Explore books connected with South Asian history, society, culture, and the people and events that have shaped the region. This collection currently contains 10 titles in Literra’s catalogue.
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A Set of Rogues follows a band of adventurers whose lives are built around deception, travel, opportunism, and the constant need to outwit people who may be just as dishonest as they are. Christopher Sutton, John Dawson the elder, Don Sanchez del Castillo, and Moll Dawson become linked by a
American Indian Stories brings together autobiographical writing, traditional stories, observations, and accounts of Indigenous life from Zitkála-Šá, a Yankton Dakota writer who became one of the important Native literary voices of the early twentieth century. The book moves between childhood
Betty Gordon at Boarding School moves a young heroine from the familiar world of home into the social pressure cooker of school, where friendship, rivalry, secrets, loyalty, and independence become central problems. Boarding-school fiction works because it temporarily removes the protection of
A historical study of East India Company rule in the Indian subcontinent, examining colonial power, political change, economic interests, and their effects on society
A literary collection of letters and reflections written during imprisonment. Azad moves between history, philosophy, culture, religion and personal observation, making the work as much about an intellectual life as about political circumstances
The Memoir of William Watts McNair recounts the life and exploration of William Watts McNair, a surveyor associated with British India who became notable for his journey into Kafiristan, a region of the Hindu Kush that was then little known to European travellers. The memoir places his
A historical work focused on Kashmir and the communities associated with its history. Its value for modern readers is as a regional historical perspective that can be compared with later scholarship and other accounts of the subcontinent
Rai’s work responds to colonial rule and political debate from a nationalist Indian perspective. It is useful as a historical primary source because it shows how arguments about empire, national identity and political rights were framed by an Indian political writer of the period
These writings collect Gandhi’s arguments, reflections and political commentary for readers interested in how he publicly articulated ideas about society, nonviolence, self-rule and political action. They are primary political writings, so they are most useful with historical context and comparison
A South Asian social and political work whose interest lies in its period perspective and the way a writer records questions of society, identity and public life. It belongs on this shelf because it broadens a reader’s sense of which voices shape South Asian intellectual history
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