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Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism by Tom Sykes 9780755640393
£30.33The 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: £45.99£40.13This 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: £105.00£68.62The 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... -
Indians in Malaya: Some Aspects of their Immigration and Settlement (1786-1957) by Kernial Singh Sandhu 9780521148139
RRP: £44.99£38.14This book discusses the Indians who lived in Malaya and the effects of their presence on Malayan social and economic development between 1786 and 1957, the period of British rule. Professor Sandhu examines in detail the character and flow of Indian... -
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780691070308
RRP: £45.00£35.32Dipesh 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
£23.24The 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... -
Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading by Isabel Hofmeyr
RRP: £35.95£28.96At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi's Printing Press is an account of how this... -
Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta by Souvik Naha
RRP: £75.00£67.74What prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a scholar of medieval Bengali literature remark, 'Had life been a sport, it would be cricket'? Who do journalists vindicate by promoting... -
Lady Nugent's East India Journal: A Critical Edition by Lady Maria Nugent
RRP: £80.00£73.06In 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... -
The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration by Sebastian Raj Pender 9781316511336
RRP: £75.00£67.74The Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge were sacred places within the British imagination of India. Sanctified by the colonial administration in commemoration of victory over the 'Sepoy Mutiny' of 1857, they were read as emblems of empire... -
Separatism Among Indian Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces' Muslims, 1860-1923 by Francis Robinson 9780521048262
RRP: £30.99£28.68Why some Indian Muslims under British rule should have organised politics on a communal basis is one of the most important problems in the history of the subcontinent. Insistence on a separate Muslim political identity led eventually to the foundation of... -
Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City by Dr. Madhuri Desai
£32.86Between 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 Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India by Milinda Banerjee 9781107166561
RRP: £90.00£81.43The Mortal God is a study in intellectual history which uncovers how actors in colonial India imagined various figures of human, divine, and messianic rulers to battle over the nature and locus of sovereignty. It studies British and Indian... -
History of Ancient India by Rama Shankar Tripathi 9788120800182
£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120800182Author Rama Shankar TripathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsPublisher Motilal Banarsidass... -
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai by Lisa Bjorkman
RRP: £21.99£19.19Winner, 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 Indian Uprising of 1857-8: Prisons, Prisoners and Rebellion by Clare Anderson 9781843312956
RRP: £17.99£17.40This 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,... -
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000 by Sumit Guha
RRP: £27.99£24.14In 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... -
The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India by Harleen Singh 9781107042803
RRP: £76.99£69.50Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure... -
The Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and Collaboration in the Later Nineteenth Century by Anil Seal 9780521096522
RRP: £44.99£38.14In this volume Dr Seal analyses the social roots of the rather confused stirrings towards political organisations of the 1870s and 1880s which brought about the foundation of the Indian National Congress. He is concerned not only with the politicians,... -
Concubinage, Race and Law in Early Colonial Bengal: Bequeathing Intimacy, Servicing the Empire by Ruchika Sharma 9781032324647
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book analyzes the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early colonial Bengal. It provides a fresh look into the history of imperial expansion and colonial encounters by studying the large number of wills... -
Private Investment in India 1900-1939 by Amiya Kumar Bagchi 9780521052757
RRP: £41.99£32.68This book deals with the history of private investment in India and its determinants during the period 1900-1939. It develops a simple theoretical framework in its first part and tries to isolate the influence on private investment in India of factor... -
Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India by Lee Siegel
£37.55Scholar and magician, Siegel uncovers the age-old practices of magic in sacred rites and rituals and unveils the contemporary world of Indian magic of street and stage entertainers. Siegel's journeys take him from ancient Sanskrit texts to the slums of... -
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor by Assistant Professor Juned Shaikh
RRP: £27.99£24.14Caste, 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... -
Hul! Hul!: The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in British India, 1855 by Peter Stanley
RRP: £40.00£35.53If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal 'Hul' (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army's... -
The Babri Masjid Question, 1528-2003 - `A Matter of National Honour` by A. G. Noorani
RRP: £35.00£28.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381457Author A. G. NooraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 172mm * 25mm -
Remembrances by Mir Taqi Mir
RRP: £29.95£23.66A 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... -
Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy by Ian Stone 9780521526630
RRP: £30.99£28.28Although one of the acknowledged achievements of the British Raj was the extensive construction of irrigation works, their effects have to date been little studied by historians. In this book Dr Stone has undertaken the first full-scale study of the... -
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire by Seema Alavi 9780674735330
RRP: £45.95£37.09Muslim 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... -
Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination by Chitralekha Zutshi 9780199481347
RRP: £10.99£9.92Kashmir's Contested Pasts is a long history of the historical imagination in Kashmir. It explores the articulation, within Kashmir's multilingual historical tradition, of the idea of Kashmir and the idea of history in conversation with each other... -
Constructing Islam on the Indus: The Material History of the Suhrawardi Sufi Order, 1200-1500 AD Hasan Ali Khan 9781107062900
RRP: £71.99£65.47This book represents the first serious consideration of Ismaili-Shia esotericism in material and architectural terms, as well as of pre-modern conceptions of religious plurality in rituals and astrology. Sufism has long been reckoned to have connections... -
Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
RRP: £24.99£21.67Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing... -
Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay by Sheetal Chhabria
RRP: £27.99£24.14In 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... -
Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia by Shankar Nair
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the... -
Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation by Chitralekha Zutshi 9781108402101
RRP: £26.99£22.80On the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence, Partition, and the creation of Pakistan, this ground breaking collection brings together fourteen cutting-edge scholarly essays on multiple aspects of both the region and the issue of Kashmir. While... -
Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati
RRP: £39.99£35.06The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of... -
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India by David Arnold
RRP: £22.99£19.56Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India... -
Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal by Pika Ghosh 9780295746999
£56.15In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers,... -
Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India by Ritu Birla
RRP: £23.99£21.24In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India's market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage... -
From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab by Pippa Virdee
RRP: £75.00£67.74This 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... -
India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh by Chris Moffat
RRP: £30.99£25.45What do anti-colonial histories mean for politics in contemporary India? How can we understand a political terrain that appears crowded with the dead, heroic figures from past struggles who call the living to account and demand action? What role do these...