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Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781408829004
RRP: $21.92$16.59The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong, new difficulties, resulting from British... -
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: $19.34$14.13SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymple, Spectator A sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival... -
Bhagat Singh: A Life in Revolution by Satvinder S. Juss 9780670095230
RRP: $38.69$25.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670095230Author Satvinder S. JussFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
Tibet: A History by Sam van Schaik
RRP: $19.34$16.81A timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan today Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the... -
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941-45 by Robert Lyman
RRP: $32.25$24.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'This is a superb book.' - James Holland In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories... -
India before Europe by Catherine B. Asher
RRP: $38.69$34.92India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was ever the case, and at no time more so than in the India that existed from... -
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab by Marina Wheeler
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times'A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora... Wheeler taps a rich vein of... -
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
RRP: $12.89$9.17**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** 'Haunting ... lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned' Sunday Times 'A compelling whodunnit ... Devastating'... -
The Indian Mutiny by Julian Spilsbury
RRP: $11.60$8.00An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courageThe Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate... -
Electric Arches by Eve Ewing
RRP: $12.89$9.17Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical... -
Modern India: A Very Short Introduction by Craig Jeffrey
RRP: $11.60$8.32India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes... -
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
RRP: $29.67$19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003619Author Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Ahoms: A Reimagined History by Arup Kumar Dutta
$27.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356294141Author Arup Kumar DuttaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm)... -
The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors by Abraham Eraly
RRP: $21.92$14.89A history of the great Mughal rulers of India, one of the world's greatest empires.In December 1525 Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At the battle... -
The Hydaspes 326 BC: The Limit of Alexander the Great’s Conquests by Nic Fields
RRP: $21.92$15.84The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece. In the years that followed Alexander the Great's victory at Gaugamela on 1 October 331 BC, his Macedonian and Greek army fought a truly... -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities by Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: $51.59$45.23In 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... -
The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: $16.76$11.09Longlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST 'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE SUNDAY TIMES'So far as adventure stories go, this book is tops.'... -
Japanese Conquest of Burma 1942: The Advance to the Gates of India by Tim Moreman
RRP: $20.63$14.98This book provides a fascinating exploration of the Japanese conquest of Burma, as the Allied forces were forced back in disarray to India and China. The Japanese invasion of Burma in January 1942 marked the beginning of the single longest campaign of... -
Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India by Ali Raza
RRP: $32.24$28.86In 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... -
Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $16.76$11.04India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its exploitation and reflect its ambition. But, by building India's railways, Britain radically changed the nation and unwittingly planted the seed... -
Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India by Zahid R. Chaudhary
RRP: $33.53$28.95Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857... -
The History and Topography of Ireland by Gerald of Wales
RRP: $12.89$9.17Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry... -
Kohima 1944: The Battle That Saved India by Robert Lyman 9781846039393
RRP: $21.92$16.59In March 1944, the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising against British rule. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go, which was intended as a feint to draw British attention... -
Ramayana by Daljit Nagra
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Ramayana is one of the great epics of the ancient world, with versions spanning the cultures, religions and languages of Asia. Its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld, has enchanted... -
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now by Fay Blanchard 9781781301258
RRP: $38.70$28.37A richly illustrated exploration of the impact of South Asian Miniature painting on contemporary art. This book tells the dynamic story of contemporary art's engagement with the miniature painting traditions of South Asia from the sixteenth century... -
Against a Peacock Sky: Two Years in the Life of a Nepalese Village by Monica Connell 9781780600420
RRP: $16.76$11.09For two years Monica Connell lived as a paying guest of Kalchu and Chola in the Nepalese Himalayan village of Talphi, ten days walk from the nearest road. This book poetically captures the immediacy of Connell's experience, and her empathy and sense of... -
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon by Angela McCarthy
RRP: $38.70$37.29This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the... -
AKBAR: The Great Mughal by Ira Mukhoty
RRP: $52.88$52.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389836042Author Ira MukhotyFormat HardbackPage Count 642Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book CompanyWeight(grams) 831gDimensions(mm) 230mm *... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot
RRP: $28.38$21.92A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
Mod Lib The Baburnama by W. M. Thackston
RRP: $24.50$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761379Author W.M. ThackstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History by Sunil Amrith
RRP: $14.18$10.02'An enthralling, elegantly written and, ultimately, profoundly alarming history' EconomistA bold new perspective on the history of South Asia, telling its story through its climate, and the long quest to tame its watersSouth Asia's history has been... -
The Last Prince of Bengal: An Indian Family's Journey from Royalty to Obscurity in the Age of Empire by Lynn Innes
RRP: $25.80$18.64The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful royal families. Three times the size of Great Britain, his kingdom ranged from the soaring Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. However, in 1880, he was forced to abdicate by the British authorities,... -
The Hunt for Mount Everest by Craig Storti 9781529331530
RRP: $25.80$15.54The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mt. Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain... -
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India by Christophe Jaffrelot 9781849044295
RRP: $38.70$34.09In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician thrice elected to lead a state of the Indian Union, his stewardship as Chief Minister of Gujarat being the longest in that state's history. Modi and his BJP supporters explained his... -
The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism by Thant Myint-U
RRP: $12.89$8.64A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020A New York Times Critic's Pick 2019'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' Financial Times'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' William DalrymplePrecariously positioned between China and... -
Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire by Priya Atwal 9781787383081
RRP: $32.25$28.35In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh, whose Sikh Empire stretched throughout northwestern India... -
Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
RRP: $21.92$15.84'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles TimesGeorge Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched ... -
Can Art History be Made Global?: Meditations from the Periphery by Monica Juneja
RRP: $57.41$51.56The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor seek to bring the entire world into its fold. Instead,... -
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India by Supriya Gandhi 9780674987296
RRP: $36.06$31.09The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history.Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for... -
Imphal 1944: The Japanese invasion of India by Hemant Singh Katoch
RRP: $20.63$14.98In March 1944, the Japanese Fifteenth Army launched an offensive into India from Burma. Named 'U Go', its main objective was the capture of the town of Imphal, which provided the easiest route between India and Burma. Whoever controlled it, controlled...