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Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now by Fay Blanchard 9781781301258
RRP: £30.00£21.99A richly illustrated exploration of the impact of South Asian Miniature painting on contemporary art. This book tells the dynamic story of contemporary art's engagement with the miniature painting traditions of South Asia from the sixteenth century... -
The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: £25.00£15.95The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST 'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE... -
Whose Health Is It, Anyway? by Sally Davies 9780198863458
RRP: £24.49£20.78Covid-19 has shown how vulnerable society, our economy, and day-to-day lives are to illness, but despite this we have not yet valued the pivotal role of good health. Our healthcare system is now an illness service with little resilience, importing... -
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon by Angela McCarthy
RRP: £30.00£28.91This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the... -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 by Tom Young
RRP: £40.00£35.16Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the... -
Fight Your Way Out: The Siege of Sangshak, India/Burma Border, 1944 by David Allison 9781399056311
RRP: £22.00£15.62In March 1944, Japan launched its audacious overland invasion of India from Burma. Taken by surprise, the British rear areas lay exposed and undefended except for the previously untested 50 Indian Parachute Brigade training in the jungle around Manipur. ... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot
RRP: £22.00£16.99A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History by Sunil Amrith
RRP: £10.99£7.77'An enthralling, elegantly written and, ultimately, profoundly alarming history' EconomistA bold new perspective on the history of South Asia, telling its story through its climate, and the long quest to tame its watersSouth Asia's history has been... -
The Last Prince of Bengal: An Indian Family's Journey from Royalty to Obscurity in the Age of Empire by Lynn Innes
RRP: £20.00£14.45The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful royal families. Three times the size of Great Britain, his kingdom ranged from the soaring Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. However, in 1880, he was forced to abdicate by the British authorities,... -
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India by Christophe Jaffrelot 9781849044295
RRP: £30.00£26.43In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician thrice elected to lead a state of the Indian Union, his stewardship as Chief Minister of Gujarat being the longest in that state's history. Modi and his BJP supporters explained his... -
The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism by Thant Myint-U
RRP: £9.99£6.70A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020A New York Times Critic's Pick 2019'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' Financial Times'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' William DalrymplePrecariously positioned between China and... -
Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire by Priya Atwal 9781787383081
RRP: £25.00£21.98In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh, whose Sikh Empire stretched throughout northwestern India... -
Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles TimesGeorge Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched ... -
Can Art History be Made Global?: Meditations from the Periphery by Monica Juneja
RRP: £44.50£41.86The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead,... -
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India by Supriya Gandhi 9780674987296
RRP: £27.95£24.10The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history.Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for... -
B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India's Dispossessed by Shashi Tharoor 9781526173584
RRP: £16.99£12.28A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based... -
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
RRP: £20.00£12.69A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts... -
Imphal 1944: The Japanese invasion of India by Hemant Singh Katoch
RRP: £15.99£11.61In March 1944, the Japanese Fifteenth Army launched an offensive into India from Burma. Named 'U Go', its main objective was the capture of the town of Imphal, which provided the easiest route between India and Burma. Whoever controlled it, controlled... -
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: £18.99£14.01'Essential reading ... will not be bettered' Ferdinand Mount, Wall Street Journal'Gandhi's finest biographer' David Kynaston, GuardianThe magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historianA New York Times Notable Book of 2018Gandhi lived... -
India, Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Liberation & Pakistan (A Political Treatise) by Sashanka S Banerjee 9781463590888
RRP: £9.99£9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463590888Author Sashanka S BanerjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Coromandel: A Personal History of South India by Charles Allen
RRP: £14.99£9.32COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book... -
The Billionaire Raj: SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 by James Crabtree
RRP: £9.99£7.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A Financial Times Book of the Year and an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year India's explosive rise has driven inequality to new extremes, with millions trapped in slums as... -
Coming Home by Sue Gee
RRP: £10.99£7.05Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives there - as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army - will be returning to England. Among those... -
Complete Sanskrit: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Sanskrit, with Original Texts by Michael Coulson
RRP: £39.99£24.12Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Sanskrit offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the inscriptions and... -
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram 9780007575572
RRP: £10.99£7.12WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021 'Helps re-centre how we look at the... -
Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows by Thupten Jinpa
RRP: £27.00£17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806465Author Thupten JinpaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Indus: Lost Civilizations by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £12.95£9.07The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: £30.00£23.82A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
Poems from the Guru Granth Sahib by Guru Nanak
RRP: £29.95£25.95An exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the sacred tenets cherished by millions of Sikhs worldwide.Guru Nanak (1469-1539), a native of Panjab, founded the Sikh religion. His vast corpus of nearly a thousand hymns forms the core... -
Latitudes of Longing: A prizewinning literary epic of the subcontinent, nature, climate and love by Shubhangi Swarup
RRP: £10.99£7.05** The phenomenal Indian bestseller ** **Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award **'Intense, lyrical, and powerful. This is a remarkable debut' Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis and The Book of Chocolate Saints'Latitudes of Longing... -
Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Global Perspectives: Student Book by Karem Roitman 9781382008747
RRP: £23.99£22.77The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Global Perspectives Student Book provides a clearly defined route through the subject that completely covers the three-year programme and all the required skills, making it fantastic value for money. This... -
Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict by Sumantra Bose
RRP: £19.99£17.76An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict-from 1947 to the present The India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world's incendiary conflicts. Since 1990, at least 60,000 people have been killed-insurgents,... -
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour 9780712665650
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 1900 just over a thousand British civil servants ruled a population of nearly 300 million people spread over a territory now covered by India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh. In its time, the Indian Civil Service was regarded as efficient, benevolent... -
The Gift of Anger: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Arun Gandhi
RRP: £10.99£7.77Be inspired in 2020 by Ghandi's ten lessons for life.Gandhi was an icon, but what would he teach us if he were alive today? ___________In this Sunday Times bestseller, his grandson Arun reveals the ten vital and extraordinary lessons his grandfather... -
Heinemann Advanced History: India 1900-47 by Rosemary Rees
£33.95Heinemann Advanced History titles focus on periods of great change in countries that are once again taking centre stage in world politics. Affordable and authoritative, Heinemann Advanced History features practice questions as well as advice on planning... -
A History of Colonial India: 1757 to 1947 by Himanshu Roy
RRP: £35.99£33.18This 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... -
The Epic of Ram: Volume 7 by Tulsidas
RRP: £29.95£23.19The 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... -
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony by Sujit Sivasundaram
£42.71How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the island... -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393239348
RRP: £21.99£19.61In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she... -
No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975 by Michael O’Sullivan 9780674271906
RRP: £41.95£32.98A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading communities, whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history of capitalism, Islam, and empire in South Asia.During the nineteenth century, three Gujarati Muslim...