History

This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examin...

This Very Short Introduction offers a powerfully-written explanation of the war's complex origins and course, and explores its impact on a personal...

This volume analyses the complex dialectics between warfare, British-Indian war machine, and colonial society. Providing a wide historiographical l...

Indian civilization has layers of images where the highest train of thoughts from erudite verses mingle with simple home truths lying embedded in a...

A fascinating study of the cultural history of Thanjavur starting from the time when the Rajarajeswaram temple, which is now known as the Brihadees...

The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history....

The Reformation transformed Europe, and left an indelible mark on the modern world. It began as an argument about what Christians needed to do to b...

This book takes a clear-eyed view of the changing face of Calcutta. The city’s built heritage inherited from pre-Independence times is in the last ...

Redefining the way history and anthropology view tribal India, this book explores the expansion of the state in Bastar over the past two centuries....

This book discusses the practice and institutionalization of the discipline of archaeology under British rule and its current manifestations. Using...

An architectural marvel and a national monument, the Jama Masjid is much more than the edifice itself. Its arches and domes, minars and minarets, g...

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. This introduction covers the history of the empire at its height, looking at its people, religions a...

The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Mi...

In this book, Thomas R. Trautmann continues the examination he began in Aryans and British India (1997). Whereas the previous book focused on Calcu...

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 imperia...

Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subje...

Spanning some twenty-five years of research and writing, the essays in this volume fall into two categories: historiography and Indo-Islamic civili...

This collection brings together a number of studies on Akbar to present a vivid picture of the polity and culture of India 400-500 years ago.

A HISTORY OF SOUTH INDIA (OIP): From Prehistoric Times To the Fall of Vijayanagar

This volume provides an examination of the major riots in Bengal between 1905 and 1947. It addresses the following issues: how an increased conjunc...

The author presents a large comparative database derived from ethnographic and architectural research in Southeast Asia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and ot...

Aadhunik Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas

Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities examines the defining shifts in health and medicine, in Bombay Pr...

The essays in this collection examine the social and political thought of acclaimed poet and writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). His prose writ...

The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky narrates life at the Indian princely court of Bhopal, during the 1940s. Vera was the daughter of Professor M. ...

Behind Latticed Marble: Inner Worlds of Women (F.B)

Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays with...

'A must-read to anyone interested in the digital world.' - Valérie Schafer, Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg ...

bHistories you can trust./b The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from ...

This expanded and updated edition revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approach...

bHistories you can trust./b The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - an...

Hari Shankar Vasudevan (1952-2020) had an interest and engagement with history writings that belied the constraints of time and space. Eurasia, Ind...

The Gasping City explores the urban environment of colonial Calcutta from the perspective of science as ‘knowledge’, planning as ‘development’ and ...

This is the first book of the New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India (NEEM Series), edited by David Shulman. Introspection and...

Freedom and Partition offers a reconstruction of four momentous days which shaped the lives of millions of people in the Indian subcontinent: 14–17...

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a g...

Now in its third edition, First Americans has been fully updated to trace Native Americans' experiences through the 2020 election and the Biden adm...

Like the heterogeneity of the idyllic landscape of the Ganga–Brahmaputra valleys, the art historical traditions of the region manifest elements of ...

India’s History, India’s Raj: Essays in Historical Understanding highlights the myriad facets in the story of how Indians themselves participated i...

The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a...

A novel of intersecting historical threads. The Tears is, at one level, a novel about the turbulent lives of twins, the sons of Charlemagne’s daug...

The book is a study of the travels of colonial law into the North-East frontier of the British Empire in India. Focusing on the nineteenth century,...

In his latest book, science writer and medicinal chemist Jie Jack Li guides readers through the history of viruses, vaccines, and antiviral drugs. ...

It has been more than seventy-six years since the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent, but for those who lived through the phase, the memories rem...

The book is an in-depth study of the lesser-explored history of Sufi practices in South Asia. Covering the formative period of Sufism in this regio...

From airports crowded with refugees desperate to flee Partition violence to the mountainous battlefields of Kashmir, aircraft proved indispensable ...

India, like many other developing countries today, is undergoing massive urbanization. The imagination of the future form of Indian cities in terms...