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The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan by Yasmin Saikia 9781108705240
RRP: $48.73$41.30This 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 Veda in Kashmir, Volumes I and II: History and Present State of Vedic Tradition in the Western Himalayas by Michael Witzel 9780674258273
RRP: $196.85$161.87The Veda in Kashmir presents a detailed history and the current state of Veda tradition in Kashmir. It traces the vicissitudes of Vedic texts and rituals and their survival during some 400 years of Muslim rule. The peculiarities of the Sakalya Rgveda,... -
The Destruction of Hyderabad by A. G. Noorani
RRP: $68.25$61.70The 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
$122.32An 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... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 2: Volume 2 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40$46.92The 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... -
M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism by Kris Manjapra
RRP: $72.13$63.43This 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... -
Pakistan Kristine Mlis Spanier 9781645273479
$20.65Apologies 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... -
A Treatise on Dharma by Yajnavalkya
RRP: $58.40$46.14A 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... -
Tuhlat Al Mujahidm: A Historical Epic of the Sixteenth Century by Shaykh Makhdum 9789839154801
RRP: $46.78$26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789839154801Author Shaykh MakhdumFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Islamic Book TrustPublisher Islamic Book Trust -
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952 by Pallavi Raghavan
RRP: $78.00$70.06In this groundbreaking book, Raghavan uses previously untapped archival sources to weave together new stories about the experiences of post-partition state-making in South Asia. Through meticulous research, it challenges the existing wisdom about the... -
Understanding Bangladesh by S. Mahmud Ali
RRP: $43.88$39.62Bangladesh, a Muslim majority nation with a population of some 154 million people, receives little notice in the West, other than when political upheaval or natural disasters bring it to our attention. In "Understanding Bangladesh", an account of the... -
A History of Colonial India: 1757 to 1947 Himanshu Roy 9781032159676
RRP: $70.18$61.80This 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... -
From Raj to Republic: Sovereignty, Violence, and Democracy in India by Sunil Purushotham
RRP: $54.58$47.07Between 1946 and 1952, the British Raj, the world's largest colony, was transformed into the Republic of India, the world's largest democracy. Independence, the Constituent Assembly Debates, the founding of the Republic, and India's first universal... -
Boundaries Undermined: the Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border by Delwar Hussain 9781849042321
RRP: $87.75$77.65When anthropologist Delwar Hussain arrived in a remote coal mining village on the Bangladesh/India border to research the security fence India is building around its neighbour, he discovered more about the globalised world than he had expected. The... -
Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism by Tom Sykes 9780755640393
$59.14The 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... -
Warfare in Pre-British India - 1500BCE to 1740CE Kaushik Roy 9780815358022
RRP: $89.68$78.25This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of... -
The Indian Army and the End of the Raj by Daniel Marston 9780521899758
RRP: $204.75$133.81The Partition of British India in 1947 resulted in the establishment of the independent states of India and Pakistan and the end of the British Raj. The decision to divide British India along religious lines led to widespread upheaval and communal... -
Indians in Malaya: Some Aspects of their Immigration and Settlement (1786-1957) by Kernial Singh Sandhu 9780521148139
RRP: $87.73$74.37This book discusses the Indians who lived in Malaya and the effects of their presence on Malayan social and economic development between 1786 and 1957, the period of British rule. Professor Sandhu examines in detail the character and flow of Indian... -
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780691070308
RRP: $87.75$68.87Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way... -
Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko Inot Himalayan History by Haripriya Rangan 9781859843055
$45.32The Chipko movement emerged in the early 1970s in the Garhwal region of the Indian Himalayas. In attempting to draw attention to the difficulty of sustaining their livelihoods in the region, local communities engaged in protest by hugging trees that were... -
Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading by Isabel Hofmeyr
RRP: $70.10$56.47At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi's Printing Press is an account of how this... -
Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta by Souvik Naha
RRP: $146.25$132.09What 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... -
Lady Nugent's East India Journal: A Critical Edition by Lady Maria Nugent
RRP: $156.00$142.47In 1811, Maria Nugent left her four young children behind in England to accompany her husband, General George Nugent, on his posting as commander-in-chief in India. After a dizzying six months at the head of Calcutta society, the couple embarked on a... -
The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration by Sebastian Raj Pender 9781316511336
RRP: $146.25$132.09The Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge were sacred places within the British imagination of India. Sanctified by the colonial administration in commemoration of victory over the 'Sepoy Mutiny' of 1857, they were read as emblems of empire... -
Separatism Among Indian Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces' Muslims, 1860-1923 by Francis Robinson 9780521048262
RRP: $60.43$55.93Why some Indian Muslims under British rule should have organised politics on a communal basis is one of the most important problems in the history of the subcontinent. Insistence on a separate Muslim political identity led eventually to the foundation of... -
Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City by Dr. Madhuri Desai
$64.08Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with... -
The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India by Milinda Banerjee 9781107166561
RRP: $175.50$158.79The Mortal God is a study in intellectual history which uncovers how actors in colonial India imagined various figures of human, divine, and messianic rulers to battle over the nature and locus of sovereignty. It studies British and Indian... -
History of Ancient India by Rama Shankar Tripathi 9788120800182
$40.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120800182Author Rama Shankar TripathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsPublisher Motilal Banarsidass... -
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai by Lisa Bjorkman
RRP: $42.88$37.42Winner, 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... -
The Indian Uprising of 1857-8: Prisons, Prisoners and Rebellion by Clare Anderson 9781843312956
RRP: $35.08$33.93This fascinating book, based on extensive archival research in Britain and India, examines why mutineer-rebels chose to attack prisons and release prisoners, discusses the impact of the destruction of the jails on British penal policy in mainland India,... -
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 by Sumit Guha
RRP: $54.58$47.07In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the... -
The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India by Harleen Singh 9781107042803
RRP: $150.13$135.53Colonial 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... -
The Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and Collaboration in the Later Nineteenth Century by Anil Seal 9780521096522
RRP: $87.73$74.37In this volume Dr Seal analyses the social roots of the rather confused stirrings towards political organisations of the 1870s and 1880s which brought about the foundation of the Indian National Congress. He is concerned not only with the politicians,... -
Concubinage, Race and Law in Early Colonial Bengal: Bequeathing Intimacy, Servicing the Empire by Ruchika Sharma 9781032324647
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book analyzes the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early colonial Bengal. It provides a fresh look into the history of imperial expansion and colonial encounters by studying the large number of wills... -
Private Investment in India 1900-1939 by Amiya Kumar Bagchi 9780521052757
RRP: $81.88$63.73This book deals with the history of private investment in India and its determinants during the period 1900-1939. It develops a simple theoretical framework in its first part and tries to isolate the influence on private investment in India of factor... -
Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India by Lee Siegel
$73.22Scholar and magician, Siegel uncovers the age-old practices of magic in sacred rites and rituals and unveils the contemporary world of Indian magic of street and stage entertainers. Siegel's journeys take him from ancient Sanskrit texts to the slums of... -
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor by Assistant Professor Juned Shaikh
RRP: $54.58$47.07Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombay's population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices... -
Hul! Hul!: The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in British India, 1855 by Peter Stanley
RRP: $78.00$69.28If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal 'Hul' (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army's... -
The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003 - `A Matter of National Honour` by A. G. Noorani
RRP: $68.25$54.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381457Author A. G. NooraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 172mm * 25mm -
Remembrances by Mir Taqi Mir
RRP: $58.40$46.14A rare and remarkable example of Indo-Persian autobiography by the poet Mir Taqi Mir.Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is the author of six collections of Urdu poetry and widely regarded as the finest ghazal poet in that language. However, he also wrote...