History

Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their l...

Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917), popularly known as the ‘Grand Old Man of India’, was thrice elected president of the Indian National Congress. In 189...

The book has a selection of 186 of the most interesting arms in the Jaipur royal palace and discusses them as weapons in their social and historica...

This book details the life and public career of one of India’s legendary individuals—Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the first Indian knight and baronet. Born...

Colonial State, Agrarian Transition and Popular Protest in Orissa: 1921–1947 attempts to understand the agrarian socioeconomic transition that took...

At the time when the national movement was still in its early stages, Madan Mohan Malaviya emerged as an enigmatic but commanding figure in the pol...

Houses of Madness is an intriguing analysis of the history of mental asylums in nineteenth-century Bengal. It explores these institutions through s...

Genealogy, Time and Identity provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the prasasti and donative parts of the inscriptional records of d...

In volume one Our Place in the Universe: An Introduction to Big History our existence is regarded from different points of view: as a history of th...

This volume explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India and highlights various indigen...

Memories of belonging can be read as a collection of slightly offbeat musings on certain aspects of over a century and a half of India’s history. W...

This book recasts the history of Sufism in the Deccan and in India in general. Establishing the presence and active involvement of the Junaydī Sufi...

The wife of Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757-1849), Lady Nugent could travel extensively and meticulously observed the ways the British imagin...

Rakhshanda Jalil interweaves primary sources and personal collections of Urdu prose and poetry to trace the evolution of this movement from its hea...

These stories of chivalry and romance that cover several centuries are based both on history and the epic poetry of the great bards. Great literatu...

This book traces how royal dynastic cults and shrine-centred Sufism came together in the imperial cultures of Timurid Central Asia, Safavid Iran, a...

Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. In Berlin, Ayii becam...

An important feminist thinker, writer, and activist, Prema Kantak's contributions to Indian feminist thought and the nationalist movement have been...

With exquisite color photographs melding into one another to create a rare visual continuity, this volume celebrates the history, culture and spiri...

Part of the Towards Freedom series, this volume brings together primary sources and archival documents for the period 1 January 1947 to 2 June 1947...

Two hundred years of imperial rule left a legacy of Raj literature comprising journals, diaries and travelogues, ably complemented with the visual ...

This monograph breaks new ground by weaving stories of fathers and children into the history of gender, family and nation in colonial India. Focusi...

Part of a collection of three historical reprints from the National Archives of India, The Native Races of the British Empire - Northern India is a...

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. ...

The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings bo...

This volume attempts detailed analyses of Tamil and Telugu sources to explore the impact of notions of rituals, caste and religion in the formation...

Separated by age, custom, tradition, faith and beliefs, India's 'father of the nation' and first prime minister shared arguably the most important ...

This volume visualizes the cultural space of the northern Bay of Bengal as embracing upland landlocked areas—Ava, Yunnan, the Tripuri, Dimasa and A...

Indian civilization has layers of images where the highest train of thoughts from erudite verses mingle with simple home truths lying embedded in a...

A fascinating study of the cultural history of Thanjavur starting from the time when the Rajarajeswaram temple, which is now known as the Brihadees...

This book takes a clear-eyed view of the changing face of Calcutta. The city’s built heritage inherited from pre-Independence times is in the last ...

This book discusses the practice and institutionalization of the discipline of archaeology under British rule and its current manifestations. Using...

An architectural marvel and a national monument, the Jama Masjid is much more than the edifice itself. Its arches and domes, minars and minarets, g...

In this book, Thomas R. Trautmann continues the examination he began in Aryans and British India (1997). Whereas the previous book focused on Calcu...

The author presents a large comparative database derived from ethnographic and architectural research in Southeast Asia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and ot...

Aadhunik Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas

Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities examines the defining shifts in health and medicine, in Bombay Pr...

The essays in this collection examine the social and political thought of acclaimed poet and writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). His prose writ...

The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky narrates life at the Indian princely court of Bhopal, during the 1940s. Vera was the daughter of Professor M. ...

Like the heterogeneity of the idyllic landscape of the Ganga–Brahmaputra valleys, the art historical traditions of the region manifest elements of ...

India’s History, India’s Raj: Essays in Historical Understanding highlights the myriad facets in the story of how Indians themselves participated i...

The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a...

A novel of intersecting historical threads. The Tears is, at one level, a novel about the turbulent lives of twins, the sons of Charlemagne’s daug...

The book is a study of the travels of colonial law into the North-East frontier of the British Empire in India. Focusing on the nineteenth century,...

In his latest book, science writer and medicinal chemist Jie Jack Li guides readers through the history of viruses, vaccines, and antiviral drugs. ...

It has been more than seventy-six years since the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent, but for those who lived through the phase, the memories rem...

The book is an in-depth study of the lesser-explored history of Sufi practices in South Asia. Covering the formative period of Sufism in this regio...