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Ideologies of the Raj by Thomas R. Metcalf 9780521395472
RRP: $191.08$161.89Ideologies 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... -
Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India by Ronojoy Sen 9780231164900
RRP: $63.00$49.75Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that... -
Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India by Ananya Vajpeyi
RRP: $94.40$76.27What India's founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced... -
The agrarian crisis in India before independence: toward its solution by Kundan Misra 9780980532029
RRP: $20.79$16.88Apologies 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 *... -
Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan by M J Akbar 9780062131799
RRP: $41.98$30.28Apologies 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)... -
India and the Early Modern World by Jagjeet Lally 9780367440657
RRP: $75.58$68.65This is the first book to place India in the global early modernity, it allows students to see how India compares and engaged with other early modern Empires and polities to better understand early modern history and India’s place within it. Organised... -
Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire by Sukanya Banerjee
RRP: $46.18$40.30In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic,... -
Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration by Christopher Snedden
RRP: $73.50$52.71Many disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir's troubled past, this book revisits the topic of independence for the region (also known as Jammu and Kashmir, or J&K), and... -
An Owl's Life Cycle by Madeline Tyler 9781801551342
RRP: $12.58$8.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801551342Author Madeline TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife PublishingWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226100456
RRP: $54.60$52.19Features a leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime,... -
The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 by Munis D. Faruqui
RRP: $220.50$183.37For more than 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India. How was it possible that a Muslim, ethnically Turkish, Persian-speaking dynasty established itself in the Indian subcontinent to become one of the largest and most dynamic... -
A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic by Rohit De 9780691174433
RRP: $115.50$90.11It 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 History of Akbar, Volume 4 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... -
Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy by Bertil Lintner 9786162150159
RRP: $41.98$36.83Burma's pro-democracy movement emerged in 1988 when massive demonstrations swept across the country. This book gives an account of the movement, its emergence and growth, and Aung San Suu Kyi's prominent leadership role since its inception. Woven into... -
The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century by Prof. P. J. Marshall 9780521092968
RRP: $81.88$67.79One of the incidental consequences of the success of British arms in eighteenth-century India was the appearance of a number of publications which reflect the intense curiosity of contemporary Europeans about strange peoples, their manners and religions... -
Ancient India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization Through the Invasion of Alexander the Great to the Mauryan Empire by Captivating History 9781637165393
RRP: $50.38$34.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165393Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)... -
Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India by Sanjay Seth 9780822341055
RRP: $46.18$40.30Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India's British rulers funded schools and universities to... -
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia 9780393338607
RRP: $49.35$39.80One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan's... -
M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism by Kris Manjapra
RRP: $77.68$68.31This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N. Roy, one of India's most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist... -
The Portuguese in India by M. N. Pearson 9780521028509
RRP: $48.28$41.08The 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... -
A Treatise on Dharma by Yajnavalkya
RRP: $62.90$49.69A new English translation of the most influential legal text in medieval India.A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, is the finest example of the genre of dharmasastra-texts on religious, civil, and criminal law and the duties of... -
Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia by Ronit Ricci
RRP: $54.60$52.19The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating... -
Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas by Karine Gagne 9780295744001
RRP: $52.48$45.51Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social... -
The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947 by Ian Copland
RRP: $48.28$43.39Ian Copland's comprehensive and fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes, the maharajas and nawabs of South Asia, in the devolution of British colonial power is long overdue. By rehabilitating the princes as subjects of serious... -
A History of Colonial India: 1757 to 1947 Himanshu Roy 9781032159676
RRP: $75.58$66.55This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on British colonial rule in India. It draws on sociology, history, and political science to look at key events and social process, between 1757 to 1947, to provide a comprehensive understanding... -
Purifying the Land of the Pure: A History of Pakistan's Religious Minorities by Farahnaz Ispahani 9780190621650
RRP: $65.08$55.23When Pakistan was founded in 1947, it had a rich tapestry of different religious groups, ranging from Sunni and Shiite Muslims to Christians, Parsis, Hindus, and Jainists. Non-Muslims comprised 23 percent of the total population, and non-Sunnis comprised... -
Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema by Anindya Raychaudhuri
RRP: $172.20$112.88The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition is one of separation: a country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, Anindya Raychaudhuri, the son of a partition participant, looks to unity, joining for the first time the public... -
The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule Audrey Truschke 9780231197052
RRP: $63.00$57.52For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in... -
Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940 Anthony Cox (University of Dundee, UK) 9781138948365
RRP: $92.38$80.72Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision,... -
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future by Martha Nussbaum
RRP: $56.60$45.80While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Martha Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating look at India today, the... -
Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 by Ainslie T. Embree 9781469670799
RRP: $62.90$58.38Defining a Nation is set at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various religious and political constituencies to work out the future of Britain's largest colony. Will the British transfer power to... -
The Mughal Empire and British Raj: A Captivating Guide to the History of India, Starting from the Mughals to the British Empire by Captivating History 9781647488451
RRP: $39.84$27.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488451Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)... -
Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta by Souvik Naha
RRP: $157.50$142.25What prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a scholar of medieval Bengali literature remark, 'Had life been a sport, it would be cricket'? Who do journalists vindicate by promoting... -
Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India by James W. Laine 9780195141269
RRP: $184.80$153.89Shivaji was a 17th-century hero in western India, where his legend is well known and an important part of Hindu nationalist ideology. His legend expresses deeply held convictions about what Hinduism is, and how it is opposed to Islam. James Laine traces... -
Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950 by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 9780521596923
RRP: $90.28$76.84In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian... -
The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan by Yasmin Saikia 9781108705240
RRP: $52.48$44.48This volume examines Sayyid Ahmad Khan's life, his contribution, and legacy in the context of current times. The editors engage his writings, ideas, and activities to read and present his work critically, not as a biographical account of his life but... -
The Destruction of Hyderabad by A. G. Noorani
RRP: $73.50$66.44The fascinating story of the fall of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad has till now been dominated by the 'court historians' of Indian nationalism. In this book A. G. Noorani offers a revisionist account of the Indian Army's 'police action' against... -
The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India by Teena Purohit 9780674066397
$131.73An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as... -
Pakistan Kristine Mlis Spanier 9781645273479
$22.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645273479Author Kristine Mlis SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo Books/Jump!Publisher Pogo Books/Jump!Weight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 231mm... -
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai by Lisa Bjorkman
RRP: $46.18$40.30Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city...