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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 ...

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....

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 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 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.

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...

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

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

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...

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, ...

About the Book The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars. Two of European history's greate...

Krishna Bose was born Krishna Chaudhuri on 26 December 1930 in Dhaka, to East Bengali parents settled in Calcutta. In December 1955 she married Sis...

About the Book Professional archaeologists have been working in the city of London, and revealing its secrets, since the early 1970s. This book cel...

About the Book Letters and first-person narrative accounts relating to the courtship of Elizabeth Wiseman by Robert Spencer in 1686-1687. The docum...

Legendotes of Hyderbad

About the Book Latin America 2040 presents a longer term vision of Latin American society and economies, within which current policy debates and ac...

Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social ref...

About the Book Advance Praise for Joseph P. Kennedy "Ted Schwarz gives us a darker, and truer, picture of the founding father (and only Kennedy to ...

About the Book By the 1920s, Jews were--by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day--making it in America. But as these children o...

About the Book Presents a collection of essays that look at Iraq's history, arts, religion, politics, and the role of women.

Indias Rise as an Asian Power: Nation, Neighborhood, and Region

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. ...

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,...