India category: 2353 books
The British, The Bandits and The Bordermen
From the diaries and articles of K F Rustamji
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Rustamji’s two articles in The Indian Express proved to be the catalyst and formed the basis for the first Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in India in 1979 and was responsible for the phenomenon of judicial activism in India. Pakistani terrorists’ plans to hijack an Indian Airlines plane...
Converting Women
Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
With the emergence of Hindu nationalism, the conversion of Indians to Christianity has become a volatile issue, erupting in violence against converts and missionaries. At the height of British colonialism, however, conversion was a path to upward mobility for low-castes and untouchables, especially...
The Grace of Four Moons
Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The...
by Atreyi Biswas
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2000
A novel study of a very complicated subject, the author has analyzed the archaeological data in ecological contexts. The volume is based on an extensive study of archaeological reports. This book is an essential reading for scholars and experts dealing in the concerned area.
History of Medicine in India
The Medical Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
The book deals with the medical encounter between eastern and western medicine. So far, Philip Curtin, David Arnold, Ira Klein, Michael Worboys, Ian Catanach, Ralph Nicholas, Paul greenough and Roy McLeod, Mark Harrison among others have represented the western view on this historic encounter. There...
Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India
Jñanasrimitra on Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Jnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosopher of his generation. His theory of exclusion combined a philosophy of language with a theory of conceptual content to explore the nature of words and thought. Jnanasrimitra's theory informed...
Jugaad Time
Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
In India, the practice of jugaad—finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems—emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as a disruptive innovation. In Jugaad Time Amit S. Rai explores how jugaad operates...
by DK Eyewitness
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
An unbeatable, pocket-sized guide to Goa, includes insider tips and ideas, color maps, top 10 lists - all designed to help you experience the very best of Goa.
Explore the Baroque churches in the former Portuguese capital, Old Goa, sample traditional local cuisine at its spicy best in the state...
The Emergency and the Indian English Novel
Memory, Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its human rights violations and suspension of...
by Ulrich Hochwald
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Since this book is a diary it is organized in sequential experiences day by day. To help the reader visualize the geographical layout of the countries I traveled I included hand-drawn maps with distances. The main thrust of this book is point out the cultural differences I was confronted with on this...
Land of the Striped Stalker
Wildlife of Madhya Pradesh
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
There is nothing quite like the thrill and awe of seeing a tiger in the wild, or hearing the rutting call of a Barasingha stag and the alarm call of a Spotted deer in its natural habitat. The tiger is India’s iconic national animal, and Madhya Pradesh is virtually a ‘tigerland’. Places like...
Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency (Open Access)
A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century.
The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written...
by Angma Dey Jhala
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
by Gwen Robbins Schug, Subhash R. Walimbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global team of experts.
The most comprehensive and detailed...