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  • Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History by David Gilmartin 9780520355538

    Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History by David Gilmartin 9780520355538

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    The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world's most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this...
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  • The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt

    The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt

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    In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states competing for territory, resources and skills, the medieval and early modern Deccan was a region of...
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  • Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose

    Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose

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    The fifth edition of Modern South Asia draws on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field to interpret and debate key developments in modern South Asian history and historical writing, covering the diverse spectrum of the subcontinent's...
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  • The Burmese Labyrinth by Carlos Sardina Galache

    The Burmese Labyrinth by Carlos Sardina Galache

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    In 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in decades saw a landslide for the party of celebrated Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet, even as the...
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  • A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta by Tariq Omar Ali 9780691202570

    A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta by Tariq Omar Ali 9780691202570

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    Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed...
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  • Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in  Millennial Sri Lanka by Neena Mahadev 9780231205290

    Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka by Neena Mahadev 9780231205290

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    Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist...
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  • Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka by Nira Wickramasinghe

    Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka by Nira Wickramasinghe

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    For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri...
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  • A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas by Ian Talbot

    A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas by Ian Talbot

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    Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of...
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  • The Bhagavata Purana: Selected Readings by Ravi Gupta

    The Bhagavata Purana: Selected Readings by Ravi Gupta

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    Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text's theological...
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  • Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India by Gauri Viswanathan 9780231171694

    Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India by Gauri Viswanathan 9780231171694

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    A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies...
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  • The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast by Arkotong Longkumer

    The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast by Arkotong Longkumer

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    The assertion that even institutions often viewed as abhorrent should be dispassionately understood motivates Arkotong Longkumer's pathbreaking ethnography of the Sangh Parivar, a family of organizations comprising the Hindu right. The Greater India...
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  • The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl

    The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl

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    The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a...
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  • The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif 9780674292338

    The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif 9780674292338

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    Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize"Remarkable and pathbreaking...A radical rethink of colonial historiography and a compelling argument for the reassessment of the historical traditions of Hindustan."-Mahmood Mamdani"The brilliance of Asif's book...
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  • Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 by Durba Ghosh

    Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 by Durba Ghosh

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    In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' used assassinations, bomb attacks, and armed robberies...
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  • Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169568

    Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169568

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    Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessedby General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research intoprimary...
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  • The agrarian crisis in India before independence: toward its solution by Kundan Misra 9780980532029

    The agrarian crisis in India before independence: toward its solution by Kundan Misra 9780980532029

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980532029Author Rajani Palme DuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Gambol BooksPublisher Gambol BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...
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  • A Traveller's History of India by SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda 9781905214532

    A Traveller's History of India by SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda 9781905214532

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905214532Author SinhaRaja Tammita-DelgodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Chastleton TravelPublisher Arris BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...
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  • The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 by Kyle J. Gardner

    The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 by Kyle J. Gardner

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    Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepot of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri archival sources. In so doing, he provides both a history...
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  • The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel

    The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel

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    In The Nation's Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical...
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  • India and South Asia: A Short History by David Ludden

    India and South Asia: A Short History by David Ludden

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    Combining factual information with a critical approach which probes the nature of culture and identity, this concise yet authoritative account paints a graphic picture of an area stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayan mountains. This new...
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  • Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India by David Arnold

    Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India by David Arnold

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    Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India...
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  • Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan by M J Akbar 9780062131799

    Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan by M J Akbar 9780062131799

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062131799Author M J AkbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...
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  • A People`s History of India 2 - The Indus Civilization by Irfan Habib 9789382381532

    A People`s History of India 2 - The Indus Civilization by Irfan Habib 9789382381532

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381532Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 228gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 8mm
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  • Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing by Bryan Wells 9781842179949

    Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing by Bryan Wells 9781842179949

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    Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing is a comprehensive look at one of the last undeciphered Old World scripts. It has defied decipherment for 90 years because of the terse nature of the texts and the lack of a comprehensive corpus and detailed sign...
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  • BOSE: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist by Chandrachur Ghose 9780670096008

    BOSE: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist by Chandrachur Ghose 9780670096008

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670096008Author Chandrachur GhoseFormat HardbackPage Count 740Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm *...
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  • Agrarian and Other Histories: Essays for Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri by Shubhra Chakrabarti

    Agrarian and Other Histories: Essays for Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri by Shubhra Chakrabarti

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193926970Author Shubhra ChakrabartiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 159mm...
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  • Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19 by David Arnold

    Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19 by David Arnold

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    Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to 'the pandemic' as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely used-but in reality, it has a long and contested history, centred on South Asia. Pandemic India is an...
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  • Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War by Myra Macdonald

    Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War by Myra Macdonald

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    When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on an intense competition that had begun with Partition. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger military. But the shield offered...
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  • The Visceral Logics of Decolonization by Neetu Khanna

    The Visceral Logics of Decolonization by Neetu Khanna

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    In The Visceral Logics of Decolonization Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by exploring a knotted set of relations between embodied experience and political feeling that she conceptualizes as the visceral. Khanna focuses on the work of...
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  • The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand by Benedict Anderson

    The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand by Benedict Anderson

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    In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre...
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  • The Portuguese in India by M. N. Pearson 9780521028509

    The Portuguese in India by M. N. Pearson 9780521028509

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    The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr Pearson's volume of their history is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards written squarely from an Indian point of view...
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  • Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India by Jessica Namakkal

    Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India by Jessica Namakkal

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    After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished control. Once decolonization took hold across the...
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  • Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company by Miles Ogborn 9780226620411

    Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company by Miles Ogborn 9780226620411

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    A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, "Indian Ink"...
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  • Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall

    Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall

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    The aim of Bengal: The British Bridgehead is to explain how, in the eighteenth century, Britain established her rule in eastern India, the first part of the subcontinent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Though the British were not in firm...
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  • The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy--A Retelling for Our Times by John Zubrzycki 9781615199976

    The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy--A Retelling for Our Times by John Zubrzycki 9781615199976

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615199976Author John ZubrzyckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ExperimentPublisher Experiment
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  • The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World by Partha Chatterjee 9780231130639

    The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World by Partha Chatterjee 9780231130639

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    Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new...
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  • Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942 by Kaushik Roy 9780253044174

    Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942 by Kaushik Roy 9780253044174

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    The defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 Japanese soldiers made the World War II Battle for Malaya an important encounter for both political and military reasons. British military prestige was shattered, fanning the fires of nationalism in...
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  • A History of Bangladesh by Willem van Schendel 9781108473699

    A History of Bangladesh by Willem van Schendel 9781108473699

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    Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of...
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  • Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan by Daniel Haines

    Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan by Daniel Haines

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    The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of India-Pakistan cooperation, but less has been said about its critical influence on state-making in both countries. Rivers Divided reveals the importance of the Indus Basin river system, and thus...
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  • India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885 by Douglas M. Peers 9780582317383

    India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885 by Douglas M. Peers 9780582317383

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    Between 1700 and 1885 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and...
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