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This book explores the interaction between science-society and the development of forensic science and analyses the historical roots of crime detection in colonial India.

Focusing on the relations of the Government of India with states along the territorial rim of the Indian Empire and along the routes that connected Britain with India, the author examines the foreign policy of the Raj during the last fifty years of British rule in India.

This book delivers ground-breaking perspectives upon nascent conceptions and workings of citizenship and democracy during the colonial/postcolonial transition. It examines how processes of democratisation and provincialisation during the interwar years contributed to demands and concerns and offers a broadened outlook on India's partition.

This book explores India's involvement in the Great War and the way the war impacted upon the country from a variety of different viewpoints including case studies focusing on key individuals who played vital roles in the war.

Focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in colonial India. Tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, this book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism.

Presents an investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period. This book analyses the extent to which Congress elites engaged in processes intended to foster nation-building in India.

Analyses the participation of women in the Naxalbari movement and their experiences. This book covers radical communist politics in South Asia, particularly in relation to issues concerning the role of women in radical politics.

Examines the issues of migrant identities and the ways in which travel shaped ideas about the 'Self' and 'Home'. This book focuses on the education and experiences of Indian students at British Universities in the early twentieth century and the lasting impact it had on the Indian subcontinent.

Deals with the impact of the colonial state's institutions and policies towards radical politics in the Punjab pre-Partition. Focusing on the political history of the organised left, a considerable and growing force in South Asia, this book discusses the formation and activities of radical groups in colonial Punjab.

Interdisciplinary in focus, this title explores the areas of gender, colonial fiction, white marginal groups, the tribal movements, and penal laws, and associates them with the event. It presents alternatives views and expands and complicates the conceptual boundaries of the Rebellion.

Explores the meanings and complexities of India's experience of transition from colonial to the post-colonial period. This book focuses on the first five years - from independence on 15th August, 1947 to the first general election in January 1952 - in the politics of West Bengal, the new province that was created as a result of the Partition.

Offers an examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. This book examines some of the archetypal elements in historical consciousness that find their echo in often brutal unhistorical ways in everyday life.

Propaganda and Political Warfare in South Asia investigates some of the institutions and strategies that evolved during World War II with regard to British India. It identifies the bureaucratic mechanisms in place during the war to handle questions related to propaganda and the Raj in England, India and Southeast Asia, and the United States, highlighting both intra- and intergovernmental differences regarding the content, context and implementation of political warfare and propaganda in South Asia.

Offering an approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India.

This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.

Spinning was seen as both an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia. This book looks at the politics of spinning both as a visual symbol and as a symbolic practice.