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In this first critical edition of the legal treatise of Vi??u (Vi??u Sm?ti), Olivelle locates the text geographically in Kashmir and dates it to around the seventh century CE based, among other...

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 instrumental figure in Indian history during the late...

A wordsmith, an extempore poet and a satirist, Ka?amekam (also known as Ka?ameka Pulavar; fifteenth century) is widely known for his ta?ippa?als or 'self-contained verses', on a panoply of topics...

During his lifetime Dwijendralal Roy (1863-1913) was one of Bengal's best known poet-musician-dramatists, and his lyrical songs and comic poetry which captured the imagination of the people were used...

Hutom Pyanchar Naksha (literally, 'Sketches by Hutom the Owl'), a set of satirical portraits in Bengali about ordinary life in the nineteenth century, is so popular that it has never been out of...

The Shattered Earth : Histories of Climate, Catastrophe, and the WildernessAuthor: Mili GhosePublisher: Primus BooksPublication Date: Apr 22, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In the 'rebel world' of 1857, indigenous discourse on the great uprising in the form of proclamations, pamphlets and appeals issued by rebel leaders and other ideologues offers primary data for...

Traditions, Personalities and Memories: Aspects of Sikh History, 1469-1914, Essays in Honour of Sardar Saran Singh highlights the traditions of self-sacrifice associated with the Sikh Gurus and their...

Transcending Boundaries: Premodern Cultural Transactions across Asia celebrates the scholarship of Osmund Bopearachchi, a pioneering scholar in the fields of art history and numismatics, whose work...

Translation and the Politics of Peace explores Middle Eastern politics from cultural, political, legal, and diplomatic perspectives to understand the language of politics, media, and negotiation...

Visual histories of South Asia is one of the ?rst comprehensive contributions to the rapidly developing cross-disciplinary scholarship that connects visual studies with South Asian historiography...

Wandering Women presents sixteen travelogues that were originally published in Bengali periodicals (samayik patrikas) like Bamabodhini Patrika, Antahpur, and Mahila, among others, narrating the...

The expansionist policy of the colonial power necessitated official involvement with medical education in Bengal from the early nineteenth century. By the mid-nineteenth century, Western medicine...

Woods, Mines and Minds: Politics of Survival in Jalpaiguri and the Jungle Mahals deliberates upon a wide spectrum of events and processes as it endeavours to trace the ecological changes brought...