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The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 by Kyle J. Gardner
RRP: $65.08$53.45Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepot of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri archival sources. In so doing, he provides both a history... -
The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel
RRP: $52.48$44.58In The Nation's Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical... -
India and South Asia: A Short History by David Ludden
RRP: $23.08$16.84Combining factual information with a critical approach which probes the nature of culture and identity, this concise yet authoritative account paints a graphic picture of an area stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayan mountains. This new... -
Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan by M J Akbar 9780062131799
RRP: $41.98$31.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062131799Author M J AkbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
A People`s History of India 2 - The Indus Civilization by Irfan Habib 9789382381532
RRP: $27.28$25.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381532Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 228gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 8mm -
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India by David Arnold
RRP: $48.28$43.97Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India... -
Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing by Bryan Wells 9781842179949
RRP: $73.50$62.62Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing is a comprehensive look at one of the last undeciphered Old World scripts. It has defied decipherment for 90 years because of the terse nature of the texts and the lack of a comprehensive corpus and detailed sign... -
BOSE: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist by Chandrachur Ghose 9780670096008
RRP: $62.98$38.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670096008Author Chandrachur GhoseFormat HardbackPage Count 740Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm *... -
Agrarian and Other Histories: Essays for Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri by Shubhra Chakrabarti
$62.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193926970Author Shubhra ChakrabartiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 159mm... -
Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19 by David Arnold
RRP: $73.50$64.37Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to 'the pandemic' as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely used-but in reality, it has a long and contested history, centred on South Asia. Pandemic India is an... -
Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War by Myra Macdonald
RRP: $41.98$36.62When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on an intense competition that had begun with Partition. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger military. But the shield offered... -
The Visceral Logics of Decolonization by Neetu Khanna
RRP: $46.18$39.46In The Visceral Logics of Decolonization Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by exploring a knotted set of relations between embodied experience and political feeling that she conceptualizes as the visceral. Khanna focuses on the work of... -
The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand by Benedict Anderson
RRP: $27.30$24.11In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre... -
The Portuguese in India by M. N. Pearson 9780521028509
RRP: $48.28$43.97The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr Pearson's volume of their history is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards written squarely from an Indian point of view... -
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India by Jessica Namakkal
RRP: $52.50$40.28After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished control. Once decolonization took hold across the... -
Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company by Miles Ogborn 9780226620411
$118.40A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, "Indian Ink"... -
Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall
RRP: $48.28$43.97The aim of Bengal: The British Bridgehead is to explain how, in the eighteenth century, Britain established her rule in eastern India, the first part of the subcontinent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Though the British were not in firm... -
The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World by Partha Chatterjee 9780231130639
RRP: $52.50$40.28Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new... -
Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942 by Kaushik Roy 9780253044174
RRP: $62.98$54.58The 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... -
Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan by Daniel Haines
RRP: $73.50$64.37The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of India-Pakistan cooperation, but less has been said about its critical influence on state-making in both countries. Rivers Divided reveals the importance of the Indus Basin river system, and thus... -
India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885 by Douglas M. Peers 9780582317383
RRP: $77.68$75.05Between 1700 and 1885 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and... -
To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics by Rahul Sagar
RRP: $63.00$47.92To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival research, it unearths essays, speeches, and pamphlets that address fundamental questions about India's... -
Tamils and the Nation: India and Sri Lanka Compared by Madurika Rasaratnam
RRP: $52.50$45.32Why are relations between politically mobilised ethnic identities and the nation-state sometimes peaceful and at other times fraught and violent? Madurika Rasaratnam's book sets out a novel answer to this key puzzle in world politics through a detailed... -
Gandhi: Selected Political Writings by Mahatma Gandhi 9780872203303
RRP: $37.78$30.62Based on the complete edition of his works, this new volume presents Gandhi's most important political writings arranged around the two central themes of his political teachings: satyagraha (the power of non-violence) and swaraj (freedom). Dennis... -
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South by Prathama Banerjee
RRP: $50.38$42.86In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and... -
Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia by Srinath Raghavan
RRP: $67.20$44.12In Fierce Enigmas, prize-winning historian Srinath Raghavan argues that we cannot understand the US's entanglement in South Asia without first understanding the long sweep of American interaction with the nations and peoples who comprise it. Starting... -
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Ideas by Wickramasinghe Nira
RRP: $46.20$40.97Now available as an updated second edition covering the brutal end of Sri Lanka's civil war and creeping state authoritarianism that has grown in its wake, Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the island's modern history in an accessible yet... -
An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century by Michael H. Fisher
RRP: $52.48$47.99India, 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... -
The Epic of Ram, Volume 3 by Tulsidas
RRP: $62.90$48.70The 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... -
Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 by Berenice Guyot-Rechard
RRP: $65.08$49.98Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of... -
Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India by Ramnarayan S. Rawat
RRP: $50.38$42.86Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In this pathbreaking study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the majority of Chamars have always been... -
The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities by Hani Khafipour
RRP: $88.20$70.20In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in... -
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar 9780231195850
RRP: $52.50$40.28One of twentieth-century India's great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace... -
Let's Go Time Travelling by Subhadra Sen Gupta 9780143331919
RRP: $37.70$27.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143331919Author Subhadra Sen GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint PuffinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 240mm * 150mm * 10mm -
Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization by Sanjukta Sunderason
RRP: $62.98$54.58Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which... -
The Taj Mahal: The History of India's Most Famous Monument by Jesse Harasta 9781495228469
RRP: $21.50$17.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495228469Author Jesse HarastaFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Readings of the Lotus Sutra by Stephen F. Teiser 9780231142892
RRP: $58.80$44.86The Lotus Sutra proclaims that a unitary intent underlies the diversity of Buddhist teachings and promises that all people without exception can achieve supreme awakening. Establishing the definitive guide to this profound text, specialists in Buddhist... -
Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement by Ronald M. Davidson 9780231126199
RRP: $73.50$57.98Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism-especially the esoteric system of Tantra, one of its most popular yet most misunderstood forms-the historical origins of Buddhist thought and practice remain obscure. This groundbreaking work describes the genesis of... -
India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh by Chris Moffat
RRP: $65.08$53.45What 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... -
Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History by Andrew Nicholson 9780231149877
RRP: $58.80$44.86Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is...