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India: A History by John Keay
RRP: £14.99£9.70The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India - from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent's social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India... -
DK Eyewitness India by Kindersley Dorling
RRP: £19.99£18.01India is a country epic in proportion and personality.Whether you want to join thousands of pilgrims lighting candles at the holy Ganges, catch the Taj Mahal bathed in a golden glow at sunrise or sip a feni cocktail on Goa's golden beaches, your DK... -
Sikhs: A Story of a People, Their Faith and Culture by DK India
RRP: £30.00£20.38Dive into the history, the philosophy, the essence of the Sikh faith, and trace its evolution.At the turn of the 15th century, Guru Nanak embarked on a series of journeys across the Indian subcontinent and instituted an equitable community and an... -
A Brief History of the Great Moghuls by Bamber Gascoigne
RRP: £10.99£2.91'Entertainingly written history . . . ravishingly beautiful photographs.'The Times Bamber Gascoigne's classic book tells of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country was ruled by the... -
India After Gandhi: A History by Ramachandra Guha 9781035014729
RRP: £25.00£17.46'Magisterial' - The Financial TimesAn updated edition of Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi with new material that explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the past decade, placing them in their proper sociological and historical... -
An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: £10.99£7.77Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity... -
The Indian Mutiny: 1857 by Saul David
RRP: £14.99£10.95In The Indian Mutiny: 1857 Saul David explores one of Britain's most harrowing colonial battles.In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the... -
A Short History Of India by Gordon Kerr 9781843449225
RRP: £16.99£3.51The world's largest democracy and second-most populous country, 21st century India is a dynamic nation with a thrusting economy, made up of a variety of beliefs and peoples united under one flag. Its history is a unique story of ancient empires and... -
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India by William Dalrymple
RRP: £18.99£13.61From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles... -
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
RRP: £16.99£11.47The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the... -
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
RRP: £10.99£7.77From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many... -
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Ms Peggy Mohan 9780670093687
RRP: £19.99£13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093687Author Peggy MohanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm -
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States by John Zubrzycki 9781805260530
RRP: £25.00£21.58The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July 1947, India's last Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, stood before New Delhi's Chamber of Princes to... -
Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
RRP: £14.99£10.10B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. It offers a scholarly critique of Hindu... -
Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division by Patrick French
RRP: £14.99£10.95Liberty or Death is Patrick French's vivid and surprising account of the chaotic final years of colonial rule in India, acclaimed as the definitive book on this subject. At midnight on 14 August 1947, Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was... -
The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise by Kartar Lalvani
RRP: £27.00£19.95The first ever history of India to explore the benefits - institutional, political and civil - of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent. The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth... -
Plain Tales From The Raj: Images of British India in the 20th Century by Charles Allen
RRP: £10.99£7.05The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
RRP: £25.00£21.58***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew... -
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount
RRP: £12.99£8.58The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan... -
The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857 by Kim A. Wagner
RRP: £25.00£21.98In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in south-east England. The handwritten note found inside revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who had been blown from a cannon for his role in the 1857 Uprising, his head... -
Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines by Amandeep Sandhu 9780143459316
RRP: £28.95£20.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143459316Author Amandeep SandhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 594Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 36mm -
The Empire of the Great Mughals by Annemarie Schimmel 9781861892515
RRP: £35.00£25.29This title is translated by Corinne Attwood. The Mughal empire (1526 1857) has long been viewed as a wonderland of unimaginable treasure; it was in fact the mightiest Islamic empire in the history of India. In this comprehensive cultural history, now... -
Access to History: Indian Independence 1914-64 Second Edition by Tim Leadbeater
£26.40Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
Medieval Indian Armies (2): Indo-Islamic Forces, 7th–Early 16th Centuries by Dr David Nicolle 9781472853349
RRP: £12.99£9.09This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. From 1206, much of what is now India as well as parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal were ruled by a... -
The First Anglo-Sikh War by Amarpal Singh
RRP: £14.99£9.70During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent, stretching to the borders of the Punjab. There the great Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh had developed his... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins 9780745331959
RRP: £16.99£13.80This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing... -
The Indian Mutiny by Julian Spilsbury
RRP: £8.99£5.91An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courageThe Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate... -
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari
RRP: £12.99£8.48After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - they were supposed to be the answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's protege and the political leader of... -
The Words of Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: £8.99£7.86Gandhi's ideas are as meaningful today as they were during his long and inspiring life. His enlightening thoughts and beliefs, especially on violence and the atomic bomb, reveal his eloquent foresight about our contemporary world. The words of one of the... -
The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors by Abraham Eraly
RRP: £16.99£12.28A history of the great Mughal rulers of India, one of the world's greatest empires.In December 1525 Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At the battle... -
India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display by Saloni Mathur 9780520252318
RRP: £30.00£22.82"India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display" maps for the first time a series of historical events - from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the... -
Fight Your Way Out: The Siege of Sangshak, India/Burma Border, 1944 by David Allison 9781399056311
RRP: £22.00£15.62In March 1944, Japan launched its audacious overland invasion of India from Burma. Taken by surprise, the British rear areas lay exposed and undefended except for the previously untested 50 Indian Parachute Brigade training in the jungle around Manipur. ... -
The Last Prince of Bengal: An Indian Family's Journey from Royalty to Obscurity in the Age of Empire by Lynn Innes
RRP: £20.00£14.45The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful royal families. Three times the size of Great Britain, his kingdom ranged from the soaring Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. However, in 1880, he was forced to abdicate by the British authorities,... -
B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India's Dispossessed by Shashi Tharoor 9781526173584
RRP: £16.99£12.28A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based... -
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour 9780712665650
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 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 Epic of Ram: Volume 7 by Tulsidas
RRP: £29.95£23.19The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day. The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a... -
No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975 by Michael O’Sullivan 9780674271906
RRP: £41.95£32.98A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading communities, whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history of capitalism, Islam, and empire in South Asia.During the nineteenth century, three Gujarati Muslim... -
Empire Building: The Construction of British India, 1690–1860 by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
RRP: £30.00£26.43'Empire Building' is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines... -
Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947 by Joya Chatterji
RRP: £22.99£20.66Whereas 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... -
Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier by Charles Allen
RRP: £10.99£7.05This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan...