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Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

Series Editor: Crispin Bates

The Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series is published in association with the Centre for South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University - one of the leading centres for South Asian Studies in the UK with a strong interdisciplinary focus. This new series presents research monographs and high-quality edited volumes as well as textbook on topics concerning the Indian subcontinent from the modern period to contemporary times. It aims to advance understanding of the key issues in the study of South Asia, and contributions include works by experts in the social sciences and the humanities. In accordance with the academic traditions of Edinburgh, we particularly welcome submissions which emphasise the social in South Asian history, politics, sociology and anthropology, based upon thick description of empirical reality, generalised to provide original and broadly applicable conclusions.

The series welcomes new submissions from young researchers as well as established scholars working on South Asia, from any disciplinary perspective.

New and Published Books

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  1. Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean

    Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders

    By Satadru Sen

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    This book examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands – beginning...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Gender and Sexuality in India

    Selling Sex in Chennai

    By Salla Sariola

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS, the World Bank and USAID. In the midst of these processes, however,...

    Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World

    Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society

    By Michael Collins

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s English language writings, this book places the work of India’s greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial historiography....

    Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge

  4. Sovereignty and Social Reform in India

    British Colonialism and the Campaign against Sati, 1830-1860

    By Andrea Major

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however, as between 1830 and 1860, British East India Company officials engaged in a debate with the Indian rulers...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. The Guru in South Asia: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Edited by Jacob Copeman, Aya Ikegame
    To Be Published June 18th 2012
  2. Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present
    By Aya Ikegame
    To Be Published August 2nd 2012
  3. Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940
    By Anthony Cox
    To Be Published October 30th 2012
  4. A Social History of Healing in India: De-Centring Indigenous Medicine
    By Projit Mukharji
    To Be Published November 29th 2012
  5. The Politics of Modern India since Independence
    By Crispin Bates, Subho Basu
    To Be Published January 30th 2013
  6. The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka
    By Eva Gerharz
    To Be Published January 30th 2013
  7. Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror
    By Dhana Hughes
    To Be Published February 28th 2013
  8. Psychopharmaceuticals in India
    By Stefan Ecks
    To Be Published March 30th 2013
  9. Political Agency and Gender in India
    By Manuela Ciotti
    To Be Published April 29th 2013

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