This book offers an unprecedented, interdisciplinary look at one of the Pacific War's most brutal and least understood amphibious operations. Bringing together leading maritime archaeologists and marine scientists, this volume moves beyond conventional battle narratives to reconstruct Peleliu's integrated battlespace-reef, lagoon, landing beaches, and airfield-through cutting edge remote sensing, 3D photogrammetry, and meticulous archival research. Readers follow Underwater Demolition Teams, amphibious forces, Seabees, and Palauan communities through first person accounts woven tightly into the archaeological record, revealing the human experiences behind the material remains.

The book also breaks new ground by pairing conflict archaeology with detailed studies of long term coral reef resilience, demonstrating how warfare reshaped both cultural landscapes and marine environments. Timely, richly illustrated, and deeply humane, this volume will become a landmark reference for scholars, students, and general readers alike.

The volume offers a rigorous exploration of caste as a persistent structure of social exclusion in India. Blending personal narratives with academic inquiry, the book situates Dalit experiences within global frameworks of marginalization, drawing parallels with race-based discrimination and systemic oppression worldwide. It critically interrogates the Gandhi-Ambedkar discourse, examines intersectionality-particularly caste and gender-and addresses contemporary movements such as 'Dalit Lives Matter' , 'Black Lives Matter.' Moreover, the volume describes the Bhim Army and Balmikis' struggles against manual scavenging. Through comparative and transnational perspectives, the work engages foundational theorists, including Max Weber and Louis Dumont, alongside global thinkers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon and Martin Luther King Jr., to position caste is aligned with race. It incorporates legal developments, such as the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) Prevention of Atrocities Act (1989), and explores affirmative action debates, media representation, and diaspora dynamics.

The volume brings together research and real-life experiences to make complex ideas accessible and relevant. By documenting resilience and resistance, the volume is articulating global conversations on equality and the pursuit of dignity . It reveals that prisons are hell for Dalits, as the author has spent a few months in Prison because of casteism. Moreover, the volume also reveals that the question of the "colonizer" is different for Dalits from the entire world. It is an essential resource for scholars, researchers, and policymakers concerned with caste, race, social justice, and inclusion.

"This book offers an introduction to the history and present of caste in India. Drawing from the long history of caste in India as well as situating caste in a larger global history of exclusion, it combines scholarship and personal experience to make an important contribution to the study of contemporary caste in India."
- Professor Ulka Anjaria, author of Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture.

"In Reading Caste in India, Krishan Kumar provides a thought-provoking and often personal reflection on the entwining of caste and race. From the nineteenth-century world of anti-caste and abolitionist giants Jyotirao Phule and Sojourner Truth, to the twentieth century of B. R. Ambedkar and W. E. B. Du Bois, the book centers Dalit experiences while reminding that today calls of "Jai Bhim!" and "Black Lives Matter" are heard together in movements that stand shoulder-to-shoulder in struggles to remake the world."
- Zach Sell, author of Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Nepal's political and social transformations from the formation of the state in 1769 to the abolition of the monarchy and the subsequent developments of the twenty-first century. Drawing on a Marxist methodological framework, it situates Nepal's historical trajectory within the interplay of state power, class relations and social hierarchies. The study explores the enduring influence of Hinduism on Nepalese society, the dynamics of caste and ethnicity and the patriarchal structures that have shaped social relations. It also examines the evolution of the Nepalese communist movement and its capacity to articulate the contradictions of a society marked by ethnicism, caste stratification and regional inequalities. By integrating political history with economic and sociological analysis, the book illuminates the structural crises that culminated in the collapse of the monarchy and the emergence of a new political order. Ideal for scholars and students of South Asian studies, political sociology and postcolonial history, this work provides an interdisciplinary perspective on Nepal's complex social formation and its position within the broader geopolitics of the Indian subcontinent.

India's official nationalism has been reshaped under Narendra Modi's leadership, with national traditions recast to align with his political vision. The modification of existing rituals, introduction of new commemorative events and promotion of museums and historical references in political speeches shape an alternative narrative that legitimizes his administration. Modi's distinctive political style, emphasising performances and social media output, popularises commemoration and national celebrations.

This book critically examines the coherence of such invented traditions, questioning whether they advance the exclusionary ideology of Hindu nationalism or primarily serve Modi's own political ambitions. It argues that nationalism can be understood as a constructed ideology, shaped by political elites through public rituals, symbols and ceremonies. Although nationalism has long been central to India's statecraft, the book demonstrates how Modi's reworking of national traditions reveals limits to his political project.

Aimed at academic and postgraduate scholars researching Indian politics and nationalism, as well as scholars in anthropology, geography, sociology and South Asian history, this book offers new insights into the mechanisms of political legitimacy and symbolic power.

This book covers the research carried out by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan), Pakistan, during the last 35 years. The volume is divided into chapters covering the various periods during which archaeological work was carried out with different local institutions involved in the surveys and excavations.

It begins with the research conducted in the 1990s, during which surveys and excavations were carried out in the Rohri Hills and the first Mesolithic sites were discovered in the Thar Desert (Upper Sindh, Pakistan). Chapters include the team's work done in the prehistory Karachi region, surveys at Ongar, Jhimpir, Ranikot and the problem of chert mining during the Copper and Bronze Ages of Sindh, as well as archaeology of Lake Siranda, Cape Gadani and Daun in Las Bela and a complete set of 162 dates so far obtained from this region that is currently the best radiocarbon dated coastal area of the entire Arabian Sea. A final chapter presents all the radiocarbon dates obtained from the prehistoric sites of Sindh and Las Bela during the last 35 years, to try to define a reliable radiocarbon chronology of this part of the Indus Valley, and Arabian Sea prehistory. This book appeals to readers of prehistory and archaeology of South East Asia.

In the Aftermath of Empire examines the impact of colonial lawfare on embodied, gendered subjects across Ireland, India and Pakistan, countries that are all shaped by British imperial rule.

By giving voice to queer and trans legal subjects, the book examines the impact of colonial laws on the marginalisation of these communities and the material effects that it has on them in terms of their legibility as citizens and their conditions of life.

It further analyses the role of these communities in struggles to remove repressive colonial laws, exploring the continuing influence of the post-imperial United Kingdom within the queer and trans sociolegal landscape. It shows that, while narratives of progress are not straightforward or linear, reform is possible.