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Bose Bandhu aur bhartiya Swatantrata: Ek Kareebi Ka Vivran
Madhuri Bose
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• Author(s): Madhuri Bose • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGEBhasha • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyAbout the Book This book chronicles the roles of Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian freedom struggl...
View full detailsReligious Movements In South Asia 600-1800
Lorenzen David
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• Author(s): Lorenzen David • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryAbout the Book This book addresses a range of debates regarding religious movements in the medieval and early modern periods. Ele...
View full detailsIndology, Historiography And The Nation: Bengal, 1847-1947
Krishna Bhattacharya Samaddar
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• Author(s): Krishna Bhattacharya Samaddar • Publisher: Frontpage Pub. • Publisher Imprint: Frontpage • Subject: History
Ancient Delhi
Singh Upinder
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• Author(s): Singh Upinder • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UPAbout the Book This book traces the history of Delhi from the Stone Age to the time of the Rajputs. It meticulously weaves together evidence from stone tools, ancient...
View full detailsFrench Revolution (VSI): Very Short Introduction
William Doyle
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• Author(s): William Doyle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends...
View full detailsThe Holy Roman Empire (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Joachim Whaley
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• Author(s): Joachim Whaley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Europe - GermanyVoltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. ...
View full detailsArchaeology (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Paul Bahn
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• Author(s): Paul Bahn • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: ArchaeologyThis entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, ...
View full detailsDecolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore
Himani Bannerji
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• Author(s): Himani Bannerji • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: History • BISAC: Colonialism & Post-ColonialismThe essays in this collection examine the social and political thought of acclaimed poet and wr...
View full detailsFreedom and Partition: Momentous Events of 14-17 August 1947 in India and Pakistan
Tan Tai Yong
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• Author(s): Tan Tai Yong • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryFreedom and Partition offers a reconstruction of four momentous days which shaped the lives of millions of people in the Indian subcontinent: 14–...
View full detailsHistory Of Sikh Gurus Retold: 1469-1606 C.E.
Surjit Singh Gandhi
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• Author(s): Surjit Singh Gandhi • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe impulse behind the study in hand was the longing to find adequate answers to certain vital questions—What exactly does Sikhism stand for? W...
View full detailsMan Meets Dog
Konrad Lorenz
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• Author(s): Konrad Lorenz • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: History • BISAC: PersonalityIn this wonderful book, the famous scientist and best-selling author, Konrad Lorenz, 'the man who talked w...
View full detailsSocio-Economic History Of Medieval India
K.N. Chitnis
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• Author(s): K.N. Chitnis • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThis book ably meets the recent demand for a critical and comprehensive study of social, economic and cultural history of medieval India. The latest t...
View full detailsWith Clive In India
G.A.Henty
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• Author(s): G.A.Henty • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Non-ClassifiableAfter his father's death, Charlie Marryat, along with his friend Peters, joins the East India Company as a clerk and travels to ...
View full detailsPostwar Revolt Of The Rural Poor In Bengal: Memoirs of a Communist Activist
Abani Lahiri
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• Author(s): Abani Lahiri • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & FilmsInterview with the communist and political leader of West Bengal, India, chiefly on the 1930-1940, political situation in...
View full detailsRomantic Image
Frank Kermode
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• Author(s): Frank Kermode • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: PoetryFor the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one ...
View full detailsHaan, Main Bihari Hoon
Vivekanand Jha
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• Author(s): Vivekanand Jha • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: General Booksयह पुस्तक उन हिंसक घटनाओं को दर्शाती है जो मुंबई में रेलवे की परीक्षा देने गए बिहार और उत्तर प्रदेश के छात्रों के साथ घटित हुई थीं। यह भारत के ...
View full detailsA History of the Sikhs, Volume 1: 1469-1839
Khushwant Singh
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• Author(s): Khushwant Singh • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralFirst published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition...
View full detailsNazi Germany (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Jane Caplan
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• Author(s): Jane Caplan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GermanyAny consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime whi...
View full detailsThe Crusades (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Christopher Tyerman
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• Author(s): Christopher Tyerman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - GeneralWith flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman presents a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades, bringing ...
View full detailsCaste In History : Times in Indian History
Banerjee-Dube Ishita
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• Author(s): Banerjee-Dube Ishita • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis volume, a part of the prestigious Themes in Indian History series, brings together the work of distinguished scholars on t...
View full detailsThe Alipore Bomb Case
Hoda, Noorul
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• Author(s): Hoda | Noorul • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: HistoryIn lieu of the rising political consciousness and opposition to British Raj in Bengal in the late nineteenth century, by 1902, Kolkata (erstwhi...
View full detailsHistory of Europe: From Renaissance to the End of the Cold War
Rohit Majumdar
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• Author(s): Rohit Majumdar • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGETexts • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GeneralA concise textbook on the history of Europe viewed through the lens of economy, technology, information politics...
View full detailsGandhi'S Dilemma In War And Independence
Ranabir Samaddar
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• Author(s): Ranabir Samaddar • Publisher: Frontpage Pub. • Publisher Imprint: FrontpageIn the socio-political milieu of the forties in India, the most contentious decade of the last century, ravaged with war, the Quit India movement, famine, par...
View full detailsCulture & Civilization Of Pakistan
Naheed And Azfar
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• Author(s): Naheed And Azfar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaAbout the Book In this book, the prominent poet and author Kishwar Naheed presents a fascinating account ...
View full detailsArchiving the British Raj: History of the Archival Policy of the Government of India with Selected Documents 1858–1947
Bhattacharya Sabyasachi
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• Author(s): Bhattacharya Sabyasachi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThe archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects...
View full detailsThe Roots of the Periphery: A History of the Gonds of Deccan India
Bhangya Bhukya
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• Author(s): Bhangya Bhukya • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralIs primitivism a consequence of the natural evolution of some human societies? Or is it a conscious choice by such...
View full detailsSardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Chanakya of Modern India
Sheshrao Chavan
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• Author(s): Sheshrao Chavan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe book Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Chanakya of Modern India highlights the indispensably wise, critical, mature, decisive, responsible, and steerin...
View full detailsHistory Of United States Of America
N. Jayapalan
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• Author(s): N. Jayapalan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe book deals with all aspects of History of the United States of America in detail. In this book the events have been recorded in chronological orde...
View full detailsThe Ain-i-Akbari of Abul Fazl Allami: Translated by H Blochmann
Abul-Fazl 'Allami
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• Author(s): Abul-Fazl 'Allami • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe Ain-i-Akbari, or the “Constitution or Institutes of Akbar” was written by Akbar’s Vizier, Abul-Fazl Allami in the 16th century. It is a detai...
View full detailsMy Kashmir in Peace and Turbulence: Story of a Native in Exile
B.L. Kaul
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• Author(s): B.L. Kaul • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: HistoryThe book is in the form of memoirs by the author who is a native of Kashmir but his community was forced to leave their homes and hearths in 1990, due to ...
View full detailsThe Men Who Ruled India
Philip Mason
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• Author(s): Philip Mason • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa PublicationsThe man who ruled India is a masterly distillation of Philip Mason's two classics, The Founders and The Guardians which were written soon after British...
View full detailsShi’ism in Kashmir: A History of Sunni-Shia Rivalry and Reconciliation
Hakim Sameer Hamdani
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• Author(s): Hakim Sameer Hamdani • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Acad IndiWhen Muslim rule in Kashmir ended in 1820, Sikh and later Hindu Dogra Rulers gained power, but the country was still largely influenced by Sunni re...
View full detailsColonialism and the Call to Jihad in British India: Islamic Revivalism and Revolt in British India
Tariq Hasan
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• Author(s): Tariq Hasan • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - India & South Asia A historical narrative that examines the role of ulema and their use of the con...
View full detailsPostcolonialism (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Robert J.C. Young
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• Author(s): Robert J.C. Young • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: World - GeneralPostcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuin...
View full detailsSoviet Union (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Stephen Lovell, Stephen
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• Author(s): Stephen Lovell | Stephen • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Russia - GeneralAlmost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? W...
View full detailsGems From The Ramcharitmanas
Prem P. Bhalla
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• Author(s): Prem P. Bhalla • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyAll Hindus hold the Ramcharitmanas in great reverence. A few recite it regularly. Most recite it on special occasions as it is consid...
View full detailsThe Enlightenment (VSI): Very Short Introduction
John Robertson
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• Author(s): John Robertson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Europe - GeneralA foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a ref...
View full detailsA History Of The Sikhs : 1839-2004
Singh Khushwant
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• Author(s): Singh Khushwant • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralFirst published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition...
View full detailsIndia's Ancient Past
R.S. Sharma
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• Author(s): Sharma R.S. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book R.S. Sharma, one of the best-known historians of early India, provides a comprehensive yet accessible ...
View full detailsAtlantic Gandhi: Samudra Paar Mahatma
Nalini Natarajan, Natarajan
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• Author(s): Nalini Natarajan | Natarajan • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGEBhasha • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralUsing the frames of diaspora theory, post-colonial discourse theory and the recent Atlantic turn in studie...
View full detailsPatel Prasad and Rajaji: Myth of the Indian Right
Neerja Singh
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• Author(s): Neerja Singh • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: History • BISAC: Political Ideologies - GeneralThis book traces the debates around the concept of 'Right and Right-wing Politics' in the Indian po...
View full detailsGhetto (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Bryan Cheyette
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• Author(s): Bryan Cheyette • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies)About the Book For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval ...
View full detailsTheodor Adorno (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Andrew Bowie
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• Author(s): Andrew Bowie • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher a...
View full detailsThe Maya (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Matthew Restall
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• Author(s): Matthew Restall • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Latin America - Central AmericaThe Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human...
View full detailsAncient Assyria (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Karen Radner
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• Author(s): Karen Radner • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: CivilizationAssyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of ...
View full detailsSocial Formations in the Ancient World: From Evolution of humans to the Greek Civilisation
Rakesh kumar
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• Author(s): Rakesh kumar • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: HistoryThis book encapsulates a long period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. ...
View full detailsHistory of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India: Translated From the Original Persian of Mahomed Kasim Ferishta
John Briggs
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• Author(s): John Briggs • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe book was first published in 1829, at the court of Bijapur, where Ferishta spent most of his life under the patronage of King Ibrahim Adil Shah II. ...
View full detailsSelected Works Of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Vol. 6)
Ravindra Kumar
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• Author(s): Ravindra Kumar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryIn the thirty two years (1915-1947) history of National Liberation Movement and eleven years (1947-1958) after the dawn of the Independence, Maulana...
View full detailsPraachin Bharat: Praagaitihasik Kal Se Gupta Kaal Tak - Vevechanaatmak Adhyayan
Manik Lal Gupt
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• Author(s): Manik Lal Gupt • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Historyप्रस्तुत पुस्तक में प्रागैतिहासिक काल से लेकर गुप्तकाल तक के भारतीय राजनैतिक, सामाजिक, आर्थिक व धार्मिक जीवन के क्रमिक इतिहास का परिचय देते हुए, विव...
View full detailsLand Revenue Administration In The Punjab 1849-1901
Inderjit Sharma
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• Author(s): Inderjit Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: History
A Comprehensive History Of India: Civil Military and Social (MULTI VOL SET-3 Vols.)
Henry Beveridge
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• Author(s): Henry Beveridge • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThis three-volume book traverses through the history of India from the ancient times to the suppression of the revolt of 1857 and extinction of the...
View full detailsIntegration of the Indian States
V. P. Menon
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• Author(s): V. P. Menon • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Merging the 554 princely states with the Indian state was one of the most structurally monumental tasks that the Indian administration fa...
View full detailsThe Supreme Doctrine
Osho
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• Author(s): Osho • Publisher: Jaico Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Publishing HouseTalks on the Kenopanishad THE UPANISHADS CAN BE READ TODAY AS CONTEMPORARY SOURCES OF WISDOM Despite being many thousands of years old. They are di...
View full detailsMedieval India I
Matt (University of Liverpool, UK) Field
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• Author(s): Matt (University of Liverpool, UK) Field • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History
India's Ancient Past
R.S Sharma
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• Author(s): R.S Sharma • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Archaeology
The News Of Empire : Telegraphy Journalism and the Politics of Reporting in Colonial India c. 1830-1900
Amelia Bonea, Amelia
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• Author(s): Amelia Bonea | Amelia • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book On 14 July 2013, India closed down its telegraph service, d...
View full detailsThe Cultural Economy of Land – Rural Bengal, Circa 1860–1940
Suhita Sinha Roy, Mallarika Sinha Roy
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• Author(s): Suhita Sinha Roy | Mallarika Sinha Roy • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaAbout the Book The Cultural Economy of Land is situated at two crossroads of agraria...
View full detailsTwentieth-Century Britain (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Kenneth O. Morgan
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• Author(s): Kenneth O. Morgan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFirst published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth ...
View full detailsThe Father Of Modern India: William Carey
Vishal Mangalwadi
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• Author(s): Vishal Mangalwadi • Publisher: Vishal Mangalwadi • Publisher Imprint: Vishal Mangalwadi • BISAC: Asia - South - India Hindutva is modern India did not come from Hinduism. That is why orthodox Hindus see it to be incompatible with San...
View full detailsThe Eighteenth Century in Indian History: Revolution or Evolution?
P. J. Marshall
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• Author(s): P. J. Marshall • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book presents, in a single volume, a selection of the most important interpretations in current times, explor...
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