India (Opposing Viewpoints (Library)) (Opposing Viewpoints (Paperback))
The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Sudipta Kaviraj shows that Indian writers did more than adopt new literary trends in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They deployed these innovations to interrogate fundamental philosophical qu...
This book traces the history and careers of three "moderate" leaders of the Indian nationalist movement, providing a detailed account of Indian political history from the 1850's to Independence. The three lives have been put together for the first time, and Nanda provides a probing analytical introduction
Travelers' Tales Tibet is a collection of riveting tales from one of the most controversial and fascinating regions of the earth. Travel with world-renowned writers to this mythic land and enjoy a feast cooked by blowtorch on a high mountain pass, witness an ancient sky burial, rebuild an ancient monastery, make the pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash, work as an extra on a Chinese movie set, and visit the eternal home of the Dalai Lama, the Potala Palace. Travelers' Tales Tibet draws an unforgettable por...
Ambedkar on Indian History
by Ti Ecc Pi Centarasseri and T H P Chentharassery
A People`s History of India 14 – – Economic History of India, AD 1206–1526, The Period of the Delhi
by Irfan Habib
This volume is devoted to the economic and social history of India from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. The book consists of three long chapters, divided into numerous subchapters. The first chapter describes the agrarian order during the main period of the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1398), while the second chapter delves into the urban economy and trading world of the same period. The third chapter deals with the fifteenth century, 1398-1526, a period of political divisions. While describin...
A Memoir of Central India: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History)
by John Malcolm
Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) was a soldier and diplomat in British India and Persia. He returned to India on the eve of the British conquest of Malwa, a region of central India previously little known to Europeans, in 1818. Malcolm studied the region's geology, its agriculture and the history of its ruling families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His reports were first published in Calcutta in 1821, and were revised and expanded for publication in two volumes in London in 1823. Based...
Enslaved Lives? (New historical perspectives on migration)
by Crispin Bates and Marina Carter
An introduction to the fundamental changes in 19th-century India which contributed to the flow of labour out of the subcontinent, this book focuses on the nature of labour mobilization/immobilization and the reorganization of the Indian labour market in the colonial period, and the consequent Indian diaspora. The story begins in the mid-18th century, outlining the change in society and political economy of early-colonial India that helped to create the labour force required by the plantation and...
Contributed papers presented at the National Seminar on the "Issues in Human Development" in October, 2004 at Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad commemorating its silver jubilee year.
Cultural Heritage of Ladakh (Central Asian Studies)
by D L Snelgrove, T Skorupski, and David L Snellgrove
Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (Afterwards Sir William Hedges), During his Agency in Bengal, as well as on His Voyage Out and Return Overland (1681-1687): Volume 3, Containing Documentary Contributions to a Biography of Thomas Pitt, Governor of Fort St. George (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First, Volume 3) (Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (Afterwards Sir William Hedges), During his Agency in Bengal, as well as on His Voyage Out and Return Overland (1681-1687) 3 Volume Set, Volume 3)
by William Hedges
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Three volumes, published in 1887, are devoted to the diary of William Hedges (1632-1701...