Ratna Sagar

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Padmini Swaminathan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Ratna Sagar • Subject: Economics

• 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): 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): Ruby Lal • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryIn this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear tra...

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

• Author(s): Swarup Roy • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: General BooksHutom Pyanchar Naksha (literally, ‘Sketches by Hutom the Owl’), a set of satirical portraits in Bengali about ordinary life in the nineteenth...

• 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): 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): DoctorNDTV.com • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Byword Books • Subject: Education & PsychologyAdolescence is a period full of strange and exciting happenings. Yet, due to inept handling by adults, these wonder years ...

• Author(s): Sumbul Halim Khan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe karkhanas of Jaipur, though primarily concerned with the production of goods for the royal household and the army, were also an inextric...

• 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...

• 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...

• Author(s): Dhruv Raina • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: RatnaBooks • Subject: HistoryPolitical Economy of Colonial and Post-Colonial India analyses critical aspects of the political economy of the colonial and the post-colonial per...

• Author(s): Syed Najmul Raza Rizvi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: General BooksZamindars, Polity, Economy and Culture provides a micro study of the zamindars of present-day eastern Uttar Pradesh, which encomp...

• Author(s): Tarini Bedi/Anand A. Yang • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Primus Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology