Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007

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• Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: A. Bowles
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  • This book is a close study of the Āpaddharmaparvan which situates it within its context in the great Sanskrit epic the Mahābhārata and within Indian political and social thought, and explores the relationship of its didacticism to the broader literary context of the Mahābhārata.

• Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: B. Ruangsilp
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  • This book deals with the early modern Dutch-Thai interactions as told by the merchants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who concurrently tried to find a balance between their 'partnership' with and 'sense of differences' from the Thai elite.

• The Dutch East India Company's Tea Trade with China, 1757-1781

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: Y. Liu

• Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815

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  • Author: A. Schrikker
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  • This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 1780 – 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.

• Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 8: Discoveries in Western Tibet and the Western Himalayas

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Amy Heller; Giacomella Orofino