History

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination ― mummies and pyramids, curses an...

Tackling current historiographical questions in an accessible way, the author offers a clear introduction to Marxist views of history, key Marxist ...

A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonl...

This book attempts to comprehend the history of the Delhi Sultanate with reference to its Islamic identity. The Turkish chiefs, despite having a mi...

The essays in this volume focus on the surviving remains in India of pre-modern public buildings like sarais, bridges and water-works of different ...

Focusing on inscriptional materials from South Asia, The essays in social worlds of premodern transactions bring together a range of new perspectiv...

Jammu and Kashmir has been different things to different people throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first. This book challeng...

This book is in pursuit of Alice, whose name rhymes with ‘galluse’. That, however, is another memory, another book, waiting to germinate. John Lang...

Dreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal is the third volume produced under the aegis of the Wellcome Trust (London) funded documentation project ‘West...

Reflections on Mughal Art & Culture (H.B)

The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, an...

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different r...

Although often neglected and underplayed in mainstream history, armed resistance to British imperialism is a significant part of India’s epic strug...

Possessing the City is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues th...

A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate...

Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Thiird Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center....

Following the death of the great historian, Ainslie T. Embree, this remarkable document was found in his study, a project to which he had devoted t...

Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs from 1947 to 1964, set the framework of foreign policy which has re...

In 2015 the Goethe-Institute in Kolkata (India) and Dhaka (Bangladesh) began a collaborative project entitled ‘Inherited Memories’. The project beg...

In the late sixth century CE, śaśāṅka—raised as the king of gauḍa—extended his power over Magadha and northern Bihar. Whatever the details of his r...

Historicizing gendered modernity's in India underscores how gender, as a category of historical analysis and identity, is central to our imaginatio...

Rituals—loosely defined as symbolically meaningful action—pervaded medieval society, up and down the social strata. Royal Courts were a constant ar...

Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolu...

Urban studies or urban history has recently emerged as a compelling framework for historical inquiry as it is a potent tool for the discovery of va...

Words of her own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works ...

The Dharmaśāstra ascribed to yājñavalkya, commonly called yājñavalkya Smith, is a text on religious, Civil, and criminal law and jurisprudence comp...

Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the Europea...

Oxford India Short Introduction | KASHMIR | Complex Issues of Kashmir About its Past, Present and Future

Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare and one that is important to the modern global...

After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American President and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile d...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the ...

गाँधी एक लोकप्रिय जननेता और जननायक रहे। दुनिया में अपनी सदी के नायकों में एक। भारतीय समाज में जाति और वर्ण व्यवस्था पर गाँधी के रुख को लेकर उनकी आल...

As the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predict coming environmental phenomena. There, the conse...

Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta’s Some Aspects of the Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century presents a sharply posed conversa...

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Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

This book serves as the corridor to one’s ‘self’. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance history of Swadeshi Bengal. The burge...

The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani Partition is one of separation: a country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, anindy...

India and Civilizational Futures is the second volume to emerge from the deliberations of the Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics, a ...

Based upon an in-depth empirical research, Development and Deforestation: Making of Urban Bombay studies the green dense in scaling the urbanizatio...

Not all scientific discoveries are genius. Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 20th centuries defeate...

The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring image...

Anagarika Dharmapala (1864–1933) was a leading Sinhalese Buddhist reformer and national activist who ranks high among the makers of modern Buddhism...

The unruly Brahmaputra has always been an agent in shaping both the landscape of its valley and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. But how much do...

Delhi heritage top 10 Series is a comprehensive guide to Delhi heritage icons and architectural gems. The first volume in the series delves into th...