This book studies places and spaces in Western India both as geographical locations and as imagined constructs. It uncovers the rich history of the region from

Hinduism flourished in the districts around Poona in Bombay to a far greater extent than in the rest of India, hence the problems facing the British administrat

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the

A history of artisan production in colonial and post-independence India, and its role in the country's society and economics.