History

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...

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...

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...

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

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 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 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...

The course of Maratha history in its last phase is marked by contingencies, some of greater import than others. Against the weakening authority of ...

Fall of the Maratha Empire, Vol. I (1796-1806) documents that significant transitional epoch in modern Indian history when the Marathas lost their ...

About the Book Rammohun Roy (c.1772-1833) is counted amongst the most influential intellectuals of Modern India. But even after a century of debate...

About the Book This book, on the history of telecommunications in India is the first of its kind to intentionally link the past and present, the co...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

About the Book Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India This book sheds light on Neta...

About the Book Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. The scope is ...

Early Indian Religion and Society examines the gradual disappearance of sacrificial liturgy in South Asia in the first millennium BCE, prompting pr...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

This is a story of Muzaffar Ahmad. In Calcutta through Muzaffar Ahmad's transitions, the little investigated history of the left in Bengal prior to...

About the Book Divided We Stand is a study of how class and race have intersected in American society--above all, in the "making" and remaking of t...

About the Book Displacement and citizenship are intricately connected in the contemporary flows of forced migration, internal displacement due to c...

About the Book Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, L szl Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generatio...

About the Book A stupendous feat of reportage.-Ron Powers, cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers Praise for Desperate Hours ""Goldstein's book is packed...

About the Book Many books have been written on the fascinating and chequered history of the city of Delhi. Few, however, have the breadth and scope...

About the Book The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities...

About the Book A preeminent historian examines World War II's turning point On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed at five Normandy beaches, precede...

David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in...

What haunts the city? Why is there so much pessimism in our urban lives? And how does this physical and psychological insecurity of relentless comp...

About the Book Curing Madness? focusses on the institutional and non-institutional histories of madness in colonial north India. It proves that 'ma...

About the Book The book provides insights into the society, polity, and literary ethos of Pakistan within the broader South Asian context. An attem...