesused in rice cultivation, varieties of rice cultivated,techniques of gunpowder manufacture, different kinds ofguns and canons manufactured, system of guerrilla warfareand extent of civil construction. Overall the book presents arich account of a lesser known region in India and opens upa new area of historical examination.The book will interest graduate students and academicresearchers of South Asian History, especially with a focuson northeastern part of India. General readers interested inthe history of Assam will also find this book useful.Sanjeeb Kakoty teaches sustainability andcommunications at Indian Institute of Management,Shillong, Meghalaya.9789382264118 212pp HB ` 795.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org5

HISTORYA Social History of theDeccan: 1300-1761: EightIndian LivesRichard EatonIn this fascinating account of oneof the least known parts of SouthAsia, Eaton recounts the history ofthe Deccan plateau in southernIndia from the fourteenth centuryto the rise of European colonialism.He does so, vividly, through thelives of eight Indians who lived atdifferent times during this period, and who eachrepresented something particular about the Deccan. In thefirst chapter, for example, the author describes the demiseof the regional kingdom through the life of a maharaja. Inthe second, a Sufi sheikh illustrates Muslim piety and stateauthority. Other characters include a merchant, a general, aslave, a poet, a bandit and a female pawnbroker. Their storiesare woven together into a rich narrative tapestry, whichillumines the most important social processes of the Deccanacross four centuries. This is a much-needed book by themost highly regarded scholar in the field.Richard Eaton is one of the premier scholars of pre-colonialIndia.6 maps 16 plates 3 tables9780521514422 222pp HB ` 695.00The Political Economy ofCommerce: SouthernIndia 1500–1650Sanjay SubrahmanyamThis book is based on extensiveand previously unused Portugueseand Dutch archival sources. Itssecondary theme is to explore therelationship between thedocumentation used and thecontext within which it wasgenerated, thus illuminating howEuropeans and Asians reacted toone another.This is Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s first book, long out of print,now reprinted.Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi Chair ofIndian History at the University of California at Los Angeles.9788175961944 411pp PB ` 345.00India Before EuropeCatherine B. Asher& Cynthia TalbotIndia is a land of enormousdiversity. Cross-cultural influencesare everywhere in evidence, in thefood people eat, the clothes theywear, and in the places theyworship. This was especially thecase in the India that existed from1200 to 1750, before the Europeanintervention. The book takes thereader on a journey across thepolitical, economic, religious and cultural landscapes ofmedieval India, from the Ghurid conquests and the DelhiSultanate to the great court of the Mughals. This was a timeof conquest and consolidation, when Muslims and Hinduscame together to create a unique culture which stillresonates in today’s India. As the first survey of its kind inover a decade, the book is a tour de force. It is beautifullyillustrated and fluently composed, with a cast of characterswhich will educate students and general readers alike.Catherine B. Asher is Associate Professor in theDepartment of Art History at the University of Minnesota.Cynthia Talbot is Professor of History and Asian Studies atthe University of Texas at Austin.73 halftones 11 maps9780521517508 336pp HB ` 795.00Indo-Persian Travels in theAge of Discoveries1400-1800Muzaffar Alam &Sanjay SubrahmanyamThis is a path-breaking work basedon detailed and sensitive readingsof travel-accounts in Persian,dealing with India, Iran and CentralAsia between 1400 and 1800. It isthe first comprehensive treatmentof this neglected genre ofliterature (safar nama) that linksthe Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period ofthe transformation and cultural contact. The authors’ closereading of these travel accounts helps us to enter themental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslimliterati who produced these valuable narratives. Theseaccounts are presented in a comparative framework, whichsets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well asearly modern European travel-narratives, and opens up arich and unsuspected vista of cultural and material history.This book can be read for a better understanding of thenature of early modern encounters, but also for the sheerpleasure of entering a new world.Muzaffar Alam is Professor, in the Department of SouthAsian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi Chair ofIndian History at the University of California at Los Angeles.18 half-tones 5 maps9780521898522 416pp HB ` 795.006 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

HISTORYVijayanagaraBurton SteinThe Vijayanagara kingdom ruled asubstantial part of the southernpeninsula of India for over threehundred years, beginning in themid fourteenth century, andduring this epoch the region wastransformed from its medieval pasttowards a modern colonial future.Concentrating on the latersixteenth- and seventeenthcenturyhistory of Vijayanagara,Burton Stein details the pattern of rule established in thisimportant and long-lived Hindu kingdom, which wasfollowed by other, often smaller kingdoms of peninsularIndia until the onset of colonialism.Burton Stein is Professorial Reseach Associate at the Schoolof Oriental and African Studies, University of London.9788185618463 170pp PB ` 345.00(The New Cambridge History of India)The Marathas: 1600-1800Stewart GordonIn this book, Dr. Stewart Gordonpresents the first comprehensivehistory of the Maratha polity,which was an important regionalkingdom in the seventeenthcentury and the largest politicalentity of eighteenth-century India.He focusses on the origins of theelite families, problems oflegitimacy and loyalty, militaryorganization and change, and thedevelopment of administration, tax collection, and religiouspatronage. Through the use of a vast array of documents,the author also gives a picture of everyday life in theMaratha polity.Stewart Gordon, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.10 maps9788175960398 224pp PB ` 245.00(The New Cambridge History of India)The Anglo-MarathaCampaigns and theContest for India: TheStruggle for Control of theSouth Asian MilitaryEconomyRandolf G.S. CooperThis is a cross-cultural study of thepolitical economy of war in SouthAsia. Randolf G. S. Coopercombines an overview of Marathamilitary culture with a battle-bybattleanalysis of the 1803 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns.Building on that foundation he challenges ethnocentricassumptions about British superiority in discipline, drill andtechnology. He argues that these campaigns, in whichArthur Wellesley served with distinction, represent themilitary high-water mark of the Marathas who posed thelast serious opposition to the formation of the British Raj.Dr Cooper asserts that the real contest for India was never asingle decisive battle for the subcontinent. Rather it turnedon a complex social and political struggle for control of theSouth Asian military economy.Randolf G.S. Cooper, Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College,University of Cambridge.9788175962507 456pp HB ` 795.00The Mughal EmpireJohn F. RichardsThe Mughal empire was one of thelargest centralised states in the premodernworld and this new volumetraces the history of thismagnificent empire from itscreation in 1526 to its breakup in1720. He stresses the dynamicquality of Mughal territorialexpansion, their institutionalinnovation in land revenue, coinageand military organisation,ideological change and the relationship between theemperors and Islam. Professor Richards also analysesinstitutions particular to the Mughal empire, such as thejagir system, and explores Mughal India’s links with the earlymodern world.John F. Richards, Duke University, North Carolina.6 tables9788185618494 344pp PB ` 395.00(The New Cambridge History of India)order online at www.cambridgeindia.org7

HISTORYState and Locality inMughal India: PowerRelations in Western India,c. 1572-1730Farhat HasanThis book presents an exploratorystudy of the Mughal state and itsnegotiation with local powerrelations. By studying the statefrom the perspective of thelocalities and not from that of theMughal Court, it shifts the focusfrom the imperial grid to the local arenas, and moresignificantly, from ‘form’ to ‘process’. As a result, the bookoffers a new interpretation of the system of rule based onan appreciation of the local experience of imperialsovereignty, and the inter-connections between the stateand the local power relations. The book knits together thesystems- and action-theoretic approaches to power, andpresents the Mughal state as a dynamic structure inconstant change and conflict. The study, based on hithertounexamined local evidence, highlights the extent to whichthe interactions between state and society helped to shapethe rule structure, the normative system and ‘the moraleconomy of the state’.Farhat Hasan is Reader in History at the Centre forAdvanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh MuslimUniversity.9788175963313 160pp HB ` 495.00Domesticity and Power inthe Early Mughal WorldRuby LalIn a fascinating and innovativestudy, Ruby Lal explores domesticlife and the place of women in theMughal court of the sixteenthcentury. Challenging traditional,orientalist interpretations of theharam that have portrayed adomestic world of seclusion andsexual exploitation, the authorreveals a complex society wherenoble men and women negotiated their everyday life andpublic-political affairs in the 'inner' chambers as well as the'outer' courts. Using Ottoman and Safavid histories as acounterpoint, she demonstrates the richness, ambiguity andparticularity of the Mughal haram, which was pivotal in thetransition to institutionalisation and imperial excellence.Ruby Lal is Assistant Professor in the Department of MiddleEastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University,Atlanta. Her research and writing have focused on issues ofgender relations in Islamic societies in the pre-colonialworld.6 B&W illustrations9780521145541 260pp PB ` 795.00The Sikhs of the PunjabJ.S. GrewalIn a revised edition of his originalbook, J. S. Grewal traces the historyof the Sikhs from the time of GuruNanak, the founder of Sikhism, tothe present. Against thebackground of the Punjab, thebook explores the life and beliefsof Guru Nanak and the growth ofhis following.J.S. Grewal is Director of theInstitute of PunjabStudies in Chandigarh.1 half-tone 9 maps9788175960701 302pp PB ` 295.00(The New Cambridge History of India)India’s Labouring Poor :Historical Studiesc. 1600–c.2000Rana P. Behal &Marcel van der Linden (eds)Recent years have witnessed arenewed interest in the historicalstudies of labour in India and otherparts of the world. Apart from thestudy of the industrial workforce,labour history has been enrichedby the scholarly attention tomigratory, mobile labour, lives ofartisans, women and peasant immigrants to plantationswithin India and overseas. Earlier the major emphasis oflabour history research was on the core countries such asUS, Canada, Europe and Japan. Now research on the labourhistory of the capitalist peripheries is growing and isincreasingly attracting international scholarship.An urgent need is felt for reconstituting the olderframeworks which had revolved around fixed binaries ofspace, time and social relations. Labour historians have toincreasingly contend with the existing notions of “premodern”and modern, free/unfree, formal/informal forms oflabour relations and traditional spatial divisions such as thefactory and the field, urban and rural etc.Rana P. Behal, Department of History, Deshbandhu College,University of Delhi, Delhi.Marcel van der Linden, Research Director, InternationalInstitute of Social History, Amsterdam and Professor, SocialMovement History, University of Amsterdam, TheNetherlands.9788175964969 292pp HB ` 795.008 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

HISTORYModern HistoryReligion and Conflict inModern South AsiaWilliam GouldThis is one of the first single-authorcomparisons of different SouthAsian states around the theme ofreligious conflict. Based on newresearch and syntheses of theliterature on ‘communalism’, itargues that religious conflict in thisregion in the modern period wasnever simply based on sectarian ortheological differences or the clashof civilizations. Instead, the book proposes that theconnection between religious radicalism and everydayviolence relates to the actual (and perceived) weaknesses ofpolitical and state structures. For some, religious and ethnicmobilisation has provided a means of protest, whererepresentative institutions failed. For others, it became amethod of dealing with an uncertain political and economicfuture. For many it has no concrete or deliberate function,but has effectively upheld social stability, paternalism andlocal power, in the face of globalisation and the growingaspirations of the region’s most underprivileged citizens.William Gould is senior lecturer in Indian history at theUniversity of Leeds.6 maps9781107029217 368pp HB ` 895.00Subaltern Lives:Biographies of Colonialismin the Indian Ocean World,1790–1920Clare AndersonSubaltern Lives uses biographicalfragments of the lives of convicts,captives, sailors, slaves, indenturedlabourers and indigenous peoplesto build a fascinating new pictureof colonial life in the nineteenthcenturyIndian Ocean. Movingbetween India, Africa, Mauritius,Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and theAustralian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings ofthe nature and significance of ‘networked’ Empire. Shereveals the importance of penal transportation for colonialexpansion and sheds new light on convict experiences ofpenal settlements and colonies, as well as the relationshipbetween convictism, punishment and colonial labourregimes. The book also explores the nature of colonialsociety during this period and embeds subalternbiographies into key events like the abolition of slavery, theAnglo-Sikh Wars and the Indian Revolt of 1857. This is animportant new perspective on British colonialism whichalso opens up new possibilities for the writing of historyitself.Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the University ofLeicester.18 B&W illustration 6 maps9781107032989 232pp HB ` 995.00Small Town Capitalism inWestern India: Artisans,Merchants and the Makingof the Informal Economy,1870–1960Douglas E. HaynesThis book charts the history ofartisan production and marketingin the Bombay Presidency from1870 to 1960. While the textilemills of western India’s biggestcities have been the subject ofmany rich studies, the role of artisan producers located inthe region’s small towns have been virtually ignored. Basedupon extensive archival research as well as numerousinterviews with participants in the handloom andpowerloom industries, this book explores the role ofweavers, merchants, consumers, and laborers in the makingof what the author calls “small-town capitalism.” By focusingon the politics of negotiation and resistance in localworkshops, the book challenges conventional narratives ofindustrial change. The book provides the first in-depth workon the origins of powerloom manufacture in South Asia. Itaffords unique insights into the social and economicexperience of small-town artisans as well as the informaleconomy of late colonial and early post-independenceIndia.Douglas E. Haynes Dartmouth College New Hampshire.30 B&W illustrations 2 maps 12 tables9781107031296 362pp HB ` 895.00The Origins of IndustrialCapitalism in India:Business Strategies andthe Working Classes inBombay, 1900–1940Rajnarayan ChandavarkarRajnarayan Chandavarkar presentsthe first major study of therelationship between labour andcapital in India’s economicdevelopment in the earlytwentieth-century. He explores theemergence of capitalism in the region, the development ofthe cotton textile industry, its particular problems in the1920s and 1930s and the mill owners’ and the state’sresponses to them. The author also investigates how alabour force was formed in Bombay - its rural roots, urbannetworks, industrial organisation and the way in which itshaped capitalist strategies. In a subject dominated by theassumption of unities, Rajnarayan Chandavarkarconvincingly demonstrates the fragmentation of class, onthe side of both capital and labour. Their interactionorder online at www.cambridgeindia.org9

HISTORYsometimes exacerbated their internal differences. But, theauthor also asks on what terms, to what ends, and underwhat circumstances solidarities could be forged betweenworkers.Rajnarayan Chandavarkar was a Reader in South AsianHistory at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow ofTrinity College, Cambridge.9780521051439 492pp PB ` 1115.00The CambridgeCompanion to GandhiJudith Brown& Anthony Parel (eds)Even today, six decades after hisassassination in January 1948,Mahatma Gandhi is still revered asthe father of the Indian nation. Hisintellectual and moral legacy, andthe example of his life and politics,serve as an inspiration to humanrights and peace movements,political activists and students. Thisbook, comprised of essays by renowned experts in the fieldsof Indian history and philosophy, traces Gandhi’sextraordinary story. The first part of the book explores histransformation from a small-town lawyer during his earlylife in South Africa into a skilled political activist and leaderof civil resistance in India. The second part is devoted toGandhi’s key writings and his thinking on a broad range oftopics, including religion, conflict, politics and socialrelations. The final part reflects on Gandhi’s image and onhis legacy in India, the West, and beyond.Judith M. Brown is Beit Professor of CommonwealthHistory at the University of Oxford.Anthony Parel is Professor Emeritus of Political Science atthe University of Calgary.9781107602205 294pp PB ` 495.00Gandhi in the West: TheMahatma and the Rise ofRadical ProtestSean ScalmerThe non-violent protests of civilrights activists and anti-nuclearcampaigners during the 1960shelped to redefine Westernpolitics. But where did they comefrom? Sean Scalmer uncovers theirhistory in an earlier generation’sintense struggles to understandand emulate the activities ofMahatma Gandhi. He shows how Gandhi’s non-violentprotests were the subject of widespread discussion anddebate in the USA and UK for several decades. Though atfirst misrepresented by Western newspapers, they werepatiently described and clarified by a devoted group ofcosmopolitan advocates. Small groups of Westernersexperimented with Gandhian techniques in virtualanonymity and then, on the cusp of the 1960s, broughtthese methods to a wider audience. The swelling protests oflater years increasingly abandoned the spirit of nonviolence,and the central significance of Gandhi and hissupporters has therefore been forgotten. This book recoversthis tradition, charts its transformation, and ponders itsabiding significance.Sean Scalmer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of HistoricalStudies, University of Melbourne.9781107014114 254pp HB ` 795.00Why Europe Grew Rich andAsia Did Not: GlobalEconomic Divergence,1600–1850Prasannan ParthasarathiWhy Europe Grew Rich and Asia DidNot provides a striking new answerto the classic question of whyEurope industrialised from the lateeighteenth century and Asia didnot. Drawing significantly from thecase of India, PrasannanParthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies the advanced regions of Europe and Asia weremore alike than different, both characterized bysophisticated and growing economies. Their subsequentdivergence can be attributed to different competitive andecological pressures that in turn produced varied statepolicies and economic outcomes. This account breaks withconventional views, which hold that divergence occurredbecause Europe possessed superior markets, rationality,science or institutions. It offers instead a groundbreakingrereading of global economic development that rangesfrom India, Japan and China to Britain, France and theOttoman Empire and from the textile and coal industries tothe roles of science, technology and the state.Prasannan Parthasarathi is Associate Professor in theDepartment of History at Boston College.6 B&W illustrations 4 maps 7 tables9781107023901 384pp HB ` 1595.0010 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

HISTORYIndigenous and WesternMedicine in Colonial IndiaMadhuri SharmaThis book delves into the socialhistory of medicine and reflects onthe complexity of socialinteraction, between indigenousand western medicine in colonialIndia. The book draws upon a hostof authentic sources such as tracts,pamphlets, brochures, booklets ofvarious medicine shops and drugmanufacturing companiesfunctioning in the colonial era. This work analyses themedical market and entrepreneurship in medicine incolonial India. It deconstructs the then prevalent‘advertisements’, treating them both as a reflection on thecontemporaneous values and lifestyles and as a medium forthe creation of medical consumers.Emphasizing upon the question of class, gender and racialdiscriminations, the book also examines the interestgenerated by modern medical equipment such as thestethoscope and the thermometer, and the way in whichthese were used to reinforce the norms of social hierarchyand purdah system. This work also focuses on severaldebated issues such as birth control, sexuality, and theprinciples of brahmacharya. The book would be a usefulread for sociology and history graduates, as well asresearchers and medical professionals.Madhuri Sharma is a Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museumand Library, Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi.9788175968899 192pp HB ` 695.00Bombay Islam: TheReligious Economy of theWest Indian Ocean,1840–1915Nile GreenAs a thriving port city, nineteenthcenturyBombay attractedmigrants from across India andbeyond. Nile Green’s Bombay Islamtraces the ties betweenindustrialization, imperialism andthe production of religion to showhow Muslim migration fueled demand for a wide range ofreligious suppliers, as Christian missionaries competed withMuslim religious entrepreneurs for a stake in the newmarket. Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention inreligious affairs, and powered by steam travel andvernacular printing, Bombay’s Islamic productions wereexported as far as South Africa and Iran. Connectinghistories of religion, labour and globalization, the bookexamines the role of ordinary people – mill hands andmerchants – in shaping the demand that drove the market.By drawing on hagiographies, travelogues, doctrinal works,and poems in Persian, Urdu and Arabic, Bombay Islamunravels a vernacular modernity that saw people fromacross the Indian Ocean drawn into Bombay’s industrialeconomy of enchantment.Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic History atthe University of California, Los Angeles.19 B&W illustrations 2 maps9781107020764 344pp HB ` 995.00Race, Religion and Law inColonial India: Trials of anInterracial FamilyChandra MallampalliHow did British rule in India transformpersons from lower social classes?Could Indians from such classes risein the world by marrying Europeansand embracing their religion andcustoms? This book explores suchquestions by examining theintriguing story of an interracialfamily who lived in southern India inthe mid-nineteenth century. The family, which consisted oftwo untouchable brothers, both of whom married Eurasianwomen, became wealthy as distillers in the local community.A family dispute resulted in a landmark court case, Abrahamv. Abraham. Chandra Mallampalli uses this case to examinethe lives of those involved, and shows that far from beingproducts of a ‘civilizing mission’ who embraced the ways ofEnglishmen, the Abrahams were ultimately – when facedwith the strictures of the colonial legal system – obliged tocontend with hierarchy and racial difference.Chandra Mallampalli, Westmont College.6 B&W illustrations 3 maps9781107026988 280pp HB ` 995.00Shi’a Islam in Colonial India:Religion, Community andSectarianismJustin JonesInterest in Shi’a Islam has increasedgreatly in recent years, althoughShi’ism in the Indian subcontinenthas remained largelyunderexplored. Focusing on theinfluential Shi’a minority ofLucknow and the United Provinces,a region that was largely under Shi’arule until 1856, this book traces thehistory of Indian Shi’ism through the colonial period towardindependence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources,including religious writing, polemical literature and clericalbiography, it assesses seminal developments including thegrowth of Shi’a religious activism, madrasa education,missionary activity, ritual innovation and the politicizationof the Shi’a community. As a consequence of thesesignificant religious and social transformations, a Shi’asectarian identity developed that existed in separation fromrather than in interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In thisway the painful birth of modern sectarianism was initiated,the consequences of which are very much alive in SouthAsia today.Justin Jones, University of Cambridge.9781107026971 304pp HB ` 895.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org11

HISTORYPurifying Empire:Obscenity and the Politicsof Moral Regulation inBritain, India and AustraliaDeana HeathPurifying Empire explores thematerial, cultural and moralfragmentation of the boundariesof imperial and colonial rule in theBritish Empire in the latenineteenth and early twentiethcenturies. It charts how a particularbio-political project, namely thedrive to regulate the obscene in late nineteenth-centuryBritain, was transformed from a national into a global andimperial venture and then re-localized in two differentcolonial contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedlydifferent ends. While a considerable body of work hasdemonstrated both the role of empire in shaping moralregulatory projects in Britain and their adaptation,transformation and, at times, rejection in colonial contexts,this book illustrates that it is in fact only through acomparative and transnational framework that it is possibleto elucidate both the temporalist nature of colonialism andthe political, racial and moral contradictions that sustainedimperial and colonial regimes.Deana Heath is a lecturer in South Asian History at TrinityCollege Dublin.9780521189200 244pp HB ` 995.00An Intellectual Historyfor IndiaShruti Kapila (ed)with an Afterword byC.A. BaylyThis volume addresses thepower of ideas in the making ofIndian political modernity. Asan intermediate history ofconnections between SouthAsia and the global arena thevolume raises new issues inintellectual history. It reviewsthe period from the emergence of constitutional liberalismin the1830s, through the swadeshi era to the writings ofTilak, Azad and Gandhi in the twentieth century. Whileseveral contributions reflect on the ideologies ofnationalism, the volume seeks to rescue intellectual historyfrom being simply a narration of the nation-state. It doesnot seek to create a ‘canon’ of political thought so much asto show how Indian concepts of state and society wereredrawn in the context of emergent globalized debatesabout freedom, the constitution of the self and the goodsociety in the late colonial era. In so doing the contributionshere resituate an Indian intellectual history that has longbeen eclipsed by social and political history.These essays were originally published in a Special issue ofthe journal Modern Intellectual History (CUP, April 2007).Shruti Kapila is University Lecturer at the Faculty of Historyand Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University ofCambridge.9780521199759 164pp HB ` 595.00Colonial Justice in BritishIndia: White Violence andthe Rule of LawElizabeth KolskyColonial Justice in British Indiadescribes and examines the lesserknownhistory of white violence incolonial India. By foregroundingcrimes committed by a mostlyforgotten cast of Europeancharacters – planters, paupers,soldiers and sailors – ElizabethKolsky argues that violence wasnot an exceptional but an ordinary part of British rule in thesubcontinent. Despite the pledge of equality, coloniallegislation and the practices of white judges, juries andpolice placed most Europeans above the law, literallyallowing them to get away with murder. The failure tocontrol these unruly whites revealed how the weight of raceand the imperatives of command imbalanced the scales ofcolonial justice. In a powerful account of this period, Kolskyreveals a new perspective on the British Empire in India,highlighting the disquieting violence that invariablyaccompanied imperial forms of power.Elizabeth Kolsky, is an assistant professor of History atVillanova University.16 B&W illustrations 4 maps 3 tables9780521190787 266pp HB ` 895.00The Partition of IndiaIan Talbot &Gurharpal SinghThe British divided and quit Indiain 1947. The partition of India andthe creation of Pakistan uprootedentire communities and leftunspeakable violence in its trail.This volume tells the story ofpartition through the events thatled up to it, the terrors thataccompanied it, to migration andresettlement. In a new shift in theunderstanding of this seminal moment, the book alsoexplores the legacies of partition which continue toresonate today in the fractured lives of individuals andcommunities, and more broadly in the relationship betweenIndia and Pakistan and the ongoing conflict over contestedsites. In conclusion, the book reflects on the generalimplications of partition as a political solution to ethnic andreligious conflict. The book, which is accompanied byphotographs, maps and a chronology of major events, isintended for students as a portal into the history andpolitics of the Asian region.Ian Talbot is Professor of History at the University ofSouthamptonGurharpal Singh is Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Inter-Religious Relations in the Department of Theology andReligion at the University of Birmingham.11 B&W illustrations 5 maps9780521761772 224pp HB ` 795.0012 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

HISTORYIslam and the Army inColonial India: SepoyReligion in the Service ofEmpireNile GreenA ground-breaking study of thecultural world of the Muslimsoldiers of colonial India. Set inHyderabad in the mid-nineteenthand early twentieth centuries, thebook focuses on the soldiers’relationships with the faqir holymen who protected them and the British officers theyserved. Drawing on Urdu as well as European sources, thebook uses the biographies of Muslim holy men and theirmilitary followers to recreate the extraordinary encounterbetween a barracks culture of miracle stories, carnivals,drug-use and madness with a colonial culture of mutinymemoirs, Evangelicalism, magistrates and the asylum. Itexplores the ways in which the colonial army helpedpromote this sepoy religion while at the same timeattempting to control and suppress certain aspects of it. Thebook brings to light the existence of a distinct ‘barracksIslam’ and shows its importance to the cultural no less thanthe military history of colonial India.Nile Green is Associate Professor in the Department ofHistory at the University of California, Los Angeles.B&W illustrations 1 map9780521762717 236pp HB ` 795.00Journeys to Empire:Enlightenment,Imperialism, and theBritish Encounter withTibet, 1774-1904Gordon T. StewartThis fascinating study of twoBritish missions to Tibet in 1774and 1904 provides a uniqueperspective on the relationshipbetween the Enlightenment andEuropean colonialism. GordonStewart compares and contrasts the Enlightenment eramission led by George Bogle and the Edwardian mission ofFrancis Younghusband as they crossed the Himalayas intoTibet. Through the British agents’ diaries, reports, and lettersand by exploring their relationships with Indians, Bhutaneseand Tibetans, Stewart is able to trace the shifting ideologies,economic interests and political agendas that lay behindBritish empire-building from the late eighteenth century tothe early twentieth century. This compelling account shedsnew light on the changing nature of British imperialism, onpower and intimacy in the encounter between East andWest, and on the relationship of history and memory.Gordon T. Stewart is the Jack and Margaret Sweet Professorof History at Michigan State University.19 B&W illustrations 3 maps9780521761338 296pp HB ` 895.00History, Culture and theIndian CityRajnarayan ChandavarkarRaj Chandavarkar was one of thefinest Indian historians of thetwentieth century. He died sadlyyoung in 2006, leaving behind avery substantial collection ofunpublished lectures, papers andarticles. These have now beenassembled and edited by JenniferDavis, Gordon Johnson and DavidWashbrook, and their appearancewill be widely welcomed by large numbers of scholars ofIndian history, politics and society. The essays centre aroundthree major themes: the city of Bombay, Indian politics andsociety, and Indian historiography. Each manifestsDr Chandavarkar’s hallmark historical powers of imaginativeempirical richness, analytic acuity and expository elegance,and the collection as a whole will make both a majorcontribution to the historiography of modern India, and aworthy memorial to a major scholar.Rajnarayan Chandavarkar was a Reader in South AsianHistory at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow ofTrinity College, Cambridge.9780521767477 282pp HB ` 795.00Orientalism, Empire, andNational Culture: India1770-1880Michael S. DodsonForeword byC.A. BaylyOrientalism is most oftenunderstood as a set of strategies toextend a European will-to-powerover the Asian world. Orientalism,Empire, and National Culture seeksto revise this view, and suggeststhat it was instead composed of aset of ‘double practices’ in India, by virtue of the Britishreliance upon Hindu scholarly intermediaries, the Sanskritpandits. It is thus argued that orientalism was ultimately amuch more ambiguous, and potentially subversive,enterprise, as Indian Sanskirt scholars also adapted theinstitutional and social underpinnings of colonial rule toproduce newly-inflected, and often overtly anti-colonial,Hindu, identities.Michael S. Dodson is Associate Professor of South Asianand British Imperial History at Indiana University,Bloomington, USA.9788175967168 284pp PB ` 495.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org13

HISTORYEmpire and Information:Intelligence Gathering andSocial Communication inIndia, 1780–1870C.A. BaylyIn a penetrating account of theevolution of British intelligencegathering in India, C. A. Baylyshows how networks of Indianspies were recruited by the Britishto secure military, political andsocial information about theirsubjects. He also examines the social and intellectual originsof these ‘native informants’, and considers how the colonialauthorities interpreted and often misinterpreted theinformation they supplied. It was such misunderstandingswhich ultimately contributed to the failure of the British toanticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues,however, that even before this, complex systems of debateand communication were challenging the political andintellectual dominance of the European rulers.C.A. Bayly, University of Cambridge.3 maps9788175960657 426pp PB ` 395.00The Spoils of Partition:Bengal and India,1947-1967Joya ChatterjiThe partition of India in 1947 was aseminal event of the twentiethcentury. Much has been writtenabout the Punjab and the creationof West Pakistan; by contrast, littleis known about the partition ofBengal. This remarkable book byan acknowledged expert on thesubject assesses the social,economic and political consequences of partition. Usingnew and previously unexplored sources, the book showshow and why the borders were redrawn, how the creationof new nation states led to unprecedented upheavals,massive shifts in population and wholly unexpectedtransformations of the political landscape in both Bengaland India. The book also reveals how the spoils of partition,which the Congress in Bengal had expected from the newboundaries, were squandered over the twenty years whichfollowed. This is an original and challenging work whosefindings change our understanding and its consequencesfor the history of the subcontinent.Joya Chatterji is Lecturer in the History of Modern SouthAsia at Cambridge, Fellow of Trinity College, and VisitingFellow at the LSE.1 line figure 19 maps 26 tables9780521515276 360pp HB ` 895.00Becoming India: WesternHimalayas Under BritishRuleAniket AlamBecoming India demonstrates thatthe Western Himalayas werepolitically, economically andsocially distant from thecivilizations and empires of theNorth during pre-colonial times. Ithelps in better understanding ofthe present developmentalsuccess of Himachal Pradesh aswell as the politics of the demand for separate statehood byUttarakhand. It studies how the Western Himalayas becamea part of the Indian nation during colonial times.It examines in detail the peasant rebellions, clan and caste,polyandry, establishment of hill stations, land and forestsettlements, education, folklore and mythology, begar andmonetisation. It also focuses on the British policy andnationalist politics, to make its central point that thecolonial encounter in the Western Himalayas wasqualitatively different from the neighbouring parts of NorthIndia and its history cannot be subsumed into the generalhistory of India.Aniket Alam was a journalist with The Hindu and alsoworked for the Swiss Agency for Development andCooperation, a donor agency.9788175965645 354pp HB ` 795.00Warrior Ascetics andIndian EmpiresWilliam R. PinchMany people assume, largelybecause of Gandhi’s legacy, thatHinduism is a religion of nonviolence.William R. Pinch showsjust how wrong this assumption is.Using the life of Anupgiri Gosain, aHindu ascetic who lived at the endof the eighteenth century, hedemonstrates that Hindu warriorascetics were an importantcomponent of the South Asian military labor market in themedieval and early modern Indian past, and crucial to therise of British imperialism. Today, they occupy a prominentplace in modern Indian imaginations, ironically as romanticdefenders of a Hindu India against foreign invasion, eventhough they are almost totally absent from Indian history.William R. Pinch is Professor of History at WesleyanUniversity in Middletown, Connecticut.11 half-tones9788175963672 300pp HB ` 595.0014 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

HISTORYThe Princes of India in theEndgame of Empire1917-1947Ian Coplandlan Copland’s fascinating study ofthe role played by the Indianprinces in the devolution of Britishcolonial power rehabilitates themaharajas and nawabs of SouthAsia as subjects for serioushistorical debate. The author goeson to chart their political demiseunder the successor Congressgovernment in New Delhi, and asks how and why ithappened so quickly. The book will add a new dimension tothe political history of late colonial India, and will alsoimpact upon the wider history of the twentieth-centuryBritish Empire.Ian Copland, Monash University, Victoria.9788175960640 316pp PB ` 395.00The Indian Princes andTheir StatesBarbara N. RamusackAlthough the princes of India havebeen caricatured as orientaldespots and British stooges,Barbara Ramusack’s study arguesthat the British did not create theprinces. On the contrary, manywere consummate politicians whoexercised considerable degrees ofautonomy until the disintegrationof the princely states afterindependence. Ramusack’s synthesis has a broad temporalspan, tracing the evolution of the Indian kings from theirpre-colonial origins to their roles as clients in the Britishcolonial system. The book breaks new ground in itsintegration of political and economic developments in themajor princely states with the shifting relationshipsbetween the princes and the British.Barbara N. Ramusack, University of Cincinnati.9780521670470 324pp PB ` 495.00(The New Cambridge History of India)Traditional Industry in theEconomy of Colonial IndiaTirthankar RoyEarlier historians of India’seconomic history have argued thattraditional manufacturing in Indiawas destroyed or devitalizedduring the colonial period, andthat ‘modern industry’ issubstantially different. Exploringnew material from research intofive traditional industries,Tirthankar Roy’s book conteststhese notions, demonstrating that while traditional industrydid evolve during the Industrial Revolution, thesetransformations had a galvanizing rather than negativeeffect on manufacturing generally.Tirthankar Roy, Indira Gandhi Institute of DevelopmentResearch, Bombay.10 half-tones 10 tables 4 maps9780521650120 264pp HB ` 595.00The Economy of ModernIndia 1860-1970B.R. TomlinsonIn the first comprehensive andwide ranging account of themodern Indian economy,B. R. Tomlinson considers thehistory of economic growth andchange over the last hundredyears. By summarising andexpounding on the availableliterature, the author considers thedebates over imperialism,development and under development and sets them in thecontext of historical change in agriculture, trade andmanufacture, and the relations between business, theeconomy and the state.B.R. Tomlinson, University of Strathclyde.23 tables 3 figues 12 maps9788175960275 253pp PB ` 345.00(The New Cambridge History of India)Sex and the Family inColonial IndiaThe Making of EmpireDurba GhoshIn the early years of the Britishempire, cohabitation betweenIndian women and British men wascommonplace and to some degreetolerated. However, as DurbaGhosh argues in a challenge to theexisting historiography, anxietiesabout social status, appropriatesexuality, and the question of whocould be counted as ‘British’ or ‘Indian’ were constantorder online at www.cambridgeindia.org15

HISTORYconcerns of the colonial government even at this time. Byfollowing the stories of a number of mixed-race families, atall levels of the social scale, from high-ranking officials andnoblewomen to rank-and-file soldiers and camp followers,and also the activities of indigenous female concubines,mistresses and wives, the author offers a fascinating accountof how gender, class and race affected the cultural, socialand even political mores of the period.Durba Ghosh is Assistant Professor in History at CornellUniversity.8 half-tones9780521898799 292pp HB ` 695.00Women and Labour in LateColonial India: The BengalJute IndustrySamita SenSamita Sen’s history of labouringwomen in Calcutta in the latenineteenth and early twentiethcenturies considers how socialconstructions of gender shapedtheir lives. The authordemonstrates how the long-termtrends in the Indian economydevalued women’s labour,establishing patterns of urban migration and changinggender equations within the family. She relates these trendsto the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and childmarriage. The study will make a significant contribution tothe understanding of the social and economic history ofcolonial India and to notions of gender construction.Samita Sen, University of Calcutta.12 tables 1 map9780521453639 286pp HB ` 595.00Ideologies of the RajThomas R. MetcalfThomas Metcalf’s fascinating studyexamines the ways the Britishsought to legitimate their rule overIndia. He demonstrates that theprinciples the British devisedincorporated contradictory visionsof India, yet together they madethe authority of the Raj lawful.Thomas R. Metcalf, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley.9788175960541 256pp PB ` 245.00(The New Cambridge History of India)Women in Modern IndiaGeraldine ForbesThe author traces the history ofIndian women from thenineteenth century under colonialrule to the twentieth century afterIndependence. She begins withthe reform movement, establishedby men to educate women, anddemonstrates how educationchanged women’s lives, enablingthem to take part in public life.Through their own accounts, theauthor has compiled an accessible and immediate record oftheir achievements over the last two centuries.Geraldine Forbes, State University College, Oswego, NewYork.17 half-tones9780521612401 312pp PB ` 345.00(The New Cambridge History of India)The Politics of India SinceIndependence2nd EditionPaul R. BrassThe first edition of The Politics ofIndia Since Independence arguedthat the Indian state, society, andeconomy were in the midst of asystematic crisis produced by thecentralizing drives of a nationalleadership determined totransform the country into amodern, industrialized, militarystrong state. In the three years since this edition waspublished, this crisis has intensified, revealing itself insecessionist movements and in increased inter casteconflicts. The country has witnessed the rise of Hindunationalism and the worst communal massacres sinceIndependence following the destruction of the mosque inAyodhya.Paul R. Brass, Professor of Political Science and South AsianStudies, University of Washington.9780521543057 424pp PB ` 345.00(The New Cambridge History of India)Caste, Society and Politicsin India: From TheEighteenth Century to theModern AgeSusan BaylyAdopting an historical andanthropological approach, thebook seeks to account for thedevelopment and persistence ofIndia’s caste system over 350 years.Unlike many studies of the subjectwhich are highly polemical or too16 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

HISTORYtechnical for non-specialists, this volume is intended for astudent and general market.Susan Bayly is a Lecturer at the Department of SocialAnthropology, University of Cambridge.12 half-tones 3 maps9780521678612 440pp PB ` 595.00(The New Cambridge History of India)A Concise History ofModern India2nd EditionBarbara D. Metcalf &Thomas R. MetcalfIn a second edition of theirsuccessful Concise History ofModern India, Barbara Metcalf andThomas Metcalf explore India’smodern history afresh and updatethe events of the last decade.These include the takeover ofCongress from the seeminglyentrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India’s hugeadvances in technology and the country’s new role as amajor player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals,through the British Empire, and into Independence, thecountry has been transformed by its institutional structures.It is these institutions which have helped bring about thesocial, cultural and economic changes that have taken placeover the last half century and paved the way for the modernsuccess story. Despite these advances, poverty, socialinequality and religious division still fester.Barbara D. Metcalf, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Thomas R. Metcalf, University of California, Berkeley.52 half-tones 4 maps9780521733106 372pp PB ` 445.00Remembering Partition:Violence, Nationalism andHistory in IndiaGyanendra PandeyGyan Pandey’s latest book is acompelling and, at times,harrowing examination of theviolence that marked the Partitionof India in 1947, and how thepreceding events have beendocumented. In the process, theauthor provides a critique ofhistory-writing and nationalistmyth-making. He also investigates how local forms ofcommunity are constituted by the way in which violentevents are remembered and written about.Gyanendra Pandey is Professor of Anthropology andHistory at John Hopkins University.9788175961098 232pp PB ` 250.00Changing India: BourgeoisRevolution on theSubcontinent2nd EditionRobert W. SternThe revised edition of RobertStern’s book brings India’s storyup-to-date. Since its originalpublication in 1993, much hasaltered and yet central to theauthor’s argument remains hisbelief in the remarkable continuityand vitality of India’s social systemsand its resilience in the face of change. This is a colourful,readable and comprehensive introduction to modern India.While paradoxes abound in an India which is constantlytransforming, Stern demonstrates how and why it remainsthe largest and most enduring democracy in thedeveloping world.Robert W. Stern has written extensively on South Asia. Hispublications include Democracy and Dictatorship in SouthAsia: Dominant Classes and Political Outcomes in India,Pakistan and Bangladesh (2000).9780521540810 320pp PB ` 495.00Hindu Nationalism and theLanguage of Politics in LateColonial IndiaWilliam GouldWilliam Gould explores what isarguably one of the most importantand controversial themes intwentieth-century Indian historyand politics: the nature of Hindunationalism as an ideology andpolitical language. Rather thanconcentrating on the maininstitutions of the Hindu Right inIndia as other studies have done, the author uses a variety ofhistorical sources to analyse how Hindu nationalismaffected the supposedly secularist Congress in the key stateof Uttar Pradesh. The author offers an alternativeassessment of how these languages and ideologiestransformed the relationship between Congress and northIndian Muslims.William Gould is Lecturer in Indian History at the Universityof Leeds.9788175962514 320pp HB ` 795.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org17

HISTORY/ ARCHAEOLOGYFoundations of ModernSocietyRajiva WijesinhaThis book introduces studentsto ideas, events andpersonalities that have createdthe present-day world. Thisbook thus attempts to set themout in a way that challengesyoung-adult minds. It is hopedthat this book will enthusethem to explore the reasons forand the results of importanthistorical developments.Rajiva Wijesinha is Professor of Languages atSabaramaguwa University.9788175962446 75pp PB ` 145.00Telangana People’sStruggle and its LessonsP. SundarayyaBeginning with an account of thefeudal oppression in the Nizam’sfiefdom and the organization ofthe masses against the backdropof the national movement,Sundarayya recounts the shapingof an alternate nationalism thatgave particular emphasis to thestruggles of the depressed classes.It was this decided focus under theleadership of the Communist Party which spurred theuprising.Given his intimate association with the Communist Partyand the Telangana Struggle, Sundarayya is able to provide adetailed description of the intricacies both of decisionmakingand the execution of plans by various guerillasquads. The book provides a ringside view of the movementof squads, the network of communications and the policeterror as if a camera were following the course of events. Thefact that this edition of the book arrives more than fivedecades after the movement has done little to dim theelectric that surrounded the years in the forest fighting theNizam’s forces and later the Indian army.P. Sundarayya served as the General Secretary of CPI (M) formore than a decade.9788175963160 472pp HB ` 695.00ARCHAEOLOGYThe Ancient IndusUrbanism, Economy, andSocietyRita P. WrightThis early civilization was erasedfrom human memory until 1924,when it was rediscovered andannounced in the IllustratedLondon Times. Our understandingof the Indus has been partiallyadvanced by textual sources fromMesopotamia that containreferences to Meluhha, a landidentified by cuneiform specialists as the Indus, with whichthe ancient Mesopotamians traded and engaged in battles.In this volume, Rita P. Wright uses both Mesopotamian textsbut principally the results of archaeological excavations andsurveys to draw a rich account of the Indus civilization’swell-planned cities, its sophisticated alterations to thelandscape, and the complexities of its agrarian and craftproducingeconomy. She focuses principally on the socialnetworks established between city and rural communities;farmers, pastoralists, and craft producers; and Indusmerchants and traders and the symbolic imagery that thecivilization shared with contemporary cultures in Iran,Mesopotamia, Central Asia, and the Persian Gulf region.Broadly comparative, her study emphasizes theinterconnected nature of early societies.Rita P. Wright is associate professor of anthropology at NewYork University.55 B&W illustrations 11 maps9781107000261 416pp HB ` 995.00The Archaeology of HinduRitual: Temples and theEstablishment of the GodsMichael WillisIn this groundbreaking study,Michael Willis examines how thegods of early Hinduism came to beestablished in temples, how theircults were organized, and how theruling elite supported theirworship. Examining the emergenceof these key historicaldevelopments in the fourth andfifth centuries, Willis combines Sanskrit textual evidencewith archaeological data from inscriptions, sculptures,temples, and sacred sites. The centrepiece of this study isUdayagiri in central India, the only surviving imperial site ofthe Gupta dynasty. Through a judicious use of landscapearchaeology and archaeo-astronomy, Willis reconstructshow Udayagiri was connected to the Festival of the RainySeason and the Royal Consecration. Through his meticulousstudy of the site, its sculptures and its inscriptions, Willisshows how the Guptas presented themselves as universalsovereigns and how they advanced new systems ofreligious patronage that shaped the world of medievalIndia.18 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

ARCHAEOLOGY/ LANGUAGE ...Michael Willis, British Museum, London.43 B&W illustrations 4 maps9780521765459 390pp HB ` 995.00The Rise of Civilizationin India and PakistanBridget Allchin & RaymondAllchinIn The Rise of Civilization inIndia and Pakistan the authorshave completely revised andrewritten their earlier work,The Birth of Indian Civilizationto present an integrated anddynamic account of humanculture in South Asia.The authors have made everyattempt to incorporate theresults of the most recent research and their book isillustrated throughout with photographs, maps and linediagrams.Offering an original and stimulating perspective on thearchaeology of the subcontinent, The Rise of Civilization inIndia and Pakistan will be invaluable to students of SouthAsian culture and early history.Bridget Allchin, Wolfson College, Cambridge.Raymond Allchin, University of Cambridge.96 half-tones 5 tables9788185618722 302pp PB ` 595.00LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS/LITERATUREThe CambridgeCompanion to ModernIndian CultureVasudha Dalmia & RashmiSadanaIndia is changing at a rapid pace asit continues to move from itscolonial past to its globalisedfuture. This Companion offers aframework for understanding thatchange, and how modern culturalforms have emerged out of verydifferent histories and traditions.The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film,modern and popular art, music, television and food; it alsoexplores in detail social divisions, customs, communicationsand daily life. In a series of engaging, erudite andoccasionally moving essays the contributors, drawn from avariety of disciplines, examine not merely what constitutesmodern Indian culture, but just how wide-ranging are thecultures that persist in the regions of India. This volume willhelp the reader understand the continuities and fissureswithin Indian culture and some of the conflicts arising fromthem. Throughout, what comes to the fore is theextraordinary richness and diversity of modern Indian culture.Vasudha Dalmia is Professor of Hindi and Modern SouthAsian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.Rashmi Sadana is a writer and researcher based in Delhi.19 B&W illustrations 2 maps9781107641037 326pp PB ` 395.00South Asian Languages:A Syntactic TypologyKarumuri V. SubbaraoSouth Asian languages are rich inlinguistic diversity and number.This book explores the similaritiesand differences of about fortylanguages from the four differentlanguage families (Austro-Asiatic,Dravidian, Indo-Aryan (Indo-European) and Tibeto-Burman(Sino-Tibetan)). It focuses on thesyntactic typology of theselanguages and the high degree of syntactic convergence,with special reference to the notion of ‘India as a linguisticarea’. Several areas of current theoretical interest such asanaphora, control theory, case and agreement, relativeclauses and the significance of thematic roles in grammarare discussed. The analysis presented has significantimplications for current theories of syntax, verbal semantics,first and second language acquisition, structural languagetypology and historical linguistics. The book will be ofinterest to linguists working on the description of SouthAsian languages, as well as syntacticians wishing to discovermore about the common structure of languages within thisregion.Karumuri V. Subbarao is Radhakrishnan Chair Professor inHumanities at the University of Hyderabad, India.9781107035331 400pp HB ` 995.00Language in South AsiaBraj K. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru &S. N. Sridhar (eds)South Asia is a rich and fascinatinglinguistic area, its many hundredsof languages from four majorlanguage families representing thedistinctions of caste, class,profession, religion, and region.This comprehensive new volumepresents an overview of thelanguage situation in this vastsubcontinent in a linguistic,historical and sociolinguistic context. An invaluableresource, it comprises authoritative contributions fromleading international scholars within the fields of SouthAsian language and linguistics, historical linguistics, culturalstudies and area studies. Topics covered include theongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implicationsof language modernization; the functions of South Asianlanguages within the legal system, media, cinema, andreligion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and itslong traditions of study and teaching. Language in Southorder online at www.cambridgeindia.org19

LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS/ LITERATUREAsia is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students andscholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, languageplanning and South Asian studies.Braj K. Kachru is Centre for Advanced Study Professor ofLinguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts andSciences Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Chicago.Yamuna Kachru is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at theUniversity of Illinois, Chicago.S. N. Sridhar is Professor and Chair at the Department ofAsian and Asian American Studies, State University of NewYork, Stony Brook.13 B&W illustrations 9 maps 65 tables9781107602212 632pp PB ` 995.00Language History of theKamta and Cooch BeharRegionMatthew ToulminThe Indo–Aryan languages anddialects constitute a dialectcontinuum, characterised byvariable, non–discreteboundaries between speechcommunities. In order toreconstruct linguistic history itis necessary to take stock of thissociolinguistic context andadjust the methods of reconstruction accordingly. Thisstudy presents a theoretically robust, sociolinguisticframework for historical reconstruction which supplementsa traditional comparative reconstruction of phonology andmorphology.The language varieties examined in this book are known bya number of names including ‘Kamta’, ‘Rajbanshi, or simplythe ‘deshi bhasha’ of north Bengal and west Assam. Thisstudy provides evidence for a protolanguage, termed ‘protoKamta’ (c. AD 13–16 century), which was the point ofcommon origin for these lects, and defines them as asubgroup within Indo–Aryan.Matthew Toulmin is a visiting research fellow at SeramporeCollege, West Bengal, India, and member of SIL International.9788175968974 274pp PB ` 495.00English LanguageEducation in South Asia:From Policy to PedagogyLesley Farrell,Udaya Narayana Singh & RamAshish Giri (eds)In South Asia, English is the majorlink language for people fromdiverse linguistic backgrounds.With globalisation and thesubsequent rise in the demand ofEnglish, almost all South Asiancountries are in the process ofintroducing English at the early school level. This widens thescope of investigating into the national policies regardingEnglish and probing the status of English language inrelation to pedagogy in the countries of the South Asianregion.English Language Education in South Asia provides a strongfoundation for scholarly work on ELE in South Asia. Thevolume contains compilation of scholarly and investigativeessays, esecially written for this volume, by some of the mostprominent and emerging scholars of English languageeducation in South Asia. The chapters provide up-to-dateinformation on the politics, policy, theory and practice ofELE in seven countries of South Asia - Afghanistan,Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Thevolume, divided into three sections - Policy, Pedagogy andPolitics of Pedagogy - investigates how the socio-economic,local and global language politics shape the ELE in SouthAsia. It also addresses the theoretical as well as practicalissues of classroom procedures, teacher preparationprogrammes, resource management, examinations,educational contraints and limitations.Lesley Farrell is Professor and Associate Dean (Researchand Development) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciencesat the University of Technology, Sydney.Udaya Narayana Singh is Tagore Professor, RabindraBhavan, and Director, Indira Gandhi Centre for NationalIntegration (IGCNI), Visva-Bharati, Santinketan.Ram Ashish Giri is Reader in the Faculty of Education,Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Presently, he is involved in theEIL programme of Monash University, Melbourne.9788175967809 312pp HB ` 795.00The Metaphysics of TextSukanta ChaudhuriThe advances of book history andeditorial theory remind us that it isvital to look behind the text weread. Sukanta Chaudhuri explores,at a very fundamental level, howtexts are constituted and how theywork. He applies insights frommany lines of study not broughttogether so closely before: theoriesof language, signification andreception alongside bibliography,20 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS/ LITERATUREtextual criticism, editorial theory and book history. Blendingcase studies with general observation and theory, heconsiders the implications of the physical form of the text;the relation between oral and written language, andbetween language and other media; the new territoryopened up by electronic texts; and special categories likeplay-books and translations. Drawing on an exceptionallywide range of material, both Western literature and Indianworks from Sanskrit aesthetics to the poetry ofRabindranath Tagore, Chaudhuri sets a new agenda for thestudy of texts.Sukanta Chaudhuri is Professor of English and Director ofthe School of Cultural Texts and Records at JadavpurUniversity, Kolkata, India.31 B&W illustrations9781107400337 238pp HB ` 595.00North East IndianLinguisticsStephen Morey &Mark Post (eds)The North East of India is one ofthe most rich and diverse culturallinguisticregions of Asia. However,awareness of this is notwidespread and as a result, thelinguistic abundance of the regionhas not been sufficientlyappreciated. Students and scholarsfrom different parts of India andthe world are now making efforts to turn around thisscenario.North East Indian Linguistics is a result of such concertedattempts. This book is the first published collection ofselected articles on North East Indian linguistics. The articlesrepresent the current state of research in the field.The authors have adopted a variety of approaches to thestudy of the multifarious North East Indian languages – Ao(Naga), Assamese, Atong (Bodo-Garo), Bishnupriya, Garo,Khamti (Tai), Khasi, Kurtoep, Singpho, and the Tanilanguages, Apatani, Galo and Mising. The areas addressed inthis book include descriptive phonology, lexicon,morphosyntax and semantics. The book also discussesgeneral topics regarding fieldwork and orthographydevelopment.Stephen Morey is a research fellow at the Research Centrefor Linguistic Typology (RCLT) at La Trobe University,Melbourne, Australia.Mark Post is a specialist in the Tani languages of ArunachalPradesh and Assam. He works in the Research Centre forLinguistic Typology (RCLT) at La Trobe University,Melbourne, Australia.9788175966000 284pp HB ` 695.00North East IndianLinguistics Volume 2Stephen Morey &Mark Post (eds)This volume is the second in aseries of selected paperspresented at the InternationalConferences of the North EastIndian Linguistics Society (NEILS), aforum for the study of thelanguages of North East India. TheNorth East Indian languages arethe richest and most diverse, yetalso one of the least-well-known regions of the linguisticsworld. NEILS brings together local scholars, students, andwell-known researchers from India and across the world topresent the latest in research on North East Indianlanguages and cultures.The book essentially discusses tonology and phonology inthe Assam floodplain. They bring together extensiveinformation on tone in Bodo and Dimasa, studies of TaiPhake songs, the Ahom Bar Amra manuscripts, and theBarpetia dialect of Assamese. A special section on numeralsalso presents a comparative study of Tibeto-Burmannumeral systems and more detailed accounts of Khasi, Karbi,Kom and Aimol.Presenting new information on North East Indian languagesfrom well-developed linguistic perspectives, and yetincluding much information on topics of broader interestsuch as numeral systems, medieval manuscripts, poetry andsongs, this book will be of interest to scholars specialising inSouth and South-East Asian languages and cultures,linguistic diversity and language endangerment.Stephen Morey is a research fellow at the Research Centrefor Linguistic Typology (RCLT) at La Trobe University inMelbourne, Australia. He is a specialist in Tai, Singpho andTangsa languages as well as some Aboriginal languages ofAustralia.Mark Post is also a research fellow at the RCLT. He is aspecialist in the Tani languages of Arunachal Pradesh andAssam, and has also written extensively on Thai, Chinese,and comparative Tibeto-Burman syntax.9788175967144 268pp HB ` 695.00North East IndianLinguistics Volume 3Gwendolyn Hyslop, StephenMorey & Mark W. Post (eds)North East Indian Linguistics Volume3 presents the latest in descriptiveand anthropological linguisticresearch on the languages of theNorth East Indian region. Longacknowledged to be among theculturally and linguistically richestand most diverse regions of allAsia, North East India also remainsto this day one of the least well-studied and well-order online at www.cambridgeindia.org21

LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS/ LITERATUREunderstood. The collection of papers in this volume directlyaddress this problem by presenting description and analysisof a wide variety of phonological, syntactic, morphological,sociolinguistic and historical topics in the study of severallanguages of the region.This volume reflects the current state of research in NorthEast Indian Linguistics on the parts of local, national andinternational scholars alike and will be of interest tolinguists, anthropologists, and other social scientists andgeneral readers with an interest in the study, preservationand appreciation of North East Indian cultural and linguisticdiversity.Gwendolyn Hyslop is a specialist in the East Bodishlanguages of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh and has alsoauthored and coauthored several publications on otherTibeto-Burman languages. She is Director of Aienla Project, anon-profit organization dedicated to the preservation oflanguages and cultures of North East India since 2004.Stephen Morey is Associate Director of the Research Centrefor Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University.Mark W. Post is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow inAnthropological Linguistics at The Cairns Institute of JamesCook University in Cairns, Australia. He is a specialist in theTani languages of Arunachal Pradesh, and has alsopublished in the typology and diachrony of other SouthEast Asian languages.9788175967939 276pp HB ` 795.00North East IndianLinguistics Volume 4Gwendolyn Hyslop, StephenMorey & Mark W. Post (eds)North East India is one of the mostlinguistically diverse regions of theworld, with over 100, and perhapsas many as 200, differentlanguages spoken. This book aimsto produce a volume reflective ofboth the linguistic diversity of theregion as well as the high qualityof current research on North EastIndian Linguistics.The articles in this volume cover four of the languagefamilies represented in North East India: Tai-Kadai, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, and Austroasiatic. Divided into sevensections, the book presents the description and analysis of awide variety of phonological, syntactic, morphological,socio-linguistic and historical topics in the study of severallanguages of the region – origin of the Boro-Garo languagefamily, Boro-Garo grammar, serial verbs in a hithertoundescribed variety of Boro, information about Dimasadialects, phonology of Hajong, a language of Assam andMeghalaya, and analysis of copula constructions in AssamSadri. The volume also contains an analysis of pronouns inMadhav Kandali’s Ramayana, a version of the Ramayanawritten in colloquial Assamese of the fourteenth century.The final section in this volume discusses serial verbconstructions in the Austroasiatic language War, the mostdetailed discussion of War syntax and semantics to date.Contributions in this volume range from renowned scholarsof Tibeto-Burman linguistics to students from the North Eastmaking their first impact in the field of Linguistics. The bookwill be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, socialscientists and general readers with an interest in the study,preservation and appreciation of North East Indian culturaland linguistic diversity.Gwendolyn Hyslop is a specialist in the East Bodishlanguages of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh.Stephen Morey is Associate Director of the Research Centrefor Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University.Mark W. Post is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow inAnthropological Linguistics at The Cairns Institute of JamesCook University in Cairns, Australia.9788175969308 422pp HB ` 995.00Foreigners and ForeignLanguages in India:A Sociolinguistic HistoryShreesh ChaudharyIndia’s natural wealth, knowledge,arts and crafts have attractedforeigners throughout its longhistory. It has had continuouscultural contact and trade withother countries and, in all this, Indiahas been exposed to many foreignlanguages such as Arabic, Bactrian,Chinese, Dutch, English, French,Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Turkish and in acertain sense, Sanskrit. Each of these languages wentthrough a cycle, rising to the position of power and prestige,and eventually declining and yielding place to yetanother language. In this process, all these languagesinteracted with the native languages of Indiaand exchanged sounds, words, sentences, idioms andexpressions, sometimes even giving birth to newlanguages. Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India: ASociolinguistic History tells the story of this long andcontinuous history of the advent, learning, use, demise anddebris of some foreign languages in India.Shreesh Chaudhary is a professor of English andLinguistics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.9788175966284 600pp HB ` 950.0022 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS/ LITERATUREThe Indian Mutiny and theBritish ImaginationGautam ChakravartyGautam Chakravarty exploresrepresentations of the event whichhas become known in the Britishimagination as the ‘Indian Mutiny’of 1857 in British popular fictionand historiography. Drawing on awide range of primary sourcesincluding diaries, autobiographiesand state papers, Chakravartyshows how narratives of therebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policyand by the demands of imperial self-image. He goes on todiscuss the wider context of British involvement in Indiafrom 1765 to the 1940s, and engages with constitutionaldebates, administrative measures, and the early nineteenthcenturyAnglo-Indian novel.Gautam Chakravarty is Reader in the Department ofEnglish at the University of Delhi.9788175963658 258pp HB ` 595.00The Story of English inIndiaN. Krishnaswamy & LalithaKrishnaswamyThe Story of English in Indiapresents historical facts in a socioculturalframework. The book is amust for all teachers and studentsof English; it will be useful for allthose interested in the politics oflanguage and education in India.N. Krishnaswamy is one of India’sleading experts on languageteaching, with a special interest in English education,colonial studies and critical sociology.Lalitha Krishnaswamy is a teacher and an educationalconsultant.9788175963122 234pp PB ` 150.00The Dravidian LanguagesBhadriraju KrishnamurtiThe Dravidian languages arespoken by over 200 million peoplein South Asia and in diasporacommunities around the world,and constitute the world’s fifthlargest language family. It consistsof about 26 languages in totalincluding Tamil, Malayalam,Kannada and Telugu, as well asover 20 non-literary languages.Bhadriraju Krishnamurti is aleading linguist in India and one ofthe world’s renowned historical and comparative linguists,specializing in the Dravidian family of languages.69 tables 15 figures 1 map9780521771115 574pp HB ` 950.00Translating IndiaRita KothariPost nineteen eighties, what madeEnglish translation from Indianlanguages a culturally desirableactivity? This question leadsKothari to examine the changingcultural universe of urban, Englishspeakingmiddle class in India. Sheexamines in detail readershippatterns, attitudes to English andthe course of translation studies ingeneral. The comfort with whichEnglish is used with an Indian language as in “Yeh DilMaange More” or “Hungry Kya” reflects a sense of familiaritythat has been made with English. From this broader contextof bilingualism in the first part of the book, Kothari moveson to the state of Gujarat. Taking up the case of Gujarati, shedemonstrates the micro issues involved in translation andpolitics of language.Rita Kothari, teaches English at St. Xavier’s College,Ahmedabad, where she runs a translation research centreon behalf of Katha.9788175963054 138pp PB ` 245.00Raja Rao: An Introduction(Contemporary IndianWriters in English)Letizia AlternoContemporay indian Writers inEnglish (CIWE) is a series thatpresents critical commentaries onsome of the best-known names inthe genre. With the high visibilityof Indian writing in English inacademic, critical, pedagogic andreader circles, there is aperceivable demand for lucid yetrigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.Raja Rao, along with RK Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand,defined Indian writing in English in early twentieth century.His works exhibit a deep engagement with psychology,mysticism, spiritualism and philosophy. His narrativesbecome cultural as well as individual chronicles, and veryoften draw implicitly or explicitly upon various aspects – thefreedom movement to Gandhi to myths – of an Indianethos. Letizia Alterno’s detailed, incisive and eminentlyreadable introduction is a rigorous examination of thediverse, and complex, Raja Rao canon, including some of hislesser known short-fiction.Letizia Alterno, the director of Raja Rao’s official website,has been the Editor-in-Chief, since 2006, of the Raja RaoPublication Project.9788175966277 232pp PB ` 245.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org23

LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS/ LITERATUREVikram Seth:An Introduction(Contemporary IndianWriters in English)Rohini Mokashi-PunekarContemporary Indian Writers inEnglish (CIWE) is a series thatpresents critical commentaries onsome of the best-known names inthe genre. With the high visibilityof Indian Writing in English inacademic, critical, pedagogic andreader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yetrigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.Vikram Seth is one of the most celebrated authors in IndianWriting in English today. With the complexity and depth ofhis work and his significant achievements in prose as well asverse, Seth has proved the master of the English language.Seth’s many themes and concerns, from land ceiling in post-Independence India to Western classical music torelationships, all cast in formally perfect prose or poetry,have gained him a formidable reputation as a stylist and aperfectionist. Rohini Mokashi-Punekar’s thorough studyworks its way through the many forms, themes and styles ofSeth’s verse and prose. It pays attention to both form andcontent, and presents a comprehensive study of Seth’soeuvre by linking plot, characterization and theme in adensely textured analysis and close reading.Rohini Mokashi-Punekar teaches at the Department ofHumanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute ofTechnology (IIT) Guwahati, India.9788175965898 230pp PB ` 245.00Rohinton Mistry:An Introduction(Contemporary IndianWriters in English)Nandini Bhautoo-DewnarainContemporary Indian Writers inEnglish (CIWE) is a series thatpresents critical commentaries onsome of the best-known names inthe genre. With the high visibilityof Indian writing in English inacademic, critical, pedagogic andreader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yetrigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.Mistry’s fiction covers many themes, from politics to Parsicommunity life and economic inequality to national ‘events’such as wars, rigorously examining the impact of historicalforces and social events on ‘small’ lives. Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain’s study, a schematic introduction to Mistry’sworks, looks at the process of marginalization or ‘Othering’in his fiction. Exploring Mistry’s themes of tradition, ageingand families, Bhautoo-Dewnarain demonstrates how hisfiction moves from the local to the universal.Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain teaches at the Departmentof English, University of Mauritius.9788175963115 134pp PB ` 245.00Amitav Ghosh(Contemporary IndianWriters in English)John C. HawleyContemporary Indian Writers inEnglish (CIWE) is a series thatpresents critical commentaries onsome of the best-known names inthe genre. With the high visibilityof Indian writing in English inacademic, critical, pedagogic andreader circles, there is aperceivable demand for lucid yetrigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.Amitav Ghosh, a novelist with an extraordinary sense ofhistory and place, is indisputably one of the most importantnovelists and essayists of our times. In this volume, JohnHawley provides a lucid, friendly and thorough introductionto the fiction and essays of Ghosh.John C. Hawley is Professor in the Department of English atSanta Clara University in Santa Clara, California.9788175962590 223pp PB ` 245.00Mahesh Dattani(Contemporary IndianWriters in English)Asha Kuthari-ChaudhuriContemporary Indian Writers inEnglish (CIWE) is a series thatpresents critical commentaries onsome of the best-known names inthe genre. With the high visibilityof Indian writing in English inacademic, critical, pedagogic andreader circles, there is aperceivable demand for lucid yetrigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.Mahesh Dattani is perhaps one of India’s most daring,innovative and important playwrights in English today. Heblends conventional themes with some startingly new onesin his work. His plays combine the intimate with the social,the personal and the public, often exploring the boundariesbetween these realms. In this volume, Asha KuthariChaudhuri, explores Dattani‘s central themes - the family,alternate sexualities, other genders, morality and identity -while also examining the dramaturgical innovations in hiswork.Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri is a Lecturer at Gauhati University.9788175962606 155pp PB ` 245.0024 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

POLITICSPOLITICSThe International Ambitionsof Mao and Nehru: NationalEfficacy Beliefs and theMaking of Foreign PolicyAndrew Bingham KennedyWhy do leaders sometimes challenge,rather than accept, the internationalstructures that surround their states?In The International Ambitions of Maoand Nehru, Andrew Kennedy answersthis question through in-depthstudies of Chinese foreign policyunder Mao Zedong and Indian foreignpolicy under Jawaharlal Nehru. Drawing on internationalrelations theory and psychological research, Kennedy offersa new theoretical explanation for bold leadership in foreignpolicy, one that stresses the beliefs that leaders developabout the ‘national efficacy’ of their states. He shows howthis approach illuminates several of Mao and Nehru’s mostimportant military and diplomatic decisions, drawing onarchival evidence and primary source materials from China,India, the United States and the United Kingdom. A rareblend of theoretical innovation and historical scholarship,The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru is a fascinatingportrait of how foreign policy decisions are made.Andrew Bingham Kennedy teaches international politicsat the Crawford School of Economics and Government atthe Australian National University.3 B&W illustrations 3 maps9781107029200 272pp HB ` 795.00Corruption and Reform inIndia: Public Services inthe Digital AgeJennifer BussellThis book asks why somegovernments improve publicservices more effectively thanothers. Through the investigationof a new era of administrativereform, in which digitaltechnologies may be used tofacilitate citizens’ access to thestate, Jennifer Bussell’s analysisprovides unanticipated insights into this fundamentalquestion. In contrast to factors such as economicdevelopment or electoral competition, this study highlightsthe importance of access to rents, which can dramaticallyshape the opportunities and threats of reform to politicalelites. Drawing on a sub-national analysis of twenty Indianstates, a field experiment, statistical modeling, case studies,interviews of citizens, bureaucrats and politicians, andcomparative data from South Africa and Brazil, Bussellshows that the extent to which politicians rely on incomefrom petty and grand corruption is closely linked tovariation in the timing, management andcomprehensiveness of reforms.Jennifer Bussell is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs inthe Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at theUniversity of Texas, Austin.19 B&W illustrations 34 tables9781107030343 346pp HB ` 895.00Chinese and IndianStrategic Behavior:Growing Power and AlarmGeorge J. Gilboy &Eric HeginbothamThis book offers an empiricalcomparison of Chinese and Indianinternational strategic behavior. Itis the first study of its kind, fillingan important gap in the literatureon rising Indian and Chinesepower and American interests inAsia. The book creates a frameworkfor the systematic and objective assessment of Chinese andIndian strategic behavior in four areas: (1) strategic culture;(2) foreign policy and use of force; (3) militarymodernization (including defense spending, militarydoctrine and force modernization); and (4) economicstrategies (including international trade and energycompetition). The utility of democratic peace theory inpredicting Chinese and Indian behavior is also examined.The findings challenge many assumptions underpinningWestern expectations of China and India.George J. Gilboy is the chief representative of aninternational energy firm in China.Eric Heginbotham is a Senior Political Scientist at the RANDCorporation and specializes in East Asian political andsecurity affairs.12 B&W illustrations 3 maps 42 tables9781107031982 376pp ` 995.00Fates of PoliticalLiberalism in the BritishPost-Colony: The Politics ofthe Legal ComplexTerence C. Halliday, LucienKarpik & Malcolm M. FeeleyWhat explains divergences inpolitical liberalism among newnations that shared the samecolonial heritage? This bookassembles exciting original essayson former colonies of the BritishEmpire in South Asia, Africa and Southeast Asia that gainedindependence after World War II. The interdisciplinarycountry specialists reveal how inherent contradictionswithin British colonial rule were resolved afterindependence in contrasting liberal-legal, despotic andvolatile political orders. Through studies of the longue duréeand particular events, this book presents a theory ofpolitical liberalism in the post-colony and develops richhypotheses on the conditions under which the legalorder online at www.cambridgeindia.org25

POLITICScomplex, civil society and the state shape alternativepostcolonial trajectories around political freedom. Thisprovocative volume presents new perspectives for scholarsand students of postcolonialism, political development andthe politics of the legal complex, as well as for policy makersand publics who struggle to construct and defend basiclegal freedoms.Terence C. Halliday is a research professor at the AmericanBar Foundation and the co-director of the Centre on Lawand Globalization, American Bar Foundation and Universityof Illinois College of Law.Lucien Karpik is Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Parisand at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales(CESPRA).Malcolm M. Feeley is a Clair Clements Dean Professor ofJurisprudence in the Social Policy Program at the Universityof California, Berkeley.8 B&W illustrations 5 tables9781107031975 5570pp HB ` 1495.00Mobilizing Restraint:Democracy and IndustrialConflict in Post-ReformSouth AsiaEmmanuel TeitelbaumBased on the recent history ofindustrial conflict and industrialpeace in South Asia, EmmanuelTeitelbaum argues that thepolitical exclusion and repressionof organized labor commonlywitnessed in authoritarian andhybrid regimes has extremely deleterious effects on laborrelations and ultimately economic growth. To test hisarguments, Teitelbaum draws on an array of data, includinghis original qualitative interviews and survey evidence fromSri Lanka and three Indian states – Kerala, Maharashtra, andWest Bengal. He also analyzes panel data from fifteen Indianstates to evaluate the relationship between politicalcompetition and worker protest and to study the effects ofprotective labor legislation on economic performance.In Teitelbaum’s view, countries must undergo furtherpolitical liberalization before they are able to replicate thesuccess of the sophisticated types of growth-enhancingmanagement of industrial protest seen throughout manyparts of South Asia.Emmanuel Teitelbaum is Assistant Professor of PoliticalScience and International Affairs at George WashingtonUniversity. His research examines the political roots of classconflict and the foundations of class compromise.9789382264088 244pp HB ` 795.00Poverty Amid Plenty in theNew IndiaAtul KohliIndia has one of the fastestgrowing economies on earth. Overthe past three decades, socialismhas been replaced by pro-businesspolicies as the way forward. Andyet, in this ‘new’ India, grindingpoverty is still a feature ofeveryday life. Some 450 millionpeople subsist on less than $1.25per day and nearly half of India’schildren are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, aseasoned scholar of Indian politics and economics, blamesthis discrepancy on the narrow nature of the ruling alliancein India that, in its new-found relationship with business, hasprioritized economic growth above all other social andpolitical considerations. In fact, according to Kohli, theresulting inequality has limited the impact of growth onpoverty alleviation and the exclusion of such a significantproportion of Indians from the fruits of rapid economicgrowth is in turn creating an array of new political problems.This thoughtful and challenging book affords an alternativevision of India’s rise in the world that democratic rulers willbe forced to come to grips with in the years ahead.Atul Kohli is the David K. E. Bruce Professor of InternationalAffairs and a Professor of Politics at Princeton University.12 B&W illustrations 7 tables9781107644441 260pp PB ` 395.00Recovering Liberties:Indian Thought in the Ageof Liberalism and EmpireC. A. BaylyOne of the world’s leadinghistorians examines the greatIndian liberal tradition, stretchingfrom Rammohan Roy in the 1820s,through Dadabhai Naoroji in the1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s.This powerful new study showshow the ideas of constitutional,and later ‘communitarian’ liberalsinfluenced, but were also rejected by their opponents andsuccessors, including Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radicaldemocrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism. Equally,Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developingfield of global intellectual history, demonstrating that theideas we associate with major Western thinkers – Mills,Comte, Spencer and Marx – were received and transformedby Indian intellectuals in the light of their own traditions todemand justice, racial equality and political representation.In doing so, Christopher Bayly throws fresh light on thenature and limitations of European political thought and reexaminesthe origins of Indian democracy.C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge.9781107025097 404pp HB ` 795.0026 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

POLITICSIndia Since 1980Sumit Ganguly &Rahul MukherjiThis book considers theremarkable transformations thathave taken place in India since1980, a period that began with theassassination of the formidablePrime Minister Indira Gandhi. Herdeath, and that of her son Rajivseven years later, marked the endof the Nehru-Gandhi era. Althoughthe country remains one of the fewdemocracies in the developingworld, many of the policies instigated by these earlierregimes have been swept away to make room for dramaticalterations in the political, economic and social landscape.Sumit Ganguly and Rahul Mukherji, two leading politicalscientists of South Asia, chart these developments withparticular reference to social and political mobilization, therise of the BJP and its challenge to Nehruvian secularismand the changes to foreign policy that, in combination withits meteoric economic development, have ensured India asignificant place on the world stage.Sumit Ganguly is Professor of Political Science and theRabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures andCivilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington.Rahul Mukherji is Associate Professor of South Asianstudies at the National University of Singapore.9781107020276 200pp HB ` 595.00Timepass: Youth, Class,and the Politics of Waitingin IndiaCraig JeffreySocial and economic changesaround the globe have propelledincreasing numbers of people intosituations of chronic waiting,where promised access to politicalfreedoms, social goods, oreconomic resources is delayed,often indefinitely. But there havebeen few efforts to reflect on thesignificance of “waiting” in the contemporary world.Timepass fills this gap by offering a captivating ethnographyof the student politics and youth activism that lower middleclass young men in India have undertaken in response topervasive underemployment. It highlights the importanceof waiting as a social experience and basis for politicalmobilization, the micro-politics of class power in north India,and the socio-economic strategies of lower middle classes.The book also explores how this north Indian story relatesto practices of waiting occurring in multiple other contexts,making the book of interest to scholars and students ofglobalization, youth studies, and class across the socialsciences.Craig Jeffrey is a Fellow, Tutor, and University Lecturer inGeography at Oxford University.9788175969261 232pp HB ` 795.00Adjudication in ReligiousFamily Laws: CulturalAccommodation, LegalPluralism, and GenderEquality in IndiaGopika SolankiThis book argues that the sharedadjudication model in which thestate splits its adjudicativeauthority with religious groupsand other societal sources in theregulation of marriage canpotentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. Inthis model the civic and religious sources of legal authorityconstruct, transmit and communicate heterogeneousnotions of the conjugal family, gender relations andreligious membership within the interstices of state andsociety. In so doing, they fracture the homogenized religiousidentities grounded in hierarchical gender relations withinthe conjugal family. The shared adjudication modelfacilitates diversity as it allows the construction of hybridreligious identities, creates fissures in ossified groupboundaries and provides institutional spaces for ongoingintersocietal dialogue. This pluralized legal sphere, governedby ideologically diverse legal actors, can thus increasegender equality and individual and collective legalmobilization by women effects institutional change.Gopika Solanki is assistant professor of political science atCarleton University in Canada.4 B&W illustrations 4 tables9781107023895 438pp HB ` 1495.00The Rise of China:Implications for IndiaHarsh V. Pant (ed)The rise of China as an emergingpower and as the most likelychallenger to the globalpreponderance of the US is alreadyhaving a significant impact acrossthe globe. This phenomenon isbeing debated and analysed atvarious levels. In India too, it isgenerating a lot of excitement. Onthe one hand, it is considered to bean opportunity and on the other, a challenge.This book is an attempt at exploring the multi-dimensionalnature of the rise of China and its implications for India. Thecontributors in this volume have examined various aspectsof China’s rise such as domestic developments, foreignpolicy agenda, and its position on issues related to Indiafrom an Indian perspective. The book will appeal toundergraduate and graduate students of InternationalRelations across the world. Foreign policy experts, andanyone interested in China-India relations should also findthe book to be of interest.Harsh V. Pant is a Reader in the Department of DefenceStudies at King’s College London.9788175968950 272pp HB ` 795.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org27

POLITICSVarieties of FederalGovernance: MajorContemporary ModelsRekha Saxena (ed)Towards the end of the SecondWorld War, there were only fourfunctioning federations in theworld – the United States,Switzerland, Canada and Australia.Today, twenty-four countries in theworld follow the federal form ofgovernment.Varieties of Federal Governance presents a global analyticalsurvey of contemporary federations. The book highlightsdistinctive features and contemporary issues in thetypology of major federal systems in terms of presidentialfederations (USA, Switzerland, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan),Commonwealth parliamentary federations (Canada,Australia, India, Malaysia, South Africa), Non-Commonwealthparliamentary federations in Afro-Asia (Ethiopia, Nepal), andEuropean parliamentary federations (Germany, Belgium,Spain). The book also includes analyses of pre-federaldevolutionary models in the UK and Sri Lanka, andsupranational federative tendencies in the European Union.This book will serve as a useful reference book for graduatestudents and academic researchers.Rekha Saxena is Associate Professor in the Department ofPolitical Science, University of Delhi.9788175967991 534pp HB ` 795.00Tensions in Rural Bengal:Landlords, Planters andColonial RuleChittabrata PalitThis book is a comprehensivestudy of the period of agrarianchanges in colonial Bengal. It dealswith an era which witnessed thefirst conflict between two aliensystems of political economy. TheBritish rule wanted to monetiseand commercialise the more orless subsistence economy byvarious agencies of improvement and by linking it to theinternational market. But its revenue system, administrativepolicies, the introduction of indigo planters and tenancylaws failed to transform the agrarian economy through theagency of landlords, planters and rich peasants. This wasbecause of the colonial policy of maximising profits withminimum administration, leaving feudal forces to prevailupon meager experiments in commercial agriculture. It onlyagitated the economy, creating tension and spurring revoltwhich finally led to the decline of the zamindari, andresulted in famine and depeasantisation, without any visibleimprovement.The book delves into the confrontation between two alienpolitical economies since the advent of colonial rule and itsaftermath of tension, resistance and revolt. It illustrates howthe contrived policy of converting a petite economy intothe capitalist mode of production ultimately died down to asemi-feudal, semi-capitalist equilibrium. Since then it hasbeen caught in the throes of an unfinished transformation.In the process several experiments were attempted by theBritish rule – permanent settlement of revenue with alandlord class, resumption of rent-free tenures, introductionof indigo planters into the hinterland, regulation of rent andtenancy rights, but all these only led up to agriculturalcontortions. The book would be of interest to students andscholars of the modern history of India and Bangladesh.Chittabrata Palit is a former Professor of History, JadavpurUniversity, India. He is presently the Director of Institute ofHistorical Studies, Kolkata.9788175968080 230pp HB ` 595.00Inside Nuclear South AsiaScott D. Sagan (ed)The relentlessness of theconfrontations between India andPakistan, and the fact that theyhave more than once escalatedinto armed conflict, makes InsideNuclear South Asia a must read foranyone - legislator, policy-maker,analyst, intelligence or militaryprofessional, student, or researcher- who wishes to gain a thoroughunderstanding of the spread ofnuclear weapons in South Asia and the potentialconsequences of nuclear proliferation on the subcontinent.Beginning with an examination of the origins of the nuclearweapons programs in India and Pakistan, it goes on toanalyze the consequences of nuclear proliferation on thesubcontinent - and provides clear evidence that thepresence of nuclear weapons in South Asia has increasedthe frequency and propensity of low-level violence, furtherdestabilizing the region. Specifically, it demonstrates thatnuclear weapons in India and Pakistan have led to seriouspolitical changes that challenge the ability of the two statesto produce stable and lasting nuclear peace. Thus, this bookprovides new insights into the domestic politics andorganizational interests behind specific nuclear policychoices in South Asia, a critique of narrow realist views ofnuclear proliferation, and clear signposting of the dangersof nuclear proliferation in South Asia.Scott D. Sagan is Professor of Political Science at StanfordUniversity and Co-Director of Stanford's Center forInternational Security and Cooperation.9788175967625 291pp HB ` 895.0028 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

POLITICSThe Tradition of Non-Useof Nuclear WeaponsT.V. PaulSince the Hiroshima and Nagasakiattacks, no state has unleashednuclear weapons. What explainsthis? According to the author, theanswer lies in a prohibitioninherent in the tradition of nonuse,a time-honored obligationthat has been adhered to by allnuclear states - thanks to aconsensus view that use wouldhave a catastrophic impact on humankind, the environment,and the reputation of the user.The book offers an in-depth analysis of the nuclear policiesof the U.S., Russia, China, the UK, France, India, Israel, andPakistan and assesses the contributions of these states tothe rise and persistence of the tradition of nuclear non-use.It examines the influence of the tradition on the behavior ofnuclear and non-nuclear states in crises and wars, andexplores the tradition's implications for nuclear nonproliferationregimes, deterrence theory, and policy. And itconcludes by discussing the future of the tradition in thecurrent global security environment.T. V. Paul is James McGill Professor of InternationalRelations, McGill University and Director, University ofMontreal-McGill Research Group in International Security.9788175967724 330pp HB ` 795.00Complex Deterrence:Strategy in the Global AgeT. V. Paul,Patrick M. Morgan & James J.Wirtz (eds)Moving beyond the precepts oftraditional deterrence theory, thisground-breaking volume offersinsights for the use of deterrencein the modern world, where policymakers may encounter irrationalactors, failed states, religious zeal,ambiguous power relationships,and other situations where long-established rules ofstatecraft do not apply. A distinguished group ofcontributors here examines issues such as deterrenceamong the great powers; the problems of regional andnonstate actors; and actors armed with chemical, biological,and nuclear weapons. Complex deterrence will be avaluable resource for anyone facing the considerablechallenge of fostering security and peace in the twenty-firstcentury.T. V. Paul is James McGill Professor of InternationalRelations, McGill University and Director, University ofMontreal-McGill Research Group in International Security.Patrick M. Morgan is Professor of Political Science and theTierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Universityof California, Irvine.James J. Wirtz is Dean at the School of InternationalGraduate Studies and Professor of National Security Studiesat the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey.9788175967816 370pp HB ` 795.00China and India in the Ageof GlobalizationShalendra D . SharmaThe rise of China and India is thestory of our times. Theunprecedented expansion of theireconomic and power capabilitiesraises profound questions forscholars and policymakers. Whatforces propelled these two Asiangiants into global pacesetters, andwhat does their emergence meanfor the United States and theworld? With intimate detail, Shalendra D. Sharma’s China andIndia in the Age of Globalization explores how the interplayof socio-historical, political, and economic forces hastransformed these once poor agrarian societies intoeconomic powerhouses. Yet, globalization is hardly aseamless process, as the vagaries and uncertainties ofglobalization also present risks and challenges. This bookexamines the challenges both countries face and what eachmust do to strike the balance between reaping theopportunities and mitigating the risks. For the United States,assisting a rising China to become a responsible globalstakeholder and fostering peace and stability in the volatilesubcontinent will be paramount in the coming years.Shalendra D. Sharma is a Professor in the Department ofPolitics at the University of San Francisco where he hastaught since 1993.4 maps 26 tables9780521198936 336pp HB ` 895.00Asymmetric Warfare inSouth Asia: The Causesand Consequences of theKargil ConflictPeter R. Lavoy (ed)The 1999 conflict between Indiaand Pakistan near the town ofKargil in contested Kashmir wasthe first military clash betweentwo nuclear-armed powers sincethe 1969 Sino-Soviet war. Kargilwas a landmark event not becauseof its duration or casualties, butbecause it contained a very real risk of nuclear escalation.Until the Kargil conflict, academic and policy debates overnuclear deterrence and proliferation occurred largely on thetheoretical level. This deep analysis of the conflict offersscholars and policymakers a rare account of how nucleararmedstates interact during military crisis. Written byanalysts from India, Pakistan, and the United States, thisunique book draws extensively on primary sources,including unprecedented access to Indian, Pakistani, andU.S. government officials and military officers who wereactively involved in the conflict. This is the first rigorous andobjective account of the causes, conduct, and consequencesof the Kargil conflict.Peter R. Lavoy is the Deputy Director of NationalIntelligence for Analysis.6 maps 6 tables9780521193856 426pp HB ` 895.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org29

POLITICSDr Syama PrasadMookerjee and IndianPolitics: An Account of anOutstanding PoliticalLeaderPrashanto Kumar ChatterjiDr Syama Prasad Mookerjee andIndian Politics: An Account of anOutstanding Political Leader is apioneering work on the multifacetedcontributions of Dr SyamaPrasad Mookerjee to the country.Dr Mookerjee helped to oust theLeague ministry in Bengal (1941) and install the ProgressiveCoalition ministry of which he was the Finance Minister. Heresigned in 1942 to protest against the Governor's policy ofrepression against the Quit India movement. As the WorkingPresident of the Hindu Mahasabha, he was responsible forits ascendancy in Indian politics from 1940 to 1944. As theCentral Industries and Supplies Minister (1947-1950), heframed free India's industrial policy but resigned due toacute differences with Prime Minister Nehru's appeasementpolicy towards Pakistan. He, together with M.S. Golwalkar ofthe Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, formed a new politicalparty, the Bharatiya Jan Sangh. Despite Dr Mookerjee'stragic death in 1953, the party drew adherents from all partsof India, and eventually was renamed the Bharatiya JanataParty.There is hardly any scholarly work on this remarkablepolitical figure and statesman. This book, which fills insubstantial gaps in one's knowledge of this highlymomentous and complicated period of modern Indianhistory, should prove to be a seminal contribution to theburgeoning body of literature on the subject.Dr. Prashanto Kumar Chatterji was Assistant Professor atPresidency College, Calcutta and Professor and Head of theDepartment of History at Burdwan University, Burdwan.9788175967267 381pp HB ` 895.00India’s Foreign Policy:The Democracy DimensionS. D. MuniIndia’s Foreign Policy: theDemocracy Dimension is a study ofIndia’s responses to the challengeof democracy in other countriesbefore and after its participation inthe global democratic initiatives.India’s similar responses in the pasthave been dictated and defined byits perceived vital strategic andpolitical interests, and thiscontinues to be so. The newly acquired obligations forpromoting democracy may have tempered its foreignpolicy rhetoric and style on the democracy question but ithas not, and will not, override India’s critical strategicconcerns and interests.Professor S.D. Muni, Senior Fellow at the Institute of SouthAsian Studies, Singapore, taught at the Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, New Delhi, India for 33 years.9788175967137 190pp HB ` 595.00Civil Society: History andPossibilitiesSudipta Kaviraj &Sunil Khilnani (eds)Fifteen scholars clarify theconcept of ‘civil society’,considering its use in differenthistorical contexts. The volumefirst analyses the meaning of civilsociety in Western theoreticaltraditions, and then considers thetheoretical and practical contextsin which it has been invoked inAsia, Africa and Latin America.Suditpa Kaviraj is Reader in the Department of PoliticalStudies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University ofLondon.Sunil Khilnani is Professor of Politics in the School ofPolitics & Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London.9788175961081 340pp PB ` 495.00Politics, Society andColonialism: AnAlternative Understandingof Tagore’s ResponsesAmartya MukhopadhyayEven as his 150th birth anniversarydraws near, Rabindranath Tagoreremains quite under-explored.Nirad C. Chaudhuri predicted thatthe difficulty in translating Tagore'swork would ascertain that in futurehis work will lie 'like a buried city inthe past'. The difficulty oftranslating him in any of the European or modern Indianlanguages and his position as a cult figure in Indiacontributed to this gap between adulation andunderstanding. Recent revival of interest in the West inTagore's work only partly redresses this imbalance. Formuch of Tagore's central claim to greatness lies in his socialthought.Tagore's views on many aspects of politics, society andculture in India are eminently relevant even today. These arethe civil social sphere, nation and nationalism,intercommunity relations, gender, industry, ecology etc.Amartya Mukhopadhyay probes deep into Tagore's entireoeuvre to bring out critically important ideas and theirunderpinnings in colonial politics. The author also arguesthat many of Tagore's views are easily translatable intomodern social theoretic concepts through textual strategiesand translations of hitherto neglected works. The bookshows how the poet is sometimes blinkered by the prism ofcolonialism, but generally transcends it, to echo oranticipate the voices of greatest social theorists on the mostexistential issues of our times.This well-researched book brings forth Tagore's views on awide range of aspects of Indian life: civil-social sphere,nation and nationalism, intercommunity relations, gender,industry, and ecology. The relevance of Tagore's work cutsacross disciplines and the power of his ideas transcendstime.30 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

POLITICSAmartya Mukhopadhyay is Professor of Political Science atthe Calcutta University, Kolkata, and formerly Professor,Political Science and Dean, Arts Faculty, Kalyani University.9788175967274 409pp HB ` 795.00The Politics of Extremismin South AsiaDeepa M. OllapallySouth Asia is home to a range ofextremist groups from thejihadists of Pakistan to the TamilTigers of Sri Lanka. In the popularmind, extremism and terrorism areinvariably linked to ethnic andreligious factors. Yet the dominanthistory of South Asia is notable fortolerance and co-existence,despite highly plural societies.Deepa Ollapally examines extremist groups in Kashmir,Afghanistan, Northeast India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and SriLanka to offer a fresh perspective on the causes ofextremism. What accounts for its rise in societies nothistorically predisposed to extremism? What determines thewinners and losers in the identity struggles in South Asia?What tips the balance between more moderate versusextremist outcomes? The book argues that politics, interstate,and international relations often play a moreimportant role in the rise of extremism in South Asia thanreligious identity, poverty, and state repression.Deepa M. Ollapally is Professorial Lecturer, and theAssociate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies atthe Eliott School of International Affairs at the GeorgeWashington University, Washington DC.1 map9780521749077 250pp PB ` 395.00Nation-Building andForeign Policy in India: AnIdentity-Strategy ConflictTobias EngelmeierNation-Building and Foreign Policyin India: An Identity–StrategyConflict presents an evaluation ofIndian foreign policy. It analysesthe unusual concern of Indianstrategic thinking about politicalvalues. The book argues that inIndian foreign policy, there hasbeen a shift from a strict concernfor national interest towards idealist considerations. Thuscreating what the author calls an ‘idealist inflection’. Thisinflection does not have its roots in cultural aspects orgrand strategy. Instead, it is best understood with referenceto the political process of nation-building, characterised bythe specific choices and decisions taken by the two leadingprotagonists of the Indian National Movement – MohandasKaramchand Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. The values theychose to place at the heart of India’s national identity havespilt into the country’s foreign policy. The book then goeson to study the changes in India’s foreign policy andnational identity since Nehru’s time until today.Nation-Building and Foreign Policy in India: An Identity–Strategy Conflict will be of interest to academicians, policymakersand general readers with an interest in foreignpolicy and international relations.Tobias F. Engelmeier is the founder and director of theenvironmental consulting company, Bridge to India.9788175966352 312pp HB ` 895.00Liberal Perspectives forSouth AsiaRajiva Wijesinha (ed)Liberal Perspectives for South Asiadiscusses the essentials of theliberal philosophy, while alsoindicating how appropriate it is inthe South Asian context. In thepast, the subcontinent wasrenowned for the skill with whichit took up the dominant ideologiesof the west and articulated themfor the Asian context. In the postcolonialperiod, the only dominant ideology that wassidetracked by all political parties was liberalism, theideology that promoted freedom of the individual. The ideaof a book about the need for liberalism in the subcontinentwas the brainchild of Chanaka Amaratunga, who set up thefirst avowedly Liberal Party in Sri Lanka.Many political parties have implemented liberal policies onan ad hoc basis and without a proper framework to guidethem. Not all parties would accept all aspects of a liberalprogramme, however, in a context in which many parties areseeking an ideology that accords both with the presenttimes and trends, and also with some of the goals theyaccepted in the past. It is hoped that this volume willprovide food for thought and ideas for adoption andincorporation within the party programme. Ranging fromerudite expositions of classic liberal thinkers to livelydiscussions of liberal economic principles put into practiceby imaginative entrepreneurs, this volume is essentialreading for a region making a swift transition into thecontemporary, globalized world.Rajiva Wijesinha is Senior Professor of Languages atSabaragamuwa University.9788175966628 255pp HB ` 795.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org31

POLITICSCommunalism, Caste andHindu Nationalism: TheViolence in GujaratOrnit ShaniBelligerent Hindu nationalism,accompanied by recurringcommunal violence betweenHindus and Muslims, has become acompelling force in Indian politicsover the last two decades. OrnitShani’s book, which examines therise of communalism, asks whydistinct groups of Hindus, deeplydivided by caste, mobilised on the basis of unitary Hindunationalism? And why was the Hindu nationalist rhetoricabout the threat from the essentially impoverished Muslimminority so persuasive to the Hindu majority? Shani usesevidence from communal violence in Ahmedabad, thelargest and most prosperous city in Gujarat, long consideredthe ‘laboratory’ of Hindu nationalism, as the basis of herinvestigations. She argues that, contrary to the currentlyperceived wisdom, the growth of communalism did not liein Hindu-Muslim antagonisms alone. It was rather anexpression of intensifying tensions among Hindus, nurturedby changes in the relations between castes and associatedstate policies. The results for the resulting uncertaintiesamong Hindus were frequently displaced onto Muslims,thus enabling caste tensions to develop and deepencommunal rivalries.Ornit Shani is Lecturer in Asian Studies at Haifa University.1 map9780521727532 230pp PB ` 395.00The India-PakistanConflict: An EnduringRivalryT.V. Paul (ed)The India-Pakistan rivalry remainsone of the most enduring andunresolved conflicts of our times. Itbegan with the birth of the twostates in 1947, and it has continuedever since, with the periodicresumption of wars and crises. Theconflict has affected everydimension of interstate andsocietal relations between the two countries and, despiteoccasional peace initiatives, shows no signs of abating. Thisvolume brings together leading experts in internationalrelations theory and comparative politics to explain thepersistence of this rivalry. Together they examine a range oftopics including regional power distribution, great powerpolitics, territorial divisions, the nuclear weapons factor, andincompatible national identities. Based on their analyses,they offer possible conditions under which the rivalry couldbe terminated.T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations,McGill University, Montreal.9788175963641 290pp PB ` 495.00India in the World Order:Searching for Major-PowerStatusBaldev Raj Nayar &T. V. PaulTwo highly regarded scholarscome together to examine India’srelationship with the world’s majorpowers and its own search for asignificant role in the internationalsystem. Central to the argument isIndia’s belief that the acquisition ofan independent nuclear capabilityis key to obtaining such status. The book details the majorconstraints at the international, domestic and perceptuallevels that India has faced in this endeavor. It concludes,through a detailed comparison of India’s power capabilities,that India is indeed a rising power, but that significantsystemic and domestic changes will be necessary before itcan achieve its goal.Baldev Raj Nayar is Emeritus Professor of Political Scienceat McGill University in Montreal.T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations,McGill University, Montreal.2 tables9788175962316 300pp PB ` 495.00Why Ethnic PartiesSucceed: Patronage andEthnic Head Counts inIndiaKanchan ChandraWhy do some ethnic partiessucceed in attracting the supportof their target ethnic groups whileothers fail? In a world in whichethnic parties flourish inestablished and emergingdemocracies alike, understandingthe conditions under which such parties succeed or fail is ofcritical importance to both political scientists and policymakers. Drawing on a study of variation in the performanceof ethnic parties in India, this book builds a theory of ethnicparty performance in “patronage-democracies.” Chandrashows why voters in such democracies choose betweenparties by conducting ethnic head counts rather than bycomparing policy platforms or ideological positions.Building on these individual microfoundations, she arguesthat an ethnic party is likely to succeed when it hascompetitive rules for intraparty advancement and when thesize of the group it seeks to mobilize exceeds the thresholdof winning or leverage imposed by the electoral system.Kanchan Chandra is an assistant professor in thedepartment of Political Science at MIT.39 tables 7 maps9780521608374 368pp PB ` 495.0032 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

POLITICSWestern Realism andInternational Relations: ANon-Western ViewAswini K. RayThis book provides an alternativeperspective of InternationalRelations from Hiroshima to 9/11.Both its diplomacy andmainstream scholarship are linkedby realpolitik, in a vicious circle ofretrogressive symbiosis. Itsimultaneously undermined theUN system of collective securityfrom its origin and the scientific credential of its scholarship.The Cold War that it spawned restricted economicprosperity, political stability, and democratic freedom withinits narrow core-area of the United States and Europe at thecost of its vast periphery in the Third World. Its unpredictedcollapse extended insecurity across the entire globalisedsystem, including its core-area, as events since 9/11forcefully underscores. While the new hegemonic systemhas become globally more insecure for all its citizens, itsscholarship is still clueless about the collapse of the bipolarsystem it created in the midst of the massive confidencebuildingexercise to stabilize it; it is even less able tocreatively respond to its orderly transition.Professor Aswini K. Ray, was Professor of InternationalRelations and Comparative Politics at Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, New Delhi, since 1974 till his retirement in 2003.9788175962187 243pp HB ` 695.00Democracy andDecentralisation in SouthAsia and West Africa:Participation,Accountability andPerformanceRichard C. Crook & James ManorThis book examines whethersetting up democratic localcouncils in four developingcountries (Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire,Bangladesh and India) enhancesthe popularity, responsiveness and effectiveness ofadministration. The authors make an importantcontribution to current debates about ‘good governance’,asking whether the poor and disadvantaged benefit fromdecentralisation.Richard C. Crook, University of Glasgow.James Manor, University of Sussex.95 tables 4 maps9780521636476 348pp PB ` 650.00Political Theory and Power2nd EditionSarah JosephThis book draws attention tocertain significant changes in theway in which power has beendefined and it also examines someof the critical responses whichthose changes have evoked. Theobjective is not to try and evolve auniversally acceptable andcomprehensive definition ofpower, and of related terms likeauthority, and influence. The argument of the book is that,that would be an impossible project since social andpolitical theories themselves constitute an intervention intopolitical discourse of a society and they may implicity orexplicitly, embody a political perspective. The basicassumptions about society embodied in a theory may beexpressed through certain ordering concepts and aparticular mode of theorizing.Sarah Joseph formerly taught Political Science at Lady ShriRam College, Delhi University.9788175962033 173pp HB ` 450.00Votes and Violence:Electoral Competition andCommunal Riots in IndiaSteven I. WilkinsonIn this book, Steven I. Wilkinsonuses newly collected data onHindu-Muslim riots, socioeconomicfactors and competitivepolitics in India to test his theorythat riots are fomented in order towin elections and thatgovernments decide whether tostop them or not based on thelikely electoral cost of doing so. He finds that electoralfactors account for most of the state-level variation inHindu-Muslim riots: explaining for example why riots tookplace in Gujarat in 2002 but not in many other states wheremilitants tried to foment violence. The general electoraltheory he develops for India is extended to Ireland, Malaysiaand Romania as Wilkinson shows that similar politicalfactors motivate ethnic violence in many different countries.Steven I. Wilkinson is Assistant Professor of PoliticalScience at Duke University.9780521672818 310pp PB ` 495.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org33

POLITICSState-DirectedDevelopment: PoliticalPower andIndustrialization in theGlobal PeripheryAtul KohliWhy have some developingcountry states been moresuccessful at facilitatingindustrialization than others? Ananswer to this question isdeveloped by focusing both onpatterns of state construction and intervention aimed atpromoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed indetail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over thetwentieth century. The states in these countries varied fromcohesive-capitalist (mainly in Korea), through fragmentedmulticlass(mainly in India), to neo-patrimonial (mainly inNigeria). It is argued that cohesive-capitalist states havebeen most effective at promoting industrialization and neopatrimonialstates the least. The performance offragmented-multiclass states falls somewhere in the middle.Atul Kohli is the David K.E. Bruce Professor of InternationalAffairs at Princeton University.9780521672825 478pp PB ` 595.00Gandhi: ‘Hind Swaraj’ andOther WritingsCentenary EditionAnthony J. Parel (ed)Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi’sfundamental work. Not only is itkey to understanding his life andthoughts, but also the politics ofSouth Asia in the first half of thetwentieth century. Celebrating 100years since Hind Swaraj was firstpublished in a newspaper, thiscentenary edition includes a newPreface and Editor’s Introduction, as well as a new chapteron ‘Gandhi and the ‘Four Canonical Aims of Life”. The volumepresents a critical edition of the 1910 text of Hind Swaraj,fully annotated and including Gandhi’s own Preface andForeword (not found in other editions). Anthony J. Parel setsthe work in its historical and political contexts and analysesthe significance of Gandhi’s experiences in England andSouth Africa. The second part of the volume contains someof Gandhi’s other writings, including his correspondencewith Tolstoy and Nehru.Anthony J. Parel is Emeritus Professor of Political Science atthe University of Calgary.9780521149143 294pp PB ` 395.00Gandhi as Disciple andMentorThomas WeberThomas Weber’s book comprises aseries of biographical reflectionsabout people who influencedGandhi, and those who were, inturn, influenced by him. While theprevious literature has tended tofocus on Gandhi’s political legacy,Weber’s book explores thespiritual, social and philosophicalresonances of these relationships,and it is with these aspects of the Mahatma’s life in mind,that the author selects his central protagonists. Theseinclude friends such as Henry Polak and HermannKallenbach, who are not as well known as those usuallycited, but who left a deep impression nevertheless, andmotivated some of Gandhi’s major life changes. Conversely,the work of luminaries such as E.F. Schumacher and GeneSharp reveal the Mahatma’s influence in arenas which arenot traditionally associated with his thinking. Weber’s bookoffers new and intriguing insights into the life and thoughtof one of the most significant figures of the twentiethcentury.Thomas Weber teaches politics and peace studies at LaTrobe University.9788175964327 294pp PB ` 350.00The Success of India’sDemocracyAtul Kohli (ed)How has democracy taken root inIndia in the face of a low-incomeeconomy, poverty, illiteracy andethnic diversity? Leading scholarsexplore this intriguing anomaly.Themes addressed include politics,ethnicity, federalism, caste, poverty,and Hindu nationalism. This is atightly conceived volume on acontroversial topic for studentsand generalists.Atul Kohli is Professor of Politics and International Affairs atPrinceton University.5 tables9788175961074 312pp PB ` 395.0034 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

RELIGION & PHILOSOPHYRELIGION & PHILOSOPHYHinduism and Law: AnIntroductionTimothy Lubin, Donald R. Davis,Jr. & Jayanth K. Krishnan (eds)Covering the earliest Sanskritrulebooks through to thecodification of ‘Hindu law’ inmodern times, thisinterdisciplinary volume examinesthe interactions betweenHinduism and the law. The authorspresent the major transformationsto India’s legal system in both thecolonial and post colonial periods and their relation torecent changes in Hinduism. Thematic studies show howlaw and Hinduism relate and interact in areas such as ritual,logic, politics, and literature, offering a broad coverage ofSouth Asia’s contributions to religion and law at theintersection of society, politics and culture. In doing so, theauthors build on previous treatments of Hindu law as apurely text-based tradition, and in the process, provide afascinating account of an often neglected social andpolitical history.Timothy Lubin is Professor in the Department of Religion,and Lecturer in Law and Religion in the School of Law atWashington and Lee University.Donald R. Davis, Jr., is Associate Professor in theDepartment of Languages and Cultures in Asia at theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison.Jayanth K. Krishnan is Professor of Law and the Charles L.Whistler Faculty Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington,Maurer School of Law.1 map9781107012493 320pp HB ` 895.00The Spirit of Hindu LawDonald R. Davis, Jr.Law is too often perceived solelyas state-based rules andinstitutions that provide a rationalalternative to religious rites andancestral customs. The Spirit ofHindu Law uses the Hindu legaltradition as a heuristic tool toquestion this view and reveal theclose linkage between law andreligion. Emphasizing thehousehold, the family, andeveryday relationships as additional social locations of law,it contends that law itself can be understood as a theologyof ordinary life. An introduction to traditional Hindu law andjurisprudence, this book is structured around key legalconcepts such as the sources of law and authority, the lawsof persons and things, procedure, punishment and legalpractice. It combines investigation of key themes fromSanskrit legal texts with discussion of Hindu theology andethics, as well as thorough examination of broadercomparative issues in law and religion.Donald R. Davis, Jr. is Associate Professor in theDepartment of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University ofWisconsin-Madison.7 tables9781107005617 206pp HB ` 695.00The Origins of Yoga andTantra: Indic Religions tothe Thirteenth CenturyGeoffrey SamuelYoga, tantra and other forms ofAsian meditation are practised inmodernized forms throughout theworld today, but mostintroductions to Hinduism orBuddhism tell only part of thestory of how they developed. Thisbook is an interpretation of thehistory of Indic religions up toaround 1200 CE, with particular focus on the developmentof yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much wereally know about this period, and asks what sense we canmake of the evolution of yogic and tantric practices, whichwere to become such central and important features of theIndic religious scene. Its originality lies in seeking tounderstand these traditions in terms of the total social andreligious context of South Asian society during this period,including the religious practices of the general populationwith their close engagement with family, gender, economiclife and other pragmatic concerns.Geoffrey Samuel is Professorial Fellow at the School ofReligious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University.9780521118682 432pp HB ` 995.00Sharia: Theory, Practice,TransformationsWael B. HallaqIn recent years, Islamic law, orShari’a, has been appropriated as atool of modernity in the Muslimworld and in the West and hasbecome highly politicised inconsequence. Wael Hallaq’smagisterial overview of Shari’a setsthe record straight by examiningthe doctrines and practices ofIslamic law within the context of itshistory, and by showing how it functioned within premodernIslamic societies as a moral imperative. In so doing,Hallaq takes the reader on an epic journey tracing thehistory of Islamic law from its beginnings in seventhcenturyArabia, through its development andtransformation under the Ottomans, and across lands asdiverse as India, Africa and South-East Asia, to the present. Ina remarkably fluent narrative, the author unravels thecomplexities of his subject to reveal a love and deepknowledge of the law which will inform, engage andchallenge the reader.order online at www.cambridgeindia.org35

RELIGION & PHILOSOPHYWael B. Hallaq is James McGill Professor in Islamic Law inthe Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University.9780521180337 624pp PB ` 695.00Gandhi’s Philosophy andthe Quest for HarmonyAnthony J. ParelAnthony Parel affords an entirelynew perspective on thephilosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.He explores how Gandhiconnected the spiritual with thetemporal. As Parel points out‘being more things than one’ is agood description of Gandhi and,with these words in mind, heshows how Gandhi, drawing onthe Indian time-honoured theory of the purusharthas or‘the aims of life’, fitted his ethical, political, aesthetic andreligious ideas together. In this way Gandhi challenged thenotion which prevailed in Indian society that a rift existedbetween the secular and the spiritual, the political and thecontemplative life. Parel’s revealing and insightful bookshows how far-reaching were the effects of Gandhi’spractical philosophy on Indian thought generally and howthese have survived into the present.Anthony J. Parel is Emeritus Professor of Political Science atthe University of Calgary.9780521727488 244pp PB ` 395.00An Introduction toHinduismGavin D. FloodThis book provides a muchneededthematic and historicalintroduction to Hinduism, thereligion of the majority of peoplein India. Dr. Flood traces thedevelopment of Hindu traditionsfrom ancient origins and the majordeities to the modern world.Hinduism is discussed as both aglobal religion and a form ofnationalism. Emphasis is given to the tantric traditions,which have been so influential; to Hindu ritual, morefundamental than belief or doctrine; and to Dravidianinfluences. Some debates within contemporary scholarshipare introduced.Gavin D. Flood, University of Stirling.25 half-tones 7 figures 2 maps9788175960282 341pp PB ` 495.00An Introduction to Islam2nd EditionDavid WainesFor this revised and updatedSecond Edition, David Waines hasadded a long section tacklinghead-on the issues arising fromIslam’s place in the changing worldorder at the turn of the newmillennium. This new section offersthought-provoking reflections onthe place of religion in the currentconflicts.David Waines is Professor of Islamic Studies, Department ofReligious Studies, Lancaster University.9788175961890 368pp PB ` 395.00An Introduction toBuddhismPeter HarveyThis book is a comprehensiveintroduction to the Buddhisttradition as it has developed inthree major cultural areas in Asia,and to Buddhism as it is nowdeveloping in the West. It isintended to be a textbook forstudents of religious and Asianstudies respectively, but will alsobe of interest to those who want ageneral survey of Buddhism and its beliefs. Unlike manyother general books about Buddhism, it not only exploresBuddhist beliefs, but also seeks to show how Buddhismfunctions as a set of practices. It thus includes chapters ondevotion, ethics, monastic practices and meditation.Peter Harvey is Professor of Buddhist Studies at theUniversity of Sunderland.9788175961883 396pp PB ` 595.0036 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGYSOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGYIndia Migration Report2010-2011: The AmericasBinod Khadria (ed)India Migration Report 2010–2011:The Americas discusses historicaland contemporary migrationbetween India and the Americancontinents. For more than half-acentury,India has been one of thelargest source countries ofmigrants to the US and Canada. Amajority of Indian diaspora population in the US andCanada is highly educated and affluent. They holdimportant positions in the economic and socio-political setupof these two countries. In contrast, the Indians in SouthAmerica and the Caribbean are not so highly-skilled,educated or affluent. A significant proportion of them hadmigrated much earlier as low-skilled workers for plantationsin the colonies.This report is an attempt to examine Indian migration to thetwo American continents following diverse trajectories.Besides providing an overview of migration from India, thereport also traces immigration of foreigners and returnmigration of Indians from the American continents to India.The focus of India Migration Report 2010–2011 is on puttingtogether available information on issues involving variousmigration patterns and analyzing the major factors andpolicies that shape them.The book will serve as an important reference source forgraduate students and researchers on migration generally,as well as being of obvious interest to specialists on theglobal Indian diaspora.Binod Khadria, professor of Economics at the Zakir HusainCentre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences,Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.9781107681033 166pp PB ` 995.00Wandering with Sadhus:Ascetics in the HinduHimalayasSondra L. HausnerIn this moving ethnographicportrait of Hindu renouncers –sadhus or ascetics – in northernIndia and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausnerconsiders a paradox that shapestheir lives: while ostensibly definedby their solitary spiritual practice,the stripping away of socialcommitments, and their break withfamily and community, renouncers in fact regularly interactwith each other and with “householder” society. They form adistinctive, alternative community with its own internalstructure, one that is not located in any single space. Highlymobile and dispersed across the subcontinent, its membersare regularly brought together through pilgrimage circuitson festival cycles. Drawing on many years of fieldwork,Hausner presents intimate portraits of individual sadhus asshe examines the shared views of space, time, and the bodythat create the ground of everyday experience. Written withan extraordinary blend of empathy, compassion, andanthropological insight, this study will appeal to scholars,students and general readers alike.Sondra L. Hausner is University Lecturer in the Study ofReligion at Oxford University.9788175968929 266pp PB ` 395.00The Emerging Dimensionsof SAARCS.D. Muni (ed)With the dawn of the twenty-firstcentury, South Asian region hasundergone radical transformation.It has witnessed a strongdemocratic sweep. Most of theSouth Asian economies haveregistered impressive growthtrajectories. Some of its countrieshave also emerged as the hub ofglobal terrorism. The internationalcommunity has become far more involved in South Asianaffairs due to the nuclearisation of the region. SAARCcannot but keep pace with the changing regional dynamics.It has moved ahead on its economic agenda and expandedits reach not only by adding new members (Afghanistan)but also by opening itself to the participation of many othercountries, including China, Iran and the US, as Observers.The Emerging Dimensions of SAARC is an attempt to look atthe changing dynamics of South Asia and to learn whetherSAARC will take regional cooperation and integration intheir various dimensions closer to reality. S.D.Muni, theeditor of this volume has compiled essays contributed byeminent academics and analysts, not only from most of theSAARC countries, but also from those joined as Observers.Besides looking at the trade and economic dimension ofSAARC, these essays discuss the security, political andcultural aspects of regional cooperation among the SouthAsian countries.S.D.Muni, a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute ofSouth Asian Studies, Singapore, taught for over thirty yearsat the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.9788175967458 322pp HB ` 795.00The Court Chronicle of theKings of Manipur: TheCheitharon KumpapaVol. 2, 1764-1843 CESaroj Nalini Arambam ParrattThe Cheitharon Kumpapa is thecourt chronicle of the kings of thestate of Manipur, a small, formerlyindependent state situated on thenorth-eastern border of India withMyanmar. The Cheitharon Kumpaparecords events from the foundingof the ruling dynasty in 33 CE until the abolition of themonarchy and subsequent merger of the state with India in1949. The document is probably the oldest chronicle of theorder online at www.cambridgeindia.org37

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGYregion, written on handmade Meetei (Manipuri) paper madefrom bark of trees, in locally made ink, with a quill or abamboo pen. All in all it comprises more than a thousandleaves.The Cheitharon Kumpapa Volume 1 (2005,ISBN 978-04-1534-430-5) covered the period between 33–1763 CE. This volume continues the translation of thechronicle up until 1843 CE. It also includes a facsimile of theoriginal text in Meetei Mayek, the archaic Manipuri script,with a glossary for Manipuri and other loan words.Researchers on East and South Asia in the fields of socialanthropology, history, archaeology, human geography andlinguistics will find this volume interesting.Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt had written extensively onManipur’s history and culture in articles that have beenpublished in international journals and is the author ofseveral books.9788175966383 297pp HB ` 795.00Asian Voices in aPostcolonial Age:Vietnam, India andBeyondSusan BaylyThis study of intellectuals and theircosmopolitan life trajectories isbased on anthropological andhistorical research in Vietnam andIndia, two great Asian societieswith contrasting experiences ofempire, decolonisation and the riseand fall of the twentieth-centurysocialist world system. Building on the author’s longstandingresearch experience in India and on remarkablefamily narratives collected during fieldwork in northernVietnam, the book deals with epic events and complexsocial transformations from a perspective that emphasizesthe personal and the familial. Its central theme is theextraordinary mobility of intelligentsia lives. The authorexplores the role of the intellectual in the economic, socialand cultural transformation of the post-colonial worldthrough in-depth ethnographic fieldwork methods. Inidentifying parallels and contrasts between Hanoi’s ‘socialistmoderns’ and the family and career experiences of theirIndian counterparts, the book makes a distinctivecontribution to the study of colonial, socialist and postsocialistAsia.Susan Bayly is Reader in Historical Anthropology in theDepartment of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University,and a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.9780521516808 294pp HB ` 795.00Women in Prison: AnInsight into Captivity andCrimeSuvarna CherukuriWomen in Prison takes a look at themultiple specificities that bringwomen into the prison system.Drawing on empirical sources andoriginal research, and relyingprimarily on interviews of womeninmates, this book explores thecontexts of female crime andpunishment in India and looks atgendered disciplinary mechanisms that are used to controlwomen inmates. The work invokes not only a sense ofhistory in understanding women’s crimes andimprisonment, but also engages in a critical dialogue interms of gender, caste, culture and sexuality. Unique in itsanalysis of the lives of women prisoners within social andlegal contexts, the book is a major contribution tointernational literature on women’s offences and theirexperience of imprisonment.Suvarna Cherukuri is Assistant Professor of Sociology atSiena College, New York.9788175965478 157pp HB ` 595.00Anthropology, Politics andthe State: Democracy andViolence in South AsiaJonathan SpencerIn recent years anthropology hasrediscovered its interest in politics.Building on the findings of thisresearch, this book offers a newway of analysing the relationshipbetween culture and politics, withspecial attention to democracy,nationalism, the state and politicalviolence. Beginning with scenesfrom an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, itcovers issues from rural policing in north India to slumhousing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularismand pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released byelectoral democracy across the subcontinent. It ends bydiscussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling tosustain a window of shared humanity after two decades ofwar. Bringing together and linking the themes ofdemocracy, identity and conflict, this important new studyshows how anthropology can take a central role inunderstanding other people’s politics, especially the issuesthat seem to have divided the world since 9/11.Jonathan Spencer is Professor of Anthropology of SouthAsia at the University of Edinburgh.9780521722124 218pp PB ` 395.0038 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGYThe Untouchables:Subordination, Povertyand the State in ModernIndiaOliver Mendelsohn & MarikaViczianyIn a compelling account of thelives of those at the bottom ofIndian society, the authors explorethe construction of theUntouchables as a social andpolitical category, the historicalbackground which led to such adefinition, and their position in India today. The authorsargue that, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition, aconsiderable edifice of discrimination persists. The bookpromises to make a major contribution to the social andeconomic debates on poverty, while its wide-rangingperspectives will ensure a readership from across thedisciplines.Oliver Mendelsohn, La Trobe University, Victoria.Marika Vicziany, Monash University, Victoria.2 tables9788175960749 307pp PB ` 495.00Empowering Society: AnAnalysis of Business,Government and SocialDevelopment Approachesto EmpowermentUsha JumaniEmpowerment is an integralelement of a democratic system.The maturity of a democracy isdirectly related to the level ofempowerment its citizens andinstitutions experience. The term‘empowerment’ is used in differentcontexts and this book addresses this problem through acomparative analysis of three major organisational systems- business, government and social development. The bookpresents a new conceptual framework for understandingthe process of empowerment. It combines case studiesspecially for this volume, with secondary data and theauthor’s first hand experience of working with developmentorganisations.Usha Jumani is a Fellow of the Indian Institute ofManagement, Ahmedabad with specialization inOrganisation Development.9788175963177 263pp HB ` 595.00Socio-Religious Reform Movements in BritishIndiaKenneth W. JonesIn Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India, KennethW. Jones examines the numerous nineteenth-centurymovements for social and religious change - Christian,Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Zoroastrian – movements throughoutthe subcontinent. He discusses the division between thosemovements that arose withoutbeing influenced by the newcolonial world and those thatemerged within this world andwere led by individuals influencedby western culture.Socio-Religious Reform Movementsin British India presents an originaland detailed study of the impact ofBritish rule upon religion, socialbehaviour and culture.Kenneth W. Jones is Professor ofSouth Asian History at KansasState University.9788185618470 255pp PB ` 295.00(The New Cambridge History of India)Hindu Kingship and Polityin Precolonial IndiaNorbert PeabodyThrough the analysis ofeighteenth- and early nineteenthcenturytexts on the HinduKingdom of Kota in Rajasthan,Norbert Peabody explores theways in which historicalconsciousness, or memory, isculturally constructed and howthis consciousness informs socialexperience. By building on thepremise that no society receivesthe past in a transparent, universal and objective way, heunravels how the past in Kota has been fashioned. In thisway, he suggests that different societies not only establishdifferent co-ordinates of value in their constructions of thepast, but also that the very processes of social and politicaltransformation differ from society to society.Norbert Peabody is the Graduate Officer in Research at theCentre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.9 half-tones 5 figures 2 maps9788175963665 206pp HB ` 595.00Seeking Bauls of BengalJeanne OpenshawBauls are known as wanderingminstrels and mystics in India andBangladesh. Jeanne Openshawuses her fieldwork, and oral andmanuscript texts, to chart the riseof their present iconic status. Hersis a challenging andcomprehensive approach to aspiritual and creative people.Jeanne Openshaw is Lecturer inReligious Studies at the Universityof Edinburgh.9 half-tones9788175962057 304pp PB ` 495.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org39

PSYCHOLOGY/ WILDFILEPSYCHOLOGYDevelopment ofGeocentric SpatialLanguage and Cognition:An Eco-culturalPerspectivePierre R. Dasen &Ramesh C.MishraEgocentric spatial language usescoordinates in relation to our bodyto talk about small-scale space(‘put the knife on the right of theplate and the fork on the left’),while geocentric spatial language uses geographiccoordinates (‘put the knife to the east, and the fork to thewest’). How do children learn to use geocentric language?And why do geocentric spatial references sound strange inEnglish when they are standard practice in otherlanguages? This book studies child development in Bali,India, Nepal, and Switzerland and explores how childrenlearn to use a geocentric frame both when speaking andperforming non-verbal cognitive tasks (such asremembering locations and directions). The authorsexamine how these skills develop with age, look at thesocio-cultural context in which the learning takes place, andexplore the ecological, cultural, social, and linguisticconditions that favor the use of a geocentric frame ofreference.Pierre R. Dasen is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty ofPsychology and Educational Sciences at the University ofGeneva, Switzerland.Ramesh C. Mishra is Professor in the Department ofPsychology at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.9781107008335 408pp HB ` 995.00Handbook of IndianPsychologyK. Ramakrishna Rao, Anand C.Paranjpe & Ajit K. Dalal (eds)Indian psychology is a distinctpsychological tradition rooted inthe native Indian ethos. Itmanifests in the multitude ofpractices prevailing in the Indiansubcontinent for centuries. Unlikethe mainstream psychology, Indianpsychology is not overwhelminglymaterialist-reductionist incharacter. It goes beyond the conventional third-personforms of observation to include the study of first-personphenomena such as subjective experience in its variousmanifestations and associated cognitive phenomena. Itdoes not exclude the investigation of extraordinary states ofconsciousness and exceptional human abilities. Thequintessence of Indian nature is its synthetic stance thatresults in a magical bridging of dichotomies such as naturaland supernatural, secular and sacred, and transactional andtranscendental. The result is a psychology that is practical,positive, holistic and inclusive.The Handbook of Indian Psychology is an attempt to explorethe concepts, methods and models of psychologysystematically from the above perspective. The Handbook isthe result of the collective efforts of more than thirtyleading international scholars with interdisciplinarybackgrounds. In thirty-one chapters, the authors depict thenuances of classical Indian thought, discuss their relevanceto contemporary concerns, and draw out the implicationsand applications for teaching, research and practice ofpsychology.K. Ramakrishna Rao is currently Chairman of the IndianCouncil of Philosophical Research and President of theInstitute for Human Science and Service, Vishakhapatnam.Anand C. Paranjpe is the Emeritus Professor of Psychologyat the Simon Fraser University in Canada.Ajit K. Dalal is the Professor of Psychology at the Universityof Allahabad.9788175966024 668pp HB ` 895.00WILDLIFEThe Asian Elephant inCaptivity: A Field StudyFred Kurt &Marion E. GaraiToday, one out of three Asianelephants lives in captivity.Although captive elephants haveexisted since 3,500 years, they havenever been domesticated. Duringthe last few decades the life of thecaptive elephants brought totemples, cities and tourist resortshave become more miserable thanit was while they lived in jungle camps. In order to improvethe situation, the living conditions of captive elephantsmust be changed fundamentally, i.e. they should lead a lifeunder more natural conditions. The lack of fundamentalknowledge about wild elephants induces anthropocentricactions and argumentation, but is of little help to thecaptive elephants.This book provides data on ecology and behaviour ofcaptive elephants in relation to their wild conspecifics. Theystem from a recent research project of the authors and theirco-workers in Sri Lanka and also from a number of theirstudies on wild and captive elephants in Sri Lanka, SouthIndia, Myanmar and South Africa as well as in severalEuropean zoos and circuses. Aspects of social behaviour,reproduction and musth as well as stereotypical behaviour,sleep and tool-use of wild and captive elephants aredescribed. Finally, recommendations on how to improve theliving conditions of captive elephants are also added.40 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

WILDFILE/ GENDER STUDIESDr. Fred Kurt is involved in the First European ElephantManagement School and the European Elephant Group.Dr. Marion E. Garai is the founder of the ElephantManagement & Owners Association - EMOA - in South Africaand has been its Chairperson for the past 12 years. She isalso the Chairperson of the Space for Elephants Foundation(SEF) since 2005.9788175963580 360pp HB ` 795.00Gods in ChainsRhea GhoshThe book hopes to highlightthe conditions of captiveelephants, as they are currentlyused and kept in India. Initiallystarted as an informaldocumentation, Gods in Chainslater expanded to become a‘handbook of sorts’, for anyonewanting to know more of thereality behind the veil ofglamour and majesty of thecaptive pachyderm, especially in temple rituals and festivalprocessions. The often troubled and complex relationshipwith their only companion, the ‘mahout’, is also a story ofpathos and heartbreak for a deeply social and communitymindedanimal.Rhea Ghosh has travelled extensively in India and Africavisiting animal sanctuaries and welfare organisations.9788175962859 239pp HB ` 995.00GENDER STUDIESGender and Science:Studies across CulturesNeelam Kumar (ed)Science has been gender biasedfor centuries across culturalcontexts. Different ideologicalconstructions of gender throughdifferent eras have restrictedwomen’s access to science. Thetwentieth century, especially itssecond half, witnessed certainimportant changes in terms ofwomen’s status in society. Genderand Science: Studies across Cultures includes essays byleading academics and researchers from different parts ofthe world, who discuss gender and science in their societyand explore the relevance of gender theories. The book isdivided into two broad sections. The first section providesconceptual reflections on gendered science and the secondsection examines the gender-science relationship usingexamples from various cultural contexts.This unique volume tries to answer several importantquestions such as these:• Could science become free from gender biases?• Could gender and science issues go beyond race, class,colonization and social and geographical distinctions?• Are gender and science relations universal as assumedby the ‘ethos of science’ or vary with the culture?The book also tries to strike a balance between analyses ofthe gender dimension of science itself and the role of thewider social, economic and cultural factors.This interdisciplinary volume will be an important resourcefor graduate students and research scholars of genderstudies, social history, psychology and sociology. Thoseinterested in gender and science as well as cross-culturalissues will also find this book useful.Neelam Kumar is a Scientist at the National Institute ofScience, Technology and Development Studies.9788175969254 354pp HB ` 995.00Woman as Spectator andSpectacle: Essays onWomen and MediaK. Durga Bhavani &C. Vijayasree (eds)Woman as Spectator and Spectacle:Essays on Women and Media bringstogether several critical readingson the correlations between mediaand women’s issues. Based on thepapers presented at a NationalSeminar on ‘Women in/ and Media’conducted at Osmania University,Hyderabad, this volume deals with issues ranging from theportrayal of women in media to the need for a definitivegender policy for the media.The volume explores the role of women both as objects ofmedia representation as well as the producers andconsumers of it. The articles interweave the regional andlinguistic readings of media texts with global feministmedia criticism. Through this, the ramifications of mediaglobalization on women’s issues are analyzed, thus givingvoice to specific local developments and their impact onwomen and media.Prof. K. Durga Bhavani is a Professor in the Department ofEnglish, Osmania University, Hyderabad.Prof. C. Vijaysree is a Professor in the Department ofEnglish, Osmania University, Hyderabad.9788175967687 120pp HB ` 595.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org41

GENDER STUDIES/ SCIENCE...Flowing Upstream:Empowering WomenThrough WaterManagement Initiatives inIndiaSara Ahmad (ed)The case studies illustrate that theprocess of negotiating change of‘flowing upstream’ is indeed messy,complicated and complex.Emerging insights while located ina specific socio-economic, politicaland cultural context provide a menu of essential but notnecessarily sufficient, ingredients towards a strategy formainstreaming gender and equity rights in watermanagement. Together, the cases raise important questionson the social construction of water policy in India, thegendered structure of facilitating organizations, networkingand the role of learning in developing accountable andsocially inclusive governance mechanisms for managing ournatural resources.Sara Ahmad is presently based in Ahmedabad where sheworks closely with a number of NGOs on gender-inclusive,rights-based approaches to livelihood security.9788175962620 272pp HB ` 645.00SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY &ENVIRONMENTEnvironmental Valuationin South AsiaA. K. Enamul Haque,M. N. Murty & PriyaShyamsundar (eds)Environmental Valuation in SouthAsia is about understanding thevalue of environmental services inSouth Asia. The book provides anoverview of differentenvironmental problems in SouthAsia and examines how economicvaluation techniques can be usedto assess these problems. It offers robust evidence of theeconomic benefits of resource conservation and identifiescosts associated with a decline in environmental quality asSouth Asian economies grow. It brings together multiplecase studies on valuation undertaken by economists andenvironmental scientists from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan,Nepal and Sri Lanka under the aegis of the South AsianNetwork for Development and Environmental Economics(SANDEE).A unique feature of the book is its exposition of the use ofenvironmental and economic data and analyticaltechniques under circumstances where data are difficult toobtain. This book addresses the challenges of valuingenvironmental changes that are unique to developingcountries. Each chapter starts with a description of anenvironmental problem and the valuation strategy used,followed by a discussion of estimation methods and results.This book is designed to serve as a reference book forstudents, teachers, researchers, non-governmentorganizations, and practitioners of environmental valuation.Those interested in the fields of development andenvironmental economics, and natural resourcemanagement policies, will also find it useful.A. K. Enamul Haque is Professor of Economics at UnitedInternational University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.M. N. Murty specializes in Public Economics andEnvironmental and Resource Economics. He is a retiredProfessor from the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi,India.Priya Shyamsundar is Program Director for the SouthAsian Network for Environment and DevelopmentEconomics, Kathmandu, Nepal.9781107007147 505pp HB ` 795.00The Indian Ocean Tsunami:The Global Response to aNatural DisasterPradyumna P. Karan &Shanmugam P. Subbiah (eds)On December 26, 2004, a massivetsunami triggered by anunderwater earthquake struck thecoasts of Thailand, Indonesia, SriLanka, and certain other countriesalong the Indian Ocean. Withcasualties as far away as Africa, theaftermath was overwhelming:ships could be spotted miles inland; cars floated in theocean; legions of the unidentified dead – an estimated225,000 – were buried in mass graves; relief organizationsstruggled to reach rural areas and provide adequate aid forsurvivors.Shortly after this disaster, researchers from around theworld travelled to the region’s most devastated areas,observing and documenting the impact of the tsunami. ‘TheIndian Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response to a NaturalDisaster’ offers the first analysis of the response andrecovery effort. Editors Pradyumna P. Karan and S. Subbiah,employing an interdisciplinary approach, have assembledan international team of top geographers, geologists,anthropologists, and political scientists to study theenvironmental, economic, and political effects of the 2004Indian Ocean tsunami.The volume includes chapters that address the tsunami’sgeo-environmental impact on coastal ecosystems andgroundwater systems. There are also other chapters thatoffer socio-cultural perspectives on religious powerrelations in South India and suggest ways to improve thegovernment agencies’ response systems for naturaldisasters.This book will be of interest to environmentalists andpolitical scientists alike, as well as to planners andadministrators of disaster-preparedness programs.42 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTPradyumna P. Karan is the University Research Professor inthe Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.S Subbiah is the Professor Emeritus of Geography andDirector of the Centre for Japanese Studies and Research atthe University of Madras, India.9788175968998 322pp HB ` 795.00Crustal Evolution andMetallogeny in IndiaSanjib Chandra Sarkar &Anupendu GuptaCrustal Evolution means thechanges that the Earth’s crusthas gone through thegeologic past as the effects ofchanges in the mantle-crustsystem, the atmosphere, thehydrosphere and thebiosphere. Metallogeny is thegenesis of metallic mineraldeposits. Both the terms are used in the book in theirconventional sense, but in the context of India.The book is the first of its kind to document in detail thenature, origin and evolution of Indian mineral deposits inthe context of local and regional geology. The latterincorporates an evolutionary history of the mantle-crustsystem, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the biosphereand interactions thereof. The uniqueness of the book lies inthat it combines both metallogeny and crustal evolutionthat were otherwise treated as stand-alone topics.The book synthesises crustal evolution in India, anddiscusses metallogeny in that context. The exhaustivechapters carry numerous and detailed case studiesdescribing the distribution and occurrence of ores andprovides an up-to-date review of all these, keeping in viewthe world scenario. Throughout the book, the text issupported by a large number of photographs, figures, mapsand tables.Sanjib Chandra Sarkar retired as Head, Department ofGeological Sciences, Jadavpur University, India.Anupendu Gupta retired as Deputy Director General ofGeological Survey of India, a premier geological body.375 illustrations/ graphs/half - tones9781107007154 914pp HB ` 1950.00Water Governance inMotion: Towards Sociallyand EnvironmentallySustainableWater LawsDr Philippe Cullet,Dr Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri,Roopa Madhav &Dr Usha Ramanathan (eds)Water Governance in Motion:Towards Socially andEnvironmentally Sustainable WaterLaws focuses on the work undertaken by InternationalEnvironmental Law Research Centre IELRC on water lawreforms in India. It seeks to provide a broaderunderstanding of the conceptual framework informingexisting water law and ongoing reforms.The book is divided into two parts. The first part criticallyanalyses the context of international law for water reformsand the second part discusses the multifaceted aspects ofwater sector reforms in India. It assembles in one volumethe contributions made by a broad range of scholarsworking on various law and policy issues arising in thecontext of water sector reforms in India. The contributionshave been specifically selected in order to address the widerange of issues including water distribution to households,irrigation, industrial use and wastewater treatment. Thesequestions are dealt with from a range of perspectivesincluding human rights, environment, agriculture,development and trade.Dr Phillippe Cullet is a Reader in Law at the School ofOriental and African Studies, University of London.Dr Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri is a Research Fellow at IELRC.Roopa Madhav worked on the Indo-Swiss water lawresearch partnership from 2006 to 2008.Dr Usha Ramanathan is an internationally recognizedexpert on law and poverty.9788175966345 570pp HB ` 875.00Ecotourism Developmentin India: Communities,Capital and ConservationSeema Bhatt &Syed LiyakhatEcotourism is a term debatedupon by practitioners all over theworld. The initiatives carried out inthe name of ecotourism haveadversely affected people and theenvironment. The indigenous andlocal communities have raisedvoices against such steps at local,national and international levels.However, sustainable ecotourism – tourism carried outwithin certain defined norms, can lead to the developmentof the people. Ecotourism Development in India attempts topresent a comprehensive and analytical perspective on thedevelopment of ecotourism in India. This book showcasesthe key policies and legal frameworks linked to ecotourismorder online at www.cambridgeindia.org43

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTdevelopment at national and international levels. Theconsequences of large-scale models of ecotourism in termsof responses and impacts, both negative and positive, arepresented through select case studies. It is intended tofacilitate effective formulation and implementation ofconservation and development policies and practices.Seema Bhatt is an independent consultant working onissues related to biodiversity.Syed Liyakhat has a background in environmental sciencesand specializes in sustainable tourism research andadvocacy.9788175965980 158pp PB ` 250.00On Disasters in IndiaAnu KapurOn Disasters in India is acomprehensive compilation ofextensive research on disasters inIndia. It unfolds the pitfalls inresearch so far and insists on afresh paradigm in themethodology for accessingresearch on disasters. The bookreconstructs a researchscape andexamines the three time periods ofstudy of disasters, namely, thephase of awareness, indifferenceand recognition. The narrative is built across the colonial,independence and post-globalisation years.The 4004 references, located, classified and collatedfiguratively and categorically in the book, form thegroundwork for any research pertaining to disasters in India.The collection is indispensable to postgraduate students,researchers, disaster managers and policy-makers who arekeenly involved in research or in providing solutions todisasters.Anu Kapur is Associate Professor of Geography, DelhiSchool of Economics, University of Delhi.9788175966222 406pp HB ` 995.00Himalayan Degradation:Colonial Forestry andEnvironmental Change inIndiaDhirendra Datt DangwalHimalayan Degradation: ColonialForestry and Environmental Changein India questions the recent trendof treating environmental andagrarian concerns as two separatedomains. In this aspect, the bookgoes beyond the existingframework of environmentalhistory that focuses only on the study of state policies anddebates over redefining rights and examining protests. Theauthor makes a careful study of the larger rural economy,emphasising the changing significance of pastoralism, tradeand foraging in the life of the common people. He linksforest degradation and environmental change tosocioeconomic transformation.The introduction of ‘scientific forestry’ in the late nineteenthcentury transformed forests into a profitable resource forcommercial purposes. Forests were overexploited, whichresulted in wider ecological changes in the Himalaya.Underlining the centrality of forests and mountainresources to the livelihood and culture of the people ofUttarakhand, the book subjects the notion of sustainablemanagement of forests to close scrutiny.Dhirendra Datt Dangwal is currently an Assistant Professorin the Department of History, Himachal Pradesh University,Shimla.9788175966314 336pp HB ` 995.00Forest Policy andEcological Change:Hyderabad State inColonial IndiaS. Abdul ThahaForest Policy and Ecological Change:Hyderabad State in Colonial India isan attempt to highlight the historyof forestry in colonial India in thecontext of the Nizam’s Dominions,popularly called the HyderabadState. The ownership of forests bythe State through administrative authority and itsmonopoly over the commercial exploitation of forestresources were central to the history of state forestry in theHyderabad State. Since the government categorized forestsinto reserved, protected and open forests, the mainobjective for the forest administration was to conserve theexisting forests and exploit them systematically.As in other parts of colonial India, state management offorest resources marked a watershed in the HyderabadState as well. It was from the second half of the nineteenthcentury, under the influence of the British, that the Stateevolved a sustained policy of regulation and exploitation offorest tracts. This new policy of forest management came inthe way of people’s access to the forest and its naturalresources. This book explains how the State managed thepressures between the conservation of forests on the onehand and commercial exploitation on the other due toagrarian expansion and introduction of railways.S. Abdul Thaha is one of the founding directors of GlocalResearch and Consultancy Services, a Hyderabad basedresearch and service company that specializes in the studyof social development issues. He teaches at the Centre forthe Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy atMaulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad.9788175966321 174pp HB ` 695.0044 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTSustainable Developmentat Risk: Ignoring the PastJoseph H. HulseOver the past half century, the ideaof sustainable development hasevolved and rooted itself in thelexicon on internationaldevelopment. But what is it, really?Are development agencies trulycommitted to long-termsustainable solutions todevelopment issues? Are welearning from our past successesand failures? This book takes an historical perspective onthese questions.The analysis begins with the Atlantic Charter, the creation ofthe United Nations; its family of agencies, and theinternational development banks. It reviewsrecommendations from international commissions andconferences, from World Bank and UNDP developmentreports. It comments on governmental policies, human andindustrial actions detrimental to the planet’s environmentand natural resources. It studies the patterns by whichbiotechnologies essential to human survival and healthhave progressed over the past 6,000 years, and theconsequences of uncontrolled urban growth on food andhealth security.Professor Joseph H. Hulse is currently Visiting Professor atthe University of Manchester, the Central FoodTechnological Research Institute in Mysore, India and theM. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in Tamil Nadu,India.9788175965218 392pp HB ` 695.00Climate Change: An IndianPerspectiveSushil Kumar DashThe disturbing changes occurringin the global climate andenvironment has been a matter ofconcern for the current generation.The exploration and exploitationof nature by human beings haveplaced tremendous and unduestress on the natural resources.Some of the recent signals ofglobal change warrantreconsideration of the whole concept of industrial growththat has been adopted so far.The issue of climate change due to human activities can beanalysed under two broad categories: emissions ofGreenhouse Gases (GHGs) and the nearly irreversibledamage to the environment. Reducing emissions of GHGs isintimately connected with economic issues and hence amatter of global politics. It needs to be handled throughglobal negotiations and, ultimately, through the use ofalternate sources of energy and clean technology. Thesecond category is more dangerous, since the recoveryprocess will be extremely slow and the corrective measuresmore complicated than those for the GHG abatement.Sushil Kumar Dash has about 34 years of experience inteaching and research. Currently, a Professor at the Centrefor Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute ofTechnology, Delhi, he is actively involved in sponsored R&Dactivities besides teaching.9788175965331 278pp HB ` 600.00Forest Ecology in India:Colonial Maharashtra1850-1950Neena Ambre RaoForest Ecology in India: ColonialMaharashtra 1850–1950 takes alook at the human interactionsthat have shaped up theecosystem specifically ofMaharashtra, under the Britishcolonial rule.This work is a culmination ofextensive analysis of secondary sources and numerousarchival primary sources including vernacular materialhitherto unexamined from the perspective ofEnvironmental History. It traces the evolution of political,socio-cultural and religious attitudes and administrativepolicies that had an impact on the forest ecology ofMaharashtra.The study goes beyond a chronological narrative of eventsand it adopts a fresh approach where it examines theimpact of the forest policies and subsequent responsesfrom the tribals, peasants and artisans. It looks at landmarkevents and struggles that shaped the resistance to the newenvironmental and forest laws as well as the spillover ofthese developments into the anti-colonial struggles of theearly twentieth century.Neena Ambre Rao has taught at various colleges in Indiaand has held faculty position in the Environmental StudiesDepartment, Naropa University Boulder, Colorado, USA.9788175965492 284pp HB ` 895.00Dew HarvestGirja SharanKutch region is arid andchronically short of drinking waterand due to its closeness to theArabian Sea coast, dewfall occurshere frequently. Dew isatmospheric water vapourcondensing on a surface cooled byradiative cooling at night. Dewwater is potable. Dew harvestoffers an opportunity tosupplement drinking water supplyand with that in view we launchedR&D work to develop harvesting mechanisms. Thismonograph describes the outcome and the experience.Girja Sharan Ph.D (Cornell) Cummins Foundation – IIMALaboratory for Environmental Technology in Arid Areas,Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.9788175963269 107pp PB ` 195.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org45

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTIndigenous Knowledge ofFarming in North MalabarDr. K.M. Sreekumar,Dr. C. Thamban &Dr. M. GovindanIt is now widely recognized thatagriculture can benefit whenindigenous technical knowledgeof farmers or ITK is reclaimed andintegrated with modern farmingpractices. ITK is derived from localculture, traditions and long-termhuman interaction with theenvironment. It needs both documentation and consciouspromotion for a more sustainability oriented perspective inagriculture. This book aims to document ITK in agricultureby detailing rituals and practices followed in the cultivationof the main crops in the North Malabar region of Kerala.Dr. K.M. Sreekumar, Kerala Agriculture University, Trissur,Kerala.Dr. C. Thamban, Senior Scientist, Central Plantation CropsResearch Institute, Kasargod, Kerala.Dr. M. Govindan, is Associate Professor (Microbiology),College of Agriculture, Padannakkad, Kasargod, Kerala.9788175963481 175pp PB ` 245.00Non-Chemical Methods ofPest ControlK. VijayalakshmiThis concise booklet is intended tocreate public awareness aboutaspects of pesticide use in India.Ignorance about pesticides inIndia is widespread andadministrative and legislativelacunae have aggravated thesituation. This booklet is a smallstep in the long and arduousprocess of helping to make oursociety and environment pesticide free.Dr. K. Vijayalakshmi is Research Director, Centre for IndianKnowledge Systems, Chennai.9788175963634 72pp PB ` 145.00Organic FarmingG.K. VeereshGreen Revolution Technologieshave made India self-sufficient infood production but unable tosustain soil productivity. Aquantum leap in production ofover 100 million tonnes wasachieved in just two decades(1960-1970). But during the 1980sand 1990s it was a struggle to addon another 10 million tonnesdespite good monsoons and theincreasing supply of inputs of fertilizers, high yielding seeds,pesticides as well as water through irrigation. High costs ofinputs have turned farming into a loss-making enterprisewhile leading to severe environmental degradation.Professor G.K. Veeresh, former Vice Chancellor, Universityof Agricultural Science, Bangalore and Founder President ofthe Association for the Promotion of Organic Farming.9788175963450 175pp HB ` 695.00Perils of PesticidesMukund JoshiThis concise book is intended tocreate public awareness aboutaspects of pesticide use in India.Ignorance about pesticides inIndia is widespread andadministrative and legislativelacunae have aggravated thesituation. This book is a small stepin the long and arduous process ofhelping to make our society andenvironment pesticide free.9788175962637 105pp PB ` 125.00Preventive EnvironmentalManagement: An IndianPerspectiveShyam R. Asolekar &R. GopichandranThis book highlights the need forincorporating PreventiveEnvironmental Management (PEM)approaches, characterized bycommunity action at all levels ofimplementation. At the companylevel, PEM means adopting aholistic approach that includes diagnosing processes andsystems for pollution hot-spots, interventions to reducewastes at source, improving product quality and yield,enhancing waste treatment and value addition andintegrating economic and environmental concerns of thestakeholders. It also discusses the significance ofappropriate tools and techniques that enable transitionacross the continuum of production, consumption, andenvironmental protection, as well as, the preparedness ofcommunities to monitor improved environmental quality.An expansive framework for resolving some prevailingdilemmas has also been proposed in this book.Dr. Shyam R. Asolekar teaches at the Centre forEnvironmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute ofTechnology, Mumbai.Dr. R. Gopichandran serves as a Scientist at the Centre forEnvironment Education.9788175963139 656pp HB ` 995.0046 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY.../ GENERALLivestock and Livelihoods:The Indian ContextNitya S. GhotgeLivestock and Livelihoods: TheIndian Context discusses livestockrearing in India, in relation tochanges in the economy andpolicies of the government. Theissues range from traditionalpractices in animal rearing, effectof colonial and post-colonialpractices to the current policies. Italso discusses methods topromote sustainable biodiversity and alternative systems ofveterinary care.Nitya S. Ghotge holds a masters in Veterinary Surgery(1989) from Bombay Veterinary College, India.9788175961838 138pp HB ` 695.00Challenging The IndianMedical HeritageDarshan Shankar &P.M. UnnikrishnanThere are two schematicallydistinguished traditions of healthin India. One refers to the writtentraditions of the great classicalsystems of Ayurveda, Siddha,Unani and the other one is orallytransmitted folk practices, whichlack proper documentation. Thesetraditional practices deal with anumber of basic health techniques like treatment ofcommon ailments and home remedies. In somecommunities there also exist special traditions like bonesetting, visha chikitsa, treatment for certain chronic ailments,diagnostic methods such as naadi pareeksha.Darshan Shankar has been the Director of the Foundationfor Revitilisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT),Bangalore, since 1993.P.M. Unnikrishnan founded the Centre for AyurvedicResearch and Development (CARI), Kerala.9788175961876 241pp HB ` 695.00GENERALThe Cambridge Companion to CricketAnthony Bateman & Jeffrey Hill (eds)Few other team sports can equal the global reach of cricket.Rich in history and tradition, it is both quintessentiallyEnglish and expansively international, a game that hasevolved and changed dramatically in recent times.Demonstrating how the history of cricket and itsinternational popularity is entwined with British imperialexpansion, this book examines the social and politicalimpact of the game in a variety of cultural sites: the WestIndies, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia andNew Zealand. An internationalteam of contributors explores theenduring influence of cricket onEnglish identity, examines whycricket has seized the imaginationof so many literary figures andprovides profiles of iconic playersincluding Bradman, Lara andTendulkar. Presenting a globalpanoramic view of cricket’scomplicated development, itsunique adaptability and itspolitical and sportingcontroversies, the book provides arich insight into a unique sporting and cultural heritage.Anthony Bateman is a freelance writer and editor and anHonorary Visiting Research Fellow at the InternationalCentre for Sports History and Culture at De MontfortUniversity, Leicester, UK.Jeffrey Hill is Emeritus Professor of Historical and CulturalStudies at DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK.3 B&W Illustrations 1 table9781107601949 308pp PB ` 395.00Reception of English:Cultural Responses inTelugu DocumentsM. SridharReception of English: CulturalResponses in Telugu Documents is acollection of various text typeswritten in English by Telugu writersalong with English translations ofTelugu texts. The documentsincluded in this collection spanover two hundred years of theTelugu-English interface with theearliest dating back to 1825 and the most recent to 2006and cover a wide range of selections from autobiography,personal/ historical essays, official reports, creative writingand criticism. This study attempts to record the responses ofthe Telugu people to the British – their rule, the introductionof the study of English, English manners, English culture, etc.Unlike most academic enterprises that study the interfacebetween Indian languages and English that tend to focuson the influence of English on Indian languages, thedocuments compiled here represent different degrees ofaccommodation, incorporation and rejection of colonialculture.M. Sridhar teaches English at the University of Hyderabad.9788175965928 142pp HB ` 495.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org47

GENERALNews as Culture:Journalistic Practices andthe Remaking of IndianLeadership TraditionsUrsula RaoAt the turn of the millennium,Indian journalism has undergonesignificant changes. The rapidcommercialization of the press,together with an increase inliteracy and politicalconsciousness, has led to swiftgrowth in the newspaper market but also changed the waynews makers mediate politics. Positioned at a historicaljunction where India is clearly feeling the effects of marketliberalization, News as Culture demonstrates how journalistsand informants interactively create new forms of politicalaction and consciousness. The book explores English andHindi news making and investigates the creation of newsrelations during the production process and how they affectpolitical images and leadership traditions. It moves beyondthe news-room to outline the role of journalists in urbansociety, the social lives of news texts and the way citizensbring their ideas and desires to bear on the news discourse.This important volume contributes to an emerging debateabout the impact of the media on Indian society.Furthermore, it convincingly demonstrates the inseparablelink between media related practices and dynamic culturalrepertoires.Ursula Rao is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology andSociology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney,Australia. She has worked in the fields of MediaAnthropology, Religious Anthropology and Ritual Studies.9788175967861 236pp HB ` 695.00Architecture and Art ofSouthern IndiaGeorge MichellGeorge Michell provides apioneering and richly illustratedintroduction to the architecture,sculpture and painting of theVijayanagar empire and thesuccessor states. The period,encompassing some four hundredyears, was endowed with anabundance of religious and royalmonuments, which remain astestimonies to the history and ideology behind theirevolution.George Michell is an architect, archaeologist and arthistorian.182 half-tones 5 maps9780521441100 250pp HB ` 895.00(The New Cambridge History of India)Facets of SocialGeography:International andIndian PerspectivesAshok K. Dutt, VandanaWadhwa, Baleshwar Thakur& Frank J. Costa (eds)Facets of Social Geography:International and IndianPerspectives provides a breadthof information on the nature,scope, history and evolution ofsocial geography along with a good representation ofapproaches and techniques used in this field. It discussesboth conceptual and empirical approaches, and traditionaland emergent social geography themes including art andculture, urbanism and crime, social institutions of caste, classand religion, gender, disability, activism, feminism, socialplanning, enterprise zones, social and economic inequities,post-colonialism, post-modernism and development ofquantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. India’s socialstructure based on centuries-old Karma principles and afour-level caste system are dealt with in this book to helpunravel the country’s social geography.This book is a felicitation volume in honour ofAllen G. Noble, Distinguished Professor Emeritus ofGeography and Planning at the University of Akron, Ohio,USA. A result of the collective effort of 40 leading nationaland international scholars, it is an excellent addition to thecurrent stock of knowledge and will be of interest togeographers, sociologists, demographers, urban andregional planners and policy-makers.Ashok K. Dutt is Professor Emeritus in Geography, Planningand Urban Studies at the University of Akron, USA.Vandana Wadhwa is Lecturer in the Department ofGeography and Environment at Boston University, Boston,Massachusetts.Baleshwar Thakur is the former Head of the Department ofGeography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi,and former Vice-Chancellor of Lalit Narain Mithila University,Darbhanga.Frank J. Costa is Professor Emeritus in Geography, Planning,Urban Studies and Public Administration at the University ofAkron, USA.9788175968011 666pp HB ` 1480.00Human Rights and Law: Bonded Labour inIndiaRamesh Kumar TiwariHuman Rights and Law: Bonded Labour in India deals withthe problem of debt bondage and the way it has beentreated during the British as well as in the postindependenceperiod. Analysis has been made of themotivations for carrying out the reform; the processesinvolved in formulating the legislation, contributions bydifferent agencies, discussion in the parliament, etc. The twolegislations: the Indian Slavery Act, 1843 and bonded laboursystem (Abolition) Act, 1976 provide a comparative48 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

GENERALperspective in the making ofsocial legislation in twodifferent historical settings anddifferent political systems.The statute on debt and itsenforcement has been carriedout by four distinct politicalauthorities. India under theCompany, India under theCrown; ProvincialGovernments (1937–1939);and Independent India. Theproblems in the enforcementof the statues have been analyzed drawing evidence frommodern Indian history, state-society relationship,motivations of the officials and the political context ofadministration.Ramesh Kumar Tiwari, formerly Professor of PublicAdministration, Indian Institute of Public Administration.9788175967465 187pp HB ` 595.00The Rajah of DarjeelingOrganic Tea: MakaibariRajah BanerjeeThe Rajah of Darjeeling OrganicTea is about Makaibari – thefirst tea garden in theHimalayan Highlands. Thisbook captures the magic ofMakaibari and provides a rareglimpse of one of Darjeeling’sgreatest characters – theThunderbolt Rajah.Rajah Banerjee is a livinglegend in Darjeeling. As an environmental investigator, hehas studied the huge and magnificent model, Makaibari, foryears. He is a follower of Rudolf Steiner – the Austrianphilosopher who founded the biodynamic agriculturemovement, the predecessor to organic farming. Based onSteiner’s biodynamic principles, Rajah converted Makaibarito an organic tea estate in 1988, abjuring the acceptedpractice of maximising yields through artificial fertilisersand pesticides. Rajah moves on foot and horseback,interacting and learning from everyone who crosses hispath – the lone traveller, the tea estate residents, socialactivists, visiting scholars and agronomists, to name a few.The Rajah of Darjeeling Organic Tea chronicles the evolutionof Makaibari, a homestead which, by merely addressing andredressing its problems on the ground and from the ground,has become an ideal, a panchavati, where the home and theforest are merged in identity. It is an outstanding archetypeof human beings in nature, producing peace, not just tealeaves of extraordinary quality. Makaibari is a vedic village ofwhich ayurvedic tea is a mere by-product, and not itssingular identity.Included with this book is the award-winning hour-longdocumentary The Lord of Darjeeling (both in English andFrench) made by Xavier de Lauzanne, the renowneddocumentary filmmaker from France, which captures thetrue spirit of Makaibari.Rajah Banerjee is a champion of the organic teamovement, a social activist for tea labourers and smallorganic farmers, an anthropologist who works tirelessly topreserve the cultural heritage of the Himalayan region andan environmentalist who fights to conserve its richbiodiversity.4 colour book9788175966055 176pp HB + DVD ` 995.00Our Indian Railway:Themes in India’sRailway HistoryRoopa Srinivasan, ManishTiwari & Sandeep Silas (eds)This book commemorates 150years of railways in India.Introduced under colonial rulein the second half of thenineteenth century, the railwayssoon embraced the length andbreadth of India bringing with itrapid political, economic,ecological and cultural changes. The articles in this bookexplore the impact of this technological phenomenon froma range of interdisciplinary perspectives. From early railwaythinking in renaissance Bengal, to railway policing in UttarPradesh and issues of management to railway themes inliterature, the writers in this volume reveal the world of therailways in all its exciting facets. The photo essay invokes thenostalgic world of steam with a series of evocative images.In the twenty-first century, the ever expanding horizon ofthe railways continues to draw in people and goods in thethird largest railway network in the world.Roopa Srinivasan is an officer of the Indian RailwayAccounts Service and is presently Deputy Chief AccountsOfficer with Northern Railways.Manish Tiwari, an Indian Railway Traffic Service Officer,presently works as Joint Director, Information & Publicitywith the Ministry of Railways.Sandeep Silas, an IRTS officer of the 1983 exam, hasevolved as a travel writer, poet, lyricist, humorist and atourism promotion enthusiast.16pp photo essay9788175963306 288pp HB ` 695.00Love in South Asia: ACultural HistoryFrancesca Orsini (ed)Love may be a universal feeling,but culture and language play acrucial role in defining it. Idiomsof love have a long history, andwithin every society there isalways more than onediscourse, be it prescriptive,religious, or gender-specific,available at any given time. Thisbook explores the idioms oforder online at www.cambridgeindia.org49

GENERAL/ FORTHCOMINGlove that have developed in South Asia, those words,conceptual clusters, images and stories which haveinterlocked and grown into repertoires. Including essays byliterary scholars, historians, anthropologists, film historiansand political theorists, the collection unravels theinterconnecting strands in the history of the concept(shringara,‘ishq, prem and “love”) and maps theirsignificance in literary, oral and visual traditions. Each essayexamines a particular configuration and meaning of love onthe basis of genre, tellers and audiences, and the substantialintroduction sets out the main repertoires.Francesca Orsini is Lecturer in Hindi at the University ofCambridge.9788175964334 380pp HB ` 645.00Story of the Delhi IronPillarR. BalasubramaniamStory of The Delhi Iron Pillar tracesthe history of the pillar located inthe Qutab Complex and describesits structure in detail. It unravelsthe mystery behind the resistanceof the pillar to corrosion for morethan sixteen centuries. It alsodiscusses the amazing processesby which the pillar wasmanufactured using the technicalknow-how available at the time.R. Balasubramaniam has been teaching and conductingresearch at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur since1990.9788175962781 140pp PB ` 245.00FORTHCOMINGUrbanization in SouthAsia: Focus on Mega CitiesR. P. MisraThe focus of the book is on megacities, often called engines ofeconomic growth. Mega citiesconstitute major assets of thecountries, at the same time theyare also centres of majorconvulsions. The book containschapters on South Asia’s ninemega cities - Mumbai, Kolkata,Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore andHyderabad (in India), Karachi, and Lahore (in Pakistan), andDhaka (in Bangladesh). In addition, five capital cities of theregion, i.e., Kabul (Afghanistan), Kathmandu (Nepal),Thimphu (Bhutan), Colombo (Sri Lanka), and Male (Maldives)also constitute the subject matter of the book.The volume consists of twenty chapters; four chapters(three in the beginning and eighteen at the end) cover thegeneral themes that cut across all the countries of theRegion; and the remaining fourteen chapters focus on eachof the nine mega cities and five capital cities of the Region.Each chapter is an original research work of well-knownspecialists from fields like urban geography, urban planning,urban management, architecture, and social science.Professor R. P. Misra was the Vice-Chancellor of AllahabadUniversity.9788175966369 c. 515pp HBR. K. Narayan: An Introduction (ContemporaryIndian Writers in English)Mohan G. RamananThis book presents multifarious critical perspectives onR. K. Narayan, and attempts to evaluate Narayan in the lightof contemporary concerns, without ignoring his essential,rootedness in his Indian inheritance. R. K. Narayan: AnIntroduction, seeks to explore the central motif’s of Narayan’sworks, such as• his relation to reality and his engagement with it• his recurring themes of myth-making and mythologicalparallelisms• the political and social angles which inform his work• the religious and spiritual dimensions which act as abroad framework• his examination of the eternal transcendental principle,shaping and directing lifeThe book evaluates Narayan’s narratives in Bakhtinian termsand presents a post-colonial/ post-modern outlook toNarayan’s works which would appeal both to the critic aswell as the informed reader.Professor Mohan G. Ramanan teaches at the Departmentof English, University of Hyderabad, India.The Court Chronicle of theKings of Manipur: TheCheitharon Kumpapa,Volume 3Saroj Nalini Arambam ParrattThe Cheitharon Kumpapa is thecourt chronicle of the kings ofManipur, a small formerlyindependent state situated on theIndian border with Myanmar. TheCheitharon Kumpapa recordsevents from the founding of theruling dynasty in 33 CE until theabolition of the monarchy and subsequent merger of thestate with India in 1949. The document is probably theoldest chronicle in the region, written on handmade Meetei(Manipuri) paper made from bark of trees, in locally madeink, with a quill or a bamboo pen. All in all it comprises morethan 1,000 leaves.The Cheitharon Kumpapa Vol. 1 covered the period from33–1763 CE, and Vol. 2 from 1764–1843 CE. This final volumecontinues the translation until the legitimate kingship cameto an end as a result of conflict with the British in 1891. Aswith the previous volumes a facsimile of the original text inMeetei Mayek, the archaic Manipuri script, is included. Thiswork will be of interest to researchers on East and SouthAsia in the fields of history, social anthropology, andlinguistics.50 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

FORTHCOMINGSaroj Nalini Arambam Parratt taught at universities inSouthern Africa and was an honorary professor of theUniversity of Manipur.c.295pp HBDevi or Dasi: SocialImagination andConstructed Realities ofGender in South AsiaSubhadra Mitra ChannaThe book is about genderconstruction in India. It theorizesgender in terms of modelsgeneralizing upon receivedwisdom from historical andcultural sources and lived realities.The generalized model has twopolar points – ‘Devi’ (goddess) andthe ‘Dasi’ (slave) – drawing upon two popular modes ofreferring to women in India, which provide the extremeswithin which a large amount of interpretation andvariability is possible. The main argument is that gendercannot be viewed as an independent variable situating itaway from the social and cultural realities of which it is onlyone aspect. Thus to understand gender constructions inIndia one has to interrogate it against the backdrop oforganizational, historical and political circumstances andalso realize that gender is a necessary methodological toolto explore complex social realities.The book would be of interest to academics, researchersand graduate students of South Asian History,Anthropology and Sociology.Subhadra Mitra Channa is a professor at Department ofAnthropology, University of Delhi.c. 200pp HBIslamic Reform inSouth AsiaFilippo Osella &Caroline Osella (eds)The authors in this volume discusscontemporary Islamic reformism inSouth Asia in some of its diversehistorical orientations andgeographical expressions.‘Reformism’ is particularlytroublesome as a term, in that itcovers broad trends stretchingback for more than two hundredyears. Still, ‘reformism’ can be usefulas a term in helping contributors to insist upon recognitionof the differences between projects of revival and renewaland such contemporary obsessions as ‘political Islam’,‘Islamic fundamentalism’ and so on. Urging a more nuancedexamination of all forms of reformism and their reception inpractice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate thehistorical and geographical specificities of reform projects.In doing so, they challenge prevailing perspectives in whichsubstantially different traditions of reform are lumpedtogether into one reified category (often carelesslyshorthanded as ‘wah’habism’) and branded as extremist – ifnot altogether demonised as terrorist. Academic researchersand graduate students will find this book useful.Filippo Osella is Reader in Social Anthropology atUniversity of Sussex.Caroline Osella is Reader in Anthropology with referenceto South Asia at School of Oriental and African Studies,University of London.9781107031753 c. 480pp HBFighting Eviction: KatkariLand Rights andResearch-in ActionDaniel Buckles & RajeevKhedkar, with Bansi Ghevde &Dnyaneshwar PatilThe book engages readers in aprocess of reflection on what itmeans to do research ‘with’ peoplerather than ‘on’ people, byrecounting a collaborative inquirywith the Katkari, formerly called‘Criminal Tribe’ and so-called‘Primitive Tribal Group’ inMaharashtra, India.The book is designed to help readers learn aboutparticipatory action research progressively and with astrong narrative grounded in issues facing Adivasipopulations in South Asia and the real-life dilemmas ofengaged research. As such it is accessible to both graduateand undergraduate students in many disciplines.This includes all of the standard social science departmentsteaching methods and promoting field-based research.Daniel Buckles is Senior Research Associate and AdjunctResearch Professor at Department of Sociology andAnthropology, Carleton University, Canada.c. 200pp HBPolitical Thought inAction: The Bhagavad Gitaand Modern IndiaShruti Kapila & Faisal Devji (eds)This volume brings together agroup of intellectual and socialhistorians to discuss the way inwhich modern interpretations ofthe Gita have focused on war andviolence, rather than peace andstability, as a site for thinkingabout politics. The essays gatheredhere look at the Gita as aphilosophical and ethical text bothwithin South Asia and also on its ‘outward journey’ intowestern political debate. Though part of an ancient epictradition, the Gita did not achieve its current eminence untilvery recently. Its resurgence and reinterpretation, in short, iscoterminous with the formation of modern life and politics.But if modern commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita cannotbe described simply as participating in some ancient andcontinuing tradition, neither should they be seen merely asthe epiphenomena of an abstraction like capitalism thatsupposedly constitutes the true reality of Indian society.order online at www.cambridgeindia.org51

FORTHCOMINGThis set of essays seeks to intervene in current debateswithin political thought and intellectual history and to offernew perspectives on both. They do so with the presumptionthat the place of India and its political thought is instructivefor and foundational in the making of the national and postnationalglobal order.The book would be of interest to academic researchers aswell as general readers interested in South Asian History,Indian philosophy and religion.Shruti Kapila is Professor of History at Corpus ChristiCollege University of Cambridge.Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South AsianHistory at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.9781107033955 c. 220pp HB ` 595.00The Political Philosophy ofMuhammad Iqbal: Islamand Nationalism in LateColonial IndiaIqbal Singh SeveaThis book reflects upon thepolitical philosophy ofMuhammad Iqbal, a toweringintellectual figure in South Asianhistory, revered by many for hispoetry and his thought. He lived inIndia in the twilight years of theBritish Empire and, apart from ashort but significant period studying in the West, heremained in Punjab until his death in 1938. The book studiesIqbal’s critique of nationalist ideology, and his attempts tochart a path for the development of the “nation” byliberating it from the centralizing and homogenizingtendencies of the modern state structure. These were highlyrelevant and often controversial issues during the yearsleading up to independence, and Iqbal frequently clashedwith his contemporaries over his view of nationalism as “thegreatest enemy of Islam. He constructed his own particularinterpretation of Islam – forged through an interaction withMuslim thinkers and Western intellectual traditions – thatwas ahead of its time, and since his death both modernistsand Islamists have continued to champion his legacy.Iqbal Singh Sevea, University of North Carolina, ChapelHill.1 map256pp HBExpanding Frontiers inSouth Asian and WorldHistory: Essays in Honourof John F. RichardsRichard M. Eaton, Munis D.Faruqui, David Gilmartin &Sunil Kumar (eds)Expanding Frontiers in South Asianand World History discusses'frontiers' in history in medievaland early modern period inmultiple contexts such as frontiersand state building, frontiers and environmental change,cultural frontiers, frontiers and trade and drugs, andfrontiers and world history. It is quite well known that theeffects of early modern transformations were visible onmultiple frontiers - frontiers of statepower, frontiers ofexpanding settlement, frontiers of cultural and ethnicinteraction, and frontiers of trade. As in much of John F.Richards's work, whether on bandits or drugs, the frontierwas a critical arena in which the transformations markingnew forms of economic organization, commodity trade,land settlement and state authority intersected. Central tothese processes, of course, were the specificities of thevarying milieus in which they occurred. Richards's work has,from the beginning, been marked by a combination ofconcern for large-scale global processes, and for thedetailed specificities of each historical case. The essays inthis book discuss themes that have marked John F.Richards's work as a historian in an academic career ofalmost 40 years and have attempted to capture the range ofinterests and approaches that have marked his careerthrough the lens of frontiers in history.Richard M. Eaton is Professor, Department of History,University of Arizona, USA.Munis D. Faruqui is Assistant Professor, Department ofSouth and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California,Berkeley, USA.David Gilmartin is Professor, Department of History, NorthCarolina State University, USA.Sunil Kumar is Professor, Department of History, Universityof Delhi, India.9781107034280 c. 380 pp HBLife on the Ganga:Boatmen and the RitualEconomy of VaranasiAssa DoronThis intriguing anthropologicalstudy investigates how theboatmen of Banaras haverepositioned themselves withinthe traditional social organizationand used their privileged positionon the river to contest upper-casteand state domination. The authorexamines the evolution of theboatmen community, drawing on a variety of sources toilluminate the cultural politics of social and economicinequality in contemporary India. Life on the Ganga:Boatmen and the Ritual Economy of Varanasi offers insightinto recent debates about the cultural and historical formsof social practice and resistance at the juncture betweentradition and the global economy, and will therefore appealnot only to anthropologists, but to anyone working in thefield of development studies, globalization, religion, politicsand cultural studies.Assa Doron is a Research Fellow at the Department ofAnthropology, at The Research School of Pacific and AsianStudies, The Australian National University, Australia.9789382264545 c. 200 pp HB52 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org

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