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India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200 by Burjor Avari
RRP: $56.75$49.59India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the... -
Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India by Suchitra Vijayan
RRP: $32.25$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198583Author Suchitra VijayanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: $19.34$12.75This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi's India. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today. How did an unsuccessful young... -
Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia
RRP: $29.66$25.28How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration... -
Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis by Padma Kaimal
RRP: $38.70$29.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304675Author Padma KaimalFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor
RRP: $18.05$16.32An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly written, and vital portrayal of [Queen Victoria's] place in... -
Mapping an Empire: Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 by Matthew Edney
RRP: $42.57$41.86In this history of the British surveys of India, focusing especially on the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) undertaken by the British East India Company, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques not only to... -
Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism by Banu Subramaniam 9780295745596
RRP: $33.53$28.43Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans, animals, and gods transform each other and ancient... -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 by Tom Young
RRP: $51.60$43.33Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the... -
A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by David Snape
RRP: $38.64$26.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113696Author David SnapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa by Jim Towey
RRP: $24.50$21.62From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity" (George Weigel).Mother... -
Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781503637788
RRP: $38.69$33.53After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new... -
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire by SherAli Tareen 9780231210317
RRP: $38.70$29.44Friendship-particularly interreligious friendship-offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities and dangers of Hindu-Muslim friendship? How did they... -
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India by Douglas Ober
RRP: $36.11$30.52Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350298
RRP: $38.70$35.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350298Author Margot FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1080g -
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: $33.48$26.08Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles... -
Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India by Benjamin Robert Siegel
RRP: $39.98$34.53This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical... -
Clever Adultress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain Literature by Phyllis Granoff 9780889628892
RRP: $28.32$20.61The stories in The Clever Adulteress span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the education and amusement of the faithful. Jain literature is both rich and varied... -
Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto
RRP: $15.47$10.87Discover this lyrical, sweeping and powerful book on the Bhutto family, an extraordinary, Kennedy-esque dynasty that is central to the story of modern Pakistan.In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room,... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack
RRP: $16.76$9.69'Essential to a proper understanding of the war and of our world of today' Michael Morpurgo1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First World War - from Flanders to the African bush and the deserts of the Islamic world, they saved the Allies... -
India's Ancient Past by R. S. Sharma 9780195687859
RRP: $11.60$9.96This insightful volume by one of the best-known historians of early India is a comprehensive yet accessible account of ancient Indian history coveirng a wide spectrum.Book InformationISBN 9780195687859Author R. S. SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy 9781784741204
RRP: $18.05$15.14'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that... -
Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle by Maia Ramnath 9781849350822
RRP: $15.48$10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350822Author Maia RamnathFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 247g -
Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism by Mircea Raianu
RRP: $36.06$27.99An eye-opening portrait of global capitalism spanning 150 years, told through the history of the Tata corporation.Nearly a century old, the grand facade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business district of Mumbai. This is the iconic... -
Bengal Lancer by Francis Yeats-Brown
RRP: $19.34$12.64Bengal Lancer is a complete one off. On one hand this book is a love affair with the spiritual traditions of India while on the other it is the memoir of a carefree young cavalry officer in the halcyon days of the British Empire. Francis Yeats-Brown... -
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today by Ashoka Mody
RRP: $38.69$29.93A provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today. When Indian leaders first took control of their government in 1947, they proclaimed the ideals... -
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia
RRP: $30.95$26.33The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five... -
An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj by Benjamin B. Cohen
RRP: $33.48$26.08The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals.In April... -
Savarkar (Part 2, Concluding Volume): A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966 by Vikram Sampath
RRP: $51.59$26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090310Author Vikram SampathFormat HardbackPage Count 712Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 1045gDimensions(mm) 240mm *... -
The Scorpion-Fish by Nicolas Bouvier 9781780600444
RRP: $16.76$11.09The narrator arrives in his 117th rented room at the end of an epic journey, abandoned by his lover, almost broke and certainly feverish. His obsession with the insects he shares the room with and his beautifully articulated observations of himself on... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman 9780691154039
RRP: $49.02$39.27An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and... -
The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army by Raymond Callahan
RRP: $69.66$56.61In 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. That campaign, the most brilliant and original operational maneuver conducted by any British general in the twentieth century, largely... -
Islamicate Societies: A Case Study of Egypt and Muslim India Modernization, Colonial Rule, and the Aftermath by Husain Kassim 9780739165812
RRP: $113.52$103.88The basic contention of this study is that the colonial rule had far more serious consequence than it has been realized. It radically transformed the nature of the Islamic societies of Egypt and Muslim India to that of an 'Islamicate'societies. This... -
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India by Roderick Matthews 9781787383852
RRP: $32.25$27.84How can we explain Britain's long rule in India beyond the cliches of 'imperial' versus 'nationalist' interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews tells a more nuanced story of 'oblige and rule', the foundation of common purpose between... -
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177652Author Thenmozhi SoundararajanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Agrarian System of Mughal India: 1556-1707 by Irfan Habib 9780198077428
RRP: $25.79$22.10This book provides a comprehensive account of land revenue, administration, agrarian economy, and social structure in India during the Mughal period. It examines areas like agricultural production and technology; trade in agricultural produce, conditions... -
The Mughal World: India's Tainted Paradise by Abraham Eraly
RRP: $21.92$14.89Inside the opulent, decadent world of the Mughal emperorsThe Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures, men written on a supra-human scale who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE... -
Basti by Intizar Husain
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175828Author Intizar HusainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy 9781032270234
RRP: $161.25$139.14This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350281
RRP: $64.50$57.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350281Author Margot FinnFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1180g