As a young man Sydney Bolt witnessed some of the most remarkable events in recent world history. He reached India at a time when the Japanese armed forces were powering through Southeast Asia and dealing a humiliating blow to European colonial empires from which they would never recover. His memoir covers the period of the rise of nationalist revolt in India and the climax of Gandhi's civil disobedience movement. He was on the Burma front as British and Indian armies began finally to push the Ja...
R.F. Foster's The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland examines how key events in Irish history have been recast and retold to serve a multiplicity of purposes. In this provocative and extremely funny book Roy Foster demolishes the clichés that surround Ireland's past, examining how key moments have been turned into myths - and, more recently, airbrushed and repackaged for Hollywood and popular culture. Whether discussing the 'misery tourism' of Famine theme parks, ideas of...
Letters to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
by Mahatma 1869-1948 Gandhi and Vallabhbhai 1875-1950 Patel
The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India 1 to 10
by Anonymous
Himalayan Passages (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, #17)
by Benjamin Bogin and Andrew Quintman
Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh (Dynamics of Politics in Bangladesh)
by Nagendra Kumar Singh
Above the Heron's Pool
by Heather Lovatt, Peter DeJong, and Peter de Jong
An in-depth study of the interrelationship of economics, sociology, and politics in Pakistan.
Initially published on hardback in two separate volumes, Dr Karan Singh's widely acclaimed autobiography is now made available as a single volume, illustrated paperback with a new, lengthy preface specially written for this edition.
Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875 1914 (Perspectives in Economic and Social History, #14)
by Stuart Sweeney
The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience.
The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains.
by Augustus Henry Irby
Ram Mohan Ray is called the 'Father of Modern India' in recognition of his epoch-making social, educational and political reforms. Robertson argues that Ray set the agenda for modern India in his vision of a self-determining, modern, pluralistic society founded upon the Upanishadic principles of freedom of sadhana and one rule of law for all.
Disciplined Natives Race, Freedom and Confinement in Colonial India
by Satadru Sen
This book reconstructs the historical transition in the undivided Panjab during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the assertion of Mughal and Afghan suzerainty faced sustained resistance from local elements, particularly the autonomous tribes and hill chiefdoms. In central plains, Dulla Bhatti mobilized the toilers of his ancestral domain and, leading a relentless fight against the Mughal oppression, became an abiding symbol of resistance in the collective memory. The multi...
Based on manuscripts housed in the Dept. of Archives, Maharashtra State.
Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social fragmentation, the growing isolation of elders, and ethical dilemmas for those who strive to maintain traditional subsistence activities. Simultaneously, climate change is causing glaciers—a vital source of life in the region—to recede, which eld...