Ratna Sagar

• 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): Anne Feldhaus • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyConnected Places is a study in the religious geography of India. It explores ways in which people live in and understand their w...

• Author(s): Shama Mitra Chenoy • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History

• Author(s): Robert Eric Frykenberg • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryIndia’s History, India’s Raj: Essays in Historical Understanding highlights the myriad facets in the story of how Indians themselves pa...

• 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): Dipankar Gupta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookMisreadings examines five major misconceptions that cloud popular perceptions of social reality. The first is the transformations brought about by urbanization in...

• Author(s): James Puliurumpil • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookSpread of Christianity in India up to AD 1500: Dynamics of Difference examines the history of the St. Thomas Christians, and unravels the complex socio-economi...

• Author(s): Shamim Akhtar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar

• Author(s): Ashutosh Kumar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusbookIndian Nationalists and Anti-Indenture Resolutions, 1910–1916 presents three important resolutions against the indentured labour system in the Legislative Council...

• Author(s): Ashutosh Kumar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusbookControlling ‘Coolies’ comprises a notable handbook written in 1889 by James M. Laing, an experienced surgeon involved in the transportation of ‘coolie’ labour fro...

• Author(s): Sharankumar Limbale • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primusbook"Vande Mataram showcases the trials and tribulations faced by Bhausaheb Kinikar, a Mahar, gleaned through his attempt at writing an autobiography. Kinikar is...

• Author(s): Laxman S. Thakur • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusbookThe fifty-four essays in Nurturing the Idea of Himachal Pradesh for the first time provide an account of the comprehensive changes in the political, demographic...

• Author(s): Anirudh Deshpande • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus BookTo counter the influence of nationalist anachronisms on Indian historiography, King, Country and War: Ideology, Memory and Written Indian History, c.1600–1900...

• Author(s): Amitava Chatterjee • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar • BISAC: School & EducationIn a dynamic era, when the British government was in its high noon in the early twentieth century and seemed unshakeable, a g...

• Author(s): Suhrita Saha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsKumudini Welfare Trust traces the intimate history of one of the oldest welfare organizations in Bangladesh, found...

• Author(s): Swaraj Basu • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna SagarIn nineteenth-century Bengal, the discourse on faith and reason emerged as a critical site for the reinterpretation of Hinduism. Confronted with colonial rule, Chri...

• Author(s): Rakesh Batabyal | Megha Yadav | Swapna Liddle • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaThe first Delhi History Congress, held in February 2024, was organised by The History Collective to p...

• Author(s): Supriya Law • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar

• Author(s): Ravindra Kumar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar

• Author(s): Sheo Dutt • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar

• Author(s): Simon Digby • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar • Subject: General Books", "English Literature • BISAC: Literary

• Author(s): Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar • Subject: History • BISAC: School & EducationThe Deccan has long served as a nodal zone of cultural exchange, political negotiation, and technologi...

• Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar • Subject: Hindi LiteratureBharathiyar is hailed as the poet nonpareil of the 20th century. His writings were multifaceted and spoke of freedom for the country, economic freedom, social f...

• Author(s): David Shulman • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionMuttusvāmi Dīkṣitar was one of the three canonical composers of Carnatic music at the end of the eighteenth century and the f...

• Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: School & EducationCorporate Philanthrophy and Epidemics examines the Rockefeller Foundation’s involvement in the hookworm eradication programme...

• Author(s): K. Bharathi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction

• Author(s): Rachel Fell McDermott • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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...

• Author(s): Vaasanthi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction‘What is right? What is wrong?’ asks Rohini in The Masked Face. ‘We are creatures of circumstances.’ Malini, her elder sister, r...

• Author(s): Kolakaluri Enoch/Kaki Madhava Rao • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: RatnaBooks • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionRandhi: Of Power and Desire is the story of a Madiga (a scheduled caste) girl in the village of Vejendla i...

• Author(s): Nandini Bhattacharya • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryStrange Familiarities traces epistolary traditions produced within the ethnolinguistic cultures of nineteenth-century Bengal and the Nort...

• Author(s): Gangadhar Gadgil • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionFrom the hundreds of short stories written by Gangadhar Gadgil, this representative collection has fourteen in English tran...