Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.
Introduction Part I. Ideologies 1 Religious vs. regional determinism:
India. Pakistan and Bangladesh as inheritors of empire 2 Classical Hindu
scriptures 3 Suttee or sati: victim or victor? 4 Some observations on the
evolution of Modem Standard Punjabi 5 The hidden hand: English lexis, syntax
and idiom as determinants of modem Hindi usage 6 A hero or a traitor? The
Gurkha soldier in Nepali literature 7 Milton and Madhusudan 8 Indian
architecture and the English vision Part II. Institutions 9 Legal pluralism
in the Hindu marriage 10 Islamic law and the colonial encounter in British
India 11 Notes on 'peasant insurgency' in colonial Mysore: event and process
12 Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and
nineteenth-century Bihar 13 Smallpox and colonial medicine in
nineteenth-century India 14 The Indian National Congress: a hundred-year
perspective 15 Charan Singh (1902-87): an assessment
David Arnold, Peter Robb
