India category: 2353 books
by Stuart Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience.
Twilight of the Tigers
Peace Efforts and Power Struggles in Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
The fall of Kilinochchi, LTTE's bastion for over a decade, in January 2009 is a landmark in the military campaign by the Sri Lankan government against the rebel group. This turning point in one of the world's most brutal intra-state conflicts needs to be analysed in the wider context of the developments...
by Ram Bansal
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Greek and Latin languages are the first sign of human civilization. Vaidic scholars of Dev (Theo) race too drew inspiration and terminological aid from these languages in developing their own language now known as Vaidic Sanskrit and its script named Devanaagaree. At that time, concepts of Gods and...
by Son Lal
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
About nomads in Rajasthan who have grazed cattle on a large scale since early history. With a pastoral culture from the west in Asia, that partly differed from the culture of the settled Hindus of the Indian subcontinent. Tan Dan's forefathers were a part of that nomadic culture, to which also...
Living with Oil and Coal
Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence,...
Pharmocracy
Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Continuing his pioneering theoretical explorations into the relationships among biosciences, the market, and political economy, Kaushik Sunder Rajan introduces the concept of pharmocracy to explain the structure and operation of the global hegemony of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. He...
by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Das Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta’s Some Aspects of the Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century presents a sharply posed conversation between them in October 1981 on working-class consciousness in Bengal. The arguments posited here show that rather than being a direct, mechanical...
by James Sir Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Manipur, a beautiful valley, is surrounded by the hills on all sides and bounded on the North by Naga Hills. Naga Hills forms a part of the complex mountain barriers on the borders of Burma and India. Since the author had been to both the places he acquired a first hand information, with immense experiences...
Global Icons
Apertures to the Popular
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
A widely disseminated photograph of Phoolan Devi, India’s famous bandit queen, surrendering to police forces in 1983 became an emotional touchstone for Indians who saw the outlaw as a lower-caste folk hero. That affective response was reignited in 1994 with the release of a feature film based on...
by Edmund Candler
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
All these sketches, except "The Sikh" and "The Drabi," were written in Mesopotamia. My aim has been, without going too deeply into origins and antecedents, to give as accurate a picture as possible of the different classes of sepoy. In Mesopotamia I met all the sixteen types included in this volume,...
I Vimana e le Guerre degli Dei
La riscoperta di una civiltà perduta, di una scienza dimenticata, di un antico sapere custodito tra India e Pakistan
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Un mondo inesplorato, una viaggio oltre i confini della storia umana. Da oltre cinquemila anni India e Pakistan sembrano gelosamente custodire un passato dimenticato, un segreto racchiuso all'interno delle più antiche tradizioni che la storia umana conosca.
Il viaggio ha inizio da una civiltà...
Extreme Poetry
The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then...
by Devika D. Bai
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The Flight of the Swans is a rich and fascinating family saga set in British India and Malaya. Cursed, and with blood on his hands, Captain Ramdas Rao Bhonsle is forced to flee Killa Fort, which has fallen to the British. A strange flight of swans signals his flight from Killa; a flight that will drive...
Prostitution and the Ends of Empire
Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of sexology and hygiene with the moral condemnations...