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118632 results in Asian Studies

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia

Embers of Reason
  • The Secular Imagination and the Contemporary Indian Documentary
  • Veena Hariharan
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2026

Film City Urbanism in India
  • Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City ,1890-2000
  • C. Yamini Krishna
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2026

Grains of Conflict
  • The Struggle for Food in China's Total War, 1937–1945
  • Jennifer Yip
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • China's war against Japan was, at its heart, a struggle for food. As the Nationalists, Chinese Communist Party, and Japanese vied for a dwindling pool of sustenance, grain emerged as the lynchpin of their strategies for a long-term war effort. In the first in-depth examination of how the Nationalists fed their armies, Jennifer Yip demonstrates how the Chinese government relied on mass civilian mobilization to carry out all stages of provisioning, from procurement to transportation and storage. The intensive use of civilian labor and assets–a distinctly preindustrial resource base– shaped China's own conception of its total war effort, and distinguished China's experience as unique mong World War Two combatants. Yip challenges the predominant image of World War II as one of technological prowess, and the tendency to conflate total war with industrialized warfare. Ultimately, China sustained total war against the odds with premodern means: by ruthlessly extracting civilian resources.

Fascism and Corporations in ‘New' India

Land, Labour, and Agrarian Change in Nepal's Tarai-Madhesh
  • Fraser Sugden
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2025
  • This book offers a historically grounded and multi-scalar analysis of agrarian change in Nepal's far-eastern Tarai. It shows how this region has since the 1700s evolved from a forested frontier home to relatively autonomous Adivasi (indigenous) cultivators, to a feudal economy grounded in landlord-tenant relations, which has persisted alongside a rapidly expanding industrial and commercial sector. The book explores the changing land ownership patterns and distribution of surplus, the flow of labour between agriculture and industry, and more complex interactions with global capitalism. The book thus offers unique insights into both the reproduction and transformations of class, ethnic and labour relations in Nepal during a period of rapid political transformation.

The Upside of US-Chinese Strategic Competition
  • Institutional Balancing and Order Transition in the Asia Pacific
  • Kai He, Huiyun Feng
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2025
  • US–Chinese strategic competition is a defining factor in world politics. The prevailing narrative on US–China relations predicts inevitable conflicts between these two giants, potentially leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy. While fully acknowledging the inherent dangers of potential wars or military conflicts between the two powers, this book shows that competition is not necessarily detrimental. By systematically examining US–China institutional balancing across security, economic and political domains, particularly in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, this book highlights three positive externalities or unintended consequences: the revitalisation of regional institutions to address emerging challenges, unexpected collaborations between great powers (the US and China) and regional actors, and the provision of public goods by both nations. The book argues that constructive and institutionalised competition between the US and China, if managed with strategic foresight and restraint, could inadvertently lead to positive outcomes – institutional peace – in the Asia-Pacific region.

Itinerant Belonging
  • Intimate Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
  • Ketaki Pant
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2025
  • Along the coast of Gujarat, nineteenth-century merchant houses or havelis still stand in historic cities, connecting ports from Durban to Rangoon. In this ambitious and multifaceted work, Ketaki Pant uses these old spaces as a lens through which to view not only the vibrant stories of their occupants, but also the complex entanglements of Indian Ocean capitalism. These homes reveal new perspectives from colonized communities who were also major merchants, signifying ideas of family, race, gender, and religion, as well as representing ties to land. Employing concepts from feminist studies, colonial studies, and history, Pant argues that havelis provide a model for understanding colonial capitalism in the Indian Ocean as a spatial project. This is a rich exploration of both belonging and unbelonging and the ways they continue to shape individual and social identities today.

The Logic of Corruption
  • Why it Persists and Why Reforms Fail
  • Shekhar Chandra
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2026

Elusive Democracy
  • Dalit Politics, Elections, and the Contradictions of Representation
  • Michael Collins
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2026

Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the Making of an Indian Smart City

An Empire of Images
  • Visual Culture and the British in India, 1688–1815
  • Apurba Chatterjee
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2026

The Cambridge Companion to Periyar

A History of East Asia
  • From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century
  • 3rd edition
  • Charles Holcombe
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2025
  • The third edition of this ambitious book begins by asking, what is East Asia? Today, many of the features that made the region distinct have been submerged under revolution, politics, or globalization. Yet in ancient times, what we now think of as China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam had both historical and cultural coherence. Thoroughly revised and updated to include recent developments in East Asian politics, with new illustrations and suggestions for further reading, this book traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the modern age. New discussion questions at the end of each chapter encourage readers to reflect, while a glossary, pronunciation guide, and parallel timeline enable a closer engagement with this complex subject. Charles Holcombe is an experienced and sure-footed guide who encapsulates, in a fast-moving and colourful narrative, the connections, commonalities, and differences of one of the most remarkable regions on earth.

The Logic of Populism

Provincial Metropolis
  • Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India
  • David Boyk
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2026

Resilient Communities
  • Household, State, and Ecology in Southern Panjab , c.1750–1900
  • Girija Joshi
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2026

States against Nations
  • Meritocracy, Patronage, and the Challenges of Bureaucratic Selection
  • Nicholas Kuipers
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2025
  • In States Against Nations, Nicholas Kuipers questions the virtues of meritocratic recruitment as the ideal method of bureaucratic selection. Kuipers argues that while civil service reform is often seen as an admirable act of state-building, it can actually undermine nation-building. Throughout the book, he shows that in countries with high levels of group-based inequality, privileged groups tend to outperform marginalized groups on entrance exams, leading to disproportionate representation in government positions. This dynamic exacerbates intergroup tensions and undermines efforts towards nation-building. Drawing on large-scale surveys, experiments, and archival documents, States Against Nations provides a thought-provoking perspective on the challenges of bureaucratic recruitment and unearths an overlooked tension between state- and nation-building.

Counting Caste
  • Censuses, Politics, and Brahmanical Power in India
  • Trina Vithayathil
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2025
  • Counting Caste critically investigates the Indian state to implement social justice reforms despite political leaders periodically conceding to organized demands for change. Vithayathil focuses on the 2011 Census, where, for the first time in post-independence India, the government agreed to collect caste-specific data. However, shortly after this concession, bureaucratic forces successfully blocked the caste count, redirecting it to an inexperienced part of the government. This led to the launch of an alternative project that produced unreliable data. Through this case study, Vithayathil unravels the process of bureaucratic deflection, where political leaders and civil servants stall or subvert policy changes. The book sheds light on how state institutions resist the documentation of caste power, highlighting the ongoing institutionalization of 'castelessness' – which frames caste solely as a problem of the oppressed, obscuring the realities of caste privilege. It explores the complex dynamics of caste, power, and resistance in contemporary India.

Beings and Beasts

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