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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... -
The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal by Richard David Williams 9780226825458
RRP: £28.00£27.39Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century. How far did colonialism transform north Indian music? In the period between the Mughal empire and the British Raj, how did the... -
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£7.40This 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... -
Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash
RRP: £22.00£17.39This 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: £20.00£17.46In 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... -
The Underworld of the East: Being Eighteen Years of Actual Experiences of the Underworlds, Drug Haunts and Jungles of India, China and Malaya by James S. Lee
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953663118Author James S. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic PublishingWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm)... -
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction by Bhikhu Parekh
RRP: £8.99£6.45Gandhi (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... -
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia
RRP: £24.99£21.23Fought 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... -
Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition by Guru Nanak
RRP: £16.95£12.55"A landmark volume, filled with beautiful renderings of writings from the Guru Granth Sahib."-Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your LifeAn exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the... -
The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule by Kumari Jayawardena
RRP: £45.99£40.13In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie... -
India: A Portrait by Patrick French 9780141041575
RRP: £12.99£9.49Patrick 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... -
Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee
£19.23The 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... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: £33.95£26.89From 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... -
Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: £14.99£9.88This 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... -
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: £25.95£20.22Modern 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... -
India's Ancient Past by R. S. Sharma 9780195687859
RRP: £8.99£7.72This 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... -
Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle by Maia Ramnath 9781849350822
RRP: £12.00£8.00Apologies 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: £27.95£21.70An 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... -
International Departures: Art in India After Independence by Devika Singh 9781789147988
RRP: £30.00£28.54In this captivating and richly illustrated account, Devika Singh presents together for the first time the work of Indian and foreign artists active in India after independence in 1947. The book engages with the many creators, critics and patrons of the... -
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal
RRP: £30.99£28.28In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its... -
The Agrarian System of Mughal India: 1556-1707 by Irfan Habib 9780198077428
RRP: £19.99£17.13This 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... -
South Asian Feminisms by Ania Loomba
RRP: £27.99£23.66During the past forty years, South Asia has been the location and the focus of dynamic, important feminist scholarship and activism. In this collection of essays, prominent feminist scholars and activists build on that work to confront pressing new... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins 9780745331966
RRP: £85.00£65.36This 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... -
Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib 9781843310259
RRP: £19.99£19.21This 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... -
The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards
RRP: £26.99£21.83The 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... -
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert 9780195151985
RRP: £56.00£40.35Britain'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... -
Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan 9780674290372
RRP: £37.95£29.94An original reconstruction of how the debates over peoplehood defined Indian anticolonial thought, and a bold new framework for theorizing the global career of democracy.Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind... -
A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives by Richard Maxwell Eaton 9780521716277
RRP: £22.99£19.56In 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... -
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia by Divya Cherian 9780520390058
RRP: £30.00£22.82A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Merchants... -
The G N Devy Reader: After Amnesia, ‘Of Many Heroes’, The Being of Bhasha and Countering Violence by D.N. Devy 9789354424717
RRP: £55.99£52.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354424717Author D.N. DevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd -
Lords Of The Deccan: Southern India From The Chalukyas To The Cholas by Anirudh Kanisetti 9789353451608
RRP: £24.99£20.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353451608Author Anirudh KanisettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut Publication -
The Idea of Ancient India by Upinder Singh 9780143461531
RRP: £17.95£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143461531Author Upinder SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House, India -
Rani Durgawati: The Forgotten Life of a Warrior Queen by Nandini Sengupta 9780670094363
RRP: £23.95£17.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670094363Author Nandini SenguptaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Ranis and the Raj: The Pen and the Sword by Queeny Pradhan
RRP: £24.50£18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670091034Author Queeny PradhanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
In Pursuit of Peace: India-Pakistan Relations Under Six Prime Ministers by Satinder Kumar Lambah 9780670097944
RRP: £24.95£18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670097944Author Satinder Kumar LambahFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy--A Retelling for Our Times by John Zubrzycki 9781615199976
RRP: £16.95£11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615199976Author John ZubrzyckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ExperimentPublisher Experiment