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Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India by Stephen Legg
RRP: $46.18$40.30Officially 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... -
Ancient India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization Through the Invasion of Alexander the Great to the Mauryan Empire by Captivating History 9781637165393
RRP: $50.38$34.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165393Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)... -
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia 9780393338607
RRP: $49.35$39.80One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan's... -
The Portuguese in India by M. N. Pearson 9780521028509
RRP: $48.28$41.08The 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... -
Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940 Anthony Cox (University of Dundee, UK) 9781138948365
RRP: $92.38$80.72Presenting 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,... -
Paper, Performance and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India by Farhat Hasan 9781316516812
RRP: $157.50$142.25This book explores the changing socio-cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new... -
Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India by Ananya Vajpeyi
RRP: $94.40$76.27What 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... -
Roads to Freedom: Prisoners in Colonial India by Mushirul Hasan
RRP: $54.58$49.10This book examines the history of prison and prisoners in colonial India. Based on substantial archival research, it presents the conditions of the prisoners, their vision for the freedom movement and the various aspects of prisons in the subcontinent... -
The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947 by Ian Copland
RRP: $48.28$43.39Ian Copland's comprehensive and fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes, the maharajas and nawabs of South Asia, in the devolution of British colonial power is long overdue. By rehabilitating the princes as subjects of serious... -
Purifying the Land of the Pure: A History of Pakistan's Religious Minorities by Farahnaz Ispahani 9780190621650
RRP: $65.08$55.23When Pakistan was founded in 1947, it had a rich tapestry of different religious groups, ranging from Sunni and Shiite Muslims to Christians, Parsis, Hindus, and Jainists. Non-Muslims comprised 23 percent of the total population, and non-Sunnis comprised... -
Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema by Anindya Raychaudhuri
RRP: $172.20$112.88The 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... -
The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule Audrey Truschke 9780231197052
RRP: $63.00$57.52For 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... -
Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition by David Arnold
RRP: $123.90$96.47Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the so-called traditional... -
Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire by Sukanya Banerjee
RRP: $46.18$40.30In 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,... -
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future by Martha Nussbaum
RRP: $56.60$45.80While 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... -
Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 by Ainslie T. Embree 9781469670799
RRP: $62.90$58.38Defining a Nation is set at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various religious and political constituencies to work out the future of Britain's largest colony. Will the British transfer power to... -
The Mughal Empire and British Raj: A Captivating Guide to the History of India, Starting from the Mughals to the British Empire by Captivating History 9781647488451
RRP: $39.84$27.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488451Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)... -
Armies of the Raj: From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947 by Byron Farwell 9780393308020
RRP: $45.15$38.26"The stories are glorious and told with zest and verve."-Washington TimesAbout the AuthorDuring the Second World War, Byron Farwell (1921-1999) served as a captain of engineers attached to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in the British Eighth Army... -
Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India by James W. Laine 9780195141269
RRP: $184.80$153.89Shivaji was a 17th-century hero in western India, where his legend is well known and an important part of Hindu nationalist ideology. His legend expresses deeply held convictions about what Hinduism is, and how it is opposed to Islam. James Laine traces... -
A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna by Amitava Kumar 9780822357049
RRP: $41.98$37.67It 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... -
Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950 by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 9780521596923
RRP: $90.28$76.84In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian... -
Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India by Sanjay Seth 9780822341055
RRP: $46.18$40.30Subject 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... -
Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War by Victoria Schofield
RRP: $48.28$42.23The 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan by Yasmin Saikia 9781108705240
RRP: $52.48$44.48This volume examines Sayyid Ahmad Khan's life, his contribution, and legacy in the context of current times. The editors engage his writings, ideas, and activities to read and present his work critically, not as a biographical account of his life but... -
The Veda in Kashmir, Volumes I and II: History and Present State of Vedic Tradition in the Western Himalayas by Michael Witzel 9780674258273
RRP: $212.00$174.32The Veda in Kashmir presents a detailed history and the current state of Veda tradition in Kashmir. It traces the vicissitudes of Vedic texts and rituals and their survival during some 400 years of Muslim rule. The peculiarities of the Sakalya Rgveda,... -
The Destruction of Hyderabad by A. G. Noorani
RRP: $73.50$66.44The 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... -
The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India by Teena Purohit 9780674066397
$131.73An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 2: Volume 2 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $62.90$50.53The 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... -
M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism by Kris Manjapra
RRP: $77.68$68.31This 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... -
Pakistan Kristine Mlis Spanier 9781645273479
$22.24Apologies 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... -
A Treatise on Dharma by Yajnavalkya
RRP: $62.90$49.69A 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... -
Tuhlat Al Mujahidm: A Historical Epic of the Sixteenth Century by Shaykh Makhdum 9789839154801
RRP: $50.38$28.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789839154801Author Shaykh MakhdumFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Islamic Book TrustPublisher Islamic Book Trust -
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952 by Pallavi Raghavan
RRP: $84.00$75.45In 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... -
Understanding Bangladesh by S. Mahmud Ali
RRP: $47.25$42.67Bangladesh, 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... -
A History of Colonial India: 1757 to 1947 Himanshu Roy 9781032159676
RRP: $75.58$66.55This 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... -
From Raj to Republic: Sovereignty, Violence, and Democracy in India by Sunil Purushotham
RRP: $58.78$50.69Between 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... -
Boundaries Undermined: the Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border by Delwar Hussain 9781849042321
RRP: $94.50$83.62When 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... -
Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism by Tom Sykes 9780755640393
$63.69The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial... -
Warfare in Pre-British India - 1500BCE to 1740CE Kaushik Roy 9780815358022
RRP: $96.58$84.27This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of... -
The Indian Army and the End of the Raj by Daniel Marston 9780521899758
RRP: $220.50$144.10The Partition of British India in 1947 resulted in the establishment of the independent states of India and Pakistan and the end of the British Raj. The decision to divide British India along religious lines led to widespread upheaval and communal...