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Aftermath of Partition in South Asia
RoutledgeCurzon 2000; US$ 59.95The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia draws upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data to historically reappraise partition in the light of its long aftermath. more...
An Agrarian History of South Asia
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 30.00A comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia from medieval times to the present day. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, this book will be a valuable student resource. more...
Akbar and the Jesuits
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 200.00First published in 1926. 'These documents are full of intimate interest' Times Literary Supplement 'A serious and intensely interesting piece of work' The Guardian The Jesuit missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans to find their way into the Mogul empire in the sixteenth century. Spending more years at Akbar's court than others did months,... more...
Al-Hind, the making of the Indo-Islamic world. Volume 3, Indo-Islamic society, 14th-15th centuries
BRILL 2004; US$ 142.00Focuses attention on the role of geography and, more specifically, on the interplay of nomadic, settled and maritime societies. In doing so, it presents a picture of the world of India and the Indian Ocean on the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the sea route. more...
An American Witness to Indias Partition
SAGE India 2007; US$ 59.95In 1938 the New York-based Institute of Current World Affairs awarded 23-year-old Phillips Talbot a fellowship with a mandate: visit South Asia and learn about the intricacies of life in India. Till 1950, Talbot graphically recounted the buildup to Indian and Pakistani independence, and the early experiences of the new states in the form of several... more...
Amritsar Massacre, The
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 34.00At approximately 5:10pm on 13 April 1919, Brigadier-General ?Rex? Dyer, led a small party of soldiers through the centre of Amritsar into a walled garden known as the Jallianwala Bagh. He had been informed that an illegal political meeting was taking place and had come to disperse it. Dyer?s men entered the garden and immediately opened fire upon the... more...
The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 159.99The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support... more...
The Army in British India
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 23.99The army in India was the principal pillar of British power in South Asia from the mid-nineteenth century until Indian independence. This volume aims to evaluate the combat effectiveness of the army in British India from the mutiny of 1857 until the British departed India in 1947. It examines how the army in India developed from a colonial police... more...
Ashoka
Little, Brown Book Group 2012; Not AvailableIndia's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone Ashoka turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion and set up a new yardstick for government which had huge implications for Asia. But his brave experiment ended in tragedy and his name was cleansed from the record so effectively... more...
An Autobiography
The Floating Press 1927; US$ 6.99In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth , Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that "my life from this point onward has been so public that there is hardly anything about it that people do not know." HarperCollins chose this work as one of the "100 Most Important... more...









