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India: The Rise of an Asian Giant by Dietmar Rothermund 9780300158274
RRP: $33.58$33.10An authoritative analysis of the political, economic, and social developments behind India’s dramatic rise in global stature With growing economic might, new political influence, and changing social dynamics, India has emerged as a major world power in... -
Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India by Sudha Rajagopalan 9780367686666
$86.67At the intersection of cultural history, material culture studies, memory studies and feminist geopolitics, Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of socialist globalisation constructed around the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in India... -
India: Its Administration & Progress by Sir John Strachey 9781018207902
$50.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 by Nile Green 9780521769242
RRP: $189.00$152.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950 by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 9780521592345
RRP: $180.58$152.40In 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... -
The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 by Prasannan Parthasarathi 9780521570428
RRP: $191.08$161.89According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India,... -
Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850 by Dirk H.A. Kolff 9780521381321
RRP: $193.18$172.22This is a study of an aspect of the ethnohistory of North Indian peasant society: the importance of its military labour market for state and sect formation, for social change as well as for the energetic survival strategies of the villages of Hindustan... -
Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900 by Susan Bayly 9780521372015
RRP: $294.00$249.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Portuguese in India by M. N. Pearson 9780521257138
RRP: $231.00$194.94The 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... -
Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall 9780521253307
RRP: $231.00$194.94The 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... -
Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India by William Gould 9780521172202
RRP: $79.78$65.75In this book William Gould explores what is arguably one of the most important and controversial themes in twentieth-century Indian history and politics: the nature of Hindu nationalism as an ideology and political language. Rather than concentrating on... -
Sleeman in Oudh: An Abridgement of W. H. Sleeman's A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude in 1849-50 by P.D. Reeves 9780521153096
RRP: $65.08$55.50Subject to British interference from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, Oudh was finally annexed in 1856. The diary of W. H. Sleeman's three-month tour through the rural areas of the kingdom in 1849-50 was thus a timely record of the effects of the... -
The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards 9780521251198
RRP: $231.00$195.78The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between... -
Locality, Province and Nation: Essays on Indian Politics 1870 to 1940 by John Gallagher 9780521098113
RRP: $79.78$65.75With the steady growth of interest in the history of India under the British, interpretations have emerged, and they may sharply alter much of our thinking about Indian nationalism and British Imperialism. Some of these historical revisions, and the... -
The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 by Prasannan Parthasarathi 9780521033107
RRP: $83.98$69.85According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India,... -
Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India by Tirthankar Roy 9780521033053
RRP: $102.88$86.25The majority of workers in South Asia are employed in industries that rely on manual labour and craft skills. Some of these industries have existed for centuries and survived great changes in consumption and technology over the last 150 years. In earlier... -
The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence by Ayesha Jalal 9780521051842
RRP: $79.78$68.40When the British dismantled their Raj in 1947 India, as the 'successor' state, inherited the colonial unitary central apparatus whereas Pakistan, as the 'seceding' state, had no semblance of a central government. In The State of Martial Rule Ayesha Jalal... -
Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab by Na Na 9780312228385
$251.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India by William Gould 9780521830614
RRP: $189.00$152.40In this book William Gould explores what is arguably one of the most important and controversial themes in twentieth-century Indian history and politics: the nature of Hindu nationalism as an ideology and political language. Rather than concentrating on... -
Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991 by Sumit Guha 9780521640787
RRP: $218.40$184.61Drawing on a rich collection of sources, Sumit Guha's 1999 book reconstructs the history of the forest communities in western India to explore questions of tribal identity and the environment. In so doing, he demonstrates how the ideology of indigenous... -
Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism: Bombay and the Indian National Congress 1880-1915 by Gordon Johnson 9780521619653
RRP: $71.38$59.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 by C. A. Bayly 9780521570855
RRP: $220.50$173.06In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines... -
The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India by Oliver Mendelsohn 9780521553629
RRP: $180.58$160.67In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led... -
The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama by Claude Markovits 9780521622851
RRP: $191.08$162.73Claude Markovits tells the story of two groups of Hindu merchants from the towns of Shikarpur and Hyderabad in the province of Sind. Basing his account on previously neglected archival sources, the author charts the development of these communities, from... -
Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India by Gyan Prakash 9780521526586
RRP: $107.08$90.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal by John R. McLane 9780521526548
RRP: $90.28$76.00This book examines the politics and culture of landholding in eastern India. Professor McLane explores the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of the zamindars, the landed chiefs, in eighteenth-century western Bengal during the decline of the Mughal... -
Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India 1639-1739 by Stephen P. Blake 9780521522991
RRP: $83.98$69.85From 1400 to 1750, Asian capital cities were often ruled in such a way that they became symbols of the power and influence their emperors extended over their states at large. These 'sovereign cities' became the empire in miniature. Shahjahanabad is the... -
Communications and Power: Propaganda and the Press in the Indian National Struggle, 1920-1947 by Milton Israel 9780521467636
RRP: $77.68$61.64At the end of the First World War, Government of India officials and Indian nationalist politicians began to recognise the need for an organized communications network that could reach out to a large and diverse Indian population. The challenge for... -
The Politics of India since Independence by Paul R. Brass 9780521453622
RRP: $191.08$171.00The 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... -
Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan by Paula R. Newberg 9780521452892
RRP: $231.00$195.78The political history of Pakistan is characterised by incomplete constitution-making, a process which has placed the burden of constitutional interpretation on state instruments ranging from the bureaucracy to the military to the judiciary. In a... -
The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History by Peter Jackson 9780521404778
RRP: $220.50$185.45The Delhi Sultanate was the first Islamic state to be established in India. In a broad-ranging, accessible narrative, Peter Jackson traces the history of the Sultanate from its foundation in 1210 to its demise in 1400 at the sack of Delhi by the Central... -
Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law by Elizabeth Kolsky 9780521116862
RRP: $189.00$151.56Colonial Justice in British India describes and examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial India. By foregrounding crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of European characters - planters, paupers, soldiers and sailors -... -
The Sikhs of the Punjab by J. S. Grewal 9780521268844
RRP: $203.68$173.06In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume... -
The Marathas 1600-1818 by Stewart Gordon 9780521268837
RRP: $231.00$194.94In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India during... -
Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770 by Sugata Bose 9780521266949
RRP: $218.40$184.61This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change under British colonial rule. Sugata Bose analyses the relationships between demography, commercialization, class... -
A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives by Richard Maxwell Eaton 9780521254847
RRP: $191.08$161.89In this fascinating account of one of the least known parts of South Asia, Eaton recounts the history of the Deccan plateau in southern India from the fourteenth century to the rise of European colonialism. He does so, vividly, through the lives of eight... -
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire by C. A. Bayly 9780521250924
RRP: $191.08$161.89The past twenty years have seen a proliferation of specialist scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from recent work and seeks in particular to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi by Judith M. Brown 9780521116701
RRP: $157.50$119.05Even 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... -
Caste Conflict Elite Formation by Michael Roberts 9780521052856
RRP: $81.88$67.79Caste 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... -
India's Exports and Export Policies in the 1960's by Deepak Nayyar 9780521048798
RRP: $77.68$67.79This book examines India's export performance and export policies in the 1960s. The author analyses the causal factors underlying the trends in exports and evaluates the government policies which affected them. This authoritative work will be of interest...