The Sixteenth Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, was the first Tibetan Buddhist leader to make extensive teaching tours to t......more

The Kingdom of Champassak was founded in 1713 in what is now southern Laos, and its royal lineage, the House of Champass......more

"What a strange, fascinating, and ultimately powerful account of one man’s endurance of life as a POW during the America......more

Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women’s ......more

Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women’s ......more

A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world’s preeminent historians of the ar......more

Around the first century BCE, Buddhist monks formed monasteries and established relationships with kings and lay people.......more

The city of Manado and province of North Sulawesi have built a public identity based on religious harmony, claiming to s......more

Details the brutal experiences of soldiers during the Bataan Death March, emphasizing their resilience, camaraderie, and......more

Opens up an archive of women’s verses found in the women’s biographical compendia written in the nineteenth century that......more

Is there a predominant reason why India is not Pakistan? Many would likely point to the omnipresence of the military in ......more

Drawing on approaches from the history of emotions, Eve Tignol investigates how they were collectively cultivated and de......more

First published in 1952, Ceylon is a one-volume history of Ceylon, primarily intended for the non-Ceylonese reader who h......more

Who went into the Black Hole of Calcutta? Who came out alive? And does it matter anyway? Historically not at all, but it......more

First published in 1980, Quakers in India is an account of the Quaker encounter with India from the day the first Quaker......more

The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed b......more

The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed b......more

From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outs......more

A memoir challenging false international narrative about Pakistan, offering insights from four decades of counterintelli......more

Grounded in multidisciplinary research, this book presents a methodical understanding of those displaced within their na......more

Through the lens of readiness theory, this book focuses on elements that determine the success and failure in negotiatin......more

First published in 1984, The Assamese is an anthropological exploration of Assam. The many tribes living in the hill tra......more

An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for n......more

"Sumarsam examines historical case studies to show how histories, traditions, and mythologies interact in Java, demonstr......more

A mix of travelogue, history, and mediation on a journey through the Ho Chi Minh Trail that reveals the critical role wo......more

The Chinese played a vital part in the Dutch colonial economy, and their economic role has remained important throughout......more

This book is the first ethnography on Vietnam’s contemporary dissident movement. As a country that became known and is s......more

Investigates the ideological attitudes of Sikh Gurus toward women and their resulting social impact. This book is an ana......more

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’A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapon......more

First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original wo......more

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In this authoritative modern history, Benjamin Zawacki tells the story of Thailand’s changing role in the world order, c......more

The life of Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story written by somebody like ......more

Four decades have elapsed since the Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) scheme was introduced in 1984. It has b......more

A new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and friendship, bringing Tiruvalluvar’s poetry an......more

"Reading this book is a mission strongly recommended." -- The VVA Veteran It wasn’t rockets or artillery that came throu......more

"This book explores the making of Buddhism in modern Indonesia. Buddhism started a second life during the turbulent year......more

This book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by read......more

A headman of a remote Kelabit longhouse in Borneo is wrestling with recent changes caused by logging and roadbuilding. D......more

S.H. Hodivala, an eminent Indian scholar annotated an eight-volume magnum opus, History of India as Told by Its Own Hist......more

Guru Nanak had gifted the Sikhs with an ideology. Guru Angad had given them the Gurmukhi script. Guru Arjan Dev coalesce......more

What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the prob......more

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Su......more

Most people believe India’s struggle for independence to have begun with Mahatma Gandhi. Little credit goes to the proof......more

In this volume, the author challenges a number of widely held cultural stereotypes about India. Caste is not as old as I......more

In a first of its kind, this book attempts a comprehensive account of the old Vedic society with particular focus on the......more

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi took pride in calling himself a Sanatani Hindu. He lived by what he professed. Indeed, he spi......more

One of the only ethnographic studies of Dalit women, this book gives a rich account of individual Dalit women’s lives an......more

Based on oral history, fiction, fascinating intellectual gossip, and records of the Coffee Board of India, this study is......more

Based on original sources, this volume is a pioneering work in the study of the growth and development of judicial admin......more

Roger Jeffery in this book has brought together 10 original, well-researched and well-written essays which bring to life......more

In Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India the authors ask whether there is anything particularly adivasi about the fo......more

The Jain community in India, though small in number, is very important in the economic and social life of the country. J......more

The book is about the colonization of the Sunderbans that began with the coming of the British. For two centuries, land-......more

The central point that this volume makes is that much of what happened in Jammu & Kashmir in the critical first few year......more

Writing histories of literature means making selections, passing value judgments, and incorporating or rejecting foregoi......more

The volume provides a complex portrait of the chieftains of Bihar and their relationship with the Mughal Empire as well ......more

Written Indian history begins in sixth century bc with the history of Magadh (present day states of Jharkhand and Bihar)......more

This book seeks to reconstruct the past of undivided Panjab during five medieval centuries. It opens with a narrative of......more

The Sundarban stretches from the brackish waters of the broad Hooghly on the west, to the fresh waters of the still broa......more

This book provides an integrated view of the Delhi Sultanate government from 1206 to 1526. It is divided into two parts.......more

Early Revenue History of Bengal and the Fifth Report, 1812 was the outcome of a series of four lectures delivered at the......more

An accessible cultural and literary critique of the right wing in India. How does orthodoxy maintain its power over cult......more

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and......more

Ideas and Images argues that the development of symbols and signs informing scripts, mainly the idea of coding thoughts ......more

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolving landscape of Bollywood cinema in response to recent socio-pol......more

Princess Liễu Hạnh, often called the Mother of the Vietnamese people by her followers, is one of the most prominent godd......more

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offe......more

In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among lo......more

The first book in English on this important archaeological excavation in the heart of Vietnam’s capital, now a World Her......more

This volume analyzes the trial of Bahadur Shah, a watershed moment in the 19th-century colonial history of India. The tr......more

This book explores the archaeology of the 1947 Partition, the largest mass migration in human history, and the resulting......more