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Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires by Nandini Chatterjee
RRP: $48.73$43.62Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the... -
Hundred Hindu Temples of Sri Lanka: Ancient, Medieval and Modern by Sanmugam Arumugam 9780957502345
RRP: $24.38$22.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957502345Author Sanmugam ArumugamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Diaspora BooksPublisher JKS Books -
Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830-1920 by Ashutosh Kumar 9781107147959
RRP: $155.98$141.49This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the... -
Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India by Ali Raza
RRP: $48.73$43.62In this engaging and innovative history of the communist movement in colonial India, Ali Raza reveals the lives, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and how they sought to remake the world. Driven by the utopian visions of... -
Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader by Sumit Sarkar
RRP: $54.58$49.02Social 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... -
India and Pakistan by Ian Talbot 9780340706336
$146.46The rise of ethnic and religious conflicts in the post-Cold War era has reawakened consideration of the future of nationalism and the nation state. The Indian subcontinent with its myriad ethnic, religious and linguistic divides provides a focus for... -
The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 by Kyle J. Gardner
RRP: $60.43$49.63Kyle 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 Politics of India since Independence by Paul R. Brass 9780521459709
RRP: $74.08$64.29The Politics of India since Independence provides a comprehensive study of the major political, cultural, and economic changes in India since gaining independence. Paul Brass focuses on the consequences of the centralising drives of the national... -
Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contested Identities in Nineteenth Century North India by S. Akbar Zaidi
RRP: $146.25$132.09Using primarily Urdu sources from the nineteenth century, this book allows us to rethink notions of 'the Muslim', in its numerous, complex and often contradictory forms, which emerged in colonial North India after 1857. Allowing the self-representation... -
The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World by Partha Chatterjee 9780231130639
RRP: $48.75$38.20Often 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... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 5 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40$48.09The 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... -
Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran by Afshin Marashi
RRP: $87.75$77.18Honorable 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... -
Indian Ocean Histories: The Many Worlds of Michael Naylor Pearson by Rila Mukherjee
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book offers a global history of the Indian Ocean and focuses on a holistic perspective of the worlds of water. It builds on maritime historian Michael Naylor Pearson's works, his unorthodox approach and strong influence on the study of the Indian... -
Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Lionel Caplan 9781859736326
RRP: $70.18$61.80Among 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... -
The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos
RRP: $60.43$42.69In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an... -
The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 9780521525954
RRP: $60.43$55.93Rajnarayan Chandavarkar presents the first major study of the relationship between labour and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth-century. He explores the emergence of capitalism in the region, the development of the cotton... -
Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert by Tanuja Kothiyal 9781107080317
RRP: $134.53$120.24The Thar Desert, which is today divided by an international boundary, has historically been a frontier region connecting Punjab, Multan, Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. This book looks at the Desert as an historical region shaped through the mobility of... -
The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 1660-1760 by K. N. Chaudhuri
RRP: $74.08$69.09The main contribution of the work is to offer a comprehensive history of the English East India Company during the century 1660-1760. It also examines the commercial economy of the Asian countries in which the Company traded and its political relations... -
The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781783084258
RRP: $48.75$46.37In 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... -
Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia by Ronit Ricci
RRP: $50.70$48.46The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating... -
The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-1965 by Elisabeth Leake 9781107571563
RRP: $48.73$41.30The Defiant Border explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls from the colonial period into the twenty-first century. This book looks at local Pashtun tribes' modes for evading first British colonial,... -
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: The British in Bengal by Robert Travers 9780521050036
RRP: $60.43$49.63Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the... -
Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India by John Stratton Hawley 9780195077742
RRP: $89.68$66.75Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to guard her family and clan for many... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 3 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... -
Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India by Aditya Balasubramanian
RRP: $74.10$58.52The 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... -
Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space by Manu Goswami 9780226305097
RRP: $58.50$57.04When 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... -
Political Violence in Ancient India by Upinder Singh
RRP: $85.70$69.32Mahatma 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... -
Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915-1922 by Judith M. Brown 9780521098731
RRP: $77.98$64.86Dr Brown presents a political study of the first clearly defined period in Mahatma Gandhi's Indian career, from 1915 to 1922. The period began with Gandhi's return from South Africa as a stranger to Indian politics, witnessed his dramatic assertion of... -
The Nehrus by Mushiral Hasan 9788174363909
$51.11Apologies 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 -
An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century by Michael H. Fisher
RRP: $48.73$41.30India, 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... -
Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration by Christopher Snedden
RRP: $68.25$48.95Many disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir's troubled past, this book revisits the topic of independence for the region (also known as Jammu and Kashmir, or J&K), and... -
Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy by James Tharin Bradford
RRP: $52.63$45.47Historians 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... -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: $77.98$68.37In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster by Dominique Lapierre 9780446530880
RRP: $58.50$42.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780446530880Author Dominique LapierreFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Grand Central... -
India and the British Empire by Douglas M. Peers 9780199259885
RRP: $181.35$118.46South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history... -
Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity Robert Aldrich 9781138491502
RRP: $93.58$81.53Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants - the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing... -
Global South Asians: Introducing the modern Diaspora by Judith M. Brown 9780521606301
RRP: $44.83$38.14By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century,... -
Mughal and Rajput Painting by Milo Cleveland Beach 9780521400275
RRP: $175.50$112.48The Mughals - descendants of Timur and Genghiz Khan with strong cultural ties to the Persian world - seized political power in north India in 1526 and became the most important artistically active Muslim dynasty on the subcontinent. In this richly... -
India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism by Waltraud Ernst
RRP: $85.78$74.96This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices,... -
Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement by Ronald M. Davidson 9780231126199
RRP: $68.25$54.87Despite 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...