CONTENTS: Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. The Performance of Kingship in Early Medieval Tamilakam-Nishant Singh, 2. Indo-Sri Lanka Maritime Trade Alliances-Sonali Dasanayake & Tharindu Peiris, 3. Intertextuality and the Sacred Void: Reading Ramai Pandit, Kabir, and the Religious Cultures of Bengal-Ranjan Kumar, 4. The Making of Suba: A Historical Account of Bihar's Regional Evolution-Shubhra Sinha, 5. Gift Giving in Medieval Kerala: Women's Agency and Power-Thasleema CN, 6. Literature as People's History: Emerson, Whitman and the Making of a Democratic America-Himanshu Sharma, 7. Travancore for Travancoreans: Fashioning a 'Malayali' Identity in Travancore-Akhila Vincent, 8. Weaving a Region's Past-Reimagining Arunachal Pradesh through Emerging Cultural and Literary Contexts-Chandrika Das, 9. Politics of Ecology in Making of a Region: Capital City of Agra and the Ecological Challenges in 17th Century-Monalisa Bhandecha, 10. Revisiting Azimabad: A Historical Perspective-Ghazala Rasheed, 11. Beyond the Binary: Female Farmers of the Region of Bihar in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries-Preeti, 12. Urbanization, Ecology and Disease: Purnia in the 19th Century-Rashi Raman, 13. Resistance, Repression, Renaissance: Examining the Shifting Economic Regimes and the Formation of Bengali 'Middle-Class' Identity at the Backdrop of the Indigo Rebellion-Saukarya Samad, 14. Memory, Monument and Region: The Enduring Legacy of Tipu Sultan in Feroke, Kerala-Swathi Surendran, 15. An Examination of Early Feminist Literature-Muhammadi Begum and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the Discourse for Muslim Women's Education in North India and Bengal-Zainab Rizwanul Haque, List of Contributors, Index.