ASAA Publications: South Asia Publications Series
The South Asia Publication Series of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) has been publishing books in the areas of politics, history, anthropology, gender studies, and economics since 1986.
New Publisher for SAPS in 2010: The series is published for the ASAA
in conjunction with Routledge. See the Routledge web site ASAA South Asia Series for full details.
Prior to 2010 the series was published for the ASAA
by Sterling Publishers Pty Ltd, L-10 Green Park Extension, New
Delhi 110 016, India.
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Residents of Australia and New Zealand can buy books directly from:
SAPS (Attention: R. Jeffrey)Politics Program
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Victoria 3086
Australia
Fax: +61 3 94791997
Cheques should be payable to "Asian Studies Association of Australia Inc"
Special Prices for ASAA members
ASAA Members may purchase the books in the Series at a special price discounted by 20% from the standard retail price.
The editor of the South Asia Publication Series is:
Peter MayerPolitics Department
The University of Adelaide
South Australia, 5005
AUSTRALIA
Ph : +61 8 8303 5606
Fax : +61 8 8303 3443
E-mail: peter.mayer@adelaide.edu.au
Prospective authors are invited to contact either the editor with proposals for books that might be published in the series.
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Peter Mayer, Suicide and Society in India (October 2010)
In India about 123,000 people take their own lives each year, the second highest total in the world. There is a suicide death in India almost every 4 minutes, and it is the leading cause of death for rural Indians especially women in early adulthood. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of suicide in India based on original research as well as existing studies, and looks at the issue in an international, sociological and historical context.
The author looks at the reliability of suicide data in India, and goes on to discuss various factors relating to suicide, including age, gender, education and marriage. Among its findings, the book exposes a hidden youth suicide ‘crisis’ in India which is argued to be far more serious than the better known crisis of farmer suicides. The book dispels many myths that are commonly associated with suicide, and highlights a neglected public health problem. Suicide in the region of Pondicherry is looked at in detail, as well as in the Indian Diaspora. This book is a useful contribution to South Asian Studies, as well as studies in Mental Health and Sociology.
Books published in the South Asia Publications Series
The Politics of Schooling in Colonial Punjab
Tim AllenderAllender explores the impulses for, and the constraints on, the introduction of western-style education in the newly annexed province of Punjab from the 1850s to the 1880s. The study examines the efforts to coopt local school systems into a British-controlled program of education. It unravels the struggles among British officials and explains the failure, in spite of proclaimed intentions, to take the education system into the countryside.
Indian Daughters Abroad. Growing up in Australia
Vijaya JoshiVijaya Joshi is one of Australia?s most promising
young scholars. Born in India and raised in Australia from an
early age, she brings to cross-cultural studies impressive skills
and insights. Though her book is a scholarly study based on intensive
interviews, it is also informed by her own experience. It is one
of those rare works that engages with theory and entertains as
well.
2000, 232 pp.+ xv. Index ISBN 81 207 2287 6 RRP $35
Return to Empire: Punjab under the Sikhs and British in the mid-Nineteenth Century
Andrew MajorMajor's book traces the imposition of British
rule on the Punjab region of northwestern India between 1839 and
1857. Until 1839, Punjab had been governed as a great kingdom
under the Sikh ruler, Maharaja Ranjit Singh. After his death,
the bitter rivalries for succession led to British conquest and
rule, achieved through various forms of accommodation between
the British and the chiefly classes of old Punjab. Major lays
out the story of how the British came to rule what became the
great granary and barracks of their Indian empire.
1995, 248pp ISBN 81 207 1806 2 hardcover $30.00
Sri Lankan Fishermen
Paul AlexanderDr Alexander demonstrates that inequalities in
the income of Sri Lankan fishermen are the product of the impact
of capitalist relations of production on a semi-subsistence economy.
Until the 1940s, local resources were shared equitably. Economic
and political entrepreneurs have, however, gained control of local
resources, impoverishing the fishermen and creating conflicts.
1995, (revised edition of the 1982 publication in the Monographs
on South Asia series) 306pp ISBN 81 207 1807 0 hardcover $30.00
Commerce, English Company Raj and Maritime Society in Southeastern India, 1715-1800
S. ArasaratnumThis is a study of the impact of English expansion
on the maritime society and commerce along the Coromandel coast,
south India, in the second half of the eighteenth century. English
efforts to dominate the weaving industry and commerce in textiles
are a central theme.
1996, 326pp ISBN 81 207 1814 3 hardcover $30.00
"Rearguard Action": Selected Essays on Politics in late Colonial India
D. A. LowThis volume brings together a number of D.A.
Low's distinguished essays written over the last twenty-five years
on Colonial India.
1995, 223pp ISBN 81 207 1812 7 hardcover $30.00
Bangladesh: Peasant and Migration and the World Capitalist Economy
Aminul FaraiziDr Faraizi's book skilfully links the experience
of three groups of migrant labourers in Bangladesh with the expansion
of a world capitalist economy. This study examines the causes
and consequences of peasant worker migration in Bangladesh from
the historical perspective and argues that instead of becoming
free labourers they became captives of the world economic system.
1993, 187pp ISBN 81 207 1498 9 hardback $30.00
India: Rebellion to Republic. Selected Writings, 1857-1990
This book provides a uniquely economical way
of discovering some of the most important debates about the modern
subcontinent. Starting with the "rebellion" of 1857
the book presents readers with a selection of articles covering
the next 130 years, ranging from the dilemmas of poverty to the
festivals of Tilak's Maharashtra and the motor-scooter showrooms
of middle-class India in the 1980s.
1990, 510pp ISBN 81 207 1107 6 paperback/hardcover NOT IN PRINT
The Indian Nationalist Movement 1912-22: Leadership, Organization and Philosophy. The Writings of Hugh Owen
H. F. OwenThe years between 1912 and 1922 were momentous
ones for the Indian nationalist movement. This book takes up the
most important events and themes of the period including the Home
Rule Leagues, the Lucknow Pact, the Rowlatt Satyagraha and the
Non-cooperation Movement, as well as important regional studies
from western and southern India.
1990, 262pp ISBN 81 207 1209 9 hardcover $25.00
Women in India and Nepal
Michael Allen and S. N. Mukherjee (editors)This collection of essays, written by anthropologists
and historians, contributes to our understanding of some of the
seeming paradoxes in the social life of women in India and Nepal.
They include comparative studies covering a wide spectrum of both
caste and tribal communities, observances concerned with menstruation
and menarche, immolation of widows in Bengal, and human sacrifices.
rev edition 1990, 328pp ISBN 81 207 1216 1 paperback $25.00/hardcover
$40.00
Grassroots Education in India: A Challenge for Policy-Makers
R. S. NewmanThis vivid picture of grassroots education presents
the reality of schools and the problems of teachers and local
administrators in three different institutions in Lucknow District,
Uttar Pradesh ? a village primary school, a village maktab (Muslim
primary school) and an English-language, Catholic-run, urban school
for the upper middle class.
1989, 178pp ISBN 81 207 0951 9 hardcover $25.00
Capitalism and Class in Colonial India: The Case of Ahmedabad
Salim LakhaA study of long-term social change in Gujarat,
this book examines the transition of Ahmedabad from a pre-capitalist
and pre-colonial mercantile city to a colonial, industrial centre.
The account highlights the nature of capitalist development and
its ramifications for capital-labour relations, and analyses class
relations in the development of the city's cotton textile industry.
1988, l99pp ISBN 81 207 0842 3 hardcover $25.00
Struggling and Ruling: The Indian National Congress, 1885-1985
Jim Masselos (editor)The essays in the book assess the importance
of the Indian National Congress in the history of India and explain
its changing role over time from its foundation in 1885 through
the innovative leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and his successors.
1987, 224pp ISBN 81 207 0691 9 hardcover $25.00
Holding India to the Empire: The British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution
Carl BridgeThe Government of India Act, 1935 ? Congress
called it a "charter of slavery"; the British government
claimed it was a blueprint for dominionhood; Churchill denounced
it as a "monstrous monument of sham built by pygmies".
This study in "high politics" uncovers the motives and
tactics of the British Conservatives who framed the Act and of
the Act's friends and enemies in both countries.
1986, 220pp ISBN 81 207 0151 8 hardcover $25.00