An Endangered History

This book will appeal to academic researchers, who are engaged in the study of Indian and South Asian
history as well as Southeast Asian and British Empire history, colonial and postcolonial studies, borderland studies, studies of indigeneity, frontier studies, intellectual history, and scholars of religion, gender studies, histories of science, botany, enumerative statistics, anthropology, and ethnography. It will also be of interest to human rights practitioners. Beyond markets in South Asia and Southeast Asia, particularly India and Bangladesh, this book will appeal to markets in Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Angma Dey Jhala is an associate professor of history at Bentley University, near Boston, Massachusetts. Her work focuses on modern South Asian history and religion, with a particular emphasis on politics, gender, material culture, law and indigeneity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. Her monographs include Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India (2008) and Royal
Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India (2011). She has also edited Peacock in the Desert (2018), as well as published her work in leading journals of South Asian studies.