India category: 2353 books
Empire's Garden
Assam and the Making of India
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local...
Indian Summer
The Secret History of the End of an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties -- set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. With the loss of India, its greatest colony,...
by Jayasekaran Pillai
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
“Tales from the Road - sometimes poignant, but also evoking the positive energy that your writing unleashes. Being an avid motorist myself, I can't but admire Jay's keen sense of observation & empathy with the people on the highway, his stepping down to understand what makes their world tick - all...
by Merri Melde
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Think it's easy to mail letters or a box? Not so much in India. Merri Melde delves into the often comical confusion and chaos of a few Post Offices - and alternate alleys - in India to mail letters and a box home. Readers will learn how to get attention when they're the only customer in a Post...
Cinema at the End of Empire
A Politics of Transition in Britain and India
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire’s loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts? Cinema at the End of Empire illuminates this intertwined...
Visualizing Secularism and Religion
Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Over the past two decades secular polities across the globe have witnessed an increasing turn to religion-based political movements, such as the rise of political Islam and Hindu nationalism, which have been fueling new and alternative notions of nationhood and national ideologies. The rise of such...
Tinderbox
The Past and Future of Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
“Among many recent books on Pakistan, Mr. Akbar’s stands out….A fine and detailed history of Indian Muslim anger and insecurity.”
—The Economist
In Tinderbox, India’s leading journalist delivers a fascinating narrative history of Pakistan, chronicling the conflict between Muslim...
Colonial Modernities
Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved – both the colonizer and the colonized.
Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between...
Terrestrial Lessons
The Conquest of the World as Globe
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly...
Pathan Rising
Jihad on the North West Frontier of India 1897-1898
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Pathan Rising tells the story of the large-scale tribal unrest that erupted along the North West Frontier of India in the late 1890s; a short but sharp period of violence that was initiated by the Pathan tribesmen against the British. Although the exact causes of the unrest remain unclear, it was...
by Nayanjot Lahiri
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
In the third century BCE Ashoka ruled in South Asia and Afghanistan, and came to be seen as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of an emperor whose legacy extends far beyond the bounds of his lifetime and dominion.
Forging a Region
Sultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200–1500
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Gujarat lies at the confluence of communities, commerce, and cultures. As the modern Indian state of Gujarat marks its fiftieth year in 2010, this book charts its coalescence into a distinct political and linguistic unit roughly five hundred years ago. From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries,...
by Edward A. Alpers
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange...
by Kaushik Roy, Sourish Saha
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This volume traces the historical roots and evolution of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in modern Asia. Focusing on armed rebellions and use of armed forces by both Western powers and indigenous states from the nineteenth century till present day, the volume unravels the problematic of change–continuity...