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The Emperor Jahangir: Power and Kingship in Mughal India by Lisa Balabanlilar 9780755640553
RRP: $48.28$42.23Jahangir was the fourth of the six "Great Mughals," the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal. Although an alcoholic and opium addict, his... -
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar 9780231138475
RRP: $58.80$44.86Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the... -
The British in India: A Social History of the Raj by David Gilmour 9781250234902
RRP: $58.80$34.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234902Author David GilmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 28mm -
Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942 by Kaushik Roy
RRP: $151.20$128.77The defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 Japanese soldiers made the World War II Battle for Malaya an important encounter for both political and military reasons. British military prestige was shattered, fanning the fires of nationalism in... -
Slaughter and Deception at Batang Kali by Ian Ward 9789810813031
RRP: $27.28$22.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789810813031Author Ian WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Media MastersPublisher Media Masters -
Indian Indenture In British Malaya: Policy and Practice in the Straits Settlements by David Chanderbali 9781845230364
RRP: $31.48$22.62David Chanderbali's book is a valuable addition to the small but growing literature concerning 19th century Indian indentured labour migration to plantation economies in the tropical world. It complements Hugh Tinker's (and others) studies of Indian... -
In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by Sanjib Baruah
RRP: $54.58$46.28In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Tibetan areas of China are often referred to as just "the Northeast." In the Name of the Nation offers a critical and historical account of the country's troubled relations with... -
Hindu Mythology: A Captivating Guide to Hindu Myths, Hindu Gods, and Hindu Goddesses by Matt Clayton 9781987664478
RRP: $28.18$24.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987664478Author Matt ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards
RRP: $56.68$47.63The 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... -
Superstar India: From Incredible To Unstoppable by Shobhaa De 9780143102588
$19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143102588Author Shobhaa DeFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm *... -
The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos
RRP: $65.08$45.97In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an... -
From Kutch to Tashkent: The Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 by Farooq Naseem Bajwa 9781849042307
RRP: $63.00$56.34Decades of Pakistani resentment over India's stance on Kashmir, and its subsequent attempt to force a military solution on the issue, led to the 1965 war between the two neighbours. It ended in a stalemate on the battlefield, and after a mere twenty-one... -
The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam by A. Azfar Moin 9780231160377
RRP: $63.00$47.92At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himself as... -
A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal by Partha Chatterjee
RRP: $94.50$73.65In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of... -
Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History by Thomas R. Trautmann
RRP: $54.60$52.19Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations - such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China - kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular... -
The History of Akbar: Volume 8 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $62.90$48.70The 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... -
The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print by Charu Gupta
RRP: $58.78$49.69Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits ("untouchables") and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist... -
The Sikhs of the Punjab by J. S. Grewal 9780521637640
RRP: $58.78$53.45In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume... -
Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries by Jagdish Bhagwati
RRP: $29.38$19.32In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's,... -
The History of Akbar: Volume 7 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $62.90$49.54The 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... -
A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700 by Tirthankar Roy
RRP: $60.88$59.60In recent decades, private investment has led to an economic resurgence in India. But this is not the first time the region has witnessed impressive business growth. There have been many similar stories over the past 300 years. India's economic history... -
How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani
RRP: $71.38$59.60How India Became Democratic explores the greatest experiment in democratic human history. It tells the untold story of the preparation of the electoral roll on the basis of universal adult franchise in the world's largest democracy. Ornit Shani offers a... -
India After Naxalbari: Unfinished History by Bernard D'Mello 9781583677063
RRP: $46.20$36.96"The armed rebellion of poor peasants that began fifty years ago in Naxalbari, India, continues to this day. Bernard D'Mello sets out the story of its origins and uneven development, in historical context. The armed struggle lives on because the... -
India Since Independence by Bipan Chandra
RRP: $31.40$24.36This book describes how the constitution was framed, as also the Nehruvian political and economical agenda and basics of foreign policy were evolved and developed.Book InformationISBN 9780143104094Author Bipan ChandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 788Imprint... -
Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History by David Gilmartin 9780520355538
RRP: $71.40$55.55The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world's most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this... -
The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt
RRP: $65.08$53.45In 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... -
Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose
RRP: $71.38$63.00The fifth edition of Modern South Asia draws on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field to interpret and debate key developments in modern South Asian history and historical writing, covering the diverse spectrum of the subcontinent's... -
The Burmese Labyrinth by Carlos Sardina Galache
RRP: $41.98$27.99In 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in decades saw a landslide for the party of celebrated Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet, even as the... -
A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta by Tariq Omar Ali 9780691202570
RRP: $58.80$44.86Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed... -
Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka by Neena Mahadev 9780231205290
RRP: $63.00$47.92Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist... -
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka by Nira Wickramasinghe
RRP: $63.00$47.92For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri... -
A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas by Ian Talbot
RRP: $57.75$48.07Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of... -
The Bhagavata Purana: Selected Readings by Ravi Gupta
RRP: $63.00$48.76Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text's theological... -
Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India by Gauri Viswanathan 9780231171694
RRP: $58.80$45.70A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies... -
The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast by Arkotong Longkumer
RRP: $58.78$49.69The assertion that even institutions often viewed as abhorrent should be dispassionately understood motivates Arkotong Longkumer's pathbreaking ethnography of the Sangh Parivar, a family of organizations comprising the Hindu right. The Greater India... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $62.90$49.54The 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... -
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif 9780674292338
RRP: $44.00$34.69Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize"Remarkable and pathbreaking...A radical rethink of colonial historiography and a compelling argument for the reassessment of the historical traditions of Hindustan."-Mahmood Mamdani"The brilliance of Asif's book... -
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169568
RRP: $184.80$176.99Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessedby General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research intoprimary... -
The agrarian crisis in India before independence: toward its solution by Kundan Misra 9780980532029
RRP: $20.79$17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980532029Author Rajani Palme DuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Gambol BooksPublisher Gambol BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
A Traveller's History of India by SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda 9781905214532
RRP: $20.98$15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905214532Author SinhaRaja Tammita-DelgodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Chastleton TravelPublisher Arris BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...