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Well-researched and craftily woven, this is a remarkable historical novel, taking the reader back to pre-independent India through a tale of patrio...

The official records of the trial that culminated in the death sentence of Mangal Pandey, hailed by some as the one who initiated India’s First War...

A vivid account of a fascinating adventure that follows Major HPS Ahluwalia and his team members through cities as exotic as Bukhara, Samarkand, An...

North-western Provinces Of India, The: Their History, Ethnology And Administration

Magdaline Bourbon was a descendant of Jean Philippe de Bourbon, who arrived in India in the 1560s and was appointed a senior official by the Mughal...

In lieu of the rising political consciousness and opposition to British Raj in Bengal in the late nineteenth century, by 1902, Kolkata (erstwhile C...

Pioneering Parsis of Calcutta owes its origin to its authors passionate desire to learn more about her Parsi heritage by enquiring into the communi...

The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth - an...

About the Book -A tragic historical novel, with mythical dimension and epic narrative, based on the battle of Karbala that took place on 10th Octob...

An Account of My Life (Akhtar Iqbal) is second in the series of the memoirs of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam, the ex-ruler of Bhopal, and carries on fro...

Krishna Bose was born Krishna Chaudhuri on 26 December 1930 in Dhaka, to East Bengali parents settled in Calcutta. In December 1955 she married Sis...

Legendotes of Hyderbad

About the Book Indira Gandhi is perhaps one of the few Indian leaders whose recognition factor has not diminished with time. Her legacy, both in te...

The book takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, exploring a fascinating country. It brings alive India’s growth from an ancient to a modern,...

About the Book Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India This book sheds light on Neta...

Coconuts have been around for longer than Homo sapiens; they have been turned into art, taken part in religious rituals and been a sign of wealth a...

About the Book This memoir chronicles a sparse population, structures shattered by time, and roving officials of the British Crown trying to compre...

When Job Charnock landed at Sutanati in 1690 the place was no more than an ordinary Bengal village on the banks of the Hooghly. Yet, by the middle ...

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...

The Shaping of Modern Calcutta: The Lottery Committee Years 1817-1830 (H.B)

This book is in pursuit of Alice, whose name rhymes with ‘galluse’. That, however, is another memory, another book, waiting to germinate. John Lang...

Reflections on Mughal Art & Culture (H.B)

Delhi heritage top 10 Series is a comprehensive guide to Delhi heritage icons and architectural gems. The first volume in the series delves into th...

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...

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...

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...

Calcutta In The Nineteenth Century: An Archival Exploration

India Since 1947

Two hundred years of imperial rule left a legacy of Raj literature comprising journals, diaries and travelogues, ably complemented with the visual ...

Part of a collection of three historical reprints from the National Archives of India, The Native Races of the British Empire - Northern India is a...

A book that captures the essence of this magnificent fort and acknowledges the deeds of courage and valour of its inhabitants. The subject overwhel...

Indian civilization has layers of images where the highest train of thoughts from erudite verses mingle with simple home truths lying embedded in a...

A fascinating study of the cultural history of Thanjavur starting from the time when the Rajarajeswaram temple, which is now known as the Brihadees...

This book takes a clear-eyed view of the changing face of Calcutta. The city’s built heritage inherited from pre-Independence times is in the last ...

An architectural marvel and a national monument, the Jama Masjid is much more than the edifice itself. Its arches and domes, minars and minarets, g...

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

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...