Order Disorder in Asia

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Order/Disorder in Asia contains seventeen chapters from eminent scholars with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds from India, France, Portugal, Singapore and the USA as well as a brief introduction by the editor.

The seventeen chapter studies highlight disconnects in realms of order and resulting disorders by considering a variety of ethics, ideologies, norms, and practices that underpinned spatial, religious, social, technological, political and economic systems. In doing so, the contributors engage with the historical trajectories of polities, states, and institutions in Asia.

Rila Mukherjee is Professor of History at the University of Hyderabad, India and since 2015 she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Brill journal Asian Review of World Histories. Her most recent monograph is India in the Indian Ocean World published by Springer Nature and scheduled to be released in March 2022.

In order not to bring disorder in the comprehension underneath the objective of the orderly organised international conference, held at the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, on January 3- 4, 2018, I naturally submit to the realm of the space, time and actors of high human drama, identified and covered by the Editor as well as the Contributors of this important academic discourse.

The Order/Disorder conference was held at The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, India, on 3 and 4 January 2018. The coordinators - Professor Suchandra Ghosh and myself, both of the University of Hyderabad-thank The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, for sponsoring and hosting the conference.

We express our gratitude to scholars who attended from Kolkata, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad, Paris, Goa, Mysore, Lisbon, Singapore and the USA to present their papers and take part in the discussions that followed. We also take this opportunity to thank the General Secretary, Dr. Satyabrata Chakrabarti; Historical and Archaeological Secretary, Prof. Arun Kumar Bandopadhyay; and Publication Secretary, Dr. Ramkrishna Chatterjee, as well as the other office bearers of The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, for their kind help in organising the conference and for arranging the publication of the proceedings in book form.

"Order/Disorder in Asia' organised by The Asiatic Society, Kolkata in January 2018, rose out of a disenchantment with the present emphasis on flows, continuities and connectivities. Participants were requested to evaluate not just realms of order but also disconnects and disorders by considering the variety of ethics, ideologies, norms and institutions that underpinned Asian spatial, religious, social, political and economic systems, and to engage with the trajectories of states, institutions and peoples in historical time.