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Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: $39.88$29.42'Essential reading ... will not be bettered' Ferdinand Mount, Wall Street Journal'Gandhi's finest biographer' David Kynaston, GuardianThe magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historianA New York Times Notable Book of 2018Gandhi lived... -
Access to History: Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform in Britain 1780-1928 for Edexcel by Michael Scott-Baumann
$52.94Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for Edexcel.Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis,... -
India, Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Liberation & Pakistan (A Political Treatise) by Sashanka S Banerjee 9781463590888
RRP: $20.98$19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463590888Author Sashanka S BanerjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
RRP: $42.00$28.04A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts... -
The Billionaire Raj: SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 by James Crabtree
RRP: $20.98$14.93SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A Financial Times Book of the Year and an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year India's explosive rise has driven inequality to new extremes, with millions trapped in slums as... -
Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom by Sanjeev Sanyal
RRP: $37.78$31.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356295940Author Sanjeev SanyalFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 220mm... -
Coromandel: A Personal History of South India by Charles Allen
RRP: $31.48$20.58COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book... -
Complete Sanskrit: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Sanskrit, with Original Texts by Michael Coulson
RRP: $83.98$54.92Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Sanskrit offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the inscriptions and... -
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram 9780007575572
RRP: $23.08$14.95WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021 'Helps re-centre how we look at the... -
Coming Home by Sue Gee
RRP: $23.08$15.54Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives there - as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army - will be returning to England. Among those... -
The Indus: Lost Civilizations by Andrew Robinson
RRP: $27.20$19.05The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: $63.00$50.02A 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... -
The Incredible History of the Indian Ocean by Sanyal, Sanjeev 9780143446019
RRP: $16.70$12.39An adaptation of The Ocean of Churn for young readersWhen did the first humans arrive in India and how did they get here?What are Roman artefacts from hundreds of years ago doing in a town near Puducherry?How did merchants from Arabia end up near... -
Poems from the Guru Granth Sahib by Guru Nanak
RRP: $62.90$54.50An exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the sacred tenets cherished by millions of Sikhs worldwide.Guru Nanak (1469-1539), a native of Panjab, founded the Sikh religion. His vast corpus of nearly a thousand hymns forms the core... -
Latitudes of Longing: A prizewinning literary epic of the subcontinent, nature, climate and love by Shubhangi Swarup
RRP: $23.08$15.54** The phenomenal Indian bestseller ** **Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award **'Intense, lyrical, and powerful. This is a remarkable debut' Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis and The Book of Chocolate Saints'Latitudes of Longing... -
Southeast Asia: A History in Objects by Alexandra Green
RRP: $67.20$44.12A new take on Southeast Asia's complex history, expertly told through art objects and cultural artefacts dating from the Neolithic Age to the present. Southeast Asia is home to numerous world heritage sites. Through engaging texts and expertly curated... -
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour 9780712665650
RRP: $27.28$19.09In 1900 just over a thousand British civil servants ruled a population of nearly 300 million people spread over a territory now covered by India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh. In its time, the Indian Civil Service was regarded as efficient, benevolent... -
The Gift of Anger: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Arun Gandhi
RRP: $23.08$16.32Be inspired in 2020 by Ghandi's ten lessons for life.Gandhi was an icon, but what would he teach us if he were alive today? ___________In this Sunday Times bestseller, his grandson Arun reveals the ten vital and extraordinary lessons his grandfather... -
Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows by Thupten Jinpa
RRP: $56.70$40.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806465Author Thupten JinpaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony by Sujit Sivasundaram
RRP: $88.20$85.70How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the island... -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393239348
RRP: $46.18$41.18In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she... -
The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics by John Clifford Holt
RRP: $65.10$58.46The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island's recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian... -
The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: $52.50$35.24The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted 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... -
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass 9781849044578
RRP: $63.00$56.34New York Times Book of the Year The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the... -
India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750-2000 by Claude Markovits
RRP: $50.38$42.78In this pioneering history of modern India, Claude Markovits offers a new interpretation of events of world importance, focusing on the multiplicity of connections between India and the world. Beginning with an examination of India's evolving role in the... -
Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947 by Joya Chatterji
RRP: $48.28$43.39Whereas previous studies of the end of British rule in India have concentrated on the negotiations of the transfer of power at the all-India level or have considered the emergence of separatist politics amongst India's Muslim minorities, this study... -
The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781783082339
RRP: $147.00$138.52In this path-breaking new work, Ali Usman Qasmi traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan by drawing on revealing new sources. This volume is the first scholarly study of the declassified material of... -
Risalo by Shah Abdul Latif
RRP: $62.90$49.54The greatest classic of Sindhi literature presented here in an authoritative and vivid modern English translation.Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this... -
Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 by Kalyani Ramnath 9781503636095
RRP: $54.58$46.28For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and... -
Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 by Nancy K. Shields 9781780600796
RRP: $27.28$18.06Henrietta is a true original. Clever, vivacious and interested in everything, she managed to balance the demands of high profile public life with that of a caring mother. She was the home-schooled daughter of a bankrupt Earl and more than just a little... -
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
RRP: $20.98$14.28Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is... -
1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India by Anam Zakaria 9780143454038
RRP: $46.10$31.84The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, its liberation... -
The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and The Indus Civilization by Asko Parpola 9780190226923
$130.43Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus... -
The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden 9780008353179
RRP: $35.68$32.57'A tour de force of luminous writing.' Mark Cocker, Spectator 'Imagine if your family had lived in the mountains for a thousand years or more, what effect would that have upon your mind and your... -
The East India Company, 1600-1858: A Short History with Documents by Ian Barrow
RRP: $39.88$32.19In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China's... -
A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara Daly Metcalf
RRP: $48.28$39.35A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students... -
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha 9780008498764
RRP: $52.50$37.84WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced... -
The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India by Philip J. Stern
$109.60Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining... -
Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash
RRP: $46.20$36.52This is a place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have... -
Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris by Christopher Snedden
RRP: $42.00$36.67In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called 'Kashmir' - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over...