India category: 2353 books
Muslim Politics in Bihar
Changing Contours
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book studies the engagement of various Muslim communities with Bihar politics from colonial times to present-day India. It debunks several myths in highlighting Muslim resistance to the Two-Nation theory, and counters the ‘Isolation Syndrome’ faced by Muslim communities after Independence....
Kashmir’s Contested Pasts
Narratives, Geographies, and the Historical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri...
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia
Refugees, Boundaries, Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of...
Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia
Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
This book explores the legal culture of the Parsis, or Zoroastrians, an ethnoreligious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma. Rather than trying to maintain collective autonomy and integrity by avoiding interaction with the state, the Parsis sank deep...
The Pariah Problem
Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception...
Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World
Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s English language writings, this book places the work of India’s greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial historiography.
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Climbing Mt Saramati
From Myanmar and India with travel on the Chindwin
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Today, its once fierce headhunting colourful Naga tribespeople are welcoming, and for anyone seeking travel in remote areas it would be hard to beat this border country since its rugged terrain and hill top villages still see few outsiders. For the naturalist, there is everything waiting to be discovered...
by Ross Bassett
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In the late 1800s India seemed to be left behind by the Industrial Revolution. Today there are many technological Indians around the world but relatively few focus on India’s problems. Ross Bassett—drawing on a database of every Indian to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through 2000—explains the role of MIT in this outcome.
The Sexual Life of English
Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
In The Sexual Life of English, Shefali Chandra examines how English became an Indian language. She rejects the idea that English was fully formed before its life in India or that it was imposed from without. Rather, by drawing attention to sexuality and power, Chandra argues that the English language...
by Nagappa Gowda K.
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
The Bhagavadgita has lent itself to several readings to defend or contest various views on life, morality, and metaphysics. This book explores the the role of the Bhagavadgita in the formation of nationalist discourse. It examines the ways in which the Gita became the central terrain of nationalist...
by Edward Washburn Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
A fascinating look at the myriad religious beliefs from the long history of the Indian subcontinent. Written by eminent American Sanskrit scholar Edward Washburn Hopkins.
by Kaushik Roy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Accustomed to conducting low-intensity warfare before 1914, the Indian Army learnt to engage in high-intensity conventional warfare during the course of World War I, thereby exhibiting a steep learning curve. Being the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia, the ‘brown warriors’ of the Raj...
South Asia
The Spectre of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Since the partition of the subcontinent along communal lines, political violence has increased in South Asia. Terrorism is one such manifestation of this violence. This book witnesses serious assessment of various aspects of terrorism that are affecting South Asia as eight scholars of international...
