To write history successfully, it is essential to understand the nuts and bolts of technique as well as the underlying principles which govern the whole process. History is a specific scholarly tradit
Angkor Wat and nearby monuments including Banteay Srei, Preah Vihear, Bayon, Ta Prohm, and the royal terrace at Angkor Thom are featured in a handsome oversize (10.25x13.5) edition. Five specialists
The social sciences, history, and other disciplines are represented by contributors, many of them with the Monash Asia Institute in Australia. They report on their fieldwork in India ranging from 20 t
Conceiving the Goddess is a sequel to The Iconic Female: Goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet (2008), an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia, and it embodies further researches on South Asian go
Offering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between the state and religion in South Asia, this book looks at the nature and origins of Indian secularism. It interrogates the proposit
Five Australian historians and South Asia scholars explore a set of issues in Indian history that they say have not been well identified before, relating in particular to independent India's insistenc
