India category: 2353 books
Small Town Capitalism in Western India
Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book charts the history of artisan production and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. While the textile mills of western India's biggest cities have been the subject of many rich studies, the role of artisan producers located in the region's small towns have been virtually ignored....
by Sasha
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Since the earliest times, epidemics have broken out at regular intervals killing a large number of people. They have presented peculiar problems both to the state and to the society. The colonial India in general and the Punjab in particular were affected intermittently by epidemics. The Punjab was...
by Sukant Khurana
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
This book is about the changing socio-economic landscape of India. This book also touches on the delicate issues of Indian mores and values. It makes no holy cows or scapegoats but is a commentary on the pressing needs of Indian society and the ascent of common man of India.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Ranchi : (India) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Ranchi : (India) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Ranchi : (India) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
For the Record
On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of “archive”...
The First Anglo-Sikh War 1845–46
The betrayal of the Khalsa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
The First Anglo-Sikh War broke out due to escalating tensions between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in the Punjab region of India in the mid-nineteenth century. Political machinations were at the heart of the conflict, with Sikh rulers fearing the growing power of their own army,...
Article 370
A Constitutional History of Jammu and Kashmir
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
On 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India came into force with a unique provision—Article 370. The special status accorded to the state of Jammu and Kashmir in the article meant that its people lived under a different set of laws while being part of the Indian Union. Alternating deftly between...
Emergency Chronicles
Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India
On the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one...
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed...
by B.R. Ambedkar
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Pakistan or the Partition of India By B. R. Ambedkar Pages - 225 The Muslim League's Resolution on Pakistan has called forth different reactions. There are some who look upon it as a case of political measles to which a people in the infancy of their conscious unity and power are very liable. Others...
Talking History
Romila Thapar in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo, with the participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
In a series of candid conversations, Romila Thapar, a widely read, discussed, and cited historian of our times, muses on a range of issues that impact history writing in modern India. Apart from exploring Thapar’s far-reaching influence as an authority on the history of early India, Talking...
Encircling the Seamless
India, Climate Change, and the Global Commons
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This book explores global environmental negotiations against the backdrop of complex political relations, the climate change conventions, and multilateral environmental assessments and their effect on special interest groups. It weaves in the story of India's emergent economy, its sustainable development,...
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
Industrial Production, 1770–2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how...
Islam in India
or the Qᾱnῡn-i-Islᾱm The Customs of the Musalmᾱns of India
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
First published in 1832, this work was at the time considered an authoritative account of the beliefs and practices of the Musalmᾱns of India.
This 1921 reprint includes an introduction from the editor, Dr William Crooke, which presents what is known about both Ja’far Sharif and the translator,...