India category: 2353 books
by E.J. Rapson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
E.J. Rapson's The Cambridge History of India:
Language Policy and Education in India
Documents, contexts and debates
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempts to establish hegemony, the play of power, and the anxieties in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India. The essays in the volume discuss language...
The Government of Social Life in Colonial India
Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
From the early days of colonial rule in India, the British established a two-tier system of legal administration. Matters deemed secular were subject to British legal norms, while suits relating to the family were adjudicated according to Hindu or Muslim law, known as personal law. This important...
Roads to Freedom
Prisoners in Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In its most brutal form, the prison in British India was an instrument of the colonial state for instilling fear and dealing with resistance. Exploring the lived experience of select political prisoners, this volume presents their struggles and situates them against the backdrop of the freedom movement. From...
Shifting Ground
People, Animals, and Mobility in India’s Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction - those between geographical spaces (forest, rivers, farms), people (herders,...
by Nishikant Kolge
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In 1909, while still in South Africa, Gandhi publicly decried the caste system for its inequalities. Shortly after his return to India though, he spoke of the generally beneficial aspects of caste. Gandhi’s writings on caste reflect contradictory views and his critics accuse him of neglecting the...
Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930
Constructing Nation and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition in 1947 was...
Sufism, Culture, and Politics
Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This book provides a political history of north India under Afghan rulers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Focusing on interconnections between religion and politics, it also raises questions of paramount concern to an understanding of Islam in medieval north India. The book is...
Document Raj
Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in Document Raj, uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival research...
Stages of Capital
Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India’s market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage of commercial and contract laws directed at...
by Raghu Karnad
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
“I have not lately read a finer book than this—on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece.” —Simon Winchester, New Statesman
The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought...
by Kaushik Roy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology...
by Richard M. Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
This is a timely topic, since many in India today are looking to the past to justify or Condemn public policy with respect to religious monuments.
by Amit Kumar Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book examines the ruptured characteristics of colonialism in nineteenth-century India. It connects the British East India Company’s efforts at the bourgeoisation of India with the Revolt of 1857. The volume shows how the mutiny of Indian sepoys in the British Indian army became a popular uprising...