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Pioneering Parsis of Calcutta owes its origin to its authors passionate desire to learn more about her Parsi heritage by enquiring into the communi...

The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth - an...

About the Book On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers....

This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from...

About the Book In 1954, eighteen years before Nixon's momentous visit to China, scores of European delegations set off for Beijing, in response to ...

About the Book The 'sequel' to his best-selling Classes and Cultures, Ross McKibbin's latest book is a powerful reinterpretation of British politic...

About the Book - The first book on the subject of postcards in the Indian subcontinent - More than 500 professionally restored images - Chapters de...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engagi...

About the Book The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progres...

About the Book The book series 'Polymer Nano-, Micro- and Macrocomposites' provides complete and comprehensive information on all important aspects...

About the Book In a highly original study, David Wyatt takes a broad, yet personal, look at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative...

While popular accounts of warfare, particularly of nontraditional conflicts such as guerrilla wars and insurgencies, favor the role of leaders or i...

About the Book What would our world today be like without inventions like tarmac, aspirin, liquid crystals, and barbed wire. This guide shows how p...

About the Book On India: Self-image and Counter-image looks at the philosophical and religious as well as the sociopolitical forces that are at wor...

About the Book -A tragic historical novel, with mythical dimension and epic narrative, based on the battle of Karbala that took place on 10th Octob...

About the Book A comprehensive, highly readable reference This is an authoritative, one-stop resource for essential information on the exploration ...

This book attempts to explore the institution of niyoga in early India, examining its genesis and trajectory through the temporal and spatial canva...

About the Book Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mi...

Festschrift honoring Partha Sarathi Gupta, Indian historian; contributed articles on Indian historiography.

An Account of My Life (Akhtar Iqbal) is second in the series of the memoirs of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam, the ex-ruler of Bhopal, and carries on fro...

About the Book Narrative Pasts retrieves the social history of a Muslim community in Gujarat, a region that has one of the earliest records of Musl...

About the Book This is a translation of a series of five edited interviews with Jean-Maurice de Montremy, each touching upon one of the central the...

The inspirational business story of Huawei: how to go from start up to world leader in two decades…   With over 170,000 employees in more than 170...

About the Book The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focus...

About the Book The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focus...

About the Book : The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the revolt of 1857 from original and unusual perspectives, focusing in part...

About the Book As countries in Asia try to create unified polities, many face challenges from minority groups within their own borders seeking inde...

This book provides a richly illustrated survey of the history of Mughal architecture.

About the Book Praise for Unsolved Mysteries of American History "The facts are presented clearly and concisely, and the answers have been thoroug...

About the Book Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia explores...

About the Book This book is a re-examination of the fertile years of early modernism immediately preceding the First World War. During this period,...

About the Book In 1979, Margaret Thatcher rose to power and the ensuing years are key to understanding Britain in the 21st century. Keith Laybourn ...

About the Book Brazil is associated in many people's minds with conviviality, sensuality, and natural beauty. Yet the country behind these images a...

About the Book Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 194...

About the Book Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer―that the fates of the two republics are inextricabl...

About the Book The book ventures to look into eras bygone in order to chronicle the passage of three mega species-the rhinoceros, tiger, and elepha...

About the Book A comprehensive and authoritative short guide, this Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Angl...

About the Book Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and co...

Material Culture Of Gangetic Plains During First Millennium B.c.: An Archaeological Study

Looking back on the glorious tradition of iron making in India, Marvels of Indian Iron Through the Ages provides concrete evidence of the expertise...

About the Book Abandoning her privileged position in society, Marie d'Agoult eloped with Franz Liszt, and later won fame as a writer under the name...

About the Book Striking in appearance--six foot four and physically imposing--with an aristocratic bearing and incredible charm and self-assurance,...

About the Book This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisatio...

This history of the erstwhile princely state of Udaipur evokes the glory and grandeur of the Rajput courts. Here are tales of honour and chivalry, ...