History

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...

Throughout history, women have overcome tremendous odds to make lasting contributions to science. In Meeting the Challenge, Magdolna Hargittai shar...

A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and ri...

Travel and writing on travel became a means of self-expression for Bengalis, especially women, in the early twentieth century. Although social and ...

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the work of Bolivian political thinker Rene Zavaleta (1939 84), whose ideas were a key infl...

The Lost Hero of Banaras: Babu Jagat Singh examines the life and legacy of Babu Jagat Singh, a scion of the royal family of Banaras and an instrume...

The Routledge History of American Science provides an essential companion to the most significant themes within the subject area.

This is the remarkable story of a Scotsman who arrived in Calcutta in 1801 to make a living as a watchmaker but remained in the city, having dedica...

Early North Bengal: From Puṇḍravardhana to Varendra, c.400 BCE‒1150 CE reconstructs the history of a land named Puṇḍravardhana, an eponym of Puṇḍra...

Archives intersect with our lives in many ways. We have archives of our own, documenting family memories and histories. Then, there are larger arch...

This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the Partition in Bengal through the ...

This volume analyses the Trial of Bahadur Shah, a watershed moment in 19th century colonial history of India.

The book presents a new interpretation of the Santal Rebellion, the Hul 1855-1856, drawing on the colonial sources as well as Santal memories. It o...

This book focuses on the aftermath of the 1947 Partition of India. It considers the long aftermath and afterlives of Partition afresh, from a wide ...

This book studies the Gaidinliu uprising led by Rani Gaidinliu, a spiritual and political leader from Northeast India. It follows the journey of Ga...

This book examines the nature of statelessness in the India-Bangladesh enclaves. It traces the historical background and the causative factors for ...

This book focuses on India’s anti-colonial politics which Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) brought into the mainstream of nationalist thinking. It b...

What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms, and libraries reify—o...

This book encapsulates a period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent hi...

This book encapsulates a long period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents rece...

This book studies the linkages between science, technology and institution building in Colonial and Modern India. It discusses the advent and growt...

This book captures the complexities of both development and environment, from the political economy point of view, to offer a broad economic and en...

This book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Kang Youwei, one of the most famous intellectuals and modernisers of late 19th-c...

Poetry, mainly Urdu poetry, played a very significant role in India’s freedom struggle. This book explores the poetic contributions going back cent...

This book presents a systematic analysis of the rise and decline of the Indian National Congress since 1980s, using the frame dominance to hibernat...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the evolution of imperialism in Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain. It delv...

Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind. Cases of leprosy continue to be ...

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Company’s trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of ...

This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala ...

This book looks at migration through the lens of the Partition of India in 1947. The Partition uprooted millions of people from their homelands. Th...

Among the most notable works on the comprehensive history of humankind, V. Gordon Childe’s What Happened in History takes on a curious and interest...

The book Travels in the Mogul Empire A. D. 1656-68 by Francois Bernier continues to remain as important and popular as it was in 1671, when its Eng...

Traditional Knowledge Systems or Indigenous Knowledge Systems are a body of knowledge, which is very ancient and deep rooted. They have their origi...

Princess Gulbadan Begum witnessed the reign of three Mughal emperors : her father Babar's, her brother Humayun's and her nephew Akbar's. Perhaps th...

The book narrates the early history of India beginning from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan conquest including the Invasion of Alexander the Great. It i...

The three volumes cover the period from 1542 A.D. to 1605 A.D., and each volume contains introduction, various explanatory notes from Mr. Beveridge...

The three volumes cover the period from 1542 A.D. to 1605 A.D., and each volume contains introduction, various explanatory notes from Mr. Beveridge...

The three volumes cover the period from 1542 A.D. to 1605 A.D., and each volume contains introduction, various explanatory notes from Mr. Beveridge...

The three volumes cover the period from 1542 A.D. to 1605 A.D., and each volume contains introduction, various explanatory notes from Mr. Beveridge...

The book Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Chanakya of Modern India highlights the indispensably wise, critical, mature, decisive, responsible, and steerin...

Jats, Rajputs, Ahirs, Gujjars, Baloches and Pathans are the descendants of foreign nomadic tribes such as Scythians, Ahiras, Huns, Yueh-Ches, Kusha...

Punjab’s political, economic and social conditions took a new turn during the first global war. There was much resentment and dissatisfaction at va...

Mogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and anno...

Mogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and anno...

Mogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and anno...

Mogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and anno...