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Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire by Sukanya Banerjee
RRP: $46.78$39.80In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic,... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor 9781947534308
RRP: $39.00$26.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534308Author Shashi TharoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 431g -
Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India by Sanjay Seth 9780822341055
RRP: $46.78$39.80Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India's British rulers funded schools and universities to... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 3 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40$46.00The 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... -
Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India by Ronojoy Sen 9780231164900
RRP: $58.50$45.28Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that... -
The Economy of Modern India: From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century by B. R. Tomlinson
RRP: $48.73$44.56Rapid economic growth has put India at the centre of current debates about the future of the global economy. In this fully revised and updated text, B. R. Tomlinson provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the Indian economy over the last 150... -
A Treatise on Dharma by Yajnavalkya
RRP: $58.40$45.22A new English translation of the most influential legal text in medieval India.A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, is the finest example of the genre of dharmasastra-texts on religious, civil, and criminal law and the duties of... -
A History of Colonial India: 1757 to 1947 by Himanshu Roy
RRP: $70.18$61.80This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on British colonial rule in India. It draws on sociology, history, and political science to look at key events and social process, between 1757 to 1947, to provide a comprehensive understanding... -
Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy by Bertil Lintner 9786162150159
RRP: $42.88$36.64Burma's pro-democracy movement emerged in 1988 when massive demonstrations swept across the country. This book gives an account of the movement, its emergence and growth, and Aung San Suu Kyi's prominent leadership role since its inception. Woven into... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 4 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40$46.00The 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... -
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 by Sumit Guha
RRP: $54.58$48.65In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the... -
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor by Assistant Professor Juned Shaikh
RRP: $54.58$46.14Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombay's population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices... -
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age by Susan Bayly 9780521798426
RRP: $60.43$52.57The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the... -
The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule by Audrey Truschke
RRP: $58.50$53.41For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in... -
Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay by Sheetal Chhabria
RRP: $54.58$46.14In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British... -
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai by Lisa Bjorkman
RRP: $46.78$39.80Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city... -
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future by Martha Nussbaum
RRP: $52.55$41.67While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Martha Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating look at India today, the... -
A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic by Rohit De 9780691174433
$126.52It 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... -
Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940 by Anthony Cox 9781138948365
RRP: $85.78$74.96Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision,... -
The Destruction of Hyderabad by A. G. Noorani
RRP: $68.25$60.55The fascinating story of the fall of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad has till now been dominated by the 'court historians' of Indian nationalism. In this book A. G. Noorani offers a revisionist account of the Indian Army's 'police action' against... -
Remembrances by Mir Taqi Mir
RRP: $58.40$45.22A rare and remarkable example of Indo-Persian autobiography by the poet Mir Taqi Mir.Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is the author of six collections of Urdu poetry and widely regarded as the finest ghazal poet in that language. However, he also wrote... -
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire by Seema Alavi 9780674735330
$92.31Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire recovers the stories of five Indian Muslim scholars who, in the aftermath of the uprising of 1857, were hunted by British authorities, fled their homes in India for such destinations as Cairo, Mecca, and... -
Pakistan by Kristine Mlis Spanier
RRP: $17.53$14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645273479Author Kristine Mlis SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo Books/Jump!Publisher Pogo Books/Jump!Weight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 231mm... -
Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court by Audrey Truschke 9780231173636
RRP: $42.90$33.13Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history... -
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952 by Pallavi Raghavan
RRP: $78.00$68.80In this groundbreaking book, Raghavan uses previously untapped archival sources to weave together new stories about the experiences of post-partition state-making in South Asia. Through meticulous research, it challenges the existing wisdom about the... -
The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World by Himanshu Prabha Ray
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from... -
Understanding Bangladesh by S. Mahmud Ali
RRP: $43.88$38.82Bangladesh, a Muslim majority nation with a population of some 154 million people, receives little notice in the West, other than when political upheaval or natural disasters bring it to our attention. In "Understanding Bangladesh", an account of the... -
From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab by Pippa Virdee
$146.48This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab, its attendant violence and, as a consequence, the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), it... -
From Raj to Republic: Sovereignty, Violence, and Democracy in India by Sunil Purushotham
RRP: $58.48$50.68Between 1946 and 1952, the British Raj, the world's largest colony, was transformed into the Republic of India, the world's largest democracy. Independence, the Constituent Assembly Debates, the founding of the Republic, and India's first universal... -
Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas by Karine Gagne 9780295744001
RRP: $54.58$48.65Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social... -
Boundaries Undermined: the Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border by Delwar Hussain 9781849042321
RRP: $87.75$76.25When anthropologist Delwar Hussain arrived in a remote coal mining village on the Bangladesh/India border to research the security fence India is building around its neighbour, he discovered more about the globalised world than he had expected. The... -
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780691070308
RRP: $87.75$67.61Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way... -
Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko Inot Himalayan History by Haripriya Rangan 9781859843055
RRP: $37.03$31.40The Chipko movement emerged in the early 1970s in the Garhwal region of the Indian Himalayas. In attempting to draw attention to the difficulty of sustaining their livelihoods in the region, local communities engaged in protest by hugging trees that were... -
The Language of the Taj Mahal: Islam, Prayer and the Religion of Shah Jahan by Michael D. Calabria
$190.32The Taj Mahal, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666 CE) as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631 CE), is considered exceptional in the history of world architecture.This book provides a deeper understanding of the Taj Mahal and... -
Lady Nugent's East India Journal: A Critical Edition by Lady Maria Nugent
RRP: $156.00$142.47In 1811, Maria Nugent left her four young children behind in England to accompany her husband, General George Nugent, on his posting as commander-in-chief in India. After a dizzying six months at the head of Calcutta society, the couple embarked on a... -
A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna by Amitava Kumar 9780822357049
RRP: $42.88$37.42It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores in this vivid, entertaining account of his hometown. We accompany him through many Patnas, the myriad... -
Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War by Victoria Schofield
RRP: $44.83$39.21The valley of Kashmir continues to be a major flashpoint in South Asia, threatening the stability of a region of great strategic importance. This book, now in its fifth updated edition, examines the conflict over the former princely state of Jammu and... -
A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta by Tariq Omar Ali 9780691170237
RRP: $87.75$67.61Before 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... -
Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City by Dr. Madhuri Desai
RRP: $54.58$46.92Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with... -
The Indian Uprising of 1857-8: Prisons, Prisoners and Rebellion by Clare Anderson 9781843312956
RRP: $35.08$33.21This fascinating book, based on extensive archival research in Britain and India, examines why mutineer-rebels chose to attack prisons and release prisoners, discusses the impact of the destruction of the jails on British penal policy in mainland India,...