India category: 2353 books
Call of Empire
From the Highlands to Hindostan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences...
Inglorious Empire
what the British did to India
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India — from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj — and reveals how Britain’s rise was built upon its plunder of India.
In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s....
Democracy against Development
Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy...
Gentlemanly Terrorists
Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' used assassinations, bomb attacks, and armed robberies to accelerate the departure of the British from...
Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India
Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German--Indian and South Asian Studies*,* the book looks at the history of German--Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and comparative approaches,...
The Battlefields of Imphal
The Second World War and North East India
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
In 1944, the British Fourteenth Army and the Japanese Fifteenth Army clashed around the town of Imphal, Manipur, in North East India in what has since been described as one of the greatest battles of the Second World War. Over 200,000 soldiers from several nations fought in the hills and valley of...
Sovereignty and Social Reform in India
British Colonialism and the Campaign against Sati, 1830-1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however, as between 1830 and 1860, British East India Company officials engaged in a debate with the Indian rulers...
by Krishnakumar T.K.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Lush bamboo and sandalwood forests, majestic waterfalls, verdant hills dotted with vast tea estates, spectacular streams and magnificent temples - that is Coorg, the Scotland of India, the best kept secret of India.
This book named Explore Coorg covers every nook and corner of Coorg in detail and...
by K. S. Subramanian
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book discusses the history of unrest and conflict in Northeast India from 1947 to the present day. A perceptive study on public policy and its delivery in the region, the volume highlights that a crisis of governance, security and development has emerged in the Northeast because of the way various...
Nearby faraway
North-Indian diary
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
So why would one travel to India?
There are some who seeks its exotic face, others nostalgically yearn for the ‘60s India, when the country was being infested by mass of hippies doing yoga, meditation and going to gurus was in fashion. There are some who views the adventure inside, and even...
Security Community in South Asia
India - Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The security relationship between India and Pakistan is generally viewed through a neo-realist approach of International Relations.. Treading on a different path, this book explains the rivalry of these countries by looking at the socio-cultural norms found at two levels, elites versus popular. Furthermore,...
by T.H. Manners Howe
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
How India Got Her People
The Invasion of Alexander the Great
How the Mohammedan Armies Invaded India
The Empire of the Moghuls
The Light of the World
How Europe Found the Sea-Road to India
How the Empire of the Moghuls Broke Up
Dupleix's Great Plot
How Clive Saved the English
From the Black Hole to...
by A. Raghuramaraju
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Unlike the West, India presents a fascinating example of a society where the pre-modern continues to co-exist with the modern. Modernity in Indian Social Theory explores the social variance between India and the West to show how it impacted their respective trajectories of modernity. A. Raghuramaraju...
Dalits in Neoliberal India
Mobility or Marginalisation?
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
India’s economic growth has brought opportunities for many but to what extent has it benefitted its ethnically-shaped underclass: the Dalits? Have Dalits fared better in a neoliberal India or have structural economic and social changes served to magnify Dalit disadvantage? This volume offers a varied...