Books in the Royal Asiatic Society Books series

Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences. This work examines Thumri Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a linguistic perspective. It discusses the interface between devotional and secular poetry, and it also explains the impact of social and political change on the musical life on North India.

This epic by the Georgian poet Rust'haveli has been the book of a nation for 700 years. It was expected that the text, based on a Persian original and reflecting Georgia's position as a crossroads between east and west, would be memorized by all female members of the country's aristocracy.

Includes chapters on the History of Rum, The Sultan of Rum, Religious Warriors in the early Ottoman State and From the Defeat at Ankara to the Conquest of Constantinople that were originally delivered in French (in one case German) at seminars or conferences in non-Nazi Europe in the mid to late 1930s.

This is the first major study of provincial history in the Qajar period. It examines in detail the transformation of the Mazandaran traditional provincial community and economy in the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

An investigation of how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space.

Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. He embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth century colonial expansion. This biography traces, explains, and evaluates Colebrooke's importance.

This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, and to the contentious 'Altaic theory'.

The study of technical treatises in Indian art has attracted interest. This work puts forward a critical re-examination of the key Indian concepts of painting described in the Sanskrit treatises, called "citrasutras". It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the interlinkages between textual sources and the practice of Indian painting.

Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book presents a study of the ways in which governments in India used collective coercion and state violence against the population, and a cultural history of how acts of state violence were interpreted by the population.

Facsimilie of: London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1961.

Examines the emergence of a Muslim women's movement in India. This book puts forward the importance for early Muslim female activists to balance continuity and innovation. It analyzes the role of the 'daughters of reform,' the first generation of Muslim women who contributed to the reformist discourse, particularly at the regional level.

Muslims in India are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organizations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation.

A collection of classic works on Islam, originally published under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

This is the original History of the Modammedan Dynasties of Spain reprinted from the first edition of 1840-1843. It represents the foundations of our modern understanding of a great civilisation.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.