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River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future by Victor Mallet 9780198786177
RRP: £22.99£16.69India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health... -
Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths by Taylor C. Sherman
RRP: £35.00£27.74An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two... -
Sikh Heritage: A History of Valour and Devotion by Sondeep Shankar 9788193984604
RRP: £29.95£25.13Sikh Heritage, with a foreword by Hardeep Sigh Puri, is a succinct and delightfully photographed glimpse into the community's religion, its ten gurus, its temples, traditional systems of governance, history, architecture, and the famous Golden Temple... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor
£14.68An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly written, and vital portrayal of [Queen Victoria's] place in... -
Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age by Shruti Kapila
RRP: £35.00£28.14A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India. Taking readers from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of... -
Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation by Arvind Pal S. Mandair
RRP: £28.00£22.20Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the... -
The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards
RRP: £26.99£21.77The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between... -
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India by David Gordon White 9780226894997
RRP: £33.00£32.45David Gordon White excavates and seeks to centre within its broader Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. This comprehensive study draws upon the ancient Sanskrit and medieval Hindu materials and asserts medieval traditions of Hindu... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350281
RRP: £50.00£44.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350281Author Margot FinnFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1180g -
Essays in Indian History - Towards a Marxist Perception Irfan Habib 9789382381693
RRP: £22.00£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381693Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 144mm * 22mm -
Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War by Niromi de Soyza
RRP: £10.99£7.32How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers? Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of seventeen, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a... -
A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India by Patton E. Burchett 9780231190329
RRP: £58.00£45.18In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. Beginning in India's early medieval "Tantric Age" and reaching... -
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert 9780195151985
RRP: £70.00£47.90Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy... -
Sarnath - A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began Frederick M. Asher 9781606066164
RRP: £35.00£29.57Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds... -
Eagles of Destiny: Volume 1: Birth and Growth of the Royal Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan Air Force, 1947-1971 by Usman Shabbir
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377037Author Usman ShabbirFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: £30.00£24.44A 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... -
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten by Karl E. Ryavec
RRP: £39.00£33.79Cradled among the world's highest mountains - and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities - Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In recent... -
Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia
RRP: £20.99£18.37How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration... -
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World by Ruby Lal 9780521615341
RRP: £39.99£33.26In a fascinating and innovative study, first published in 2005, Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. Challenging traditional, orientalist interpretations of the haram that have portrayed a... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy 9781032270234
RRP: £130.00£112.11This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice by Elliott Goldberg 9781620555675
RRP: £26.00£17.43In The Path of Modern Yoga, Elliott Goldberg shows how yoga was transformed from a sacred practice into a health and fitness regime for middle-class Indians in the early 20th century and then gradually transformed over the course of the 20th century into... -
Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire by Durba Ghosh
RRP: £25.99£21.99In the early years of the British empire, cohabitation between Indian women and British men was commonplace and to some degree tolerated. However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a challenge to the existing historiography, anxieties about social status,... -
A Lamp for the Dark World: Akbar, India's Greatest Mughal by Parvati Sharma 9781538177891
RRP: £30.00£22.43Akbar the Great is a very familiar figure to most Indians. Hailed as a brilliant warrior, a great administrator, and a visionary ruler whose ideas of pluralism and tolerance sought to unify India with all its diversity of peoples and religions, he is... -
Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths Chetan Bhatt 9781859733486
RRP: £35.99£31.69The rise of authoritarian Hindu mass movements and political formations in India since the early 1980s raises fundamental questions about the resurgence of chauvinistic ethnic, religious and nationalist movements in the late modern period. This book... -
Deeper Than Indigo by Jenny Balfour-Paul 9781909339538
RRP: £18.99£18.71This intriguing odyssey, set on the edges of time, encompasses biography, memoir, detective story, travelogue and history to tell a remarkable tale of East-West connections and a mysterious love. The author's quest begins when the word 'indigo' draws her... -
Pakistan: A New History by Ian Talbot
RRP: £16.99£15.31If Pakistan is to preserve all that is good about its country - the generosity and hospitality of its people, the dynamism of its youth - it must face the deterioration of its social and political institutions. Sidestepping easy headlines to identify... -
No Beast So Fierce: The Champawat Tiger and Her Hunter, the First Tiger Conservationist by Dane Huckelbridge
RRP: £9.99£6.64The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing... -
Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy by Aishwary Kumar 9780804791953
RRP: £66.00£57.33B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held irreconcilable... -
For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India by Anjali R. Arondekar
RRP: £20.99£18.37Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a... -
Indian Arms and Armour by Natasha Bennett 9780948092749
RRP: £9.99£7.06India is a vast sub-continent with a complex history and a great array of languages, cultures and religions. This book serves as a short introduction to the exquisite weapons used in the region, focusing on the Royal Armouries' collections from the... -
Genealogy of the South Indian Deities: An English Translation of Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg's Original German Manuscript with a Textual Analysis and Glossary Daniel Jeyaraj 9780415344388
RRP: £135.00£117.68For the first time Genealogy of the South Indian Deities, the work of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), the first Protestant missionary in India, is made accessible to an English readership. Originally published in 1713, the text reveals Ziegenbalg's... -
The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim migration Claire Alexander (University of Manchester, UK) 9781138592971
RRP: £43.99£38.84India's partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region's population sought shelter across new... -
The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India's Most Glamorous Royal Family by John Zubrzycki
RRP: £15.99£14.47A gripping royal saga of charmed lives in a changing world. The Jaipurs were India's mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Jai and Ayesha, as they were known to friends like Frank Sinatra, Truman... -
The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback by Yashaswini Chandra
RRP: £12.99£9.09Without the horse, India would not be this India ... The history of the horse in India is an epic tale of life and war, of migration and intermingling, and points towards a greater history throughout the world, the history of humans and animals in... -
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India by Bernard S. Cohn
RRP: £42.00£33.04Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for the academic study of modern Indian culture for over two decades. His earlier publications have shown how dramatic British innovations... -
Jihadism in Pakistan: Al-Qaeda, Islamic State and the Local Militants by Antonio Giustozzi
RRP: £24.99£21.78Pakistan is host to the largest concentration of jihadist groups in the world. Since the 1980s, the Pakistani state has been accused of sponsoring local jihadist groups and sending Pakistani volunteers to support them. This book is based on almost... -
Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis by Padma Kaimal
RRP: £30.00£23.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304675Author Padma KaimalFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson 9781781682593
£16.95Today, the Indian state claims to possess a harmonious territorial unity, to embody the values of a stable political democracy, and to adhere to a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society... -
Defining India: Nehru's Debates with his Contemporaries by Tripurdaman Singh
RRP: £20.00£14.29'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic - and which remain deeply relevant and contentious... -
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire by C. A. Bayly 9780521386500
RRP: £22.99£19.56The past twenty years have seen a proliferation of specialist scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from recent work and seeks in particular to...