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This is the story of the magnificent Jodhpur Lancers - one of India's most charismatic cavalry regiments - even as centenary celebrations begin of their finest hour, their extraordinary victory at the Battle of Haifa (now in Israel) in 1918. Indeed, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173048302Author Hernaikh SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

India is undergoing a great transition, as the post-reform generation strikes out into the world. The thinking, attitudes, culture, political preferences, consumption patterns and ambitions of the post-reform generations differ greatly from that of the...

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred...

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

Any attempt to homogenize Kashmiri society or the politico-cultural discourse on Kashmir is a dangerously flawed exercise. To that end, the chapters in this book address various aspects of the political, cultural, and socioeconomic life in Kashmir. These...

First published in 1933 Renascent India aims to explain the how and why of the Indian problem and it really succeeds in explaining them, by marshalling all the relevant facts of hundred years from 1833-1932. The book represents inside knowledge and is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501764134Author Reena KukrejaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354356674Author Dr Pramod K. NayarFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354356087Author Dr Pramod K. NayarFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places of worship. Their efforts failed as the ideals they presented...

This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon, not confined to linguistic parameters alone. It...

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...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304934Author Lisa BjörkmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394701915Author Dr Pramod K. NayarFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

This book identifies and describes the first stage in the advent and growth of English education in India. The first schools in India were the charity schools, asylums and orphanages opened under the auspices of the Church of England for religious...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193926918Author Suvira JaiswalFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 666g

The foundations of politics in Tamil Nadu today are rooted in the rising consciousness and various organizations of what may be broadly termed "the Dravidian Movement" of the late nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354358463Author Dr Pramod K. NayarFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354356582Author Dr Pramod K. NayarFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues...

Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189487478Author D. N. JhaFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint TulikaPublisher Tulika Print Communication ServicesWeight(grams) 666g

Nearly a century after his death, the image of Sai Baba, the serene old man with the white beard from Shirdi village in Maharashtra, India, is instantly recognizable to most South Asians (and many Westerners) as a guru for all faiths—Hindus, Muslims, and...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

The Hunger of the Republic: Our Present in Retrospect is the first of a series of volumes that turn back to India's recent history to produce a retrospective account of how our present got shaped. A return to the last three decades, and to the mutations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354358869Author Dr Pramod K. NayarFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

First published in 1988, The Bhopal Syndrome documents one of world's worst industrial disaster: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. The tragedy exposed a variety of issues plaguing rapid development such as the negligence of corporations and government,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354351488Author R MahalakshmiFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

One of the only ethnographic studies of Dalit women, this book gives a rich account of individual Dalit women's lives and documents a rise in patriarchy in the community. The author argues that as Dalits' economic and political position improves,...

In 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...

This edited translation of Syed Nur Ahmad's landmark study, Martial Law-se Martial Law-tak, provides the most comprehensive study in English or Urdu of the politics of the Punjab. Drawing on his career as a journalist and as former director of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197567135Author Asma FaizFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late...