History

A HISTORY OF SOUTH INDIA (OIP): From Prehistoric Times To the Fall of Vijayanagar

This volume provides an examination of the major riots in Bengal between 1905 and 1947. It addresses the following issues: how an increased conjunc...

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. ...

Behind Latticed Marble: Inner Worlds of Women (F.B)

Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays with...

'A must-read to anyone interested in the digital world.' - Valérie Schafer, Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg ...

bHistories you can trust./b The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from ...

This expanded and updated edition revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approach...

bHistories you can trust./b The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - an...

Hari Shankar Vasudevan (1952-2020) had an interest and engagement with history writings that belied the constraints of time and space. Eurasia, Ind...

The Gasping City explores the urban environment of colonial Calcutta from the perspective of science as ‘knowledge’, planning as ‘development’ and ...

This is the first book of the New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India (NEEM Series), edited by David Shulman. Introspection and...

Freedom and Partition offers a reconstruction of four momentous days which shaped the lives of millions of people in the Indian subcontinent: 14–17...

The revised edition with a new Afterword of the history of non-Brahmin assertion to Brahmin hegemony in the old Madras Presidency argues that this ...

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a g...

Now in its third edition, First Americans has been fully updated to trace Native Americans' experiences through the 2020 election and the Biden adm...

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...

From airports crowded with refugees desperate to flee Partition violence to the mountainous battlefields of Kashmir, aircraft proved indispensable ...

India, like many other developing countries today, is undergoing massive urbanization. The imagination of the future form of Indian cities in terms...

Throughout history, women have overcome tremendous odds to make lasting contributions to science. In Meeting the Challenge, Magdolna Hargittai shar...

A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and ri...

Travel and writing on travel became a means of self-expression for Bengalis, especially women, in the early twentieth century. Although social and ...

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the work of Bolivian political thinker Rene Zavaleta (1939 84), whose ideas were a key infl...

The Lost Hero of Banaras: Babu Jagat Singh examines the life and legacy of Babu Jagat Singh, a scion of the royal family of Banaras and an instrume...

The Routledge History of American Science provides an essential companion to the most significant themes within the subject area.

This is the remarkable story of a Scotsman who arrived in Calcutta in 1801 to make a living as a watchmaker but remained in the city, having dedica...

Early North Bengal: From Puṇḍravardhana to Varendra, c.400 BCE‒1150 CE reconstructs the history of a land named Puṇḍravardhana, an eponym of Puṇḍra...

In this fully revised fourth edition, this book treats globalization from several vantage points, showing how these help grasp the nature of global...

Archives intersect with our lives in many ways. We have archives of our own, documenting family memories and histories. Then, there are larger arch...

This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (18...

This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the Partition in Bengal through the ...

This volume analyses the Trial of Bahadur Shah, a watershed moment in 19th century colonial history of India.

The book presents a new interpretation of the Santal Rebellion, the Hul 1855-1856, drawing on the colonial sources as well as Santal memories. It o...