The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history.

In his short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisi, known as Carvaggio, changed art forever. In this biography, the author's approach is like that of a detective - piecing together what happened during Carvaggio's short, brilliant, violent and ill-documented life with meticulous research and an instinct about human nature. He evokes early 17th-century Italy and the cities where Carvaggio lived and painted, in all their seething, crude, riotous and dangerous colour.

Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life.
While Sentiment and Self explores issues like interactions between Europeans and Indians, race and tolerance, this volume focuses on the position of women, especially concubines, or bibis and their sexual and emotional relationships; the social milieu of the early empire; dynamics of household; contexts for...

This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India. Peter Robb's accessible study analyses India's civilizations, empires and regions through the ages, and now also evaluates present-day developments and opportunities.

A History of India, Second Edition
- examines the relationships between politics, religious belief, social order, environment and economic change
- assesses, from c. 1860, British colonialism, Indian nationalism and...

Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.

This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law debate and the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 helped constitute a revolution in the effective aims of government and in the colonial ability to interfere in India, but that they did so alongside a continuing weakness of understanding and in effective local control. In particular, the book considers the importance of notions of historical rights and economic progress to the false categorisations made...

Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.