Bücher der Reihe Royal Asiatic Society Books

Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences. This work examines Thumri Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a linguistic perspective. It discusses the interface between devotional and secular poetry, and it also explains the impact of social and political change on the musical life on North India.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is the first major study of provincial history in the Qajar period. It examines in detail the transformation of the Mazandaran traditional provincial community and economy in the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, and to the contentious 'Altaic theory'.

Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. He embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth century colonial expansion. This biography traces, explains, and evaluates Colebrooke's importance.

Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book presents a study of the ways in which governments in India used collective coercion and state violence against the population, and a cultural history of how acts of state violence were interpreted by the population.

Discarding categories like Islamic, Indian, or Chinese medicine as the myths invented by modern historiography in the aftermath of the colonial and post colonial periods, this book proposes to bridge the gap between Western and 'non-Western' medicines.

Examines the emergence of a Muslim women's movement in India. This book puts forward the importance for early Muslim female activists to balance continuity and innovation. It analyzes the role of the 'daughters of reform,' the first generation of Muslim women who contributed to the reformist discourse, particularly at the regional level.

Includes chapters on the History of Rum, The Sultan of Rum, Religious Warriors in the early Ottoman State and From the Defeat at Ankara to the Conquest of Constantinople that were originally delivered in French (in one case German) at seminars or conferences in non-Nazi Europe in the mid to late 1930s.

Muslims in India are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organizations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation.