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Sufi Saints and State Power
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 32.00An examination of British rule in Sind, and especially the role of the local Muslim elite. more...
The Hollow Crown
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 53.00The Hollow Crown reconstructs the sociocultural history of a warrior polity in south India between the fourteenth and the twentieth centuries. more...
British Policy in India 1858-1905
Cambridge University Press 1965; US$ 51.00Examines British policy towards India during the second half of the nineteenth century. more...
Social Legislation of the East India Company
SAGE India 2010; US$ 84.95A hitherto unattempted survey of social legislation by the East India Company, this book identifies the principles of Public Justice and Public Instruction as the inspiration for legislative decisions, some of which resonate in post-colonial India. It dwells particularly on legislation which manipulated Muslim criminal law in order to protect, and... more...
A Brief History of India
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 59.40As recently as the turn of the century, Western images of India pictured it as a land of religion, luxury, and desperate poverty holy men sitting cross-legged by the roadside, fat maharajas on bejeweled elephants, or poverty-stricken beggars picking garbage for scraps to eat. Now that image has started to change. Today Americans are more likely to... more...
Kashmir in Conflict
I.B.Tauris 2003; US$ 24.00How has the valley of Kashmir, famed for its beauty and tranquility, become the focus of a dispute with the potential for nuclear conflict? How does the Kashmir separatist movement challenge the integrity of the Indian state and threaten the stability of a region of tremendous strategic importance? As Pakistan and India square up for what may become... more...
Education as and for Legitimacy
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 32.95This study of the development of education in the British West Indian colonies during the last half of the nineteenth century examines the educational policies and curriculum used in schools following the abolition of slavery. During this period the nature and development of the educational system in the region was profoundly affected by the decline... more...
Utilization, Misuse, and Development of Human Resources in the Early West Indian Colonies
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 32.95This comprehensive study of the development of education in the West Indies between 1492 and 1854 examines the shifts which occurred within the nature of the education programs provided for the masses. Believing existing theories of educational change are too limiting, Bacchus has blended detailed analysis of such important factors as the changing... more...
Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2010; US$ 95.00Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family introduces the Collected Works by giving an overview of Nightingale's life and the faith that guided it and by outlining the main social reform concerns on which she worked from her "call to service'' at age sixteen to old age. This volume reports correspondence (selected from the thousands... more...









