India category: 2353 books
Becoming Imperial Citizens
Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic, and imaginative tropes that underwrote Indian...
by Zoe C. Sherinian
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Zoe C. Sherinian shows how Christian Dalits (once known as untouchables or outcastes) in southern India have employed music to protest social oppression and as a vehicle of liberation. Her focus is on the life and theology of a charismatic composer and leader, Reverend J. Theophilus Appavoo, who drew...
From Temple to Museum
Colonial Collections and Umā Maheśvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose...
by K.Shivashankar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
It was this hero who threw the first bomb on the British who were crushing India. Even while at school, he was attracted towards the sacred words 'Vande Mataram!' (I bow to Mother India!) and plunged into the war of independence. The boy of sixteen defied the police. At the age of nineteen, he became...
The History of Doing
An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
A thematic history of the women’s movement in India both before and after independence, this book covers the period from the nineteenth century to the present day. It looks at how women’ s issues were raised, initially by men and as part of the movements for social reform, and then with the involvement...
by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain's international prestige and commercial power - the most important colony in an empire which extended to every continent on the globe and protected by the seemingly dependable native armies of the East India Company. When, however, in 1857 discontent...
by Abhijit Basu
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Ancient India - where Vishvaamitra through Vedic austerities and Yaajnavalkya through Vedantic insight, explored the soaring levels of human consciousness; where Valmiki and Kalidasa created sublime poetry; where Rama and Yudhishthira ruled with an exquisite composite of wisdom, welfare and justice as...
The Patient Assassin
A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
The dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, and his ferocious twenty-year campaign of revenge that made him a hero to hundreds of millions—and spawned a classic legend.
When Sir Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This volume brings together eminent Tagore scholars and younger writers to revisit the concepts of nation, nationalism, identity and selfhood, civilization, culture and homeland in Tagore’s writings. As these ideas take up the centre-stage of politics in the subcontinent as also elsewhere in the...
Out of Isolation
Exploring a Forgotten World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Out of Isolation is a study of culture and conflict of the six decades old conflict between India and Nagaland. Culture is the driving force and because it is strong, it enables to stand up against invasions. The first part of Out of Isolation is therefore dedicated to the intricacies of Naga Culture...
On Modern Indian Sensibilities
Culture, Politics, History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture, politics, and history – and their intersections – in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam, Odisha, Bengal, and their margins, the volume explores Indo-Islamic cultures of rule as located...
Spirals of Contention
Why India was Partitioned in 1947
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as cooperation), and shows that, by 1900, the conflicts and animosities were gathering a self-aggravating...
Behind the Mask
The Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (1715–1911)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2006
This book investigates the deeper area of class antagonism between the privileged and underprivileged classes as they faced the colonial state and its different ideas of legality and sovereignty in colonial Bengal. It examines the ambiguity in the bhadralok—the educated middle class— response...
Heritage of Harmony
An Insight into Medieval India
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
Most of the historical works written on Medieval India depict it as an era of dark ages, replete with oppression, atrocities, injustices, forcible conversion, and destruction of holy places. According to such works, there were constant wars between the rulers either to spread or to protect their respective religions.