This boxed set will make available the Oxford India Paperbacks editions of the 10 volumes of this significant series. Individually each volume has had phenomenal sales. The boxed set will be a collector's item. The series has been very influential and has been cited and taken note of in academic writing, teaching, and has even found a non-specialist reader base. It has had an impact on scholarship acros the globe, especially in Latin America which has a history not dissimilar from South Asia. The emphasis on the margins and the subordinated has found echo in post modern and post-colonial studies. The essays in the volumes represent the range and interdisciplinarity of the exponents. The series is an example of a successful brand with each volume being reprinted several times.