Beginning with a discussion on frameworks of writing history, the volume sheds light on the origins and growth of civilizations, empires, and religions. It covers the geographical, ecological, and lin ... Read more
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Fluctuations in the global price of cotton had a cataclysmic effect on the people of Bombay. This work is based on the petitions of insolvents submitted to the Bombay High Court during the second hal ... Read more
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This work deals with the years immediately preceding the Partition of India and takes up issues of land, language, immigration, and identity in Assam, where they continue to occupy public space. The e ... Read more
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Departing from approaches that see the city as the unproblematic product of British initiative and disciplining, Claiming the City presents the urban processes shaping Calcutta as contested and partia ... Read more
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Jamsheed Marker's lifetime in the diplomatic service of Pakistan gave him a unique vintage point. In cricket terms, he was at cover point, near enough to the wicket to follow the action around the stu ... Read more
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Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English,' it has famously been said. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became a nation.
Conceived by an unlikely coali ... Read more
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The book is a multi-layered, historical analysis of the nature and rule of the Pakistan Army in the country's polity as well as its turbulent relationship with the US. ... Read more
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Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917), popularly known as the 'Grand Old Man of India', was a Parsi intellectual, educator, and early Indian political thinker. The first Indian to publicly demand 'Swaraj' for ... Read more
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This book inverts the dominant nationalist narrative and shines light on the silenced voices and unacknowledged contributions of Dalits towards the collective imagination of nation in India. By using ... Read more
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Many books have been written on the fascinating and chequered history of the city of Delhi. Few, however, have the breadth and scope of K.A. Nizami's book, first published in Urdu in 1972. It captures ... Read more
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