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The playwright and poet, Michael Madhusudan Datta is easily one of the most important and controversial literary figures of nineteenth-century Sout...

Krishna is an anti-hero, an anarchist and a rebel extraordinaire. He fulfils all the dark desires lurking in the depths of our unconscious. He hold...

South Asia’s river systems are known for their multiple topographies and varied geography. There are several transnational rivers that flow to east...

Hari Shankar Vasudevan (1952-2020) had an interest and engagement with history writings that belied the constraints of time and space. Eurasia, Ind...

The Gasping City explores the urban environment of colonial Calcutta from the perspective of science as ‘knowledge’, planning as ‘development’ and ...

Rethinking Human–Animal Relationship engages with animal studies, a growing interdisciplinary field that reveals the deep human unreason and moral ...

This is the first book of the New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India (NEEM Series), edited by David Shulman. Introspection and...

Indian Medicinal Plants in the Shifting Terrains of Science traces the medical and botanical reconnaissance of indigenous medicinal plants in ninet...

Freedom and Partition offers a reconstruction of four momentous days which shaped the lives of millions of people in the Indian subcontinent: 14–17...

Like the heterogeneity of the idyllic landscape of the Ganga–Brahmaputra valleys, the art historical traditions of the region manifest elements of ...

This thought-provoking and contemplative novel is perceptive in planning and philosophical in approach liberating the soul from evil forces that su...

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) represented an ideational universe in which universal humanism was one of the most significant pillars. In conventi...

Dukhi Dadiba is a tragic love story written in an easy, colourful style. It centres around the missing heir of a very wealthy and socially prominen...

Connected Places is a study in the religious geography of India. It explores ways in which people live in and understand their worlds. In the book,...

India’s History, India’s Raj: Essays in Historical Understanding highlights the myriad facets in the story of how Indians themselves participated i...

Revisiting Sadeq Hedayat’s Blind Owl: Writings on a Modern Persian Novel is a commemorative volume of thirteen scholarly articles on the Persian no...

Gender, Religion and Local History: The Early Deccan straddles two areas of research, namely the study of women in a socio-religious context and im...

West Asia and the World explores West Asia’s changing political and socio-economic architecture post the 2011 Arab Uprisings. The chapters presente...

Rethinking Buddhism: Text, Context, Contestation deals with textual traditions, contextualization, and contestation in Indian Buddhism. The essays ...

Travel and writing on travel became a means of self-expression for Bengalis, especially women, in the early twentieth century. Although social and ...

The Lost Hero of Banaras: Babu Jagat Singh examines the life and legacy of Babu Jagat Singh, a scion of the royal family of Banaras and an instrume...

Laxmibai Abhyankar’s stories are full of hope for the future, also of regret and tragedy. The stories in this collection are set amidst the evolvin...

Kabir Poems in Transformation: A Fountain of Creativity explores how images of Kabir, in circulation amongst his Hindi-speaking followers at the st...

Through the Lens, Brightly: Women in Cinema, Women at Work unearths how the ‘working woman’ has been presented in films directed by women. Most wom...

Early North Bengal: From Puṇḍravardhana to Varendra, c.400 BCE‒1150 CE reconstructs the history of a land named Puṇḍravardhana, an eponym of Puṇḍra...