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A People's History of India 2 - The Indus Civilization Irfan Habib 9789382381532
RRP: $25.33$23.89Apologies 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 -
The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40$46.92The 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... -
Agrarian and Other Histories: Essays for Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri by Shubhra Chakrabarti
RRP: $48.75$43.74Apologies 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... -
The Indian Princes and their States by Barbara N. Ramusack
RRP: $48.73$41.30Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable degrees... -
Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19 by David Arnold
RRP: $68.25$60.92Covid-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... -
The Visceral Logics of Decolonization by Neetu Khanna
RRP: $38.98$34.20In 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... -
A History of Bangladesh by Willem van Schendel 9781108473699
RRP: $185.25$167.41Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of... -
Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War by Myra Macdonald
RRP: $38.98$34.75When 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 Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand by Benedict Anderson
RRP: $25.35$22.39In 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... -
How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani
RRP: $66.28$55.34How 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... -
Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 by Durba Ghosh
RRP: $52.63$44.46In 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... -
Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 by Berenice Guyot-Rechard
RRP: $60.43$46.41Since 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... -
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India by Jessica Namakkal
RRP: $48.75$38.20After 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... -
The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt
RRP: $60.43$49.63In 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... -
Aftermath of Revolt: India 1857-1970 by Thomas R. Metcalf 9780691624686
RRP: $87.75$68.87The 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... -
South Asia in World History by Marc Jason Gilbert 9780199760343
$26.25It 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... -
The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Meghna Guhathakurta
RRP: $46.78$41.42Bangladesh 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... -
Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan by Daniel Haines
RRP: $68.25$60.92The 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... -
To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics by Rahul Sagar
RRP: $58.50$45.42To 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: $48.75$42.96Why 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... -
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South by Prathama Banerjee
RRP: $42.88$37.42In 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... -
Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941-1942 by Kaushik Roy 9780253044174
RRP: $54.58$47.07The 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... -
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169575
RRP: $68.25$60.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorChris Mason is professor of national security affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.AwardsWinner of SAHR Templer Medal/Chapple... -
Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia by Srinath Raghavan
RRP: $62.40$47.50In 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... -
A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal by Partha Chatterjee
RRP: $87.75$69.65In 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... -
Gandhi: Selected Political Writings by Mahatma Gandhi 9780872203303
RRP: $35.08$29.07Based 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... -
Engaging Scoundrels: True Tales of Old Lucknow by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones 9780195649536
RRP: $48.75$35.24This book includes curious stories of the people who inhabited the exotic and vanished world of Nawabi Lucknow, especially the many rogues and villains, some of them British. Using material not used before and containing a number of previousy unpublished... -
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Ideas by Wickramasinghe Nira
RRP: $42.90$38.84Now 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... -
A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic by Rohit De
RRP: $58.50$45.42It 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... -
Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture by James McHugh 9780199916320
RRP: $101.40$63.90James McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India. Drawing on a wide range of textual sources, from poetry to medical texts, he shows the deeply significant religious and cultural... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi by Judith M. Brown 9780521133456
RRP: $44.83$38.14Even today, six decades after his assassination in January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi is still revered as the father of the Indian nation. His intellectual and moral legacy, and the example of his life and politics, serve as an inspiration to human rights and... -
The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities by Hani Khafipour
RRP: $81.90$66.38In 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... -
The Best of Indian Mythology Box Set by Devdutt Pattanaik
$166.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143458562Author Devdutt PattanaikFormat PaperbackPage Count 1604Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar 9780231195850
RRP: $48.75$38.20One 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... -
Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall
RRP: $44.83$38.14The 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... -
Indian Army and the First World War: 1914-18 by Kaushik Roy 9780199485659
RRP: $74.08$67.59The 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... -
Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization by Sanjukta Sunderason
RRP: $54.58$47.07Partisan 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... -
Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company by Miles Ogborn 9780226620411
$88.49A 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"... -
Readings of the Lotus Sutra by Stephen F. Teiser 9780231142892
RRP: $54.60$42.51The 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... -
In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce 9781400079773
RRP: $44.85$25.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079773Author Edward LuceFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...