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Religion has been, and is, an important element in Indian society and history. It is, however, rare for the subject to be discussed with the necessary degree of detachment. This volume was, therefore, planned with the object of providing a collect...

While Marx and Engels wrote detailed critiques of capitalism they could only suggest the bare outlines of what socialism as the order of society supplanting capitalism could be like. Lenin built on these ideas and the experience of the working-cla...

About the Book Increasing interest has been shown in recent decades in matters relating to ecology, especially under the influence of the debate on climate change. The scope of ecology is, of course, much wider than that of climate alone, and invo...

About the Book This volume in the People's History of India series gives a general account of Indian economy in the first century of British rule (1757-1857). It describes the changes in Indian economy brought about by the pressure for tribute, th...

About the Book This volume consists of five essays on the National Movement that arose to overthrow British rule in India. Three of these essays are devoted to the two men, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, whose divergent ideas dominated the N...

A People`s History of India 7 - Society and Culture in Post-Mauryan India, C. 200 BC-AD 300 [Paperback] Irfan Habib

About the Book Post-Mauryan India, 200 BC - AD 300: A Political and Economic History , as part of the People's History of India series, deals with the five hundred years that, in the political sphere, are associated with the dominance of Indo-Gree...

About the Book Mauryan India, as part of the People's History of India series, covers the period from about 350 bc to about 185 bc, thereby encompassing the invasion of Alexander (327-325 bc) and the history of the Mauryan Empire (c.324-185 bc). T...

About the Book This book covers the whole range of technology, from the tools and skills of ordinary men and women to the instruments of astronomers and the equipage and weaponry of war. Changes in technology are carefully traced and their consequ...

About the Book This volume is devoted to the economic and social history of India from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. The book consists of three long chapters, divided into numerous subchapters. The first chapter describes the agrarian o...

About the Book Prehistory describes the earliest ages of human life in India, long before the existence of written records. It is part of a larger project, a People's History of India. In this monograph, the style is sought to be kept simple witho...

About the Book The Vedic Age completes the first set of three monographs in the People's History of India series. It deals with the period c. 1500 to c. 700 bc, during which it sets the Rigveda and the subsequent Vedic corpus. It explores aspects ...

About the Book The monograph surveys the developments within the Indian economy during the period of the high tide of colonial domination between the 1857 Rebellion and the First World War. Its various sub-chapters deal with population, gross prod...

About the Book The Indus Civilization by Irfan Habib forms Volume 2 of the People's History of India series. It continues the story from the point reached in the preceding volume, Prehistory , and goes on to describe in depth the Indus Civilizatio...

Thsi volume takes up the story of the Indian National Movement from 1919, when the first nationalist struggle took place on an all-India scale - the Satyagraha agaisnt the Rowlatt Act, engraved in national memory by the slaughter at Jallianwala Ba...