History

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...

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This Very Short Introduction describes the key threads in the history of Sikhism, from the late 15th century to the present day. It examines the de...

China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presenc...

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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...

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...

Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of As...

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite ...

Essays in Ancient Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set focusing on the developments in the economic history of India during the la...

Religion has been, and is, an important element in Indian society and history. It is, however, rare for the subject to be discussed with the necess...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and in...

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...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age ...

The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides...

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Gandhi and King were perhaps the most influential individuals in modern history to combine religious and political thought into successful and dyna...

Few countries and continents tell More stories than this tiny town––of Chinese Sailors, Arab traders, Jewish merchants and European conquests––set ...

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...