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The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi by Judith M. Brown 9780521133456
RRP: £22.99£19.56Even today, six decades after his assassination in January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi is still revered as the father of the Indian nation. His intellectual and moral legacy, and the example of his life and politics, serve as an inspiration to human rights and... -
The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities by Hani Khafipour
RRP: £42.00£34.04In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in... -
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar 9780231195850
RRP: £25.00£19.59One of twentieth-century India's great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace... -
Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall
RRP: £22.99£19.56The 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... -
Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contested Identities in Nineteenth Century North India by S. Akbar Zaidi
RRP: £75.00£67.74Using primarily Urdu sources from the nineteenth century, this book allows us to rethink notions of 'the Muslim', in its numerous, complex and often contradictory forms, which emerged in colonial North India after 1857. Allowing the self-representation... -
The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World by Partha Chatterjee 9780231130639
RRP: £25.00£19.59Often 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... -
Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization by Sanjukta Sunderason
RRP: £27.99£24.14Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which... -
The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos
RRP: £30.99£21.89In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an... -
Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830-1920 by Ashutosh Kumar 9781107147959
RRP: £79.99£72.56This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the... -
The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 by Kyle J. Gardner
RRP: £30.99£25.45Kyle 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... -
The Child and the State in India: Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective by Myron Weiner
RRP: £45.00£35.32India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To... -
Readings of the Lotus Sutra by Stephen F. Teiser 9780231142892
RRP: £28.00£21.80The Lotus Sutra proclaims that a unitary intent underlies the diversity of Buddhist teachings and promises that all people without exception can achieve supreme awakening. Establishing the definitive guide to this profound text, specialists in Buddhist... -
Engaging Scoundrels: True Tales of Old Lucknow by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones 9780195649536
RRP: £25.00£18.07This book includes curious stories of the people who inhabited the exotic and vanished world of Nawabi Lucknow, especially the many rogues and villains, some of them British. Using material not used before and containing a number of previousy unpublished... -
Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition by David Arnold
RRP: £59.00£45.94Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the so-called traditional... -
Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London by Stephen Legg
RRP: £90.00£81.43Round Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India's constitutional future in the British Empire. Pre-dating the decolonising conferences of the 1950s-60s, the Round Table Conference laid... -
The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Meghna Guhathakurta
RRP: £23.99£21.24Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ranks sixth in the world in terms of native speakers. Founded in 1971, Bangladesh is a relatively young... -
Aftermath of Revolt: India 1857-1970 by Thomas R. Metcalf 9780691624686
RRP: £45.00£35.32The Mutiny of 1857 left a deep mark on Indian society and on the nature of British rule. Thomas Metcalf analyzes the influence of the Mutiny on many facets of Indian life and relations with Great Britain, examining social reform, education, land... -
Hundred Hindu Temples of Sri Lanka: Ancient, Medieval and Modern by Sanmugam Arumugam 9780957502345
RRP: £12.50£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957502345Author Sanmugam ArumugamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Diaspora BooksPublisher JKS Books -
South Asia in World History by Marc Jason Gilbert 9780199760343
£13.46It can be said of South Asia what has long been said of its great epic poem, the Mahabharata: "there is nothing in it that cannot be found elsewhere in the world and nothing in the world that cannot be found there." South Asia's historic trans-regional... -
Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader by Sumit Sarkar
RRP: £27.99£25.14Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to nascent nationalist movements. Debates over practices such as widow immolation, widow remarriage, and child... -
India and Pakistan by Ian Talbot 9780340706336
£75.11The rise of ethnic and religious conflicts in the post-Cold War era has reawakened consideration of the future of nationalism and the nation state. The Indian subcontinent with its myriad ethnic, religious and linguistic divides provides a focus for... -
The Politics of India since Independence by Paul R. Brass 9780521459709
RRP: £37.99£32.97The Politics of India since Independence provides a comprehensive study of the major political, cultural, and economic changes in India since gaining independence. Paul Brass focuses on the consequences of the centralising drives of the national... -
Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire by Mrinalini Sinha
RRP: £23.99£20.84Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of... -
The Epic of Ram, Volume 3 by Tulsidas
RRP: £29.95£23.66The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day.The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a... -
Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran by Afshin Marashi
RRP: £45.00£39.58Honorable Mention, Hamid Naficy Iranian Studies Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis, they slowly lost contact with their... -
Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Lionel Caplan 9781859736326
RRP: £35.99£31.69Among the legacies of the colonial encounter are any number of contemporary 'mixed-race' populations, descendants of the offspring of sexual unions involving European men (colonial officials, traders, etc.) and local women. These groups invite serious... -
A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic by Rohit De
RRP: £30.00£23.29It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India's greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A... -
The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 9780521525954
RRP: £30.99£28.68Rajnarayan Chandavarkar presents the first major study of the relationship between labour and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth-century. He explores the emergence of capitalism in the region, the development of the cotton... -
Indian Army and the First World War: 1914-18 by Kaushik Roy 9780199485659
RRP: £37.99£34.66The Indian Army which was the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia functioned as an imperial fire brigade force during the Great War. The 'brown warriors' of the Raj defended the British Empire from Belgium and France in the west to Singapore in... -
An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century by Michael H. Fisher
RRP: £24.99£21.18India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh contain one-fifth of humanity, are home to many biodiversity hotspots, and are among the nations most subject to climatic stresses. By surveying their environmental history, we can gain major insights into the causes and... -
The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 1660-1760 by K. N. Chaudhuri
RRP: £37.99£35.43The main contribution of the work is to offer a comprehensive history of the English East India Company during the century 1660-1760. It also examines the commercial economy of the Asian countries in which the Company traded and its political relations... -
Political Violence in Ancient India by Upinder Singh
RRP: £43.95£35.55Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to... -
Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement by Ronald M. Davidson 9780231126199
RRP: £35.00£28.14Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism-especially the esoteric system of Tantra, one of its most popular yet most misunderstood forms-the historical origins of Buddhist thought and practice remain obscure. This groundbreaking work describes the genesis of... -
The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781783084258
RRP: £25.00£23.78In this path-breaking new work, Ali Usman Qasmi traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan by drawing on revealing new sources. This volume is the first scholarly study of the declassified material of... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 5 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: £29.95£24.66The 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... -
Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India by Ramnarayan S. Rawat
RRP: £21.99£19.19Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In this pathbreaking study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the majority of Chamars have always been... -
Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought by Vikram Visana
RRP: £75.00£67.74Uncivil Liberalism studies how ideas of liberty from the colonized South claimed universality in the North. Recovering the political theory of Dadabhai Naoroji, India's pre-eminent liberal, this book offers an original global history of this process by... -
The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-1965 by Elisabeth Leake 9781107571563
RRP: £24.99£21.18The Defiant Border explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls from the colonial period into the twenty-first century. This book looks at local Pashtun tribes' modes for evading first British colonial,... -
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: The British in Bengal by Robert Travers 9780521050036
RRP: £30.99£25.45Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the... -
Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India by John Stratton Hawley 9780195077742
RRP: £45.99£34.23Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to guard her family and clan for many...