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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster by Dominique Lapierre 9780446530880
RRP: £30.00£22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780446530880Author Dominique LapierreFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Grand Central... -
Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space by Manu Goswami 9780226305097
RRP: £30.00£29.25When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable... -
Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915-1922 by Judith M. Brown 9780521098731
RRP: £39.99£33.26Dr Brown presents a political study of the first clearly defined period in Mahatma Gandhi's Indian career, from 1915 to 1922. The period began with Gandhi's return from South Africa as a stranger to Indian politics, witnessed his dramatic assertion of... -
The Nehrus by Mushiral Hasan 9788174363909
£26.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788174363909Author Mushiral HasanFormat HardbackPage Count 319Imprint Roli Books Pvt LtdPublisher Roli Books Pvt Ltd -
Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy by James Tharin Bradford
RRP: £26.99£23.32Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes... -
The Tongue as a Gateway to Voice, Resonance, Style, and Intelligibility by Angelika Nair 9781635503630
£72.17To be in the way, or to be out of the way, that is the question. Voice users and scientists alike agree that the tongue is a crucial part in singing. Yet, there has been no literature published that solely addresses the tongue and its acoustical... -
Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India by Aditya Balasubramanian
RRP: £38.00£30.01The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the... -
India and the British Empire by Douglas M. Peers 9780199259885
RRP: £93.00£60.75South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history... -
Dalit Studies by Ramnarayan S. Rawat
RRP: £22.99£20.01The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. Moving beyond... -
Global South Asians: Introducing the modern Diaspora by Judith M. Brown 9780521606301
RRP: £22.99£19.56By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century,... -
Mughal and Rajput Painting by Milo Cleveland Beach 9780521400275
RRP: £90.00£57.68The Mughals - descendants of Timur and Genghiz Khan with strong cultural ties to the Persian world - seized political power in north India in 1526 and became the most important artistically active Muslim dynasty on the subcontinent. In this richly... -
Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research, and Practice by Warren Estabrooks 9781635501742
£90.50Inspired by the work of the pioneers of Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT), this comprehensive book respectfully offers detailed, in-depth knowledge and insights about the science, research, and practice of AVT for current and future generations of AVT... -
Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India by Assa Doron
RRP: £24.95£20.29In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles-anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside... -
The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India by Harleen Singh 9781107042803
RRP: £76.99£69.50Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure... -
Unmaking the Nation: The Politics of Identity and History in Modern Sri Lanka by Professor Pradeep Jeganathan 9780974883977
RRP: £21.95£14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974883977Author Professor Pradeep JeganathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint South Focus PressPublisher South Focus PressWeight(grams)... -
The British Raj: A Captivating Guide to the British in India, Starting from the Indian Rebellion of 1857 to the Indian Independence Act of 1947 by Captivating History 9781647488345
RRP: £15.97£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488345Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York by Sienna R. Craig
RRP: £24.99£24.14For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped their experiences for decades. Yet,... -
The Body Adorned: Sacred and Profane in Indian Art by Vidya Dehejia
RRP: £62.00£48.62The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of premodern Indian art. From the powerful god Shiva, greatest of all yogis and most beautiful of all beings, to stone dancers twisting along temple walls, the body in Indian art is... -
Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942 by Kaushik Roy
RRP: £66.00£57.33The 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... -
Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism by Tom Sykes 9780755640393
£30.33The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial... -
Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India by Richard Sorabji 9781848853751
£55.27Clever, attractive and ambitious, intellectually daring and physically courageous, Cornelia Sorabji was a truly remarkable woman. As India's first female lawyer, she was original and often outspoken in her views - for example, in her criticism of Gandhi... -
The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom by P Sainath 9780670096923
RRP: £14.95£10.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670096923Author P SainathFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi
£24.67Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of 'history from below'. Later... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 3 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: £29.95£24.06The 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... -
Paper, Performance and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India by Farhat Hasan 9781316516812
RRP: £75.00£67.74This book explores the changing socio-cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new... -
A People's History of India 23 - The Establishment of British Rule, 1757-1813 Amar Farooqui 9789382381747
RRP: £8.99£8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381747Author Amar FarooquiFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 247mm * 163mm * 12mm -
Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia by Julia Stephens 9781316626283
RRP: £23.99£20.37Governing Islam traces the colonial roots of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book uncovers the paradoxical workings of colonial laws that promised to separate secular and religious spheres, but... -
From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia by Adil Hussain Khan 9780253015235
RRP: £39.00£34.12The Ahmadiyya Muslim community represents the followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), a charismatic leader whose claims of spiritual authority brought him into conflict with most other Muslim leaders of the time. The controversial movement... -
Ahmedabad: A City in the World by Amrita Shah
RRP: £18.99£14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384898014Author Amrita ShahFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 321g -
Analyzing Syntax Through Texts: Old, Middle, and Early Modern English by Elly van Gelderen
RRP: £31.00£25.65This textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking at the linguistic characteristics of well- known texts throughout the early history of English. It shows how that piece of the language fits in to the broader picture of how... -
Of Sacred and Secular Desire: An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh 9781848858848
£27.99The fertile land of the five rivers (punj+ab in Persian) has persistently stirred the imagination of its peoples. Its story is the story of invasion. In 326 BCE Alexander the Great marched through the Hindu Kush, conquered the verdant plains now divided... -
The East India Company, 1600-1858: A Short History with Documents by Ian Barrow 9781624665974
RRP: £50.00£40.56In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China's... -
The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism: Secular Claims, Communal Realities by Achin Vanaik
£31.40With the Hindu nationalist BJP now replacing the Congress as the only national political force, the communalization of the Indian polity has qualitatively advanced since the earlier edition of this book in 1997. This edition has been substantially... -
Buddhist Learning in South Asia: Education, Religion, and Culture at the Ancient Sri Nalanda Mahavihara by Pintu Kumar 9781498554947
RRP: £38.00£33.51This interdisciplinary study is the first book to provide a complete survey of Sri Nalanda Mahavihara from the perspective of its educational curricula as well as its religious influence. It provides detailed descriptions of the origin, growth,... -
Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850 by Dirk H.A. Kolff 9780521523059
RRP: £39.99£33.26This is a study of an aspect of the ethnohistory of North Indian peasant society: the importance of its military labour market for state and sect formation, for social change as well as for the energetic survival strategies of the villages of Hindustan... -
Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire by Kris Manjapra 9780674725140
RRP: £51.95£41.74Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of a diverse collection of... -
Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India by Stephen Legg
RRP: £21.99£19.19Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor 9781947534308
RRP: £20.00£13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534308Author Shashi TharoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 431g -
The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama by Claude Markovits 9780521089401
RRP: £44.99£38.14Claude Markovits tells the story of two groups of Hindu merchants from the towns of Shikarpur and Hyderabad in the province of Sind. Basing his account on previously neglected archival sources, the author charts the development of these communities, from... -
Ideologies of the Raj by Thomas R. Metcalf 9780521395472
RRP: £90.99£77.09Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British...