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The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India's Most Glamorous Royal Family by John Zubrzycki
RRP: $33.58$29.72A gripping royal saga of charmed lives in a changing world. The Jaipurs were India's mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Jai and Ayesha, as they were known to friends like Frank Sinatra, Truman... -
The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback by Yashaswini Chandra
RRP: $27.28$19.09Without the horse, India would not be this India ... The history of the horse in India is an epic tale of life and war, of migration and intermingling, and points towards a greater history throughout the world, the history of humans and animals in... -
Genealogy of the South Indian Deities: An English Translation of Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg's Original German Manuscript with a Textual Analysis and Glossary by Daniel Jeyaraj
RRP: $283.50$247.13For the first time Genealogy of the South Indian Deities, the work of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), the first Protestant missionary in India, is made accessible to an English readership. Originally published in 1713, the text reveals Ziegenbalg's... -
The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim migration by Claire Alexander
RRP: $92.38$81.56India's partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region's population sought shelter across new... -
Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India by Lee Siegel
$78.86Scholar and magician, Siegel uncovers the age-old practices of magic in sacred rites and rituals and unveils the contemporary world of Indian magic of street and stage entertainers. Siegel's journeys take him from ancient Sanskrit texts to the slums of... -
The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson 9781781682593
$37.30Today, the Indian state claims to possess a harmonious territorial unity, to embody the values of a stable political democracy, and to adhere to a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society... -
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India by Bernard S. Cohn
RRP: $84.00$64.97Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for the academic study of modern Indian culture for over two decades. His earlier publications have shown how dramatic British innovations... -
Indian Arms and Armour by Natasha Bennett 9780948092749
RRP: $20.98$14.39India is a vast sub-continent with a complex history and a great array of languages, cultures and religions. This book serves as a short introduction to the exquisite weapons used in the region, focusing on the Royal Armouries' collections from the... -
A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives by Richard Maxwell Eaton 9780521716277
RRP: $48.28$41.08In this fascinating account of one of the least known parts of South Asia, Eaton recounts the history of the Deccan plateau in southern India from the fourteenth century to the rise of European colonialism. He does so, vividly, through the lives of eight... -
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point by Gyan Prakash 9780691217369
RRP: $39.88$33.16The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids... -
A History of Nepal by John Whelpton
RRP: $54.58$44.23Nepal emerged as a unified state over two hundred years ago, centred on the Kathmandu Valley with its two thousand years of urban civilisation. While John Whelpton's history focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in... -
Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper by Mallika Kaur
RRP: $62.98$50.74Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This book makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been... -
India by Diana L. Eck
RRP: $31.48$26.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385531924Author Diana L EckFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Sikhs and the Sikh Wars: The Rise ,Conquest and Annexation of the Punjab State by Charles Gough 9780946965601
$35.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946965601Author Charles GoughFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Melvyn R KingPublisher Melvyn R King -
The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics by Ayesha Jalal
RRP: $44.00$35.53Established as a homeland for India's Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious... -
The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice by Elliott Goldberg 9781620555675
RRP: $54.60$36.60In 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... -
The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire by Ashwin Desai 9780804797177
RRP: $46.18$40.30In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular... -
Mohenjo-daro: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Settlement of the Indus Valley Civilization by Charles River Editors 9781535202176
RRP: $21.50$17.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535202176Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral by Lakshmi Subramanian
$64.34The book focuses on the phenomenon of predation during the closing decades of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century in Indias western littoral. It attempts a material history of piracy, locating its antecedents, its social context, and its... -
The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day by Nick Lloyd
$102.94On 13 April 1919, a fateful event took place which was to define the last decades of the British Raj in India. At 5:10pm on that day, Brigadier-General 'Rex' Dyer led a small party of soldiers through the centre of Amritsar into a walled garden known as... -
Ideologies of the Raj by Thomas R. Metcalf
RRP: $48.28$41.08Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British... -
A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections by Brian Cloughley
$108.68The scope of this study of the Pakistan Army must be wide and in-depth, as the army has played a major part in the country's history. The author describes Pakistan's violent internal politics and erratic international relations with a deep knowledge... -
Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict by Sumantra Bose
RRP: $41.98$35.64An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict-from 1947 to the present The India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world's incendiary conflicts. Since 1990, at least 60,000 people have been killed-insurgents,... -
Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India by Shetty V.T. Rajshekar 9780932863058
$20.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863058Author Shetty V.T. RajshekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World by Wilson Chacko Jacob 9781503609631
RRP: $54.58$46.28Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life-one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire. For God or Empire tells his story, part biography and part global history, as his... -
Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857-1940s by Eve Tignol
RRP: $178.50$160.86Drawing on approaches from the history of emotions, Eve Tignol investigates how they were collectively cultivated and debated for the shaping of Muslim community identity and for political mobilisation in north India in the wake of the Uprising of 1857... -
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India by Roderick Matthews
RRP: $31.48$27.99How 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... -
Slavery and South Asian History by Indrani Chatterjee
RRP: $50.38$43.70"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery. . . . [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." -Edward A. Alpers, UCLADespite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the... -
The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis by Sarah Pinto 9780823286669
$63.97In the years leading up to India's independence, a young Punjabi woman, ill at ease in her marriage and eager for personal and national freedom, sat down with psychiatrist Dev Satya Nand for an experiment in his new method of dream analysis. "Mrs A.'s"... -
Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi by Steve Inskeep 9780143122166
RRP: $39.80$30.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122166Author Steve InskeepFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm... -
A History of India by Hermann Kulke
RRP: $100.78$88.64Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent... -
Islamic Civilization in South Asia: A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent by Burjor Avari
RRP: $83.98$73.63Muslims have been present in South Asia for 14 centuries. Nearly 40% of the people of this vast land mass follow the religion of Islam, and Muslim contribution to the cultural heritage of the sub-continent has been extensive. This textbook provides both... -
Gathering the Ashes by Amritlal Nagar
RRP: $47.25$39.80Most discussions of India's First War of Independence from British colonial rule in 1857 have centered on the role played by the Mughal emperor, the nawab of Awadh, and other sundry members of mostly urban nobility. What has remained missing from this... -
Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army by Kate Imy 9781503610743
RRP: $54.58$46.28During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the "Martial Races," including British Christians, Hindustani... -
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought by Durba Mitra
RRP: $63.00$47.92How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian... -
Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires by Nandini Chatterjee
RRP: $52.48$46.98Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the... -
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India by Shailaja Paik
RRP: $58.78$49.69This book offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha-a popular form of public, secular, traveling theater in Maharashtra-and places Dalit Tamasha women who represented the desire and disgust of the patriarchal... -
Mughal India: Splendours of the Peacock Throne by Valerie Berinstain
RRP: $16.70$11.72The Mughal empire dominated India for three centuries, rivalling the greatest rulers of Europe and the East in its power and splendour.Under such enlightened patrons as Akbar the Great in the 16th century and Jahangir and Shah Jahan in the 17th century,... -
Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal by Prashant Jha
RRP: $52.50$45.32Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history,... -
Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire by Durba Ghosh
RRP: $54.58$46.18In 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,...