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Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India by Mrinalini Sinha 9781350239807
Booksplease Price: $40.66This volume reconsiders India’s 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and... -
Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India by Mrinalini Sinha 9781350239777
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $115.65This volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and... -
Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire by Mrinalini Sinha
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive... -
Feminisms and Internationalism Mrinalini Sinha (Southern Illinois University in Carbondale) 9780631209195
RRP: $26.77Booksplease Price: $25.72This book addresses the theme of the history of internationalism in feminist theory and praxis, covering such topics as the historical concept of internationalism within feminism and women's... -
Mother India: Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text, Edited and with an Introduction by Mrinalini Sinha by Katherine Mayo 9780472067152
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $32.50Mother India, a polemical attack against Indian self-rule written by U.S. historian Katherine Mayo, was met with a storm of controversy when it was published in 1927. The controversy generated still... -
Mother India: Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text by Katherine Mayo 9780472097159
Booksplease Price: $108.04Mother India, a polemical attack against Indian self-rule written by U.S. historian Katherine Mayo, was met with a storm of controversy when it was published in 1927. The controversy generated still... -
Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 1 by Bonnie G. Smith 9780252071836
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23The American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians commissioned some of the pioneering figures in women's history to prepare essays in their respective areas of expertise. Volume 1... -
A Global History of Sexuality: The Modern Era by Robert M. Buffington 9781405120494
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $30.33A Global History of Sexuality provides a provocative, wide-ranging introduction to the history of sexuality from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Explores what sexuality has meant in... -
Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire by Tony Ballantyne 9780230507036
Booksplease Price: $118.89This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding... -
Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire by Tony Ballantyne 9780333963609
Booksplease Price: $118.90This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding... -
A Global History of Sexuality: The Modern Era by Robert M. Buffington 9781405120487
RRP: $101.85Booksplease Price: $93.92A Global History of Sexuality provides a provocative, wide-ranging introduction to the history of sexuality from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Explores what sexuality has meant in... -
Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India by J Barton Scott
Booksplease Price: $31.99A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law. Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering... -
From Mutiny to Revolt: Women and the Beginning of 1857 William R. Pinch 9780521885317
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $94.87Why did the nonviolent Meerut mutiny of 1857 in India explode into a violent military revolt? Breaking new ground on the events of May 10, William Pinch reexamines the evidence, shifting our focus... -
Passages through India: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 by Somak Biswas 9781009337984
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $104.66Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian... -
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons by Antoinette Burton 9780822358138
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book... -
Crafting India's Skill Ecology: Reproductions, Recalibrations, and Reimaginations Saikat Maitra 9781032995649
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.59This volume traces how the discourse of skill evolved in colonial and postcolonial India, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present neoliberal era. It introduces the concept of skill ecology to... -
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons by Antoinette Burton
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book... -
Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India by Ania Loomba
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.59Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s,... -
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Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History by Antoinette Burton 9780822334552 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $1.47From portrayals of African women's bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced into... -
Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History by Antoinette Burton 9780822334675
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.34From portrayals of African women's bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced into... -
An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal by Poulomi Saha
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52In today's world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women... -
Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance by Ajay Skaria 9780816698660
Booksplease Price: $39.58Unconditional Equality examines Mahatma Gandhi's critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion. It reconceives satyagraha... -
Planning Democracy: Modern India's Quest for Development by Nikhil Menon 9781316517338
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $96.27The Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy explores how India fused Soviet-inspired economic management and Western-style liberal... -
A History of Modern India by Ishita Banerjee-Dube 9781107659728
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $42.51This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the... -
The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau by Antoinette Burton 9780822340713
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India's elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer... -
Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers by Alan Richards 9781349487578
Booksplease Price: $118.81This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered... -
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The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau by Antoinette Burton 9780822340508 [USED COPY]
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $16.86Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India's elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer... -
Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers by Anne Rypstat Richards 9781137405012
Booksplease Price: $118.82This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered... -
Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India by Tripurdaman Singh 9781350384385
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $22.20Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020 On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurating a new era of liberty and freedom. With... -
Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings Mary E. John 9781032783499
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.59This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of... -
The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History by A. Ricardo Lopez
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $108.30In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how... -
The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History by A. Ricardo Lopez 9780822351290
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how... -
The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India by Rupa Viswanath 9780231163064
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $64.36Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke... -
Beyond Indenture: Agency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora Crispin Bates 9781009339797
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $117.22Beyond Indenture brings together original essays by a mix of experienced and upcoming scholars. They reflect, as far as possible, the viewpoints and voices of indentured Indians who exercised agency,... -
Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal by Mahua Sarkar 9780822342342
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33In Visible Histories, Disappearing Women, Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized than Hindu women in nationalist discourse and subsequent historical... -
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Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal by Mahua Sarkar 9780822342151 [USED COPY]
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $13.00In Visible Histories, Disappearing Women, Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized than Hindu women in nationalist discourse and subsequent historical... -
No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975 by Michael O’Sullivan 9780674271906
RRP: $54.12Booksplease Price: $45.43A 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... -
World Histories from Below: Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present Professor Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) 9781350171725
Booksplease Price: $40.39History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing 'ordinary' people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the themes... -
Subjects of Modernity: Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins Saurabh Dube 9781526140272
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $19.74This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions... -
South Asian Feminisms by Ania Loomba
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.95During 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...