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Rajnarayan Chandavarkar is well known to historians of India for his work on the Bombay cotton industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and particularly the symbiotic relations [...]

`India's Prisoner': A Biography of Edward John Thompson, 1886-1946, by Mary Lago (Columbia/London: U. of Missouri P., 2001; pp. 388. 29.95 £). `India's Prisoner' was the name given by Mahatma [...]

For decades India was seen by Britain as the corner-stone of her world-wide imperial influence; and as particularly significant in sustaining her economic, military and strategic strength. As independence for [...]

The history of Muslim politics in South Asia already owes a considerable debt to Ayesha Jalal. Her work on Jinnah has shown how shallow were the ideological and organizational roots [...]

Appeal to Hindu nationalism has recently been one of the most novel and perturbing aspects of Indian politics, peaking just before the ill-fated 1991 general election which was marked by [...]

The Cambridge South Asian Studies series has been established for over two decades; it continues to be a major forum in which younger scholars can discuss their research. In Community [...]