History

This book focuses on the aftermath of the 1947 Partition of India. It considers the long aftermath and afterlives of Partition afresh, from a wide ...

This book studies the Gaidinliu uprising led by Rani Gaidinliu, a spiritual and political leader from Northeast India. It follows the journey of Ga...

This book examines the nature of statelessness in the India-Bangladesh enclaves. It traces the historical background and the causative factors for ...

This book focuses on India’s anti-colonial politics which Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) brought into the mainstream of nationalist thinking. It b...

What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms, and libraries reify—o...

This book encapsulates a period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent hi...

This book encapsulates a long period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents rece...

This book studies the linkages between science, technology and institution building in Colonial and Modern India. It discusses the advent and growt...

This book captures the complexities of both development and environment, from the political economy point of view, to offer a broad economic and en...

This book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Kang Youwei, one of the most famous intellectuals and modernisers of late 19th-c...

Poetry, mainly Urdu poetry, played a very significant role in India’s freedom struggle. This book explores the poetic contributions going back cent...

This book presents a systematic analysis of the rise and decline of the Indian National Congress since 1980s, using the frame dominance to hibernat...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the evolution of imperialism in Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain. It delv...

Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind. Cases of leprosy continue to be ...

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Company’s trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of ...

This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala ...

This book looks at migration through the lens of the Partition of India in 1947. The Partition uprooted millions of people from their homelands. Th...

Does the slow decay of a stalwart publication reveal harsh truths about the state of modern journalism? White Sahibs, Brown Sahibs: An Insider’s A...

Among the most notable works on the comprehensive history of humankind, V. Gordon Childe’s What Happened in History takes on a curious and interest...

The book Travels in the Mogul Empire A. D. 1656-68 by Francois Bernier continues to remain as important and popular as it was in 1671, when its Eng...

Traditional Knowledge Systems or Indigenous Knowledge Systems are a body of knowledge, which is very ancient and deep rooted. They have their origi...

Princess Gulbadan Begum witnessed the reign of three Mughal emperors : her father Babar's, her brother Humayun's and her nephew Akbar's. Perhaps th...

The book narrates the early history of India beginning from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan conquest including the Invasion of Alexander the Great. It i...

The three volumes cover the period from 1542 A.D. to 1605 A.D., and each volume contains introduction, various explanatory notes from Mr. Beveridge...

The three volumes cover the period from 1542 A.D. to 1605 A.D., and each volume contains introduction, various explanatory notes from Mr. Beveridge...

The three volumes cover the period from 1542 A.D. to 1605 A.D., and each volume contains introduction, various explanatory notes from Mr. Beveridge...

The three volumes cover the period from 1542 A.D. to 1605 A.D., and each volume contains introduction, various explanatory notes from Mr. Beveridge...

The book Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Chanakya of Modern India highlights the indispensably wise, critical, mature, decisive, responsible, and steerin...

Jats, Rajputs, Ahirs, Gujjars, Baloches and Pathans are the descendants of foreign nomadic tribes such as Scythians, Ahiras, Huns, Yueh-Ches, Kusha...

Punjab’s political, economic and social conditions took a new turn during the first global war. There was much resentment and dissatisfaction at va...

Mogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and anno...

Mogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and anno...

Mogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and anno...

Mogul India or Storia Do Mogor (in four volumes) is a travelogue of a well-known Italian traveller Niccolao Manucci, translated in English and anno...

वह साधु, जिसे समकालीन दस्तावेज हिन्दू फकीर बताते हैं, अपने घर से भाग निकला था एक उच्च प्रयोजन को सिद्ध करने, लेकिन ऐसा करने में उसके मार्ग में अड़चन...

वह साधु, जिसे समकालीन दस्तावेज हिन्दू फकीर बताते हैं, अपने घर से भाग निकला था एक उच्च प्रयोजन को सिद्ध करने, लेकिन ऐसा करने में उसके मार्ग में अड़चन...

The book deals with all aspects of the History of World Civilisation in detail in different phases. From the beginning to the end the events of wor...

This book deals with the Medieval period of Indian History. Most of the historians consider this period as the dark period of Indian history. Accor...

The book deals with all aspects of Historiography. In this book the chapterisation is clearly made so as to indicate the Meaning, Scope and Value o...

Himu: The Hindu 'Hero' of Medieval India offers a comprehensive exploration of Hemchandra Vikramaditya, a remarkable figure who rose from humble be...

Constitutional History of India deals with all aspects of the development of Indian Constitution in detail with different phases of the history of ...

The British considered India as 'the brightest jewel in the British Crown', hence were very solicitous of its safety and security. The galloping Ru...

Alexander the Great unveils the life of one of history's most enigmatic figures, a warrior and a ruler of passionate ambition, Alexander III of Mac...

प्रस्तुत पुस्तक-आधुनिक भारत का इतिहास एवं विरासत का नवम् संशोधित संस्करण कई तरह से महत्वपूर्ण है। इस संस्करण में ‘विज्ञान एवं तकनीक का विकास’ एवं भ...

A Short History of the World, largely inspired by Wells’ earlier 1919 work The Outline of History, is a monumental account of the physical, spiritu...

Trask’s Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics – the study of language change over time. This engagin...

This book examines the symbiotic relationship between museums, heritage attractions and tourism, using a range of international case studies. Divid...