India category: 2353 books
Parliamentary Democracy in North-East India
A Study of Two Communities Each from the States of Assam, Meghalaya and Sikkim
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
As mentioned In the beginning of the "Acknowledgement", I found a gene'al absence of political sense in the tribes of North-east India when I was conducting extensive and intensive field study to understand the socio-cultural characteristics of the Buddhist tribes of Arunachal Pradesh and...
by Tirthankar Roy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 until the annexation of Maratha territories by the British East India Company in 1818 was a period of transition for the economy of India. This book focuses on these transitions, and shows how a study of this period of Indian history contributes to...
Muslim Belonging in Secular India
Negotiating Citizenship in Postcolonial Hyderabad
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Muslim Belonging in Secular India surveys the experience of some of India's most prominent Muslim communities in the early postcolonial period. Muslims who remained in India after the Partition of 1947 faced distrust and discrimination, and were consequently compelled to seek new ways of defining...
The Cultures of History in Early Modern India
Persianization and Mughal Culture in Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
This book examines the nature and function of history-writing in India by focusing on early modern traditions of historiography with particular reference to Bengal. Situating distinctive cultures of history vis-à-vis their relevant political and cultural contexts, it highlights the richness, variety...
India of Our Times
An Experiment in Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This book explores the recent history of India -a history that focuses on the British Empire, and all that it did on the vast subcontinent during centuries of governance. While, it was neither planned nor premeditated, the slow and complex historical process of British rule resulted in the unfolding...
by K.V. Dominic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Join us on an epic journey to India!
K.V. Dominic, one of India's leading contemporary English poets, takes us on a trip to India in this constellation of short stories. His love for his native country is exposed through stories that cover a range of humanistic concerns, including women's empowerment,...
The Greek Experience of India
From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE
When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander’s army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers’ tales, but their categories...
by Andrea Major
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
'There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery' (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British...
India in the Italian Renaissance
Visions of a Contemporary Pagan World 1300-1600
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
India in the Italian Renaissance provides a systematic, chronological survey of early Italian representations of India and Indians from the late medieval period to the end of the 16th century, and their resonance within the cultural context of Renaissance Italy. The study focuses in particular on...
Mobilizing India
Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad’s population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what “Indian” signifies—about nationalism, gender, culture, caste, race,...
by Bidyut Chakrabarty
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Left radicalism in India was rooted in the nationalist movement and was set in motion in the 1920s with the formation of the communist party. The communist movement manifested itself differently in each phase of India’s political history and Communism continues to remain a meaningful alternative...
by Mark Shand
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Ogni vecchia dimora inglese nasconde tra le sue mura qualche disegno, un dipinto o magari un’incantevole, polverosa illustrazione d’epoca co-loniale in cui è possibile contemplare l’intrepido esploratore che si avventura nel fitto della giungla minacciosa, oppure una gigantesca tigre del Bengala...
Evolution of Indian Education
From Colonial Stranglehold to Resurgent India (A Critical Study, in an Historical Perspective, of The Development of Indian Education During the Period 1813 to 2013)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
We have discussed in details the progress of Indian education during the Colonial rule, as also in independent India; the policy paradigms, the system of finance, its magnitude, inter-sectoral priorities etc. in separate chapters.It has been observed that during the first sixty years of the Colonial...
by Lonely Planet, John Noble, Michael Benanav
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet's Discover India is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gaze at the iconic Taj Mahal, ride a camel through a magical desert scene in Jaisalmer,...