India category: 2353 books
Shadow States
India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval...
Access India
The Canadians A to Z Guide to Traveling and Doing Business Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Read "Access India" from cover to cover or use it as a handy reference guide to answer questions as they arise. The richness of the material is in the way Murli has integrated the key things you need to know about travelling and doing business in India. It is an excellent base of knowledge, one that...
Coromandel
A Personal History of South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.
This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel journeys south, exploring...
Great Game East
India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic...
by Samir Kumar Das
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book explores contesting identities, international politics, migration and democratic practices in the context of globalizing India. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, it looks at one of the oldest migratory routes across a volatile region in eastern India which is fraught with violent...
Environment and Pollution in Colonial India
Sewerage Technologies along the Sacred Ganges
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
India is facing a river pollution crisis today. The origins of this crisis are commonly traced back to post-Independence economic development and urbanisation. This book, in contrast, shows that some important early roots of India’s river pollution problem, and in particular the pollution of the...
Journeys in the Kali Yuga
A Pilgrimage from Esoteric India to Pagan Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
A beautifully evocative account of one man’s odyssey to discover authentic and unbroken magical traditions in the East and reawaken them in the West
• Details the author’s encounters with the Naga Babas, his initiation into their tradition, and his experience at the Kumbh Mela, the largest...
Is That Even a Country, Sir!
Journeys in Northeast India by Train, Bus and Tractor
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
‘The story of India’s most neglected region told by the narrative voice of a poor, petulant reporter… Stripped of the exotic, the Northeast in [this book] appears bare, burnt and betrayed…’
—Scroll.in
When violence broke out before elections in Assam in 2000, in which Hindi-speakers...
by Marian Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The lives of four Victorian gentlewomen are transformed when they leave the cozy confines of England for India to accompany their husbands or a brother who were appointed Viceroys of India, the crown jewel of the British Empire. Emily Eden, Charlotte Canning, Edith Lytton and Mary Curzon were well-born,...
Birds of Passage
Henrietta Clive's travels in South India 1798-1801
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive, a feisty, independent-minded traveller, are among the very earliest written accounts of India by a British woman. Married to Lord Edward Clive, son of Clive of India and Governor of Madras (1798-1803), she travelled through southern India with her daughters and...
Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India
Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed, tracing sources and genealogies which inform...
The Twice-Born
Life and Death on the Ganges
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge
When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital...
The Wheel of Law
India's Secularism in Comparative Constitutional Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life? In The Wheel of Law, Gary Jacobsohn addresses this dilemma by examining the constitutional development of secularism in India within an unprecedented cross-national framework that includes Israel and the United...
The Muslims of India
A Documentary Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2004
This volume presents important documents recording reactions of Muslims in the period following Independence and the Partition of India, and in the subsequect fifty years. Besides key political developments, documets on topics such as Hindu revivalism and Muslim responses, the Babri Masjid question,...