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The Cambridge Companion to Indian Politics and Society
  • Edited by Indrajit Roy, Manali Desai
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • India has been underdoing widespread and far-reaching political and social transformation since 1989. Such shifts require us to seriously consider novel approaches to the study of political institutions, social mobilizations and ideas of India. The institutions that framed Indian politics and society since Independence have been challenged through patterns of mobilization and new forms of elite capture. Economic liberalization, anti-caste mobilization and Hindu nationalism have transformed the ideas that once underpinned political institutions and social mobilisation, requiring a change in the way we understand India. This companion aims to offer readers new theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches to studying politics and society in India. It introduces readers to key transformations in the study of institutions, mobilizations and ideas pertaining to India. The contributions are interdisciplinary, given that no single discipline can exclusively explain the complexities of ongoing political and social change in India.

Democracy against Equality
  • Caste, Institutions and Power in Postcolonial Punjab
  • Nicolas Martin
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • This book traces the shifting contours of caste and agrarian inequality, revealing how older hierarchies are being reconfigured in new forms and how they impact democracy. It offers a compelling ethnographic account of how democratic mechanisms-including political participation, elections, and protest movements-actually function in rural India. Focusing on Indian Punjab, it reveals the often stark disconnect between formal democratic ideals and ground-level realities. Engaging with major debates on clientelism, identity politics, and the criminalisation of politics, the book sheds light on the complexities of political representation and accountability. The book also fills a critical gap in the political anthropology of Indian Punjab, offering valuable insights into the region's current political discontent. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Entangled Sovereignties
  • Rethinking the Secular in Kerala
  • Edited by Filippo Osella, R. Santhosh, J. Devika, V. J. Varghese
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    31 August 2026
  • Entangled Sovereignties is a rich volume that attempts to rethink the meanings and modalities of sovereignty in South Asia through the lens of Kerala's historical and contemporary political formations. Focusing on the entwined religious and secular logics, it draws attention to how diverse actors – from deities and communities to state agents and market forces – assert sovereign claims in social, ritual, and political life. Through a multidisciplinary engagement spanning ethnography, textual analysis, and historical inquiry, the book challenges dominant state-centric understandings of sovereignty. It foregrounds everyday, contested, layered expressions of authority that exceed the monopoly of violence, offering a new vocabulary to engage with questions of power, legitimacy, and moral reasoning in postcolonial democracies. From Christian reformers and Sunni traditionalists to fisher communities and communist appropriations of ritual, the book examines how sovereignty is asserted and negotiated across time and domains.

Muslim Capitalism
  • A Political and Legal History of Colonial Bombay
  • Danish Khan
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • This book offers a history of Muslim capitalism in colonial India by examining Gujarati Muslim trading communities within the political economy of Bombay. Challenging a historiography dominated by global and transnational approaches, it shows how Muslim merchants were embedded in local institutions, legal regimes, and commercial networks of business. Through court records, legislative debates, commercial disputes, and family archives, it introduces the concept of the Muslim Divided Family as an alternative framework for understanding Muslim mercantile organization alongside the Hindu Undivided Family, and how colonial law transformed family property, waqf administration, inheritance, and religious authority, while revealing the uneven ways in which colonial governance accommodated different commercial communities. By placing Muslim merchants at the centre of debates on capitalism, law, and community, it offers a fresh interpretation of economic life in colonial South Asia and contributes to wider discussions on legal pluralism, corporate personality, and the relationship between religion and commerce.

Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal Era
  • Volume 1
  • Edited by S. Shiraz Ali, Daniyal Channa, Asad Q. Ahmed
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal World brings together new scholarship on the rich and varied intellectual life of the Mughal world, challenging long-standing narratives of decline and dichotomies such as orthodoxy versus heterodoxy. Spanning disciplines including philosophy, logic, poetics, mysticism, law, and medicine, the chapters collectively illuminate the infrastructures, languages, and actors that shaped Muslim scholarly production in South Asia between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on Arabic, Persian, and vernacular sources, the essays situate the Mughal scholarly enterprise within wider transregional currents across West, Central, and South Asia. With critical attention to genres, networks, and conceptual debates, the volume offers fresh perspectives on how knowledge was produced, circulated, and contested in early modern South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars and students in Islamic studies, South Asian history, religious studies, and global intellectual history.

Data Analytics using Python
  • Principles, Techniques, Tools, and Applications
  • A. Lakshmi Muddana, Sandhya Vinayakam, N. Siva Prasad
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • Data Analytics Using Python offers a clear and practical roadmap for mastering data analytics from the ground up. Designed for students, beginners, and professionals alike, it breaks down core concepts into simple, accessible explanations supported by illustrative examples. Each chapter features hands-on exercises and Python implementations that guide learners through essential techniques, including data preprocessing, visualization, feature engineering, model building, data ethics, and domain-specific applications. Real-world case studies further demonstrate how analytics is applied across sectors, helping readers connect theoretical learning with practical decision-making. The book also introduces key tools from the Python ecosystem, including NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Scikit-learn, making it a comprehensive and ready-to-use learning resource. With its step-by-step approach, skill-building activities, and application-focused structure, this book equips learners to confidently analyse data and solve real-world problems, making it an ideal choice for both classroom adoption and independent study.

Narrative Affinities
  • Friendship, Literature, and Democracy in Twentieth-Century India
  • Philipp Sperner
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    01 January 2028

Development and the Tribal Question in India
  • Edited by Roluah Puia, Virginius Xaxa
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • Tribes and indigenous groups are viewed as the 'other', far removed from the non-tribal populace. This book examines India's growth story from the perspective of tribes – it places the experience of tribes at the centre while considering the multiple realities of different tribal communities across the country. This edited volume offers insights into the varying conditions of tribes across different states and communities by highlighting the complex and contesting nature of tribal development. It aims to understand the complexities of the interactions and negotiations between the state and tribal communities, while taking care not to group all tribal experiences as homogenous. The last few years have witnessed increasing violence being inflicted upon different tribal communities and further emphasized the otherization of these communities, whose contributions still remain largely ignored. With this context in mind, this volume offers much-needed insight and assimilates them into the wider scholarship which otherwise excluded their experiences.

Paul's Letter Openings
  • An Analysis of High-register Language
  • Gillian Asquith
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    31 August 2026
  • Interest in the relationship between Paul's letter openings and Koine Greek letter-writing conventions has been steady for over a century, but little new data has emerged in recent years. In this study, Gillian Asquith offers a fresh perspective on Paul's epistolary practice by adopting a multidisciplinary method that synthesises sociolinguistics and lexicography. Comparing the language of Paul's letter openings with the register of language in documentary papyri, she demonstrates that high-register language in Koine Greek epistolary formulae contributes to warm and friendly relations between correspondents. Asquith argues that Paul creatively modifies epistolary norms by using unexpected, high-register language in the remembrance motif and litotic disclosure formula. Such usage, she posits, emphatically reassures Paul's recipients of his pastoral concern for them and heightens the persuasive force of his letters. Asquith's nuanced analysis contributes valuable new data to long-running debates around Paul's practice of prayer and the structure of his letters.

Will We Go Hungry?
  • Practical Ways to Ensure Global Food Security
  • Sanjoy Sanyal, Jaideep Prabhu
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    31 October 2026
  • Climate change is disrupting humanity's most fundamental need: food. Are you ready for real solutions but frustrated by advice that feels dense, alarmist, or vague? Will We Go Hungry? cuts through the noise and moves beyond ideology – bridging the gap between high-tech solutions and regenerative approaches with evidence, not dogma. Drawing on decades of combined global experience in climate finance, marketing, and frugal innovation, the authors offer a clear-eyed analysis of both risks and opportunities. They translate complex science into actionable insights, weigh the pros, cons, and trade-offs of a full 'buffet' of solutions, and share real-world lessons from their acclaimed podcast. This is your guide to turning understanding into action. It will empower you to craft a resilient, tailored strategy that relies on ingenuity more than capital – and to galvanise your organisation to act with urgency.
Fuzzy Authoritarian Rule

Fuzzy Authoritarian Rule
  • How Uncertainty Deters Dissent
  • Dawn Brancati, Nadine Sika
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2026
  • Many authoritarian regimes, including some of the world's most populous autocracies, such as China and Egypt, often do not make it clear what views, attitudes, and behaviors people may express openly without being sanctioned. This Element investigates how the uncertainty that this style of rule instills among people impacts the effectiveness of repression in deterring dissent. The authors develop a novel argument about how it can magnify the effect of repression by affecting how people understand what repression signals about a regime's resolve to sanction dissent. Their analysis, based on two laboratory experiments conducted in Egypt, confirms their argument and, in the process, challenges aspects of prominent behavioral arguments linking negative emotions to uncertainty. The authors' results imply that repression is least effective against acts of dissent regimes are opposed to the most and are very clear about their resolve to repress them as a result.

As Good As Any
  • Australian Militia Battalions, 1939–1945
  • James Morrison
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    30 November 2026
  • The Australian Militia Battalions of the Second World War remain one of the most underexplored and misunderstood aspects of Australia's wartime history. Following the only Australian wartime fighting organisation of conscripted men at the time, As Good As Any: The Australian Militia Battalions, 1939–1945 brings together the political, social, and operational dimensions of the Militia with the lived experiences of its individuals. Structured chronologically, this seminal work traces the Militia's evolution throughout the war, from early years on the home front, to Port Moresby and Kokoda, the Beachheads Battles, Salamaua and the Huon Peninsula, culminating in the final campaigns in Bougainville, New Britain and Aitape-Wewak. Drawing on war diaries, personal letters, and parliamentary records, the book reveals the tensions between the Militia and the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF). As Good As Any provides readers with fresh insights and a nuanced understanding of a force that shaped Australia's wartime identity.

Being Responsible for the Past
  • Reparative Responses to Historic Injustice
  • Susan A. Stark
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    31 August 2026
  • Many think that there is nothing to be done now to address past wrongs. The intergenerational harm argument connects ongoing harms with past wrongs, but this argument faces problems: it relies on empirical claims connecting wrongs of the past with harms in the present, claims with which not everyone agrees, and since the wrongdoers existed in the past, it is difficult to say who owes reparations today. In this book, Susan Stark discusses cases of wrongs and injustices - focusing on genocides, the transatlantic slave trade, and social discrimination and oppression of various kinds -- and explores the complex ethical problem of how past wrongs and historic injustices can be partially repaired in the present, and of who is morally required to repair them. She argues for a new way of thinking about reparations, and shows that it is possible to make some repair in the present for wrongs done by others in the past.

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