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1741. Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata

      Edited by Simon Brodbeck, Brian Black

      Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

      The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. At almost 75,000 verses it is the longest poem in the world, and throughout Indian history it has been hugely influential in shaping gender and social norms. In the context of ancient India, it...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
1742. Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia

      Edited by Anthony Reid, Michael Gilsenan

      Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

      A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. Even in Asia, where such ideas have always been marginal, radical groups are taking the view that scriptural authority requires either Islamic rule (Dar-ul-Islam) or a state of war with the essentially illegitimate...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
1743. Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter

      Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka

      By Elizabeth Harris

      Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

      This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it. Tracing the three main historical...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
1744. Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen'

      The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87

      By Gregor Muller

      Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

      Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnamese and Cambodian archives, it reconstructs a time during which France struggled to give meaning and...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
1745. Media and the Chinese Diaspora

      Community, Communications and Commerce

      Edited by Wanning Sun

      Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

      The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness' -...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
1746. Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan

      The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan

      By Chikako Ozawa-de Silva

      Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

      Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to bring about healing and a changed notion of the self. Based on original anthropological fieldwork, this fascinating...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
1747. Russian Constitutionalism

      Historical and Contemporary Development

      By Andrei Medushevsky

      Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

      Medushevsky examines constitutionalism in Russia from Tsarist times to the present. He traces the different attitudes to constitutionalism in political thought, and in practice, at different periods, showing how the balance between authoritarianism and liberalism has shifted. In addition, he...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
1748. The History of Siberia

      By Igor V. Naumov

      Edited by David Collins

      Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

      Siberia has had an interesting history, quite distinct from that of Russia. Absolutely vast, containing many non-Russian nationalities, and increasingly important at present because of its huge energy reserves, Siberia was at one time part of the Mongol Empire, was settled relatively late by the...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
1749. Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644

      By Grant Guangren Shen

      Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia

      Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre performances were an integral part of formal gatherings, various rituals and ceremonies. Based on an exploration of original historical records,...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
1750. Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940

      Truth, Justice and Memory

      By George Sanford

      Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

      The Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and in other camps in 1940 was one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War. The truth about the massacres was long suppressed, both by the Soviet Union, and also by the United States and Britain who wished to hold together...

      Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge