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  • Lahore Cinema

    Between Realism and Fable

    by Iftikhar Dadi, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature filmsCommercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969—the long sixties—in Lahore, Pakistan, following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. These films drew freely from Bengali performance traditions, ... Read more

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  • Encounters Old and New in World History

    Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley

    by Alan Karras, Laura J. Mitchell, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Lauren Benton, Professor Edmund Burke III, Professor Trevor R. Getz, Professor Candice Goucher, Dr. Martin W. Lewis0, Professor Robert B. Marks1, Carla Rahn Phillips2, Professor William D. Philiips3, Professor Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks4, Theodore Jun Yoo5 ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their own academic areas of interest, are experienced scholars and classroom teachers. Uniting them ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

    Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

    by Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Robert J. Antony, Dr. Robert K. Batchelor, Dr. Leonard Blusse, Professor Anna Busquets, Dr. Patrizia Carioti0, Dr. Weichung Cheng1, Dr. Adam Clulow2, Dr. Dahpon D. Ho3, Dr. Peter Kang4, Michael Laver5, Cheng-Heng Lu6, Dr. Mark Ravina7, Dr. Peter D. Shapinsky8, Birgit Tremml-Werner9, John E. Wills, , Jr.0 ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, ... Read more

    $79.19 CAD

  • Exile in Colonial Asia

    Kings, Convicts, Commemoration

    by Ronit Ricci, Anand A. Yang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Clare Anderson, Robert Aldrich, Dr. Sri Margana, Dr. Timo Kaartinen, Jean Gelman Taylor, Dr. Carol Liston0, Professor Lorraine M. Paterson1, Penny Edwards2 ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Making Kantha, Making Home

    Women at Work in Colonial Bengal

    by Pika Ghosh, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats.Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Marrying for a Future

    Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War

    by Sidharthan Maunaguru, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues that the social institution of marriage has emerged as a critical means of building alliances between dispersed segments of Tamil communities, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • A Volatile Picture

    War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka

    by Vindhya Buthpitiya, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    Photography as witness and weapon amid civil warThis groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound to the Tamil political imagination. From state-commissioned images meant to surveil and rebel documentation of armed resistance, to the fragile memorials created from identity photographs of the ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • A Secular Need

    Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India

    by Jeffrey A. Redding, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Creating the Universe

    Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism

    by Eric Huntington, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian HumanitiesBuddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice.In Creating the Universe, Eric Huntington presents ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Adivasi Art and Activism

    Curation in a Nationalist Age

    by Alice Tilche, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than 100 million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowledged by the ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Outcaste Bombay

    City Making and the Politics of the Poor

    by Juned Shaikh, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Mobilizing Krishna's World

    The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh

    by Heidi Pauwels, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    Savant Singh (1694–1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped by his younger brother, while Savant Singh was on the road seeking military alliances to regain his kingdom, he composed an autobiographical pilgrimage ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD