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Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation by Paul Staniland 9781501761119
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.77In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politics-bringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed political parties in a shared framework-to argue that governments' perception of the ideological threats posed... -
To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics by Rahul Sagar
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.78To 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... -
These Are The Anglo Indians by James Reginald Maher 9781843560128
Booksplease Price: £21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843560128Author James Reginald MaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Simon Wallenberg PressPublisher Simon Wallenberg PressWeight(grams) 177g -
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: £18.97Booksplease Price: £12.98Apologies 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)... -
Manual for a Decent Life by Kavita Jindal 9781944467234
RRP: £14.65Booksplease Price: £11.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944467234Author Kavita JindalFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Brighthorse BooksPublisher Brighthorse BooksWeight(grams) 535g -
Colonialism in Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of the Kandyan Highlands, 1833-1886 by Asoka Bandarage 9781734941401
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734941401Author Asoka BandarageFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Vimukti PublishingPublisher Vimukti PublishingWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169575
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.74Apologies 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... -
The India Museum Revisited by Arthur MacGregor 9781800085725
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085725Author Arthur MacGregorFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 37mm -
Gandhi: Selected Political Writings by Mahatma Gandhi 9780872203303
Booksplease Price: £15.07Based 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... -
The History of Akbar: Volume 8 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.95The 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 Indian Mutiny Letters of Colonel H. P. Pearson by H.P. Pearson 9780948092657
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60In 1858, Ensign Hugh Pearson embarked at Chatham for service with the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment in India, little suspecting that within a few short months he would be taking part in the dramatic events of the Indian Rebellion. His letters to his... -
Atisa Dipamkara: The Illuminator of the Awakened Mind by James Apple 9781611806472
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806472Author James AppleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi
Booksplease Price: £25.59Inspired 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... -
Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about AD 1030 by Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biruni 9781108047197
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £31.96Translated and annotated by orientalist Edward Sachau (1845-1930), this 1887-8 two-volume work is the account by Muslim polymath and traveller Alberuni (973-1048) of Indian political and social life in the medieval period. Sachau published the manuscript... -
The History of Akbar: Volume 7 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £29.14The 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... -
Scars of 1947: Real Partition Stories by Rajeev Shukla
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670095674Author Rajeev ShuklaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space by Manu Goswami 9780226305097
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.63When 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... -
Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture by James McHugh 9780199916320
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £33.11James 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... -
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System by Yashica Dutt 9780807045282
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £17.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807045282Author Yashica DuttFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities by Hani Khafipour
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.91In 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 Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 1660-1760 by K. N. Chaudhuri
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £35.56The 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... -
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar 9780231195850
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.23One 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... -
The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.04In The Nation's Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical... -
Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.57The 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... -
Women in Modern India by Geraldine Forbes 9780521653770
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.98In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women,... -
Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.46How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration... -
Readings of the Lotus Sutra by Stephen F. Teiser 9780231142892
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.06The 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... -
Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires by Nandini Chatterjee
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.43Based 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... -
Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity Robert Aldrich 9781138491502
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.61Ceylon, 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... -
The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print by Charu Gupta
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.04Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits ("untouchables") and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist... -
A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic by Rohit De 9780691174433
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.04It 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... -
Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India by Ali Raza
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.43In 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... -
Caste Conflict Elite Formation by Michael Roberts 9780521052856
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £32.63Caste Conflict and Elite Formation is a study in the social history of Sri Lanka. However, it does not merely document the remarkable successes in business enterprise and in the acquisition of Western-educated professional skills which were achieved by... -
Sarnath - A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began Frederick M. Asher 9781606066164
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.94Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds... -
The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 by Kyle J. Gardner
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £25.85Kyle 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... -
India and South Asia: A Short History by David Ludden
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.50Combining factual information with a critical approach which probes the nature of culture and identity, this concise yet authoritative account paints a graphic picture of an area stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayan mountains. This new... -
Indian Ocean Histories: The Many Worlds of Michael Naylor Pearson by Rila Mukherjee
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.07This 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... -
Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India by Andrew Ollett 9780520296220
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.23At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit... -
The Maurya Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Most Expansive Empire in Ancient India by Captivating History 9781637161647
RRP: £16.97Booksplease Price: £11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161647Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)... -
The Politics of India since Independence by Paul R. Brass 9780521459709
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £33.22The 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...