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Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader by Sumit Sarkar
RRP: €35.69€33.77Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to nascent nationalist movements. Debates over practices such as widow immolation, widow remarriage, and child... -
Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought by Vikram Visana
€89.39Uncivil Liberalism studies how ideas of liberty from the colonized South claimed universality in the North. Recovering the political theory of Dadabhai Naoroji, India's pre-eminent liberal, this book offers an original global history of this process by... -
Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran by Afshin Marashi
RRP: €58.31€50.22Honorable Mention, Hamid Naficy Iranian Studies Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis, they slowly lost contact with their... -
Children of Colonialism by Lionel Caplan 9781859736326
RRP: €42.83€37.71Among the legacies of the colonial encounter are any number of contemporary 'mixed-race' populations, descendants of the offspring of sexual unions involving European men (colonial officials, traders, etc.) and local women. These groups invite serious... -
Political Violence in Ancient India by Upinder Singh
RRP: €52.30€41.53Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to... -
The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Meghna Guhathakurta
RRP: €32.12€29.17Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ranks sixth in the world in terms of native speakers. Founded in 1971, Bangladesh is a relatively young... -
The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781783084258
RRP: €29.75€27.73In this path-breaking new work, Ali Usman Qasmi traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan by drawing on revealing new sources. This volume is the first scholarly study of the declassified material of... -
The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition by Sunil Khilnani 9780374537623
RRP: €24.99€16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537623Author Sunil KhilnaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Aftermath of Revolt: India 1857-1970 by Thomas R. Metcalf 9780691624686
RRP: €53.55€48.09The Mutiny of 1857 left a deep mark on Indian society and on the nature of British rule. Thomas Metcalf analyzes the influence of the Mutiny on many facets of Indian life and relations with Great Britain, examining social reform, education, land... -
The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York by Sienna R. Craig
RRP: €33.31€28.16For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped their experiences for decades. Yet,... -
The Body Adorned: Sacred and Profane in Indian Art by Vidya Dehejia
RRP: €73.78€56.83The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of premodern Indian art. From the powerful god Shiva, greatest of all yogis and most beautiful of all beings, to stone dancers twisting along temple walls, the body in Indian art is... -
Dalit Studies by Ramnarayan S. Rawat
RRP: €29.74€25.26The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. Moving beyond... -
Whose Samosa is it Anyway?: The Story of Where 'Indian' Food Really Came From by Sonal Ved 9780143460060
RRP: €18.98€14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143460060Author Sonal VedFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India by Assa Doron
RRP: €29.69€23.66In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles-anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside... -
The Nehrus by Mushiral Hasan 9788174363909
€30.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788174363909Author Mushiral HasanFormat HardbackPage Count 319Imprint Roli Books Pvt LtdPublisher Roli Books Pvt Ltd -
The History of Akbar, Volume 5 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: €35.64€28.79The 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... -
Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space by Manu Goswami 9780226305097
RRP: €35.70€34.81When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable... -
Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy by James Tharin Bradford
RRP: €34.50€29.11Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes... -
Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial by Parama Roy
RRP: €28.55€24.29In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways, she suggests, colonialism reconfigured the sensorium of... -
A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic by Rohit De
RRP: €33.32€25.42It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India's greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A... -
South Asia in World History by Marc Jason Gilbert 9780199760343
€19.03It 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 trans-regional... -
Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India by Aditya Balasubramanian
RRP: €45.22€35.03The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the... -
Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema by Anindya Raychaudhuri
RRP: €80.92€72.84The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition is one of separation: a country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, Anindya Raychaudhuri, the son of a partition participant, looks to unity, joining for the first time the public... -
Personal Reminiscences in India and Europe, 1830-1888, of Augusta Becher by Augusta 1830-1909 Becher 9781014094728
RRP: €27.31€23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014094728Author Augusta 1830-1909 BecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India by Richard Sorabji 9781848853751
€64.62Clever, attractive and ambitious, intellectually daring and physically courageous, Cornelia Sorabji was a truly remarkable woman. As India's first female lawyer, she was original and often outspoken in her views - for example, in her criticism of Gandhi... -
Indian Army and the First World War: 1914-18 by Kaushik Roy 9780199485659
RRP: €45.21€41.25The Indian Army which was the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia functioned as an imperial fire brigade force during the Great War. The 'brown warriors' of the Raj defended the British Empire from Belgium and France in the west to Singapore in... -
Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire by Kris Manjapra 9780674725140
RRP: €61.82€48.78Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of a diverse collection of... -
Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India by Stephen Legg
RRP: €28.55€24.29Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of... -
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi
RRP: €28.55€24.38Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of 'history from below'. Later... -
From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia by Adil Hussain Khan 9780253015235
RRP: €53.55€45.78The Ahmadiyya Muslim community represents the followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), a charismatic leader whose claims of spiritual authority brought him into conflict with most other Muslim leaders of the time. The controversial movement... -
A People`s History of India 23 - The Establishment of British Rule, 1757-1813 by Amar Farooqui
RRP: €10.70€10.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381747Author Amar FarooquiFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 247mm * 163mm * 12mm -
Analyzing Syntax Through Texts: Old, Middle, and Early Modern English by Elly van Gelderen
RRP: €36.89€30.52This textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking at the linguistic characteristics of well- known texts throughout the early history of English. It shows how that piece of the language fits in to the broader picture of how... -
Of Sacred and Secular Desire: An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh 9781848858848
€32.68The fertile land of the five rivers (punj+ab in Persian) has persistently stirred the imagination of its peoples. Its story is the story of invasion. In 326 BCE Alexander the Great marched through the Hindu Kush, conquered the verdant plains now divided... -
Ahmedabad: A City in the World by Amrita Shah
RRP: €22.60€16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384898014Author Amrita ShahFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 321g -
The History of Akbar: Volume 1 by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
RRP: €35.64€28.07The 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 East India Company, 1600-1858: A Short History with Documents by Ian Barrow 9781624665974
RRP: €59.50€47.39In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China's... -
The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism: Secular Claims, Communal Realities by Achin Vanaik
RRP: €23.79€20.59With the Hindu nationalist BJP now replacing the Congress as the only national political force, the communalization of the Indian polity has qualitatively advanced since the earlier edition of this book in 1997. This edition has been substantially... -
Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India by Ananya Vajpeyi
RRP: €53.49€42.44What India's founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced... -
M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism by Kris Manjapra
RRP: €44.02€38.71This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N. Roy, one of India's most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist... -
Buddhist Learning in South Asia: Education, Religion, and Culture at the Ancient Sri Nalanda Mahavihara by Pintu Kumar 9781498554947
RRP: €41.65€39.88This interdisciplinary study is the first book to provide a complete survey of Sri Nalanda Mahavihara from the perspective of its educational curricula as well as its religious influence. It provides detailed descriptions of the origin, growth,...