The Fourth Volume of A Comprehensive History of India covers the period from circa 985 CE to 1206...

This book covers the cultural, regional, and socio-economic aspects of the Travancore region, whi...

This is a fascinating depiction of the transformation of the Indian riverine goddess from the man...

This long overdue volume addresses the pressures of beautification that Indian women face as they...

Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across t...

The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a nuanced and historically persuasive exploration of Christianity...

Greater Magadha, roughly the eastern part of the Gangetic plain of northern India, has so far bee...

The Sang¿täiromani, 'Crest-jewel of Music', is a major Sanskrit work on Indian musicology, compos...

Only by understanding its past entanglements with the world can we understand South Asia's increa...

This book explores the intellectual and literary engagements of the Indo-Persianate intelligentsi...

The book explores the social, cultural, and religious history of the Tamang, an indigenous ethnic...

The book is a unique and significant addition to the literature on Manipur; it deepens our unders...

Burnouf was an impeccable scholar, and his vision, especially of the Buddha, continues to profoun...

This book provides a critical assessment of how Dharamsing Teron’s writings and philosophical ide...

This book by a well-known Englishman E.B. Havell discusses various issues related to the revival ...

Examining the texts that describe it, the people who experience it, and the traditions that suppo...

Essential for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of Indian cultural studies and social history s...

Therefore, Sartori concludes, the use of the culture concept in non-Western sites was driven not ...

It is difficult to capture the flavor of Indian daily life without experiencing the richness of t...

This new edition carries a very useful 21-page introduction by Peter Penner (in addition to the o...

Shocking, original, beautifully written, City of Dreadful Night offers readers a captivating imme...

As well as the comparative study of world religions.

Officials championed the status quo not so much because of ideology but because of the brittle re...

The approach is a compromise between purely structural and purely cultural orientation. Course di...

The present book is a revised version of the author's doctoral thesis, for which he was awarded a...

Drawing on ethnographic accounts of over 300 skilled Bengalis, the book will be an essential read...

Francis Buchanan was born in Scotland in 1762 and qualified as a medical doctor in 1783. He made ...

This book examines money use in the Bay of Bengal world, using the case of medieval Bengal as a f...

The author maintains that the impact of the European trade on Bengal economy was only marginal, t...

Within an imperialism-centred paradigm, A History of Intoxi­cation: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959 is ...

The Story of Integration of the Indian States by V.P. Menon was, actually, the concluding chapter...

The volume talks about the emergence of the French as a colonial power in the Indian subcontinent...

This volume offers a unique perspective that embraces the origin and afterlife of enslavement as ...

The Mughal emperor Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad, famously known as Akbar (r.1556-1605), took a lot of in...