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  • India and the World

    A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000

    by Claude Markovits ...
    In this pioneering history of modern India, Claude Markovits offers a new interpretation of events of world importance, focusing on the multiplicity of connections between India and the world. Beginning with an examination of India's evolving role in the world economy, he deals successively with the movement of people out of and into India, the role played by Indian soldiers in a series of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Indian Soldiers in the First World War

    Re-visiting a Global Conflict

    Edited by Ashutosh Kumar, Claude Markovits ...
    Series series War and Society in South Asia
    This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War. It focuses on their motivations, experiences, and lives after returning from service in Europe, Mesopotamia, East Africa, and Palestine, to present a more complete picture of Indian participation in the war.The book looks at the Indian support to the war for political concessions from the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs

    Indian Business in the Colonial Era

    by Claude Markovits ...
    The merchant world represents a relatively neglected area in South Asian history. Merchants were important actors in the economic, political, social, and cultural life of India, and deserve more attention than they have been given. This book therefore bridges a gap by bringing together a number of issues which deal with the Indian mercantile world in colonial India, and its relationship with ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Chaos of Empire

    The British Raj and the Conquest of India

    by Jon Wilson ...
    A sweeping history of the conquest of India by the British, from the first faltering trading stations to the marbled imperial cities, emphasizing the violence of colonial rule and its chaotic inheritanceThe popular image of the British Raj—an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights—chronicled by Forster and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Modern India

    by Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Shadows of Empire

    How Imperial History Shapes Our World

    by Samir Puri ...
    A masterful, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging study of how the vestiges of the imperial era shape society today.In this groundbreaking narrative, The Shadows of Empire explains (in the vein of The Silk Roads and Prisoners of Geography) how the world’s imperial legacies still shape our lives—as well as the thorniest issues we face today.For the first time in millennia we live without formal ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A History of India

    by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund ...
    Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent.Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund provide a comprehensive overview of the structural pattern of Indian history, covering each historical period ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Crossing the Bay of Bengal

    by Sunil S. Amrith ...
    For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and as a battleground for European empires, while being shaped by monsoons and human migration. Integrating environmental history and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil S. Amrith offers insights to the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • South Asia in World History

    by Marc Jason Gilbert ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    Few regions have shaped the world's history as deeply as South Asia. The birthplace of three of the world's major religions-Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism-the Indian subcontinent has made indelible contributions to the world, from foods such as curry and granulated sugar to the performance of meditation and yoga, from the architectural magnificence of the Taj Mahal to the binary system of numbers ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Indian Ideology

    by Perry Anderson ...
    The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s most populous democracy. Even critics of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But how well does the “Idea of India” correspond to the realities of the Union?In an iconoclastic intervention, Marxist ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Nehru

    by Benjamin Zachariah ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Biographies
    This engaging new biography dispels many myths surrounding Nehru, and distinguishes between the icon he has become and the politician he actually was.Benjamin Zachariah places Nehru in the context of the issues of his time, including the central theme of nationalism, the impact of Cold War pressures on India and the transition from colonial control to a precarious independence.How did Jawaharlal ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The South African Gandhi

    Stretcher-Bearer of Empire

    by Ashwin Desai, Goolem Vahed ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    A biography detailing Gandhi's twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in the nation's political context.In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African ... Read more

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