History

Metallurgy had begun in the Indian subcontinent around 6th Millennium BCE. But unlike other metals zinc appeared much later, only a few hundred yea...

About the Book Popular depictions of campaigns for women's suffrage in films and literature have invariably focused on Western suffrage movements. ...

About the Book Indian Balm is the captivating account of a journey Paul Hyland made along the little-known course of the sacred Godavari river in S...

The book takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, exploring a fascinating country. It brings alive India’s growth from an ancient to a modern,...

About the Book This book is about India's Interim Government, in office from 2 September 1946 till August 1947, and some of its provincial counterp...

Thamizhini joined the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at the age of nineteen and spent eighteen years as a combatant, educator and, for som...

About the Book In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I t...

About the Book In today's global climate of pre-packaged opinions, every effort of original thinking is an act of dissent. To think radically today...

About the Book Explores the modern-day legacy of French colonialism in India. This work comes to the conclusion that the nature of the fledgling Fr...

About the Book A.J. Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories, tales and ballads of Robin Hood, and re-examines the story of this fas...

This volume argues that concepts and ideologies shaped the practice of British rule in India; impacted policies and laws, and were embodied in inst...

About the Book Absorbing.artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of deb...

British Assam holds an important place in the history of the British Empire in South Asia. This is especially so in the context of colonial frontie...

Written specifically as a core textbook for management students, this book is an essential companion in today’s rapidly changing globalized busines...

About the Book In Africa today, inherited conceptions of "honor" can obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defense of...

Hoaxes & Deceptions (part of the "Curious & Unusual Facts" Series)

About the Book In Hitler's First War, award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history--a major revision of our understanding of...

About the Book This book is an intensive reconsideration of the very first site-specific installation staged in India. Vivan Sundaram, one of India...

About the Book A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indiansubcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situa...

In this book, an attempt has been made to rediscover and study in an exclusive manner the wonderful metallurgical traditions of the Eastern India a...

About the Book This book examines the boom in history, in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers...

About the Book This book tackles the issue of delimiting Sufism: where does it start and where does it end? Speaking about Sufism does not typicall...

About the Book Over the past seven years, historian and broadcaster Daniel Snowman has interviewed a selection of some of the finest historians ali...

Himalayan Degradation, Colonial Forestry and Environmental Change in India questions the recent trend of treating environmental and agrarian concer...

About the Book Visions of modernity rest in part on a distinction between inherited status (past) and achievement (present). Inheritance is taken a...

About the Book This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays speci...

About the Book The colorful true stories of ten monumental feuds in the history of technology The history of technology is full of heated disputes ...

About the Book Praise for Great Feuds in History "Everyone loves a good fight, especially on the world stage, and Evans calls these contests with ...

About the Book In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War,...

About the Book This narrative text takes a balanced, global approach to the world since 1900, examining all regions without over-emphasizing Wester...

About the Book Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early mod...

About the Book This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and c...

About the Book A moving and spectacular tale of love, jealousy, and exotic travel, centering on three significant figures in the Surrealist movemen...

About the Book For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nin...

In the socio-political milieu of the forties in India, the most contentious decade of the last century, ravaged with war, the Quit India movement, ...

About the Book Landing on the beach at Gallipoli, aged 16, Alec Campbell looked no more than 12-years-old in his big brother's uniform. He was a yo...

About the Book We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another...

About the Book An English translation of the Urdu title Sab Sai Bari Jang, the book is an honest, accurate, and concise account of the days of turm...

Forest Ecology in India: Colonial Maharashtra 1850-1950 takes a look at the human interactions that have shaped up the ecosystem specifically of Ma...

About the Book First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North America to the present,...

About the Book An intriguing picture of life during the Civil War, through the newspapers of the period. Delving into an untapped source to tell th...

About the Book Fault Lines of History is the second volume in Zubaan's Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, to focus on India. This v...