History and Gandhi Studies Catalogue 2016

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History.................................................................................................................. 1
E-Books..............................................................................................................56
Author Index.. ......................................................................................................67
Title Index............................................................................................................70
Order Form.........................................................................................................77

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Alchemy of Empire, The LATEST HISTORY

Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism

RajaConntiinueSd oun dbacak fnlap, Associate Professor of‘AEn nintgrilgiusinhg bSoook uthatthbreinrgns toMgetheertahnoardrayisotf literary and non- Sudan The Alchemy of Empire Orient BlackSwan The Alchemy of Empire u
non-European origins of
University, Dallas, Texas literary texts dealing with eighteenth-century British response to South The Alchemy science. Focusing on the
century, from the correspondence of the Asian techne. Sudan is a significant voice in global eighteenth-century of Empire materials of empire-build
traces the history of subs
The Alchemy ofEast India Company Etahnemdptohpeetirpryaepoefrus onffolds the studies as well as a leading critic of Anglo-Indian Relations.’ MARKLEY Abject Materials and the mud, mortar, ice, and pa
Technologies of Colonialism forms of knowledge like
the Royal Society to non-European origins of EnlightenmROeBnERtT demonstrates how East In
Rajani Sudan employees deployed the f
scieJAnalnceexeaAn.udseFtrenoP.ocpeuasndinthge onnovels mof undane materials of empire-buildUinnigve,rstithy oifsIlslintouisDdateypUarrbtmanean-tCohfaEmnpgaliigsnh in order to make sense of
traces the history of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, as well worlds they confronted, o
This book will be of great interest to to analogy as reason whe
failed.
as fosturdmentss anodfsckhonlaros wof elieghdtegeneth-lainkde inoculation. It demonstrates how East India
Comwnienpleltaeaesnntthyho-sceeenimntuteryrpeBsltreoidtiysinhetshteuedsiesd, aesployed the field of alchemy in order to make Rajani Sudan questions th
of the Enlightenment dev
sense of the new worldsintersections of history, science, they confronted, often resorting to analogy as seventeenth and eighteen
ecology, and literature. focusing on the European
“reason belonged unique
reason when analysis failed. She identifies key substan
appropriated, first throug
RAJANI SUDAN is Associate Professor then through colonial gov
that eventually became in
SeleofcEntgelisdh atcSooutnhetrneMnetthosdi:stIntroduction: Mud, Mortar, and Empire 1. The products of European sci
University, Dallas, Texas. functioned as colonialism
not only as a form of gov
Alchemy of Empire 2. Mortar and the Making of Madras 3. Ice and the a technology of empire.

Production of British Climate 4. Inoculation and the Limits of British Sudan argues that the En
was born largely out of E
Imperialism 5. ‘Plaisters’, Paper, and the Labor of Letters; Conclusion Britain’s) sense of insecu
inferiority in the early m
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canvas. Courtesy of Roy Eddleman and Chemical Sudan: The Alchemy of Empire Conti
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Decolonisation and the Politics of
Transition in South Asia
This volume interrogatSesethreiceonsc:epCt ritical Thinking in South Asian History
Bandyopadhyay Orient BlackSwan
of decolonisation, which is often taken Bandyopadhyay,
Decolonisation and the a transfer of poEwdeirtferodm aby Sekhar Professor of Asian History,
Politics of Transition RITICAL to mean
in South Asia colonial to an indigenous elite.
CTH I N K I N G I N S O U T H A S I A N H I S T O R Y However, decolonisatioVniicnvtoolvreidaaUniversity of Wellington, New Zealand; and Director, New
Zealandmuch more complex historical
India Research Institute.
experience for the people of the
postcolonial nations. It did not

necessarily mean raatchlienrDicaanel cbroealkowniitshation involved a much more complex historical experience
the past, but was

for theincomplete, complicated process, apseople of the postcolonial nations than a mere transfer of

different groups began to seek

Decolonisation and the Politics of power fromdifferent meanings of freedom and a colonial to an indigenous elite. It did not necessarily
Transition in South Asia
imagined multiple pathways for their break past, rather an incomplete,
mean a clinicalfuture development. Old nationalisms with the but

were questioned and new identities
were born, as fresh boucnodamrieps lwiceraeted process, as different groups began to derive different
meaningsdrawn, both geographically
of freedom and imagined multiple trajectories for their future
and socially.

This book captures somdeeovf tehleosepment. This book captures some of these complexities of the
decolonisationcomplexities of the decolonisation
process in South Asia—across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
process in South Asia—across India,

Pbaykfiosctauns,inSgrioLnatnhkeaseanudnacBneardntagilBnatdaieensshag—nldadesh—by focusing on some of these uncertainties and debates
dcoelboanteiaslotfotthheetpraonstscitoilooonnipfaeltr.ihTohdeefrtormansition period from colonial to the postcolonial, and by looking
essays engage with a raantgedofififsesurees nt constitutional and political processes.

related to decolonisation, including

electoral dsyesmteomcrsa,cfyoramnCsdoof pnoltiteicanl ts: Introduction PART I: INDEPENDENCE AND PARTITION
systems,

aaurmtheodriitnasruiarnreiscmtio, nec, oidneoPomAloicgRipcaTlalnnIIi:ngD, EMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS PART III:
COMMUNITY,consensus and conflict, minority
CITIZENSHIP AND CONFLICT
rights and exclusivist politics.

Contributors:With contributions from eminent Hilal Ahmed, Javeed Alam, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,

scholars from across disciplines, this

Edited by svtoulduemnetswoifllhbisetoorfyg,rpeoaltDiitnicitaeplreesscstiehtnocCe hakrabarty, Arvind Elangovan, Tanveer Fazal, Ramachandra
and political sociology.Guha, A. H. Ahmed Kamal, Gyanesh Kudaisya, Harshan Kumarasingham,
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Gyanendra Pandey, Anupama Rao, Ian Talbot, Benjamin Zachariah
A Reader

2016 978-81-250-6252-3 ` 1395 456pp Hardback

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2  LATEST  HISTORY

Founts of Knowledge

Series: Book History in India

Abhijit Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur
University; and Director, Jadavpur University Press, Kolkata, and
Swapan Chakravorty, Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore Distinguished
University Professor in the Humanities, Presidency University; and
former Director-General, National Library of India, Kolkata

Founts of Knowledge is the third in a series titled ‘Book History in India’,
which was started in 2004 to showcase the latest research in what was then
a nascent field in India—the history of the book. It continues the trajectory
of the first two volumes (published by Permanent Black) in establishing book
history as a major tool of enquiry in the Indian academy, and brings together
the finest scholars and the most recent research in the area.

Contents: Introduction 1. Benares Beginnings: Print Modernity, Book
Entrepreneurs, and Cross-Cultural Ventures in a Colonial Metropolis
2. At Home in Bombay: Housing Konkani Print 3. Six Blind Men and the
Elephant: Bhagavata Purana in Colonial Bengal 4. Childspeak: Children’s
Periodicals in Hindi in Colonial North India (1920–50) 5. Bangla Literary
Journalism at Nationalism’s ‘Moment of Departure’: The Intervention of
Bangadarsan 6. On the Wrong End of the Raj: Some Aspects of Censorship
in British India and its Circumvention during the 1920s–1940s: Part 2 7.
Educational Texts in Bengal, 1830–1900: Some Problems Relating to British
Imports 8. What Really Happened under a Tree outside Delhi, May 1817

Contributors: Varuni Bhatia, Swapan Chakravorty, Nandini Chandra,
Abhijit Gupta, Samarpita Mitra, Rochelle Pinto, Graham Shaw, Ulrike Stark

2016  978-81-250-6053-6  ` 750 376pp Hardback

Hoodlum Years, The

Ashok Mitra is a distinguished economist, essayist and political activist.

MITRA THE HOODLUM YEARS TofhteerHrooroadnludmaYgeoanrysthreafteIrntdoiatWhpeaysietsaehrdsa Foreword by Prabhat Patnaik

through in the early-mid 1970s and
culminated in the EmergencyT. Aht etheHoodlum Years refers to the years of terror and agony that India
time Ashok MesitsraaycsotnotrtihbeutEedcpoanasoemsrsiieces d
of sensitive through in the early-mid 1970s and culminated in the Emergency.

and Political Weekly that ttehleliAnhgoltyrrotr he time Ashok Mitra contributed a series of sensitive essays to the
and powerfully portrayed
of those years. This volume cEonctoainnsomic and Political Weekly. This volume contains a selection of these
dausreinlegc1ti9o7n2o–f7t5heasnedebsestawyese,nweJrsiattsneunaayrys, written during 1972–75 and between January and April 1977.
and April 1977.

The claustrophobic season oCf ontents: Introduction 1. The Grammar of Politics 2. Magic at The
1972–77, the author feels, ouMghat trogin 3. Rain Beats Down 4. Where Prejudices are Horses 5. Script
for abe remembered every now and then;
Fairytale 6. Honour the Hoodlum 7. Murders are Minor Episodes
there is otherwise a danger of our
fjuadmgileiamrepnrot bbleeimngodfisfotorgrteetdtinbgy8. th.eThe Night of the Jackal 9. Parliamentary Democracy Marches on
10. From The Annals of Constitutional Authority 11. A Government
tWhiisthnietswheodnietisotna, nwdithdeataFiolerdewaoonfradlyTsish, ieves 12. A Hang-Dog Story 13. Murderers All 14. Everything is
Fineby Prabhat Patnaik, will be valuable
and Excellent 15. No Birds Sing 16. Troy Does Not Burn 17. They
for students and scholars of political
sociology, modern Indian histCoryaanndnot Sell Their Poetry 18. Old Order Changeth, Yielding Place to
political science.
Old 19. A Facet of Revealed Preference 20. Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang

21. They Do Not Want to Learn 22. None for Home Consumption

Either 23. Amoral City 24. Doors We Never Opened 25. A Sickness

.com is Abroad 26. Rock and No Water 27. She Was No Longer Believable

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Poetry 30. Who Knows the Truth 31. The Genealogy of Hatkhola-

Rambagan 32. An Improbable Confluence 33. In The Cause of the People

34. He Belonged To A Non-Relevant Category 35. An Unreconstructed

Revolutionary 36. Decision—and Choice 37. Better Be Around 38. A

Proclaim of Equal Sovereignty 39. They Did It on Their Own

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Languished Hopes

Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in
Twentieth-century India

series: new perspectives in south asian history

Niels Brimnes, Associate Professor in History and South Asian Studies,
Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark

This volume analyses the history of tuberculosis in India in the twentieth
century: how the disease was ‘discovered’, how it has been understood,
and how national and international agencies have struggled to bring it
under control. The author begins in the early decades of the century,
when colonial authorities realised that tuberculosis might be a severe
health threat, and traces debates and initiatives from late colonialism
through independence into post-colonial India. His focus is on the first
two decades after independence, when tuberculosis control received
unprecedented attention. The analysis ends with the early 1990s, when
Indian authorities realised that 80 years of control efforts had achieved
little, and prepared to revamp the official control programme.

Contents: Introduction 1. Colonial Concern 2. New Regimes 3. Post-
colonial Hopes I: BCG Vaccination 4. Voices of Dissent 5. Post-colonial
Hopes II: Domiciliary Chemotherapy 6. The Community Approach
7. Disillusionment Conclusions Bibliography

2016 978-81-250-6282-0 ` 1095 336pp Hardback

Nursing and Empire
Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United
NNEWEW StatesDrDarwaiwnignognonexetxetnesnivsievearacrhcihviavlarlerseesaeracrhch
nsigng RReeddddyy PPERESRPSEPCETCITVIEVSESinin OOriernietnBt lBalcakcSkwSawnan anadndcocmompeplelilnlignlgifleif-eh-ihstisotroyryinitnetrevriveiwesw, s,
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whith HHISITSOTORYRY
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Asutisntin
Sujani K. Reddy,ofoAf nAgnlogl-oA-mAmereicriacnancacpaiptaitlaisltist Associate Professor, American Studies, State
a.cno.cmom
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10 1 University of New York Old WestburypopsotsctoclolnoinailaIlnIdnidainanantaiotino-nst-sataetestsiltlill
NNuurrssiinnggaannddEEmmppiirree
tietidedtotothtihsigsloglboablaslyssytsetmem. .
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NNuurrssiinngg aanndd EEmmppiirree frforommInInddiaiatotoththeeUUnnitieteddSStatatetes s Drawing on extensiveThTehebobookokbebgeingisnws iwthiththtehemmovoevmemenetnotfof archival research and compelling life-history

whwihteit,eU, .US.S-b.-absaesdedsinsignleglefefmemalaelemmedeidciaclal
interviews, NursingmmissisiosinoanraierisetsotoInIdnidaianadndprporcoeceedesds
and Empire examines the lives of Indian nurses, which
thtrhoruoguhghthteherermemakaiknignogfotfhtehecoclolnoinailal

have unfoldedmmedeidciaclaml mapapthtrhoruoguhghrarcaec-eb-absaesded against a complex backdrop of Anglo-American capitalist

sesgergergeagtaiotinonininthteheU.US.Sa.nadndthtehe“o“poepnen

imperialismdodooroirmimpepreiarilaislmism” o”fotfhteheRoRcokcekfeflelellrer and the emergence of a postcolonial Indian nation-state still

FoFuonudnadtaiotinonininInIdnidai.aI.tIetnednsdws iwthiththtehe Complicating long-held Indian
tied to this globalCoClodldWWaraermemigrigartaiotinonofoIfnIdnidainanunrusresses system. the view of

asaosnoeneouotuctocmome eofotfhtehecrcitriictiaclarlorloele
women as passiveplpalyaeydedbybyU.US.Sm. medeidciaclailnitnetreersetstisnina a participants in the movement of skilled labor in this
coclolnoinaila“lc“icvivliizliznignmg missisiosino.n”.”
period, ReddyCoCmomplpicliactaintigntghtehelolnogn-gh-ehledldviveiwewofof demonstrates how these ‘women in the lead’ pursued
new opportunitiesInIdnidainanwowmomenenasapsapsassivsievepapratircticpiapnatnsts afforded by their mobility. At the same time, Indian
nurses also confrontedininthtehemmovoevmemenetnotfosfksikllielldedlalbaobroirnin
stigmas based on the nature of ‘women’s work’,
thtihsipsepreiorido,dR, eRdeddydydedmemonosntsratrtaetsehsohwow
religious andthtehseese“w“owmomenenininthtehelelaeda”dp”uprusruseuded
caste differences within the migrant community, and the
nenwewopoppoproturtnuintiietiseasfafoffrodreddedbybythtehier ir
racial and gender hierarchies of the United States.mmoboibliitlyit.yA. tAtthtehesasmame etimtime,eI,nIdnidainan

nunrusresseaslasolsococnofnrofrnotnetdedstsigtmigmasabsabsaesded
ononthtehenantautruereofo“fw“owmomene’ns ’ws owrokr”k,”,

Selected contents:rerleigliogiuosuasnadndcacsatsetedidffieffreernecnecsews iwthitihnin Introduction: Nursing and Empire 1. Feminizing the

thtehemmigrigarnatnctocmommunuintyit,ya,nadndthteherarcaicailal
Christian MedicalanadndgegnednedrehriheirearracrhciheiseosfotfhteheU.US.S. Mission 2. Searching for Salome 3. Reconstructing the
Imperial NationSpSapnanninnigntgwtowocecnetnutruieriseasnadndmmulutilptilpele
4. Remaking Mother India 5. From Kerala to America
gegoegorgarpahpihcicspsapcaecse,sN, uNrusrisnignganadnd
SSuujajanni iKK. .RReeddddyy 6. Putting theEmEmpipreirsehsehdesdlsiglhigthotnonhihstisotroieriseosfof
“Foreign” in Nurse Im/migration 7. Indian Nurses Navigate
cacpaiptaitlaisltisetxepxapnasniosinonanadndmmaragringianlaizliezded

the U.S. Division of Nursing Labor 8. Immigration and the Return of the

“Woman Question”CoCnotnintiuneudeodnobnabcakcfklafplap Epilogue: That Was the End of Marriage for Me

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Readings on Dalit Identity

History, Literature and Religion

:seSrwiaerasj BacsurisitPriocfeassolr, Stchhoionl okf ing in south asian histoCrOy N T R I B U T O R S Social oppression
Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National RITICALOrient BlackSwanthe name of caste
large section of th
EdOpiteneUdnibveyrsitSy. waraj CTH I N K I N G I N S O U T H A S I A N H I S T O R YBasu,Professor,SchoBaondSlyeookphafadrhSyaoy cialSciences, IndiraKrishnamurthyBadri NarayanReadings on rightful place in s
Alamelu Geetha world and contrib
Basu Readings on Dalit Identity Gyanendra Pandey remained largely
Gandhi National Open University, Delhi Swaraj Basu the ideology of ca
A RULE OF PROPERty FOR BENGAL Raj Kumar J. M. Parakh by Dalits for equi
RANAJIt GUHA found expression
Michael Bergunder Alok Mukherjee Dalit Identity a period of time.
Dissent towards the ideology of caste anRdajsharelesDohalti he assMe. Vr. tNiaodknarnbi y DalitRosnki Ram have been attemp
periodShashi Bhushan disciplines to she
for equity and justice has been expressed through writDi.nR.gNsagaoravj er a Upadhyay History, Literature and Religion world of Dalits by
alternative histor
of time. Since the 1970s, there have been attempts by scholars across traditions, and ev
continues to be a
disciplines to shed light on the cultural world of Dalits by constructing academic debate.

alternative historical and religious traditions, and even today Dalit This volume brin
selection of writin
identity continues to be an important agenda of academic debate. through the reint
literature and reli
With a multidisciplinary approach, Readings on Dalit Identity brings challenged their a
created a new ide
together a diverse selection of writings that looks at how through the examines the Dal
Aryan migration
reinterpretation of history, literature and religion, the Dalits challenged historical narrativ
cultural symbolis
their ascribed status and created a new identity for themselves. characteristics an
literature, ideas a
Contents: Introduction PART I: HISTORY PART II: LITERATURE and experiences o
PART III: RELIGION autobiographies,
between religion
Cover image: From Orient BlackSwan www.orientblackswan.com Edited by the linkage betwe
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immensely benef
students of Dalit
literature, religion

A Reader

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he R A N A J I t G U H A Rule of Property for Bengal, A

A RULE OF An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement

e most Ranajit Guha is best known as the founding father of Subaltern Studies.
aken in Renowned as a critical figure in the academic worlds of Calcutta, Sussex,
pen? Canberra, and New York, Mr Guha lives for the moment on the fringes
of Vienna.
PROPERtyajit Co-published with Permanent Black
Ranajit Guha’s classic study of the infamous Permanent Settlement
the of Bengal—the most disputed step in the agrarian field ever taken in
king of colonial India—provides the answers by looking at the ideas and thinking
of the policy-makers who radically changed the way in which India was
FOR BENGALdthe taxed and ruled. Guha considers why European ideas about capitalism in
farming and methods of revenue collection were thrust upon a colonial
out An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement society by administrators such as Lord Cornwallis and Philip Francis. He
venue elaborates on the philosophical antecedents of the Settlement outlining
ociety. the contradictions between their views and those of Warren Hastings.
h as This third edition includes two new essays by Partha Chatterjee and
e far Rudrangshu Mukherjee. Together they make the book, which was first
nch published in 1963, an indispensable study for anyone thinking seriously
n the about colonial rule and the making of modern South Asia.
cal
rks of 2016 978-81-7824-482-2 ` 595 330pp Paperback
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Selling Empire

India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600–1830

JonCaonttihnuead fnromEfroantcflaop tt, Associate Professor, Department of History, Eacott Selling Empire Orient BlackSwan Linking four continents ove
centuries, Selling Empire de
UniBvreitarins,iatnyd AomefriCca sahalpifeod trhenia, Riverside Jonathan Eacott the centrality of India—both
and a place—to the making
persisting global structures of economic Selling British imperial system. In t
Empire seventeenth century, Britain
Linkanind cgultfuoraluporwecroannd itnitenrdeepnentdsencoe.ver three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates economically, politically, an
India in the Making of weaker than India, but Brito
the This book will be of considerable as an idea and a place—to the making of a Britain and America 1600–1830 increasingly made use of Ind
strengths to build their own
centrality of India—bothinterest to students and scholars of both America and Asia.

global British imperialIndian, British, colonial American, system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was Early English colonial prom
imperial, and global history. thought of America as a pot
economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons hoping that the emerging At
colonies could produce Asia
incrJeONaAsTHinANgElAyCOmTTaisdAessouciastee of India’s strengths to build their own empire in materials. When this vision
Professor of History at the University materialize, Britain’s circula
Indian manufactured goods—
bothof CAalimforneiar, iRcivaersaidne.d Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned umbrellas to cottons—to Afr
and America then establishe
America as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies of goods and encouraged ma
people to debate whether or
could produce Asian raw materials. empire itself was good for B
or India.
Selected contents:  Introduction 1. “Those Curious Manufactures
Eacott takes a new look at th
That Empire Affords”: India Goods and Early English Expansion 2. An empire’s history and geogra
tracing the development of c
Imperial Compromise: The Calico Acts, the Company, and the Atlantic culture, the American Revo
British industrialization thro
Colonies 3. Enforcement, Aesthetics, and Revenue 4. A Company commercial intersections lin
Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
to Fear: India and the American RevoluOrtigioinanl pr5ice.: EUSm$ 4p5.i0r0es, Interlopers, seventeenth to the nineteenth
Corruption, and America’s Early India STpercaialdInedia6n p.riRce:eRms 10a9p5/-ping Production, and beyond, the evolving ne
ideas, and fashions that bou
Rethinking Monopolies 7. The French Wars and the Refashioning of
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Sociology and History

Dialogues Towards Integration

A. M. Shah retired as Professor, Department of Sociology,
University of Delhi, New Delhi.

Conceived as a series of dialogues between Shah and his fellow social
scientists, and indeed between the two disciplines of Sociology and
History, essays in this collection nuance ethnographic fact with a
historical dimension in ways that were path-breaking for their time.
The book includes Shah´s well-known study of the Vahivancha Barots—
traditional record-keepers of genealogies and narrators and creators
of myths. Shah offers several essays on theory and method in sociology
and history, anchored in review of literature, and empirical material. A
significant inclusion is the discussion between Shah and Romila Thapar
on sociological understanding of ancient India, examining the relation
between lineage, clan, caste and the state.

Contents: Introduction 1. The Vahivancha Barots of Gujarat: A Caste of
Genealogists and Mythographers A. M. Shah and R. G. Shroff Foreword M.
N. Srinivas 2. Social Anthropology and the Study of Historical Societies
3. Myth of the Self-sufficiency of Indian Village M. N. Srinivas and A. M. Shah
4. Political System in Eighteenth-century Gujarat 5. Historical Sociology:
A Trend Report 6. Studying the Present and the Past: A Village in Gujarat
7. Towards a Sociological Understanding of Ancient India A Response
to Professor A. M. Shah Romila Thapar 8. History and Sociology 9. A
Sociological Approach to the Eighteenth and 175Nineteenth Century
History of Gujarat 10. The Indian Sociologist, 1905–14, 1920–22 11. The Indian
Journal of Sociology, 1920–21 12. Anthropology in Bombay, 1886–1936

2016 978-81-250-6013-0 ` 625 272pp Hardback

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State of Being Stateless, The

An Account of South Asia

Edited by Paula Banerjee, Associate Professor, Department of South
and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, and President,
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, Anasua Basu Ray
Chaudhury, Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata, and Atig
Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and
Honorary Researcher, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata

With a Foreword by Ranabir Samaddar

This volume brings together the lived experiences of diverse stateless
groups within a comparative framework, using research conducted
across dissimilar groups in different geographical locations—India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. Demonstrating
that continued situations of dislocation and/or refugeehood can produce
statelessness, the book elaborates a new way of thinking about this
increasingly important field of study, and suggests a way towards framing
better and more inclusive international and national laws to deal with
this issue.

Selected contents: The Grid1. Words of Law, Worlds of Loss 2. The
Remains of Partition? 3. Ordeal of Citizenship 4. The Chinese of Calcutta
5. The Stateless Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh 6. Elusive Home-
Thoughts 7. Ambiguous Identities

Contributors: Paula Banerjee, Sahana Basavapatna, Subhas Ranjan
Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar Chakraborty, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury,
Samir Kumar Das, Atig Ghosh, Pravina Gurung, Suhit K. Sen

2016 978-81-250-5968-4 ` 675 304pp Hardback

Thinking Gender, Doing Gender
Feminist Scholarship and Practice Today

Chakravarti Thinking In the 1980s, gender was acknowledged as a
Gender, useful and necessary categoErydofiatnealdysisb. y Uma Chakravarti, historian and activist in the democratic
Doing rights andThe first generation of feminist scholars
Gender women’s movements.
defined the new field and provided a rich
corpus of works; later generations of
scholars tahnediracwtrivitisintsgsthoennceuCxlptuaorned-,epfdilmuit banldished
through with IIAS, Shimla

media, and sexuality. This volume focuses on pedagogy and classroom practice, theoretical

obstaclesThinking Gender, Doing Gender focuses on created by disciplinary constraints, and practices in the

these issues, as well as on pedagogy and
performingclassroom practice, theoretical obstacles
Thinking Gender, Doing Gender arts from a gender perspective. It concentrates more on
created by disciplinary constraints, and
gpmeroancrdeteicorenpsedirnosiptnhegectgpievener.dfoTerrhmirsainvthogedolaurrmoftthseiicnfnfrkoougicmnurgsgaerseicnudlae,rinratthheerwtrhiatinngthainndkinregcgaellnodfehr:isitnocrlya,sisnroroeamdsin, ginlittheeramtuarkeinagnd
cinema,gender: in classrooms, in the making of
and in the practice of culture in theatre and urban spaces.
curricula, in the writing and recall of
history, in reading literature and cinema,
and in the practice of culturSe ien tlheeatcretaendd contents: Introduction 1. Education as Trutiya Ratna:
urban spaces. 2. Women, Men and Others in the Class and in the Past 3. Reading

Feminist Scholarship Together, the essays discuss:Gender in School Textbooks 4. Chhatra Prabodhan 5. Random Thoughts
and Practice Today 6. Feminist• Pedagogy: the classroom as a site for
Epistemology and Oral History as Method 7. The ‘Man-
edited by exploring caste, gender, region, language
Uma and diversity; how textbookms reafldecet g’enFdearmine and Women’s Responses to Hunger 8. Memory as Ritual,
Chakravarti Memory asideologies and tensions between tradition /
Renewal 9. Devadasi and/or ‘Prostitute’? 10. ’Mitro Marjani’
modernity; the relationship between
science and gender. 11. Gender and Commodity Aesthetics in Tamilnadu, 1950–70

wan.com 12. Reimagining Nation and Redefining Regional and Gender Identities

in the Cinema of the 1950s 13. Women in Theatre 14. Staging Feminist

Theatre 15. Building Blocks

ContCinuoed onn tbarckifblaputors: Purwa Bharadwaj, Dipta Bhog, Uma Chakravarti, Swati
Dhyadroy, Vaishali Diwakar, A. Mangai, Disha Mullick, Shubhra Nagalia,

Kavita Panjabi, Sharmila Rege, Kumkum Roy, Mahua Sarkar, Chayanika

Shah, S. Anandhi, Lata Singh, Vani Subramaniam, Anagha Tambe, V. Geetha

2016 978-81-250-6239-4 ` 795 364pp Hardback

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Writings of James Manor, The

Politics and State–Society Relations in India

With a fCoonrteinuwedofrormdfrobntyflapNiraja Gopal Jayal ‘No scholar has observed Indian politics more closely or written more Orient BlackSwan For close to half a centu
has made crucial contrib
incisively about them over the last thirty-five years than James Manor. T WHE RITINGS of contemporary Indian
Of James Manor renowned worldwide as
In bringing together some of his more important contributions over this Politics and State-Society the subject, and his lucid
long period, this volume performs an extraordinarily valuable service.’ Relations in India style has made him one
This definitive collection of essays, divided into five sections, depictsIn the last section, he comments on the With a Foreword by Niraja Gopal Jayal read and influential ana
more recent phase of Indian politics. commentary John Harriss THE WRITINGS of James Manor democracy. James Mano
James interests. The first section is a Professor of International Studies profoundly influenced o
Manor’s wide range of the Indian polity, its inst
on the efTihtmteinFgeotrrreiwbguoetrednfbrcoymeNiaraocjoaflGleoaapgaucleJ.oaAyanl iss oa lidated democracy in India, and discussesSimon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and its regional dynamic
celebration of the singular scholarship of
The Writings of James M
two major themes–political awakening and political decay–which,one of the leading chroniclers of Indian State-Society Relations i
‘James Manor presents some of his work on Indian politics spanning over definitive collection of e
more than four decades. The author’s analysis ranges from party Manor’s range of intere
divided into five section
politics, this will be invaluable for students, commentary on the em
consolidated democracy
together with political regeneration, forms the three key processesteachers and everyone interested in the discusses two major the
organisations to leadership to policies—thus adroitly taking the student awakening and political
of Indian politics through a range of issues that democracy has been together with political re
the three key processes
at workpoilniticsInofdInidaian. politics over the past forty years. He devotes threegrappling with. A valuable treasure full of insightful assessments and politics over the past for
historical analysis.’
trends of regional politics, Suhas Palshikar If one aspect of the man
sectionsJamtoes Mtahneor ins EamteukarAenyaookfu Pproofelsistorical parties, the Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration democratic affairs is link
and howEm, earittusaofllCotmhmeonsweeallteh vSteudlises,inpthoelitical actors manage the challenges ofSavitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India voters and their shifting
School of Advanced Study, University of the other is where politi
and Manor is equally int
governance. He addresses the regional dynamics of politics throughLondon. He devotes three sectio
‘Over many decades, students of modern Indian politics have learnt political parties, the tren
immensely from James Manor, whose scholarship has illuminated its politics, and how, at all t
political actors manage
the lens of political leadership in the fourth section, and in the last,dynamics with power, realism and finesse. These remarkably wide- governance. He address
dynamics of politics thro
ranging essays, which examine the motives, skills and constraints of political leadership in th
comments on the more recent phase of Indian politics.political actors seriously without forsaking the need to judge their
actions, demonstrate the enduring significance of his insights: a splendid

collection.’

Contents: Part I An Emergent Democracy—Attended by Awakening, Sanjay Ruparelia
Associate Professor of Politics
Decay and Regeneration Part II Political Parties Part III MaNenwaSgchionolgforPSoocialliRteisceaarclh, New York, USA

and Social Forces Part IV Chief Ministers’ Struggles at the State Level

Part V Politics and Society in the New Millennium

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Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad

2016 978-81-250-6250-9 ` 795 384pp Hardback

Zamorins and the Political Culture of
Medieval Kerala

Haridas The Zamorin—ruler oVf th.eVkin.gdHomaorf idas, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University
of Calicut, KeralaKōlikkōṭ u in modern-day Kerala—left an

ind¯elible mark on world history when he
welcomed Vasco da Gama in 1498. But a
ZAMORINS
and the Political Culture and the With a forewordfew centuries earlier, the Zamorin was by Kesavan Veluthat

ZAMORINS of Medieval Kerala Political Culture of only a local chief, heading a few villages.
Medieval Kerala
How did he become an independent
V. V. HARIDAS
With a Foreword by Kesavan Veluthat  Relying on theruler after the disintegration of the Cēras archival richness of palace chronicles, this book describes

in the twelfth century? How did the

a relativelyZamorin come to be recognised and little-researched period in the history of Kerala. It details

legitimised as the ‘king’?
the power and authority of the Zamorin of Calicut claimed and actually
wielded, andThis story of the creation of an image of
the various methods through which he sought to legitimise
royalty is the focus of Zamorins and the
it: elaboratePolitical Culture of Medieval Kerala.
rituals, patronage of temples and scholarship, propagation of
Relying on the archival richness of a

art and culture,large collection of unpublished palm leaf etc. We see that the Zamorin’s ‘little kingdom’—a model

manuscripts called Granthavari,
documents of the poloiticfalsatnud droyyailng the medieval state deftly handled in this book—depended
on the existence,establishments of the time, this book
interaction and interdependence of various nodes of
reconstructs the days of the Zamorin. It
power.carefully details the power and authority

he claimed and actually wielded, and the

various methods through which he

Contents:sought to legitimise it—elaborate rituals, 1. Exploring the Sources and Perspectives 2. From ‘the Age

patronage of temples and scholarship,

propagation of art anod cfulGturre,eeatc.t Men’ to ‘the Age of Lords’ 3. Power at the Centre: Lineage,

While the great past wKasinalswhayisp and the King 4. Nodes of Power: Locality Chiefs and Local
Magnatesremembered, the Zamorin’s ‘little
5. The Royal Functionaries 6. Rituals, Symbols and the Status of
kingdom’ depended on the existence,
Royalty 7.interaction and interdependence of
Temples and Royalty 8. Royalty and the Patronage of Culture
various nodes of power—the royalty,

9. State Festivalsroyal functionaries, locality chiefs, local 10. Challenging the Zamorin’s Hegemony: Suicide

magnates and temple authorities. This
Squads Acrossbook argues that studying these nodes of Centuries 11. Conclusion
power, which related themselves to the

2016 978-81-250-6128-1 ` 875 388pp Hardback

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Class, Patriarchy and The legendary exploits of Ghazi Miyan, the From Plassey to Textbook
Ethnicity on Sri Lankan conqueror saint, and the cults of remembrance Partition and After
Plantations that surround his name in northern India contain
layer upon layer of significance that only a master A History of Modern India
Two Centuries of Power and Protest historian like Shahid Amin can reveal to us…. (Second Edition)

series: critical thinking in south asian —Partha Chatterjee Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Director, New
Columbia University, New York and Centre for Zealand India Research Institute, Victoria
history
University of Wellington, New Zealand

Kumari Jayawardena, former Associate Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata The book addresses
Professor, Political Science, University of important historiographical
Colombo, Sri Lanka, Rachel Kurian, International …Deeply researched and wonderfully written, questions by taking
Labour Economist, Institute of Social Studies, The [this volume] shows us how composite religious cognisance of emergent
culture is created and peaceful threads knit over perspectives adopted by
Hague the rupture of violence. A fascinating book with social science scholarship
wide implications for our own troubled time. over the last twenty-five
CTR I T I C A L This volume takes as its years. As a major work of
—Natalie Zemon Davis our times, it engages in
nomic JKauyraiawnardena Orient BlackSwan central theme the plantationsClass,PatriarchyandEthnicityonSri Professor Emeritus, Princeton University and thought-provoking debates
nt, Caste and on issues like political
Lankan Plantations takes as its central University of Toronto economy of eighteenth-century India, socio-
ntblackswan.com theme the plantations of Sri Lanka, from religious reform and revival, and the nationalist
78 81 250 5878 6 HINKING IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY their inception in the early nineteenth Contents: PART I A LIFE PART II LORE PART movement. The newly added concluding chapter
125 058786 of Sri Lanka, from theircentury to almost the present day in the III SHRINE PART IV COUNTER-HISTORIES provides a succinct account of major
nicity Class, Patriarchy PART V A LONG AFTERLIFE developments in postcolonial India during the
s and Ethnicity on twenty-first. Drawing on a wealth of Nehruvian and subsequent years. It links
Sri Lankan Plantations archival material, it offers a detailed and 2015 978-81-250-5967-7 ` 995 352pp Hardback
compelling empirical narrative of the Rights: Restricted
lives and struggles of plantation
inceptionworkers, who have constituted, for
Cloasns,SPrai tLraianrkcahny PanladntEatthionnicsity in the early
much of modern Sri Lankan history, the
single largest organised workforce in the
country. In doing so, it explores the
complex links between power and class,
gender and ethnic hierarchies both on
nineteenth century to thetheplantationsandoutsideand

crucially situates the labour movement
on the plantations within the wider
political and social economy of Sri
Two Centuries of Power and Protest Lanka.

present day in the twenty-The current volume begins by tracing

the origins of the plantations in then
Ceylon, the acquisition of Indian Tamil
workers and the labour practices during
the colonial period. This in turn
first. Drawing on a wealth ofcontextualisesthesubsequent

discussion on rising labour and political
consciousness among plantation
workers and their struggles for labour
and democratic rights, which the
archival material, it offers aauthorstrackthroughthepost-

Independence period and into the
twenty-first century. Particular attention
is paid to the role of political parties,
trade unions and other pressure groups
in supporting or opposing these rights,
compellingwithin a background of class, ethnic,
empirical
linguistic and nationalist consciousness
and chauvinism. The book provides an
astute analysis of the strategic alliances
and political manoeuvres made by the

Kumari Jayawardena and Rachel Kurian narrative of the lives andContinuedonbackflap

struggles of plantation

workers, who have constituted, for much of contemporary debates about Indian nationhood
with changes in society, economy and polity, from
modern Sri Lankan history, the single largest Displaying India’s Heritage the years of state-directed planning under a
organised workforce in the country. In doing so, it
explores the complex links between power and History, Policy and the Asian Perspective

class, gender and ethnic hierarchies both on the Madhuparna Roychowdhury, Assistant one-party system to the emergence of a market
plantations and outside, and crucially situates the Professor, Department of Ancient Indian History economy in an era of predominantly coalition
labour movement on the plantations within the and Culture, University of Calcutta, Kolkata governments.
wider political and social economy of Sri Lanka.
This volume describes the Contents: 1. Transition of the Eighteenth
Selected Contents: Introduction PART I: history of museum-making in Century 2. British Empire in India 3. Early Indian
SLAVERY AND THE PLANTER RAJ PART II: the Indian subcontinent in the Responses: Reform and Rebellion 4. Emergence
OUTSIDERS CHALLENGE THE PLANTER RAJ 1800s and 1900s with special of Indian Nationalism 5. Early Nationalism:
PART III: FRANCHISE, NATIONAL POLITICS emphasis on the experience of Discontent and Dissension 6. The Age of Gandhian
AND MILITANT UNIONISM PART IV: POLITICS Bengal. It details the Politics 7. Many Voices of a Nation 8. Freedom
OF CITIZENSHIP AND ETHNICITY PART V: connection between the with Partition 9. After Independence and Partition
DEMOCRATIC STRUGGLES AND SOCIAL museum movement and the
JUSTICE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY broader political and cultural 2015 978-81-250-5723-9 ` 410  608pp Paperback

2015 978-81-250-5878-6 ` 825 364pp Hardback environment of the time. In the Club
Issuing from strong archival
Conquest and Community research, the book presents a convincing case to Associational Life in Colonial South Asia
consider museums as a modern public sphere
The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi where the territorial and cultural bases of Benjamin B. Cohen, Associate Professor in the
Miyan nationhood were negotiated. Department of History at the University of Utah

Shahid Amin, former Professor, Department of Selected Contents:  Introduction: Museums Clubs in India are often
History, University of Delhi, Delhi in History 1. The Culture of History 2. Indian regarded as antiquarian
Museum: The First Hundred Years 3. Archaeology institutions left over from a
Conquest and Community tells and Museum Making in Colonial India bygone era with little to
the story of the Indo-Turkic 4. Archaeology in the Indian Museum 5. History teach us about the past or
warrior saint Ghazi Miyan and Men and Museum Makers: Bengal in the Early- present. Yet, In the Club
his influential cult in the Twentieth Century 6. ‘Locality, Province and the presents a different picture
Gangetic plains. A purported Nation’: The Museum Story of India’s clubland. This
nephew of Mahmud of book offers a
Ghazni, Ghazi Miyan was 2015 978-81-250-5902-8 ` 950 400pp Hardback comprehensive
supposedly martyred in holy examination of social clubs
war against Hindu kings near across India. It argues that
Bahraich in modern-day Uttar clubs have been key contributors to India’s
Pradesh in 1034 CE. His cult colonial associational life and civil society, and
continues to draw pilgrims of varying castes, both remain important nodes in public culture today.

Muslim and Hindu, from all over northern India to Selected contents: Introduction 1. Club Rules
his shrine in Bahraich. 2. Around the Club 3. The Business of Clubbing

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4. Servants and Staff 5. Race, Class, and the Club ALSO IN OUR LIST
6. Women and the Club 7. Postcolonial Clubbing
Cultural History of Early South Asia e-book
2015  978-81-250- 5908-0  ` 750  224pp  Hardback    
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India’s First Democratic Edited by Shonaleeka Kaul, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi
Revolution
This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the diverse
Dayanand Bandodkar and the Rise of the art forms of early South Asia. In doing so, it departs from the
Bahujan in Goa dominant tendency of treating the arts as static ‘heritage of the
past’ with just exhibition value, and instead perceives them as
series: new perspectives in south asian history dynamic processes of meaning and communication in the past. It
connects cultural production with ordinary life, to explore the
Parag D. Parobo, Assistant Professor, various roles which literature and visual arts played in the lives of
Department of History, Goa University their communities. Here, art is investigated as objects of aesthetic
enjoyment, but also as creations of rhetorical or philosophical
… a landmark moment, as well as of utilitarian value. Bringing together
contribution to our authoritative voices on South Asia history, archaeology and
understanding of the literature, the volume acquaints its readership with fundamental
politics of Goa… contributions to the region’s art history.

—Gopal Guru, Contents: Introduction: Producers and Consumers of Culture
Professor, Centre for Political 1. A Figure of Speech or a Figure of Thought 2. Rock Paintings
of the Mesolithic Period 3. Ornament Styles of the Indus Valley
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Tradition 4. Texts on Stone: Understanding Asoka’s Epigraph-
University Monuments 5. Social Background of Ancient Indian Terracottas 6. On Modes of Visual Narration
in Early Buddhist Art 7. Archaeology of Early Temples in the Chalukyan Regions 8. Ellora:
Parag Parobo’s book Understanding the Creation of a Past 9. Theory and Practice of Painting: Introduction to the
opens a new location from Vishnudharmottara 10. The Jataka as Popular Tradition 11. The Functions and Social Location of
which to view the transformation of both pre- and the Kavya 12. Bards and Bardic Tradition in Early Tamil Poetry 13. Who Needs Folklore? The
post-colonial Goa … by bringing the Bahujan to Relevance of Oral Tradition to South Asian Studies
the centre of the analysis. … The processes he
talks about: land reforms, expansion of the social Contributors: Uma Chakravarti, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Vidya Dehejia, Devangana Desai, K.
sector, deepening of democracy, etc., which were Kailasapathy, Shonaleeka Kaul, J. M. Kenoyer, Stella Kramrisch, Jaya Mehta, Erwin Numayer,
initiated by Bandodkar, radically changed the social A. K. Ramanujan, Himanshu Prabha Ray, Upinder Singh
and political landscape of Goa. This book will …
invert some of the comfortable readings of Goa. 2014 978-81-250-5359-0 ` 995 388pp Hardback E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5601-0

—Peter Ronald D’Souza, Political Culture and Economy in Eighteenth Century
Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Bengal

Abridged contents: Introduction 1. Caste in Networks of Exchange, Consumption and Communication
the Modern World, 1850–1961 2. Colonial State:
Local and Micro Context 3. Bandodkar’s Charisma Tilottama Mukherjee teaches in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
and Post-Colonial Goa, 1963–1973 4. Empowering
through Land and Tenancy Reforms 5. The Political The historiography of eighteenth-century India has been polarised.
Economy of Social Transformation | Conclusion Historians have spoken of either a general decline or degeneration
in the aftermath of the decay of the Mughal Empire, or at the other
2015 978-81-250-5926-4  ` 875 296pp Hardback end of the spectrum, focused on the realignments and reorientation
occurring in large parts of the erstwhile Mughal Empire. In this volume,
Selected Works of e-book the author has examined the nature of the commercial economy
C. Rajagopalachari that emerged in the latter half of the eighteenth century in Bengal.
She has looked at the period that saw the transition from Mughal
Vol. III, 1923–25 rule to Company state. The evidence examined suggests that Bengal
economy was decentralised—in the sense of not being regulated by a
Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru single agency— but not fragmented, and there was an extraordinary
Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), Teen movement of commodities and people.

Murti House, New Delhi, N. Balakrishnan, Contents: Introduction. 1. Markets: The Eighteenth-century Economic Terrain 2. Consumption in an
former Deputy Director, NMML and Deepa Urban Milieu 3. Pilgrimage Complex: Economy and Religion 4. The Connecting Network: Transport
Bhatnagar, Head, Research and Publications Systems in a Mobile Society 5. The Nizamat State: Multiple Roles in the Changing Contours of Politics
Division and NMML Archives. 6. Trade: The Early Company State and the Phase of Transition 7. Communication, Labour, Ecology:
The Early Company State in the Phase of Transition 8. Conclusion
Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari, Vol. III,
1923–25 is the third in a series of ten volumes 2014 978-81-250-5267-8 ` 975 448pp Hardback
being published in association with the Nehru
Memorial Museum and Library on the writings of
Rajaji, covering the period between 1907 and
1972. This volume begins with Rajaji’s efforts to
educate the people on the significance of the

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Council-boycott resolution This volume is a collection of Selected Contents: Introduction 1.Transition
from Ancient to Medieval 2. The Kali Age: A
passed at the Gaya CongressContinuedfromfrontflap Fihl l Venkatachalapathy Beyond Tranquebar essays on the Danish colonyArareIndiancolonyofthe Period of Social Crisis 3. The Nature of Indian
Also from Orient BlackSwan Orient BlackSwan Danish empire. A place that Feudalism 4. Paucity of Metallic Coinage
(c. 500–c. l000) 5. Aspects of Royal Land Charter
centres on activities which radiated TRANQUEBAR—WHOSE HISTORY? Beyond Tranquebar fostered the modern printing (Ra-jas´a-sana) and Property Inheritance
6. Changes in Social Structure 7. Dimensions of
in Decemberfrom this important town, instead of 1922. TheTransnational Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading Colony Grappling Across Cultural Borders of Tranquebar, known todaypressandProtestant Peasant Protest 8. Economic and Social Basis of
seeing this place as an appendix to the in South India in South India Christianity in the Tantrism 9. The Feudal Mind
national history of Denmark or to the Helle Jørgensen subcontinent. A tourist haunt
Christian mission activities from Edited by that was ravaged by the 2014 978-81-250-5611-9 ` 410 424pp Paperback
Germany. Thereby, the authors and OTHER ORIENTALISMS Esther Fihl tsunami in 2004. This is
India between Florence and Bombay, 1860–1900 A. R. Venkatachalapathy Tranquebar, known as
editors of this volume peg Tranquebar in
portray Rajaji’sFilipaLowndesVicente by the name of Tharagampadi.Tharangampadi,acharming
entries hereits rightful place in the scholarly map. MEMSAHIBS’ WRITINGS coastal town in present-day Tamil Nadu.
This book will be useful for students and Colonial Narratives on Indian Women Beyond Tranquebar is a collection of
scholars of colonial history, South Asian twenty-four essays by scholars who
studies and anthropology. They will Ed. Indrani Sen
bring to relief the many dimensions of
endeavourbenefit from the diverse strands of PATHWAYS OF EMPIRE The essays draw fromthistown.Thebooktakesusto
research a seemingly small place offers. to seventeenth-century Denmark, as the
Esther Fihl is Professor, Department of spread theCirculation, ‘Public Works’ and Social Space in Colonial Orissa, kingdom strives to find a place in the
c. 1780–1914 thriving colonial enterprise. It then
Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Ravi Ahuja moves to Maratha-ruled Tanjore where
THE WICKED CITY

message ofUniversity of Copenhagen, Denmark, and the constructiveCrimeandPunishmentinColonialCalcutta ethnographic, archival andgiftscanshiftthebalanceofpower.It
research leader of the Tranquebar Sumanta Banerjee takes us to a place where ideas, textiles
Initiative of the National Museum of and furniture arrive and depart, from as
Denmark. far away as Serampore in Bengal and
Copenhagen in Denmark—going beyond

A. R. Venkatachalapathy is Professor, geography to contribute to literacy and

programme, and the settingMadrasInstituteofDevelopment literary research in this fishingeducationinIndiaandaltertastesin
Studies, Chennai, India. distant Europe.
This volume examines the place from
the perspectives of a diverse range of

up of Gandhi Ashram at village onacademic disciplines—social the Coromandel
www.orientblackswan.com anthropology, art history, sociology of
religion, ethnography and history. It
enquires into the lives of natives and
foreigners, i.e. Danish, German and
British, as they grapple(d) across

Tiruchengodu, TamilImageCourtesy:DetailfromAviewof Nadu, in Coast. The contributorsbordersbothphysicalandcultural,in
Tranquebar, Anonymous, oil on the past and the present.
canvas, c. 1683, Google Art Project. This collection is unique in that it
The original is located in Skokloster,
Sweden.
Orient BlackSwan

Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad Fihl and Venkatachalapathy: Beyond Tranquebar include leading scholars inContinuedonbackflap

February 1925 and his their respective fields from

subsequent withdrawal from Denmark, USA and India. The essays are

public life. The documents in this volume also theoretically sophisticated and cover a broad range Fall and Rise of Telangana,
The
reflect Rajaji’s views on a wide range of subjects, of subjects ranging from art, family, colonialism,

including the treatment of political prisoners in religion, and print culture to education and

Indian jails and the position of Indians in Kenya and material culture. This volume represents a Gautam Pingle, Dean of Research, Administrative
Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad
South Africa. significant intervention in the study of early

2015 978-81-250-5980-6 ` 1295 568pp Hardback colonialism in India as it also addresses the

complexities of a post colony and how it isPost Independence, the state of Andhra Pradesh was created by merging PINGLE Written by a well-known
perceived in Denmark. the Telangana region, a part of the princely state of Hyderabad, with the
Beloved Bapu coastal region of Andhra and Rayalaseema—both parts of the erstwhile Orient BlackSwan policy analyst The Fall and
Madras state. With Madras, the major source of income of the state,
The Gandhi-Mirabehn Correspondence allocated to Tamil Nadu, it was necessary to include the revenue-surplus THE FALL THE FALL AND RISE OF Rise of Telangana chronicles
Telangana to create a financially viable entity.
AND RISE TELANGANAOF TELANGANA the Telangana movement.
However, there had always been doubts about the long-term feasibility of
such an arrangement. Jawaharlal Nehru had even considered the provision
of a ‘divorce’ if the ‘marriage’ between the three regions did not turn out to
be mutually beneficial.

Selected Contents: PART I: COMPETINGDespiteseveralagreements,lawsandgovernmentorderssafeguardingthe
interests of the people of Telangana, modern history records a sordid tale of
exploitation, agitation, assurances and broken promises. The author shows
how the Srikrishna Commission that was formed to look into the matter
and impartially recommend a way forward ‘subverted’ the process and

Tridip Suhrud, Director, Sabarmati Ashram HISTORIES PART II: NEGOTIATING MORALScameforwardwithapre-determinedsolution. The stimulus for penning
Preservation and Memorial Trust, Gandhi Ashram, The author has painstakingly dissected the Telangana problem from its
Sabarmati, Ahmedabad, Thomas Weber, inception to the point where a separate state seems to be inevitable. He has
Honorary Associate, School of Social Sciences identified the political reasons for the behaviour of the national leaders in
making promises and later reneging on them, and shows how this betrayal this book, according to the
and Research Associate, Center for Dialogue, La
AND HISTORICAL IDENTITIES PART III:hasaffectedthepeopleoftheregion. author, was the aftermath of
Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Vocal and hard-hitting, this book will be valuable for students of political
science and general readers interested in the movement.

CULTURAL OTHERNESS AND COLONIALGautamPinglewasformerlyDeanofResearchandConsultancy, the event of 9 December
Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad.

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Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad
2009 when the Government
OF FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE PART ISBN 978 81 250 5474 0 GAUTAM PINGLE of India announced its
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V: EDUCATION AND NETWORKS OFPingle: The Fall and Rise of Telangana intention of forming the

Beloved Bapu offers readers PRINT PART VI: TRANS-LOCAL AND Telangana State. The volume provides a historical

an unprecedented insight INTERCONTINENTAL TRACKS perspective to the Telangana cause, apart from

into the relationship Contributors: Astrid Nonbo Andersen, Peter charting the events and processes in the formation
B. Andersen, Esther Fihl, Erik Goebel, Kristian
between Gandhi and Grønseth, Daniel Henschen, Niklas Thode Jensen, of the yet-to-be-born state.
Helle Jørgensen, Rajesh Kochhar, Martin Krieger,
BELOVED BAPU Madeleine Slade or Heike Liebau, Caroline Lillelund, Raja Mylvaganam, Contents: Introduction 1. State on the Edge
Mirabehn, his foremost Mikkel Venborg Pedersen, Indira Viswanathan 2. Telangana and the Republic 3. Hyderabad: Then
The Gandhi-Mirabehn Western woman disciple Peterson, Stine SimonsenPuri, Simon Rastén, and Now 4. Linguistic States: Nehru and State’s
Correspondence Louise Sebro, Raja Swamy, Will Sweetman, Karen Reorganisation 5. The Electoral Situation in the
Vallgårda, A.R. Venkatachalapathy Two States 6. Caste Politics and the Merger
Edited and Introduced by and faithful companion for 7. The Telangana Tragedy 8. Caste War, Naxalism
Tridip Suhrud and Thomas Weber and Telangana Votebank 9. The Ongoing
Movement and the Promises Made 10. The
twenty-three years. Gandhi Rayalaseema Region 11. Tribal Land Rights and the
Demand for a Separate State 12. The One Man
and Mira were often Girglani Commission 13. Muslims and Telangana:
A Roundabout Journey 14. Irrigation in Telangana:
together but corresponded extensively when they The Rise and Fall of Tanks 15. A Summary
Submission to Srikrishna Commission 16. The
were not. The current volume brings together this 2014 978-81-250-5437-5 ` 1150 644pp Hardback Findings of the Srikrishna Commission 17. The
Srikrishna Commission: The Truth about Its Secret
correspondence, interweaving Gandhi’s letters to Chapter 18. The Srikrishna Commission Report:
The Judgment 19. Polling the Impossible
Mira with her own responses to him and putting Early Medieval Indian Society 20. Telangana’s Cousins: In India and Abroad
21. Trifurcation and a New Governance Model
them in conversation. It thereby reveals the depth A Study in Feudalisation

and complexity of their close but fraught R. S. Sharma, former Emeritus Professor of
History, Patna University
relationship and also provides fascinating glimpses
The early medieval is the
of their perspectives, opinions and struggles with focus of R. S. Sharma’s
analysis. In this book,
life, health, work, people and satyagraha. Sharma highlights the
feudalisation of the
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Madeleine socio-economic structure 2014 978-81-250-5473-3 ` 675 344pp Hardback
Slade Comes to Gandhi 2. Worker or Disciple? of India in early medieval 2014 978-81-250-5474-0 ` 425 344pp Paperback
3. A ‘Catch-22’ Relationship 4. Civil Disobedience times and attributes the E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5495-5
and Prison 5. Freedom and Europe 6. A New rise of land grants to the
Ashram and New Problems 7. The Growing varna conflict and the
Distance 8. The Final Years Concluding Remarks decline of trade. Sharma’s
compelling style and
2014 978-81-250-5615-7 ` 1025 552pp Hardback breadth and depth of vision make this book
accessible to professional historians and
Beyond Tranquebar sociologists as well as to those interested in the Integration of e-book
medieval roots of many of our social and cultural the Indian States
Grappling Across Cultural Borders in ideologies and institutions.
South India V. P. Menon was Secretary, States Ministry after
With a Prologue by Jaya Tyagi Independence
Edited by Esther Fihl, Professor, Department of
Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of This is the revised edition of a classic. It is a
Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and first-hand account of the story of princely states
A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor, Madras
Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India

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and their integration into or fishing communities to the educated middle EDUCATION, POLITICS AND THE NATION

tten, Menon V. P. Menon Orient BlackSwan the Indian Union after class to corporate interests and the state. 5. Compulsory Education and the Political

lp Independence in 1947. The Contents: Nature without Borders: An Leadership in Colonial India 1840–1947

in
ed in

nation author, V. P. Menon, 6. Education, Missionaries and the Indian Nation,
ers for
he

rief Integration of the worked closely with Sardar Introduction 1. Trawling the Shorelines: Fished c.1880–1920 7. Re-Defining Work and Education
hich it Indian States Patel as the secretary of Out and Squandered 2. Restoring the Ganga as a Means to National Self-determination: A
es
e is
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r the
w the

dence. the State’s Ministry to for its Fauna and Fisheries 3. Sarus Cranes, Comparative Study of Gandhian India and Perónist
with

Delhi convince the rulers of the Cultivators and Conservation 4. Citizen Action Argentina 8. Genesis of Curzon’s University

wan.com Integration princely states to join the and Lake Restoration in Bengaluru 5. The Fight Reforms, 1899–1905 9. Transformations of
5451 1 Union. Menon has provided for an Urban Forest: The Delhi Ridge 6. Black Schooling in Colonial Punjab, 1854–1900
Inodf thiean States
4511

With an Introduction by Asha Sarangi a factual account of the Sheep and Grey Wolves: Pastoralism in the
Deccan 7. Conservation without Fences: Project
proposals, negotiations and Snow Leopard 8. Restoring Nature: Wildlife Contributors: Hayden Bellenoit, Radha Gayathri,
Conservation in Landscapes Fragmented by Suresh Chandra Ghosh, Simone Holzwarth and
finally, the integration of these states with newly Plantation Crops in India
Verónica Oelsner, Laura Dudley Jenkins, Mahima
independent India.
Manchanda, Preeti, Parimala V. Rao; Eleanor

With an Introduction by Asha Sarangi Contributors: Ravi Agarwal, Rohan Arthur, Zelliot

Contents: 1. Setting the Stage 2. Spokes in the Yash Veer Bhatnagar, Nachiket Kelkar, Jagdish 2014 978-81-250-5125-1 ` 1025 650pp Hardback

Wheel 3. The Parting Gift 4. Prelude to Chaos Krishnaswamy, M. Ananda Kumar, Aaron Savio

5. Stopping the Gap 6. Junagadh 7. The Orissa and Lobo, M. D. Madhusudan, Charudutt Mishra, Divya Selected Works of e-book
Chhattisgarh States 8. Saurashtra 9. The Deccan Mudappa, Harini Nagendra, Mahesh Rangarajan, C. Rajagopalachari
and Gujarat States 10. Vindhya Pradesh 11. Madhya Ghazala Shahabuddin, T. R. Shankar Raman,
Bharat 12. Patiala and East Punjab States Union Ramesh Sivaraman, S. Subramanya, K. S. Gopi Vol. II, 1921–22

13. Rajasthan 14. Travancore-Cochin 15. Mysore Sundar Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML,
16. A Miscellany of States 17. Hyderabad I 2014 978-81-250-5614-0 ` 650 280pp Hardback N. Balakrishnan, Deputy Director, NMML and
18. Hyderabad II 19. Hyderabad III 20. Jammu Deepa Bhatnagar, in-charge of the Research and
and Kashmir State 21. Baroda 22. Administrative New Perspectives in the Publications Division, NMML
Consolidation 23. Incorporation of the States

Forces into the Indian Army 24. Financial History of Indian Education Selected Works of C.
Integration 25. Organic Unification 26. The Cost Rajagopalachari, Vol. 2,

of Integration 27. Retrospect and Prospect Edited by Parimala V. Rao, Assistant Professor, 1921–22, is part of a series

2014 978-81-250-5451-1 ` 1075 534pp Paperback Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, of ten volumes that gather
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4290-7 Jawaharlal Nehru University together the writings of Rajaji
over the period 1907–72.
Nature withoutContinued from front flap BordersRelated titles from Orient BlackSwan This volume revaluates The second volume covers a
critically examine the colonial state HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA brief but significant phase in
policy and the attitude of nationalist In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity Rao Orient BlackSwan some of the majorNew Perspectives in the History of Indian Rajaji’s political life during
leaders towards the introduction of mass Edited by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak Education brings together essays on the 1921–22, beginning with his
New Perspectives milestones in the development of arrest for participating in the
modern education in India since the non-cooperation movement in December 1921
in the and imprisonment in Vellore Central Jail. Rajaji’s
and compulsory education. SCHOOL EDUCATION, PLURALISM AND MARGINALITY interventions in themid-nineteenth century. It offers jail diary is published here with detailed
History of Indian Education readings on a wide range of annotations for the first time. By the time Rajaji
This volume will be immensely useful Comparative Perspectives interconnected themes and the debates was released from jail in March 1922, Mahatma
Edited by which have shaped the contours of the Gandhi, by then his close associate, had been
Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorialfor students and scholars in departments Parimala V. Rao educational policy of contemporary arrested and remanded to Yeravda Jail. The mantle
of education, history and sociology. It of bringing out the nationalist weekly Young India
will also be of interest to educationists, fell on Rajaji’s shoulders. Through the columns of
policymakers and the general reader Young India, Rajaji kept alive Gandhiji’s message of
Mahesh Edited by Christine Sleeter, Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay, Arvind New Perspectives in the development of modernIndia. non-violence and his emphasis on the importance
K. Mishra and Sanjay Kumar History of Indian Education The essays critique the existing anti- of khaddar and the spinning wheel. Besides his
imperialist, postmodern and nationalist various editorials and articles in Young India, the
THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN MODERN INDIA, 1757–2012 historiographies of Indian education, present volume also contains letters, speeches and
other writings of Rajaji during these years. The
who wants to understand the evolution (FOURTH EDITION)

Museum and Library, M. D. Madhusudan, SeniorofmoderneducationinIndia.
PARIMALA V. RAO is Assistant Professor
Suresh Chandra Ghosh and bring forth the shortcomings of India since the

THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE education inthese approaches. Basing themselves
Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India on archival sources, they overturn
the existing myths created by these
at the Zakir Husain Centre for Francis Cody historiographies and shed new light

Scientist and Trustee, Nature ConservationEducationalStudies,JawaharlalNehru on the role of the colonial state,
University. She is currently a fellow at
the Nehru Memorial Museum and
Library, New Delhi.
PEDAGOGY FOR RELIGION mid-nineteenth century.missionaries and Indian nationalist
Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims leaders.
in Bengal The empirically rich essays focus on the

Parna Sengupta

Foundation, Mysore, and Ghazala Shahabuddin, initiatives to promote education among

The empirically rich essaysthe socially and educationally backward
Dalit communities and the status of
Dalit institutions. The authors argue
forcefully about the centrality of
independent researcher education in fostering social mobility

www.orientblackswan.com focus on the initiatives toand change. The essays on women’s
ISBN 978 81 250 5125 1 education discuss how intensely
controversial it was to educate girls, and
how women struggled to establish their
identity and make their voices heard in a

Cover image: Elphinstone College, Kala Ghoda, traditional society undergoing a

Orient BlackSwan 9 788125 051251 promote education amongtransition to modernity. The essays also
This book explores theFort, Mumbai. Photograph by Parimala V. Rao Continued on back flap

Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad
Rao: New Perspectives in the History of Indian Education

ways in which conservation the socially and

of biodiversity can coexist educationally backward

with human actions and Dalit communities and the status of Dalit

Nature interests through a series of institutions. The authors argue forcefully about the
different essays. While
without wildlife conservation in centrality of education in fostering social mobility

Borders and change. The essays on women’s education

India has traditionally discuss how intensely controversial it was to

depended on fencing off educate girls, and how women struggled to

Edited by fragments of habitats and establish their identity and make their voices heard
Mahesh Rangarajan, M. D. Madhusudan and Ghazala Shahabuddin guarding them against
in a traditional society undergoing a transition to

human encroachment, such an approach is limited modernity.

in value, given that formally designated Protected Contents: Introduction: New Perspectives in the volume ends with his spirited defence of the
Areas occupy a very small proportion of territory History of Indian Education PART I: non-cooperation programme opposing council
and that nature and natural processes transcend MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES AND entry at the 37th Session of the Indian National
human boundaries and cannot be contained within FASHIONING IDENTITIES THROUGH Congress at Gaya in December 1922. Overall, the
the borders of nature reserves. Recent research EDUCATION 1. Dalit Initiatives in Education, collection offers a close commentary on the
shows that conservation efforts can occur beyond 1880–1992 2. A College of One’s Own: An non-cooperation movement and its aftermath.
the borders of Protected Areas and within human International Perspective on the Value of
settlements. This eclectic collection of essays Historically Dalit Colleges 3. Silent Voices: 2014 978-81-250-5613-3 ` 1295 528pp Hardback
explores this topic through case studies that focus Women’s Perspective about Self and Education E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5913-4
on different species, different environments in Late-Nineteenth-Century India 4. Contested
(whether urban or rural), and different social and Domains: Reconstructing Education and Religious
political constituencies ranging from local farming Identity in Sikh Schools in the Punjab PART II:

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Days of the e-book 8. Expansion of Education till 1882 9. The Hunter that prism to examine in
Beloved, The Commission 10. Developments in the Post-Hunter considerable detail the
Commission Years 100 11. Towards a Control changes in the systems of
Harriet Ronken Lynton, former member of Higher Education 12. The Age of Curzon state and society during the
of the faculty of the Harvard Business School 1899–1905 13. National Education till 1912 medieval period and the
14. Government of India Resolution on Indian ideas that they were built
and author of several books and case books on Education 15. The Calcutta University Commission around. It also examines the
Organizational Behavior. Mohini Rajan belonged 16. Education under Dyarchy 17. Education under state of flux in the country
to a Hyderabadi family. Granddaughter of the man Provincial Autonomy 18. Towards a National with the rise and fall of
Policy on Education 19. The Critical Years 20. A kings and empires, changes
who was Kotwal to Osman Ali Khan Nizam VII, Post-Mortem till 1999 21. Education in the New in the nature of trade, and
Millennium 22. A Journey Towards Literacy emergence of new classes, castes and centres of
she was familiar with many of the families who 23. The Winds of Change 24. A Retrospection power. It also analyses these changes in the south
Since 1999 25. A Summing Up of India and looks at the trajectory that the region
appear in this book and interviewed their surviving followed.
2013  978-81-250-5262-3  ` 395 416pp Paperback
members. Contents: Introduction 1. Sources for the Study of
Medieval India 2. The State 3. Modern Perceptions
Hyderabadis still remember History of the e-book of the Medieval State 4. Kingship 5. Administrative
the reign of Mahbub Ali Systems 6. Society and Social Change: Social
Pasha as a golden age in the Bengali People Stratification Social Mobility Religion 7. Economy
history of their city. From Earliest Times to the Fall of the Sena 8. The Transition out of the Medieval
Mahbub, beloved of his Dynasty
people, who ruled (Second Edition) 2013 978-81-250-5175-6 ` 950 240pp Hardback
Hyderabad at the turn of 2013 978-81-250-5174-9 ` 575 240pp Paperback
the twentieth century, Niharranjan Ray was a renowned historian,
became a legend in his well known for his works on History of Art and Language of Secular Islam,
lifetime for his generosity The
and benevolent concern for Buddhism
his subjects. Weaving together memories, stories Translated by John W. Hood. He has extensively Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India
and anecdotes, historical facts and archival source studied and written about Indian—especially
material, The Days of the Beloved paints a loving Kavita Datla, Assistant Professor of History at
picture of life at various levels in this elegant city, Bengali culture—and has translated a variety of Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA
and of Mahbub Ali Pasha himself, who like a
fairy-tale prince, mixed with the common people, Bengali poetry and fiction into English This book explores the
sharing their joys and sorrows. thought and work of Muslim
The History of the Bengali intellectuals involved in
2013 978-81-250-4657-8 ` 595 310pp Paperback People is the translation into promoting Urdu as India’s
English of Niharranjan Ray’s national language in the
History of Education in seminal work Bangalir Itihas. early twentieth century. It
Modern India, The It offers a comprehensive examines the ways in which
understanding of the educators, administrators
1757–2012 (Fourth Edition) development of the society and intellectuals in
and culture of Bengal from Hyderabad were involved in
Suresh Chandra Ghosh held the Chair ancient times to the imagining a secular Indian
of History of Education at Jawaharlal Nehru beginning of Muslim rule in nation. The author explores negotiations over
University, New Delhi, till 2002 India. language, education, and religion at Osmania
University, the first university in India to use a
This volume presents an With Forewords by Sir Jadunath Sarkar and Sumit modern Indian language (Urdu) as its medium of
overview of the education Sarkar instruction, and sheds light on questions of colonial
system in India from its displacement and national belonging.
colonial beginnings through Contents: 1. The Argument 2. The Origins
Independence till the 3. The Land 4. Economic Life 5. Land Systems Contents: Introduction 1. Muslims and Secular
present day. The fourth 6. Caste Patterns 7. Class Patterns 8. Villages and Education: The Beginnings of Osmania University
edition includes the latest Towns 9. Administrative Patterns 10. The Dynastic 2. Reforming a Language: Creating Textbooks and
discussions and debates Round 11. Everyday Life 12. Religious Thought and Cultivating Urdu 3. Muslim Pasts: Writing The
around the major changes Practice 13. Language Literature and Learning History of India and The History of Islam 4. Locating
planned for and already 14. The Fine Arts and Music 15. Some Implications Urdu: Deccani Hindustani and Urdu 5. Secular
implemented in the Projects and Student Politics: “Vande Mataram” in
education sector. It also includes the 2013 978-81-250-5053-7 ` 850 660pp Paperback Hyderabad Conclusion: From National to Minority
recommendations of the National Knowledge E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5042-1 Subjects
Commission, the Yashpal Committee Report, and
the enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Ideas and Institutions in 2013 978-81-250-5018-6 ` 950 248pp Hardback
Compulsory Education (the RTE Act). Medieval India Rights: Restricted

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The East India Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries
Company’s Role in the Development of Education
in India 3. Towards Education in the English Radhika Seshan, Associate Professor,
Medium 4. The Decade after 1835 5. Education in Department of History, University of Pune.
the Presidencies: Bombay Madras and the North-
Western Provinces 6. Missionaries and Enlightened While the predominant mindset about the
Indians 7. The Age of Dalhousie 1848–1856 medieval in India owes its origins mostly to
colonial historiographers, this volume goes beyond

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Memories and e-book Gandhi, Gokhale, Vijiaraghavachariar, etc., and to Gandhi’s political and labour
newspapers like The Hindu, Madras Mail and organising, through the
Movements Commonweal. It also comprises telegrams, growth of textile, chemical,
Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch, speeches, and pamphlets giving us an insight into and pharmaceutical
Gujarat his thoughts in the course of his activities as one of industries, to globalisation
the most prominent leaders of the Indian national and the sectarian violence
Rita Kothari, Associate Professor, Humanities movement in the Madras Presidency. that marked the turn of the
and Social Sciences Department, IIT, Gandhinagar, new century. Howard
With an Introduction by Rajmohan Gandhi Spodek describes the
Gujarat movements that swept the
2013 978-81-250-5017-9 ` 1295 472pp Hardback city, telling their story
The Banni grasslands E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5912-7 through the careers of the men and women who
situated in northern Kutch led them.
in Gujarat, lie on the Writings of Pamela Price,
Indo-Pak border. Its unique, The Abridged Contents: PART I: THE
layered society is home to GANDHIAN ERA, 1915–1950 1. PART II: THE
diverse communities; while State, Politics, and Cultures in Modern WESTERNIZING CITY, 1950–1980 5. PART III:
Muslim pastoralists form the South India CREATIVITY AND CHAOS, 1969–
majority here, it is also Honour, Authority, and Morality
home to Dalit Hindus, and a 2012 978-81-250-4661-5 ` 1100 348pp Hardback
community that is neither Pamela Gwynne Price, Professor Emerita, Rights: Restricted
Hindu nor Muslim. An Department of South Asian History, University of
ethnographic account of the Banni society, this Oslo, Norway Concise History of  Textbook
book shows how Banni’s people navigate Modern Europe, A
borders—not only territorial ones but others that This collection of essays
define social identity—on a day-to-day basis. represents more than thirty Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
years of the author’s
With a Foreword by Urvashi Butalia involvement with political David S. Mason, Professor Emeritus, Butler
culture in south India. In the University, Indianapolis, USA
Contents: Introduction 1. The state of Banni, ten essays in the volume,
the State in Banni 2. Experiencing the Border the author discusses Highlighting the key events,
in Banni 3. Asli Shafaqat: The ‘Essence’ of political activities and ideas ideas, and individuals that
Being Sindhi and Muslim 4. Kami Log: The in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka have shaped modern
Meghwal Story of Untouchability Aspiration and and Andhra Pradesh. There Europe, this fresh and lively
Entrepreneurship 5. Beyond the Otaak: The are studies on non- textbook written in an
Women of Banni 6. ‘Miskin Jee Ker Sunando?’ Brahmanism, Tamil nationalism, authority in village accessible and student-
(Who Will Listen to the Poor?): The Story of the society, and conflicts over status and friendly style provides a
Wadhas Epilogue representations of morality. The writings focus on succinct history of the
conceptions, symbols, and values which express continent from 1789 to the
2013 978-81-250-5049-0 ` 975 200pp Hardback south Indian understandings of honour, authority, present. Drawing on the
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5310-1 and self-respect. enduring theme of
revolution, David Mason explores the causes and
Selected Works of e-book Contents: Introduction 1. Raja-dharma in consequences of revolution—political, economic,
C. Rajagopalachari Nineteenth-Century South India 2. Acting in and scientific; the development of human rights;
Public Versus Forming a Public 3. Kin Clan and and issues of European identity and integration.
Vol. I, 1907–21 Power in Colonial South India 4. Kingly Models
in Indian Political Behaviour 5. Revolution
Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML, and Rank in Tamil Nationalism 6. Relating to Contents: Introduction: Revolutionary Europe
N. Balakrishnan, Deputy Director, NMML and Leadership in the Tamil Nationalist Movement 1. The Old Regime and the Enlightenment
Deepa Bhatnagar, in-charge of the Research and 7. Examining Political Language 8. Ideological 2. The French Revolution and Napoleon 3. The
Publications Division, NMML Elements in Political Instability in Karnataka Industrial Revolution and the Birth of Capitalism
9. Honour and Morality in Contemporary Rural 4. 1848: The Peoples’ Spring 5. Marx, Marxism,
The Selected Works of India 10. ‘Vernacularisation’ Voter Autonomy and Socialism 6. Darwinism and Social Darwinism
C. Rajagopalachari is a series and Tensions in Political Conceptions (with Dusi 7. The Unifications of Italy and Germany 8. The
of ten volumes published in Srinivas) Age of Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa
association with the Nehru 9. World War I 103 10. The Russian Revolution
Memorial Museum and 2013 978-81-250-5114-5 ` 950 348pp Hardback and Communism 115 11. World War II and the
Library on the writings of Holocaust 12. Europe Divided, the Cold War, and
C. Rajagopalachari, the last Ahmedabad Decolonization 13. 1989: The Collapse of
Governor General of India Communism and End of the Cold War 14. The
covering the period Shock City of Twentieth-Century India European Union: Europe United and Free?
between 1907 and 1972. In Conclusion: Europe in the Twenty-first Century
the words of his grandson Howard Spodek, Professor of History at Temple
Rajmohan Gandhi, he was a ‘prophetic political University, USA 2012 978-81-250-4533-5 ` 295 248pp Paperback
figure’ who predicted in 1916, the success of Rights: Restricted
Gandhi’s satyagraha in India. The first volume In the twentieth century, Ahmedabad was India’s
covers the period between 1907 and 1921 when ‘shock city’. It was the place where many of the
Rajaji became involved in the freedom movement nation’s most important developments occurred
in the country. It is a collection of articles and first and with the greatest intensity—from
letters written by Rajaji to prominent leaders like

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14  HISTORY Freedom and Beef Steaks From Village Elder to British
Judge
Decolonization in South Asia Colonial Calcutta Culture
Custom, Customary Law and Tribal Society
Meanings of Freedom in Post- Rosinka Chaudhuri, Fellow in Cultural Studies,
independence West Bengal, 1947–52 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Asoka Kumar Sen, currently an independent
researcher of tribal history
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Professor of Asian This book explores, through
History, Victoria University of Wellington, New a variety of chapters, This volume examines the
Zealand pathbreaking debates to do definition and redefinition of
with the literary, with custom/ law in the context
This book explores the identity, and with cultural of the adivasis of Jharkhand
meanings and complexities authenticity in nineteenth- during pre-colonial and
of India’s experience of century Bengal. The seven colonial times. As a seminal
transition from colonial to essays collected in the historical account, this book
the post-colonial period. It volume cover a range of questions the contemporary
focuses on the first five issues: from the ideology of assertion of indigenous
years—from independence meat-eating as it manifested identity that draws
on 15th August 1947 to the itself in Gandhi and Young Bengal to the evolution boundaries between the adivasi as a custom-
first general election in of the modern Indian drawing room, from the governed and law-governed people.
January 1952—in the problems of modernist readings of both Milton
politics of West Bengal, the and Madhusudan Datta to an investigation into Contents: Introduction 1. Defining Custom
new Indian province that was created as a result of how the teleological time of history is configured 2. Society and Economy: Memory and British
the Partition. in individual works by three poets in Calcutta in Mediation 3. Craft and Craftsmen: Legacy and
the early nineteenth century in unsettling and Intervention in Judicial Structure 4. British Courts
Contents: Introduction 1. Arrival of Freedom: contradictory ways, the chapters in this book open and the Making of Customary Law 5. Towards
Celebrations, Anxieties and Realities 2. The up a new way of looking at a cultural history. Codification of Tribal Customs 6. The Social
Discontents of Freedom 3. Congress Raj in a Kaleidoscope Conclusion
‘Problem Province’ 4. The Communists: From … The highly intelligent essays [in this book]
Insurgency to Electoral Politics 5. The Fractured show a profound and imaginative understanding of 2012 978-81-250-4557-1 ` 895 248pp Hardback
Opposition 6. A ‘Great Adventure’: Election of the mental world of [the nineteenth-century] and
1952. Conclusion make it very vivid for us … We become aware of Gender, Sex and the City
our origins as modern Indians.
2012 978-81-250-4706-3 ` 625 272pp Paperback Urdu Rekhtˉı Poetry, 1780–1870
Rights: Restricted —Tapan Raychaudhuri, Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony’s
College, Oxford Ruth Vanita, Professor, Liberal Studies,
Engines of Change University of Montana, Missoula
This book opens up for critical study the
The Railroads That Made India neglected phase of early-modern literary culture This book examines how
in Bengal. In particular, it takes seriously—perhaps Urdu poetry written in the
Ian J. Kerr, retired Professor of History and for the first time—the literary productions of late eighteenth and early
Senior Scholar, Department of History, the racially mixed Indo-European civil society of nineteenth centuries
University Manitoba, Canada Calcutta of the time. ... contributes to shaping urban
Indian modernity, especially
This book provides the non- —Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, ideas of gender, sexuality, and
specialist with an Columbia University, and Honorary Professor, Centre pleasure. It focuses on rekhtˉı,
introduction to the history poetry with a female speaker
of India’s railways, and to for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and about women’s lives.
the many ways the railways
shaped the making of Contents: Introduction 1. ‘Young India: A Bengal … [T]he translations, excellent as they are, push
modern India. Engines of Eclogue’; or Meat-eating, Race, and Reform in a the reader toward tasting the “original”.
Change is a brief, readable, Colonial Poem 2. An Ideology of Indianness: The
contextualized introduction Construction of Colonial/Communal Stereotypes —Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in
to India’s railway past. The in the Poems of Henry Derozio 3. The Politics the Humanities, Columbia University
railway history of India is of Naming: India’s First Modern Literary Society,
placed in a broad setting to illustrate the many Calcutta, 1825 4. Three Poets in Search of History: Professor Vanita’s seminal work on rekhtˉı opens
ways in which the railways made India, and the Calcutta, 1752–1859 5. Modernity at Home: A up a parallel world of late eighteenth- and early
ways in which wider forces, notably colonialism, Possible Genealogy of the Indian Drawing Room nineteenth-century Indo-Islamic culture … without
shaped the railways India got. 6. Refashioning Milton: Madhusudan and the which our knowledge of that society, and the
Modernist Discourse of Reading 7. The Flute, significance of its representative literature, would
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Pioneering Gerontion, and Subalternist: Misreadings of Tagore remain wholly inadequate.
Decades, ca. 1853 to ca. 1870 3. Construction,
1850–2003 4. 1870–1905, Overview 5. Taking 2012 978-81-250-4764-3 ` 850 228pp Hardback —Musharraf Ali Farooqi, novelist and translator
Stock, ca. 1905 6. “Nationalizing” the Railroads,
1905–1947 7. Partition and a Railroad Network … this [book] is likely to be one of those books
Sundered 8. To Serve the Nation: Railroads in with a very long shelf life ...
Independent India, 1947–2010
—Leela Gandhi, Professor in English and South Asian
2012 978-81-250-4562-5 ` 795 236pp Paperback Studies, University of Chicago
Rights: Restricted

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Pradip Kumar Datta, J. Devika, Charu Gupta, Andrea
Contents: Introduction 1. Women in the City: Major, Anshu Malhotra, Gail Minault, Anupama Rao, Abridged Contents: PART I: OVERVIEW
Fashioning the Self 2. Eloquent Parrots: Gender Tanika Sarkar, Lata Singh, Mrinalini Sinha OF KEY ISSUES PART II: HISTORICAL
and Language 3. Servants, Vendors, Artisans: CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONTEMPORARY
The City’s Many Voices 4. Neither Straight 2012 978-81-250-4472-7 ` 1095 404pp Hardback DEVELOPMENT POLICY ISSUES
Nor Crooked: Love and Friendship in the City
5. Playfully Speaking: Transforming Literary Hill Politics in Textbook 2012 978-81-250-4695-0 ` 925 288pp Paperback
Convention 6. ‘I’m a Real Sweetheart’: Masculinity Northeast India Rights: Restricted
and Male-Male Desire 7. Styling Urban Glamour:
Courtesan and Poet 8. Camping it Up: Jan Sahib (Third Edition) History of Assam,  Textbook
and His School 9. A Poetics of Play: Hybridity, The
Difference, Modernity Conclusion: The Eternal S. K. Chaube, Retired Professor, Department of
City: Pasts and Futures Political Science, University of Delhi From Yandabo to Partition, 1826–1947

2012 978-81-250-4553-3 ` 1050 344pp Hardback This book traces the Priyam Goswami, Professor, Department of
Rights: Restricted political evolution of the History, Gauhati University, Guwahati
northeast, excluding Sikkim,
Gendering Colonial India from the first half of the This text covers an
eighteenth century when important period in the
Reforms, Print Caste and Communalism British administration was history of modern
formally set up in Assam to Northeast India, from the
series: critical thinking in south asian history the twenty-first century. Treaty of Yandabo in 1826
The author has revised the that marked the beginning
Edited by Charu Gupta, Associate Professor, text by adding a new of British expansion in the
Department of History, University of Delhi Postscript and updated tables to bring the story of region, till Partition in 1947.
the northeast into the twenty-first century. Besides analysing the
This volume brings out important social, cultural
various regional Contents: Introduction 1. A Specialised and economic changes
complexities and lively Government 2. Perspectives of a New Personality during the period, it focuses on the growth of
public debates on social 3. The Fourth Dimension of Culture 4. Genesis of political consciousness in the region and the
reforms for women and Hill Politics 5. The Transfer of Power 6. The Sixth impact of the pan-Indian national movement on
their impact on issues like Schedule 7. The Hill State 8. Meghalaya 9. Naga the society and politics of the northeast.
sati, widow remarriage, Politics 10. Mizo Politics 11. The Metamorphosis of
domesticity, sexuality and a Frontier 12. Tripura and Manipur 13. Importance Contents: Introduction 1. Decline of the Ahoms
education. Simultaneously, of Northeast India 14. Whither Northeast India and the Emergence of the British 2. Foundation of
the essays engage with 15. Basis of Autonomy the Company’s Rule 3. The Company’s Expansion
concerns around in the Brahmaputra Valley 4. Consolidation of
masculinity, inter-caste intimacies and communal 2012 978-81-250-4550-2 ` 315 320pp Paperback Power 5. Expansion to the South: Cachar and the
identities. This book has contributions from Central Hills 6. Manipur and the Frontier Tribes
well-known feminist historians. History, Historians and 7. Economic Transformation of Assam 8. Social
Development Policy Transformation of Assam 9. Growth of Political
Contents: Introduction 1. Giving Masculinity Awareness 10. Assam and the National Movement
a History: Some Contributions from the A Necessary Dialogue (1905–34) 11. Struggle for Independence (1935–47)
Historiography of Colonial India 2. Contested
Sacrifice: Sati, Sovereignty and Social Reform in Edited by C. A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth 2012 978-81-250-4653-0 ` 270 308pp Paperback
Colonial India 3. Wicked Widows: Law and Faith Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of
in Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere Debates St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Islam in South Asia
4. Educated Muslim Women: Real and Ideal Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist in the
5. Re-Inscribing ‘Womanliness’: Gendered Spaces Development Research Group, World Bank, A Short History
and Public Debates in Early Modern Keralam Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Public
6. Print and Bazaari Literature: Jhagrras/Kissas and Policy, Fellow of St John’s College, University of Jamal Malik, Professor of Religious Studies at the
Gendered Reform in Early Twentieth Century Cambridge, and Michael Woolcock, Lead Social University of Erfurt, Germany
Punjab 7. Theatre and Gender in Colonial Development Specialist, Development Research
India: Foregrounding Actresses’ Question Group, World Bank Islam in South Asia aims to
8. Fluctuating Fortunes of Wives: Creeping Rigidity synthesise the long history
in Inter-Caste Marriages in the Colonial Period If history matters for of Islam as an intrinsic part
9. Caste, Colonialism and the Reform of Gender: understanding key of Indian society seeing the
Perspective from Western India 10. Women, development outcomes then vantage point of such a
Abductions and Religious Identities in Colonial surely historians should be complex history as a series
Bengal 11. Memory and History: A Daughter’s active contributors to the of cultural encounters that
Testimony 12. Archives and Sexuality: Vignettes debates informing these were mutually energising.
from Colonial North India PRIMARY TEXTS understandings. This volume
1. Sarojini: Womanliness: A Brief Commentary integrates, for the first time, Contents: Introduction
and Translation 2. Bhai Sadhu Singh: Witches: contributions from ten PART I: EARLY MUSLIM
That is the Siyapa of the Self-Willed Women: A leading historians and seven EXPANSION, CULTURAL ENCOUNTER AND
Brief Commentary and Translation 3. Shiv Sharma policy advisors around the central development ITS CONSTITUENCIES 1. Muslim Expansion.
Mahopdeshak: Women’s Education: A Brief issues of social protection, public health, public Trade, Military and the Quest for Political
Commentary and Translation education and natural resource management. Authority in South Asia Excursus: Historiography
and Sources 2. Muslim Space and Divines
PART II: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MUSLIM
EMPIRE CULTURES: BETWEEN ISLAMIC AND

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16  HISTORY themes taken from the and empire, this innovative
history of the Princely State book challenges a
ISLAMICATE 3 . Slaves, Sultans and Dynasties of Mysore. In this work, widespread myth of
Excursus: Shi’ities and Sunnites 4. Muslim Janaki Nair argues that the modernity—that Western
heterogeneity: Margins becoming centres of Muslim Princely Indian states were rule has had a secularizing
Power Excursus: Caste 5. Cultural Integration usually regarded as spaces effect on the non-West.
Towards a Politics of Universal Dominion. The that were either defined Sengupta reveals instead the
Mughals Excursus: Conversion and Mission 6. From entirely by the dominant paradox that the pursuit
Universal Dominion to Principalities PART III: narratives of colonial/national and adaptation of modern
TERRITORIAL STATES AND COLONIAL RULE, modernity or were relatively vernacular education, mainly
ACCOMMODATION AND DIFFERENTIATION untouched by them. imported to the colonies by
OF MUSLIM CULTURES 7. Regional States, Protestant missionaries, opened up new ways for
National Markets and European Expansion Contents: Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Indians to reformulate ideas of community along
Excursus: Islamic Endowments 8. Cultural Modern, the Region, and Princely Rule 1. Tipu religious lines.
encounter, Reciprocities, and Muslim responses Sultan’s War Colors and the Battle for Perspective
9. From Appropriation to Collision and Colonial 2. An Illusion of Permanence: Visualizing Legitimacy Contents: Introduction: Pedagogical Frames
Stabilisation Excursus: The Language Issue—Urdu in Mysore 3. Srirangapatna: Capital City to and Colonial Difference 1. The Molding of
10. Institutionalisation of Muslim Communities Topography of Conquest 4. The Museumized Native Character 2. A Curriculum for Religion
and the quest for a new Islamicity Excursus: Cityscape of Mysore 5. K. Venkatappa and the 3. An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy 4. The
Communalism PART IV: NEGOTIATING MUSLIM Fashioning of a Mysore Modern in Art 6. The Illicit Schoolteacher as Modern Father 5. Teaching
PLURALISM AND SINGULARITY 12. The Muslim in the Modern: Banning the Devadasi 7. The Licit in Gender in the Colony 6. Mission Schools and
Public Divided 13. The Integration of nation-state the Modern: Protecting the Child Wife 8. Giving the Qur’an Schools Conclusion: Pedagogy for Tolerance
and secession Excursus: Islamic Fundamentalism State a Nation: Revisiting Karnataka’s Reunification
14. From the pulpit to the parade ground Excursus: 2012 978-81-250-4505-2 ` 925 224pp Hardback
The social Structure of Muslims in India 15. Indian 2012 978-81-250-4507-6 ` 975 372pp Hardback Rights: Restricted
Muslims or Muslim Indians? Rights: Restricted
Political Structure of Early
2012 978-81-250-4658-5 ` 1025 536pp Paperback Other Orientalisms Medieval South India, The
Rights: Restricted
India Between Florence and Bombay, (Second Edition)
Memsahibs’ Writings 1860–1900
Kesavan Veluthat, Professor in the Department
Colonial Narratives on Indian Women Filipa Lowndes Vicente, currently a researcher of History, University of Delhi
at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Edited by Indrani Sen, Associate Professor at Lisbon (ICS-UL) This book was a major
the Department of English at Sri Venkateswara intervention in Indian
College, University of Delhi Florence became a centre historiography when it was
of Indian studies during the first published in 1993. The
The white women of colonial second half of the author has examined the
India wrote extensively. They nineteenth century. During power structure of the four
maintained journals and this period, the city saw a monarchies of south India
diaries, wrote letters home, flurry of orientalist activity under the Pallava, Paˉ ya,
authored novels and penned including the organisation of Ceˉra and Coˉ la kingdoms
their memoirs, focusing on international conferences from the seventh through
their relations with ‘native’ and exhibitions and the thirteenth centuries of the
women. This anthology, establishment of museums Common Era. He has added a new introduction in
covering the period 1820s– and journals. Other Orientalisms analyses the this revised edition where he has examined when
1920s, captures the rich circulation of people, ideas, information, images the process of formation of a ‘state’ becomes
diversity of these interactions. and objects between Florence and Bombay, and visible in south India and the factors that caused
A comprehensive and incisive introduction by Indrani the different forms of knowledge about India these changes.
Sen provides the historical perspective. resulting from these processes.
Contents: 1. The Self-Image of Royalty 2. The
Contents: Introduction 1. Nautch Girls Contents: Introduction: The Histories of a King and ‘His Men’ 3. The Role of the Chiefs
2. Religions, Regions, Class and Caste 3. Female Photograph (Bombay, 1885) 1. Florence as a 4. Aspects of Administration 5. The Ur and the
Attire 4. Princely Women 5. Wet-nurses and Centre for Oriental Studies 2. Orientalism and Nadu 6. The Brahmadeyam and the Nagaram
Ayahs 6. Purdah 7. Social Evils and Social Reform Colonial Knowledge: Gubernatis in India 7. Social Parameters: Stratification and Ideology
8. Health in the Zenana 9. Female Education 3. Travelling Objects: India Exhibited in Florence 8. Conclusion: Towards a Model
10. Faithful Indian Wife 11. Indian Woman—White Conclusion
Man 12. Purdah Parties 13. The New Indian 2012 978-81-250-4651-6 ` 425 308pp Paperback
Woman 14. The Indian & lsquo;Gaze& rsquo; 2012 978-81-250-4758-2 ` 1250 400pp Hardback
Soulmates
2012 978-81-250-4552-6 ` 450 344pp Paperback Pedagogy for Religion
The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and
Mysore Modern Missionary Education and the Fashioning Hermann Kallenbach
of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal
Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule Shimon Lev, researcher and writer in Israel
Parna Sengupta, Associate Director of Stanford
Janaki Nair, Professor at the Centre for Introductory Studies at Stanford University, USA This volume is the first full-length, comprehensive
Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. study of the unique relationship Mahatma Gandhi
Offering a new approach to the study of religion shared with Hermann Kallenbach, a Jewish
Mysore Modern reconceptualises Indian modernity
through critical engagement with some important

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architect of German origin Modernisation 7. Karl Marx, His Theories of Asian Reorganisation, 1820–1857 4. Hos as Tenants: The
in South Africa. The story is Societies and Colonial Rule 8. Transformation Question of Rent in British India 5. The Forests

told chronologically and from a Colonial to an Independent Economy: and the Hos: Commercialisation and Deprivation

covers the important A Case Study of India 6. Agrarian Change, Scarcity and Emigration 7.

milestones in Gandhi’s 2012 978-81-250-4571-7 ` 950 564pp Hardback Outsider Intrusion into Ho Village Society 8.
evolution as a mass leader Towards a New Identity Conclusion

during the Indian struggle in Writings of Richard Falk, The 2011 978-81-250-4198-6 ` 995 384pp Hardback
the country. It is a detailed
and sensitive portrayal of Towards Humane Global Governance Adivasis in Colonial India
their struggles and triumphs,
their political and spiritual Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Survival, Resistance and Negotiation
Law, Princeton University, USA
journey. Edited by Biswamoy Pati, Associate Professor of

Selected Contents: 1. Gandhi and Kallenbach’s Publishing Richard Falk in History, University of Delhi
Meeting 2. The Upper House and the Lower House India for the first time is an
3. Tolstoy Farm 4. ‘The people you want to serve intellectual event itself. This volume provides a
may be your death-traps’ 5. ‘The remedy lies not in Falk’s work in international holistic view of the world of
Palestine’ 6. Kallenbach’s Role in the Third Wave relations and his role as a adivasis under the British in
of the Satyagraha 7. World War I—Gandhi and public intellectual have been the nineteenth and twentieth
Kallenbach Part 8. Between Gandhi and Zion crucial influences on at least centuries. It unravels the
9. ‘The Jews’ two generations of ways in which the adivasi
researchers, policy makers society negotiated with itself
2012 978-81-250-4699-8 ` 850 204pp Hardback and political movements. and interacted with the shifts
and changes that were taking

Writings of Bipan Chandra, —Ashis Nandy place during this period.

The ... This book will challenge and inspire all Abridged Contents:
those interested in the idea of an international Introduction: Situating the Adivasi in Colonial India
The Making of Modern India: From Marx community.
to Gandhi PART I: ‘MODERN SCIENCE’, CLASSIFICATION
—Hillary Charlesworth
Bipan Chandra, Chairman, National Book Trust, STRATEGIES, QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY AND

PATRIARCHY PART II: ASSERTION AND

New Delhi Contents: Part I: The Shaping Of International RESISTANCE PART III: MEDICAL COLONIALISM

The 14 essays in this LII:awRe: fGoremopinoglitTichael AUnnd: PDroebmleomcrsatAicndChParollesnpgeecsts; ; PPaarrtt AND THE ADIVASI HEALING SYSTEMSentOrient BlackSwanFor more than half a century, Bipan
volume present a long-term Contributors: Meena Bhargava, Vinitase Chandra had made unparalleled
THE WRITINGS of Bipan Chandra contribution to the study of modern Indian
ls of history. He is acknowledged worldwide as
an authority on the subject, with a lucid
perspective of the III: The Planetary Threats; Part IV: In The Aftermath Damodaran, Sanjukta Das Gupta, David Hardiman,Habiband accessible style that had made him one
of the most widely read and influential
meritus historians of our times. Bipan Chandra’s
Aligarh writings have profoundly influenced our
understanding of the emergence of modern
emergence of nationalism Of 9/11: Revisiting Gandhi; Part V: Building A Global Felix Padel, Biswamoy Pati, Archana Prasad, MeenaeIndia, as well as of contemporary concerns
that have their roots in the colonial past.
e
hian The Writings of Bipan Chandra: The Making
dern of Modern India is a definitive collection of
essays which depicts Bipan Chandra’s range
and the Indian national Ethos: Cultural Pluralities, Religious Resurgence, Radhakrishna, Satadru Sen, Shashank S. Sinha, UweV.Naikof interests. It presents his views and
positions qualified after an engagement of
d Head over fifty years with Independent India. The
umbai essays present a long-term perspective of
the emergence of nationalism and the
Political Solidarity; Part VI: Re-Imagining And Re-nand Indian national movement, with special
movement, with special Skoda, Nitin Varmaable emphasis on its Gandhian phase, and the
nature of Indian capitalism and its
atnaik relationship with imperialism and the
national movement. They identify
Making A New World Order: Rights, Justice Andmeritus specificities of the colonial structure, and
trace the possible paths of economic
anning transformation until independence. The

emphasis on its Gandhian,Delhi
Democratic Governance 2011 978-81-250-4094-1 ` 1050 384pp Hardbackowed

T W phase, and the nature ofnew
HE RITINGS volume includes a critical appraisal of the
Indian Left, and a nuanced understanding
of the idea of secularism and emergence of
communalism in India.
o Torri
tutions

Ofn, Italy

Indian capitalism and its With a Foreword by B.S. Chimnian.com
Bipan Chandra

The introduction by Aditya Mukherjee is a Before the Divide
71 7 fitting tribute from a former student and
17 2012 978-81-250-4307-2 ` 1250 560pp Hardback
relationship withThe Making of Modern India colleague. This volume is a celebration of
FROM MARX TO GANDHI
imperialism and the Hindi and Urdu Literary CultureWithanIntroductionbyAdityaMukherjee
Continued on back flap

national movement. It has Adivasis and the Raj Edited by Francesca Orsini, Reader, Literatures
an introduction by Aditya Mukherjee. of North India, School of Oriental and African
Socio-economic Transition of the Hos, Studies, University of London
... students of modern Indian economic history 1820–1932
will find the essence of Professor Bipan Chandra’s series: critical thinking in south asian history Before the Divide: Hindi and
evolving approach through certain perspective Urdu Literary Culture is an

shifts. Sanjukta Das Gupta, Associate Professor, attempt to rethink aspects
Department of History, University of Calcutta of the literary histories of
—Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Former Chairman, Indian these two languages. This
Council of Historical Research, Delhi This book focuses on the volume looks at the

... a fine collection of essays, some of which are colonial history of adivasis, rearticulation of language
vintage Bipan Chandra and rooted in his extensive focusing specifically on the and its identity in the late
Hos of Chota Nagpur, and nineteenth and early
understanding of the Indian national movement.... discusses the issue of their twentieth centuries.

—Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor, Department of identity against the Contents: 1. Introduction 2.
History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi background of changing Rekhta: Poetry in Mixed Language 3. Riti and Register 4.
colonial policy towards them.
Selected Contents: 1 The Long-term Dynamics: Dialogism in a Medieval Genre 5. Barahmasas in Hindi
Gandhiji and the Indian National Movement Selected Contents:
2. Jawaharlal Nehru in Historical Perspective Introduction 1. Village and Urdu 6. Sadarang, Adarang, Sabrang 7. Looking
3. Gandhiji, Secularism and Communalism 4. Pre- Organisation in the Early
Gandhian Roots of Gandhian-Era Politics 5. The Nineteenth Century 2. The Articulation of Political beyond Gul-o-bulbul 8. Changing Literary Patterns in
Making of the Indian Nation 6. Colonialism and Authority: The State-system in Pre-colonial
Singhbhum 3. British Intrusion and Administrative

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New Perspectives in South Asian History 1

The aim of this series has been to publish monographs and other writings on early modern, modern and contemporary history that cover new areas of
research, such as the history of medicine and environmental history.

Series Editors: Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Mark Harrison, Michael Worboys, Clive Dewey, Paul Greenough, Biswamoy Pati, Douglas M. Peers, Peter Robb, and
Tan Tai Yong

Social Determinants of Health: Pathways of Empire: Circulation, ‘Public Old Potions, New Bottles: Recasting
Assessing Theory, Policy and Practice Works’ and Social Space in Colonial Indigenous Medicine in Colonial Punjab
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Sharon Messenger and Caroline Orissa, c. 1780–1914 1850–1945
Overy Ravi Ahuja Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

2010 978-81-250-3982-2 ` 1040 432pp Hardback 2009 978-81-250-3527-5 ` 1025 376pp Hardback 2006 978-81-250-2946-5 ` 985 296pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5240-1
The Global Eradication of Smallpox History of the Social Determinants of
Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Sharon Messenger Health: Global Histories, Contemporary Reproductive Health in India: History,
Debates Politics, Controversies
2010 978-81-250-3981-5 ` 1095 216pp Hardback Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Anne Edited by Sarah Hodges
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5283-8 Hardy
2006 978-81-250-2939-7 ` 820 273pp Hardback
From Western Medicine to Global 2009 978-81-250-3508-4 ` 1195 380pp Hardback
Medicine: The Hospital Beyond the E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5428-3 Fractured States: Smallpox, Public
West Health and Vaccination Policy in British
Edited by Mark Harrison, Margaret Jones and Helen Taking Traditional Knowledge to the India
Sweet Market: The Modern Image of the Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Mark Harrison and Michael
Ayurvedic and Unani Industry, 1980–2000 Worboys
2009 978-81-250-3702-6 ` 1095 500pp Hardback Maarten Bode
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5242-5 2005 978-81-250-2866-6 ` 975 276pp Hardback
2008 978-81-250-3315-8 ` 765 272pp Hardback E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5249-4
Low and Licentious Europeans: Race,
Class and ‘White Subalternity’ in 27 Down: New Departures in Indian Health Policy in Britain’s Model Colony:
Colonial India Railway Studies Ceylon (1900–1948)
Harald Fischer-Tiné Edited by Ian J. Kerr Margaret Jones

2009 978-81-250-3701-9 ` 975 452pp Hardback 2007 978-81-250-3063-8 ` 1200 448pp Hardback 2004 978-81-250-2759-1 ` 820 326pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5247-0 E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5243-2
Modern Medicine and International Aid:
Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998 Woman and Empire: Representations in Science and National Consciousness in
Susan Heydon the Writings of British India (1858–1900) Bengal, 1870–1930
Indrani Sen John Bosco Lourdusamy
2009 978-81-250-3697-5 ` 875 380pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5309-5 2007 978-81-250-3346-2 ` 495 224pp Paperback 2004 978-81-250-2674-7 ` 710 272pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5301-9
The Hospital System and Health Care: Colonial City and the Challenge of
Sri Lanka, 1815–1960 Modernity, The: Urban Hegemonies Civilising Natures: Race, Resources and
Margaret Jones and Civic Contestations in Bombay City Modernity in Colonial South India
(1900–1925) Kavita Philip
2009 978-81-250-3679-1 ` 930 468pp Hardback Sandip Hazareesingh
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5241-8 2004 978-81-250-2586-3 ` 820 316pp Hardback
2007 978-81-250-3237-3 ` 950 260pp Hardback E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5468-9
Against Stigma: Studies in Caste, Race
and Justice since Durban Refiguring Unani Tibb: Plural Healing in Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the
Balmurli Natrajan and Paul Greenough Late Colonial India Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1945–1997
Guy Attewell Michael Lewis
2009 978-81-250-3600-5 ` 1095 504pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5246-3 2007 978-81-250-3017-1 ` 875 332pp Hardback 2003 978-81-250-2377-7 ` 1025 384pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5239-5
State of Vaccination: The Fight Against Western Medicine and Public Health in
Smallpox in Colonial Burma Expunging Variola: The Control and Colonial Bombay, 1845–1895
Atsuko Naono Eradication of Smallpox in India, Mridula Ramanna
1947–1977
2009 978-81-250-3546-6 ` 820 252pp Hardback Sanjoy Bhattacharya 2002 978-81-250-2302-9 ` 975 284pp Hardback

Power, Knowledge, Medicine: Ayurvedic 2006 978-81-250-3018-8 ` 930 344pp Hardback Situating Social History: Orissa,
Pharmaceuticals at Home and in the E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5244-9 1800–1997
World Biswamoy Pati
Madhulika Banerjee Decentring Empire: Britain, India and
the Transcolonial World 2001 978-81-250-2007-3 ` 600 196pp Hardback
2009 978-81-250-3528-2 ` 1095 360pp Hardback Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5238-8
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HISTORY  19

New Perspectives in South Asian History II

Languished Hopes Decolonisation, Development and Disease

Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in A Social History of Malaria in Sri Lanka
Twentieth-century India
Kalinga Tudor Silva

Niels Brimnes N EW The volume begins with an ethno-historical account of
P ERSPECTIVES in the accumulated body of indigenous knowledge andSriLankahasreportedlyachievedthe
Continued from front flap ‘Silva’s stimulating and lucid account of malaria in Sri Lanka makes a Silva DecoloniasantdioDni,sDeaesveelopment S OUTH Orient BlackSwan
A SIAN historic feat of eliminating malaria.
studies and post-developmentsignificant and important contribution to a growing body of research.H ISTORY However, history reminds us that
discourse analysis. He challenges theWhile exploring the interplay of malaria within its environment, Silva malaria can strike back with full force
confirms the need to make policy tailored to specific contexts.’ DanedcoDloisneiassaetion, Development following spectacular successes in
This volume analyses the history of tuberculosis in Indiaconventionalmodernistwisdomonthe
role of tropical medicine in combatingMARGARET JONES, Research Fellow and Deputy DirectorA Social History of Malaria in Sri Lankapractices and cultural adaptation to fevers and how it saw“eradicating”thedisease.Itis
disease and points to the historicalCentre for Global Health Histories
embeddedness of tropical disease and important to understand the political
its control.Department of History, University of York and social factors that paved the way
for resurgence of this disease in the
in the twentieth century: how the disease wasThisbookwillbeofinterestto ‘Silva lays bare the many linkages between history of malaria and the past.
students of history, politics,political and economic history of Sri Lanka through colonialism,
development, public health, medicalindependence and war. This work will be of keen interest to a rapid decline with the arrival of western medicine. ThenDecolonisation,Developmentand
anthropology and Sri Lankan society.historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of medicine, of disease,
KALINGA TUDOR SILVA is Seniorand of South Asia.’ Disease looks at the relationship
between malaria and its social,
‘discovered’, how it has been understood, and howProfessorattheDepartmentof JOHN R. MCNEILL, School of Foreign Service and political and environmental milieu in
Sociology, University of Peradineya,History Department, Georgetown University Sri Lanka over an 80-year period from
1930 to 2010. The volume begins with
national and international agencies have struggled to bringSriLanka. ‘The present work promises to be an important landmark event in our
knowledge of public health and issues of decolonisation in Sri Lanka, it analyses the consequences of the devastating malariaanethno-historicalaccountofthe
and in other regions where malaria and related illnesses are—or have
been—endemic.’ accumulated body of indigenous
knowledge, and practices and cultural
GANANATH OBEYESEKERE, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology adaptation to fevers and how they saw
Princeton University a rapid decline with the arrival of
Western medicine.
it under control.
epidemic of 1934–35, which, affecting mainly the SinhalaThepoliticsofthedevastatingmalaria
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Bureau of the Department of Posts, Ceylon, on 7 ISBN 978 81 250 5429 0 epidemic of 1934–35 that shaped Sri
April 1962 under a global postal stamp campaign Lanka’s transition from a colony to a
initiated by WHO during 1962–63 for highlighting Orient BlackSwan 9 788125 054290 Kalinga Tudor Silva postcolonial state and the 1967
the theme “The World United Against Malaria”. resurgence of malaria challenging the
Reproduced by permission of the Postmaster Silva: Decolonisation, Development and Disease developmental push of the postcolonial
General, Sri Lanka. Image from
www.malariastamps.com © Larry Fillion South, in some ways shaped Sri Lanka’s transition from astateformthecruxofthediscussion.
Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad
The book also examines the manner in
which the civil war triggered yet
another outbreak of malaria.
The author looks at colonial records,

colony to a postcolonial developmental state.governmentstatistics,oralhistory,

ethnographies and newspaper articles
through the lenses of postcolonial

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Nursing and Empire Tranquebar—Whose History?

Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States Transnational Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading
Colony in South India
Sujani K. Reddy
Helle Jørgensen
ment of modern racialized nursing Reddy N EW Orient BlackSwan Drawing on extensive archival research and compelling
zing migration to examining the P ERSPECTIVES in This volume explores the significances of cultural heritage
a and the United States. Nursing S OUTH Drawing on extensive archival research in the small town of Tranquebar, a former Danish trading
imate industries, and gender with A SIAN and compelling life-history interviews, colony on the coast of Tamil Nadu. It focuses on the
eeply analytical and richly H ISTORY Nursing and Empire examines the negotiations of historicity that come into play between
one-of-a-kind book.’ the many stakeholders in the present development of
PPA, Associate Professor of Sociology Nursing and Empire Nursing and Empire life-history interviews, Nursing and Empire examines thelivesofIndiannurses,whichhave Tranquebar, including the residents, heritage and tourism
nter for Women and Gender Studies developers, public authorities, researchers, and tourists.
Gendered Labor and Migration unfolded against a complex backdrop
University of Texas at Austin from India to the United States of Anglo-American capitalist
imperialism and the emergence of a
www.orientblackswan.com Sujani K. Reddy postcolonial Indian nation-state still
ISBN 978 81 250 6230 1 tied to this global system.

9 788125 062301 lives of Indian nurses, which have unfolded against aThebookbeginswiththemovementof

white, U.S.-based single female medical
missionaries to India and proceeds
through the remaking of the colonial
medical map through race-based
segregation in the U.S. and the “open

complex backdrop of Anglo-American capitalistdoorimperialism”oftheRockefeller

Foundation in India. It ends with the
Cold War emigration of Indian nurses
as one outcome of the critical role
played by U.S. medical interests in a
colonial “civilizing mission.”

imperialism and the emergence of a postcolonial IndianComplicatingthelong-heldviewof

Indian women as passive participants
in the movement of skilled labor in
this period, Reddy demonstrates how
these “women in the lead” pursued
new opportunities afforded by their

nation-state still tied to this global system.mobility.Atthesametime,Indian

nurses also confronted stigmas based
on the nature of “women’s work”,
religious and caste differences within
the migrant community, and the racial
and gender hierarchies of the U.S.

Spanning two centuries and multiple
geographic spaces, Nursing and
Empire sheds light on histories of
capitalist expansion and marginalized

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India’s First Democratic Revolution Urbanising Cholera e-book

Dayanand Bandodkar and the Rise of the Bahujan in Goa The Social Determinants of Its Re-emergence

Parag D. Parobo Rajib Dasgupta
Abridged contents: Introduction 1. Caste in the
Modern World, 1850–1961 2. Colonial State: Local and Urbanising Cholera is a revival of the eco-social approach in
Micro Context 3. Bandodkar’s Charisma and Post- examining the social determinants of cholera and deals
Colonial Goa, 1963–1973 4. Empowering through Land with different aspects of the problem. Taking a public
and Tenancy Reforms 5. The Political Economy of Social health perspective, the study gives a social epidemiological
Transformation | Conclusion account of cholera with a focus on the urban poor.

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Rethinking Western India The Making of a Small State

The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society, and Religion Populist Mobilisation and the Hindi Press in the Uttarakhand
Movement
Dušan Deák and Daniel Jasper
Anup Kumar
N EW The essays in this volume pay close attention to local and
P ERSPECTIVES in This volume traces the roots of the political imagination of
y scholars, young and Deák and Jasper Rethinking Western India S OUTH Orient BlackSwan While investigating the cultural, social a Uttarakhand in the series of socio-ecological protests, such
htra as a region. Its many A SIAN and political dynamics in Maharashtra, as dhandaks (peasant protests) and Chipko. The study
and cultural—are examined H ISTORY Rethinking Western India looks into suggests that the new regional movements are
d multiple meanings.” the relations and processes that make manifestations of political and economic deprivation. They
YANT LELE, Professor Emeritus Rethinking Western India highlight developmental regionalism and the demand to
regional dynamics of western India, but sets these intoupwhatareusuallythoughttobe restore community’s control over jal, jungle and zameen.
Global Development Studies The Changing Contexts of Culture, regional problems. It builds on
Queen’s University Society and Religion previous academic attempts to rethink
Indian regions and the production of
y knits together diverse times their set boundaries. The essays show
during logic of region…[It] how the regional must be understood
spect lens of regionalism in contexts that supersede the region
d subject…[and] reaffirms
NOVETZKE, Associate Professor larger context which investigates how these dynamicsandgeographicaldeterminism.
omparative Religion Programs The volume pays close attention to
School of International Studies Edited by local and regional dynamics of western
Dušan Deák and Daniel Jasper India, but shows them in a larger
University of Washington context. It also investigates how these
dynamics have come to be shaped and
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ISBN 978 81 250 5582 2 have come to be shaped and understood as regional. Theunderstoodasregional.Theopening
essays not only contextualise
9 788125 055822 Maharashtrian texts as coherent
rn India wholes, but also the meanings
contained within these texts, thereby
addressing “the semantics of the

primary focus of the essays is to inquire into the relationssocial”.
A focus on “the mechanics of the
social”—the interface of actions that
articulate societal relationships at
different levels, and of different
characters—is attempted by the next
set of essays. The concluding essays

and processes that make up what is usually framed asemphasisehowlocaldynamicsareas
much a part of forces ostensibly
“beyond Maharashtra”, as they are
products of dynamics within
Maharashtra. There is, therefore, a
deep analysis of the social and cultural
referents upon which collective

regional or Maharashtrian problems..identitiesarebuilt.

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20  HISTORY courts from the 1860s, and the other for ‘cow Parimala Rao argues, was
protection’. The growth of the Hindi press and aimed to oppose reform
Eighteenth Century North India 9. Networks, Patrons, anti-Bengali sentiments are outlined. Patel also within Hindu society.
and Genres for Late Braj Bhasha Poets analyses intra-community discourses on lower-
caste inclusion, revealing divisions within the … an eye-opener for
Contributors: Imre Bangha, Allison Busch, Hindu fold. those who have heralded
Thomas de Bruijn, Mehr Afshan Farooqi, Christina Tilak as a militant and
Oesterheld, Francesca Orsini, Lalita du Perron, Contents: Introduction: Nationalism and populist leader…. Rao has
Valerie Ritter Communalism in Modern Bihar 1. Rise and Growth successfully uncovered
of the Intelligentsia in Bihar 2. The Intelligentsia the limitations of early
2011 978-81-250-4263-1 ` 575 320pp Paperback of Bihar: Anti-Bengali Campaign and the Hindi nationalist discourses….
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5339-2 Movement 3. The Hindi Press and the Creation of
Communal Stereotypes 4. The Intelligentsia and the —The Hindu
Call of the Sea, The Search for a New Order for ‘National’ Regeneration
5. The Intelligentsia, Their Socio-political Forums and Contents: Introduction: Encountering the Myth
Kachchhi Traders in Muscat and Zanzibar, Communalism 6. Cow Protection 7. Conclusion 1. Situating Tilak 2. Moneylender as the God of
c. 1800–1880 Peasants 3. Educated Women as Rakmabais and
2011 978-81-250-4206-8 ` 925 264pp Hardback Ramabais 4. Education, Caste and Identity
Chhaya Goswami, independent scholar based in 5. Inventing the Enemy 6. The Swadeshi Movement
Mumbai Dalit Personal Narratives 7. Gender, Caste and Education, 1910–1920 8. Tilak’s
Nationalism and Hindutva 9. Conclusion
The Call of the Sea examines Reading Caste, Nation and Identity
the significant role played by 2011 978-81-250-4268-6 ` 595 372pp Paperback
Kachchhi traders in Raj Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of 2010 978-81-250-3919-8 ` 1095 372pp Hardback
connecting Muscat and English, University of Delhi
Zanzibar to the thriving From Hindi to Urdu
emporiums of Bombay and This pioneering book
Mandvi. It provides an primarily examines Dalit A Social and Political History
insight into the business autobiographies. These
environment and narratives symbolise how Tariq Rahman, HEC Distinguished National
sophisticated sea-trade Dalits are breaking down Professor of Sociolinguistic History and Professor
network in the western the age-old barrier of Emeritus, National Institute of Pakistan Studies,
Indian Ocean that existed in silence. Focusing on multiple Qaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
the nineteenth century. marginalities pertaining to
caste, nation and identity, A first of its kind, this book
... a fascinating and detailed account of the the author has followed an traces the political history
trading world of Kachchhi merchants in the inter-disciplinary approach and genealogy of Urdu. It
nineteenth century. across disciplines such as also looks at the domains in
history, sociology, law, religion, philosophy and which the language is used
—Marriam Dossal gender studies apart from English literature, to by both Hindus and Muslims
bring to the reader the remarkably different of northern India.
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Kachchhi: The personal narratives of both Dalit men and women.
Land and its People 2 Kachchhis in the Trading This is the first major study
World of Muscat 3. Kachchhi Entrepreneurs Contents: 1. Autobiographical Practices: Examples of the manifold engagement
and the Zanzibar Trade 4. The Trading Firm of from the West 2. The Public Self: Indian Upper Caste of the linguistic forms known
Jairam Shivji 5. The Slave Trade and the Role of Men’s Autobiographies 3. The Private Self: Indian as “Urdu” with South Asian society. Professor
Kachchhis Conclusion Upper Caste Women’s Autobiographies Rahman has opened up the social aspects of Urdu as
4. Caste, Culture and Politics: Towards a Definition a major subject for study and this book is one of the
2011 978-81-250-4204-4 ` 995 360pp Hardback of Dalit Autobiography 5. The Marginal Self: Dalit most important contributions to South Asian studies
Men’s Autobiographies 6. Beyond the Margin: Dalit of recent years.
Communalism and the Women’s Autobiographies
Intelligentsia in Bihar, —Francis Robinson
1870–1930 2011 978-81-250-4250-1 ` 495 308pp Paperback
2010 978-81-250-3863-4 ` 715 308pp Hardback Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Names
Shaping Caste, Community and 2. Age 3. Origins and Historiography 4. Identity: The
Nationhood Foundations of Tilak’s Islamization of Urdu 5. Urdu as an Islamic Language
Nationalism 6. Urdu as the Language of Love 7. The British and
Hitendra Patel, Department of History, Hindustani 8. Urdu in the Princely States 9. Urdu as
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata Discrimination, Education, Hindutva the Language of Employment 10. Urdu in Education
11. Urdu in Print 12. Urdu on the Radio 13. Urdu on
This volume gives an Parimala V. Rao, Assistant Professor, Zakir the Screen 14. Conclusion
account of the rise of Hindu Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal
communalism in Bihar in Nehru University 2011 978-81-250-4248-8 ` 1050 476pp Hardback
the late nineteenth and Rights: Restricted
early twentieth centuries, In the context of reform activities in nineteenth
and its relationship with the century Maharashtra, the book addresses the
nationalist ideology, origin of the concept of ‘Hindutva’ and locates it in
through the activities of the the nationalist attempt to control rebellion within
intelligentsia. Hitendra Patel the society by ‘inventing an enemy’. The
discusses two popular construction of Hindutva by Bal Gangadhar Tilak,
movements: one for the use
of Hindi, replacing Urdu, in education and the law

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HISTORY  21

India by Design THE GREAT LEADERS PART IV: ROLE OF successful effort from an
LEADERSHIP insider’s view. The author
Colonial History and Cultural Display describes the selfless and
2011 978-81-250-4187-0 ` 1050 452pp Hardback  tireless work of people
Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of Art E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5498-6 from different cultures,
History, the University of California, Los Angeles races, nationalities and
Sacrificing People religions, who worked
... a gathering of rare gifts together to achieve a
and talents. This remarkable Invasions of a Tribal Landscape common goal that many
work is deeply engaged in the thought was impossible.
mechanics and mediations of Felix Padel, freelance anthropologist trained in
imperial authority and its Oxford and Delhi universities
visual signs.
Sacrificing People is an Arita chronicles the saga
—Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard updated edition of Padel’s of smallpox eradication ... in a narrative that is
University classic case study of not just intelligible to the laity and the scientific
colonialism, originally titled community alike but even edges on to becoming a
Saloni Mathur offers The Sacrifice of Human Being: thriller providing an intense action-packed account
a brilliantly original British Rule and the Konds of of the duel between man and the smallpox virus.
disentangling of the anxious and involuted attempts Orissa. The journey of the
to manage India as an ‘aesthetic’ project. Her book is from colonial —The Book Review
account is rich in archival research, theoretically intrusion to developmental
elegant, and exceptionally engrossing. With destruction. It puts into Selected Contents: 1. Smallpox in a Tropical
remarkable clarity, it opens colonial rule’s “cultural perspective communal Rain Forest in West Africa 2. Spring 1966: WHO
techniques” to a new set of illuminating questions. murders and ethnic cleansing in the district of Executive Board Debates 3. Smallpox: The Target
Kandhamal in 2007–8, mostly in attacks against Disease for Eradication 4. Initial Phase of Launching
—Christopher Pinney, University College London Christians, on a scale recalling violence in the the Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme
1830s–60s. The role of the first missionaries in 5. USA Bilateral Programme for Smallpox
Selected Contents: Introduction: Colonial Patterns, Orissa, who targeted this district in particular, is Eradication and Measles Control in West and
Indian Styles 1. The Indian Village in Victorian Space: analysed to throw light on recent events. Central Africa 6. Harbingers of the Intensified
The Department Store and the Cult of the Craftsman Programme 7. Was the Smallpox Vaccine Good
2. “To Visit the Queen”: On Display at the Colonial With a Foreword by Hugh Brody and a Foreword to Enough to Start the Programme? 8. Evolution in
and Indian Exhibition of 1886 3. The Discrepant the first edition by Veena Das. Thinking 9. The Final Battle in Bangladesh: Victory
Portraiture of Empire: Oil Painting in a Global Field 4. in Asia 10. Fight in the Horn of Africa 11. Smallpox
Collecting Colonial Postcards: Gender and the Visual The book rescues significant facts from the in Ethiopia 12. Somalia: The Beginning of the Last
Archive 5. A Parable of Postcolonial Return: Museums junkbin of historical memory and could reset many Outbreaks in the Horn of Africa 13. Mysterious
and the Discourse of Restitution Epilogue: Historical of our relationships with our own development Source of Infection 14. Emergency Countermeasures
Afterimages history. Each episode quoted and qualified in the Against the Smallpox Epidemic in Somalia 15. End
book provokes [us] to rethink. Game in Ethiopia, Again: Was it Really Smallpox
2011 978-81-250-4293-8 ` 655 224pp Hardback Free? 16. Is This the Last Case of Smallpox Globally?
Rights: Restricted —Down to Earth 17. Target Zero and Variola Virus Stocks 18.
Human Monkeypox: Does it Frustrate Smallpox
Invincibility, e-book Selected Contents: 1. A Case Study of Eradication Efforts? 19. Has Smallpox Really Gone?
Colonialism. 2. Conquest: The Ghumsur Wars. How Do We Know? 20. Strategies and Tactics
Challenges and Leadership 3. Suppressing Human Sacrifice: The Meriah of Certification, 1973 to 1979 21. Certification of
Agency. 4. Human Sacrifice as a Kond and Hindu Global Smallpox-free Status in the Horn of Africa
K. V. Krishna Rao, retired general of the Indian Ritual 5. The Colonial Sacrifice of ‘Enlightened 22. Post-eradication Era: The First Three Decades
Army and former Governor in the northeastern Government’ 6. ‘Soldiers of Christ’ 7. Merchants and Future Perspectives 23. Research Topics in the
of Knowledge: Anthropologists in a Social Post-eradication Era Epilogue
states and Jammu & Kashmir Structure 8. In the Name of Development
9. Questioning the Sacrifice: A Postscript 2011 978-81-250-4095-8 ` 765 220pp Hardback
Invincibility, Challenges and
Leadership is a product of a 2011 978-81-250-4189-4 ` 795 504pp Paperback Strıˉ
thorough study and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5302-6
understanding of history, Feminine Power in the Mahˉabhˉarata
combined with the author’s Smallpox Eradication Saga,
extensive personal and The Kevin McGrath, Associate of the Department of
professional experience in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, USA
the army and government. An Insider’s View
K. V. Krishna Rao has used Strˉı is a study of bronze-age
his wide-ranging experience series: new perspectives in south asian history femininity as portrayed in the
to give the reader an Mahˉabhˉarata. It focuses on
overview of the Isao Arita, a central figure in the eradication of the roles of wife, daughter-in-
development and rise of some civilisations and smallpox Edited by Alan Schnur, WHO, and law, and mother, and also on
empires in the course of human history, and to Masanobu Sugimoto, formerly at the National the kinship groups. McGrath
examine the reasons for their downfall. Institute of Health, Japan, and Harvard Medical examines marriage systems
School, Boston, USA and patterns of courtship as
Abridged Contents: PART I: EMPIRES AND well as showing how different
CIVILIZATIONS PART II: WORLD WARS The global eradication of the dreaded smallpox is a stages in a woman’s life are
public health achievement of the twentieth depicted by this epic.
AND MAJOR WARS PART III: GREATEST OF century. Isao Arita relates the story behind this

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22  HISTORY during the Mughal rule in Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
the Indian subcontinent. University of Oxford, UK
Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION PART II:
KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE TERMS 1. Wooing and Abridged Contents: The book contextualises the
Marriage 2. The Svayamvara 3. The Raksasa Form PART I: CULTURE: global programme and the
of Marriage 4. The Gandharva Form of Marriage DIVERSE FORMS PART many factors contributing to
5. Other Aspects of Marital Union 6. The Co-Wife II: GENDER AND the certification of smallpox
PART III: WOMEN HEROES 1. Kunti 2. Gandhari MEDIEVALISM PART eradication worldwide in
3. Damayanti 4. Savitri 5. Amba PART IV: DRAUPADI III: PATTERNS OF 1980. This book is an
1. Marriage 2. The Sabha 3. The Forest 4. The TRANSITION PART IV: important research and
Court of Virata 5. Prior of War 6. After the War REGION, REGIONAL training resource, which will
PART V: SPEAKING OF TRUTH 1. Sakuntala FORMATIONS AND THE be useful to historians,
2. Gandhari 3. Draupadi 4. Kunti 5. Lamentation public health specialists and
PART VI: EPILOGUE 1. Landscape and Rivers MUGHAL EMPIRE medical professionals.
2. Sexuality 3. Women Heroes Today
Contributors: Muzaffar Alam, Catherine B. Contents: Introduction 1. The Global Eradication
2011 978-81-250-4279-2 ` 795 240pp Hardback Asher, C. A. Bayly, Stephen P. Blake, Ellison of Smallpox: Historical Perspective and Future
Rights: Restricted Banks Findly, Michael H. Fisher, Jos Gommans, Prospects 2. A Miracle Happened There: The
Monica Juneja, Ahsan Raza Khan, Ruby Lal, David West and Central Africal Smallpox Eradication
Ancient Indian Textbook N. Lorenzen, Zahir Uddin Malik, Carla Petievich, Programme and Its Impact 3. The Eradication of
Social History Peter Robb, Dilbagh Singh, Burton Stein, Norman Samllpox from India 4. The Last Challenge: The
Some Interpretations (Second Edition) P. Ziegler, Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli Horn of Africa 5. Innovation as an Integral Part of
Smallpox Eradication: A Fieldworker’s Perspective
Romila Thapar, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal 2010 978-81-250-4103-0 ` 495 590pp Paperback 6. Successful Eradication of Smallpox and the
Nehru University Prospect of Disease Eradication Efforts in the
Twenty-First Century.
This is a revised edition of a Exploring Medieval India,
seminal work by India’s most Sixteenth to Eighteenth Contributors: Isao Arita, Sanjoy Bhattacharya,
eminent historian, containing Centuries Joel G. Breman, Larry Brilliant, Corrie White
a new Introduction and four Conrad, D.A. Henderson, Miyuki Nakana, Cirode
new essays. Volume II: Politics, Economy, Religion Quadron, Alan Schnur

Contents: 1. Interpretations Edited by Meena Bhargava, Associate Professor, 2010 978-81-250-3981-5 ` 1095 206pp Paperback
of Ancient Social History Department of History, Indraprastha College, Rights: Restricted
2. Society and Law in University of Delhi E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5283-8
the Hindu and Buddhist
Traditions 3. Ethics, Religion This volume comprises Historical Demography and
and Social Protest in the First Millennium B.C. in essential readings by Agrarian Regimes
Northern India 4. Renunciation: The Making of a eminent historians on the
Counter-culture 5. Daˉna and Daksinaˉ as Forms of consolidation and Understanding Southern Indian Fertility,
Exchange 6. Social Mobility in Ancient India with legitimisation of empire, 1881–1981
Special Reference to Elite Groups 7. The Image of commercial and religious
the Barbarian in Early India 8. The Historian and trends, and social Ravindran Gopinath, Professor, Modern Indian
Archaeological Data 9. The Study of Society in movements during the Economic History, Department of History and
Ancient India 10. Puranic Lineages and Archaeological Mughal rule in the Indian Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia
Cultures 11. The Tradition of Historical Writing subcontinent.
in Early India 12. Origin Myths and the Early Indian Overlapping the border
Historical Tradition 13. Genealogy as a Source of Abridged Contents: between history and
Social History 14. The Scope and Significance of PART I: LEGITIMACY, AUTHORITY, demography, this book
Regional History 15. Great Eastern Trade: Other CONSOLIDATION PART II: AGRARIAN AND reconstructs demographic
Times, Other Places (Maritime Trade in the First COMMERCIAL TRENDS PART III: RELIGION, change in some districts of
Millennium A.D.) 16. The Museum and History MOVEMENTS, DISPUTES southern India from 1881 to
17. The Future of the Indian Past 18. Recognizing 1981. The book provides a
Historical Traditions in Early India Contributors: Muzaffar Alam, Iqtidar Alam Khan, detailed annual series of
Meena Bhargava, Satish Chandra, Vasudha Dalmia, corrected vital statistics for
2010 978-81-250-3962-4 ` 495 452pp Paperback Richard M. Eaton, N. R. Farooqi, Stewart Gordon, a full century based on
Pika Ghosh, S. Nurul Hasan, M. N. Pearson, Om hitherto underutilised
Exploring Medieval India, Prakash, Ahsan Raza Khan, John F. Richards, Iqbal registration data, and uses conventional methods
Sixteenth to Eighteenth Sabir, Chetan Singh, Sanjay Subrahmanyam of history and demography to analyse the
Centuries demographic dynamics.
2010 978-81-250-4104-7 ` 525 518pp Paperback
Volume I: Culture, Gender, Regional Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Making Sense of
Patterns Global Eradication e-book Colonial Artefacts Database and Correction
of Smallpox, The Procedures 3. Contexts of Demographic Change
Edited by Meena Bhargava, Associate Professor, 4. Demographic Trends 5. Determinants of Fertility
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University of Delhi
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1707–1857 (Second Edition) The Tragedy of Power

Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor of History, Percival Spear, English historian, and Robert E. Sullivan, Associate Professor,
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata Margaret Spear, staff of the Director-General Department of History, University of Notre
of Information in India (later, Department of Dame, Indiana, USA
This authoritative textbook
identifies and examines the Information and Broadcasting) On the 150th anniversary of
processes of social and the death of the English
political change that took With and Introduction by Narayani Gupta, historian and politician
place over a century and a Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi Thomas Babington
half. Each chapter is Macaulay, Robert Sullivan
accompanied by maps and This book is ‘one of offers a portrait of a
an up-to-date bibliography memories and reflections’ of Victorian life that probes
as well as an extensive historian Percival Spear and the cost of power, the
glossary, making this an his wife Margaret. Unlike practice of empire and the
essential textbook for many books of the period impact of ideas. Sullivan
undergraduate students of Indian history. that studied the political offers an unsurpassed study
turmoil from the viewpoint of of an afflicted genius and a thoughtful meditation
Contents: Introduction 1. The Eighteenth the leaders, India Remembered on the modern ethics of power.
Century Transition 2. The Establishment of the looks at India during its quest
Company Bahadur 1757–1857 3. Consolidation for freedom through the eyes Selected Contents: 1. Heir 2. Star 3. Legislator
and Governance: The Apparatus of the Company of two perceptive people. 4. Sinister Prophet 5. Statesman 6. Empire Builder
Raj 4. Economic Development and Social Change 7. The Last Ancient Historian 8. The Lion
under Company Rule 5. Resistance and the Great Contents: PART I by Percival Spear: First 9. Baron Macaulay of Rothley 10. Procrastinator
Rebellion of 1857 Impressions; The Teacher; The Citizen; The 11. Praeceptor Gentis Anglorum 12. A Broken
Missionary; The Householder; The World War; Heart Envoi: Immortal
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Idea of Gujarat, The A Stay in the Hills; The Hindustan Tibet Road; Rights: Restricted
Moving Waters; People and Festive Occasions
History, Ethnography and Text Mourning the Nation
2010 978-81-250-3960-0 ` 360 200pp Paperback
Edited by Edward Simpson, senior lecturer E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5323-1 Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition
in social anthropology, School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London, and M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj Bhaskar Sarkar, Associate Professor, Film and
Aparna Kapadia, Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Media Studies, University of California, Santa
University of Oxford, UK A Critical Edition Barbara, USA

The Idea of Gujarat critically Annonated, translated and edited by Suresh The political truncation of
examines the processes that Sharma, historian and anthropologist, and Tridip 1947 led to a social
went into the formation of Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute cataclysm in which about a
the region and in the of Information and Communication Technology, million perished and some
process unsettles a series of Ahmedabad twelve million became
conventional wisdoms about homeless. Combining film
the land and its inhabitants. On board the Kildonan Castle, studies, trauma theory and
The book provides a broad on his return from England to South Asian cultural history,
introduction to the idea of South Africa, M. K. Gandhi Bhaskar Sarkar follows the
Gujarat, the scope of its wrote Hind Swarajya in shifting traces of this event
history, the nature of its Gujarati between13 and 22 in Indian cinema of the next
politics, and the dynamics of its society. November 1909. This six decades.
centenary edition of Gandhi’s
Contents: Introduction: The Parable of the Jakhs Hind Swaraj is both a Selected Contents: Introduction: National
1. Caste in the Judicial Courts of Gujarat, 1800–60 celebration of the text as also Cinema’s Hermeneutic of Mourning PART I: A
2. Alexander Forbes and the Making of a Regional its biography. This critical edition restores the sanctity RESONANT SILENCE 1. Cinema’s Project of
History 3. Making Sense of the History of Kutch of the 1910 first edition and brings it in conversation Nationhood 2. Runes of Laceration 3. Bengali
4. The Lives of Bahuchara Mata 5. Reflections with the subsequent editions of 1921 and 1939. It also Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality PART II: THE
on Caste in Gujarat 6. The Politics of Land in compares the Gujarati original with the English RETURN OF THE REPRESSED 4. Dispersed
Post-colonial Gujarat 7. From Gandhi to Modi: rendering. For the first time, this edition brings Nodes of Articulation 5. Ghatak, Melodrama, and
Ahmedabad, 1915–2007 8. A Potted History of together three texts (Gujarati, Hindi and English) and the Restitution of Experience 6. Tamas and the
Neighbours and Neighbourliness in Ahmedabad also includes the original Preface and Foreword of Limits of Representation 7. Mourning (Un)limited
9. Voices from Sindh in Gujarat 10. Textiles Gandhi. This is the only bilingual edition of Hind Coda: The Critical Enchantment of Mourning
and Dress among the Rabari of Kutch 11. The Swaraj.
Swaminarayan Movement and Religious Subjectivity 2010 978-81-250-4050-7 ` 795 384pp Paperback
2010 978-81-250-3918-1 ` 595 212pp Hardback Rights: Restricted
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24  HISTORY as discusses the many sprang intermittently into life
challenges, within both and then disappeared. The
Out of This Earth global and national contexts. book discusses the struggle
The book highlights the that ensued between man
East India Adivasis and the Aluminium need to surmount political and nature, as portrayed in
Cartel and economic difficulties, the punthi literature that
the requirement to mobilise thrived in lower deltaic
Felix Padel, anthropologist trained at Oxford and allies in government and Bengal between the
Delhi Universities, and Samarendra Das, Oriya civil society, and a plethora seventeenth and nineteenth
writer, filmmaker and activist of social conditions which centuries.
will require careful study
This penetrating and negotiation before policies are drawn up and 2010 978-81-87358-35-0 ` 550 212pp Hardback
anthropological study implemented. Rights: Restricted
uncovers the reality behind
aluminium production, Contributors: Rama Baru, Cristiana Bastos, Shivaji and His Times
exposing the powerful Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Catherine Campbell, Anne-
international cartel that Emanuelle Birn, Rajib Dasgupta, Andrew Gibbs, (Fifth Edition)
controls it. Padel and Das Judith Green, Ross Gribbin, Sarah Hodgson,
expose the links between Amarjit Kaur, Kelley Lee, Michael Lewis, Anne Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958), eminent historian
the massive meltdown of Marie Moulin, Iroshi Nishiura, Diana Obregón,
Iceland’s banks, and the Francesca Perlman, Susan B. Rifkin, Ricardo Sarkar’s classic work Shivaji
promotion of dams and Sabates, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Ritu Sadana, and his Times, besides being
smelters; between the mafia-style looting of Kalinga Tudor Silva, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, a biography of the Maratha
Russia’s assets and the rise to power of a Akihito Suzuki, Simon Szreter, Togo Tsukahara, leader, deals with the
succession of aluminium barons, and reveal why Kohei Wakimura tangled web of Deccan
the US set limits on aluminium production and history in the seventeenth
started to outsource it to poorer countries. 2010 978-81-250-3982-2 ` 1040 432pp Hardback century, describes Shivaji’s
relations with the Mughals,
With a Foreword by Arundhati Roy. Speaking of Gandhi’s Death provides knowledge of the
internal affairs of the Mughal
[This book] reminds us that adivasi culture sees Edited by Peter Ronald deSouza, Director, Empire during its decline,
nature as more than just matter; they always see Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla, and and also analyses Shivaji’s
it as a matter of spirit.... [It] is a revolutionary Tridip Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani relations with the English and Portuguese.
tract. It enables our understanding and excites our Institute of Information and Communication
imagination. Technology, Ahmedabad 2010 978-81-250-4026-2 ` 395 352pp Paperback

—Economic and Political Weekly In March 1948, a group of Social Movements Textbook
Gandhi’s closest associates and Cultural Currents
The survival and health of tribal society has led by Pandit Nehru—
come to be inseparable from the survival and Vinoba Bhave, J. B. Kripalani, 1789–1945
health of the world. Here is a case study in the Maulana Azad and
struggle for health and survival. Jayaprakash Narayan, among Edited by Vandana Joshi, Associate Professor,
others—met at Sevagram to Department of History, Sri Venkateswara College,
—Hugh Brody, Anthropologist and Filmmaker reflect and deliberate on University of Delhi
Gandhi’s assassination. Sixty
Selected Contents: PART I: SUSTAINABLE years later, in an evocative The first section of the
LIFESTYLES IN AN AGE OF ALUMINIUM PART response to that discusses representations,
II: NIYAM RAJA MEETS THE WORLD-WIDE introspection, a group of scholars and writers experiences, and polities of
WEB: ALUMINIUM’S SOCIAL STRUCTURE gathered at the Sabarmati Ashram to once again this period, the second looks
PART III: ‘ALUMINIUM FOR DEFENCE AND reflect on Gandhi’s death. This book brings at the wider literary and
PROSPERITY’ PART IV: COMPANY RULE AND together these reflections, in their tentativeness, artistic expressions. The
THE SYSTEM OF ENDEMIC EXPLOITATION openness and counter-factual agreement. annotated bibliographies at
PART V MOVEMENTS FOR LIFE the end of each chapter are
2010 978-81-250-4038-5 ` 550 163pp Hardback a pedagogical aid. The
2010 978-81-250-3867-2 ` 1040 752pp Hardback section on European art
2010 978-81-250-4164-1 ` 895   752pp  Paperback Sundarbans, The includes colour
reproductions of the originals discussed.
Social Determinants of Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals
Health Selected Contents: Introduction PART I:
[With Social Science Press] SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 1. The Harbinger of
Assessing Theory, Policy and Practice Western Modernity: The French Revolution
Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar, Reader, 2. ‘Peace, Land and Bread’: The Russian Revolution
series: new perspectives in south asian history Department of History, West Bengal State 3. Mass Politics in the Age of Anxiety: Interwar
University, Barasat Fascism and the Italian Case 4. A Model of
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, York University, Evolutionary Change: The Case of British
Toronto, Canada, Caroline Overy and Sharon The lower deltaic Bengal, the Sundarbans, has Liberalism 5. From a Bonsai to a Banyan Tree:
Messenger, both Senior Research Assistants, always had a life of its own, unique in its distinctive The Trajectory of European Feminism PART II:
Wellcome Trust [now UCL] Centre for the natural aspect and social development. Most of the CULTURAL CURRENTS 6. The Spider versus the
History of Medicine, UCL (University College area used to be once covered with dense, Bee: Early Modernism in European Literature and
London) impenetrable jungle even as patches of cultivation
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2010 978-81-250-3548-0 ` 850 288pp Hardback
Painting 7. ‘All that is Solid Melts into Air’: Later Burden of Refuge
Modernism in European Painting and Literature Against Stigma e-book
8. Reading Marx and Wearing Jeans: Aspects of The Partition Experiences of the Sindhis
Popular Culture in Modern Europe Studies in Caste, Race and Justice since of Gujarat
Durban
Contributors: Melanie A. Bailey, Guillaume de Rita Kothari, St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad,
Syon, Kimberly Morse Jones, Vandana Joshi, Sharon series: new perspectives in south asian history and Head, Katha Academic Centre
A. Kowalsky, Brian W. Refford, Daniella Sarnoff
Edited by Balmurli Natrajan, Assistant Professor, This book is about Partition
2010 978-81-250-4058-3 ` 440  409pp Paperback Department of Anthropology, William Paterson and the resettlement and
Rights: Restricted University, New Jersey, and Paul Greenough, fragmentation of the Sindhi
Professor of History, Community and Behavioral Hindus of India. It traces the
Subjugated e-book trajectory of the Sindhi
Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City Hindus from Sindh to
Nomads India—their journey from
The Lambadas under the Rule of the Nizams Sufi syncreticism to a
Against Stigma carries fifteen monolithic Hindu identity—
Bhangya Bhukya, Associate Professor, essays that build upon the specifically with respect to
Department of History, Osmania University, energies generated in Gujarat.
scholarship as a result of the
Hyderabad landmark 2001 World 2009 978-81-250-3673-9 ` 495 240pp Paperback
Conference Against Racism,
This book deals with the Racial Discrimination, Crises and Creativities
transition of the Lambada Xenophobia and Related
community of the Intolerance at Durban, Middle-Class Bhadralok in Bengal,
Hyderabad state during South Africa. The c.1939–52
colonial rule. The author contributors, who represent a multiplicity of
shows how colonial power disciplines and intellectual orientations, explore Amit Kumar Gupta, teacher, editor and
interacted with subaltern comparative aspects of caste and race, including researcher with Scottish Church College, Indian
communities, who conundrums of a globalized discourse and national Council of Historical Research, Centre for
confronted a force that had problematics of racism and casteism. Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum
adversely transformed their and Library and the UGC
lives. The period covered is Abridged Contents: PART I: CASTE AND
from the early eighteenth century to 1948—when RACE PART II: DURBAN 2001 AND AFTER This book is an account of the
the Nizams ruled. Bengali bhadralok’s distinctive
PART III: WHAT’S IN A CATEGORY PART IV: creative response to historical
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The Twilight circumstances that remain
World of the Caravan: Regulated Market Economy ACTORS, MOMENTS. HISTORIES without parallel in the rest of
and the Caravanners 2. Policing Cattle, Policing India in the years both before
Nomads: Colonial Rationality and Cowherds Contributors: Shyam Babu, Gerald Berreman, and after their passage. It
3. ‘Delinquent Subjects’: Dacoity and the Creation William Darity, Virginia R. Domingirez, V. Geeta, evaluates aesthetic resurgence
of a Surveillance Society 4. Modern Forms of Land Paul Greenough, Gopal Guru, Kancha Ilaiah, Katya in socio-economic
Relations: Exploitation and Revolt 5. Articulating Gibel Mevorach, Balmurli Natrajan, Gail Omvedt, perspective, following its
Cultural Differences, Contesting Power: The Deepa S. Reddy, Katrina M. Sauders, Gary Tarta many twists and turns, and
Consolidation of the Lambadas as a Social and Kov, Sukhdeo Thorat mapping its essentially
Political Entity Conclusion non-conformist, liberating and egalitarian spirit.
2009 978-81-250-3600-5 ` 1095 504pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5246-3 Contents: Preface Introduction: The Middle-Class
Bhadralok in Bengal, 1939–40 1. The Gathering
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E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5299-9 Striking Thunder (August 1942–October 1944)
A Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose 3. The Stormy Nightfall (November 1944–August
Through War and Famine 1947) 4. The Uneasy Vigil (September 1947–
Edited by Sisir Kumar Bose, Founder-Director, February 1952) In Retrospect
Bengal, 1939–45 Netaji Research Bureau
2009 978-81-250-3703-3 ` 1095 352pp Hardback
Srimanjari, Department of History, Miranda This is the English edition of
House, University of Delhi a trilingual biography of From Western e-book
Subhas Chandra Bose, the
World War II and the German and Japanese Medicine to Global Medicine
famine of 1943 in Bengal are editions being the other The Hospitals beyond the West
the two windows through two. The aim of the
which this book explores biography is to place Subhas series: new perspectives in south asian history
the history of Bengal Chandra Bose in the right
between 1939 and 1945. historical perspective with Edited by Mark Harrison, Professor of the
The social base of the regard to his much History of Medicine and Director, Margaret
different sections of the publicised revolutionary Jones, Research Officer, and Helen Sweet,
people determined the activities, and to provide an understanding of an Research Associate, all at the Wellcome Unit for
impact of the War and the extremely complex man, much maligned by Britain
famine on them. The author and greatly misunderstood by his allies. the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
delves into how the War
transformed the relationship between the imperial 2009 978-81-250-3635-7 ` 595 400pp Paperback This book provides the first book-length account
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26  HISTORY History of Modern India is the Welfare State: Social Policies and Uruguay’s
largely based on the Infant Mortality Stagnation 10. Discussion Paper on
of the hospital’s emergence author’s research on Lawrence and Birn 11. A Utopia as Future: Health
in Asia, Africa and other nationalism and colonialism and Economic, Political Development 12. Political
non-Western contexts. The in India. The book provides and Economic Determinants of Health: The Case
essays examine the various a detailed account of the of India 13. The Right of Registration 14. The
facets of hospital medicine nationalist movement and Witness Seminar Technique in Modern Medical
from the eighteenth century introduces us to the History 15. Researching Defended Subjects with
onwards, including contributions of different the Free Association Narrative Interview
interaction with indigenous individuals who were behind
traditions of healing and the nationalist movement. Contributors: Alison Bashford, Virginia Berridge,
with economic and political Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Patrice
issues during the colonial Contents: 1. The Decline of the Mughal Empire Bourdelais, Harold J. Cook, Paul Greenough, Anne
and post-colonial periods. 2. Indian States and Society in the Eighteenth Hardy, Wendy Hollway, Tony Jefferson, Stephen
Century 3. European Penetration and the British Kunitz, Roderick Lawrence, Socrates Litsios, Abla
2009 978-81-250-3702-6 ` 1095 500pp Hardback Conquest of India 4. The Structure of Government Mehio-Sibai, Randall Packard, Imrama Qadeer,
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Empire in India, 1757–1857 5. Administrative Tansey, Sam Willner
Gift of English, The Organisation and Social and Cultural Policy
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Alternative Hegemonies in India of 1857 8. Administrative Changes after 1858
9. The Economic Impact of British Rule 10. The History of the Textbook
Alok Mukherjee, Department of South Asian Nationalist Movement: 1858–1905 11. Religious World
and Indian Cultures, York University, Toronto and Social Reform after 1858 12. The Nationalist From the Late Nineteenth to the Early
Movement: 1905–1918 13. The Struggle for Swaraj: Twenty-First Century
This provocative work 1919–1927 14. The Struggle for Swaraj: 1927–1947
deconstructs the popular Arjun Dev, Coordinator, Towards Freedom
belief that English was 2009 978-81-250-3684-5 ` 385 360pp Paperback Project, Indian Council for Historical Research,
imposed on India by the Also in Hindi, Bangla and Odia
British. Through English and Indira Arjun Dev
education, British colonial
intellectuals hoped to History of the e-book The book presents a
perpetuate colonial rule, comprehensive overview of
and ‘high caste’ Hindus saw Social Determinants world history from the last
the possibility of Hindu of Health decade of the nineteenth
revival. After India’s Global Histories, Contemporary Debates century to present times.
independence, English education, as a field and an Using the two world wars
institutional practice, continued to be series: new perspectives in south asian history as the principal focal points
‘brahmanical’. With Dalits demanding English, it is but without in any way
now the site of a new contest of alternative Edited by Harold J. Cook, Director, being Euro- or West-
hegemonies. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of centric, the book chronicles
Medicine, University College London, Sanjoy the major watershed events
2009 978-81-250-3601-2 ` 1050 384pp Hardback Bhattacharya, Reader, York University, that have shaped and defined today’s world.
Toronto, Canada, Anne Hardy, Deputy Director,
History of Jaipur, A Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Contents: Introduction 1. The World from 1880s
to the First World War 2. The World between
c. 1503–1938 Medicine, University College London
the Two World Wars 3. The Second World War
Jadunath Sarkar, eminent historian Selected Contents:
Introduction 1. Australia 4. The World Since 1945
The book meticulously and Oceania 2. Asian
documents the history of Intra-Household Survival 2009 978-81-250-3687-6 ` 310 288pp Paperback
the Kachhwa rulers of Logics: The ‘Shun Te’ and Also in Hindi
Jaipur. Sarkar ploughed ‘Shui Ta’ Options 3. The
through a profusion of raw History of the Social History through e-book
material preserved almost Determinants of Health in
intact for three and a half Africa 4. The History of the the Lens
centuries in the Kachhwa Social Determinants of Perspectives on South Indian Films
House to present a Health in Europe: A
compelling history of the Swedish Example 5. The Theodore Baskaran, a prolific writer and film
Jaipur dynasty. Black Report: Reinterpreting History 6. Sex, Race historian
and Social Role: History and the Social
2009 978-81-250-3691-3 ` 725 428pp Paperback Determinants of Health 7. Social Determinants of Theodore Baskaran weaves the magic and matter
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4771-1 Health: Impact of War on Population Health in the of South Indian films into a rich tapestry of
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Modern India Social, Spatial and Temporal Dimensions 9. Milking Indian film industry, and the need for historic­ ising
southern cinema. Baskaran also investigates how
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legacy of company drama Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Low and Licentious
and the persistence of stage Crooke Europeans
features.
Sadhana Naithani, Assistant Professor of Race, Class and ‘White Subalternity’ in
Contents: 1. Documenting Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Colonial India
Cinema in South India: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Problems Faced by Film series: new perspectives in south asian history
Historians 2. Cinema as a In Quest of Indian Folktales
Source Material for History: publishes for the first time a Harald Fischer Tiné, Professor of History, ETH
Possibilities and Problems collection of north Indian Zürich (Swiss Federal institute of Technology,
3. Persistence of folktales from the late Zurich)
Conventions: Company nineteenth century. The
Drama and Tamil Cinema 4. Cinema House as book reveals the complexity In examining the history of
Public Space: The Advent of Filmic Entertainment of the colonial intellectual white non-elite groups such
in South India 5. Adaptations from Literature: world and problematises as European sailors,
Tamil Cinema 6. K. Ramnoth: The Forgotten our own views of folklore in vagrants, criminals and
Filmmaker 7. Return of the Drums: Ilayaraja and a postcolonial world. prostitutes, and elite efforts
the Tamil Screen 8. Trade Unionism in South to either ‘reclaim’ or hide
Indian Film Industry Contents: PART I: THE them from the ‘native gaze’,
QUEST 1. Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William this book challenges
2009 978-81-250-3520-6 ` 325  140pp Paperback Crooke 2. The Golden Manuscripts 3. Crooke, received ways of
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4681-3 Chaube, and Colonial Folklorists, 1868–1914 interpreting colonial rule.
4. Postcolonial Conclusions PART II: TALES FROM The study makes a strong
Hospital System and Health THE MANUSCRIPTS OF CHAUBE AND CROOKE case for understanding colonial power relations
Care, The Colors of Life: Tales 1 to 87; So Wise Some not in terms of a fixed ‘white-over-black’
Women Are: Tales 88 to 103; Magical Mind: Tales contestation but rather as a situational, contextual
Sri Lanka, 1815–1960 104 to 125; Corrective Measures: Tales 126 to 158 and dynamic system.

series: new perspectives in south asian history 2009 978-81-250-3450-6 ` 975 344pp Hardback Selected Contents: 1. Difficult Differences:
Rights: Restricted British Rule in India between Material Constraints
Margaret Jones, Research Officer, Wellcome and Imperial Ideologies 2. Flotsam and Jetsam
Unit for the History of Medicine, University of India Wins e-book of the Empire? European Seamen and Spaces of
Oxford, UK Freedom Disease and Disorder in Colonial Calcutta
3. Class Prejudice, European ‘Loaferism’ and the
This book breaks new M. A. K. Azad Workhouse System in Colonial India 4. ‘White
ground in its exploration of Women Degrading Themselves to the Lowest
the development of the One of the makers of Depths’: European Prostitutes and Double
hospital system in Sri Lanka modern India tells the story Transgression 5. Hierarchies of Crime and
from the beginning of British of the partition of India as Punishment: European Convicts and the Racial
rule in 1815 through to the never before, with intimate Dividend 6. Reclaiming Savages in ‘Darkest
post-colonial period. Jones knowledge and feeling. India England’ and ‘Darkest India’: The Salvation Army as
examines government, Wins Freedom has at last Transnational Agent of the Civilising Mission
mission and philanthropic won its own freedom. The
initiatives in the provision of full text of this 2009 978-81-250-3701-9 ` 975 452pp Hardback
medical services. She autobiographical narrative
suggests that while the hospital system was the was confined, under seal, in Modern Medicine e-book
driving force behind the establishment of free the National Library,
health care as a right of citizenship, it also Calcutta, and in the and International Aid
devoured the limited resources available for health National Archives, New Delhi, for thirty years. Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998
care as a whole. What we now have is the complete text, released
in September 1988. Not only have all the words series: new perspectives in south asian history
Selected Contents: PART I: THE ORIGINS AND and phrases of the original been reproduced in this
EXPANSION OF THE WESTERN HOSPITAL edition, the original tone and temper have been Susan Heydon, Lecturer, Social Pharmacy,
SECTOR UP TO 1931 1. Government and fully restored. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Philanthropy: The Establishment of an Infrastructure
2. The Needs of Production and Hospital Expansion Contents: 1. Congress in Office 2. War in Europe This history of Khunde
3. Medical Education and the Evolution of a 3. I Become a Congress President 4. A Chinese Hospital provides a detailed
Ceylonese Medical Profession 4. Care and Cure: Mission 5. The Cripps Mission 6. Uneasy Interval case study about both an
The Development of General Hospitals 5. Specialist 7. Quit India 8. Ahmednagar Fort Jail 9. The Shimla ongoing encounter between
Hospitals 6. ‘Scientific’ Nursing for Ceylon, 1870– Conference 10. General Elections 11. The British sherpas’ beliefs and
1931 PART II: HOSPITALS AND THE MEDICAL Cabinet Mission 12. The Prelude to Partition practices about sickness and
PROFESSIONS IN LATE COLONIAL AND POST- 13. The Interim Government 14. The Mountbatten their use of ‘modern’
COLONIAL CEYLON 7. “A Truly National Health Mission 15. The End of a Dream 16. Divided India medicine and the
Service”: Hospitals for a New Nation 8. Medical implementation of an aid
Education, 1931–1960: Crises and Renewal 9. “A 2009 978-81-250-0514-8 ` 375 283pp Paperback project that is situated
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28  HISTORY Pathways of Empire Commodification 5. Standardisation and Logic
of Pharmaceuticalisation 6. Globalisation and the
2. Khunde Hospital and the Sherpa of Khumbu Circulation, Public Works and Social Space Trend towards Herbalisation Conclusions
3. Khunde Hospital as a Western Medicine Project in Colonial Orissa, 1780–1914
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E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5309-5 Ravi Ahuja, Department of South Asian History, Rethinking Gandhi and
School of Oriental and African Studies, London Nonviolent Relationality
My Life is My Message
For the first time, theories Global Perspectives
Sadhana (1869–1905) of ‘produced social space’
Satyagraha (1915–1930) are concretised in order to Edited by Debjani Ganguly, Head, and John
Satyapath (1930–1940) open a new perspective on Docker, Adjunct Professor, Humanities Research
Svarpan (1940–1948) India’s social history of Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
circulation and
Narayan Desai, Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapeeth infrastructure. This book Conceived, debated and
Translated by Tridip Suhrud, Professor, moves beyond the written at the beginning
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and technocratic progressivism of a troubled millennium,
Communication Technology, Ahmedabad of earlier writings on the this work brings together
history of transport, a group of scholars to
This English translation of particularly the prevalent and narrow focus on rethink Gandhi’s legacy and
Narayan Desai’s epic railways. non-violent ethics and his
four-volume biography in relevance in the new world
Gujarati, Maru Jivan Ej Mari Abridged Contents: Introduction PART I: order. The contributors
Vani—hailed as one of the SPACE–CIRCULATION–INFRASTRUCTURE: approach Gandhi as an
finest insights into the life of CONCEPTUALISING THE SOCIAL HISTORY activist-thinker whose trans-
Gandhi—brings alive OF TRANSPORT IN COLONIAL INDIA PART cultural ethics translates
Gandhi’s quest as one II: CIRCULATORY REGIMES AND ‘PUBLIC across a range of political sites. The volume also
indivisible whole, in which WORKS’: THE CASE OF COLONIAL ORISSA gives us vignettes of Gandhi’s vegetarianism and his
‘the political’ is not outside IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY experiments in communal living. It explores the
the realm of ‘the spiritual’. Conclusion nature of Gandhi’s thought, practice and legacy.

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Samir Banerjee, honorary consultant, Madhulika Banerjee, Department of Political version by Sarkar himself of
Gandhigram Trust Science, University of Delhi his unrivalled five-volume
History of Aurangzib. This
This book focuses on the The breadth of the canvas history is virtually the
institutions and individuals and the range of questions history of India over sixty
that have adopted the posed ... will encourage years. Aurangzib’s career
Gandhian approach as a researchers to engage with prior to his accession has
means of social this neglected aspect of been compressed while
transformation. The Indian social and political significant events during his
relevance of Gandhian reality. reign have been dealt with
thought is examined in detail. This concise
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of the experience of the Weekly scholars of medieval Indian history.
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based in the Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu. from the various disciplines
Retaining objectivity, but without being that have analysed different aspects of Ayurveda; Sinhalese Monastic
judgemental, the study validates the enduring yet its principal focus is on making sense of Architecture
relevance of Gandhi in converting a vision into a some of the big changes that have marked the
social engagement, creating a vibrant community transformation of Ayurveda in the twentieth The Viharas of Anuraˉdhapura
with a culture of concern, humility and care. century.
Senake Bandaranayake, Professor Emeritus of
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The Archaeology, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
2. Gandhigram 3. The Gandhigram Trust Archaeology of a Pharmaceutical 2. Policy
and Practice of the Post-Colonial State Anuradhapura was the major centre of Sinhalese
4. Social Welfare 5. Education 6. Rural Economics 3. Response and Resistance from Civil Society Buddhism and the principal city of Sri Lanka from
4. Commercialisation and the Forms of the 3rd century BC to the 10th century AD. The
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forms of crime became increasingly more HISTORY  29
sophisticated. As Calcutta became a giant
focus of this volume is the metropolis from a fledgling town, a procession of Writing Life
remains of the Buddhist colourful characters emerged and thrived in all
monasteries in and around their diabolic grandeur. What clearly emerges in Three Gujarati Thinkers
the city, devising a this book is the symbiotic relationship between
framework to study urban crimes and the new laws and modes of Tridip Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani
monastic architecture and punishment, fashioned by the colonial rulers to Institute of Information and Communication
attempting to interpret the control those crimes. Technology, Ahmedabad
Sinhalese tradition. The
book brings together and Selected Contents: Introduction PART I: Writing Life looks at the lives
re-examines material HATCHING THE PLOT: EXPLORING THE and work of three
uncovered by over one hundred years of SOCIAL HISTORY OF CRIME 1. The Trailblazers nineteenth-century thinkers
archaeological exploration and research. 2. Calcutta’s White Underworld 3. Journeys of Gujarat—Narmadashankar
through the Lower Depths 4. Killers: Violent and Lal Shankar, Manibhai
Selected Contents: Introduction SECTION Silent 5. House-breakers, Thieves and Pilferers Nabhubhai and
ONE: THE MONASTIC PLAN 1. The Organic 6. Swindlers and Forgers 7. Embezzlers and Govardhanram Tripathi.
Monastery 2. Abbata Vihaˉra 3. Pañcaˉyatana Gamblers 8. Smugglers, Drug-pushers and Poets, essayists and novelists,
Parivena 4. Padhanaghara Parivena SECTION Poisoners 9. Underworld Heroines and their these three writers deeply
TWO: THE BUILDING TYPES 5. Shrines and Children 10. The Contest over Public Space influenced the intellectual life
Sanctuaries 6. Ecclesiastical Buildings PART II: SMASHING THE PLOT: PUNISHING, of Gujarat. Moreover, the
7. Residential Buildings SECTION THREE: THE DISCIPLINING AND ORDERING 1. The book shows how the idea of
ARCHITECTURAL FORM 8. Substructure and Beginnings 2. Rise and Growth of the Police ‘social reform’ is deeply linked in their work to the
Superstructure Appendices 3. Subalterns of the Calcutta Police 4. Arrival idea of the ‘nation’. The author also shows how
of the Bengali Sleuth 5. The Web of Criminal Gandhi, following these writers, created another
2009 978-81-250-3675-3 ` 1200 440pp Paperback Prosecution 6. Jail: The Meeting Ground of notion of ‘nation’ and ‘reform’, and analyses the moral
Rights: Restricted Criminology and Penology Concluding Reflections dimensions of these concepts.

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The Fight against Smallpox in Colonial Wives, Widows and 1857
Burma Concubines
Essays from Economic and Political Weekly
series: new perspectives in south asian history The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India
This volume marks the
Atsuko Naono, Associate Fellow, Department of Mytheli Sreenivas, Assistant Professor of sesquicentennial of the
History, University of Warwick, UK History and Women’s Studies, Ohio State events of 1857, in which
University, USA multi-pronged, widespread
This book makes an and in many instances,
important contribution to The book examines how organised resistance broke
our understanding of the the family became the out against the British
history of colonial medicine centre of intense debates across north India. The
practised on the about identity, community, contributions in this volume
subcontinent and its and nation in colonial Tamil look at several aspects of
periphery, Burma. Nadu. Emerging ideas about 1857, and analyse the events
Researched in both London love, marriage and desire not merely in terms of the
and Burma, it examines how were inextricably linked to immediate effects, but in terms of the
a colonial medical caste politics, the colonial repercussions that they had politically, socially, and
establishment attempted to economy and nationalist militarily.
cope with the neglect from being on the periphery agitation. This book
of British India. received the Joseph W. 2008 978-0-00106-485-0 ` 295 372pp Paperback
Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences from the
2009 978-81-250-3546-6 ` 820 252pp Hardback American Institute of Indian Studies. Dishonoured by e-book

Wicked City, The Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Situating History
Families 2. Colonizing the Family: Kinship, ‘Criminal Tribes’ and British Colonial Policy
Crime and Punishment in Colonial Calcutta Household and State 3. Conjugality and Capital:
Defining Women’s Rights to Family Property Meena Radhakrishna, Department of Sociology,
Sumanta Banerjee, acclaimed writer and former 4. Nationalizing Marriage: Indian and Dravidian Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
journalist Politics of Conjugality 5. Marrying for Love:
Emotion and Desire in Women’s Print Culture This path-breaking study
The Wicked City unravels a 6. Conclusion: Families and History traces the history and
fascinating panorama of implications of the Criminal
crime in the colonial 2009 978-81-250-3725-5 ` 625 184pp Paperback Tribes Act. Focusing on the
metropolis over the Rights: Restricted itinerant trading community
nineteenth and early of Koravas in colonial
twentieth centuries. New Madras, the author here
types of crimes like discusses the changing
counterfeiting emerged in notions of crime and
the early nineteenth criminality over a period of
century, while the time, and shows how the
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30  HISTORY Contents: 1. Memories of a Moral Movement studies. New perspectives
2. Morality of the Movement, 1915–22 come into view that highlight
against gypsies combined with realpolitik and a 3. Mobilising a Movement 4. Ideology of Innocence movement and exchange
need for wage workers resulted in the category 5. Clothing the Congress 6. A “Clear Clash of across borders, travelling
‘hereditary criminal’. Ideas” 7. Authentic Khadi: Agency, Activism, actors, cultures and faiths as
Agendas 8. Quest for Freedom of the Lowest, well as processes of cultural
2008 978-81-250-3403-2 ` 595 240pp Paperback 1933–45 9. Epilogue re-localisation, mixture and
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2008 978-81-250-3583-1 ` 525 312pp Paperback diversity of ways of life in the
Engendering the Early Indian Ocean World,
Household Gender and Cultural Identity primarily from South Asian
in Colonial Orissa sites, the contributors adopt an interdisciplinary
Brahmanical Precepts in the Early approach by combining historical and
Grhyasutras, Middle of the First Millennium Sachidananda Mohanty, Professor and Head anthropological methods.
B.C.E. of the Department of English, University of
Hyderabad 2008 978-81-250-3141-3 ` 795 420pp Hardback
Jaya Tyagi, Reader, Department of History, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5319-4
Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi The book examines
nineteenth-century cultural Kashmir e-book
This book is a socio- history of Orissa primarily
historical study of the through literary sources. It Insurgency and After
Grhyasutras, which are focuses on issues such as
texts that detail rituals for feudalism and colonial Balraj Puri, noted journalist, writer, human rights
the household. Compiled modernity, language politics activist and Padma Bhushan awardee
after the Vedas and the and the rhetoric of
Brahmanas, they represent progress, westernisation, This book explains the
how Brahmanical ideology nativity and border crossing. nature and historical roots
came to be consolidated It brings the archival of the insurgency in
and how varna and gender material to centrestage and Kashmir. It delves into the
hierarchies got solidified. It employs theatrical tools from the fields of gender, erosion of the basis for
is a well-researched account translation and culture studies. secular and democratic
of the patriarchal biases of Brahmanism and sheds politics in the state by
light on how norms laid down in early Grhyasutras 2008 978-81-250-3431-5 ` 495 192pp Paperback narrating the history of its
continue, though in varied forms, till date. alienation from the rest of
History of Human Rights, the country. The author
Contents: 1. The Emergence of the Grha as The argues that the politics of
a Sacred ‘Space’ 2. The ‘Sacred’ Activity of secession and the militancy
Procreation: Marriage,Conception and Birth From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era of the Kashmiri urge for freedom and democracy
Rites 3. Gender Segregation in the Household: can be best contained by an unhindered extension
Early Socialisation of Boys and the Separation Micheline R. Ishay, Director of the Human of the processes of Indian democracy to the state.
of Girls from ‘Formal Learning’ 4. The Grha as Rights Programme, Graduate School of
a Viable Unit for Production, Distribution and International Studies, University of Denver, USA 2008 978-81-250-3451-3 ` 395 168pp Paperback
Transmission of Resources 5. Creating Social E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5317-0
Hierarchies and Channeling Linkages through Micheline Ishay recounts the
Rituals 6. Conclusion dramatic struggle for human Language, Ideology e-book
rights across the ages. The and Power
2008 978-81-250-3232-8 ` 1025 408pp Hardback book brilliantly synthesises
historical and intellectual Language-learning among the Muslims of
Gandhi’s Khadi developments from the Pakistan and North India
Mesopotamian code of
A History of Contention and Conciliation Hammurabi to today’s era Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor
of globalisation. Ishay of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National
Rahul Ramagundam, activist, advocate and illustrates how the concept Institute of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam University,
academic of human rights evolved Islamabad
from one era to another through texts, cultural
The book is a study of traditions, and creative expression. This is the first book-length
khadi, the fabric that study of the history of
successfully transcended its 2008 978-81-250-3361-5 ` 765 480pp Hardback language teaching and
commodity status to Rights: Restricted learning among South Asian
become a political symbol. Muslims. It traces the
Acquiring emblematic status Journeys and e-book history of language-teaching
during India’s freedom among the Muslims of north
struggle due to Gandhi’s Dwellings India and present-day
efforts, khadi heralded real Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia Pakistan, and then relates
freedom to millions of poor language-learning (the
and marginalised Indians. Edited by Helene Basu, Professor, Westfaelische demand) and teaching (the
Recreating a parallel history of the khadi Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany supply) to ideology (or worldview) and power.
movement alongside that of India’s freedom
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Mobilizing India Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Chairman, Writing History in the
Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi Soviet Union
Women, Music, and Migration between
India and Trinidad Rethinking 1857, marking the Making the Past Work
one hundred and fiftieth
Tejaswini Niranjana, well-known translator and anniversary of the Uprising, [With Social Science Press]
scholar of popular culture explores the possibilities and
limits of recent thinking on it. Arup Banerji, Department of History, University
The book argues the This anthology includes fifteen of Delhi
importance of comparative essays divided into four
research across the global thematic groups on the The history of the Soviet
South. The discussion questioning of the Union has been charted in
proceeds on the assumption conventional historiography several studies over the
that South-South of 1857, the impact on decades. However, these
comparative work marginalized tribal and dalit communities, uprisings in depictions have failed to
problematises the standard regions beyond the north Indian Gangetic heartland draw attention to the
use of terms such as and the alternative polity that was posited, without political and academic
colonialism, nation, success, during the Uprising of 1857. environment within which
modernity, citizenship, these histories were
identity, and subjectivity, and adds new dimensions 2008 978-81-250-3310-3 ` 550 360pp Paperback composed. This book seeks
to their usage even in specific national contexts. 2007 978-81-250-3269-4 ` 1025 360pp Hardback to identify the significant
The attempt is to change the frame of reference hallmarks of the production
so that the ‘West’ does not become the sole norm Taking Traditional e-book of Soviet history by Soviet as well as Western
against which we measure each other. The book Knowledge to the Market historians. It traces the shift in official policy
explores the intertwining of gender issues with triggered by the Russian Revolution of 1917 and
music and migration against this background. The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and the publication of history textbooks for schools.
Unani Industry, 1980–2000
Selected Contents: 1. “The Indian in Me”: Studying Contents: Preface Introduction: Inherited
the Subaltern Diaspora 2. “Left to the Imagination”: series: new perspectives in south asian history Traditions of Historical Scholarship 1: The
Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality 3. “Take a Histories of History in the Soviet Union 2: The
Little Chutney, Add a Touch of Kaiso”: The Body Maarten Bode, Researcher, Department of Impact of Glasnost on the Writing of History
in the Voice 4. Jumping out of Time: The “Indian” Medical Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of 3: Histories of the Communist Party as Histories
in Calypso 5. “Suku Suku What Shall I Do?”: Hindi Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam of the Soviet Union Chapter 4: Depictions and
Cinema and the Politics of Music Afterword: A Semi- Revisions: The Russian Revolution in History
line The author explores the 5: The Historical Archive 6: History in Russian
paradox at the heart of the Schools
2008 978-81-250-3359-2 ` 545  272pp Paperback ayurvedic and unani
Rights: Restricted medicine manufacturing 2008 978-81-87358-37-4 ` 695 300pp Hardback
industry—to present itself Rights: Restricted
New Mansions for Music as modern and traditional,
common and professional at 27 Down e-book
Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism the same time.
New Departures in Indian Railway Studies
[With Orient BlackSwan] Selected Contents:
1. The Anatomy of the series: new perspectives in south asian history
Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor, Department Study: Object, Method and
of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Process 2. The Kitchen, the Government and the Edited by Ian J. Kerr, Research Associate,
Delhi Market: The Commoditisation of Indian Medicines Department of History, School of Oriental and
3. Manufacturers, Products and Markets: Popular
The essays in this collection Culture, Medicine, Biomedical Enclaving, and African Studies, University of London
look at the ancient and Humoral Clinical Medicine 4. Reworking Ayurvedic
rigorous Karnatik music and Unani Medicines through Modern Science This volume is a collection
system, and the kind of and Technology: The Gap between Humoral of essays on the Indian
changes it underwent once and Modern Pharmacology 5. Indian Medicine, Railways that explore
it was relocated from Authenticity and Identity: The Construction of linkages and continuities
traditional spaces of temples an Indian Modernity 6. The Representation of between colonial and
and salons to the public Indian Indigenous Medical Products in Advertising: post-colonial times. The
domain. Nineteenth-century Tradition, Modernity and Nature book carries eight
Madras led the way in the contributions on various
transformation that 2008 978-81-250-3315-8 ` 765 272pp Hardback aspects of Indian society,
Karnatik music underwent as it encountered the Rights: Restricted culture, history and social
forces of modernisation and standardisation. It also work. It covers a wide
gives us insights in modernity in India through the range of topics that will interest both specialist and
prism of music. lay readers, and also includes much valuable
memorabilia and documents.
2008 978-81-87358-34-3 ` 425 190pp Hardback
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32  HISTORY Gandhi is the only This book explores a variety
full-length biography of sites of unani practice
Colonial City and the available on him. It spanning popular and
Challenge of Modernity, The reconstructs a life from institutional domains as a
letters, family records and means of understanding the
Urban Hegemonies and Civic archives of the Sabarmati changing trajectories of tibb
Contestations in Bombay (1900–1925) Ashram, and old files of (which means ‘medicine’ in
newspapers. In addition, Arabic) in India throughout
series: new perspectives in south asian history Tridip Suhrud has included the twentieth century. The
twelve appendices study also looks at and
Sandip Hazareesingh, Lecturer, at the Open consisting of hitherto understands tibb in relation
University’s Ferguson Centre for African and Asian unpublished letters and to ayurveda, biomedicine, homeopathy, ‘folk’ and
Studies religious healing, apart from emphasising a
related material. comparative approach that focuses on south and
This book attempts to break central India.
new theoretical ground in 2007 978-81-250-3379-0 ` 595 320pp Paperback
the study of colonial urban 2007 978-81-250-3017-1 ` 875 332pp Hardback
historical processes. The History of Textbook E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5239-5
author opens a new line of Medieval India
inquiry into the early Towards Freedom
twentieth-century history of Satish Chandra, eminent historian
Bombay. The city of Bombay Critical Essays on Ghare Baire
and its people are made the History of Medieval India is a
primary actors in the comprehensive overview of Edited by Sharmila Purkayastha, Shampa Roy
unfolding events of the history of the Indian and Saswati Sengupta, Department of English,
1900–1925, while subcontinent from the Miranda House, University of Delhi
historiographically dominant personalities such as eighth and the eighteenth
Gandhi are shown as highly dependent on the century. This book studies Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare
political energies generated by urban life. this interesting period in Baire (The Home and the
Indian history when the land World) was serialised in 1914
2007 978-81-250-3237-3 ` 950 260pp Hardback underwent drastic changes, and published as a novel in
deeply influenced by the 1916. Towards Freedom is a
Fall of the Mughal Empire, invading armies, religious collection of critical essays on
The movements and the the issues raised by Tagore’s
vicissitudes of the changing political, economic and novel in a world with
(Four Volumes: Available as a box set) cultural scene. differences of religion, caste,
gender, etc. The novel deals
Jadunath Sarkar, eminent historian 2007 978-81-250-3226-7 ` 410 392pp Paperback with the period 1905–7, one
Also in Hindi of political turmoil alongside women’s emancipation.
The four volumes together comprise a detailed Ghare Bhaire is the first fictional exploration of the
study of the causes and the result of the events Hyderabad tangled web of issues related to the two spheres in
between the death of Aurangzeb (1707) and early twentieth-century Bengal.
The Social Context of Industrialisation
the conquest of Delhi 2007 978-81-250-3187-1 ` 495 224pp Paperback
(1803). This fourth edition C. V. Subba Rao, Department of Economics,
includes extensive University of Delhi Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar,
footnotes, listing the best The
sources available on the The book is an economic
subject, scholarly history of the Indian Edited by Pramod K. Nayar, Department of
acknowledgement of other princely state of Hyderabad English, University of Hyderabad
historians’ views, and a through the late colonial era
detailed identification in up to 1948. The study Bahadur Shah Zafar, the
present-day India of the brings to life a region and its poet-king, was catapulted
villages and towns people, and while doing so, into the limelight when
mentioned in the book. it grapples with the social ‘mutineers’ from Meerut
paradigms and their bearing arrived in Delhi on 11 May
Contents: Volume I: 1739–54 Volume II: 1754–71 on the region under 1857. After the ‘mutiny’, the
Volume III: 1771–88 Volume IV: 1789–1803 discussion. last of the great Mughals
went on trial on 27 January
2007 978-81-250-3245-8 ` 2200 1340pp 2007 978-81-250-3260-1 ` 695 240pp Hardback 1858 for aiding and abetting
Paperback  Rights: Restricted the ‘mutineers’. The 21-day
Refiguring Unani Tibb trial saw the British produce
Harilal Gandhi dozens of witnesses and documents to
Plural Healing in Late Colonial India demonstrate Zafar’s complicity. He was found
A Life guilty and exiled to Burma, where he died years
series: new perspectives in south asian history later. The current edition reproduces the text,
Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal (1899–1980), documents and witness accounts of the trial.
former Director, Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya, Guy Attewell, Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust
Ahmedabad Centre for the History of Medicine, University 2007 978-81-250-3270-0 ` 795  392pp Paperback
Translated by Tridip Suhrud, Professor, College London
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Woman and Empire different varieties and classes of Christians adopted, In the Tracks of e-book
resisted and reshaped both imperial and nationalist the Mahatma
Representations in the Writings of British perceptions of their identity.
India, 1858–1900 The Making of a Documentary
2006 978-0-415-32321-5 ` 750 305pp Hardback
series: new perspectives in south asian history Rights: Restricted A. K. Chettiar
Edited by A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor,
Indrani Sen, Reader, Department of English, Decentring Empire e-book Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai,
Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi and translated by S. Thillainayagam, Professor,
Britain, India and the Transcolonial World Department of English, Manonmaniam Sundaranar
Drawing upon a wide range
of literary and non-literary series: new perspectives in south asian history University, Tirunelveli
sources, the author
explores the tensions and Edited by Durba Ghosh, Assistant Professor of In 1937, a 26-year-old Indian
contradictions inherent in History, Cornell University, and Dane Kennedy, aboard a ship sailing from
women’s representations, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and New York to Dublin
studying them against the International Affairs, George Washington decided to make a
larger canvas of social University, Washington, D.C. documentary on the life of
history. The book focuses Mahatma Gandhi. Over the
on the representations of Moving beyond the standard next few years, he travelled
white and Indian women, in model of a bilateral circuit some 100,000 miles
addition to women of mixed races, in fiction as between imperial centre and collecting 50,000 feet of film
well as in colonial newspapers and journals. colonial periphery, this book footage. In 1940, he edited
highlights the web of this into a 12,000 feet
2007 978-81-250-3346-2 ` 495 224pp Paperback transcolonial and documentary. In the Tracks of the Mahatma is the
Rights: Restricted transnational networks that story of the making of this documentary in the
spread across and beyond words of the man who achieved this stupendous
Yuganta the empire, operating both task, A. K. Chettiar.
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venerated characters of The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Research Fellow,
this ancient Indian epic are India, 1947–1977 Harvard Center for Population and Development
here subjected to a rational
enquiry that places them in series: new perspectives in south asian history Studies, Cambridge, USA
context, unravels their
hopes and fears, and imbues them with wholly Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer, Wellcome This book is a study of how
human motives, thereby making their stories Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, indigenous medical learning
relevant and revelatory to contemporary readers. and practices were recast
University College London and reformulated with the
2007 978-81-250-3228-1 ` 395 224pp Paperback coming of Western
This wide-ranging study, medicine and Western
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Colonial South India research in India, Britain, colonial rule. Analysing local
1863–1937 Switzerland and the USA, responses to global
assesses the many enforcements in a specific
Contending with Marginality complexities in the yet massive terrain—namely
formulation and colonial Punjab—the author explores the
Edited by Mallampalli Chandra, Assistant implementation of the processes by which this region’s Ayurvedic
Professor of History, Westmont College, California smallpox eradication practitioners and publicists set about reordering
programme in the Indian ideas and mobilising networks in response to the
This book tells the story of subcontinent. The book claims of Western medicine and its implicit
how Catholic and Protestant emphasises the crucial role played by field workers validation of colonial rule.
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evolving Indian nation. The E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5240-1
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Reading the East India the most part is the temple. Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial
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Colonial Currencies of Gender Cambridge Economic History of series: new perspectives in south asian history
India, The
Betty Joseph, Department of English, Rice Kavita Philip, Associate Professor, Department of
University, Houston, USA Volume 1: c.1200–c.1750 (New Edition) Women’s Studies, University of California, Irvine, USA
Edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib
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and gender. Joseph uses Cambridge Economic History of Famine of 1896–1897 in Bengal, The
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to prove that while it was Volume 2: c.1757–2003 (New Edition)
British men in seats of Edited by Dharma Kumar Malabika Chakrabarti, formerly at Rabindra
power who controlled these Bharati University, Kolkata, post-doctoral researcher
ideologies, in many instances 2005 978-81-250-2731-7 ` 895 1115pp Paperback and freelance writer
British women and Indians also left their mark. Rights: Restricted
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University, Toronto, Canada, Mark Harrison, series: new perspectives in south asian history
series: new perspectives in south asian history Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of
Medicine, University of Oxford and Reader, History Margaret Jones, Research Officer, Wellcome Unit
Sarah Hodges, Lecturer, Department of History, of Medicine, Modern History Faculty, Oxford, and for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
University of Warwick, UK Michael Worboys, Director, Centre for the
History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Written in a compelling and lucid style, the book is
This book brings together the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, a path-breaking contribution to the history of colonial
historians to tackle the University of Manchester Ceylon and to the history of medicine.… Jones
complex questions of analyses colonial medicine through a nuanced reading
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agendas such as social reform, the medical sciences, 2005 978-81-250-2277-0 ` 655 346pp Paperback
cultural nationalism and colonial public health. Rights: Restricted Axel Michaels, Professor of Classical Indology,
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
2006 978-81-250-2939-7 ` 820 273pp Hardback People’s History of the World, A
2004 978-81-250-2776-8 ` 490 448pp Paperback
View from Below, The Chris Harman, historian and activist Rights: Restricted
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Indigenous Society, Temples and the Early Rights: Restricted History of Fine Arts in India and the
Colonial State in Tamil Nadu, 1700–1835 West, A
Thomas Kuhn
Kanakalatha Mukund, former Fellow, Centre Edith Tomory, former Head of the Department of
for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad A Philosophical History for Our Times Fine Arts, Stella Maris College, Chennai
Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology, University of
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in turn, view the colonial Rights: Restricted Science and National e-book
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Mukund considers the Keep in touch
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dialogic, whereby the colonial
state and indigenous society series: new perspectives in south asian history
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Textbook of Textbook Education and the Disprivileged PERMANENT BLACK

Historiography, A Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India Beyond Caste: Identity, and
Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Jawaharlal Power in South Asia
500 BC to AD 2000 Nehru University, New Delhi
E. Sreedharan Past and Present
2002 978-81-250-2192-6 ` 650 352pp Hardback
2004 978-81-250-2657-0 ` 495 585pp Paperback Sumit Guha has a PhD in History (1981) from
Also in Hindi Western Medicine and Public the University of Cambridge. He is Frances
Health in Colonial Bombay Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in
Colonial Economy in the Great History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Depression, A 1845–1895
‘Caste’ is today almost
Madras (1929–1937) series: new perspectives in south asian history universally perceived as an
Mridula Ramanna, Department of History, SIES ancient and unchanging Hindu
K. A. Manikumar, Professor of History, College, Mumbai University institution preserved by
Manomaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli religious ideology. Yet the
[The] book is well written and enormously detailed. word itself is an importation
2003 978-81-250-2456-9 ` 595 240pp Hardback [It] adds a great deal to our knowledge of medical from sixteenth-century
practice in colonial India, and it will no doubt interest Europe. This book tracks the
Community, Empire and Migration historians of medicine, disease, technology, and long history of the caste
culture. practices and connects them
South Asians in Diaspora to changing patterns of social
Edited by Crispin Bates —Technology and Culture and political power down to the present. It frames
caste as a complex form of ethnicity and explains
2003 978-81-250-2482-8 ` 660 334pp Paperback 2002 978-81-250-2302-9 ` 975 284pp Hardback why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in
Rights: Restricted non-Hindu communities across South Asia.
Situating Social History
Dressing the Colonised Body 2016 978-81-7824-465-5 ` 795 316pp Hardback
Orissa, 1800–1997 Rights: Restricted
Politics, Clothing and Identity in Colonial
Sri Lanka series: new perspectives in south asian history Bodies of Song
Biswamoy Pati, Reader, Department of History, Sri
Nira Wickramasinghe, former Fellow at the Venkateswara College, University of Delhi Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative
School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Worlds in North India
Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes en Sciences 2001 978-81-250-2007-3 ` 600 196pp Hardback
Sociales, Paris E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5238-8 Linda Hess, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies
at Stanford University
2003 978-81-250-2479-8 ` 475 157pp Hardback From Autocracy to Integration
Kabir’s work lends itself to
Inventing Global Ecology Political Developments in Hyderabad State, topics that range from the
1938–1948 religious-spiritual to the
Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India, Lucien D. Benichou social-political, urging
1945–1947 fearless awakening while
2000 978-81-250-1847-6 ` 550 324pp Hardback simultaneously rejecting
series: new perspectives in south asian history E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5469-6 religious identities. Bodies of
Song draws on ethnographic
Michael Lewis, Assistant Professor, Department of Ideals, Images and Real Lives research as well as on the
History, Salisbury University, Maryland, USA history of written
Women in Literature and History collections to study the
2003 978-81-250-2377-7 ` 1025 384pp Hardback Alice Thorner and Maithreyi Krishnaraj poetry and culture of Kabir—the first scholarly
Rights: Restricted work of its kind. It focuses on texts—their
2000 978-81-250-0843-9 ` 350 367pp Hardback transmission by singers, the dynamics of textual
Pre- and Protohistoric Andhra forms in oral performance, and the connections
Pradesh up to 500 BC  Sourcebook of Indian Civilization, between texts in oral forms, written forms, and
A other media. Professor Hess also examines
series: comprehensive history and culture of communities of interpretation—including the
Niharranjan Ray, B. D. Chattopadhyay, Kabir Panth (a religious sect), Eklavya (a secular
andhra pradesh B. D. V. R. Mani and Ranabir Chakravarti educational NGO), and urban fans of Kabir.

M. L. K. Murty, Professor and Head, Centre for 2000 978-81-250-1871-1 ` 1020 678pp Hardback 2016 978-81-7824-468-6 ` 895 488pp Hardback
Regional Studies, and Head, Folk Culture Studies, Rights: Restricted
University of Hyderabad Vedic People, The

2003 978-81-250-2475-0 ` 450 200pp Hardback Their History and Geography
Rajesh Kochhar
There Comes Papa
2000 978-81-250-1080-7 ` 625 273pp Paperback
Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4671-4
in Kerala and Malabar, c. 1850–1940
Colonialism in Action
G. Arunima, senior lecturer at Lady Shriram
College, New Delhi Trade, Development and Dependence in Late
Colonial India
2003 978-81-250-2514-6 ` 450 242pp Hardback Debdas Banerjee

Between History and Legend 1999 978-81-250-1697-7 ` 350 247pp Paperback

Status and Power in Bundelkhand Essays on Colonialism

Ravindra K. Jain, anthropologist and senior Bipan Chandra
professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 1999 978-81-250-1610-6 ` 575 374pp Paperback

2002 978-81-250-2194-0 ` 550 166pp Hardback

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The
Calling of History, The Representing Dalits in Print
A New Way of Remembering the Past and
Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Charu Gupta, Associate Professor, Department Imagining the Future
Truth of History, University of Delhi
Theodore Zeldin, Emeritus Fellow of St
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. The Gender of Caste rethinks Antony’s College and an Associate Fellow of
Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor the history of caste from a Green Templeton College in Oxford
of History and South Asian Languages and gendered perspective—two
Civilizations at the University of Chicago. topics which are rarely What new priorities can
addressed together in the people give to their private
Dipesh Chakrabarty context of colonial India—by lives? How can one escape
examines the career of Sir exploring its connections from work colleagues who
Jadunath Sarkar (1870– with hegemonic print–public– are bores and from
1958)—a leading scholar in popular culture. Deriving her organisations that thrive on
early-twentieth-century India material from Uttar Pradesh stress? When the romantic
and the first Indian historian a century ago, the author ideal is disappointing, how
to gain honorary shows how ideas about gender were critical to else can affections be
membership in the American caste practices in relation to Dalits. Utilising the cultivated? If only a few can
Historical Association—who lens of ‘representation’, she examines ideological become rich, what substitute
by the end of his lifetime had discourses that constructed Dalits generally, and is there for dropping out? If religions and nations
been marginalised by the Dalit women specifically. Such constructions she disagree, what other outcomes are possible
Indian history establishment. Through close readings argues—which persist even into our own beyond strife or doubt? Where there is too little
of more than twelve hundred letters to and from times—suggest the implicit collusion of colonisers, freedom, what is the alternative to rebellion?
Sarkar, and archival documents, Chakrabarty nationalists, reformers, and Dalits themselves. When so much is unpredictable, what can replace
demonstrates how historians in colonial India Dalit masculinity, remembrances of 1857, popular ambition? These are some of the questions asked
formulated the basic concepts and practices of the vocabularies and idioms, conversion anxieties, and and answered in this book by one of the world’s
field, which were very different from what we know the difficulties of indentured labour are among the most famous, original, and idiosyncratic historians.
today. The changing discourses of the discipline and many themes of this book—a major expansion of Deploying examples from the whole history of
reputations of scholars like Sarkar, he argues, must the field. human civilisation—ranging from China and India
be viewed in their context. Insightful and with to Europe and the Americas—Professor Zeldin
far-reaching implications for all historians, The 2016 978-81-7824-389-4 ` 895 354pp Hardback comes up with some of the most fascinating
Calling of History offers a valuable look at the Rights: Restricted insights and answers about the meaning of life and
double life of history and how tensions between its how to live it in the modern world.
public and private sides played out in a major Hating Empire Properly
scholar’s career. 2016 978-81-7824-467-9 ` 595 430pp Paperback
India, the Indies, and Enlightenment Rights: Restricted
2016 978-81-7824-469-3 ` 795 314pp Hardback Anticolonialism
Rights: Restricted Hindu Pasts
Sunil M. Agnani, Associate Professor with the
Dalit Studies departments of English and History, University of Women, Religion, Histories
Illinois at Chicago
Ramnarayan S. Rawat, Associate Professor Vasudha Dalmia has taught at the universities
of History at the University of Delaware, and K. Sunil Agnani’s work is a of Heidelberg and Tuebingen and was also a
Satyanarayana, Associate Professor of Cultural novel attempt to think Professor of Hindi and Modern South Asian
Studies at EFL University, Hyderabad about the eighteenth- Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
century view of India and She retired in 2014 as Professor of Hindu Studies
Moving beyond the the West Indies together, in at Yale.
anticolonialism/nationalism relation to the
binary that dominates the Enlightenment, arguing that Right at the beginning of
study, the contributors, this is how Edmund Burke her book, Vasudha Dalmia
assess the benefits of and Denis Diderot actually outlines the common
colonial modernity and saw them. Agnani thread that is crucial to
replacement of hegemonic demonstrates how Burke’s her writings: first, an
narratives with the Dalit horror of the French understanding of the
experience. Essays highlight Revolution—the defining event of modernity—was relationship between
the way in which Dalits shaped by prior reflection on these other domains. language, religion; second,
used colonial courts and He also analyses our understanding of Diderot’s as the need to recognise the
legislature to gain minority an unequivocal critic of empire. By looking multiplicity of semi-
rights, Dalit activism in social and religious spheres, carefully at the thought of both radical and autonomous strands of
struggles of contemporary middle-class Dalits to conservative writers, Agnani asks what it means to Hinduism rather than
reconcile their caste and class, and intercaste critique empire ‘properly’. Sunil Agnani shows us viewing it as a monolithic tradition. Professor
tensions among Sikhs, among other topics. connections between ‘Empire’ and ‘Enlightenment’, Dalmia’s work reveals a steady focus on Indian
Recounting Dalit struggles against caste violence, from a new perspective. His work is an important religious traditions, sects, and histories which,
exclusion, and discrimination, Dalit Studies enables contribution to political theory, history, literary over several hundred years, came to collectively
significant reconsideration of many of the Indian studies, and postcolonial studies. comprise what in the nineteenth century became
academy’s core assumptions. known as Hinduism. In her essays, she deals with
2016 978-81-7824-480-8 ` 895 304pp Hardback Max Müller’s study of the Veda; knowledge-
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complete emancipation to the Punjabi students’
formation, law-making and pedagogy in colonial conference, lauding Jatin’s sacrifice. On his return colonial society by administrators such as Lord
India, and the role in these of Banaras; Vaishnava to Calcutta, Bose was arrested and later Cornwallis and Philip Francis. He elaborates on the
Bhakti tradition; role of pre-modern vernacular imprisoned on charges of sedition. This volume philosophical antecedents of the Settlement outlining
narratives that constructed the modern Hindi shows Subhas as an emerging pan-Indian leader, the contradictions between their views and those of
novel and the Hindu ‘nari’. and as the only real spokesman of the Left. Warren Hastings. This third edition includes two
new essays by Partha Chatterjee and Rudrangshu
2016 978-81-7824-399-3 ` 895 374pp Hardback 2016 978-81-7824-475-4 ` 495 312pp Paperback Mukherjee. Together they make the book, which
Rights: Restricted Rights: Restricted was first published in 1963, an indispensable study
for anyone thinking seriously about colonial rule and
India’s Polity in the Age of Nature and Nation the making of modern South Asia.
Akbar
Essays on Environmental History 2016 978-81-7824-482-2 ` 595 330pp Paperback
Iqtidar Alam Khan retired as Professor of
History, Aligarh Muslim University, in 1994, and Mahesh Rangarajan has been Professor of Text and Tradition in South
was President of the Indian History Congress’ 59th History, University of Delhi, and Visiting Faculty India
session in Bangalore, in 1997. at Cornell. He was Director, Nehru Memorial
Museum and Library, New Delhi. With an Introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Certain important facets of
the Mughal polity during Mahesh Rangarajan, one of Velcheru Narayana Rao has taught Telugu
Akbar’s reign are the the foremost scholars in and Indian literatures for thirty-eight years at
subject of this book by the field of environmental the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has
Iqtidar Alam Khan. In his history, in this collection of also taught at the University of Chicago, and is
Introduction, Professor ten essays discusses the currently Visiting Distinguished Professor of South
Khan highlights political global ecological Asian Studies at Emory University.
and economic processes of dimensions of Indian
the first quarter of the transformations by Velcheru Narayana Rao’s
sixteenth century that drawing upon topics like contribution to
testify to a sharing of state-making, economy and understanding Indian
political authority and the the nation. It is a cultural history, literary
social surplus among culturally diverse ruling comparative study of the production, and intellectual
groups. He investigates the nature of Mughal subcontinent with the world beyond, especially life—specifically from the
assignments prior to the introduction of the with societies in Asia and Africa once under vantage of the Andhra
mansab system in 1575, Bairam Khan’s ‘regency’ Western domination. They also include studies of region—goes uncontested
and his ouster, changing composition of the specific historical conjunctures under regimes such in the South Indian
nobility during the early phase, and accompanying as those of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, academia. His mastery of
shifts in Akbar’s religious policy. Hitherto Jomo Kenyatta and Julius Nyerere. classical Telugu, Sanskrit
unnoticed information regarding Akbar’s person and vernacular traditions makes him a trusted
and happenings in the early part of his reign is 2016 978-81-7824-459-4 ` 795 360pp Hardback scholar of pre-colonial and colonial periods. The
explained, followed by a careful tracing of Akbar’s essays in this collection bring together the diverse
changing worldview with reference to newly Rule of Property for Bengal, contributions made by Rao to the rewriting of
published source material, and finally Akbar’s A India’s cultural and literary history. No one
promotion of Iranian emigrants. seriously interested in the history of Indian ideas,
An Essay on the Idea of Permanent the social and cultural history of South India, and
2016 978-81-7824-466-2 ` 695 234pp Hardback Settlement the massive intellectual traditions of the
subcontinent can do without this book.
Leader of Youth Ranajit Guha is best known as the founding
father of Subaltern Studies. Renowned as a critical 2016 978-81-7824-472-3 ` 995 490pp Hardback
Netaji Collected Works, volume 6
figure in the academic worlds of Calcutta, Sussex, Unconditional Equality
Sisir Kumar Bose founded the Netaji Research
Bureau in 1957. A participant in the Indian Canberra, and New York, Mr Guha lives for the Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance

freedom struggle, he was imprisoned by the moment on the fringes of Vienna. Ajay Skaria, Professor of History at the
British. Sugata Bose is Gardiner Professor of University of Minnesota
History at Harvard University. Co-published with Orient BlackSwan
Unconditional Equality
“. . . a pioneering work on the RANAJIt GUHA Ranajit Guha’s classic study examines Mahatma
of the infamous Permanent Gandhi’s critique of liberal
This volume brings tointellectual origins of [the A RULE OF Settlement of Bengal—the ideas of freedom and
Permanent Settlement]” PROPERty most disputed step in the equality, and his own
holden furber (1964) practice of a freedom and
equality organised around
readers the speechesThe infamous Permanent Settlement of religion. For Gandhi, there
Bengal in the eighteenth century was the most can be ‘no politics without
disputed step in the agrarian field ever taken in religion’ and satyagraha is
India under British rule.Why did it happen? A RULE OF PROPERty FOR BENGAL the ‘religion that stays in
delivered by Subhasranajitguha RANAJIt GUHA all religions’. Sometimes
is probably the most globally working against the grain of Gandhi’s explicit
influential Indian historian
Written with uncommon elegance, Ranajit FOR BENGAL agrarian field ever taken in
Guha’s classic study—a pioneering work
in Indian intellectual history—provides the

of the past fifty years. Best answers by looking at the ideas and thinking of
the policy-makers who radically changed the
way in which India was taxed and ruled.

Guha considers why European ideas about
Chandra Bose betweenknownasthefounding An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement colonial India—provides the
father of Subaltern Studies,
his several acclaimed
books include The Small
Voice of History (Permanent
Black, 2009). Renowned
as a critical figure in the

academic worlds of Calcutta,

1929 and February 1933. ItSussex,Canberra,andNew
York, Mr Guha lives

was in 1929 thatnearVienna.
capitalism in farming and methods of revenue answers by looking at the
collection were thrust upon a colonial society.
He shows that British administrators such as
Lord Cornwallis and Philip Francis were far
more considerably influenced by the French
Physiocrats than by Indian conditions on the
ground. He elaborates on the philosophical
antecedents of the Settlement in the works of

Alexander Dow, Henry Pattullo, and Philip ideas and thinking of the

Francis, outlining the contradictions between
their views and those of Warren Hastings.

This third, attractively re-set, edition of a
Jatindranath Das—a younghedgehogandfox policy-makers who radically
series editor:
rudrangshu mukherjee
seminal work that has been in print sinceassociate of BhagatCover:ViewofFortWilliam,etching
1963 includes two new essays by Partha by John Bowles based on a painting by changed the way in which
Chatterjee and Rudrangshu Mukherjee. George Lambert and Samuel Scott, c. 1731
Together, they position this book within Indian


historiography and reveal precisely why it
Singh—died in Lahore Jail
remains indispensable for anyone involved in
thinking seriously about colonial rule and the
making of modern South Asia.

Rs 595 India was taxed and ruled.

after a hunger strike. Jatincoverdesignbyanuradharoy Guha considers why

had served in the Congress European ideas about capitalism in farming and

volunteer corps in 1928 methods of revenue collection were thrust upon a

under Subhas. In October 1929 Subhas journeyed

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38  HISTORY emperor, who ruled over almost all of the Indian volumes provide the most essential and thought-
Subcontinent. Digging into history, she provides him provoking pieces on the subject.
formulations, Unconditional Equality reconceives with contextual flesh, teasing out his psychology and
satyagraha (passive resistance) as a politics that personality from his edicts and archaeological data 2015 978-81-7824-398-6 ` 1495 1008pp Paperback
strives for the absolute equality of all beings. about life in India over the last few centuries BCE. 2013 978-81-7824-369-6 ` 1900 1008pp Hardback
Liberal traditions usually affirm an abstract This is the most historically rich and readable book E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-437-2
equality—that excludes those presumed to lack on the life and times of Ashoka, The Great.
reason (such as animals or the colonised)—which Common Cause, The
should be resisted. 2015  978-81-7824-388-7  ` 895  414 pp  Hardback
Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of
2016 978-81-7824-477-8 ` 895 406pp Hardback Autobiography of an Archive Democracy
Rights: Restricted
A Scholar’s Passage to India Leela Gandhi, Professor of English and
1971 Humanities at Brown University
Nicholas B. Dirks is Chancellor, University of
Global History of the Creation of California, Berkeley, where he is also a professor Europeans and Americans
Bangladesh, A of history and anthropology. tend to hold the opinion
that democracy is a uniquely
[With Harvard University Press] In Autobiography of an Western inheritance. In The
Archive history’s turn from Common Cause, Leela
Srinath Raghavan,Senior Fellow, Centre for high politics and formal Gandhi recovers stories of
Policy Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in intellectual history towards an alternative version. Using
Defence Studies, King’s College, London ordinary lives and cultural ethics as a lens, she
rhythms is vividly reflected describes a transnational
Raghavan brilliantly in a scholar’s intellectual history of democracy in the
provides the definitive journey to India. In this first half of the twentieth
account of how high-level collection of essays and century. She identifies a
diplomacy involving the lectures, Nicholas B. Dirks shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism,
superpowers, India, recounts his early study of fascism, and liberalism—an ethic that excluded the
Pakistan, and China shaped kingship in India, the rise of ordinary and unexceptional. But she also illuminates
its outcome. the caste system, the emergence of English an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of
imperial interest in controlling markets and India’s anticolonial and antifascist practices devoted to
— Stephen P. Cohen, author political regimes, and the development of a crisis in ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from
of The Future of Pakistan sovereignty that led to an extraordinary nationalist doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma
struggle. He shares his personal encounters with Gandhi’s spiritual discipline.
The author contends that, archives that provided the sources and boundaries
far from being a predestined event, the creation for research on these subjects, ultimately revealing 2015  978-81-7824-457-0  ` 495 252pp  Paperback
of Bangladesh was the product of conjuncture the limits of colonial knowledge and single
and contingency, choice and chance. The breakup disciplinary perspectives. Elephants and Kings
of Pakistan and the emergence of Bangladesh
can be understood only in a wider international 2015  978-81-7824-458-7  ` 895  400 pp  Hardback An Environmental History
context of the period: decolonisation, the Cold
War, and incipient globalisation.This strikingly Caste in e-book Thomas R. Trautmann, Emeritus Professor,
original history uses the example of 1971 to Modern India University of Michigan
open a window to the nature of international
humanitarian crises, their management, and their A Reader (Two Volume Set) Elephants are majestic
unintended outcomes. animals symbolising royalty
Sumit Sarkar has been Professor of History and grandeur since time
2015  978-81-7824-451-8  ` 595  368pp  Paperback at the University of Delhi and Tanika Sarkar, immemorial. They were
2014 978-81-7824-380-1 ` 795  368pp  Hardback Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru used for royal sacrifice,
spectacular hunts, public
Ashoka in Ancient India University. displays, and their ivory—all
aspects driving them toward
Nayanjot Lahiri, Winner of the Infosys Prize Caste is the key category in extinction. The kings of
2013 in the Humanities—Archaeology, Professor contemporary Indian social India, however, Thomas
in the Department of History, University of Delhi thinking. This anthology Trautmann shows, found a
picks out some of the best use for elephants that
Ashoka was the third essays on the subject in actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers
emperor of the Maurya order to explore specific in the wild-war. In Elephants and Kings, Trautmann
dynasty and also one the aspects of modern caste: shows Indian kings capturing wild elephants and
finest rulers in World- how the issue of caste was training them, one by one, through millennia. Taking
history. A dedicated understood in colonial a wide-angle view of human–elephant relations, he
Buddhist, he is idolised for times, how it was re- throws into relief the structure of India’s
his altruistic hegemony. In created under conditions of environmental history and the reasons for the
fact, the candour and modernity, and how various castes came to relate persistence of wild elephants in its forests.
emotion of his messages on to one another and to themselves in new ways.
stone show him less as a The essays also engage in debates that were first Written with uncommon flair and elegance, this
political figure than as a raised in these fields. Dumont’s notions about is a monumental work of environmental history
self-reflective individual. purity and power are questioned, while fresh using Indian antiquity as its entry point.
Recovering Ashoka’s life and times from legend, perspectives are offered on jajmani. These two
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travel writing, and the central conceits in HISTORY  39
Hemingway, Rushdie, Naipaul, and Marquez.
Finding Forgotten Cities history—that this notion
2015 978-81-7824-461-7 ` 450 276pp Paperback passes for a truism. In the
How the Indus Civilization was Discovered 2013 978-81-7824-370-2 ` 595 276pp Hardback present book Romila Thapar
shows an intellectually
Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor, History Department, Modern Times dynamic ancient world
Delhi University profuse with ideas about the
India 1880s–1950s past, an arena replete with
Spanning nearly a century, societies constructing,
Finding foreign cities is a Sumit Sarkar is among the most influential and reconstructing, and
tale of men such as the widely admired historians of modern India. contesting various visions of
colorful collector-traveller worlds before their own.
Charles Masson, who first Focusing on three huge The Vedic corpus, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata,
described Harappa; the areas—economy, the itihasa-purana tradition, the Buddhist and Jaina
archaeological pioneer environment and culture— canons, the hagiographical and biographical
Alexander Cunningham, Professor Sumit Sarkar offers literature, the inscriptional evidence, a variety of
Harappa’s first excavator; his magisterial perspective on chronicles, and dramatic forms such as the
discerning diggers such as these. Scientific discourses, Mudrarakshasa are all scrutinized afresh as a
Daya Ram Sahni, Rakhaldas laws, forest administration, civilization’s many ways of thinking about and
Banerji, and Madho Sarup peasants and adivasis, writing its history.
Vats who uncovered Harappa and Mohenjodaro; irrigation, and conflicts over
the Italian linguist-turned-explorer Luigi Pio land-use are examined, as are 2015 978-81-7824-397-9 ` 995 776pp Paperback
Tessitori, who unearthed Kalibangan but never agrarian relations, 2013 978-81-7824-295-8 ` 1395 776pp Hardback
lived to tell the tale of his exploits; government commercialisation, Rights: Restricted
officials of all kinds who, as self-taught indebtedness and famine. Trade, finance, and industry
archaeologists, stumbled upon significant clues in are other major focus areas that are looked into. Province of the Book, The
their work arenas; and, presiding over the whole
process, a Cambridge classicist brought by Lord 2015 978-81-7824-382-5 ` 895 476 pp Hardback Scholars, Scribes and Scribblers in Colonial
Curzon to India as Director General of the Tamilnadu
Archaeological Survey of India—John Marshall— Partial Recall
who finally pieced into place a maze of enigmatic A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor at the
data on the long forgotten Indus civilisation. The Essays on Literature and Literary History Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
book comprises a powerful narrative history of
how India’s antiquity was unexpectedly unearthed. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra has published four It explores the wonderful
It will interest every serious reader of history and collections of poetry, two volumes of translations, world of scholarly and
anyone who likes to read an utterly fascinating and edited several books, including An Illustrated subaltern publishing—
story. History of Indian Literature in English especially popular fiction and
street literature—in its
2015  978-81-7824-464-8 ` 495  454 pp  Paperback The essays in Partial Recall, heyday. The book also looks
rich in literary detail and closely at reading practices,
Is ‘Indian Civilization’ a accessible insight, were modes of reading, and the
Myth? written over the past thirty nature, numbers, and
years. Among them are composition of book readers.
Fictions and Histories Mehrotra’s homage to his Its epilogue traces the broad
friend and fellow poet Arun contours of Tamil publishing
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Distinguished Kolatkar; a perceptive from the time of Independence to the present and
Professor of History at UCLA appreciation of A. K. speculates on the future of the Tamil book.
Ramanujan; a scathing
In the title essay of this scrutiny of R. Parthasarathy; 2015 978-81-7824-452-5 ` 495 320 pp Paperback
enthralling collection, Sanjay a radical redefinition of the
Subrahmanyam sets a modern Indian poem; a literary-historical view of Rebels, Wives, e-book
provocative ball rolling: ‘At Kabir; and a wide-ranging introduction to the
the heart of the matter’, he entire corpus of Indian writing in English from Saints
says, ‘is the notion that ... 1800 to the present. Forthright in manner and Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial
say about AD 500, the cosmopolitan in their references, Mehrotra’s Times
concept of “Indian writings are an exceptional mix of the
civilization” had already autobiographical and the literary. Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, Jawaharlal
been perfected. Nehru University, New Delhi
Demolishing some of the 2011 978-81-7824-310-8 ` 650 298 pp Hardback
myths which sustain the notion of ‘the wonder 2014 978-81-7824-392-4 ` 495  298 pp Paperback Sarkar, known for her
that was India’, he shows us a region that was writings on women, religion,
always more a crossroads, a rendezvous for Past Before Us, The and nationhood in the
concepts, cultures, and worldviews. context of colonial Bengal,
Subrahmanyam’s book is itself a meeting point for Historical Traditions of Early North India gives a new direction to the
a dazzling variety of ideas—Indian history and same themes in this book of
fiction, South Asian cultural forms, imperialism and Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor of History essays. The early colonial
imperialists, secularism and Hindu nationalism, at Jawaharlal University, New Delhi. universe in India centres on
woman as both defiled and
It has so often been said that Indian civilisation lacks deified; the nation as
historical writing—and therefore a sense of woman/goddess in a

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40  HISTORY Language Politics, Elites, and particular interest is his recent interpretation of
the Public Sphere Gandhi’s moral philosophy. Bilgrami’s brilliant
country with diverse traditions; male reformers critique of the orthodox Enlightenment view of a
battling Hindu conservatives; and male-dominant Western India under Colonialism disenchanted world in the light of a reassessment of
social norms threatening principles of femininity. the seventeenth-century Radical Enlightenment and
Veena Naregal has a PhD from SOAS, the tradition of Romanticism will certainly draw the
2015 978-81-7824-396-2 ` 495 356pp Paperback London attention of serious readers around the world.
2008 987-81-7824-247-7 ` 695 356pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted The bilingual relationship —Partha Chatterjee
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-407-5 between English and the
Indian vernaculars has long 2014 978-81-7824-385-6 ` 895 412pp Hardback 
Imperialists, Nationalists, been crucial to the Rights: Restricted
Democrats construction of ideology as
well as cultural and political Unfinished Gestures
The Collected Essays hierarchies. Print was vital for
colonial literacy— for Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity
Written by Sarvepalli Gopal, well-respected initiating a shift in the relation in South India
Indian historian of his time, and edited by Srinath between ‘high’ and ‘low’
Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy languages. This book looks at Davesh Soneji, Associate Professor of South
Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in Defence the relationship between linguistic hierarchies, textual Asian Religions, McGill University
Studies at King’s College London practices and power in colonial Western India.
Whereas most studies of colonialism focus on India’s Unfinished Gestures
The present book gathers ‘high’ literary culture, this work looks at how local presents the social and
together thirty pieces from intellectuals explored their ‘middling’ position cultural history of
scattered and relatively through initiatives to establish newspapers and courtesans in South India
inaccessible sources. It is influential channels of communication. who are generally called
remarkable equally for the devadasis, focusing on their
quality of the writing within 2014 978-81-7824-383-0 ` 450 312pp Paperback encounters with colonial
it, reminiscent of the virtues modernity in the
that made Gopal’s Reconsidering nineteenth and early
reputation. They range from Untouchability twentieth centuries.
analyses of imperialists such Adroitly combining
as Curzon and Churchill, to Chamars and Dalit History in North India ethnographic fieldwork with historical research,
nationalists such as Nehru, Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Davesh Soneji provides a comprehensive portrait
Patel, to novelist-democrats such as E.M. Forster Ramnarayan S. Rawat, Assistant Professor of of these marginalised women and unsettles
and Rabindranath Tagore. The Suez Crisis, History, University of Delaware received ideas about relations among them, the
cricketers and cricket-writing, secularism and aesthetic roots of their performances, and the
Hindutva, women and Indian law, and the English Rawat undertakes a political efficacy of social reform in their
language in South Asia are among the varied comprehensive communities.
subjects that they are about. reconsideration of the
history, identity, and politics 2014 978-81-7824-395-5 ` 495 328pp Paperback
2014 978-81-7824-387-0 ` 595 444pp Paperback of this important Dalit group. Rights: Restricted
2013 978-81-7824-366-5 ` 895 444pp Hardback Using Dalit vernacular 2012 978-81-7824-354-2 ` 750 328pp Hardback
literature, local-level archival Rights: Restricted
Language, Emotion, and sources, and interviews in
Politics in South India Dalit neighbourhoods, he Unsettling the Past
reveals a previously
The Making of a Mother Tongue unrecognised Dalit movement Unknown Aspects and Scholarly
which has flourished in North India from the earliest Assessments of D. D. Kosambi
Lisa Mitchell, Assistant Professor of decades of the twentieth century and which has
Anthropology and History, Department of South recently achieved major political successes. Edited by Meera Kosambi, a sociologist
Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2014 978-81-7824-394-8 ` 495 292pp Paperback This book contains
In the 1950s and 1960s, a Rights: Restricted relatively unknown writings
wave of suicides in the 2012 978-81-7824-355-9 ` 695 292pp Hardback by Kosambi, including
name of language swept Rights: Restricted several obscure but
through south India. This important essays and an
book asks why such Secularism, Identity, and unpublished children’s story.
emotional attachments to Enchantment Also made available here for
language appeared and the first time are some
answers by tracing shifts in [With Harvard University Press] wonderful letters that
local perceptions and Kosambi wrote to, among
experiences of language in Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor others, the scientist Homi
general, and Telugu in of Philosophy, and Director, South Asian Institute, Bhabha and the writer-historian Robert Graves.
particular, during the preceding century. Columbia University These reveal Kosambi’s mastery of the epistolary
art. Other sections contain tributes to Kosambi by
2014 978-81-7824-383-2 ` 495 302pp Paperback The essays in this volume show him intervening his friends, and essays by major contemporary
Rights: Restricted with great analytical skill as well as sagacity in the scholars on his contributions in diverse fields. The
2010 978-81-7824-293-4 ` 695 302pp Hardback debates over secularism and identity politics. Of volume gives a new and well-rounded picture of
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Kosambi’s writings, as well as mature assessments philanthropy, leading scientists, and laboratories: Dharmanand Kosambi
of his scholarship by some of the best minds of C. V. Raman, Meghnad Saha, Homi Bhabha, Shanti
our time. Swarup Bhatnagar, and Jawaharlal Nehru are The Essential Writings
among her book’s major protagonists; and
2014 978-81-7824-384-9 ` 595 402pp Paperback Calcutta, Bombay, and Bangalore the institutional Edited and translated by Meera Kosambi, former
2012 978-81-7824-365-8 ` 895 402pp Hardback centres. Professor and Director, Research Centre for
Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University,
Writing the Mughal World 2013 978-81-7824-376-4 ` 795 354pp Hardback Mumbai

Studies in Political Culture Black Hole of Empire, The The life and writings of
Dharmanand Kosambi
Muzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor History of a Global Practice of Power (1876–1947), pioneering
in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the scholar of Pali and Buddhist
University of Chicago, and Sanjay Subramanyam, Partha Chatterjee, Professor, Columbia Studies, comprise the
Professor and holder of the Navin and Pratima University, and Honorary Professor, Centre for substance of this book. By
Doshi Chair of Indian History at the University of Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta translating and marshalling
California, Los Angeles his most significant writings,
When Siraj, the ruler of Meera Kosambi shows the
In this book, two leading Bengal, overran the British manifold dimensions of
historians of early modern settlement of Calcutta in Dharmanand’s personality,
South Asia present nine 1756, he allegedly jailed and the profoundly moral character of his
jointly authored essays on 146 European prisoners intellectual journeys. Her Introduction also
the Mughal empire, framed overnight in a cramped contextualises the life, career, and achievement of
by a long Introduction prison. Of the group, 123 one of modern India’s greatest scholar-savants.
which reflects on the died of suffocation. While
imperial, nationalist, and this episode was never 2013 978-81-7824-374-0 ` 495 438pp Paperback
other conflicted trajectories independently confirmed, 2010 978-81-7824-303-0 ` 695 438pp Hardback
of history-writing on the the story of “the black hole E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-405-1
Mughals. Using materials of Calcutta” was widely circulated and seen by
from a large variety of languages—including Dutch, the British public as an atrocity committed by India’s Environmental
Portuguese, English, Persian, Urdu, and Tamil— savage colonial subjects. This book follows the History
they show how this Indo-Islamic dynasty ever-changing representations of this historical
developed a sophisticated system of government event and founding myth of the British Empire in A Reader
and facilitated an era of profound artistic and India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Volume I:
architectural achievement, setting the groundwork From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period
for South Asia’s future trajectory. Interdisciplinary 2013 978-81-7824-373-3 ` 595 440pp Paperback Volume II:
and cutting-edge, this work adds rich dimensions Rights: Restricted Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation
to research on the Mughal state, early modern 2012 978-81-7824-356-6 ` 795 440pp Hardback
South Asia, and the comparative history of the Rights: Restricted Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor of Modern
Mughal, Ottoman, Safavid, and other early modern Indian History at the University of Delhi and
empires. Creative Pasts K. Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of
Anthropology, and Forestry and Environmental
2014 978-81-7824-386-3 ` 595 536pp Paperback  Historical Memory and Identity in Western Studies, at Yale University.
Rights: Restricted India, 1700–1960
2011 978-81-7824-309-2 ` 850 536pp Hardback  This reader brings together
Rights: Restricted Prachi Deshpande, Assistant Professor of some of the best and most
History, University of California, Berkeley interesting writing on India’s
ecological pasts. It looks at a
Atomic State The ‘Maratha period’ of the variety of the country’s
seventeenth and eighteenth regions, landscapes, and
Big Science in Twentieth-Century India centuries, when an arenas as settings for strife
independent Maratha state or harmony, as topography
Jahnavi Phalkey, Lecturer in History of Science successfully resisted the and ecological fabric, in the
and Technology at King’s College London Mughals, is a defining era in process covering a vast
Indian history. The book historical terrain. The essays
‘Big science’ in India is examines this period for in Volume 1 range from prehistoric India to the
located via three transitions: various political projects in middle of the nineteenth century. Volume 2
of nuclear physics from the country at large, shows how colonial rule resulted in ecological
table-top experiments to including anticolonial Hindu change on a new scale altogether.
electronic equipment nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as
systems; of India from well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth 2013 978-81-7824-368-9 ` 1495 1096pp Hardback
imperial rule to and twentieth centuries over the meaning of
Independence; and of tradition, culture, colonialism, and modernity. Unquiet Woods, The
international relations
from imperialism to the 2013 978-81-7824-375-7 ` 395 320pp Paperback Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance
Cold War. Phalkey Rights: Restricted in the Himalaya
contradicts persistent nationalist notions about 2007 978-81-7824-207-1 ` 650 320pp Hardback (Twentieth Anniversary Edition)
early atomic science in India as the starting point Rights: Restricted
of bombs. She traces the academic roots of India’s Ramachandra Guha, eminent essayist and
nuclear research to universities, industrial columnist

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42  HISTORY perspectives emerge on varieties of regional Dakhani, and other
political conflict that invoke nationalist sentiment languages—highlight a wide
Twenty years ago there through claims on nature. Thereby, this volume variety of genres, many
appeared on the subject of also offers new ways of thinking about rarely found in standard
environmental movements in nationalism. accounts of Islamic practice,
India an unknown author’s from oral narratives to elite
first book: The Unquiet 2012 978-81-7824-363-4 ` 595 400pp Paperback guidance manuals, from
Woods. Fairly quickly, the Rights: Restricted devotional songs to secular
book came to be recognised judicial decisions arbitrating
as not just another study of Empire and Nation Islamic law, and from
dissenting peasants but as political posters to a
something of a classic that Essential Writings, 1985–2005 discussion among college women affiliated with an
had opened up a whole new “Islamist” organisation.
field—environmental history in South Asia. Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Political Science,
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta 2012 978-81-7824-360-3 ` 545 504pp Paperback
2013 978-81-7824-378-8 ` 495 280pp Paperback Rights: Restricted
2010 978-81-7824-277-4 ` 495  280pp Hardback This book brings together 2010 978-81-7824-297-2 ` 795 504pp Hardback
some of the most significant Rights: Restricted
Colored Cosmopolitanism and best-known writings of
Partha Chatterjee. It Listening to the Loom
The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the includes his pathbreaking
United States and India interventions in the Essays on Literature, Politics and Violence
theoretical analysis of
Nico Slate, Assistant Professor of History, nationalism, as well as D.R. Nagaraj, profound political commentator
Carnegie Mellon University several of his pieces on the and cultural critic
political, intellectual, and
A hidden history connects cultural history of Edited by Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, social
India and the United States, nationalism. The volume historian
the world’s two largest also contains Chatterjee’s provocative and
democracies. From the late theoretically innovative essays analysing the This book provides Nagaraj’s
nineteenth century through phenomenon of democracy in a post-colonial most important writings on
the 1960s, activists worked country like India. literature, politics, and
across borders of race and violence. Some of the
nation to push both countries 2012 978-81-7824-351-1 ` 495 376pp Paperback thirteen pieces here are
towards achieving their Rights: Restricted translated from Kannada
democratic principles. Nico 2010 978-81-7824-267-5 ` 695 376pp Hardback into English for the first time,
Slate tells the stories of Rights: Restricted while others long unavailable
neglected historical figures, like the “Eurasian” have been hunted out from
scholar Cedric Dover, and prominent figures such as India and Central Asia scattered sources. In the
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Swami present volume, Nagaraj’s
Vivekananda, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du A Reader ear for the sound and sense of things
Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., emerge as never quintessentially Indian is everywhere apparent.
before seen. Edited by Xinru Liu
2012 978-81-7824-330-6 ` 750 388pp Hardback
2012 978-81-7824-353-5 ` 750 344pp Hardback In recent decades, research Rights: Restricted
Rights: Restricted on the lives of nomadic
people on the steppe, Marshalling the Past
Ecological Nationalisms archaeological excavations of
urban settlements on oases Ancient India and its Modern Histories
Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South along the Amu and Sir rivers,
Asia and the discovery of more Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor, Department of
Hellenistic remains have History, University of Delhi
Gunnel Cederlof, Associate Professor of made scholars look at this
History, Uppsala University, Sweden, and region from a different Iconic sites and
K. Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology perspective. Looking ‘monumental’ subjects in
and International Studies, and Director, National towards Central Asia from the Indian subcontinent Indian history are the core
Resource Centre for South Asian Studies, shows that the dynamics in Central Asia were often of this fascinating collection
University of Washington, Seattle, USA the momentum for fundamental changes in history of essays. Scholarly,
which brought new cultural elements to South Asia. perceptive, and entertaining,
Collectively, the work in Marshalling the Past offers
this book takes 2012 978-81-7824-347-4 ` 795 354pp Hardback readings of ancient India and
environmental scholarship its modern histories that
into novel territory by Islam in South Asia will confirm Nayanjot
exploring how questions of Lahiri’s reputation as one of
national identity become In Practice the most readable historians of her generation.
entangled with nature-
devotion. Important new Barbara D. Metcalf, Professor Emeritus of 2012 978-81-7824-348-1 ` 895 462pp Hardback
insights are offered into the History, University of California, Davis
motivations of colonial and
national governments when The thirty-four selections—translated from Arabic,
controlling or managing nature. Fresh Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi,

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untouchability, Mahatma HISTORY  43
Jotirao Phule. It shows him
Bankim’s Hinduism as its first ideologist, Empire’s Garden
working out a unique brand
An Anthology of Writings by Bankim of radical humanism. It Assam and the Making of India
Chandra Chattopadhyay analyses his contribution to
one of the most important Jayeeta Sharma, Assistant Professor of History,
Amiya P. Sen, Professor of Modern Indian and neglected social University of Toronto
History, Department of History and Culture, Jamia developments in western
Millia Islamia, New Delhi India in this period—the In the mid-nineteenth
formation of a new regional century, the British created a
This collection of Bankim’s identity. landscape of tea plantations in
writings brings out some of the north-eastern Indian
the inner anxieties and 2011 978-81-7824-313-9 ` 495  346pp Paperback region of Assam. Claiming
ambivalence within the Rights: Restricted that local peasants were
novelist-intellectual’s work indolent, the British soon
on religion, ethics, and Caste Question, The began importing indentured
philosophy. Bankim labour from central India. In
anticipates contemporary Dalits and the Politics of Modern India the twentieth century, these
scholarship in claiming that migrants were joined by others who came voluntarily
Hinduism is the common Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, to seek their livelihoods. In Empire’s Garden, Jayeeta
name given to a variety of Barnard College, USA Sharma explains how the settlement of more than
religious thoughts and practices; and yet, one million migrants in Assam irrevocably changed
paradoxically, his writings also argue for a common Focusing on western India in the region’s social landscape.
Hindu heritage, as well as a unified religious and the colonial and postcolonial
cultural world for contemporary Hindus. periods, this innovative 2011 978-81-7824-343-6 ` 750 348pp Hardback
work shines a light on South
2011 978-81-7824-323-8 ` 795 392pp Hardback Asian historiography and on Indian Army and the Making
ongoing caste discrimina­ of Punjab, The
Behind the Veil tion, to show how persons
without rights came to Rajit K. Mazumder, lecturer in history,
Resistance, Women, and the Everyday in possess them and how Dalit St. Stephen’s College, Delhi
Colonial South Asia struggles led to the
transformation of such The British Indian army was
Edited by Anindita Ghosh, Lecturer in Modern terms of colonial liberalism the mightiest pillar of the
History, University of Manchester, UK as rights, equality, and personhood. empire. It protected the state
from internal danger and
The overwhelming image of 2011 978-81-7824-321-4 ` 495 414pp Paperback external aggression, and it
Indian women during the Rights: Restricted helped fulfill global imperial
colonial period was of 2010 978-81-7824-286-6 ` 750 414pp Hardback objectives. The bulk of this
passivity, silenced by Rights: Restricted British Indian army was made
nationalist discourses and up of Indian regiments, and,
recently, by the postcolonial Changing Homelands after 1857, the largest
turn in academic writing. recruitment into this army
However, this book offers a Hindu Politics and the Partition of India was from Punjab. Rajit Mazumder investigates the
picture of resistance. It tries social, economic and political consequences of the
to highlight the complex Neeti Nair, Assistant Professor of History, creation and existence of this native army. He argues
ways in which power University of Virginia, Charlottesville that Punjab’s military significance resulted in a uniquely
operates within oppressive structures, making any interdependent relationship between the colonial
simple valorisation and theorisation of gendered Changing Homelands offers a state and dominant elements within Punjab.
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what was and was not 2011 978-81-7824-315-3 ` 350 325pp Paperback
Contributors: Padma Anagol, Clare Anderson, politically possible in late
Geraldine Forbes, Anindita Ghosh, Siobhan colonial India. In this highly Indian Secularism
Lambert-Hurley, Nita Verma Prasad, Tanika Sarkar readable account of
Partition in Punjab, Neeti A Social and Intellectual History, 1890–1950
2011 978-81-7824-318-4 ` 450 240pp Paperback Nair rejects the idea that
Rights: Restricted essential differences Shabnum Tejani, Lecturer in History, School of
between the Hindu and Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Caste, Conflict, and Ideology Muslim communities made
political settlement impossible. Far from being an Shabnum Tejani shows that
Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste inevitable solution, the idea of Partition came as a the study of secularism in
Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western very late and stunning surprise to the majority of India has been circumscribed
India Hindus in the region. by the opposition in which it
exists with communalism.
Rosalind O’Hanlon, Professor of Indian History 2011 978-81-7824-324-5 ` 750 356pp Hardback Scholars have treated these
and Culture in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Rights: Restricted categories as reified wholes.
University of Oxford Consequently, analyses of
secularism have obscured
This is the first Indian reprint, with a new preface more than they have
by the author, of a classic work which was first revealed. The book examines
published in 1985. This study concentrates on the
first leader of the movement against

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44  HISTORY Masculinity, Asceticism, relief and rehabilitation measures provided to
Hinduism Partition refugees; and the Dalit claim, at the
how secularism came to be bound up with what it prospect of Partition, to a political community
meant to legitimately call oneself ‘Indian’ and shows Past and Present Imaginings of India differentiating them from caste-Hindus. The power
why this concept’s genealogy is so imbued with the of ‘national’ monuments to evoke a historical past,
language of religion. It argues that the emergence of Chandrima Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, and the power of letters to evoke more
the category of secularism in India had less to do with Department of English and Cultural Studies, immediately poignant pasts, are themes in some of
creating an ethics of tolerance than with a formulation McMaster University, Canada the other essays.
of nationalism that provided a counterpoint to
challenges posed by Muslim and Untouchable This book analyses the links 2011 978-81-7824-322-1 ` 495 328pp Paperback
communities. between religion, masculinity, Rights: Restricted
and asceticism in Indian
2011 978-81-7824-312-2  ` 495 320pp Paperback political and cultural history. Rise of a Folk God, The
Through an examination of
Islam Translated nationalist discourse in the Vitthal of Pandharpur
writings of Bankimchandra
Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Ramachandra Chintaman Dhere, scholar of
Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, religious traditions in Maharashtra
Raja Rao, V. D. Savarkar, M.S. Translated by Anne Feldhaus, Foundation
Ronit Ricci, lecturer, Australian National Golwalkar, and many others, Professor of Religious Studies, Arizona State
University Chakraborty reveals how ideas about masculinity and University, Tempe
Hindu asceticism came to be reworked for cultural
In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci and political purposes. Vitthal, also called Vithoba,
uses the Book of One Thousand is the most popular Hindu
Questions—from its Arabic 2011 978-81-7824-298-9 ` 695 276pp Hardback god in the western Indian
original to its adaptations into E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-402-0 state of Maharashtra. This
the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil book is the foremost study
languages—between the Nivedan e-book of the history of Vitthal, his
sixteenth and twentieth worship, and his
centuries—as a means to The Autobiography of worshippers. First published
consider connections that Dharmanand Kosambi in Marathi in 1984, it
linked Muslims across divides remains the most thorough
of distance and culture. Edited by Meera Kosambi, sociologist trained and insightful work on
Examining the circulation of this Islamic text and its in India, Sweden and the USA Vitthal and his cult in any language, and provides an
varied literary forms, Ricci explores how processes of exemplary model for understanding the history
literary translation and religious conversion were The autobiography of and morphology of lived Hinduism.
historically interconnected, mutually dependent, and Dharmanand Kosambi
creatively reformulated within societies making the (1876–1947), pioneering 2011 978-81-7824-344-3 ` 795 370pp Hardback
transition to Islam. scholar of Pali and Buddhist Rights: Restricted
Studies, is one of the most
2011 978-81-7824-333-7 ` 750 336pp Hardback moving and spellbinding life Stages of Life
Rights: Restricted stories ever written. At an
early age Dharmanand set off Indian Theatre Autobiographies
Languages of e-book on an incredible journey of
austere self-training across Kathryn Hansen, leading scholar of South Asian
Belonging the length and breadth of Britain’s Indian Empire, theatre history, especially the Hindi and Urdu
Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of halting to educate himself at places connected with traditions of North India
Kashmir Buddhism. Meera Kosambi’s Introduction
contextualises the life, career, and achievement of The life-stories of a quartet
Chitralekha Zutshi, Associate Professor of History, one of modern India’s greatest scholar-savants. of nineteenth-century Indian
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA actors and poet-playwrights
are here translated into
This is an outstanding 2011 978-81-7824-325-2 ` 295 204pp Paperback English for the first time.
book. Based on massive The most famous,
archival research in Delhi, Partitions of Memory, The Jayshankar Sundari, was a
Jammu and Srinagar and the female impersonator. Fida
unearthing of rare Kashmiri The Afterlife of the Division of India Husain Narsi also played
literary sources, it skilfully women’s parts, until gaining
uncovers the religious Edited by Suvir Kaul, Department of English, great fame for his role as a
sensibilities that underlay University of Pennsylvania, USA Hindu saint. Two others,
the formation of Kashmir’s Narayan Prasad Betab and Radheshyam
regional identity in the The essays in this book Kathavachak, wrote landmark dramas that
late-nineteenth and suggest ways in which the ushered in the mythological genre. These men
early-twentieth century.… tangled skein of Partition were schooled in large Parsi-run theatrical
Languages of Belonging will might be unravelled. Two of companies. Their memoirs, replete with anecdote
light up new ways of understanding the formation them deal with culture and and humor, offer an unparalleled window onto a
of identities in South Asia’s regions. history in what is now a vanished world.
part of Pakistan. Other
—Sugata Bose, Harvard University contributors discuss issues 2011 978-81-7824-311-5 ` 750 392pp Hardback
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telling the fascinating story
States of Indian Cricket, The of floating identities in a exploring diplomatic options for peace, and forming
changing world, strategic judgements that would define his reputation,
Anecdotal Histories Subrahmanyam injects both within his lifetime and after.
humanity into global history
Ramachandra Guha, well-known writer, historian, and shows that biography 2011 978-81-7824-320-7 ` 495 386pp Paperback
biographer and columnist still plays an important role
in contemporary Women and Social Reform
This is an informal, historiography. in Modern India
anecdotal, and immensely
readable history of Indian 2011 978-81-7824-339-9 ` 595 248pp Hardback (in two volumes)
cricket. Guha draws upon Rights: Restricted
the memories of several Edited by Sumit Sarkar, arguably the best-known
generations of cricket lovers Unifying Hinduism historian of modern India, and Tanika Sarkar,
to give us wonderful Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
sketches of India’s Philosophy and Identity in Indian New Delhi
cricketers, the forgotten as Intellectual History
well as the famous: from C. The word ‘reforms’
K. Nayudu and Vinoo series: south asia across the disciplines conjures up the names of a
Mankad, to Bishen Bedi and few great individuals: always
Sunil Gavaskar, to Saurav Ganguly and Anil Andrew J. Nicholson, Assistant Professor, Hindu, always upper-caste
Kumble. Using the device of imaginary all-time Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, and educated, always from
India Elevens he provides insights into the cities Stony Brook University cities, and always—apart
and states in which Indian cricket was forged. from one or two
Equally, we learn much that is relatively unknown Andrew J. Nicholson memorable exceptions—
about Indian cricket’s ‘golden age’ in the 1970s. introduces a different men. These are the icons
perspective: although a around whom the story of
2011 978-81-7824-241-5 ` 295 320pp Paperback unified Hindu identity is not social change is written. The
as ancient as some Hindus editors of the present work
Swadeshi e-book claim, it has its roots in argue the need to understand the history of social
innovations within South reforms from a much wider array of perspectives:
Movement in Bengal, The Asian philosophy from the for example, the connections between specific
1903–1908 fourteenth to the social abuses on the one hand, and, on the other,
seventeenth centuries. This systems or traditions of gender practices across
Sumit Sarkar, eminent historian of modern India project paved the way for times, classes, castes, and regions.
the work of later Hindu reformers whose
From the moment of its teachings promoted the notion that all world 2011 978-81-7824-327-6 ` 1295 870pp Paperback
first printing about religions belong to a single spiritual unity. Rights: Restricted
thirty-five years ago, The
Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 2011 978-81-7824-328-3 ` 750 280pp Hardback Alibis of Empire
has always held a special Rights: Restricted
place in the historiography Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal
of modern India. Very few War and Peace in Modern Imperialism
monographs, if any, have India
ever rivalled the meticulous Karuna Mantena, Assistant Professor of Political
research and the thick A Strategic History of the Nehru Years Science, Yale University
description that
characterized this book, or Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for This book challenges the
the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive Policy Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in idea that the Victorian
power of its overall argument … [T]his book, Defence Studies at King’s College London empire was primarily
which should have enjoyed a steady and buoyant legitimated by liberal
market over the years, has strangely remained Srinath Raghavan draws on a notions of progress and
“out of print” for about fifteen successive years. Its rich vein of untapped civilisation. In fact, as the
republication by Permanent Black is truly a cause documents to illuminate British Empire gained its
for celebration. Nehru’s approach to war and farthest reach, its ideology
his efforts for peace. Vividly was being dramatically
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago recreating the intellectual and transformed by a self-
political milieu of the Indian conscious rejection of the
2011 978-81-7824-335-1 ` 595 520pp Paperback foreign policy establishment, liberal model. Mantena
he explains the response of shows that the work of the Victorian legal scholar
Three Ways to be Alien Nehru and his top advisors to Henry Maine was at the centre of these
the tensions with Junagadh, momentous changes.
Travails and Encounters in the Early Hyderabad, Pakistan, and China. He gives individual
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as he wrestles with a string of major conflicts—
This book looks at individual trajectories in an early assessing the utility of force, weighing risks of war,
modern global context. It draws on the lives and
writings of a trio of marginal figures who were cast
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46  HISTORY before colonialism. They suggest that careful and came into being in the late
appropriate techniques of reading reveal distinctly nineteenth century. It uses
Concise History of Modern indigenous historical narratives. the life and writings of
Architecture in India, A Bharatendu Harischandra
2010 978-81-7824-301-6 ` 595 512pp Paperback (often called the Father of
Jon Lang, Professor, University of New South E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-403-7 Modern Hindi) as its focal
Wales point for an analysis of some
Imagining the Urban of the vital cultural processes
In lucid language that speaks through which modern North
to laymen and architects Sanskrit and the City India, as we experience it
alike, Jon Lang provides a today, came to be formed.
history of Indian Shonaleeka Kaul, faculty in the Department of
architecture in the History, University of Delhi With a Foreword by Francesca Orsini.
twentieth century in this
book. He analyses its Shonaleeka Kaul examines 2010 978-81-7824-304-7 ` 495  530pp Paperback
tangled developments from Sanskrit kavyas over about a
the founding of the Indian thousand years to see what Small Voice of History, The
Institute of Architects India’s early historic cities
during the 1920s, to the present diversity of were like as living, lived-in, Collected Essays
architectural directions. Over 150 photographs entities. She looks at
and line drawings explain and illustrate concepts ideologies, attitudes, Ranajit Guha, founding father of Subaltern
outlined in the text. institutions, and practices in Studies
ancient urban areas, showing Edited by Partha Chatterjee, Director, Centre
2010 978-81-7824-305-4 ` 795 214pp Paperback the ways in which they often for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
cohered into a worldview, a
Emergence of the Delhi mentalité. This is also a book about Sanskrit literature. Ranajit Guha’s writings have
Sultanate, The had a major impact on
2010 978-81-7824-278-1 ` 595 290pp Hardback scholarship in post-colonial
Sunil Kumar, Reader, Department of History, Rights: Restricted studies in literature,
University of Delhi anthropology, history, cultural
Nationalism in the studies, and art history. These
The Sultans of Delhi came Vernacular writings have been put
from relatively humble together and introduced by
origins. They were slaves Hindi, Urdu, and the Literature of Indian Partha Chatterjee, whose
who rose to become Freedom association with Guha as a
generals in the armies of the founder-member of the
Afghan ruler Muizz al-Din Edited by Shobna Nijhawan, Assistant Professor, Subaltern Studies editorial board is complemented by
Ghuri. Their transformation Department of Languages, Literatures and his own stature as a historian and intellectual.
into rulers of a kingdom of Linguistics, York University, Canada
great political influence in 2010 978-81-7824-291-0 ` 695 676pp Paperback
North India was a slow and This anthology comprises a 2009 978-81-7824-255-2 ` 895 676pp Hardback
discontinuous process that selection of formative literary
occurred through the thirteenth century. In this writings in Hindi and Urdu Social Space of Language,
book, the author charts the history of the from the second half of the The
structures that sustained and challenged this regime, nineteenth century, leading up
and of the underlying ideologies that gave meaning to Indian Independence and Vernacular Culture in British Colonial
to the idea of the Delhi Sultanate. the creation of Pakistan. It Punjab
provides a picture of how
2010 978-81-7824-306-1 ` 525 440pp Paperback nationalism—as a cultural Farina Mir, Assistant Professor of History,
ideology and political University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
History in e-book movement—was formed in
the Vernacular literature. Unlike other anthologies, this one focuses This cultural history
on writings in two North Indian vernaculars with a examines a body of popular
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Political Science, contested relationship: Hindi and Urdu. literature to illustrate both
and Raziuddin Aquil, Fellow in History, both at the durability of a vernacular
the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta 2010 978-81-7824-260-6 ` 795   536pp  Hardback literary tradition and the
limits of colonial dominance
This book explores the Nationalization of Hindu in India. Mir asks how qisse,
status of regional and Traditions, The a genre of epics and
vernacular histories in romances, flourished in
relation to academic Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth- Punjab despite British efforts
histories by professional Century Banaras to marginalise the Punjabi
historians. Looking closely language. She explores linguistic practices, print and
at vernacular contexts and Vasudha Dalmia, Professor of Hindi and Modern performance, and the symbolic content of qisse.
traditions of historical South Asian Studies, University of California, This study reframes inquiry into cultural formations
production, the essays in Berkeley, USA towards a place-centred poetics of belonging.
this book question the
assumption that there was This book studies how a dominant strand of Hinduism 2010 978-81-7824-307-8 ` 695 292pp Hardback
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Western Science e-book engagement in the field of cultural production with Dr Srinivasan’s study is a tour-de-force….
a detail and rigour hitherto unknown.
in Modern India —Peter Emberley
Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices 2009 978-81-7824-261-3 ` 595 606pp Paperback
2009 978-81-7824-246-0 ` 695 290pp Hardback
Pratik Chakrabarti, Deputy Director and Gandhi is Gone. e-book E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-413-6
Research Officer, Wellcome Unit for the History
Who will Guide Us Now? Health and Population in
of Medicine, University of Oxford Nehru, Prasad, Azad, Vinoba, Kripalani, JP, South Asia

How do we understand the and Others Introspect, Sevagram, March From Earliest Times to the Present
transfer and absorption of 1948
scientific knowledge across
diverse cultures, from one Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Former Governor of Sumit Guha
society to another? Pratik West Bengal
Chakrabarti approaches this The history of human
question from the As India became free on 15 populations acquires a new
assumption that knowledge August 1947, Mahatma interest in an epoch when
is fundamentally linked with Gandhi planned a discussion human beings are aware of
experience. He analyses in Sevagram on 2 February the burden they are placing
what was ‘Western’ about 1948, on the future on the ecosystem. Asia has
that scientific knowledge, equations of his political and long contained a major
and what constituted the ‘colonialness’ of Indian non-political associates, but fraction of world
experience. He shows that the expansion of a 30 January 1948 intervened. population, and East and
European discipline into strange and distant lands Thanks primarily to South Asia have accounted
meant experiencing new phenomena, examining Rajendra Prasad and Vinoba for most of that fraction.
new facts, developing new hypotheses. Bhave, the proposed This book focuses on various aspects of the
conference did take place, population of South Asia over the past twenty-five
2010 978-81-7824-292-7 ` 350  340pp Paperback after a slight deferment, in March 1948. Without centuries.
the Mahatma, the meeting acquired a new theme:
Bengal Renaissance ‘Gandhi is Gone. Who Will Guide Us Now?’ The 2009 978-81-7824-282-8 ` 295 200pp Paperback
record of discussions at the conference were Rights: Restricted
The Identity and Creativity from typed out for limited circulation amongst the
Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore participants. Published here for the first time sixty Hindu Nationalism e-book
years on, the discussions of that conference
Subrata Dasgupta, Director, Institute of remain amazingly pertinent, stimulating and A Reader
Cognitive Science, and Professor of History, challenging today.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, Centre d’Etudes
et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris
This book shows that the Bengal Renaissance was
characterised by a certain collective cognitive 2009 978-81-7824-254-5 ` 195 200pp Paperback In India and beyond, Hindu
identity, which had its roots in the work of the E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-427-3 nationalism came into the
British Orientalists, and which took form amidst a headlines in the 1990s,
small but remarkable community of highly creative Gandhi’s e-book when the Ayodhya
individuals in nineteenth-century Bengal. movement gained
Conscience Keeper momentum. The first part
2009 978-81-7824-279-8 ` 350 286pp Paperback C. Rajagopalachari and Indian Politics of this reader shows that
some of the nineteenth-
Empire of Books, An Vasanthi Srinivasan, Reader in Political Science, century Hindu socio-
University of Hyderabad religious reformers, such as
The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion Dayananda (founder of the
of the Printed Word in Colonial India Hailed by Mahatma Gandhi as Arya Samaj), prepared the
his conscience keeper, ground for Hindu nationalism by positing a Vedic
Ulrike Stark, Senior Assistant Professor, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Golden Age. The second part of the reader
Department of Modern South Asian Studies, South (1878–1972; better known as outlines every major political issue on which the
Asia Institute, Heidelberg University Rajaji) epitomised the Hindu nationalist movement has taken a distinct
practical wisdom, religious position.
The history of the book and tolerance and statesmanship
the commercialisation of that Gandhi brought to the 2009 978-81-7824-265-1 ` 495 402pp Paperback
print in the nineteenth nationalist movement. E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-420-4
century remain largely Vasanthi Srinivasan presents
uncharted areas in South Rajaji’s vision as that of a History, Bhakti, and Public
Asia. This major monograph theocentric liberal. Examining Memory
on the legendary Naval his political ideas and actions alongside his literary
Kishore Press of Lucknow works, as well as in relation to Nehru and Periyar, she Namdev in Religious and Secular Traditions
(est. 1858)—then the shows how Rajaji steered clear of ideological dogma
foremost publishing house and charted an ethic of responsibility. Christian Lee Novetzke, Associate Professor,
in the subcontinent— University of Washington
represents something of a ... full of insights, oblique and explicit, about our
breakthrough. It analyses an Indian publisher’s current political predicament. Namdev is a central figure in the cultural history of
India, especially within the field of bhakti. Christian
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Medieval India
coheres around the figure of Political Islam in India, The
Namdev from the sixteenth Forms, Contexts, Histories c. 1200–1800
century to the present,
examining the practices that Edited by Monica Juneja, Professor, Department Muzaffar Alam, Professor, departments of South
situate Namdev’s memory in of History, University of Delhi Asian Languages and Civilizations, and History,
multiple historical publics.
Novetzke vividly illustrates This book brings together an University of Chicago
how religious communities in impressive array of historical
India preserve their pasts and, ideas about India’s past that This book shows the ways
in turn, create their own has emerged through the in which political Islam, from
historical narratives. study of its monuments. its establishment in medieval
Monica Juneja makes this north India, adapted itself to
2009 978-81-7824-259-0 ` 695 336pp Hardback anthology a major historio- a variety of Indian contexts
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E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-420-4 traces the colonial emergence Indianised. Through a close
and nationalist development reading of a variety of
In Burmese Prisons of the discipline of arch- texts—ranging from
itectural history both within India and in the West. normative treatises and Sufi
Correspondence, May 1923–July 1926 biographies to Persian court
2008 978-81-7824-228-6 ` 795 666pp Paperback poetry—Muzaffar Alam
Prison letters, despite being E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-435-8 shows that the vocabularies in use went through
subjected to the scrutiny of certain changes so fundamental that the language
government censors, often Brahmin and Non-Brahmin of Indian Islam became quite different from what
supply some of the deepest was in vogue in contexts outside.
insights into the mind of a Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present
revolutionary. Subhas 2008 978-81-7824-223-1 ` 450 260pp Paperback
Chandra Bose’s letters from M. S. S. Pandian, Visiting Fellow of the Sarai E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-417-4
Mandalay, in Burma, Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing
certainly underscore the Societies, Delhi Moveable Type
Book History in India
truth of the poetic
assertion: ‘Stone walls do This book historicises the Edited by Abhijit Gupta, Reader, Department
not a prison make, nor iron complex processes by which of English, Jadavpur University, and Swapan
bars a cage.’ They make this volume one of the the categories ‘Brahmin’ and Chakravorty, Professor, Department of English,
most moving in the 12-volume set of Netaji’s ‘non-Brahmin’ came into Jadavpur University
Collected Works. being and acquired political
power over the past century. Book history is an emerging
2009 978-81-7824-250-7 ` 350  380pp+4 pictures In the process of unravelling discipline in India. Moveable
Paperback the so-called ‘naturalness’ of Type brings together a
these categories, this book wider variety of the best
Language of the Gods in the also offers a new perspective recent work on the subject,
World of Men, The on colonialism in South India. combining compilation of
primary data with rigorous
Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern 2008 978-81-7824-221-7 ` 350 286pp Paperback historical analysis.
India Contributions range from a
Chalo Delhi magisterial history of
Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor censorship in colonial India
of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, Columbia Writings and Speeches 1943–1945 to reflections on the social construction of texts.
University, New York, USA
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose 2008 978-81-7824-217-0 ` 595 272pp Hardback
This book explores the arrived in Southeast Asia on 6
remarkable rise and fall of May 1943 to lead the Indian National Flag for India, A
Sanskrit as a vehicle of independence movement. On
poetry and polity. Drawing 15 August 1945, he urged Arundhati Virmani, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
striking parallels, faith in India’s destiny and Sciences Sociales, Marseille, France
chronologically as well as expressed confidence that
structurally, with the rise of ‘India shall be free and before The long and difficult
Latin literature and the long.’ Volume 12 of Netaji’s elaboration of the Indian
Roman empire, and with the Collected Works brings national flag, the diverse and
new vernacular literatures together all his speeches and sometimes contrary
and nation-states of writings as the leader of the Azad Hind movement expectations that built up
late-medieval Europe, this book asks whether from June 1943 to August 1945—speeches that around this object during
these very different histories challenge current electrified massive audiences of civilians and soldiers, half a century with their
theories of culture and power and suggest new united Indians of all religions, and inspired them to stakes profoundly rooted in
possibilities for practice. join the march towards Delhi. the social world: these
essential aspects of the
2009 978-81-7824-275-0 ` 795 704pp Paperback 2008 978-81-7824-227-9 ` 295 486pp Paperback historian’s work are
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