Ratna Sagar

• 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): 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): 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): Chinmoy Guha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: General BooksAs the world moves into an uncertain post-theory phase, and one can see an increasing intolerance which threatens to disrupt the painstakin...

• Author(s): Roychowdhury, Madhuparna • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe regional tradition of goddess worship is as important as the famous Jagannātha temple and its realm of ritual influence for the r...

• Author(s): Imayam • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: English LiteratureThe ten stories in this collection cover different spaces and unravel many layers that Imayam so masterfully and effortlessly weaves into hi...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Suchandra Ghosh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaFrom the Oxus to the Indus explores the political and cultural history of the Indo...

• Author(s): A.K. Damodaran • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsJawaharlal Nehru: A Communicator and Democratic Leader explores multiple facets of Nehru’s experiments in communication as...

• Author(s): Mylapore Ponnusamy Sivagnanam • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Hindi LiteratureVeerapandiya Kattabomman holds the pride of place among the freedom fighters who challenged the might of the British Ea...

• 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): S Jeyaseela Stephen • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Fashion & Textile • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book explores how, in the early modern world, Tamil textiles became a globally 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): Ghulam Husain Khan with a Foreword • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsGhulam Husain Khan Tabataba’i’s Siyaru’l-muta’akhkhirin is divided into three unequal parts. The first...

• Author(s): Nell Shapiro Hawley | Sohini Sarah Pillai • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: English LiteratureMany Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literatur...

• 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): 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): Chandi Prasad Nanda • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryExamining questions of vernacularity and marginality, Vernacularizing Pasts explores critical concerns underlying history, time-space, mod...

• Author(s): Patrick Olivelle • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe Dharmaśāstra ascribed to yājñavalkya, commonly called yājñavalkya Smith, is a text on religious, Civil, and criminal law and jurisprudenc...

• 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): Vijaya Ramaswamy • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Fashion & Textile • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe Song of the Loom tells the story of the hoary tradition of textile weaving in...

• 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): Y. Subbarayalu • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus BooksIn India, a thorough knowledge of geography of the country (as well as that of the world) is a basic requirement for all the competitive examinations in the cou...

• Author(s): Ina Ross • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus BooksThe Anthropological Survey of India (ASI) conducted a survey of ongoing tribal movements in different parts of the country in 1976 and organised a Seminar in Septembe...

• Author(s): Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus Books • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionSir Syed Ahmad Khan, a 19th-century educationist and reformer, pioneered modern education among Indian Muslims...

• Author(s): Salil Misra • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus BooksThe essays in Slices of Indian History touch upon diverse facets of modern Indian history, including the major episodes, processes, institutions and personalities....

• Author(s): Anjum Altaf • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus BooksA Modern Introduction to Indian Music and Other Essays is a collective endeavour to understand the scientific foundation of Indian music using an unusual dialogic ...

• 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): 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): Manisha Choudhary • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus Books • Subject: General BooksAfter the shift of the capital of British India to Delhi in 1911, the imperial administration noted the need for a new educational i...

• Author(s): David Lunn • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus Books • Subject: General BooksSufis in the Life of Medieval India brings together ten of Simon Digby’s incisive and revelatory essays on one of his greatest intellectual...

• Author(s): Kunal Chakrabarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryState, Power & Legitimacy: The Gupta Kingdom presents a comprehensive account of the Gupta state, with particular emphasis on its strate...

• Author(s): Vinita • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Bio-Science and AgricultureCommonwealth Forestry and Environmental history is intended to enable conversations between environmental historians, forests, sust...

• 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): Eugenia Vanina • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryHistory in History: Interpretations of the Indian Pasts is not about the history of India but about the evolution of the conception of history ...

• 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): Sanjay Subodh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History

• Author(s): Anuradha Roy • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book is about the Communist-inspired cultural activism in Bengal that had strong national and international links, and responded to the crit...

• Author(s): Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: EconomicsEssays in Ancient Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set focusing on the developments in the economic history of In...

• 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): Ashmita Gupta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: EconomicsThis collection of essays, presenting various dimensions of research in social statistics, includes articles that are important from a histori...

• 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): 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): 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): Biswamoy Pati | Lata Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistorySince colonial times Bihar and Jharkhand have been the arena of diverse social and political struggles. The formation of the state ...

• Author(s): Mridula Ramanna • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book is a study of aspects of public health in Bombay Presidency from 1896 to 1930, and is asked upon extensive primary data. It charts b...