This comprehensive history of modern South Asia explores the historical development of the Subcontinent from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the pres

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In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this

This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different guru