Ratna Sagar

• 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): Elaine M Fisher • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIn Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By callin...

• Author(s): na • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. ...

• 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...

• Author(s): Anand Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThis book is a modest attempt to look at and examine the beginnings of ecological concerns in the Buddhist religious traditions,...

• Author(s): Dorothy Figueira • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asian - IndicThis volume makes significant and fresh contributions to fields of comparative literature and translation which are assuming increasing i...

• Author(s): Shivani Jha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy...

• Author(s): Tara Sheemar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaPlunging the Ocean engages with the voluminous content of the Kathāsaritsāgara, a text meant for courtly entertainment, locat...

• Author(s): Urmimala Sarkar Munsi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Dance - History & CriticismAimed at addressing the lacunae in academic publications on women dancers in India, The Movin...

• Author(s): Anand Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Buddhism - HistoryThis book encompasses wide-ranging yet fundamental questions that have played a pivotal role in introd...

• Author(s): S. Settar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book presents the history of the Jaina rules of inviting death, descriptive accounts of Puranic and historical personalitie...

• Author(s): S. Settar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Social HistoryPursuing Death widens the canvas of enquiry on the Jaina practices of voluntary termination of life, identified with terms such as Santāra, Sal...

• Author(s): Deepak Kumar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Agriculture & FoodThis volume sheds light on systems of agricultural knowledge, inherited agricultural practices and allied activities, adoption of ne...

• Author(s): Arun Bandopadhyay • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThe essays included in this volume highlight the importance of comparative studies within the field of environmental his...

• Author(s): Deshpande Anirudh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaHope and Despair: Mutiny, Rebellion and Death in India recounts the story of the thousands of Indians–sailors and forgo...

• Author(s): Pachuau Joy L.K. (Editor) • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralChristianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge is a collection of...

• Author(s): Zehmisch Philipp • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaManifestations of History highlights the significant, yet underestimated, place of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in so...

• Author(s): Ghosh Parimal • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Social HistoryWhat Happened to the Bhadralok suggests that the arrival of new consumers of culture, drawn from the rural middle class, and the unorganiz...

• Author(s): Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookEssays in Ancient Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set focusing on the developments in the economic history of India during the last m...

• Author(s): Surendra Mohan Mishra • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaAgriculture and Environment: Debates in the Central Legislature of India, 1937–1957 is based on a simple truism: the...

• Author(s): Susanta Kumar Bag • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaColonial State, Agrarian Transition and Popular Protest in Orissa: 1921–1947 attempts to understand the agrarian socioec...

• Author(s): Rekha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asian - GeneralGender, Space and Creative Imagination is about contemporary women’s writing in India and its experiential, ideological and representational topog...

• Author(s): Aruna Pariti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaGenealogy, Time and Identity provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the prasasti and donative parts of the insc...

• Author(s): Priyadarshini Vijaisri • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Hinduism - GeneralDangerous Marginality focuses on villages festivals invoking the Matangi, an outcaste clan goddess in Andhra Pradesh. It explo...

• Author(s): Barry Rodrigue | Leonid Grinin | Andrey Korotayev • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: World - GeneralIn volume one Our Place in the Universe: An Introduction to Big History our existence is regarded from...

• Author(s): Syed Ejaz Hussain | Mohit Saha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaIndia’s Indigenous Medical Systems: A Cross-Disciplinary Ap...

• Author(s): Mahalaya Chatterjee | Anis Mukhopadhyay • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrban Development in Howrah is the first comprehensive effort to understand and analyse the various aspects of...

• Author(s): Ed. Poonam Bala • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThis volume explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India and highlights various indigenous interpreta...

• Author(s): Anirudh Deshpande • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book provides a historical understanding of the Indian Audio-Visual media. It...