History

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite ...

Essays in Ancient Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set focusing on the developments in the economic history of India during the la...

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 necess...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and in...

This book details the life and public career of one of India’s legendary individuals—Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the first Indian knight and baronet. Born...

Colonial State, Agrarian Transition and Popular Protest in Orissa: 1921–1947 attempts to understand the agrarian socioeconomic transition that took...

At the time when the national movement was still in its early stages, Madan Mohan Malaviya emerged as an enigmatic but commanding figure in the pol...

Houses of Madness is an intriguing analysis of the history of mental asylums in nineteenth-century Bengal. It explores these institutions through s...

Genealogy, Time and Identity provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the prasasti and donative parts of the inscriptional records of d...

In volume one Our Place in the Universe: An Introduction to Big History our existence is regarded from different points of view: as a history of th...

This volume explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India and highlights various indigen...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age ...

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...

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Gandhi and King were perhaps the most influential individuals in modern history to combine religious and political thought into successful and dyna...

Few countries and continents tell More stories than this tiny town––of Chinese Sailors, Arab traders, Jewish merchants and European conquests––set ...

Memories of belonging can be read as a collection of slightly offbeat musings on certain aspects of over a century and a half of India’s history. W...

This book recasts the history of Sufism in the Deccan and in India in general. Establishing the presence and active involvement of the Junaydī Sufi...

The wife of Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757-1849), Lady Nugent could travel extensively and meticulously observed the ways the British imagin...

Rakhshanda Jalil interweaves primary sources and personal collections of Urdu prose and poetry to trace the evolution of this movement from its hea...

These stories of chivalry and romance that cover several centuries are based both on history and the epic poetry of the great bards. Great literatu...

This book traces how royal dynastic cults and shrine-centred Sufism came together in the imperial cultures of Timurid Central Asia, Safavid Iran, a...

Calcutta In The Nineteenth Century: An Archival Exploration

Ashis Nandy has occupied a distinct and unrivaled place in the intellectual life of India over the course of the last three decades. He is unquesti...

India Since 1947

This book discusses the period from 1000 BC to the end of the sixth century AD. Divided into five thematic sections, the first section discusses qu...

The Agrarian System of Mughal India: 1556-1707 (Oxford India Perennials Series) is a comprehensive guide about agricultural practices in the Mughal...

For over three generations now, the most definitive formative moment in modern South Asian history, Partition has remained a phenomenon of constant...

Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. In Berlin, Ayii becam...

An important feminist thinker, writer, and activist, Prema Kantak's contributions to Indian feminist thought and the nationalist movement have been...

With exquisite color photographs melding into one another to create a rare visual continuity, this volume celebrates the history, culture and spiri...

Part of the Towards Freedom series, this volume brings together primary sources and archival documents for the period 1 January 1947 to 2 June 1947...

In this Very Short Introduction Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia. He examines the main features...

This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and acade...

The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philoso...

The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock...

The Mauryan period witnessed the rise of the first subcontinental empire which required administration appropriate to a changing political economy,...

Two hundred years of imperial rule left a legacy of Raj literature comprising journals, diaries and travelogues, ably complemented with the visual ...

Part of a collection of three historical reprints from the National Archives of India, The Native Races of the British Empire - Northern India is a...

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. ...

This volume attempts detailed analyses of Tamil and Telugu sources to explore the impact of notions of rituals, caste and religion in the formation...

The Idea of History

A book that captures the essence of this magnificent fort and acknowledges the deeds of courage and valour of its inhabitants. The subject overwhel...

Separated by age, custom, tradition, faith and beliefs, India's 'father of the nation' and first prime minister shared arguably the most important ...

This volume visualizes the cultural space of the northern Bay of Bengal as embracing upland landlocked areas—Ava, Yunnan, the Tripuri, Dimasa and A...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Centur...

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First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introducti...