Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and…
Bruno De Nicola investigates the development of women’s status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters show a coherent progression of this development and contextualise the evolution of the role of women in medieval Mongol…
A fascinating exploration of the roots of Indian history by the acclaimed author of Ashoka. Coromandel was the name given by European traders to India's south-eastern seaboard, a corruption of the Tamil Cholamandalam, after the temple-building Chola kings who ruled the southern peninsula for centuries prior to the Islamic invasions. Indian history tends to focus on Northern…
PAGAN CHRISTMAS: WINTER FEASTS OF THE KALASHA OF THE HINDU KUSH BOOK LAUNCH & DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir valley of the Pakistani district of Chitral, focusing on their winter feasts which culminate in a great winter solstice festival. The Kalasha…
The RAS will host a joint book launch on Wednesday 17th January. Drinks from 6 and talks from 6.30pm. 14 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HD. Anglo-Indians and Minority Politics in South Asia: Race, Boundary Making and Communal Nationalism by Uther Charlton-Stevens Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan: Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962…
Simon Layton (Chair). Speakers include Dr. Nayanika Mathur (Oxford), Professor Clare Anderson (Leicester), Professor Richard Drayton (King's College, London), Dr. Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Professor Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy…
15th March Robert Irwin