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• Author(s): Roy Haimanti • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralEven after 70 years, the Partition of India, we continue to grapple with its histories, memories and legacies within...

• Author(s): R. S. Sharma • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History

• Author(s): Eaton Richard M. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Islam - HistorySpanning some twenty-five years of research and writing, the essays in this volume fall into two categories: historiog...

• Author(s): Jangam Chinnaiah • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Minority StudiesThe story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privil...

• 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...

• Author(s): Gadgil M ; Guha R • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book This Fissured Land, first published in 1992, presents an interpretative history ecological histo...

• 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...

• Author(s): Narayana Jha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Updated and revised, Ethics: The Basics , Second Edition , introduces students to fundamental ethical concepts, principles, theories,...

• Author(s): Ashley Jackson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFrom the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the w...

• Author(s): Mark Katz • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralMark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instr...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Eleanor Nesbitt • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: SikhismThis Very Short Introduction describes the key threads in the history of Sikhism, from the late 15th century to the present day....

• 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 ...

• Author(s): William H. Brock • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Chemistry - GeneralIn this Very Short Introduction, William H Brock traces the unique appeal of this fundamental science throughout hi...

• Author(s): KolgeNishikant • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Generalगाँधी एक लोकप्रिय जननेता और जननायक रहे। दुनिया में अपनी सदी के नायकों में एक। भारतीय समाज में जाति और वर्ण व्यवस्था पर गाँधी के र...

• Author(s): Chris Gosden • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: ReferencePrehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Austra...

• Author(s): Miri Rubin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduct...

• 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, ...

• Author(s): S. A. Smith | S.A. Smith • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThis Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Ru...

• 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. ...

• Author(s): Geraldine A Johnson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: European - GeneralBotticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Su...

• Author(s): Malcolm Gaskill • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Witchcraft (See Also Religion - Wicca)Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kin...

• 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...

• Author(s): Pick • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GermanyThe story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Dani...

• Author(s): Sastri K.A.Nilakanta; R.Champakalakshmi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UPA HISTORY OF SOUTH INDIA (OIP): From Prehistoric Times To the Fall of Vijayanagar

• 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...

• Author(s): Iwan Rhys Morus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistorybHistories you can trust./b The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity t...

• Author(s): Rodrigues Valerian • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asian - GeneralProviding an important introduction, this book is a compilation of judiciously selected, thoroughly edited writings o...

• Author(s): Zutshi Chitralekha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralOxford India Short Introduction | KASHMIR | Complex Issues of Kashmir About its Past, Present and Future

• Author(s): Mukherjee Rudrangshu • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book This is a short introduction to the life and ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime mini...

• Author(s): Thapar Romila • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralCultural Pasts collects essays on a range of subjects in early Indian history. Its focus is on historiography and ...

• 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...

• Author(s): Mushirul Hasan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: World - AsianMillions in India have long been obsessed with the vicissitudes of the Nehru–Gandhi family’s fate. Inextricably linked to t...

• Author(s): Raychaudhari Hemchandra & B.N.Mukherjee/B. N. Mukherjee • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralPolitical History of Ancient India, first published in 1923, has been established as a w...

• Author(s): Eaton Richard M. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis volume, part of the 'Themes in Indian History' series, contains 17 essays on various aspects of Islamic tra...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Hardtmann Eva-Maria • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe Dalit Movement in India traces new 'practices' and discourses among Dalit activists since t...

• Author(s): Upinder Singh • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis reader presents a new understanding of the early medieval period of Indian history (c. 600-1300 CE), highlight...

• 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...

• Author(s): David A. Gerber • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Indigenous - GeneralAn updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a h...

• Author(s): Hoyland • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralbHistories you can trust./b The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and I...

• Author(s): Robinson Francis • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Islam - HistoryThese essays address key themes in the history of the Muslims of South Asia: conversion to Islam, the impact of print, the emergence of Is...

• Author(s): Elleke Boehmer • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History

• 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...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Romila Thapar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThe Mauryan period witnessed the rise of the first subcontinental empire which required administration appropriate to a changing polit...

• Author(s): Habib Irfan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryThis collection brings together a number of studies on Akbar to present a vivid picture of the polity and culture of India 400-500 years ago.

• Author(s): Shireen Moosvi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Economic HistoryExploring the rich statistical material present in the earliest manuscripts of the A’in-i Akbari—the great official compilation of the Mugh...

• Author(s): Champaklakshmi R • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History

• 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...

• Author(s): Rana Mitter | Rana • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - ChinaChina today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international...

• Author(s): Nick Groom • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceThe Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and ...

• Author(s): Thapar Romila • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIt has long been maintained that the only concept of time known to early India was cyclic. This ...

• Author(s): Ali M. Athar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis paperback edition of a classic not only tests a number of popular hypotheses about the Mughal Empire during the reign of Aurangzeb...

• Author(s): Hawkins R.E. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History

• Author(s): Sanyal Hitesh Ranjan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book The devotional Bhakti movement, or more specifically, the Vaisnava Bhakti movement, in Bengal...

• Author(s): Thapar Romila • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book In this book, Romila Thapar examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of...

• Author(s): Andrew J. Bayliss • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. E...