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A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700 by Tirthankar Roy 9781107186927
RRP: €89.25€81.09In 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... -
Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 Durba Ghosh (Cornell University, New York) 9781107186668
RRP: €97.57€88.45In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' used assassinations, bomb attacks, and armed robberies... -
Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation by Chitralekha Zutshi 9781107181977
RRP: €95.19€86.35On the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence, Partition, and the creation of Pakistan, this ground breaking collection brings together fourteen cutting-edge scholarly essays on multiple aspects of both the region and the issue of Kashmir. While... -
How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani 9781107068032
RRP: €105.90€95.35How 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... -
The Partition of Bengal: Fragile Borders and New Identities by Debjani Sengupta 9781107061705
RRP: €82.10€73.85This study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has... -
Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain by Whitney Cox 9781107172371
RRP: €107.10€96.90In this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of the contested accession of Kulottunga I (r.1070-1120) as the ruler of the imperial Chola dynasty. By... -
A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 by Fahad Ahmad Bishara 9781107155657
RRP: €110.66€99.57In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern capitalism in the region. In this time of expanding... -
In Praise of Kings: Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in Fifteenth-century Gujarat by Aparna Kapadia 9781107153318
RRP: €89.25€80.61In Praise of Kings is a ground breaking study of the long-neglected fifteenth century in South Asian history. Contrary to the conventional focus on the Delhi-centred empires which consider this period as an age of decline, this book illuminates the... -
India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-Century World of Circulation and Exchange by Gagan D. S. Sood 9781107121270
RRP: €72.59€65.50Based on the chance survival of a remarkable cache of documents, India and the Islamic Heartlands recaptures a vanished and forgotten world from the eighteenth century spanning much of today's Middle East and South Asia. Gagan D. S. Sood focuses on... -
The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200-2000 by Cynthia Talbot 9781107118560
RRP: €107.10€96.90This fascinating new study traces traditions and memories relating to the twelfth-century Indian ruler Prithviraj Chauhan; a Hindu king who was defeated and overthrown during the conquest of Northern India by Muslim armies from Afghanistan. Surveying a... -
An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century Michael H. Fisher (Oberlin College, Ohio) 9781107111622
RRP: €101.14€91.62India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh contain one-fifth of humanity, are home to many biodiversity hotspots, and are among the nations most subject to climatic stresses. By surveying their environmental history, we can gain major insights into the causes and... -
Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan by Sarah Ansari 9781107196056
RRP: €107.10€96.90The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people,... -
Fatima Jinnah: Mother of the Nation by M. Reza Pirbhai 9781107192768
RRP: €110.66€99.57Although fifty years have passed since the death of Fatima Jinnah - author, activist and stateswoman known in Pakistan as the 'mother of the nation' - this is the first scholarly biography to tackle her life in full. Her background and contribution to... -
Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India by Ritika Prasad 9781107084216
RRP: €82.10€73.85From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, railways became increasingly important in the lives of a growing number of Indians. While allowing millions to collectively experience the endemic discomforts of third-class travel, the public opportunities for... -
Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility by Tim Harper 9781107082083
RRP: €86.87€78.50A focus on the sites of Asian interaction enables this volume to shed new light on the growing field of diaspora studies. Research on Asia's many diasporas has enriched the older literature on migration to illuminate the links of kinship, affect, trade,... -
Culinary Culture in Colonial India: A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class by Utsa Ray 9781107042810
RRP: €78.53€70.71This book utilizes cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal who indigenized new culinary experiences as a result of colonial modernity. This process of indigenization developed certain social practices, including... -
Meeting With Mussolini: Tagore's Tour In Italy, 1925 and 1926 by Kalyan Kundu 9780199459087
RRP: €30.93€27.82Of the many countries Rabindranath Tagore visited in his lifetime, his Italian sojourns of 1925 and 1926, at the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's invitation, have been of immense interest to Tagore scholars. His visits stoked an adverse international... -
Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, Environments by Townsend Middleton 9780199483556
RRP: €44.02€40.20Darjeeling occupies a special place in the South Asian imaginary. With its Himalayan vistas, lush tea gardens, and brisk mountain air, Darjeeling was the consummate colonial hill-station. The romance with the "queen of the hills" lives on, as thousands... -
Performing Nationhood: The Emotional Roots of Swadeshi Nationhood in Bengal, 1905-1912 by Mimasha Pandit 9780199480180
RRP: €46.40€42.30This book serves as the corridor to one's 'self'. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance history of Swadeshi Bengal. The burgeoning public space and audibility of voices hitherto unheard presented a two-way problem, for the... -
Burden of History: Assam and the Partition-Unresolved Issues by Udayon Misra 9780199478361
RRP: €41.64€38.09This work deals with the years immediately preceding the Partition of India and takes up issues of land, language, immigration, and identity in Assam, where they continue to occupy public space. The effects of the Partition continue to hang as a spectre... -
Delhi in Transition, 1821 and Beyond: Mirza Sangin Beg's Sair-ul Manazil by Shama Mitra Chenoy 9780199477739
RRP: €51.16€46.52This work is an annotated translation of Mirza Sangin Beg's Sair-ul Manazil which is one of the last works on Delhi written in Persian. The editor introduces the text to the readers and then proceeds with the translation on the basis of comparison of the... -
Memoirs of Roads: Calcutta from Colonial Urbanization to Global Modernization by Sumanta Banerjee 9780199468102
RRP: €33.31€30.73In seventeenth-century India, the fates of three little hamlets were forever changed when East India Company officials chose them to be developed into a city suitable for their settlement. Thus was born Calcutta. In Memoirs of Roads, Banerjee... -
A Freethinking Cultural Nationalist: A Life History of Rahul Sankrityayan by Alaka Atreya Chudal 9780199466870
RRP: €38.07€34.93Vaishnava sadhu. Arya Samajist. Buddhist monk. Hindi nationalist. Communist. These are the identities Rahul Sankrityayan (18931963), born a sanatani Brahmin, donned during the early 20th century. Widely known in the field of Buddhist... -
Romanticism's Child: An Intellectual History of James Tod's Influence on Indian History and Historiography by Lloyd I. Rudolph 9780199465897
RRP: €33.31€30.73The fascination of Colonel James Tod, one of the earliest colonial ethnographers, with the cultural practices, communities and histories of the people of Rajasthan led to a meticulous compilation of information about the region and its people, whom he... -
Friendships of 'Largeness and Freedom': Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi : An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940 by Uma Das Gupta 9780199481217
RRP: €58.30€53.31This book is a story of friendship between three remarkable individuals drawn from their lifelong work for India's freedom. They were Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and the Anglican missionary, Charles Freer Andrews, who became a most loving friend... -
Archiving the British Raj: History of the Archival Policy of the Government of India, with Selected Documents, 1858-1947 by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya 9780199489923
RRP: €40.45€37.03Generally the archives are sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are the archives objects of research. Archiving the Raj traces the path that led to creation of a central archive in India. In examining the archival policy of the... -
A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century by Pankaj Jha 9780199489558
RRP: €44.02€40.20This book studies the fifteenth-century north India through an intimate exploration of three compositions of the poet-scholar, Vidyapati: a Sanskrit treatise on writing, a celebratory biography in Apabhramsa, and a collection of mytho-historical tales in... -
TRIBALS AND DALITS IN ORISSA: TOWARDS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF EXCLUSION, c. 1800-1950 by Biswamoy Pati 9780199489404
RRP: €39.26€35.99This book examines diverse aspects of the social history of the tribals and dalits/outcastes in Orissa. It delineates how the socially excluded sections were further impoverished by both colonial government policies and the chiefs of the despotic... -
India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750-2000 by Claude Markovits 9781107186750
RRP: €89.25€81.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781107186750Author Claude MarkovitsFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India by Sascha Ebeling 9781438431994
RRP: €86.00€75.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438431994Author Sascha EbelingFormat HardbackPage Count 379Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures: The Multiple Selves and Strange Destinations of Ashis Nandy by Vinay Lal 9780198097303
RRP: €22.60€20.65Ashis Nandy has occupied a distinct and unrivaled place in the intellectual life of India over the course of the last three decades. He is unquestionably the country's most exciting, and perhaps its most controversial, thinker. He has been described... -
Social Formations of Early South India by Rajan Gurukkal 9780198089391
RRP: €14.27€12.69This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation by exploring areas like... -
Colonialism, Culture and Resistance by Panikkar 9780198064190
RRP: €17.84€15.58This unique collection discusses the different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation of alternative modernity in India. It also provides an engaging account of the development of political and cultural consciousness in the... -
Architecture of Sovereignty: Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India by Gita V. Pai 9781009150156
RRP: €107.10€96.90In this innovative study, Gita V. Pai traces the history of the Pudu Mandapam (Tamil, 'new hall') – a Hindu temple structure in Madurai – through the rise and fall of empires in south India from the seventeenth century to the present. This wide-ranging... -
The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India by Rahul Ranjan 9781009337908
RRP: €101.15€91.15This book examines the representation of Birsa's political life, memory politics and the making of anticolonialism in contemporary Jharkhand. It offers contrasting features of political imaginations deployed in developing memorial landscapes. Framing of... -
The Eighteenth Century in India by Seema Alavi 9780195692013
RRP: €13.08€11.10Part of the prestigious Debates in Indian History and Society series, this volume presents the key argument of the debates, along with a selection of writings that made pioneering interventions in the study of the 18th century in Indian history.Book... -
Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs by Ute Hüsken 9781438484075
€96.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438484075Author Ute HüskenFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Ajanta by A.P. Jamkhedkar 9780195697858
RRP: €15.46€14.48Situated about 106 kilometers from Aurangabad in Maharashtra, Ajanta rock cut caves are creations of about 700 years, roughly from 200 BC to AD 525. This glorious Buddhist art of the Deccan was discovered in 1819, and given a World Heritage status by... -
The Land Revenue of Bombay 2 Volume Set: A History of its Administration, Rise, and Progress by Alexander Rogers 9781108046183
€78.84This two-volume work by Alexander Rogers (1825-1911), a retired officer of the Bombay Civil Service, first published in 1892, describes the land revenues of the Bombay Presidency (the province which at its greatest extent encompassed much of West and... -
Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India by Indrani Chatterjee 9780198089223
RRP: €35.70€33.32This book traces the changing and long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region, that has distinct languages, faiths, monastic traditions, and lay-monk relationship, in different orders and gender and household relations. It examines the...