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1. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

   Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth–fifteenth Centuries

   By Paul Wittek

   Edited by Colin Heywood

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. State Violence and Punishment in India

   By Taylor C. Sherman

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book is both a study of the many techniques of colonial coercion and state violence and a cultural history of the different ways in which Indians imbued practices of punishment with their...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Development of Modern Medicine in Non-Western Countries

   Historical Perspectives

   Edited by Hormoz Ebrahimnejad

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   The history of medicine in non-European countries has often been characterized by the study of their native "traditional" medicine, such as (Galenico-)Islamic medicine, and Ayurvedic or Chinese medicine. Modern medicine in these countries, on the other hand, has usually been viewed as a Western...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Making of Western Indology

   Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company

   By Rosane Rocher, Ludo Rocher

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   For thirty years in India at the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an administrator and scholar with the East India Company. The Making of Western Indology explains and evaluates Colebrooke’s role as the founder of modern Indology. The book discusses how...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. Tribal Politics in Iran

   Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941

   By Stephanie Cronin

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   Placing Iran's 'tribal problem' in its historical context, Tribal Politics in Iran provides an overall assessment on the impact of this crucial period on the character of tribe-state relations in Iran to the end of Pahlavi rule and in the Islamic Republic. It analyzes the political and...

   Published November 14th 2010 by Routledge
6. Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800

   Edited by Vanessa Martin

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   With contributions from renowned experts in the field, this book provides an excellent background to the history of Anglo-Iranian relations. Focusing on the political and economic relationship of Britain and issues of strategic sensitivity, the book also illuminates British relations with...

   Published April 20th 2009 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Self-Expression

   The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan

   By Markus Daechsel

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand...

   Published April 20th 2009 by Routledge
8. Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage

   Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal

   By Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   This is a new and engaging examination of the emergence of a Muslim women’s movement in India. The state of Bhopal, a Muslim principality in central India, was ruled by a succession of female rulers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably the last Begam of Bhopal, Nawab...

   Published April 20th 2009 by Routledge
9. Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre

   Thumri Lyrics

   By Lalita du Perron

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century. Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre examines Thumri Lyrics, a...

   Published February 12th 2007 by Routledge
10. The Theory of Citrasutras in Indian Painting

    A Critical Re-evaluation of their Uses and Interpretations

    By Isabella Nardi

    Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

    The study of technical treatises in Indian art has increasingly attracted much interest. This work puts forward a critical re-examination of the key Indian concepts of painting described in the Sanskrit treatises, called citrasutras. In an in-depth and systematic analysis of the texts on the theory...

    Published July 13th 2006 by Routledge