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This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century.

This book explores the interaction between science-society and the development of forensic science and analyses the historical roots of crime detection in colonial India.

Offering an approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India.

Presents an investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period. This book analyses the extent to which Congress elites engaged in processes intended to foster nation-building in India.

Analyses the participation of women in the Naxalbari movement and their experiences. This book covers radical communist politics in South Asia, particularly in relation to issues concerning the role of women in radical politics.

Focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in colonial India. Tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, this book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism.

Examines the issues of migrant identities and the ways in which travel shaped ideas about the 'Self' and 'Home'. This book focuses on the education and experiences of Indian students at British Universities in the early twentieth century and the lasting impact it had on the Indian subcontinent.

Deals with the impact of the colonial state's institutions and policies towards radical politics in the Punjab pre-Partition. Focusing on the political history of the organised left, a considerable and growing force in South Asia, this book discusses the formation and activities of radical groups in colonial Punjab.

Explores the meanings and complexities of India's experience of transition from colonial to the post-colonial period. This book focuses on the first five years - from independence on 15th August, 1947 to the first general election in January 1952 - in the politics of West Bengal, the new province that was created as a result of the Partition.

Spinning was seen as both an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia. This book looks at the politics of spinning both as a visual symbol and as a symbolic practice.

Offers an examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. This book examines some of the archetypal elements in historical consciousness that find their echo in often brutal unhistorical ways in everyday life.

This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.

Focusing on the relations of the Government of India with states along the territorial rim of the Indian Empire and along the routes that connected Britain with India, the author examines the foreign policy of the Raj during the last fifty years of British rule in India.