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…
Sir Aurel Stein’s life and work has been extensively examined in books and biographies. He was a prolific letter writer but surprisingly none of his biographers have commented on the correspondence with Colonel Reginald Schomberg during the last decade of his life. The two men met each other in Oxford and later at the British…
At the end of the nineteenth century a very special group of British women went to India. They were the doctors and nurses. Most of them were missionaries, but a significant number was secular, not associated with any specific denominations. They wanted to provide medical care to the respectable Indian women who lived in seclusion…