History

Himu: The Hindu 'Hero' of Medieval India offers a comprehensive exploration of Hemchandra Vikramaditya, a remarkable figure who rose from humble beginnings as a tradesman in Rewari. This captivating historical account delves into Himu’s pivotal ro...

The book covers a period of almost a century from 1849 to 1947, The main contents of this work are: Geography of the Panjab, Panjab at the advent of Britishers, Panjab Under Lawrences, Political history of the Panjab from 1849-1947, North-West Fro...

The Ancient History of India (Vedic Period): A New Interpretation is a unique study that attempts to build a history of pre-Buddhistic India based on the Vedas and the allied texts. Scattered in the Vedic texts are allusions to a large number of p...

Travels In India [Paperback] Ed. William Crooke

The complex socio-political and economic structure of life on the Indian subcontinent has been confused by centuries of accretion in overlapping terminology. It has been further distorted by persistent Western attempts to reduce it to Western fram...

The rare piece of the drama “Partition,” in 1947 warranted the scholars to rebuild the history of the cunning passages to Muslim separatism in India and the consequent blood bath of the nation. In this book, Muslim Separatism and the Partition of ...

Marco Polo is one of the most adventurous travellers in human history. His travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du Monde, a book which is said to have introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China. It is one of the first great travel boo...

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, ...

The history, culture and traditions of Tibet (Lhasa) and Greater Tibet (Ladakh) constitute a distinguished feature, the roots of which are so deep right from the beginning of civilizations. Geographically Tibet is the “roof of the world” and spiri...

The book covers a period of almost a century from 1849 to 1947, The main contents of this work are: Geography of the Panjab, Panjab at the advent of Britishers, Panjab Under Lawrences, Political history of the Panjab from 1849-1947, North-West Fro...

इस कृति में मध्यकालीन भारत की छः शताब्दी (आठवीं शताब्दी से तेरहवीं शताब्दी) में हुये क्रमिक परिवर्तनों के अन्तर्गत संपत्तिगत संबंधों के स्वरूप 'नेचर आफ प्रापर्टी रिलेशन्स', जागीरदारी व्यवस्था और ग्राम समुदाय (विलेज कम्युनिटी) की कार्यप्रणाली और सम...

The book covers a period of almost a century from 1849 to 1947, The main contents of this work are: Geography of the Panjab, Panjab at the advent of Britishers, Panjab Under Lawrences, Political history of the Panjab from 1849-1947, North-West Fro...

Written specifically as a core textbook for management students, this book is an essential companion in today’s rapidly changing globalized business setting. A must-have title for all business and management students, this textbook offers a compre...

About the Book A freedom fighter's telling account of the exploitation of India by the East India Company. In 1929, Pandit Sunderlal's original work in four volumes, Bharat Mein Angrezi Raj, was banned by the British because of its fearless criti...

In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not...

Among the most notable works on the comprehensive history of humankind, V. Gordon Childe’s What Happened in History takes on a curious and interesting perspective while examining our ancient era. Childe’s groundbreaking work divides human history ...

वह साधु, जिसे समकालीन दस्तावेज हिन्दू फकीर बताते हैं, अपने घर से भाग निकला था एक उच्च प्रयोजन को सिद्ध करने, लेकिन ऐसा करने में उसके मार्ग में अड़चन बनी थी वह मांग कि उसे पहले अंग्रेजों के विरुद्ध लड़ना होगा, लेकिन वह ऐसा करना नहीं चाहता था। जब अपना...

In the thirty two years (1915-1947) history of National Liberation Movement and eleven years (1947-1958) after the dawn of the Independence, Maulana Azad remained as the best journalist, orator, organizer, statesman, and educationist. He was an em...

History of the Freedom Movement (1857 to 1947) studies different phases of the history of freedom struggle of India. The book records the important events of the freedom struggle chronologically from 1857 to 1947. It covers the entire freedom stru...

मुख्य तौर से यह पुस्तक देश वेफ युवा वर्ग वेफ लिए लिखी गई है। इस पुस्तक वेफ माध्यम से उन्हें यह मालूम होगा कि झूठ वेफ पर्दे वेफ पीछे सत्य का चेहरा क्या है। इस पुस्तक को पढ़ने वेफ बाद पाठकों वेफ दिमाग में एक बुनियादी परिवर्तन आयेगा। इस पुस्तक को पढ़ने...

This book attempts to throw light on the different aspects of a Kafeer's life i.e. his ancestry, his social, economic and political conditions; and his relations with his Muhammedan neighbours, besides discussing the conquest of his motherland by ...

Information regarding medieval India is gathered from a large number of sources including chronicles, accounts of foreign travellers, coins, inscriptions and monuments. Genealogies and state papers written in Persian provide much information for r...

The story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privileged caste Hindus as heroes and founders. Dalits have mostly been viewed as passive subjects. This book inverts the dominant nati...

Spanning some twenty-five years of research and writing, the essays in this volume fall into two categories: historiography and Indo-Islamic civilization. The former deals with how historians structure and answer the questions they choose to ask o...

The revised edition with a new Afterword of the history of non-Brahmin assertion to Brahmin hegemony in the old Madras Presidency argues that this complex and layered past has to be critically re-claimed for our times. As an analytical study of th...

Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's conquest and the French invasion of Russia, War and Peace is one of the best-known historical works, written over the course of six years and translated into numerous languages. It delves into the complexitie...

“Nothing once begun should be abandoned unless it is proved to be morally wrong.” The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the intimate memoir of Mahatma Gandhi, a towering figure in the history of nonviolent resistance and social justice. Origin...

The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the historian and the trained psychoanalyst to weave together the story of clinical...

An attempt has been made in this book to examine the writings of the Oxbridge scholars who have based their studies on different assumptions and have tried to cover various issues related to the partition of India. The author has made a serious ef...

Ancient history of India is hugely magnificent, affluent and diverse. It begins with Stone Age, which is a broad prehistoric time with no clear geographical demarcation. The Mesolithic Period saw the permanent settlements in the Rock Shelters of B...

The pre-Moghul Muslim presence in the sub-continent is very important from many angles. In this phase the basic structure of an efficient administration evolved and from this point of view Alaudin Khilji holds a cardinal importance. His administra...

The discipline of history in India is under attack—not only from those who adopt a pseudo-historical mode to popularize a mythical version of the past colored with their ill-concealed political objectives, but also from those who, posing methodolo...

Earlier considered as politically inexperienced, Sonia Gandhi is undoubtedly one of the strongest icons of Indian politics today. She is inspiration for crores of people for her dynamic leadership by virtue of which she could give an astounding de...

About the Book This Fissured Land, first published in 1992, presents an interpretative history ecological history of the Indian subcontinent. It offers a theory of ecological prudence and profligacy, testing this theory across the wide sweep of So...

Religion has been, and is, an important element in Indian society and history. It is, however, rare for the subject to be discussed with the necessary degree of detachment. This volume was, therefore, planned with the object of providing a collect...

1965 War was the first all-out clash between the two nations—India and Pakistan, after the Partition in 1947. Y.B. Chavan, India’s former Defence Minister, recorded in his own hand the 22-day war. The inside story reveals: • Utter failure of intel...

This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present. PART I. · Introduction. PA...

The Revolt of 1857 is being increasingly recognized as one of the major events of the nineteenth century, a turning point in the history of imperialism. The sheer scale of the uprising and its unique place in the narrative of anti-colonial resista...

This book deals with the Medieval period of Indian History. Most of the historians consider this period as the dark period of Indian history. According to them, ancient period was the glorious period of Indian history. During this period foundatio...

Alexander the Great unveils the life of one of history's most enigmatic figures, a warrior and a ruler of passionate ambition, Alexander III of Macedon. He had excelled as a leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Gr...

The book attempts to offer within the convenient compass of single cover, a comprehensive record of the main facts and subsidiary details of Mughal sovereignty which are to be found both in original sources and in the numerous and occasionally cos...

Land Grants in Early Medieval North India: A Socio-Economic Analysis is an attempt to make a thorough study to fill in the gaps of the previous studies into land grants where primary sources were less revoked. It discusses the Early Medieval North...

प्रस्तुत पुस्तक, भारतीय इतिहास (आदिकाल से 1964 तक), राज्य लोक सेवा आयोग द्वारा आयोजित सिविल सर्विसेज परीक्षा के साथ-साथ यू॰जी॰सी॰ नेट एवं अन्य समान स्तरीय परीक्षाओं के अभ्यर्थियों की आवश्यकता को दृष्टि में रखकर लिखी गयी है। पाठ्यक्रम और परीक्षार्थ...

प्रस्तुत पुस्तक ‘भारत का इतिहास’ में प्रागैतिहासिक काल से आध्ुनिक काल तक वेफ राजनीतिक, सांस्वृफतिक, आर्थिक एवं सामाजिक परिवेश एवं तद्जनित परिवर्तनों का विवेचनात्मक अध्ययन का प्रयास निहित है। यह पुस्तक संघ लोक सेवा आयोग एवं प्रान्तीय लोक सेवा आयोगो...

About the Book Updated and revised, Ethics: The Basics , Second Edition , introduces students to fundamental ethical concepts, principles, theories, and traditions while providing them with the conceptual tools necessary to think critically about ...

A concise and engaging textbook that studies the history of ancient India, from 7000 BCE up to the beginning of the Islamic settlement in the subcontinent. This textbook introduces, in a unique manner, the history and development of the Indian su...

The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From ...

This book presents a systematic analysis of the rise and decline of the Indian National Congress since 1980s, using the frame dominance to hibernation. The Indian National Congress (INC or Congress Party) originated in the national movement for In...

History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to...

The books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the world. These include translations of the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions viz. Hinduism, ...

This book deals with History of the Marathas. Marathas became paramount power after the disintegration of Mughal Empire. After the third battle of Panipat in 1761 and of Buxar in 1765, Marathas installed Mughal emperor Shah Alum at Delhi under the...

The two volumes cover, In addition to the present territories of Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh, territories of Delhi and Punjab areas of Pakistan. The Vol, I begins by giving general information about the territories. The aspects dealt wit...

Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after the Cold War, the Bomb is still the greatest threat facing humankind. As President Bill Clinton's fir...

Millions in India have long been obsessed with the vicissitudes of the Nehru–Gandhi family’s fate. Inextricably linked to the ups and downs of their lives was the future of the nation itself. It was Jawaharlal Nehru’s leadership that guided India ...

वह साधु, जिसे समकालीन दस्तावेज हिन्दू फकीर बताते हैं, अपने घर से भाग निकला था एक उच्च प्रयोजन को सिद्ध करने, लेकिन ऐसा करने में उसके मार्ग में अड़चन बनी थी वह मांग कि उसे पहले अंग्रेजों के विरुद्ध लड़ना होगा, लेकिन वह ऐसा करना नहीं चाहता था। जब अपना...

Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. Engaging and challenging, this book confronts the reader with the many 'hi...

There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as t...