History

In 2015 the Goethe-Institute in Kolkata (India) and Dhaka (Bangladesh) began a collaborative project entitled ‘Inherited Memories’. The project beg...

In the late sixth century CE, śaśāṅka—raised as the king of gauḍa—extended his power over Magadha and northern Bihar. Whatever the details of his r...

Historicizing gendered modernity's in India underscores how gender, as a category of historical analysis and identity, is central to our imaginatio...

Rituals—loosely defined as symbolically meaningful action—pervaded medieval society, up and down the social strata. Royal Courts were a constant ar...

Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolu...

Urban studies or urban history has recently emerged as a compelling framework for historical inquiry as it is a potent tool for the discovery of va...

Words of her own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works ...

The Dharmaśāstra ascribed to yājñavalkya, commonly called yājñavalkya Smith, is a text on religious, Civil, and criminal law and jurisprudence comp...

Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta’s Some Aspects of the Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century presents a sharply posed conversa...

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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 book serves as the corridor to one’s ‘self’. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance history of Swadeshi Bengal. The burge...

The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani Partition is one of separation: a country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, anindy...

India and Civilizational Futures is the second volume to emerge from the deliberations of the Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics, a ...

An endangered history examines the transcultural, colonial history of the Chittagong Hill tracts, C. 1798–1947. This little-studied borderland regi...

Based upon an in-depth empirical research, Development and Deforestation: Making of Urban Bombay studies the green dense in scaling the urbanizatio...

Not all scientific discoveries are genius. Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 20th centuries defeate...

The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring image...

Anagarika Dharmapala (1864–1933) was a leading Sinhalese Buddhist reformer and national activist who ranks high among the makers of modern Buddhism...

The unruly Brahmaputra has always been an agent in shaping both the landscape of its valley and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. But how much do...

Delhi heritage top 10 Series is a comprehensive guide to Delhi heritage icons and architectural gems. The first volume in the series delves into th...

Building Histories provides innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi-the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and ...

The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya trac...

The Indian diaspora in Australia and New Zealand represents a successful ethnic community making significant contributions to their host societies ...

In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, h...

In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and t...

Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’ presents the story of three remarkable individuals—Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and the Anglican miss...

Caught in the web of global economic fluctuations, Bombay experienced a cataclysmic financial crisis in the 1860s. Before the crash the city’s econ...

The Birth of an Indian Profession is the first comprehensive history of engineers in modern India. Charting the development of the engineering prof...

The story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privileged caste Hindus as heroes a...

This book is an attempt to provide a synthetic overview of Mahatma Gandhi - his person, philosophy and practices. The objective is to draw a system...

This book documents the history of cotton, its patterns of cultivation, the expanding use of hybrid varieties, and their consequences on the increa...

In the early phase of imperial domination, hill stations such as Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund, and Mount Abu were developed by the British to refl...

This book presents the history of the Jaina rules of inviting death, descriptive accounts of Puranic and historical personalities who embraced it, ...

Pursuing Death widens the canvas of enquiry on the Jaina practices of voluntary termination of life, identified with terms such as Santāra, Sallekh...

Orwell was wrong. Sports are not "war without the shooting", nor are they "war by other means." To be sure sports have generated animosity througho...

Millions in India have long been obsessed with the vicissitudes of the Nehru–Gandhi family’s fate. Inextricably linked to the ups and downs of thei...

The essays included in this volume highlight the importance of comparative studies within the field of environmental history. The contributors addr...

Is primitivism a consequence of the natural evolution of some human societies? Or is it a conscious choice by such societies to evade state power? ...

Hope and Despair: Mutiny, Rebellion and Death in India recounts the story of the thousands of Indians–sailors and forgotten working class individua...

War, the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world, transferred wealth violently from the vanquished to the victor. Invasions, massacr...

Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge is a collection of wide ranging essays on Indian Christianity and Christian ...

Manifestations of History highlights the significant, yet underestimated, place of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in socio-cultural and historical...

What Happened to the Bhadralok suggests that the arrival of new consumers of culture, drawn from the rural middle class, and the unorganized workin...

The present monograph is a study of the Indian armed forces during the Second World War. This monograph is a corrective to the cultural studies app...

As the administrative and commercial capital of British India and as one of the earliest experiments in modern urbanization in the sub-continent, C...

Since its birth as a concept, civilization has been defined by an encounter with the ‘other’. Barbarism, the ever-ready counter concept, has provid...