India category: 2353 books
Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab
Governance and Sedition
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign. This book examines some of these deterministic misapprehensions and establishes...
Look East, Cross Black Waters
India's Interest in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
India’s core goals for Southeast Asia are in basic harmony with those of the United States, including regional stability, peaceful settlement of territorial disputes, and containment of radicalism Still, America should not expect India to enter any sort of alliance, nor join any coalition to balance...
The Insecurity State
Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements....
by R S Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from? Did they always live in India? The Aryan problem has been attracting fresh attention in academic, social and political arenas. This book identifies the main traits of Aryan culture and follows the spread of their cultural markers. Using the latest archaeological...
India's Princely States
People, Princes and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military contribution...
by A. S. Dudi
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
This book deals with the political and socioeconomic conditions of India from 1800 AD to 2002 AD. It discusses many important aspects of the History of Indian people during the period laying special emphasis on the renaissance in the 19 century which has transformed Indian from a medieval to a modern country.
Empire of Enchantment
The Story of Indian Magic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
India's association with magicians goes back thousands of years. Conjurors and illusionists dazzled the courts of Hindu maharajas and Mughal emperors. As British dominion spread over the subcontinent, such wonder-workers became synonymous with India. Western magicians appropriated Indian attire, tricks...
A Muslim Conspiracy in British India?
Politics and Paranoia in the Early Nineteenth-Century Deccan
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
As the British prepared for war in Afghanistan in 1839, rumours spread of a Muslim conspiracy based in India's Deccan region. Colonial officials were convinced that itinerant preachers of jihad - whom they labelled 'Wahhabis' - were collaborating with Russian and Persian armies and inspiring Muslim...
Monumental Matters
The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India’s Mughal Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent....
Imphal 1944
The Japanese invasion of India
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
In March 1944, the Japanese Fifteenth Army launched an offensive into India from Burma. Named 'U Go', its main objective was the capture of the town of Imphal, which provided the easiest route between India and Burma. Whoever controlled it, controlled access between the two countries. Facing off against...
by Shakuntala Rajagopal
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
What Happens When Those Things that are Supposed to Comfort You—Don’t?
When Shakuntala Rajagopal lost her husband of forty-seven years in 2010, she was devastated. A devout Hindu, she followed what she had learned since birth. Her family celebrated their beloved father, uncle, and mentor...
Colonial Modernities
Midwifery in Bengal, c.1860–1947
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The subject of medicalisation of childbirth in colonial India has so far been identified with three major themes: the attempt to reform or ‘sanitise’ the site of birthing practices, establishing lying-in hospitals and replacing traditional birth attendants with trained midwives and qualified female...
The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces
The temple in western India, 2nd century BCE–8th century CE
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and distinguishes it as a ritual instrument that integrates...