Asian Studies

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The authors of this volume ask how minorities have sought to belong, and trace how their sense of belonging has shifted with time. Working with “intercepted letters, pamphlets, and poetry”, novels and ethnographic fieldwork, each of the articles in this...

This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the context of dance in India. It brings together emerging discourses around dance and the body that have become central in the Indian nation-state. The chapters in this book...

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This book offers the first systematic theorisation of transnational public spheres from non-Western, spatial, and infrastructural perspectives and will be of interest to researchers in International Relations, Political Science, Political Theory,...

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This text explores how social education impacts gender inequalities in rural Tamil Nadu where women’s lives are damaged by discrimination, marginalisation and deprivation. Social education refers to agent-oriented learning experiences focused on power...

First published in 1967, The Giants of Asia discusses the growth of Asian nationalism and Asian power. It surveys the major Asian countries and the three major forms that Asian nationalism has taken: constitutional democracy in India and initially in...

First published in 1952, Ceylon is a one-volume history of Ceylon, primarily intended for the non-Ceylonese reader who has no special knowledge of Asia. People, places, and dates have been kept to a minimum in the book. The focus has been on the...

This book examines the questions of conformity and resistance with respect to Premchand’s literary corpus. It examines the complexities, challenges, and contradictions of interwar India presented in the writer's work and also analyses his literary...

Who went into the Black Hole of Calcutta? Who came out alive? And does it matter anyway? In The Black Hole (originally published in 1975), Iris Macfarlane tries to answer these questions. She aims to fill the gap between the classic studies of Indian...

While many of us may strive to locate a sense of identity and belonging expressed via a home or ancestral homeland; today, however, this connection is no longer, if it ever was, a straightforward identification. This collection aims at mapping narratives...

In InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism, Chie Ikeya asks how interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma under British colonial rule became the subject of political agitation, legislative activism, and collective...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Intersectional Incoherence stages an encounter between the critical discourse on...

In InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism, Chie Ikeya asks how interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma under British colonial rule became the subject of political agitation, legislative activism, and collective...

Keramat, holy graves and shrines, represent physical markers of Singapore's history as a multi-ethnic maritime trading center. They offered sanctified spaces not only for Muslims but the entire community in which they were found. Maintained by...

This book analyses the status of women in Bengal, India, by examining the versatile everyday living conditions of women, and how they are represented as individuals and a category in the media. Contributors to the book depart from the discussion that...

Lee provides a comprehensive insight into important topics within modern Korean theatre and conducts an in-depth evaluation of the major discourses that shaped Korean theatre during the 20th century. The book adopts a topical approach to explore modern...

Indian traces in Korean Culture examines the enduring cross-cultural discourse between India and Korea over the centuries, emphasizing the transformative power of cultural exchange beyond geographical and temporal constraints. The book analyses how...

Ullah, Chin and Hassan provide a comprehensive examination of the transformative impact of the COVID -19 pandemic on Southeast Asia, examining its effects on the region's economy, social dynamics, mobility patterns and religious practices. The book...

Lee provides a comprehensive guide that traces the transformation of Korean theatre from traditional to modern theatre and examines the impact of the introduction of Western plays to Korean society.Important changes in Korean theatre are discussed...

This book examines the transformation and the dynamic reconfiguration of borders within Korea through inter/trans-disciplinary approaches.The book offers a comprehensive synthesis for the changing geo-political, cultural, and economic dynamics among...