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The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India by Joy L. K. Pachuau 9781107073395
RRP: €110.66€100.04The Camera as Witness lifts the veil off the little known world of Mizoram and challenges - through unpublished photographs - core assumptions in the writing of India's national history. The pictures in the book establish the transformation of this... -
Revolutionary Pamphlets, Propaganda and Political Culture in Colonial Bengal Shukla Sanyal (University of Calcutta) 9781107065468
RRP: €86.87€78.50Pamphlets have usually been regarded as ephemeral literature with little permanent impact. This work demonstrates the historical value of this genre of political literature. The propaganda pamphlets help historians place a finger on the pulse of an... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Second Series, Vol 79 (1 Oct-30 Nov 1962) by Madhavan K. Palat 9780199496655
RRP: €65.45€61.07The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times... -
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and Democracy in the 21st Century by Thant Myint-U 9780393541434
RRP: €16.65€13.42Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma's population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack... -
In the City, out of Place: Nuisance, Pollution, and Dwelling in Delhi, c. 1850-2000 by Awadhendra Sharan 9780198097297
RRP: €32.12€28.86This book is a contemporary history of environmental issues in Delhi. It traces the journey from the engagement with sanitary matters in the nineteenth century to issues of air and water pollution, waste and toxicity in contemporary Delhi. Matters of... -
State, Pluralism, and the Indian Historical Tradition by Satish Chandra 9780198064206
RRP: €11.89€10.14This collection of seminal essays, by one of the most eminent historians and educationists, provides a comprehensive view of medieval India . It explores four main themes-evolution of state, role of towns and urbanism, the historical and maritime... -
Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought by Jeffery D. Long 9781784536459
€77.68Indian Philosophy: An Introduction helps readers discover how the many and varied schools of Indian thought can answer some of the great questions of life: Who are we? How can we live well? How do we tell truth from lies? Accessibly written for readers... -
Across the South of Asia: A Volume in Honor of Professor Robert L. Brown by Robert DeCaroli 9788124610053
RRP: €71.39€70.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788124610053Author Robert DeCaroliFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint D.K. Print World LtdPublisher D.K. Print World Ltd -
Ganbare!: Workshops on Dying by Katarzyna Boni 9781948830423
RRP: €15.46€12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830423Author Katarzyna BoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter -
Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian Classical Period: The Obligations of Power by Neal Leavitt 9781666915679
RRP: €96.39€84.56Rabindrinath Tagore (1861-1941) and Amartya Sen (1933-) defend a distinctive form of foreign policy internationalism in their writings. Instead of increasing the economic and military power of democratic states relative to their authoritarian... -
Heinrich Zimmer: Coming into His Own by Margaret H. Case 9780691633237
€95.99Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) is best known in the English-speaking world for the four posthumous books edited by Joseph Campbell and published in the Bollingen Series: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, Philosophies of India, The Art of... -
The Legacy of India by G. T. Garratt 9780198219101
€54.54The rich and varied legacy of India, built up over many centuries, is still an influential force. Its contribution to world history and world civilization is here described in a series of essays interpreting India's culture to the West. Written by expert... -
Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE by Patrick Olivelle 9780195305326
€138.53This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Patrick Olivelle has collected and edited the best papers to emerge from the conference. Part I of the book looks at what can be... -
South Asia in World History by Marc Jason Gilbert 9780195176537
RRP: €105.91€87.20It can be said of South Asia what has long been said of its great epic poem, the Mahabharata: "there is nothing in it that cannot be found elsewhere in the world and nothing in the world that cannot be found there." South Asia's historic... -
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru (1 January - 31 March 1958): Second Series, Vol. 41 by Aditya Mukherjee 9780198070665
RRP: €47.60€45.27Part of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru series, this volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru, covering three months of his Prime Ministership, from 1 January to 31 March 1958. It reveals his wide... -
Ferishta's History of Dekkan, from the First Mahummedan Conquests 2 Volume Set by Mahomed Kasim Ferishta 9781108056403
€107.68Serving in Bengal as a captain of the East India Company, Jonathan Scott (1753-1829) became a private Persian translator to Governor-General Warren Hastings in 1783. A gifted orientalist, he was elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784,... -
Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India by Purnima Bose 9780822327684
RRP: €26.17€22.84Organizing Empire critically examines how concepts of individualism functioned to support and resist British imperialism in India. Through readings of British colonial and Indian nationalist narratives that emerged in parliamentary debates, popular... -
Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture by Santhi Kavuri-Bauer 9780822349228
RRP: €24.98€21.86Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India's Mughal monuments-including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal-are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire... -
The Illusion of Permanence: British Imperialism in India by Francis G. Hutchins 9780691649795
€109.55By combining the techniques of intellectual history and social psychology Professor Hutchins provides a new perspective for an understanding of the intellectual atmosphere of British imperialism in India in the nineteenth century. The author stresses... -
Empire and Nation: Selected Essays by Partha Chatterjee 9780231152204
€132.39Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in the 1980s, his work, particularly within the context of India, has served as the foundation for subaltern... -
Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration by Michael Bronner 9780231151603
€90.94Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden... -
Beyond Doubt - A Dossier on Gandhi`s Assassination by Teesta Setalvad 9789382381709
€41.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381709Author Teesta SetalvadFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 492gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 160mm *... -
The Accidental Viceroy: Robert Lytton in India by Edwin Hirschmann 9781498598521
RRP: €95.20€83.54The Age of Imperialism reached its peak in the late 19th century. The British empire was the foremost colonial power, and the keystone was India. However, even at its peak, the British India empire was beset by internal rivalries and fears of external... -
Wild Races: Scripturalizing Empire in British India by Lalruatkima Lalruatkima 9781978716445
RRP: €96.39€84.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978716445Author Lalruatkima LalruatkimaFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh by Chaman Lal 9781685900663
RRP: €29.74€24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900663Author Chaman LalFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 340g -
Being and Becoming Kachin: Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds of Burma by Mandy Sadan 9780197265550
€140.68Since independence in 1948, Burma has suffered from many internal conflicts. One of the longest of these has been in the Kachin State, in the far north of the country where Burma has borders with India to the west and China to the east. In Being and... -
Indian Ocean Imaginings: People, Time, and Space by Joshua Esler 9781666922165
RRP: €105.91€92.76This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from the disciplines of history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. From the earliest exchanges... -
The Great Indian Middle Class by Pavan K. Varma 9780143103257
€15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143103257Author Pavan K. VarmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm * 140mm... -
Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture by James McHugh 9780199916306
RRP: €95.20€66.40James McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India. Drawing on a wide range of textual sources, from poetry to medical texts, he shows the deeply significant religious and cultural... -
Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India by Adeel Hussain 9780192859778
RRP: €98.77€87.20During the 1930s, much of the world was in severe economic and political crisis. This upheaval ushered in new ways of thinking about social and political systems. In some cases, these new ideas transformed states and empires alike. Particularly in... -
Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency by Ashish Rajadhyaksha 9780253352682
RRP: €73.78€68.04In Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only make sense if it transforms our understanding of cinema itself. Taking as his timeframe... -
Empire, Civil Society, and the Beginnings of Colonial Education in India by Jana Tschurenev 9781108498333
RRP: €107.10€96.90This book tells a story of radical educational change. In the early nineteenth century, an imperial civil society movement promoted modern elementary 'schools for all'. This movement included British, American and German missionaries, and Indian... -
India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh by Chris Moffat 9781108496902
RRP: €107.10€96.90What do anti-colonial histories mean for politics in contemporary India? How can we understand a political terrain that appears crowded with the dead, heroic figures from past struggles who call the living to account and demand action? What role do these... -
Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires by Nandini Chatterjee 9781108486033
RRP: €107.10€96.90Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the... -
The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt 9781108481939
RRP: €107.10€96.90In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states competing for territory, resources and skills, the medieval and early modern Deccan was a region of... -
Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India by Ali Raza 9781108481847
RRP: €107.10€96.90In this engaging and innovative history of the communist movement in colonial India, Ali Raza reveals the lives, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and how they sought to remake the world. Driven by the utopian visions of... -
Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India by Arnab Dey 9781108471305
RRP: €107.10€96.43Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal, environmental, and agroeconomic aspects of tea production... -
Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition by Uditi Sen 9781108425612
RRP: €107.10€96.90This 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... -
The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal Dwaipayan Sen (Amherst College, Massachusetts) 9781108417761
RRP: €107.10€96.90This revisionist history of caste politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that the decline of this form of political mobilization in the region was as much the result of coercion as of consent. It traces this process through the political career of... -
Babur: Timurid Prince and Mughal Emperor, 1483-1530 by Stephen F. Dale 9781108470070
RRP: €83.29€75.33This book is a concise biography of Babur, who founded the Timurid-Mughal Empire of South Asia. Based primarily on his autobiography and existential verse, it chronicles the life and career of a Central Asian, Turco-Mongol Muslim who, driven from his...