India category: 2353 books
Shaping Indian Diaspora
Literary Representations and Bollywood Consumption away from the Desi
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Indian diaspora is the largest diasporic movement from Asia, with the Indian community numbering over twenty-five million around the world. Its large scale encompasses a kaleidoscopic community from disparate regions, languages, cultural heritages, religions, and traditions within the subcontinent....
Linguistic Rivalries
Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees from India and Sri Lanka to Montréal,...
Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity
Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational groups.
This book discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of South Asians as...
Kakati Ganapatideva And His Times
(A.D. 1199-1262)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
This is a study of Kakatiya Ganapatideva and his times. Ganapatideva was one of the greatest kings in the History of South India. He ruled over an extensive kingdom for a period of sixty three years, i.e., A.D. 1199 to A.D. 1262.
Blood and Water
The Indus River Basin in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world’s most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social,...
Krishna's Heretic Lovers
Tht Story of Chandidas & Rami - A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This book recounts the legendary love story of Chandidas and Rami, 14th-century Bengalis. He is a young Brahmin priest who renounces his caste status to become an heretical poet-musician wandering the byways of India with a small band of mystics and bards. Rami is a beautiful 20-year-old widow, of low...
Kurum, Kabul & Kandahar
Being a Brief Record of Impressions in Three Campaigns Under General Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Originally published shortly after the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1881, this book by a British veteran, Lt. Charles Gray Robertson, provides the reader with a first-hand account at the colonialism during nineteenth century India and Afghanistan.
Amritsar 1919
An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire—the Amritsar Massacre—to mark its 100th anniversary
The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, yet it remains poorly understood. In this dramatic account,...
by Srinivasa Prasad Pillutla
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Mahabharata is history of India, an epic war that ended one era and ushered in the current era. It is a story of what is Dharma, what is right or wrong. Characters of all shades of human psychology and emotions appear in this book. It is a case study of all types of personalities and situations. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This volume explores the scope and limits of Mahatma Gandhi's moral politics and its implications for Indian and other freedom movements. It presents a set of enlightening essays based on lectures delivered in memory of the eminent historian B. R. Nanda along with a new introductory essay.
With...
Fluent Bodies
Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as Ayurveda evolved from an eclectic set of healing...
Radical Equality
Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held irreconcilable views on empire, politics, and society. As...
Violence and Non-Violence across Time
History, Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book probes the complex interweaving, across time and cultures, of violence and non-violence from the perspective of the present. One of the first of its kind, it offers a comprehensive examination of the interpenetration of violence and non-violence as much in human nature as in human institutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
The idea of transitions in Indian history emerged early when the term ‘transition’ denoted shifts from one period to another. The notion of transition itself has moved beyond being primarily economic to include dimensions of society, culture and ideology. This volume brings together scholarly...