History

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)

Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants suc...

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with European...

An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of...

Very Short Introductions:Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Ber...

By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The ...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination ― mummies and pyramids, curses an...

Tackling current historiographical questions in an accessible way, the author offers a clear introduction to Marxist views of history, key Marxist ...

A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonl...

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)

The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, an...

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different r...

Although often neglected and underplayed in mainstream history, armed resistance to British imperialism is a significant part of India’s epic strug...

Possessing the City is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues th...

A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate...

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...

Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs from 1947 to 1964, set the framework of foreign policy which has re...

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...