Becoming a Borderland is a fresh look at how power was configure colonial times through spatial strategies. The book writes the spatial history of the western borderlands of northeastern India, focusing on its dramatic transformation within a span of a few decades, from a region…
Caste and gender are forms of social difference that typically have been addressed in isolation from each other: a presumptive maleness is present in most studies of Dalits, and a presumptive upper-casteness is present in many feminist studies of colonial India. The Gender of Ca…
In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian social and economic devel…
"This book examines the British colonial expansion in the so-called 'unadministered' hill tracts of the Indo-Burma frontier and the change of colonial policy from non-intervention to intervention. The book begins with the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26), which resul…
"This is a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of a defining period in India's recent past - the attainment of independence and the simultaneous division of the subcontinent. Exploring the interplay of imperial, national and communal forces during the freedom movement. Sucheta M…
Articles previously published in various journals.
"This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries throughout the world after In…
Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property ri…
""Examines the construction of new concepts of sovereignty in late nineteenth and early-mid twentieth century India through the production of divergent visions of human, divine, and messianic rulership"--Provided by publisher"
"The book then traces the debates on conversion in the Constituent Assembly around the Niyogi report and concerning the freedom of religion acts. It concludes with an examination of the more contemporary Sangh Parivar campaign for Hindutva and Christian campaigns for evangelizat…
On the cartographical mapping exercises of British Empire; a study.
Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914-1918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and…
Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914-1918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and…
