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Intimate Class Acts
Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women’s Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and ethnic boundaries. The marriage between Ram, an aristocratic...
Writing Chinese Laws
The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
The legal institutions of the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BCE) have been vilified by history as harsh and draconian. Yet ironically, many Qin institutional features, such as written statutory law, were readily adopted by subsequent dynasties as the primary means for maintaining administrative...
Uneven Moments
Reflections on Japan's Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian’s...
Gandhi and Liberalism
Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
One of the main themes running through Gandhi’s life and work was the battle against evil. This book offers a fascinating reconstruction of Gandhi and the doctrine of Ahimsa or non-violence. Gandhi’s moral perfectionism is contrasted with other forms of perfectionism, but the book stresses that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi took pride in calling himself a Sanatani Hindu. He lived by what he professed. Indeed, he spiritualized his entire political existence and his very opinion, world view and discourse was weighted with morality and ethics born of Hindu Dharma.
This timely compilation of Mahatma...
The Life of Alimqul
A Native Chronicle of Nineteenth Century Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This work studies a narrative devoted to the history of the Kokand Khanate, a state that played a great role in Central Asian history in the 18th and 19th centuries, controlling territory equal to continental western Europe, until it was conquered by the Russian Empire in 1876. This unique manuscript,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Overflight rights through the Caucasus to Central Asia and Afghanistan are vital components of the ongoing military effort there by both U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces. Therefore the security dynamics in each of these areas are of heightened importance to U.S. policy. But...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
The resurgence of modern China has generated much interest, not only in the country’s present day activities, but also in its long history. As the only uninterrupted ancient civilization still alive today, the study of China’s past promises to offer invaluable insights into understanding contemporary...
Sexual Cultures in East Asia
The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship...
Imagining Indianness
Cultural Identity and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation...
Reconstructing Afghanistan
Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan.
The book has three main themes. Firstly, the volume analyses why the ways in which civil and military actors interact...
Performing China
Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660–1760
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the world. While the importance of China to eighteenth-century English consumer culture is well documented, less so is its influence on English values. Through...
Stitches on Time
Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Destined to become a key work of subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, Stitches on Time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history, the colonial and the postcolonial, and power and difference. Saurabh Dube combines history and anthropology...
The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces
The temple in western India, 2nd century BCE–8th century CE
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and distinguishes it as a ritual instrument that integrates...