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The Mughal World: India's Tainted Paradise Abraham Eraly 9780753823620
RRP: €20.22€13.73Inside 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... -
Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios by Gregory D. Booth 9780195327649
RRP: €41.04€27.75Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as... -
Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism by Mircea Raianu
RRP: €33.26€26.36An 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... -
Islamicate Societies: A Case Study of Egypt and Muslim India Modernization, Colonial Rule, and the Aftermath by Husain Kassim 9780739165812
RRP: €109.48€95.83The 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... -
Babur: Timurid Prince and Mughal Emperor, 1483-1530 by Stephen F. Dale 9781107107267
RRP: €22.60€19.42This book is a concise biography of Babur, who founded the Timurid-Mughal Empire of South Asia. Based primarily on his autobiography and existential verse, it chronicles the life and career of a Central Asian, Turco-Mongol Muslim who, driven from his... -
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies 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. -
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu
RRP: €44.63€38.06A 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... -
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India by Roderick Matthews 9781787383852
RRP: €29.75€26.22How 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... -
Basti by Intizar Husain
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies 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)... -
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das 9781526615657
RRP: €20.22€16.18WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman 9780691154039
RRP: €47.60€38.71An 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... -
Tales of a Mad Yogi: The Life and Wild Wisdom of Drukpa Kunley by Liz Monson
RRP: €21.41€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807059Author Elizabeth MonsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
RRP: €23.80€17.85A 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 Pashtuns: A Contest History by Tilak Devasher
€23.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394407633Author Tilak DevasherFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 500g -
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... -
River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future by Victor Mallet 9780198786177
RRP: €27.36€19.86India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health... -
Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths by Taylor C. Sherman
RRP: €41.65€33.01An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two... -
Sikh Heritage: A History of Valour and Devotion by Sondeep Shankar 9788193984604
RRP: €35.64€29.90Sikh Heritage, with a foreword by Hardeep Sigh Puri, is a succinct and delightfully photographed glimpse into the community's religion, its ten gurus, its temples, traditional systems of governance, history, architecture, and the famous Golden Temple... -
Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib 9781843310259
RRP: €23.79€23.34This volume brings together, for the first time, several of Professor Habib's essays, representing three decades of scholarship and providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history from the standpoint of Marxist... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor
€17.47An 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... -
Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age by Shruti Kapila
RRP: €41.65€33.49A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India. Taking readers from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of... -
Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation by Arvind Pal S. Mandair
RRP: €33.32€26.42Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the... -
The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards
RRP: €32.12€25.91The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between... -
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India by David Gordon White 9780226894997
RRP: €39.27€38.62David 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... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350281
RRP: €59.50€53.26Apologies 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 -
Essays in Indian History - Towards a Marxist Perception Irfan Habib 9789382381693
RRP: €26.18€23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381693Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 144mm * 22mm -
Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War by Niromi de Soyza
RRP: €13.08€8.71How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers? Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of seventeen, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a... -
A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India by Patton E. Burchett 9780231190329
RRP: €69.02€53.76In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. Beginning in India's early medieval "Tantric Age" and reaching... -
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert 9780195151985
RRP: €83.30€57.00Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy... -
Sarnath - A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began Frederick M. Asher 9781606066164
RRP: €41.65€35.19Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds... -
Eagles of Destiny: Volume 1: Birth and Growth of the Royal Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan Air Force, 1947-1971 by Usman Shabbir
RRP: €20.17€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377037Author Usman ShabbirFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: €35.70€29.08A 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... -
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten by Karl E. Ryavec
RRP: €46.41€40.21Cradled among the world's highest mountains - and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities - Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In recent... -
Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia
RRP: €24.98€21.86How 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... -
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World by Ruby Lal 9780521615341
RRP: €47.59€39.58In a fascinating and innovative study, first published in 2005, Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. Challenging traditional, orientalist interpretations of the haram that have portrayed a... -
Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India by Andrew Ollett 9780520296220
RRP: €40.46€32.09At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy 9781032270234
RRP: €154.70€133.41This 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 Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice by Elliott Goldberg 9781620555675
RRP: €30.94€20.74In The Path of Modern Yoga, Elliott Goldberg shows how yoga was transformed from a sacred practice into a health and fitness regime for middle-class Indians in the early 20th century and then gradually transformed over the course of the 20th century into... -
Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire by Durba Ghosh
RRP: €30.93€26.17In the early years of the British empire, cohabitation between Indian women and British men was commonplace and to some degree tolerated. However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a challenge to the existing historiography, anxieties about social status,... -
A Lamp for the Dark World: Akbar, India's Greatest Mughal by Parvati Sharma 9781538177891
RRP: €35.70€26.69Akbar the Great is a very familiar figure to most Indians. Hailed as a brilliant warrior, a great administrator, and a visionary ruler whose ideas of pluralism and tolerance sought to unify India with all its diversity of peoples and religions, he is...