Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia

Taylor & Francis

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia. It explores the classic works of earlier generations of historians and offers an introduction to the rapid and multifaceted development of historical research on colonial South Asia since the 1990s. Covering economic history, political history, and social history and offering insights from other disciplines and \u2018turns\u2019 within the mainstream of history, the handbook is structured in six parts:\n\n--Overarching Themes and Debates\n\n--The World of Economy and Labour \n--Creating and Keeping Order: Science, Race, Religion, Law, and Education \n--Environment and Space \n--Culture, Media, and the Everyday \n--Colonial South Asia in the World \nThe editors have assembled a group of leading international scholars of South Asian history and related disciplines to introduce a broad.