India category: 2353 books
Echoes of Mutiny
Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War? Seema Sohi traces how Indian labor migrants, students,...
by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Twenty-one Days in India is Aberigh-Mackay's most famous work, and is a satire of Anglo-Indian society in the 19th century.
The Economy of Modern India
From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Rapid economic growth has put India at the centre of current debates about the future of the global economy. In this fully revised and updated text, B. R. Tomlinson provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the Indian economy over the last 150 years. He sets arguments about growth, development...
by Penn Bobby Singh
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Beaten to a coma, Dev’s wife Selena does all she can for her injured husband. The attack brings about the telling of the family history to their children, a history not always so wrought with despair.It delves through nine generations and their never ending battle against corruption and injustice....
Literature and Nationalist Ideology
Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Writing histories of literature means making selections, passing value judgments, and incorporating or rejecting foregoing traditions. The book argues that in many parts of India, literary histories play an important role in creating a cultural ethos. They are closely linked with nationalism in general...
Burden of History
Assam and the Partition—Unresolved Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The Partition of India left in its wake far-reaching consequences for the northeastern state of Assam. Appearing to be caught in a time warp, the region continues to grapple with questions that engaged the public mind more than seven decades ago, before and immediately after the Partition. Alarmingly,...
by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent.
Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund provide...
India and the Islamic Heartlands
An Eighteenth-Century World of Circulation and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Based on the chance survival of a remarkable cache of documents, India and the Islamic Heartlands recaptures a vanished and forgotten world from the eighteenth century spanning much of today's Middle East and South Asia. Gagan D. S. Sood focuses on ordinary people - traders, pilgrims, bankers, clerics,...
by Romila Thapar
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
The claim that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. Romila Thapar, a distinguished scholar of ancient India,...
Star Crossed India
Let Down by Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
The work is a painstakingly researched work (1966-2005) and presents perceptional and opinionated look back at the political events of about forty years. It focuses on the role of leaders who wrecked the first non-Congress government at the centre. It also throws analytical light on caste riots in...
Mapping Bihar
From Medieval to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Written Indian history begins in sixth century bc with the history of Magadh (present day states of Jharkhand and Bihar). For almost a millennium Magadh dominated Indian history. The situation changed when Islamicized Turks entered India. The Mughals who followed the Turks ensured Bihar's economic...
Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars
North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion: 1770–1870
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This path-breaking work on the social and economic history of colonial India traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of British empire following the 1857 'mutiny'. C.A. Bayly analyses the response of the inhabitants...
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by Ethel St. Clair Grimwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Fantastic story of the “Heroine of Manipur” who led to bloody, battered survivors of the Manipur Mutiny to safety over some of the roughest roads in all of India. Includes 9 illustrations.
“Manipur, Rebellion in (1891). This small state in north-eastern India southeast of Assam was a quasi-independent...
by John Lockwood Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Beast and Man in India A POPULAR SKETCH OF INDIAN ANIMALS IN THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE By John Lockwood Kipling WITH ILLUSTRATIONS MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904