Ratna Sagar

• Author(s): Satadru Sen • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis volume examines three interrelated aspects of the history of British India: race, t...

• Author(s): Deepak Kumar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book is a collection of essays focussed on the science and society interface especially in the context of colonization. It begins with discu...

• Author(s): Kenneth R. Hall • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryCross-Cultural Networking in the Eastern Indian Ocean Realm examines the history of the Bay of Bengal and beyond, as initially documented in a...

• Author(s): Vikas Pathak • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - GeneralIndian nationalism has been a contested space over the last century. Claims and counter-claims have been advanced reg...

• Author(s): Partho Datta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyNarayani Gupta’s pioneering scholarship, concern with the fate of Delhi and campaigns to make the city a habitable space conti...

• Author(s): S. Shankar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThis collection of twelve essays foregrounds the conjunction of the social phenomenon called ‘caste’ with the genre of represent...

• Author(s): Irfan Habib • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryBraj bhūm in Mughal times: the state, peasants and gosā’ins represents a unique effort at presenting the conditions of life of the ordinary people...

• Author(s): Sajal Nag • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 21st CenturyLate Professor Amalendu Guha belonged to that first generation of historians in post-independent India who not just g...

• Author(s): Sunita Lall • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThis book binds together essays that, in spite of adopting diverse methodologies and different perspectives, study Bihar’s de...

• Author(s): Snigdha Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaBeyond the Woman Question both revisits and interrogates some of the central tenets of...

• Author(s): Robyn Andrews • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookBeyond the Metros: Anglo-Indians in India’s Smaller Towns and Cities focuses on Anglo-Indians residing in a number of small towns and cities, away from the metropo...

• Author(s): Peter Robb • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryWere colonial rulers in India worse than other governments and if so why? To consider those questions, the first part of Benign Imperialism? examin...

• Author(s): Biswamoy Pati • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis volume explores Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s engagements with not just the Indian national movement, but al...

• Author(s): Aloka Parasher Sen • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: RatnaBooks • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology

• Author(s): Deven M. Patel • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: General BooksAn Ocean of Gems is dedicated to Dr Dhanesh Jain (1939–2019), distinguished scholar of Indian sociolinguistics and founder of Ratna Sagar...

• Author(s): Simon Digby • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe Life and Works of Simon Digby is intended to bring most of Simon Digby’s publications, together with a large body of work left unpublished at ...

• Author(s): Marvin Bram • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyA History of Humanity completes the remarkable story of the worldwide human community by including the unique insights of symbo...

• Author(s): Sharmi Chakraborty • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaVariations in ceramics are culturally significant. These are an expression of t...

• Author(s): Janice R. Mackinnon • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThe authors skillfully blend a thorough grasp of the first half century with sensitive use of psycho-biographical technique.

• Author(s): Sharmila Chhotaray • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyCultural Politics of Popular Performances: The Structure and Representation of the Odia Jatra explores how, as a consequ...

• Author(s): Ranjan Chakrabarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThis book is a historical study of order and disorder in early colonial Bengal. It focuses on the encounter of social restlessness, crime, and violence, on th...

• Author(s): Snigdha Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyInscribing Identities, Proclaiming Piety: Exploring Recording Practices in Early Historic India focuses on votive inscription...

• Author(s): S. Thillainayagam • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: RatnaBooks

• Author(s): Anvita Abbi | Kapila Vatsyayan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyGlobalization, by incessantly promoting uniformity, is not only destroying biological and cultural diversity...

• Author(s): Tajen Dabi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsMedicine and Integration of Frontier Tribes: The British and After in Arunachal Pradesh traces the use of medicine as an instr...

• Author(s): D.D. Nampoothiri • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsNationhood, Social Justice and Unequal Transformations: Essays for K.R.Narayanan is a commemorative volume consisting of...

• Author(s): Ranjan Chakrabarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentClimate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta c.1737–1947 offers a climatic and environmen...

• Author(s): Brian C. Wilson • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookCity of Façades: Archaeology, History, and Urbanism in Velha Goa revisits early modern colonial urbanisms through an archaeological project conducted in 2012 at ...

• Author(s): Mohammad Nazrul Bari | R. Arjun • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe Deccan Plateau has diverse ecological formations that have shaped human ecology, politics, philosophies, trade and urbaniz...

• Author(s): Suresh Kumar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Education & PsychologyThis book attempts to critically examine Dalit women’s literature to analyse how Dalit women perceive and depict caste, class,...

• Author(s): Patrick Olivelle • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe close attention required for editing and translating gives Olivelle an unparalleled understanding of the texts and inspires numerous arti...

• Author(s): Rupert Snell • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas, begun in 1574 CE, is the most widely known and best loved devotional text in the whole of the north Indian vernacu...

• Author(s): R.J. Cardullo • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Education & PsychologyModern(ist) Drama: Essays in Criticism is a casebook of ideas and arguments about Western modern as well as avant-garde drama...

• Author(s): Allison Busch • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookCulture and Circulation takes an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary genres and social ...

• Author(s): Suranjan Das • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThis volume looks back at the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 through contemporary accounts and scholarly reflections. Organized into five parts, the collection contai...

• Author(s): Aishika Chakraborty • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryWidows of Colonial Bengal: Gender, Morality, and Cultural Representation seeks to explore the unique vulnerability and precarity of widowh...

• Author(s): Muhammadi Begum • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook

• Author(s): Shireen Moosvi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryIt is seldom recognized that Indian nationalism had its beginnings in the belief that India was being increasingly impoverished under British r...

• Author(s): Susmitha Mukherjee • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThe expansionist policy of the colonial power necessitated official involvement with medical education in Bengal from the early nineteenth century. By the mid...

• Author(s): Manas Ray • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThe precarity of democratic order In contemporary times needs no underlining. Crisis of Liberal Deliberation addresses this Iss...

• Author(s): Iqtidar Alam Khan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book attempts to comprehend the history of the Delhi Sultanate with reference to its Islamic identity. The Turkish chiefs, despite havi...

• Author(s): Iqtidar Alam Khan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe essays in this volume focus on the surviving remains in India of pre-modern public buildings like sarais, bridges and water-works of dif...

• Author(s): Mekhola Gomes • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookFocusing on inscriptional materials from South Asia, The essays in social worlds of premodern transactions bring together a range of new perspectives on social and...

• Author(s): Rattan Lal Hangloo • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThe region and people of Kashmir have been at the centre of processes that transformed South Asia after the two World ...

• Author(s): Suranjan Das • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryDreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal is the third volume produced under the aegis of the Wellcome Trust (London) funded documentation project ‘We...

• Author(s): Richard W. | Donald R. Davis Jr. Lariviere • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Law and CriminologyCommon Sense and Legal History in India: Collected Essays on Hindu Law and Dharmaśāstra brings together...

• Author(s): Samarth • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Music, Theatre & FilmsSouth Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures brings together eminent as well as new scholarly voices from across discip...

• Author(s): T. Janakiraman • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookSet in the pre-Second world War decades in Tamil Nadu and considered among the best of Tamil novels, ‘sembaruthi’ is the story of an ordinary person, a shopkeeper...

• Author(s): Yatindra Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyHuman development is the process of enlarging possibilities, to enhance human choices. In a developing country like India se...

• Author(s): Jea-François Salles • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryIn the late sixth century CE, śaśāṅka—raised as the king of gauḍa—extended his power over Magadha and northern Bihar. Whatever the details...

• Author(s): Amitava • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryHistoricizing gendered modernity's in India underscores how gender, as a category of historical analysis and identity, is central to our imagination a...

• Author(s): Manisha Choudhary • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryRituals—loosely defined as symbolically meaningful action—pervaded medieval society, up and down the social strata. Royal Courts were a cons...

• Author(s): Joseph Marianus Kujur • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookSet in the theoretical perspective of religious conversion in general, and that of tribal identity of Christians in particular, this volume brings out the ...

• Author(s): Meeta Deka • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookUrban studies or urban history has recently emerged as a compelling framework for historical inquiry as it is a potent tool for the discovery of variations in urbanis...

• Author(s): Louiza Rodrigues • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryBased upon an in-depth empirical research, Development and Deforestation: Making of Urban Bombay studies the green dense in scaling the urban...

• Author(s): Sanjukta Das Gupta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookAdivasis have principally been studied in the context of rebellion, environmental history and the politics of identity. However, preoccupations with definitio...

• Author(s): Iqbal hussain • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookIn the ‘rebel world’ of 1857, indigenous discourse on the great uprising in the form of proclamations, pamphlets and appeals issued by rebel leaders and other ideo...

• Author(s): Mrinalini Rajagopalan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryBuilding Histories provides innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi-the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana...

• Author(s): Vipul Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThe question of water and human dependence on river systems has become a major public concern of the twenty-first century. Base...