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Asia
Islanded Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony
Sivasundaram Sujit
ISBN: HB: 9780226038223, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 33 halftones
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the is...
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Unfinished Gestures Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
Soneji Davesh
ISBN: PB: 9780226768106, ISBN: HB: 9780226768090, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 6 line illus.
"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred...
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Art of Not Being Governed An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
Scott James C.
ISBN: PB: 9780300169171, Yale University Press, January 2011
464 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 7 maps, 2 black&white illus.
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them – slavery, co...
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