India category: 2353 books
A Colonial Affair
Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A Colonial Affair traces the 1716 conviction of Nayiniyappa, a Tamil commercial agent employed by the French East India Company, for tyranny and sedition, and his subsequent public torture, the loss of his wealth, the exile of his family, and his ultimate exoneration. Danna Agmon’s gripping microhistory...
by J.N. Das Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
India in the 17th Century as Depicted by European Travellers is a fascinating collection of descriptions of India by Englishmen.
A table of contents is included.
Sexual States
Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In Sexual States Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state. Since 2001 activists have attempted to rewrite Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which in addition...
by Sachidananda Mohanty
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics. It makes a key intervention in the understanding of cosmopolitan modernity based on the lives and experiences...
by Serena Puosi
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Il subcontinente indiano è sterminato, quasi un mondo a parte: ci vuole una vita intera per conoscerlo tutto e forse non basta. Un viaggio in questa terra porta con sé un pesante bagaglio di esperienze del tutto personali, sicuramente toccanti, probabilmente indelebili e aggiunge un pezzo al puzzle...
by Chad M. Bauman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Every year, there are several hundred attacks on India's Christians. These attacks are carried out by violent anti-minority activists, many of them provoked by what they perceive to be a Christian propensity for aggressive proselytization, or by rumored or real conversions to the faith. Pentecostals...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Asansol : (India) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Asansol : (India) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Asansol : (India) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Class Conflict and Modernization in India
The Raj and the Calcutta Waterfront (1860-1910)
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In the days of the British Raj Calcutta was a great port city. Thousands of men, women, and children worked there, loading and unloading valuable cargoes that sustained the regional economy, and contributed significantly to world trade. In the second half of the nineteenth century, in response to...
by William Eleroy Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
A voyage to India nowadays is a continuous social event. The passengers compose a house party, being guests of the Steamship company for the time. The decks of the steamer are like broad verandas and are covered with comfortable chairs, in which the owners lounge about all day. Some of the more industrious...
by Mrs. Howard Kingscote
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India is a classic collection of tales from the southern regions of India
Ten Years In India, In The 16th Queen's Lancers: And Three Years In South Africa, In The Cape Corps Levies
Including Battles Of Ghuznee, Maharajpoor, Aliwal, Cabul, Buddewal, Sobraon, And Kaffir War Of 1850-51
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“The Life of a Scarlet Lancer at war
“This is an essential book for all those interested in the wars in India as the British Empire finally brought the jewel of the sub-continent into the crown of its young Queen-Empress, Victoria. It is also an ideal view of life within the ranks of a British...
by Johannes Bronkhorst
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious...
A Garland of Bones
Child Runaways in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
An intimate portrait of India’s child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives
This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children’s decisions to leave home and flee for the city...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bareilly : (India) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bareilly : (India) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bareilly : (India) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.