History

Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India: Pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra Tradition rediscovers the political ideas of the original and celebr...

The effects of Partition were felt not only in specific regions but all across the country. Moving away from state-specific analyses of the fractur...

Revisiting Hindavī Sufi Romances is an in-depth exploration of the various facets of north Indian society and culture displayed in four Hindavī Suf...

About the Book This edited volume brings together global interdisciplinary perspectives on work from different regions of the world, including Euro...

About the Book This unique text for beginning graduate students gives a self-contained introduction to the mathematical properties of stochastics a...

About the Book This new study provides a concise, accessible introduction to occupied Europe. It gives a clear overview of the history and historio...

About the Book This book addresses a range of debates regarding religious movements in the medieval and early modern periods. Eleven key essays deb...

Redeeming Calcutta takes a fresh look at one of Asia's great cities, a metropolis of hope and decay that was once the Second City of the British Em...

A psychological study of the Bengal Partition, a traumatic time that continues to resonate. Why has it been so hard for Bengal to recover from this...

About the Book The past and future of Black history In this information-overloaded twenty-first century, it seems impossible to fully discern or ex...

About the Book A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two St...

About the Book David has brought the streets and buildings of London alive to the real history of the city and the struggles of ordinary people. An...

About the Book The textbook is based on the lectures of the course "Synthetic Biology" for Master's students in biology and biotechnology at the Ha...

About the Book Nikolaus Himmelmann is a distinguished scholar who has written extensively on Greek and Roman art and the reception of ancient art i...

About the Book This book philosophically addresses problems of past racial discrimination in the United States. John Arthur examines the concepts o...

By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858...

About the Book This fascinating book provides a picture of the changing state of British landscape studies. Art historians, historians, geographers...

About the Book Allied propaganda and Eire censorship were a vital part of the conflict over Irish neutrality in the Second World War. Based upon or...

Prakrit and the Language Order of Premodern India traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivatio...

About the Book The Popular and the Public brings together a range of international scholars to examine how popular culture has shaped the public sp...

Poetry of belonging is an exploration of north-indian Muslim identity through poetry at a time when the Indian nation state did not exist. Between ...

About the Book This is a re-issue of Amalendu Guha's influential work on Assam and the Northeast, 30 years after its original publication, with a n...

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...