Ratna Sagar

• Author(s): Robert Eric Frykenberg • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThe complex socio-political and economic structure of life on the Indian subcontinent has been confused by centuries of accretion in overlapping terminolo...

• Author(s): Yagati Chinna Rao | Raj Sekhar Basu • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology‘Lower-caste’ thinkers made a crucial intervention in the conceptualization of modern India by claiming...

• Author(s): Christophe Jaffrelot • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThis book makes a detailed study of the functioning of India’s democracy on the one hand and the way India relates to ...

• 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–...

• Author(s): Indira Parthasarathy • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryIndira Parthasarathy’s play Aurangzeb presents the Mughal Emperor from certain chosen perspectives. Like Parthasarathy’s other dramatic w...

• Author(s): Sailendra Nath Sen • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds ...

• Author(s): Harit Joshi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe Ceremonial of Power studies the court ceremonial during the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628–58) and its use as an indispensable t...

• Author(s): Amiya P. Sen • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book examines the regional culture of nineteenth century Bengal, subjected to acute interpretative stress throughout this period. This is do...

• Author(s): Rajat Datta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book examines how the agrarian society of Bengal was transformed in the decades after the British conquest. While the focus is local, the arg...

• Author(s): Suhit K. Sen • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThe Paradox of Populism: The Indira Gandhi Years studies the changing dynamics of politics brought about by the eclipse of Con...

• Author(s): Robert I. Simon • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences

• Author(s): Anand Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book deals extensively with various facets of Nālandā Mahāvihāra and its contribution to the vast expanse of knowledge and arts of Asia. Some...

• Author(s): K. Rajesh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsLocal politics and participatory planning in Kerala analyses how micro-level politics impacts and influences local governance a...

• Author(s): Peter Robb • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis volume argues that concepts and ideologies shaped the practice of British rule in India; impacted policies and laws, and were embodied in inst...

• Author(s): Imayam | Prabha Sridevan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: RatnaBooks • Subject: General BooksAn intense exploration of the inner world of a teenager battling kidney damage while watching and listening to his parents who ...

• Author(s): Mariam Dossal • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryTrade and Commerce in Colonial Bombay: A History of the Emergence of its Business and Financial Establishments, c.1661–1935 examines the evoluti...

• Author(s): Anand Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyDāna: Reciprocity and patronage in Buddhism explores the concept of dāna in Buddhism as a primarily rational and ethical phenomeno...

• Author(s): Sandhya Sharma • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Modern - 16th CenturyThis book is a pioneering attempt to study Mughal Indian polity and the dynamics of family, k...

• Author(s): Vivekanand jha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History

• Author(s): Gautam Sengupta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryLike the heterogeneity of the idyllic landscape of the Ganga–Brahmaputra valleys, the art historical traditions of the region manifest element...

• Author(s): George Cardona • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe essays in this volume represent research by George Cardona that centers on Indian thinking in the domain of grammar (vyākar...

• Author(s): Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book dicusses the origin and growth of Indo-Persian historiography with particular emphasis on India’s contribution to the litera...

• Author(s): Ranabir Chakravarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: General BooksThe pull towards the Coast and other essays: the Indian Ocean history and the subcontinent before 1500 CE presents nine essays and t...

• Author(s): Uma Chakravarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe Dying Lineage has at its core the crises of reproduction that underwrite Vyasa’s Mahabharata, a text that best exemplifies...

• Author(s): Anindita Ghoshal • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe effects of Partition were felt not only in specific regions but all across the country. Moving away from state-specific analyses of the f...

• Author(s): Andrew Ollett • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryPrakrit and the Language Order of Premodern India traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultiva...

• Author(s): Smita Sahgal • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryThis book attempts to explore the institution of niyoga in early India, examining its genesis and trajectory through the ...

• Author(s): Sabyaschi Bhattacharya • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis volume is the first in a series, bringing to readers the latest and most pertinent scholars...

• Author(s): Pius Malekandathil | K.S. Mathew • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyApostolate of St. Thomas in India traces the history of the missionary works of St. Thomas and the origins of...

• Author(s): Anand Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book is an attempt to discuss the status of Buddhism in Sārnāth on the basis of all th...

• Author(s): Michael Bergunder • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThis volume attempts detailed analyses of Tamil and Telugu sources to explore the impact of notions of rituals, caste and religion in the formation of social, ...

• Author(s): Ranjusri Ghosh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryEarly North Bengal: From Puṇḍravardhana to Varendra, c.400 BCE‒1150 CE reconstructs the history of a land named Puṇḍravardhana, an eponym of Pu...

• Author(s): Pius Malekandathil • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThe two-volume India, the Portuguese and Maritime Interactions is the outcome of the 14th International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History held at New Delhi. ...

• Author(s): P. Sathyavathi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionSathyavathi’s stories explore the lives of a vast swathe of women – middle-class women yearning for economic independence, sp...

• Author(s): Kalki Krishamurthy • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionParthiban Kanavu (Parthiban’s Dream) was a novel Kalki R. Krishnamurthy penned as a weekly serial beginning 1941 in Kalki...

• Author(s): Muzaffar Alam | Sanjay Subrahmanyam • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe year 1911 saw the publication of the first volume of the Calendar of Persian Correspondence, arguably the most signifi...

• Author(s): Sabyasachi Bhattacharya • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: EconomicsEssays in Modern Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set, comprising representative articles of Indian History Congres...

• Author(s): John Stratton Hawley • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyFor decades Surdas has been Jack Hawley’s ideal poet. But not the Surdas we all think we know—the poet of Krishna’s child...

• Author(s): K.K. Trivedi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book on the city of Agra makes a close examination of this medieval Indian urban centre that grew into a multifunctional town completely out...

• Author(s): Sailendra Nath Sen • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryChandernagore, a former French possession near Kolkata, has experienced several changes in fortune, moving from being the hub of revolution...

• Author(s): Megan Moodie • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyIn We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state’s relationship to ‘Scheduled Tribes’, or adivasis— ...

• Author(s): Sabyasachi Bhattacharya • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryEssays in Modern Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set, comprising representative articles of Indian History Congress ...

• Author(s): Sailendra Nath Sen • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis study of Indian History and Culture has been designed for both students and general readers. This book puts emphasis on the main curre...