Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India

This volume completes Keith McMahon’s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor’s plural wives

Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. By taking women--and m

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Raja Rao's Kanthapura is one of the finest novels to come out of mid-twentieth century India.