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Über die Kawi-sprache auf der Insel Java
  • Volume 3
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    15 September 2011
    First published in:
    1839
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) was a German philologist, diplomat and philosopher. While Minister of Education he was responsible for reforming the Prussian education system. His pioneering achievements in linguistics influenced many later scholars including Chomsky. This monumental three-volume study of Kawi, a traditional formal and literary language of Java belonging to the Austronesian language family, was published posthumously in 1836–9. The manuscript was prepared for the press by J. K. E. Buschmann, a protégé of Humboldt's friend and colleague Bopp, whose work is also reissued in this series. Humboldt considered Kawi, which includes many Sanskrit loan-words, to be the common ancestor of all the Malayo-Polynesian languages, though this view is no longer accepted. Volume 3 focuses on the comparative grammar, as attested in epics, songs, arithmetic books and bible translations, of several South Sea languages including Tagalog, Tongan, Tahitian and Hawaiian, and their relationship with the Malayan languages.

The River of Golden Sand
  • The Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah
  • Volume 1
  • William John Gill, Henry Yule
  • Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    09 September 2010
    First published in:
    1880
  • William Gill (1843–1883) was an explorer and commissioned officer in the Royal Engineers. After inheriting a fortune from a distant relative in 1871, Gill decided to remain in the Army and use his inheritance to finance explorations of remote countries, satisfying his love of travel and gathering intelligence for the British government. He was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 1879 for his scientific observations on his expeditions. This two volume work, first published in 1880, is Gill's account of his expedition from Chengdu, China through Sichuan, along the eastern edge of Tibet via Litang, to Bhamo in Burma, a region little explored by westerners before him. Gill describes in vivid detail the cultures, societies and settlements of the region, and their political and economic systems. Volume 1 covers the area around Chengdu and includes an introductory chapter by the eminent orientalist Henry Yule (1820–1889).

Locating the Anglo-Indian Self in Ruskin Bond
  • A Postcolonial Review
  • Debashis Bandyopadhyay
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    01 January 2011
  • This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.

Science, Spirituality and the Modernisation of India
  • Edited by Makarand Paranjape
  • Foreword by Dalai Lama
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    01 April 2009
  • ‘Science, Spirituality and the Modernisation of India’ explores the lively transaction between science and spirituality during the last 150 years in India.

Nationalizing the Body
  • The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine
  • Projit Mukharji
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    01 February 2009
  • ‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.

Intimate China
  • The Chinese as I Have Seen Them
  • Alicia E. Neva Little
  • Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    10 June 2010
    First published in:
    1899
  • Part memoir, part travelogue, part crusade, Intimate China details the exploits of Alicia Little (Mrs Archibald Little), who first arrived in China as a new bride in 1887. Little was already a prolific writer before her marriage, and this narrative is both compelling and refreshingly frank. Published in 1899, her account of life in late nineteenth-century China is arranged eclectically, with chapters on 'Superstitions', 'Current coin in China' and 'Hindrances and annoyances' interlaced with descriptions of trips to Tibet and up the Yangtze. The latter third of the book is devoted entirely to politics. Fuelled with a determination to represent the Chinese 'as I have seen them', Little spares no details, supplying descriptions of the complications arising from foot-binding, a practice she found abhorrent and against which she actively campaigned. Extending to over six hundred pages and lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs, this is an extraordinary book.

Subaltern Sports
  • Politics and Sport in South Asia
  • Edited by James Mills
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    15 May 2005
  • A unique volume about the relationship between politics and sport in South Asia.

Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Samarang, during the Years 1843–46
  • Employed Surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago
  • Volume 2
  • Edward Belcher
  • Appendix by Arthur Adams
  • Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    30 June 2011
    First published in:
    1848
  • Sir Edward Belcher (1799–1877) was a British naval officer who served as surveyor on several long voyages in the Atlantic and Pacific. Published in 1848, this two-volume account, interspersed with charts and illustrations, was the second of his journals to appear in print, and appealed to Victorian readers' enthusiasm for books on exploration, natural history, ethnology and adventure. In Volume 2, Belcher recounts dramatic episodes on his return journey to England from Japan via Hong Kong and Mauritius. This volume incorporates an engaging, and sometimes alarming, commentary on flora and fauna provided by the ship's surgeon, Arthur Adams, in which readers are introduced to spectacular species of spiders, fish and snakes, as well as sensational descriptions of shrunken heads. It also includes a 30-page vocabulary chart, introduced by Ernest Adams, listing English words and their equivalents in Spanish and ten Asian languages.

Hobson-Jobson

Mad Tales from the Raj
  • Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800–58
  • Waltraud Ernst
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    01 March 2010
  • This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company's rule in India.

Western India
  • Reports addressed to the Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn and Glasgow
  • Alexander Mackay
  • Edited by James Robertson
  • Preface by Thomas Bazley
  • Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    02 June 2011
    First published in:
    1853
  • Scottish-born Alexander Mackay (1808–1852) spent most of his career as a journalist in Canada and the United States, though he had been called to the bar in 1847. In 1851 he was commissioned by the chambers of commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn, and Glasgow to go to India and report on the cultivation of cotton there, especially around Gujarat. He stayed for a year and was on his way back to Britain – his return forced by ill health – when he died at sea in 1852. His Western India, however, was published the following year after it was revised by James Robertson. The book highlights the many impediments to further growth of the Indian cotton trade: the poverty of the cultivators, heavy taxation, outdated planting methods and poor infrastructure, as well as the problem of competition from the booming cotton exports of the United States.

Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
  • From Improvement to Development
  • Edited by Carey Watt, Michael Mann
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    15 March 2011
  • This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.

Congress Politics in Bengal 1919–1939
  • Srilata Chatterjee
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    01 January 2003
  • In examining the nature of the interaction between institutional politics as represented by the Congress and popular politics in Bengal between 1919 and 1939, this book is a significant and original contribution to current research in the field.

Calcutta Mosaic

Indian Democracy
  • Problems and Prospects
  • Edited by M. Manisha, Sharmila Deb
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 March 2012
    Print publication:
    01 July 2009
  • ‘Indian Democracy’ is an attempt to understand the development of democratic polity in India.

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