India category: 2353 books
Rule by Numbers
Governmentality in Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This book examines aspects of the production of statistical knowledge as part of colonial governance in India using Foucault’s ideas of “governmentality.” The modern state is distinctive for its bureaucratic organization, official procedures, and accountability that in the colonial context of...
The Last Hindu Emperor
Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This fascinating new study traces traditions and memories relating to the twelfth-century Indian ruler Prithviraj Chauhan; a Hindu king who was defeated and overthrown during the conquest of Northern India by Muslim armies from Afghanistan. Surveying a wealth of narratives that span more than 800...
Indian Esoteric Buddhism
A Social History of the Tantric Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Despite the rapid spread of Buddhism—especially the esoteric system of Tantra, one of its most popular yet most misunderstood forms—the historical origins of Buddhist thought and practice remain obscure. This groundbreaking work describes the genesis of the Tantric movement in early medieval India,...
Violet's flight
Kahbia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Japanese Armies invaded an almost defenseless Burma in 1942, sending tens of thousands fleeing over the mountains to India. They ruled the remaining Burmese, whom they boasted of liberating from British rule, with arrogance and brutality. Violet's Flight narrates the experiences of a young Anglo-Burmese...
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by Major William S. R. Hodson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
The Letters and memoirs of the ferocious leader of cavalry Major William Hodson, whose exploits, deeds and misdeeds during the Indian Mutiny have remained the stuff...
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by Major Octavius H. S. G. Anson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
Letters From an Officer of the “Delhi Spearmen” on Campaign in India, 1857-58
“The letters in this book were written by Brevet-Major Anson, of H. M 9th Lancers,...
Beautiful Thing
Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Already published in India to great acclaim and named a Time Out Subcontinental Book of the Year and an Observer Book of the Year, Beautiful Thing is a stunning piece of reportage that offers a rare firsthand glimpse into Bombay’s notorious sex industry.Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in search of a story...
In the Court of the Ranee of Jhansi
and Other Travels in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Novelist, intrepid traveller, barrister-at-law, newspaper editor and uninhibited gossip, John Lang lived for a number of years in pre- and post-Mutiny British India, and his writings constitute some of the most vivid records of the time. Lang describes his meeting with the Ranee of Jhansi-soon to...
Chef
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Kirpal Singh is riding the slow train to Kashmir. With India passing by his window, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years.
Kirpal, called Kip, is shy and not yet twenty when he arrives for the first time at General...
by Arthur F. J. Remy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
German literature during the nineteenth century is familiar to every student of that literature. Although the general nature of this movement is pretty clearly understood, no systematic investigation of it, so far as I know, has ever been undertaken. In the following pages an attempt is made to trace...
Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions
Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Puṣpikā 3 is the outcome of the third and fourth International Indology Graduate Research Symposiums held in Paris and Edinburgh in 2011 and 2012. This volume presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages and literary, philosophical and religious traditions...
by A. Datta
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
"When I was a kid dad told me that Ootacamund a.k.a. Ooty is the land of eternal spring in India. But when I opened the Lonely Planet India Travel Guide, I found that water freezes in Ooty in winter. Surely Ooty couldn't be the land of eternal spring! However not very far from Ootacamund there...
Outside the Lettered City
Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Outside the Lettered City traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a popular form of mass entertainment in early 20th century India, focusing on their preoccupation with the mass public made visible by the cinema and with the cinema's role as a public sphere and a mass...
Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic
Democratic Practice in South India
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
This is a book about the newness of old things. It concerns an oratorical revolution, a transformation of oratorical style linked to larger transformations in society at large. It explores the aesthetics of Tamil oratory and its vital relationship to one of the key institutions of modern society:...