This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personal behavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of

This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personal behavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of

The growing economic and political significance of Asia has exposed a tension in the modern international order. Despite expanding power and influence, Asian st

In the late eighteenth century, it was a cliché that the East India Company ruled India 'by the sword.' Christina Welsch shows how Indian and European soldiers

Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters