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A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal by Partha Chatterjee
RRP: $94.50$75.01In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $62.90$50.53The 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... -
Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 by Durba Ghosh
RRP: $56.68$47.88In 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... -
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169568
RRP: $195.30$171.78Heart 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... -
The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel
RRP: $48.28$42.02In 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... -
Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India by Arnab Dey
RRP: $65.08$47.99Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal, environmental, and agro-economic aspects of tea production... -
India and South Asia: A Short History by David Ludden
RRP: $23.08$17.33Combining 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... -
A People's History of India 2 - The Indus Civilization Irfan Habib 9789382381532
RRP: $27.28$25.73Apologies 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 -
How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani
RRP: $71.38$59.60How India Became Democratic explores the greatest experiment in democratic human history. It tells the untold story of the preparation of the electoral roll on the basis of universal adult franchise in the world's largest democracy. Ornit Shani offers a... -
Agrarian and Other Histories: Essays for Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri by Shubhra Chakrabarti
RRP: $52.50$47.10Apologies 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... -
India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das 9780385720748
RRP: $46.20$32.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720748Author Gurcharan DasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
The Indian Princes and their States by Barbara N. Ramusack
RRP: $52.48$44.48Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable degrees... -
The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt
RRP: $65.08$53.45In 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... -
The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics by Ayesha Jalal
RRP: $44.00$36.29Established as a homeland for India's Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious... -
Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History by Andrew Nicholson 9780231149877
RRP: $58.80$45.78Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is... -
Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19 by David Arnold
RRP: $73.50$65.60Covid-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... -
The Visceral Logics of Decolonization by Neetu Khanna
RRP: $41.98$36.83In 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... -
Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War by Myra Macdonald
RRP: $41.98$37.42When 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... -
The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand by Benedict Anderson
RRP: $27.30$24.11In 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... -
A History of Bangladesh by Willem van Schendel 9781108473699
RRP: $199.50$180.29Bangladesh 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... -
Dear Knausgaard by Kim Adrian 9781913861384
RRP: $27.28$18.77In a series of warm and often funny letters, Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.Reviews'Kim Adrian's loving struggle with Knausgaard is the kind... -
Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires by Nandini Chatterjee
RRP: $52.48$46.98Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the... -
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India by Jessica Namakkal
RRP: $52.50$41.14After 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... -
Music Therapy in Mental Health for Illness Management and Recovery by Michael Silverman 9780198865285
RRP: $111.30$101.54Many music therapists work in adult mental health settings after qualifying. For many, it will be a challenging and even daunting prospect. Yet until now, there has been no psychiatric music therapy text providing advice on illness management and... -
Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 by Berenice Guyot-Rechard
RRP: $65.08$49.98Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of... -
The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy--A Retelling for Our Times by John Zubrzycki 9781615199976
RRP: $35.60$26.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615199976Author John ZubrzyckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ExperimentPublisher Experiment -
Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan by Daniel Haines
RRP: $73.50$65.60The 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... -
Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert by Tanuja Kothiyal 9781107080317
RRP: $144.88$129.49The Thar Desert, which is today divided by an international boundary, has historically been a frontier region connecting Punjab, Multan, Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. This book looks at the Desert as an historical region shaped through the mobility of... -
To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics by Rahul Sagar
RRP: $63.00$48.91To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival research, it unearths essays, speeches, and pamphlets that address fundamental questions about India's... -
Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942 by Kaushik Roy 9780253044174
RRP: $58.78$50.69The 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... -
Tamils and the Nation: India and Sri Lanka Compared by Madurika Rasaratnam
RRP: $52.50$46.26Why are relations between politically mobilised ethnic identities and the nation-state sometimes peaceful and at other times fraught and violent? Madurika Rasaratnam's book sets out a novel answer to this key puzzle in world politics through a detailed... -
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South by Prathama Banerjee
RRP: $46.18$40.30In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and... -
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169575
RRP: $73.50$65.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorChris Mason is professor of national security affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.AwardsWinner of SAHR Templer Medal/Chapple... -
Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia by Srinath Raghavan
RRP: $67.20$51.16In Fierce Enigmas, prize-winning historian Srinath Raghavan argues that we cannot understand the US's entanglement in South Asia without first understanding the long sweep of American interaction with the nations and peoples who comprise it. Starting... -
Gandhi: Selected Political Writings by Mahatma Gandhi 9780872203303
RRP: $37.78$31.31Based on the complete edition of his works, this new volume presents Gandhi's most important political writings arranged around the two central themes of his political teachings: satyagraha (the power of non-violence) and swaraj (freedom). Dennis... -
Northeast India: A Political History by Samrat Choudhury
RRP: $63.00$56.60As India and the world are roiled by questions of nationalism and identity, this book journeys into the history of one of the world's newest and most fascinating regions: Northeast India. Having appeared with the stroke of a pen in 1947, as the British... -
In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce 9781400079773
RRP: $48.30$28.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079773Author Edward LuceFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Ideas by Wickramasinghe Nira
RRP: $46.20$41.83Now available as an updated second edition covering the brutal end of Sri Lanka's civil war and creeping state authoritarianism that has grown in its wake, Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the island's modern history in an accessible yet... -
Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company by Miles Ogborn 9780226620411
$95.30A 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"... -
Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India by Tripurdaman Singh 9781350384385
RRP: $42.00$32.17Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020 On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurating a new era of liberty and freedom. With fundamental rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the...