India category: 2353 books
Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India
The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal,...
Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity
Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of contemporary political problems such as the rise of...
by Jason Russell
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Sri Lanka sits in the Indian Ocean just off the southern tip of India. Known as the ‘teardrop of India’ given its shape and position, Sri Lanka is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Indian subcontinent. With stunning beach resorts, multiple World Heritage sites, historical towns...
The Rebirth of Bodh Gaya
Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya � the place of Buddha�s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar � explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002. The rapid change from a small...
The Black Hole of Empire
History of a Global Practice of Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta"...
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost
An American Misfit in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
When she was seven, Rachel Manija Brown's parents, post-60s hippies, uprooted her from her native California and moved to an ashram in a cobra-ridden, drought-stricken spot in India. Cavorting through these pages are some wonderfully eccentric characters: the ashram head, Meher Baba, best known as...
by Dianne Sharma Winter
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
No Shoes, No Money and No Sex. These are the rules laid down when Dianne Sharma-Winter opts out of the tourist trail and onto the highway of life in modern day India. Weaving humor and wisdom with unflinching honesty, Sharma-Winter explores the landscape of India through the stories of Shiva and his...
by Claire Krulikowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
In this reflective and enjoyable India travel memoir, “hooks of fears” claw at author Claire Krulikowski on her first morning’s awakening in India, a land she’d never planned to visit. However, in Rishikesh she hears the call of Ma Ganga, the sacred Ganges River, and accepts its enticing invitation...
Pakistan at the Crossroads
Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In Pakistan at the Crossroads, top international scholars assess Pakistan's politics and economics and the challenges faced by its civil and military leaders domestically and diplomatically. Contributors examine the state's handling of internal threats, tensions between civilians and the military,...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Sri Lanka's historical and cultural heritage covers more than 2,000 years. Known as Lanka--the "resplendent land"--in the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, the island has numerous other references that testify to the island's natural beauty and wealth. Islamic folklore maintains that Adam and...
by Caf Dowlah
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The study provides an in-depth, up-to-date, and scholarly analysis of the liberation war and the Sheikh Mujib Regime of Bangladesh. Situating the emergence of Bangladesh in the broader historical context of the partition of British India in 1947, the study re-examines: a) how Mujib successfully galvanized...
The Decline Of Tradition
Reflections on Tradition while travelling through India
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Writer and artist Edward Butterworth is an acute observer of human relationships. While travelling through India in 2005, he became aware of the social stresses brought on by the rapid modernization of traditional Indian society.
The Decline of Tradition interweaves stories of his encounters...
by Raja Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Bhangarh Fort is the only “Legally Haunted” location recognized by the Indian Government. There is a signboard set by Archaeological Survey of India with specific instructions. ASI is a Government of India Organization.The most common and prevailing legend about the city of Bhangarh goes...
The People Next Door
The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
This book traces the seven decades of the India-Pakistan relationship since the bloody Partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of Indo-Pakistani relations....