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A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara Daly Metcalf
RRP: €27.36€22.30A 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: €29.75€21.44WINNER 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
€62.11Almost 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: €26.18€20.69This 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: €23.80€20.78In 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... -
Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
RRP: €17.84€13.03Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired... -
Ganesh: Remover of Obstacles by James H. Bae
RRP: €11.89€7.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839330Author Mandala PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing Group -
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: €13.08€8.63WINNER 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 Laws of Manu by Wendy Doniger
RRP: €17.84€13.03The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. Manu encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the... -
Valmiki's Ramayana by Arshia Sattar
RRP: €41.65€37.57One of India's greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians... -
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction by Bhikhu Parekh
RRP: €10.70€7.68Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of... -
The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition by C. J. Fuller
RRP: €47.60€36.82Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of... -
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster
RRP: €13.08€9.25R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. From 1970, things were changing in Ireland - the Celtic... -
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia
RRP: €29.74€25.26Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is... -
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury
RRP: €17.84€13.03SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING PRIZE 'Witty, polished, honest and insightful, The Epic City is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta's classic Maximum City is for Mumbai' William... -
Their Infantry and Guns Will Astonish You': The Army of Hindustan and European Mercenaries in Maratha Service 1780-1803 by Andy Copestake 9781914059773
RRP: €29.75€24.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059773Author Andy CopestakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Atisa Dipamkara: The Illuminator of the Awakened Mind by James Apple 9781611806472
RRP: €27.37€18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806472Author James AppleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
RRP: €27.37€17.49Apologies 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 -
Nemesis: A brand-new historical epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781804182284
RRP: €20.22€13.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWilbur Smith (Author) Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has... -
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling
RRP: €69.02€56.08A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite... -
Die in Battle, Do Not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Stanley
RRP: €35.64€29.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059148Author Peter StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 by Kate O'Malley 9780719081712
RRP: €23.79€20.75Offering a fresh new perspective on the history of the end of Empire, with the Irish and Indian independence movements as its focus, this book details how each country's nationalist agitators engaged with each other and exchanged ideas. Using previously... -
India: A Portrait by Patrick French 9780141041575
RRP: €15.46€11.29Patrick French's India: A Portrait tells the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a vibrant democracy with one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. India is the biggest democracy on earth, a... -
Tamil: A Biography by David Shulman 9780674059924
RRP: €36.83€28.95Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a... -
Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee
RRP: €22.60€19.78The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the... -
The Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi's campaign to transform India by Lance Price
RRP: €13.08€8.39How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. ... -
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz by Sarah Fee
€42.27The story of India's exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world Chintz, a type of multicolored printed or painted cotton cloth, originated in India yet exerted influence far beyond its home shores:... -
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu
RRP: €44.63€39.82A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries "Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early... -
The Palace of Lost Dreams by Charlotte Betts
RRP: €10.70€7.03A sumptuously evocative story set in 18th century India from bestselling author Charlotte Betts, perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies, Lucinda Riley and Jenny Ashcroft.'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fforde on The Apothecary's... -
A Short History of the Mughal Empire by Michael Fisher
RRP: €17.84€17.06The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of... -
Sufi Lyrics by Bullhe Shah
RRP: €35.64€28.07A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day.The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature. Born in Uch, Panjab,... -
First Buddhist Women: Songs and Stories from the Therigatha by Susan Murcott 9781888375541
RRP: €30.94€20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888375541Author Susan MurcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 152mm *... -
Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana by Michael Crowley 9780907791744
RRP: €20.22€14.36Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and religious iconography, this book calls attention to... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: €40.40€32.00From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West.Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on... -
My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef
RRP: €20.22€17.81Abdul Zaeef describes growing up in poverty in rural Kandahar province, which he fled for Pakistan after the Russian invasion of 1979. Zaeef joined the jihad in 1983, was seriously wounded in several encounters and met many leading figures of the... -
The Newlyweds: Young People Fighting for Love in the New India by Mansi Choksi
RRP: €20.22€13.78'Staggeringly good... Much like Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, it reads more like a novel than a piece of non-fiction... it does what all great writing should - it puts us into the world of someone else, so completely that days later I find myself missing... -
India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947 by Bipan Chandra
RRP: €16.60€12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140107814Author Bipan ChandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India by David Gordon White 9780226894997
€40.39David Gordon White excavates and seeks to centre within its broader Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. This comprehensive study draws upon the ancient Sanskrit and medieval Hindu materials and asserts medieval traditions of Hindu... -
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport 9780691192703
RRP: €26.18€20.22How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its... -
Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation by Hafsa Kanjwal 9781503636033
RRP: €33.31€28.16The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir-its only Muslim-majority state-is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's...