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This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. To a colonized people agitating for freedom, a people divided by many languages, cultures and religions, the one language-one nation concept of...

The late Professor M. Athar Ali was one of the foremost authorities on Mughal history. This book is a selection of some of his best essays on a wide range of themes from the realm of ideas (including religion) to polity, administration, society and...

This volume of essays, spanning some twenty-five years of research and writing, focuses on the issues of historiography and Indo-Islamic civilization. The former deals with how historians structure and answer the questions they choose to ask of the past,...

This book is a collection of essays, extracts, memoirs and a short story, outlining the events during the decade preceding India's partition which culminated in the making of Pakistan and the division of India and the situation thereafter. This is a...

This book documents the extraordinarily complex pattern of trade upon which the pre-Independence economy of ladakh largely depended. Largely based on oral sources, it lays emphasis on the human dimension, showing how trades shaped the lives of men...

Inscribed as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1993, the Qutb groups of monuments contains over 70 heritage buildings such as Jamali Kamali mosque, Balban's tomb, Rajon ki Bain, Muhammad Quli Khan's tomb, and many others. This book offers vivid description and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634945035Author Ted ColemanFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Press Room EditionsPublisher Press Room EditionsWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634944915Author Brendan FlynnFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Press Room EditionsPublisher Press Room EditionsWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398411678Author Moinul IslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The first comprehensive collection of Annette Messager's drawings, including 150 works made over the last ten years, which constitute an invaluable lexicon to the mind and work of a trailblazing iconoclast. Messager redefined the role of women making...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913802042Author Richard PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Markosia Enterprises LtdPublisher Markosia Enterprises LtdDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913861674Author Andrew KenrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint UEA Publishing ProjectPublisher UEA Publishing ProjectWeight(grams) 135g

In a small dusty town, in the sweltering heat, two rival gangs had control of the streets. Fuzz and the Flies ruled the town in the light. While the Mozzies and Cozzie took over at night. When the School Barbeque is scheduled for 5.30pm - how do these...

A complete six-year primary Science course that takes an enquiry-based, active learning approach to teaching young learners the skills they need to think like scientists. A* Students learn to think creatively through answering questions about the world...

"A pagan happiness entered my paintings in the spirit of both my subjects and work, which became freer and more lyrical". These are the words used by Massimo Campigli himself to describe his visit to the Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome in 1928...

To 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085725Author Arthur MacGregorFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 37mm

This innovative study explores the interface between nation-building and refugee rehabilitation in post-partition India. Relying on archival records and oral histories, Uditi Sen analyses official policy towards Hindu refugees from eastern Pakistan to...

This 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...

This fascinating new study traces traditions and memories relating to the twelfth-century Indian ruler Prithviraj Chauhan; a Hindu king who was defeated and overthrown during the conquest of Northern India by Muslim armies from Afghanistan. Surveying a...

The 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...

Colonial 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...

Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under...

This 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...

This 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...

From as early as the 1920s, state policy towards children in South India was framed through the lens of a universal ideal of modern childhood. This reflected the participation of policy makers and civil society activists in global discourses of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284091Author Bérénice Guyot-RéchardFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

A detailed analysis of how government in India was financed during the period of direct British rule. This book explores the financial relationship between the Indian government, as represented by the India Office, and the City of London during the...

Explores the concept of the non-imperial state, taking a spatial approach to early modern political identitiesFocusing on the Deccan Sultanates of 16th- and 17th-century central India, Local States in an Imperial World promotes the idea that some...

This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab, its attendant violence and, as a consequence, the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), it...

Ian 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...

The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of North West and North East India. It led to an oversight of Muslim leaders...

The 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...

This is the first full-length monograph to examine the history of colonial medicine in India from the perspective of veterinary health. The history of human health in the subcontinent has received a fair amount of attention in the last few decades, but...

India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty...

In today's Pakistan the dominant conservative mindset tends to marginalize leisure activities. However, traditional sports and pastimes, games and play, entertainment and amusement are an expression of happiness and joy and an integral part of popular...

Religion has not been a popular target for economic analysis. Yet the tools of economics can offer deep insights into how religious groups compete, deliver social services, and reach out to potential converts-how, in daily life, religions nurture and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955464249Author David UrchFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143453406Author C. Subramania BharatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 20mm

The 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...