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As a Princely State, Hyderabad was the largest in population among over 560 tributary states under British paramountcy in colonial India. This book is a collection of profiles and sketches of some of the most important and influential people from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367169794Author Syed Nur AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

This collection brings together nine essays, accompanied by nine short translations that expand the assumptions that have typically framed literary histories, and creatively re-draws their boundaries, both temporally and spatially. The essays, rooted in...

This book looks at the first eight Sanskrit law codes written in India, between 600 BCE and 570 ACE. It focuses on the legal, religious and ethical customs which were codified in this period and their impact on the social and political life of women. ...

Essays on Marxism and Asia begins with the largely forgotten prophet of ancient Iran Zarathushtra, remembered and immortalized by Friedrich Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. In contrast to the infamous clash of civilization thesis, this book argues...

Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst...

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust, literate classical tradition, separate from the assorted, vernacular traditions of healing practices. It focuses on the dominant perspectives and theories of indigenous...

This volume brings together essays that discuss and contextualise Gandhi's ideas on pluralism, religious identity, non-violence, satyagraha, and modernity. It interrogates the epistemic foundations of Gandhian thinking and weltanschauung, identifies...

This book critically analyses Partition experiences from East Bengal in 1947 and its prolonged aftermath leading to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. It looks at how newly emerged borderlands at the time of Partition affected lives and triggered...

Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands analyses the relationship between symbolic violence, inequality and ethnicity, and addresses the question of unequal integration of small ethnic groups into state structures by using the Limbus of...

The book attempts to trace an overview of the different components that define the cultural landscape of the state of Odisha in relation to its history, religious cults, art, and literature and to link the development of the various aspects to the role...

The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor's private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and...

This volume analyses the Trial of Bahadur Shah, a watershed moment in 19th century colonial history of India. The Trial of Bahadur Shah raises the contentious issue of sovereignty - trial of the Emperor Bahadur Shah, de jure power by de facto claimant to...

Weaving together the varied and complex strands of anti-colonial nationalism into one compact narrative, Christhu Doss takes an incisive look at the deeper and wider historical process of decolonisation in India. In India After the 1857 Revolt, Doss...

This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval periods in South Asia. Despite the incorporation and use of archaeological data to corroborate historical narratives, the...

This book studies the internal framework of the Indo-Pacific region and examines the strategic issues faced by the countries that belong to it. Over the years, the Indo-Pacific region has become a prime driver of global economic growth and has generated...

This book is a significant contribution to the socio-political history of science and technology in India, combining a wholistic perspective with a strong regional flavour. It revolves around two basic issues. First is the role of science and technology...

The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India. Communities and groups turn to the courts to seek positive recognition of their religious identities or sentiments, as well as a validation of their practices. Equally clearly,...

This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manufacturers advanced a 'brand-name capitalism' among the Indian middle class by promoting the sale of global...

India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381396Author Akeel BilgramiFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 702gDimensions(mm) 261mm * 163mm * 25mm

First published in 1963, Massacre at Amritsar recreates the terrible scene of the Jallianwala Bagh from the stories of eyewitnesses and survivors. General Dyer's action at Amritsar on April 13, 1919 flared up into one of the most heated political and...

When we understand that something is a pot, is it because of one property that all pots share? This seems unlikely, but without this common essence, it is difficult to see how we could teach someone to use the word "pot" or to see something as a pot. The...

This book looks at conflict zones in the Asia Pacific with a special focus on secessionist groups/movements in the Indian Northeast, Tibet, Chinese Xinjiang, the Burmese borderlands, Kashmir in South Asia, CHT in Bangladesh, South Thailand, and Aceh in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193401545Author Irfan HabibFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 162mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189487447Author Shireen MoosviFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint TulikaPublisher Tulika Print Communication ServicesWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating...

This Handbook brings together essays that introduce the reader to the key issues in South Asian political development. Written by experts in their respective areas, the essays explore key aspects of political economy, political and economic change, and...

In 1801, at the age of just 20 years old, Ranjit Singh became the Maharaja of the Punjab Empire and subsequently became one of the greatest figures in the history of India. He was a fiercely brave leader, capturing the city of Lahore before becoming...

The grace of fiction combined with the power of historyBook InformationISBN 9780773528918Author Donald Harman AkensonFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams) 1300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544705395Author Nisid HajariFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Connecting the Indian Ocean World explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world.The book looks at the...

The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues...

Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies, and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300272680Author Joya ChatterjiFormat HardbackPage Count 880Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. Media and Utopia responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788733205Author Carlos Sardina GalacheFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso BooksWeight(grams) 567g

The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354350665Author Susan VisvanathanFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197631300Author Mohammad WaseemFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA