Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the ze

Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the ze

Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its divisive earlier history remains largely

Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, je

An Endangered History examines the transcultural, colonial history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, c. 1798–1947. This little-studied borderland region lies on