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From the 1600s, enslaved people, and after abolition of slavery, indentured labourers were transported to work on plantations in distant European colonies. Inhuman conditions and new pathogens often resulted in disease and death. Central to this book is...

This book explores radical challenges to Indian governments' legitimacy and power and the responses of the Indian state and central governments to those challenges. Dr. Calman describes the unintended role Indian governments have played in fostering the...

Dilli ki Khoj is an anecdotal history of Delhi and its monuments by Shri Brij Kishan Chandiwala, an eminent Gandhian. The volume was published in Hindi by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189487812Author Somasundara RaoFormat HardbackPage Count 572Imprint TulikaPublisher Tulika Print Communication ServicesWeight(grams) 666g

This book examines Hinduism from both a historical and contemporary perspective. It provides some interesting insights into factors that shaped and defined Hinduism in the diaspora. It also examines the challenges facing Hinduism in the twenty-first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194126003Author Maya GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint TulikaPublisher TulikaWeight(grams) 380g

This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (1869–1946). A notable politician, diplomat and educationist in colonial India, Sastri was a founding member...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438488769Author Vinayak ChaturvediFormat PaperbackPage Count 479Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Pondicherry had its own history due to its connection with the French. After delving deep into social, cultural, economic aspects of the Pondicherry society, this book focuses on politics and the freedom movement as it developed there, using sources...

First published in 1937, India captures the tense and tumultuous developments in India that would eventually result in her freedom a decade later. The author, unaware of this future of freedom, still holds hope for India's continued existence under the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389000283Author Raghu PalatFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390513802Author Seema BawaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381549Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 466gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 140mm * 20mm

Islam, South Asia & The Cold War is a collection of articles written by A. G. Noorani over the last twenty-five years, and published in various dailies and journals to which he has been a regular contributor, including Frontline, The Statesman, The...

This book presents the socio-cultural and historical trajectories of the Deccan plateau as well as the coastal areas of the current states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa. It studies the art of diplomacy by discussing the diplomatic...

This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.It focuses on the burgeoning ‘psy-disciplines’ – psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy – and their links with religion, science,...

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 hinge of this book is 15 August 1947, the day India became independent. The new leaders of the nation formulated many goals for India’s speedy development. Among these was the promise to provide all urban citizens with decent housing, and thus to...

1) This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Santal rebellion in British India (1855-1856). 2) The book proposes an independent theoretical argument against the founder of the Subaltern School, Ranajit Guha's Gramscian interpretation of the...

A Military History of India since 1972 is a definitive work of military history that gives the Indian military its rightful place as a key contributor to Indian democracy. Arjun Subramaniam offers an engaging narrative that combines superb storytelling...

The nineteenth century saw the beginning of a violent and controversial movement of protest amongst western India's low and untouchable castes, aimed at the effects of their lowly position within the Hindu caste hierarchy. The leaders of this movement...

This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture, politics, and history - and their intersections - in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam, Odisha, Bengal, and their margins, the volume explores...

"In a move still unusual in anthropology, Mines examines relations of power by providing perspectives from a variety of people who are differently, and differentially, empowered. . . . These points are made with an extraordinary richness of ethnographic...

Gandhi, with his loincloth and walking stick, seems an unlikely advocate of postmodernism. But in Postmodern Gandhi, Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph portray him as just that in eight thought-provoking essays that aim to correct the common association of Gandhi...

Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice changed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that transformation, upending the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381631Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 302gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 160mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925612622Author James KurikilamkattFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 574g

Policing is not a popular topic of serious scholarly research. Although a vast literature on policing exists, it is mostly technical in nature and only rarely analytical. Even the police forces of Western Europe and North America have rarely been...

Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing. Humanitarian and development specialists continue to struggle with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590331354Author Sohail MahmoodFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 787g

In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922332905Author Eric BuvelotFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Glass House BooksPublisher Interactive Publications

This book presents one of the first accounts of Christianity in colonial India by a nun. Set in Goa in the early eighteenth century, this translation of Soror Magdalena’s account from Portuguese brings to life a watershed moment in the politics of...

The footsteps and sensory experience of devotees linger in an Indian templeStone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting...

Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police deployed rigid notions of caste in their everyday tasks, refashioning rural identities in a...

In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Burton contends, by using friction as a...

This is one of the first single-author comparisons of different South Asian states around the theme of religious conflict. Based on new research and syntheses of the literature on 'communalism', it argues that religious conflict in this region in the...

By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century,...

The Partition of India in 1947 involved the division of two provinces, Bengal and the Punjab, based on district-wise Hindu or Muslim majorities. The Partition displaced between 10 and 12 million people along religious lines. This book provides a...

In 1946, at the age of 29, the author was chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to act as unofficial emissary between the British Labour Government and India in the delicate negotiations which resulted in the country's independence. His unique position enabled him to...