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A Struggle for Identity: Muslim Women in United Provinces

About the Book An inspiring memoir of a colonial life, set against the background of the ending of the British Empire. Evacuated as a schoolboy fro...

About the Book Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha (1883-1942) was an exceptional ruler, a princely 'rebel' who resisted the paramount power in diffe...

About the Book In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused...

About the Book This memoir chronicles a sparse population, structures shattered by time, and roving officials of the British Crown trying to compre...

About the Book This volume celebrates the work of William O'Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, ma...

About the Book Memoirs of a Life in Punjab is the autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni which offers a rich tapestry of life in colonial Punjab with a g...

About the Book Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially ...

About the Book A History of the Present is the first book-length overview of Indian South Africans in the quarter century following the end of apar...

A history of the historyless, and the marginalization of adivasi voices. A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India is a path-b...

A Gentlemans Word: The Legacy of Subhas Chandra Bose in Southeast Asia

When Job Charnock landed at Sutanati in 1690 the place was no more than an ordinary Bengal village on the banks of the Hooghly. Yet, by the middle ...

About the Book Following a general trend, Ayurveda is often officially described and commonly known even among its practitioners as 'alternative me...

(Dis)connected empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century between the Portuguese empi...

The colonial administration passed a Factory Act in 1881, producing the first official definition of ‘factory’ in modern Indian history as a workpl...

No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther ...

"Investigating the emergence of Hindi publishing in colonial Lucknow, long a stronghold of Urdu and Persian literary culture, Shobna Nijhawan offer...

This book is a historical study of order and disorder in early colonial Bengal. It focuses on the encounter of social restlessness, crime, and viol...

Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur-the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United ...

Recounting the story of the Oraons and Tana Bhagats of Chhotanagpur in the present-day state of Jharkhand, this book questions postcolonial underst...

This book studies the regional tradition of mathematics in the Tamil-speaking areas of Southern India. It questions the established nature of India...

China's geo-economic vision is transforming the Eurasian continent. Acclaimed foreign policy experts recount their travels across Central Asia, bea...

City of Façades: Archaeology, History, and Urbanism in Velha Goa revisits early modern colonial urbanisms through an archaeological project conduct...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

The Deccan Plateau has diverse ecological formations that have shaped human ecology, politics, philosophies, trade and urbanization. With thirteen ...

Examining questions of vernacularity and marginality, Vernacularizing Pasts explores critical concerns underlying history, time-space, modernity, a...

The close attention required for editing and translating gives Olivelle an unparalleled understanding of the texts and inspires numerous articles a...

The Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas, begun in 1574 CE, is the most widely known and best loved devotional text in the whole of the north Indian vernacula...

The author takes the reader through a detailed analysis of the court cases and seeks to reveal through transcripts, the true picture of the communi...

This book publishes - for the most part, for the first time - Gandhi's letters to his youngest son, Devadas from 1914, when father and son were bot...

Widows of Colonial Bengal: Gender, Morality, and Cultural Representation seeks to explore the unique vulnerability and precarity of widowhood in Be...

It is seldom recognized that Indian nationalism had its beginnings in the belief that India was being increasingly impoverished under British rule....

The expansionist policy of the colonial power necessitated official involvement with medical education in Bengal from the early nineteenth century....

The Shaping of Modern Calcutta: The Lottery Committee Years 1817-1830 (H.B)

This book attempts to comprehend the history of the Delhi Sultanate with reference to its Islamic identity. The Turkish chiefs, despite having a mi...

The essays in this volume focus on the surviving remains in India of pre-modern public buildings like sarais, bridges and water-works of different ...

Focusing on inscriptional materials from South Asia, The essays in social worlds of premodern transactions bring together a range of new perspectiv...

Jammu and Kashmir has been different things to different people throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first. This book challeng...

This book is in pursuit of Alice, whose name rhymes with ‘galluse’. That, however, is another memory, another book, waiting to germinate. John Lang...

Dreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal is the third volume produced under the aegis of the Wellcome Trust (London) funded documentation project ‘West...

Reflections on Mughal Art & Culture (H.B)

Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Thiird Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center....

Following the death of the great historian, Ainslie T. Embree, this remarkable document was found in his study, a project to which he had devoted t...