Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia

Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South AsiaThis 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.

Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piety

this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives

Bringing exemplary practices from Australia

Covering the silent era to the present

With commentary from both first-generation and more recent followers

Larry’s strategies are practical

with travellers slowing down their journeys and readjusting their relationship to the proximate and nearby

moral rigidity

will also be an important addition to the considerable collections of books about Brecht which are carried by countless libraries

This book fills a major gap in the history of the Cold War by examining in detail a neglected phase of US-Soviet relations

this timely volume will be of interest to musicologists and scholars of Balkan culture

A wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice