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 <strong>India</strong> 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,<strong>India</strong>n philosophy and religion.Shruti Kapila is Professor of History at Corpus ChristiCollege <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Cambridge</strong>.Faisal Devji is <strong>University</strong> Reader in Modern South AsianHistory at St Antony’s College, <strong>University</strong> of Oxford.9781107033955 c. 220pp HB ` 595.00The Political Philosophy ofMuhammad Iqbal: Islamand Nationalism in LateColonial <strong>India</strong>Iqbal 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 in<strong>India</strong> 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, <strong>University</strong> 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,<strong>University</strong> of Arizona, USA.Munis D. Faruqui is Assistant Professor, Department ofSouth and Southeast Asian Studies, <strong>University</strong> of California,Berkeley, USA.David Gilmartin is Professor, Department of History, NorthCarolina State <strong>University</strong>, USA.Sunil Kumar is Professor, Department of History, <strong>University</strong>of Delhi, <strong>India</strong>.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 <strong>India</strong>. 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 <strong>University</strong>, Australia.9789382264545 c. 200 pp HB52 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org
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