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Scandal of Empire, The Union, and reflections on the future problems of Hindu Rulers, e-book
reconstruction in free India.
India and the Creation of Imperial Britain Muslim Subjects
2007 978-81-7824-204-0 ` 350 240pp Paperback Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir
Nicholas B. Dirks, Franz Boas Professor of Rights: Restricted
Anthropology and History, Columbia University, 2001 978-81-7824-034-3 ` 495 225pp Hardback Mridu Rai, faculty in the Department of History,
New York, USA Rights: Restricted Yale University, USA

In this fascinating and Gandhi’s Prisoner? The state of Jammu and
trenchant account, Dirks Kashmir comprises a very
explains how the The Life of Gandhi’s Son Manilal large majority of Muslims
substitution of imperial who are subject to the laws
authority for East India Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Associate Professor, of a predominantly Hindu and
Company rule helped erase Department of History, University of the Western increasingly ‘Hinduised’ India.
the unsavoury origins of Cape, Cape Town How did religion and politics
empire and justify the become so inextricably
British presence in India. This biography explores enmeshed in defining and
The Scandal of Empire major aspects of the expressing the protest of
reveals that the Mahatma and his family that Kashmir’s Muslims against
exploitation of the no biographer or historian Hindu rule? This book is a brilliant historical study of
Company was critical to Britain’s development. has hitherto touched upon. this central issue in the troubled politics of South
Dirks shows how the empire projected its own In part this is because no Asia’s most picturesque, and most volatile, province.
scandalous behaviour onto India itself, and how one has until now had
mercantile trade was inextricably linked with access to the mass of … a brilliant work of historical scholarship that
imperial venture. unpublished papers, the will become indispensable reading.…
hundreds of letters, the
2008 978-81-7824-238-5 ` 395 412pp Paperback interviews with family and friends, and the now —Sugata Bose
Rights: Restricted obscure newspapers and related materials on
which this biography is based. 2007 978-81-7824-202-6 ` 495 350pp Paperback
Two Men and Music Rights: Restricted
... an exemplary work of biography that E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-411-2
Nationalism in the Making of an Indian illuminates, in richly nuanced ways, the personal
Classical Tradition lives and political dilemmas of its two chief Imperial Connections
protagonists.
Janaki Bakhle, Assistant Professor, Department India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860–
of History, Columbia University, New York —Ramachandra Guha 1920

In this critical study of the development of North 2007 978-81-7824-193-7 ` 450 420pp Paperback Thomas Metcalf, Emeritus Professor of History,
Indian classical music, Bakhle examines the role Rights: Restricted University of California, Berkeley
of colonialism in the making of a tradition. At the
end of the nineteenth century, V. N. Bhatkhande Hindu Myth, Hindu History An innovative remapping of
and V. D. Paluskar worked to give Indian classical empire, Imperial Connections
music its distinctive shape, form, and identity, and Religion, Art, and Politics offers a broad-ranging view
to put it in the service of Hindu proselytising. This of the workings of the
book reveals how art can be successfully wielded Heinrich von Stietencron, former Professor British empire in the period
as a modernising tool. of Indology and Comparative History of Religion, when the India of the Raj
University of Tuebingen, Germany stood at the centre of a
2008 978-81-7824-235-4 ` 395 350pp Paperback newly globalised system of
Rights: Restricted Translated from the German, trade, investment and
this is a major work of migration. Metcalf argues
Azad Hind classical Indological that India itself became a
scholarship. Drawing upon nexus of imperial power
Writings and Speeches, 1941–1943 various sources—folk, tribal, that made possible British conquest, control, and
and the multi-layered governance across a wide arc of territory
The letters in this volume Sanskritic tradition—it offers stretching from Africa to eastern Asia.
cover perhaps the most important insights into the
difficult, daring and complex cultural history of 2007 978-81-7824-209-5 ` 650 280pp Hardback
controversial phase in the life Hindu religious traditions. It Rights: Restricted
of India’s foremost anti- traces continuity and change
colonial revolutionary. His in religion and art within the formative period of what India’s Literary e-book
writings of this period cover a we know today as Hinduism. The book concludes
broad range of topics, with a survey of European perceptions as well as History
including the nature and misconceptions of India from earliest times to the late Essays on the Nineteenth Century
course of the Second World nineteenth century.
War, the need to distinguish Edited by Stuart Blackburn, Senior Lecturer,
between India’s internal and external policy in the 2007 978-81-7824-215-6 ` 395 336pp  Paperback Department of South Asian Languages and
context of the international war crisis, plans for a final
armed assault against British rule in India, dismay at Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies,
and criticism of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet London, and Vasudha Dalmia, Professor of
Hindi, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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50  HISTORY integrity and social commitment. The author’s Time Treks
heroes and heroines include environmentalists and
This book is the first major social activists, teachers and scholars, scientists The Uncertain Future of Old and New
reassessment of literary and writers, politicians and bureaucrats. Despotisms
history in nineteenth-
century India for a 2007 978-81-7824-219-4 ` 395 292pp Paperback Ashis Nandy, political psychologist, cultural critic
generation. Its essays E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-423-5 and futurist
emphasise the making of
literary history, the process Many Lives of a Rajput Using the metaphor of the
of canonisation, the Queen, The future—imagined utopias,
reinvention of literary conceptions of cultural
tradition and the writing of Heroic Pasts in India, c.1500–1900 possibilities, social critiques
literary history itself. of things to come—Nandy
Ramya Sreenivasan, Assistant Professor, redefines the present. His
This is one of those books you take small Department of History, University of Buffalo, State effort is to demonstrate
bites of, chew, relish and return to . . . this book University of New York, USA that social ethics and a
manages to put together a host of essays that more humane society can
interest and inform.... This book is centred on the be based on grounds other
legend of Padmini, the than those framed for the
—The Book Review medieval Rajput queen past 200 years. Nandy critiques the Enlightenment
widely believed to have in Europe and asks that we own up to our
2007 978-81-7824-172-2 ` 545 528pp Paperback been pursued by Alauddin responsibility for alternative systems of knowledge.
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-429-7 Khalji, Sultan of Delhi.
Sreenivasan investigates the 2007 978-81-7824-136-4 ` 495 232pp Hardback
Islam and Healing many narratives that exist Rights: Restricted
about this heroic queen’s
Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim legend in India, ranging from Affective Communities
Medical Tradition, 1600–1900 Sufi mystical romances in
the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of
Seema Alavi, Professor, Department of History late nineteenth century. It explores the manner in Friendship
and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi which early modern regional elites, caste groups
and mystical and monastic communities shaped Leela Gandhi, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Indo-Muslim medicine—or their distinctive versions of past times through the
the Unani tradition— repeated refashioning of this legend. Focusing on individuals and
developed in South Asia groups who renounced the
alongside Mughal political 2007 978-81-7824-185-2 ` 650 288pp Hardback privileges of imperialism to
culture. While it healed the Rights: Restricted elect affinity with the victims
body, it also had a profound of expansionism, this book
bearing on the social fabric Monuments, Objects, uncovers the utopian-
of the region. Seema Alavi’s Histories socialist critiques of empire
book shows the nature and that emerged in Europe,
extent of this Islamic healing Institutions of Art in Colonial and specifically in Britain, at the
tradition’s interaction with Postcolonial India end of the nineteenth
Indian society and politics century. The author reveals
from roughly 1600 to 1900. This book represents, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Professor of History, for the first time how those associated with
in fact, the first major effort at telling the story of Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata marginalised lifestyles, subcultures, and traditions
an Islamic healing tradition and its subsequent —including homosexuality, vegetarianism, animals
transformation by locating it within both pre- This book traces the framing rights, spiritualism and aestheticism—united
colonial and colonial time frames. of an official national canon against imperialism and forged strong bonds with
of Indian art through colonised subjects and cultures.
2007 978-81-7824-195-1 ` 695 400pp Hardback different periods, showing
Rights: Restricted how the workings of 2006 978-81-7824-164-7 ` 495 254pp Hardback
disciplines and institutions Rights: Restricted
Last Liberal and Other have been linked with the
Essays, The authority of the nation. The At Home in Diaspora
book surveys the practices of
Ramachandra Guha, eminent writer and archaeology, art history and South Asian Scholars and the West
biographer museums in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century India. It looks at processes by Edited by Jackie Assayag, Senior Research
This book is on how a large which ‘lost pasts’ came to be produced in India. Such Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche
area of contemporary lost pasts, the author shows, came to be imagined Scientifique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
India’s cultural and around a corpus of monuments, archaeological relics Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Véronique Benei,
intellectual life has been and art objects. Department of Anthropology, London School of
fashioned by exceptional Economics, London
individuals who have, in 2007 978-81-7824-187-6 ` 995 432pp Paperback
diverse ways, imbibed the Rights: Restricted This book, which is a blend of autobiography and
spirit of liberalism, intellectual history by some of South Asia’s
secularism, personal foremost contemporary historians and
sociologists, shows how the intervention of
scholars of South Asian descent has reconstituted
the debate on postcolonialism, imperialism,

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figures, such as Jim Corbett and M. Krishnan, he HISTORY  51
also puts the spotlight on less- known
globalisation, capitalism and conservationists, landscapes and species. The focus Ambassador of Hindu–Muslim Unity
national traditions. of this book is on key landmarks in the history of
Indian wildlife—both its conservation and decline. Jinnah’s Early Politics
This is an enjoyable book, Ian Bryant Wells
accessible to a broad public 2006 978-81-7824-140-1 ` 295 152pp Paperback
as well as the academic E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-416-7 2005 978-81-7824-144-9 ` 450 280pp Paperback
reader….
Lost Worlds e-book Sexuality, Obscenity, Community
—The Book Review
Indian Labour and its Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in
Contributors: Shahid Forgotten Histories Colonial India
Amin, Arjun Appadurai, Charu Gupta
Jackie Assayag, Véronique Chitra Joshi, Professor, Department of History,
Benei, Urvashi Butalia, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi 2005 978-81-7824-118-0 ` 395 400pp Paperback
Partha Chatterjee, Vasudha Dalmia, Prasenjit
Duara, Ramahandra Guha, Akhil Gupta, Sudipta This book takes the present Studying Early India
Kaviraj, Purnima Mankekar, Gyan Prakash, Sanjay context of globalisation and
Subrahmanyam the decline of large-scale Archaeology, Texts and Historical Issues
industry as its entry point Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
2006 978-81-7824-167-8 ` 250 220pp Paperback into the worlds of labour in
Rights: Restricted the late nineteenth and early 2005 978-81-7824-143-2 ` 450 294pp Paperback
twentieth centuries. Using a
Dr Ambedkar and wide range of oral and Subaltern Studies XII
Untouchability archival sources as well as
popular literature, the Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History
Analysing and Fighting Caste author reconstructs Shail Mayaram, M. S. S. Pandian and Ajay Skaria
working-class lives, exploring their everyday worlds
Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, CERI (Centre at the workplace and within community life outside, 2005 978-81-7824-115-9 ` 695 350pp Hardback
d’Etudes et Recherches Internationales), Sciences as well as their moments of conflict and struggle. 2005 978-81-7824-214-9 ` 550 350pp Paperback
Po, Paris
2006 978-81-7824-169-2 ` 350 376pp Paperback Tropics and the Travelling Gaze,
This book focuses on the Rights: Restricted The
three key areas that are E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-430-3
central to a full understanding India, Landscape and Science, 1800–56
of India’s pioneering Dalit: Textures of Time e-book David Arnold, Professor of the History of South
Ambedkar as social theorist; Asia, Department of History, School of African and
Ambedkar as statesman and Writing History in Oriental Studies, London
politician; and Ambedkar as an South India, 1600–1800
opponent of caste Hinduism 2005  978-81-7824-129-6 ` 695  320pp  Hardback
and advocate of Buddhism as a Velcheru Narayana Rao, Krishnadevaraya Rights: Restricted
method of release from Hindu Professor of South Asian Languages and
social oppression. In each case, Alternative Leadership, The
Jaffrelot argues, Ambedkar was the first to forge new Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
political, symbolic, and emotively powerful strategies Madison, USA, David Shulman, Professor of Speeches, Articles, Statements and Letters
for Dalits. These not only proved effective in Indian Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1939–1941
Ambedkar’s own lifetime; they resonate powerfully Israel, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Directeur
even today. d’Etudes, EHESS, Paris This volume brings together
the writings and speeches of
2006 978-81-7824-156-2 ` 350 218pp Paperback This book sets out to a crucial phase in Subhas
Rights: Restricted demonstrate the complex Chandra Bose’s political life
forms of historiography immediately prior to his
India’s Wildlife e-book produced in south India, emergence as the Netaji of
History arguing that the division lndia’s army of liberation.
between Indo-Persian and The themes dealt with here
An Introduction vernacular historiographies is include the role of the left
artificial. The authors within the Indian
Mahesh Rangarajan, environmental historian demonstrate the existence of independence movement,
a group of literati (karanams), the Second World War as a
This book introduces us to who passed from Telugu and conflict between rival imperialisms, and the need
the long history of India’s Tamil to Marathi and Persian. Through a reading of for Hindu–Muslim unity and Congress–Muslim
wildlife, culminating in the and translations from the relevant texts, the book League understanding.
present crisis. Drawing on sets out to shake some prejudices in the received
memoirs, archives and wisdom on medieval and early modern India. 2004 978-81-7824-104-3 ` 350 250pp Paperback
official records, Mahesh
Rangarajan brings new Beyond Nationalist Frames
insights to bear upon
age-old encounters between Relocating Postmodernism, Hindutva, History
human beings and the Sumit Sarkar
natural world in India. While highlighting major
2004 978-81-7824-086-2 ` 450 272pp Paperback
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E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-418-1

2006 978-81-7824-173-9 ` 295 312pp Paperback
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52  HISTORY Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation SOCIAL SCIENCE
PRESS
Congress President Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism
Tanika Sarkar Gandhi
Speeches, Articles, and Letters, January
1938–May 1939 2003 978-81-7824-067-1 ` 395 280pp Paperback Anti-Biography of a Great Soul
Rights: Restricted
This volume brings together E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-424-2 Michaël de Saint-Cheron, the author of several
Bose’s letters, writings and books and specialises in Jewish Theology and the
speeches from January 1938 Reading Subaltern Studies ties with Hinduism and Buddhism
to April 1939. The pieces
deal with socialism, national Critical History, Contested Meanings, and the This book is not just
planning, science, Hindu– Globalization of South Asia another biography of
Muslim relations, the role of David Ludden Gandhi. It is valuable
women, and European because it offers us a French
politics. Among the 120 2003 978-81-7824-070-1 ` 450 450pp Paperback view—and Jewish too
letters here are sets of perhaps—of a man and
correspondence with Subaltern Studies XI times so familiar to us and
Gandhi, Tagore, Jinnah and Nehru. yet which acquires another
Community, Gender and Violence dimension as it is
2004 978-81-7824-103-6 ` 395 280pp Paperback Edited by Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep represented through
Jeganathan another culture. There are
Discovery of Ancient India, The eloquent accounts in this book of philosophers like
2003 978-81-7824-033-6 ` 495 360pp Paperback Ramakrishna and Vivekananda who influenced
Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Gandhi’s thought and life. Rather than political
Archaeology Un-Gandhian Gandhi, The events, Michaël de Saint-Chéron holds up the
Upinder Singh force and courage of a man who became a prophet
The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma  in a blood-thirsty century. Interestingly, the author
2004 978-81-7824-127-2 ` 495 410pp Paperback Claude Markovits points out that it is only India and the Middle East
which has given the world the two mother
Gandhi 2003 978-81-7824-155-5 ` 250 200pp Paperback religions of Hinduism and Judaism. Neither China
nor Europe, two major cultures, have produced a
In His Time and Ours Awadh in Revolt, 1857–1858 world religion. The book is further enriched by a
David Hardiman discussion on Hindu mysticism and the concept of
A Study of Popular Resistance ‘love’ in Judaism.
2004 978-81-7824-114-2 ` 495 360pp Paperback Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Rights: Restricted Contents: Prologue Gandhi and India 1. The
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-428-0 2002 978-81-7824-027-5 ` 295 250pp Paperback Anti-biography of a Great Soul 2. How Does One
Make a Mohandas Gandhi? 3. Gandhi Discovers
History and the Present Time Warps the Bhagavad Gita 3. An Indian Lawyer Confronts
Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh Apartheid 5. The Non-Violent Revolution 6. The
The Insistent Politics of Silent and Evasive Pasts Path to Renunciation 7. Satyagraha in Deed and
2004 978-81-7824-094-7 ` 450 284pp Paperback Ashis Nandy Reality 8. The Gandhi-Tolstoy Correspondence
Rights: Restricted 9. Gandhi Returns to India 10. Between Non-
2002 978-81-7824-071-8 ` 250 220pp Paperback Violence and Anti-Zionism 11. India and Gandhi
Letters to Emilie Schenkl, Viewed by Romain Rolland and André Malraux
1934–1942 Anthropologist among the Marxists 12. Gandhi’s Heritage Today 13. Beyond Gandhi
and Other Essays, An Hinduism-Judaism: A Root to Root Conversation
Perhaps the least known
aspect of Netaji Subhas Ramachandra Guha 2016 978-93-83166-11-4 ` 625 175pp Hardback
Chandra Bose’s many-sided
personality was his love for 2001 978-81-7824-001-5 ` 350 278pp Paperback Year of Blood, The
Emilie Schenkl, his Austrian
wife. Bose met Schenkl in Archaeological Geography of the Essays on the Revolt of 1857
June 1934 in Vienna, Ganga Plain
developed a close Rudrangshu Mukherjee, founding vice
relationship during his The Lower and the Middle Ganga chancellor and professor of history Ashoka
forced European exile, Dilip K. Chakrabarti University
secretly married her in
December 1937, and had a 2001 978-81-7824-016-9 ` 1095 410pp Hardback Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s essays on the Revolt of
daughter, Anita, in November 1942. This volume 1857 have been brought under one cover in The
illuminates the human and emotional aspects of his Decline and Fall of the Indus Year of Blood: Essays on the Revolt of 1857. The book
many-splendoured life. Civilisation, The  traces the eminent historian’s changing perception
of the idea of the Revolt, from his undergraduate
2004 978-81-7824-102-9 ` 395 230pp Paperback Nayanjot Lahiri days to the present. The Revolt of 1857 was a
Rights: Restricted passionate phase in Indian history and the quality of
2001 978-81-7824-032-9 ` 495 420pp Paperback writing in this book reflects this intensity. Violence
Castes of Mind E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-433-4 has rarely been described with

Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
Nicholas B. Dirks

2003 978-81-7824-072-5 ` 495 388pp Paperback
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so much realism and The Local Co-workers of the Tranquebar in terms of the nationalist
subtlety. The imaginative use Mission, 18th to 19th Centuries movement, personalities and
of primary source materials what has been seen as the
adds clarity to accounts such series: german writings on india and south asia ‘high’ politics of the state.
as the massacre in Satichaura Recent shifts in history writing
Ghat and the trial of Mangal Heike Liebau, Senior Research Fellow at the have tried to bring in
Pandey. Rudrangshu Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin subordinated histories of
Mukherjee places the regions and of groups. This
soldier-peasant at the This is an English translation collection tries to push the
forefront of the Revolt. In of a German book which has emerging paradigm further by
lucid prose, he is able to won the Geisteswissen- moving away from conventional notions of the history
unravel the motives, strategies and organization schaften International award and politics of the nation.
skills of the mutineers, while exposing the layers of for excellence in scholarship.
complexity that defined the relationship between The history of social and … The different approach attempted through
the rulers and the subjugated. religious encounter in 18th the book indubitably is a fresh endeavour for a
century South India is multidisciplinary approach with sociologists, art
Contents: Introduction: In Pursuit of a Revolt. narrated through fascinating historians and music theorists working within a
The Azimgarh Proclamation and Some Questions biographies and day to day historical paradigm.
on the Revolt of 1857 in the Northwestern lives of Indian workers who
Provinces. ‘Satan Let Loose Upon Earth’: The worked in the first organised Protestant mission —The Statesman
Kanpur Massacres in India in the Revolt of 1857. enterprise in India, the Tranquebar Mission
The Sipahi and the Sepoy Mutinies. Two Intellectual (1706–1845). The book challenges the notion that 2012 978-81-87358-25-1 ` 195 197pp Paperback
Traditions of the Revolt of 1857: A Study of Popular Christianity in colonial India was basically imposed
Resistance. Responses to 1857 in the Centenary from the outside. It also questions the approaches Everyday Nationalism
Year. MANGAL PANDEY: BRAVE MARTYR OR to mission history concentrating exclusively on
ACCIDENTAL HERO? 1. 29 March 1857. 2. Life European mission societies. Women of the Hindu Right in India
of a Sepoy. 3. The Greased Cartridge. 4. Chapati,
Rumours and Prophecy. 5. The Trial. 6. Epilogue. 2013 978-81-87358-72-5 ` 750 566pp Hardback Kalyani Devaki Menon teaches religious studies
Rights: Restricted at DePaul University, Chicago
2016 978-93-83166-13-8 ` 495 175pp Paperback
2014 978-93-83166-00-8 ` 550 174pp Hardback Cultural History of Medieval To understand the
India expansionary power of
Autobiography of a Hindu nationalism, Menon
Revolutionary in British (Second Impression) explores how women
India, The activists use gendered
series: readings in history constructions of religion,
Kali Prasad Ghosh history, national insecurity
Edited by Meenakshi Khanna, Reader in History, and social responsibility to
Kali Prasad Ghosh belonged Indraprastha College for Women, University of recruit from a variety of
to a landed family in Bengal. Delhi backgrounds. According to
He joined the Congress Everyday Nationalism, Hindu
movement but in the 1920s Written by well-known nationalism’s success is due to its ability to become
became more radical as his scholars, the essays in this meaningful in people’s daily lives, and inventing
interest shifted to making book present sub-cultures traditions by using Hindu texts, symbols and rituals
bombs intended to blow up in diverse regional settings to unite people in a sense of belonging to India.
British property. The of the subcontinent. They
narrative is that of a man introduce a new way of … a vivid portrait of the everyday lives of Hindu
looking back and trying to understanding medieval nationalist women … Everyday Nationalism is an
understand his growing Indian history by engaging important contribution to scholarship in women›s
political awareness in the 1920s and 1930s. The with interdisciplinary studies, South Asian studies, and anthropology.
introduction to the volume has been written by methods of research or
Gunnel Cederlof, Professor of History, Uppsala issues that are significant to —Amrita Basu, Amherst College
University, Sweden. everyday existence in India.
2012 978-81-87358-68-8 ` 650 272pp Hardback
A remarkable addition to the rich reminiscence 2012 978-81-87358-30-5 ` 230 282pp Paperback
literature by Indian nationalist revolutionaries... Rights: Restricted Windows into a Revolution
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5601-0
— Partha Chatterjee, Professor, Anthropology and Ethnographies of Maoism in India and
South Asian Studies, Columbia University, New York Cultural History of Modern Nepal
India
The autobiography stands out for ... combining series: everyday life of political struggles
the personal and the political with a frankness that (Second Impression)
is unusual in political autobiographies... Edited by Alpa Shah, Senior Lecturer in
Edited by Dilip M. Menon, Mellon Chair in Indian Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London,
— Tanika Sarkar, Professor, Modern History, Studies and Professor of History, University of and Judith Pettigrew, Senior Lecturer, Faculty
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Witwatersrand, Johannesburg of Education and Health Sciences, University of
Limerick, Ireland
2013 978-81-87358-75-6 ` 625 320pp Hardback The history of modern India has been narrated largely
Windows into a Revolution offers glimpses into the
spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing
some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people

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54  HISTORY a cultural ethos. They are disappeared. The book
closely linked with discusses the struggle that
living amidst the revolutions nationalism in general and ensued between man and
in Bengal, Bihar and Nepal. various regional ‘sub- nature, as portrayed in the
The book offers a series of nationalisms’ in particular. punthi literature that
windows into different The contributors to this thrived in lower deltaic
stages of mobilization and volume look at a great Bengal between the
transformation into what variety of aspects of the seventeenth and nineteenth
are, were or may become, historiography of modern centuries.
revolutionary strongholds. regional languages of India.
The approach excludes 2010 978-81-87358-35-0 ` 550 212pp Hardback
… This is a new kind of classical languages of India, except Tamil. Rights: Restricted
political writing. … [T]his
writing has an authority 2010 978-81-87358-33-6 ` 695 400pp Hardback Reflections on Cambridge
that none of the others, Rights: Restricted
including those of the state and of its enemies, do Alan MacFarlane, Professor of Anthropological
because it is so much better informed and never Many Worlds of Sarala Devi, Science, University of Cambridge, and Life Fellow,
loses its loyalty to the local people. The King’s College, Cambridge, UK

—Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics A Diary The traditions and
and Political Science creativity of Cambridge
and University have survived
… This important collection brings together 800 years. In celebration,
superb, hard-won anthropological insights from Tagores and Sartorial Styles, this first historical and
field sites all the way from Pashupati to Tirupati…. The anthropological account
It is essential reading for anyone who wants to explores the culture, the
know about Maoism in South Asia. A Photo Essay customs, and the politics
of this famous institution.
—David N. Gellner, University of Oxford Translated by Sukhendu Ray, noted translator As Professor there for
with various translations to his credit nearly forty years, the
2012 978-81-87358-49-7 ` 695 352pp Hardback Introduced by Bharati Ray, Honorary Professor, author sets forth on an
Department of History, University of Calcutta, attempt to understand how this ancient
India and China in the and Malavika Karlekar, Editor, Indian Journal of university developed and changed, and how it
Colonial World Gender Studies continues to influence those who pass through
its portals.
Edited by Madhavi Thampi, faculty of Chinese This book contains two
History, Department of East Asian Studies, separate, but related, 2009 978-81-87358-48-0 ` 450 243pp Hardback
University of Delhi writings on the Tagores. Rights: Restricted
The introduction by the
India and China in the Colonial well-known historian, New Mansions for Music
World brings together Bharati Ray, very
thirteen essays by eminent perceptively captures the Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism
Indian and Chinese scholars larger context of family,
as well as young researchers marriage, women’s [With Social Science Press]
who look at the education and politics of
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Selected Speeches and Statements: of History, and Yogesh Sharma, Associate
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African heritage in India from medieval to modern University, New Delhi.
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China after 1978 Continuities and Transformations is a contribution to by post-independence India under Prime Minister
the study of historical dynamics. Proceeding from Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial VII of Hyderabad, was familiar with many of the music comes to life in this book. Lively anecdotes,
South India families who appear in this book and interviewed revealing personal glimpses, reflect G.N. Joshi’s
their surviving members close association with the most famous musicians of
series: new perspectives in south asian India. G.N. Joshi spent most of his working life with
See page 12 for further details. the Gramophone Company of India, after leaving his
history first profession, the law. He also submerged his own
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Kavita Philip is currently Associate Professor of of obtaining for posterity the immortal recordings
Women’s Studies at the University of California, Decentring Empire of the great musicians described in this book. In
Irvine many cases, his recordings are now the only live
Britain, India and the Transcolonial World contact we have with the great ones’ musical skills.
Why and how has science so powerfully shaped Here he also tells, humorously and lovingly, of the
both the common sense of individuals and the series: new perspectives in south asian history kind of people he found the musicians to be, and
development of postcolonial states? Philip suggests the circumstances, sometimes amusing, sometimes
that our ideas of race and resources are key. Durba Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History deeply touching, in which the recordings were
at Cornell University and Dane Kennedy, made.
Civilising Natures tells us how race and nature Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and
are fundamental to understanding colonial International Affairs at George Washington E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4621-9
modernities, and along the way, it complicates University in Washington, D.C.
our understandings of the relationships between Eighteenth Parallel, The
science and religion, pre-modern and civilised, See page 33 for further details.
environment and society. Ashokamitran
This is history at the cutting edge, an important
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Continuities and
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Studies in Sri Lankan Archaelogy and Differences within and after 1947, when Hyderabad is the State of
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the novel, closely and ironically interwoven with
Senake Bandaranayake The Left-Right Divide in the Congress Chandru’s life at home, in the city and at college.
The Eighteenth Parallel, won the Ilakkia Chintanai
This is a collection of nine articles addressing Reba Som Book-of-the-Year Award in 1977, and was selected
theoretical issues, hypotheses, generalisations, by the National Book Trust of India for translation
in the study of the material remains of Sri The decade 1929–39 saw the steady coalescing of into several Indian languages.
Lanka’s historical civilisation. They deal with a the ‘right’ wing point of view within the Congress
variety of subjects: from the agrarian transition leadership. The book focuses on this left-right E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5187-9
of protohistoric times to periodization of Sri encounter, identifies the composition of the two
Lanka’s historical trajectory to hypotheses on groups, studies the social background of the chief Engendering Individuals
unity and differentiation in an attempt to locate spokesmen on both sides, distinguishes their
the specificity of the Sri Lankan tradition in a broad points of view on key issues, and analyses J. Devika, Research Associate at the Centre for
matrix of Monsoon Asian cultures; from the their interaction within the overall consensus Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
categorisation of the Sri Lankan social formation framework of the Congress. Meticulously
to the study of patterns and semiotics of power researched and lucidly written, this study throws This book explores how, in early modern
and authority in architectural planning; from the light on the decade that proved critical in Malayalee society, the emerging notion of the
critique of diffusionism to the social dimension determining the socio-economic direction adopted individual (as distinct from an identity based on jati,
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British Raj, The Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History
based on gender differences. The book explores of Medicine, University of Oxford and Reader,
how social reform, notions of the individual, Ideas and Interests in the Reconstruction History of Medicine, Modern History Faculty,
and the creation of a ‘gendered’ individual came of the Indian Public Finance 1858–1872 Oxford, and Michael Worboys, Director,
together in early modern Kerala. Centre for the History of Science, Technology and
(Revised Edition) Medicine and the Wellcome Unit for the History
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Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, former Professor
Expunging Variola of Indian Economic History, Jawaharlal Nehru This work provides a well-rounded history of
University, former Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati official smallpox measures and their links with
The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in the development of public health in policies and
India, 1947–1977 This revised edition of the book, first published programmes in British India.
in 1971, comprises an expanded introduction
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Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer, Wellcome edited afresh to slightly abbreviate some parts. French Studies in History
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, The theme of this work may be summed up as the
University College London economic aspects of the theory and practice of Volume 2
the colonial state. The focus is upon the ideas and
See page 33 for further details. interests and contestations which went into the Maurice Aymard and Harbans Mukhia
making of the policies of the Raj in the formative
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appointment of the first finance minister of India dealt with New History’s first phase. This second
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The of the budget system and other innovations like writings from its second phase. Together, the
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this book, according to the author, was the
aftermath of the event of 9 December 2009 This book narrates the story of the revolutionary Political Developments in Hyderabad State,
when the Government of India announced its movement in India from 1900–1920. It traces 1938–1948
intention of forming the Telangana State. The the movement and its workers—the most
volume provides a historical perspective to the representative being Swami Vivekananada; the Lucien D. Benichou
Telangana cause, apart from charting the events most outstanding and active representative leader
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Founding of Madras, The book centres around the question of the nature
Fifty Years with the British and popularity of the annexation of Hyderabad.
N. S. Ramaswami It also explores the question of whether this was
S. K. Kirpalani the only way in which the transition to popular
Who were the Damarla brothers? For what rule could have taken place. The author attempts
This is a remarkable document derived from apparently mysterious reasons did Francis Day to answer these questions through a detailed and
meticulously kept diaries by S. K. Kirpalani, urge the East India Company to move the trade sensitive study of the crucial decade of 1938–48.
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bring order to the mass movement of people. Helen Sweet, Research Associate, all at the
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Gendered Citizenship Hindu. But in 1651, Dom Pedro was captain in the colonial vaccination policy, and to colonial
the army of the Portuguese King, in a Goa whose interventions related specifically to cholera and
Historical and Conceptual Explorations citizens were in the grip of the Holy Inquisition. plague in the pilgrimage centres of Puri and
All orphaned souls were destined for baptism as Pandharpur. It also examines indigenous initiatives
Anupama Roy, Professor at the Centre for Christians and the penalty for disobedience was associated with the Indian drug industry and the
Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, death. Govind is the story of that orphan’s journey Unani medical system and their interactions with
Delhi from childhood to young manhood, steered by the colonial health establishment and modern
his guardian through the tricky waters of family medicine.
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the colonial rule, the language of citizenship that armies of both Shivaji and the Adilshahi rulers, History of Fine Arts in India
emerged in late colonial India was based on a Govind works out his destiny against the backdrop and the West
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and political. Edith Tomory, former Head of the Department
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This book will be valuable for advanced students,
researchers and scholars of political science, Gujarat Carnage, The The fruit of over twenty years teaching experience
history, sociology and gender studies. It would in India, History of Fine Arts in India and the
also be helpful to those studying social exclusion Asghar Ali Engineer West (with over five hundred illustrations and
and the general reader interested in debates over numerous diagrams), will be of great interest to
gender and citizenship. This book is a compilation of articles, editorial, art lovers, travellers around the globe and Indian
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George Joseph (that took a direct interest for the first time, of The text is well supported by line drawings on
its own accord, in communal violence) is included almost every page, and 64 pages of half-tones.
The Life and Times of a Kerala Christian in it. This compilation helps preserve the lessons The glossary, bibliography and Sanskrit guides are
Nationalist learnt in one of the most horrifying and ominous further aids for students and lovers of fine arts and
periods in India’s modern history. Asian culture.
George Gheverghese Joseph holds joint
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Exeter, United Kingdom, and at the University of
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This book looks at the life of George Joseph Health Policy in Britain’s History of Jaipur, A
(1887–1938), a South Indian Christian nationalist Model Colony
whose contributions to the Indian freedom c. 1503–1938
struggle have been generally neglected in the Ceylon (1900–1948)
literature of the Indian national movement. Jadunath Sarkar, eminent historian
The book is not a straightforward biography; series: new perspectives in south asian history
it attempts to place the subject of the study in The book meticulously documents the history of
the political and social context of modern Indian Margaret Jones, Research Officer, Wellcome the Kachhwa rulers of Jaipur.
history but provides personal glimpses of the man Unit for the History of Medicine, University of
and his humanity. Oxford Sarkar ploughed through a profusion of raw
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Sharon Messenger, Senior Research Assistant, series: new perspectives in south asian history Dynasty (Second Edition)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
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of History, Sri Venkateswara College, University of well known for his works on History of Art and
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When Dom Pedro found the orphaned Govind systems, to case studies of two mental
in a cave near the Banastarim Gate, he promised asylums, the location of the leprosy asylum, the
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The Making of a Documentary
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Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, York University, Edited by A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor, Percy S. Gourgey
Toronto, Canada, Anne Hardy, Deputy Director, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai,
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illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation, Rajni Kothari, professor, scholar and activist Museum and Library (NMML), N. Balakrishnan,
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charge of the Research and Publications Division brings together six articles, which delineate and Kalhana in the seventh and twelfth centuries
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The titles considered spread across the disciplinary of the most valourous and fascinating ruler of
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historian, the philosopher, the statesman, the lover the factors which ensured its continuity for Medical Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of
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weakened. This book brings together, within a
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Transfer of Power in India, Rajib Dasgupta, Associate Professor at the
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Jawaharlal Nehru University South India Honour, Authority, and
V. P. Menon, last Constitutional Adviser to the Morality
Governor-General of British India See page 19 for further details.
Pamela Gwynne Price, Professor Emerita,
The author recounts in detail the events that E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5096-4 Department of South Asian History, University of
occurred from September 1939 to August 1947, Oslo, Norway
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Merchant, The of socio-religious change at both the micro and status and representations of morality. The
the macro levels. The study is confined to the writings focus on conceptions, symbols, and values
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period of history (beginning with the maritime trade
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1870–1910 history, archaeology, history of technology,
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series: new perspectives in south asian history presents a bold hypotheses by which he seeks to India finds himself today, says Sumit Sarkar, is
resolve several paradoxes that have plagued the dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and
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contrasts spaces and powers. Bengalis travelling commitment to socialist-feminist values, alongside
to Europe in the colonial period felt compelled to Manjari Katju, Reader, Department of Political a democratic political vision formulated within
produce such texts. An analysis of these works Science, University of Hyderabad Indian conditions of skewed social development,
from a historian’s angle provides crucial windows practice the craft of history? This excellent set
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Tanika Sarkar, Professor, Centre for Historical
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Ahuja, Ravi 18, 28 Champalakshmi, R. 64 Gopinath, Ravindran 22
Alam, Muzaffar 41, 48, 65 Chandra, Bipan 17, 26, 35 Goswami, Chhaya 20
Alavi, Seema 50 Chandra, Mallampalli 33 Goswami, Priyam 15
Ali, Shanti Sadiq 56 Chandra, Satish 32 Gourgey, Percy S. 60
Amin, Shahid 8 Chaplin, Susan E. 62 Greenough, Paul 18, 25, 56
Aquil, Raziuddin 46, 65 Chatterjee, Partha 41–2, 46, 52, 65–6 Guha, Arun Chandra 58
Arita, Isao 21 Chattopadhyaya, Brajadulal 51, 66 Guha, Ramachandra 41, 45, 50, 52, 65
Arnold, David 51 Chaube, S. K. 15 Guha, Ramchandra 60
Arunima, G. 35 Chaudhuri, Rosinka 14 Guha, Ranajit 4, 37, 46, 66
Ashokamitran 57 Chaudhuri, Sukanta 55 Guha, Sumit 47
Assayag, Jackie 50 Chettiar, A. K. 33, 60 Guha-Thakurta, Tapati 50
Attewell, Guy 18, 32, 62 Cohen, Benjamin B. 8 Gundevia, Y. D. 66
Aymard, Maurice 58 Cook, Harold J. 18, 26, 60 Gupta, Abhijit 2, 48
Azad, M. A. K. 27, 60 Gupta, Amit Kumar 25
Dalal, Chandulal Bhagubhai 32 Gupta, Charu 15, 36, 51, 66
Bakhle, Janaki 49 Dalmia, Vasudha 36, 46, 49
Balakrishnan, N. 9, 11, 13, 62, 63 Dalmiya, Vasudha 65 Habib, Irfan 34
Bandaranayake, Senake 28, 57 Das, Bikram K. 62 Hansen, Kathryn 44
Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar 1, 8, 14 Dasgupta, Rajib 19, 64 Haq, Kaiser 55
Banerjee, Debdas 35 Das Gupta, Sanjukta 17 Harder, Hans 54
Banerjee-Dube, Ishita 55 Dasgupta, Subrata 47 Hardiman, David 52, 65
Banerjee, Madhulika 18, 28, 62 Das, Samarendra 24 Hardy, Anne 18, 26, 60
Banerjee, Paula 6 Datla, Kavita 12 Haridas, V. V. 7
Banerjee, Samir 28, 61 Deák, Dušan 19 Harman, Chris 34
Banerjee, Sumanta 29 Desai, Narayan 28 Harrison, Mark 18, 25, 34, 58–9
Banerji, Arup 31, 55 Deshpande, Prachi 41 Hazareesingh, Sandip 18, 32
Baskaran, Theodore 26, 60 deSouza, Peter Ronald 24 Heydon, Susan 18, 27, 61
Basu, Helene 30, 60 Dev, Arjun 26 Hodges, Sarah 18, 34
Basu, Swaraj 4 Devika, J. 57 Hood, John W. 12, 59
Bates, Crispin 35 Dev, Indira Arjun 26
Bayly, C. A. 15 Dewey, Clive 18 Ishay, Micheline R. 30
Benei, Véronique 50 Dhere, Ramachandra Chintaman 44
Benichou, Lucien D. 35, 58 Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma 49 Jaffrelot, Christophe 47, 51, 65
Bhargava, Meena 22 Dirks, Nicholas B. 38, 49, 52 Jain, Ravindra K. 35
Bhasin, Kamla 56 Docker, John 28 Jasper, Daniel 19
Bhatnagar, Deepa 9, 11, 13, 62–3 Drayton, Richard 34 Jayawardena, Kumari 8
Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi 31, 35, 58, 62–3 Dube, Saurabh 55 Jeganathan, Pradeep 52
Bhattacharya, Sanjoy 18, 22, 24, 26, 33–4, 58–60 Jones, Margaret 18, 25, 27, 34, 58–60
Bhukya, Bhangya 25, 63 Eacott, Jonathan 5 Jørgensen, Helle 19
Bilgrami, Akeel 40 Economic and Political Weekly 29, 57 Joseph, Betty 34
Blackburn, Stuart 49, 65 Engineer, Asghar Ali 59, 62 Joseph, George Gheverghese 59
Bode, Maarten 18, 31, 63 Joshi, Chitra 51, 65
Bose, Netaji Subhas Chandra 48 Falk, Richard 17 Joshi, G. N. 57
Bose, Nirmal Kumar 63 Feldhaus, Anne 44 Joshi, Vandana 24
Bose, N. K. 61 Fihl, Esther 10 Juneja, Monica 48, 64
Bose, Sisir Kumar 25, 37, 56 Fischer-Tiné, Harald 18
Bose, Sugata 37 Fuller, Steve 34 Kapadia, Aparna 23
Brimnes, Niels 3, 19 Karve, Irawati 33
Gandhi, Gopalkrishna 47, 65 Kathuria, Shailaja 55
Cederlof, Gunnel 42 Gandhi, Leela 38, 50 Katju, Manjari 64
Chakrabarti, Dilip K. 52 Ganguly, Debjani 28 Kaul, Shonaleeka 9, 46
Chakrabarti, Malabika 34 Ghoshal, U. N. 63 Kaul, Suvir 44
Chakrabarti, Pratik 47, 66 Ghosh, Anindita 43 Kennedy, Dane 18, 33, 57
Chakrabarty, Dipesh 36 Ghosh, Atig 6 Kerr, Ian J. 14, 18, 31, 56
Chakraborty, Chandrima 44 Ghosh, Durba 18, 33, 57 Khan, Iqtidar Alam 37
Chakravarti, Uma 6 Ghosh, Kali Prasad 53 Khanna, Meenakshi 53
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68  AUTHOR INDEX Mukund, Kanakalatha 34 Rao, Vijayendra 15
Muraskin, William 62 Rau, H. Ratnakar 59
Kochhar, Rajesh 35, 64 Murty, M. L. K. 35 Rawat, Ramnarayan S. 36, 40
Kosambi, Meera 40–41, 44, 65 Raychaudhuri, Tapan 34
Kothari, Rajni 62 Nagaraj, D.R. 42 Ray Chaudhury, Anasua Basu 6
Kothari, Rita 13, 25, 61 Nair, Janaki 16 Ray, Niharranjan 12, 35, 59
Kothari, Smitu 56 Nair, Neeti 43 Ray, Pratibha 62
Krishnaraj, Maithreyi 35 Naithani, Sadhana 27 Ray, Sukhendu 54
Krishna Rao, K. V. 21, 60 Nandy, Ashis 50, 52 Reddy, Sujani K. 3, 19
Kumar, Anup 19 Naono, Atsuko 18, 29 Redondi, Pietro 63
Kumar, Dharma 34 Naravane, Viswanath S. 62 Ricci, Ronit 44
Kumar, Raj 20 Narayanan, Gomathi 57 Robb, Peter 18
Kumar, Sunil 46 Narayana Rao, Velcheru 37, 51, 66 Roy, Anupama 59
Kurian, Rachel 8 Naregal, Veena 40 Roychowdhury, Madhuparna 8
Natrajan, Balmurli 18, 25, 56 Roy, Shampa 32
Lahiri, Nayanjot 38–9, 42, 52, 65 Nayar, Pramod K. 32
Lang, Jon 46 Nayyar, A. H. 56 Sarkar, Bhaskar 23
Lev, Shimon 16 Nicholson, Andrew J. 45 Sarkar, Jadunath 24, 26, 28, 32, 59–60, 63
Lewis, Michael 18, 35 Nijhawan, Shobna 46 Sarkar, Sumit 38–9, 45, 51, 64–6
Liebau, Heike 53 Niranjana, Tejaswini 31 Sarkar, Sutapa Chatterjee 24, 54
Liu, Xinru 42 Novetzke, Christian Lee 47 Sarkar, Tanika 38–9, 45, 52, 65–6
Lourdusamy, John Bosco 18, 34, 63 Satapathy, Sarat Chandra 63
Ludden, David 52 O’Connor, Daniel 55 Schnur, Alan 21
Lynton, Harriet Ronken 12, 57 O’Hanlon, Rosalind 43 Sen, Amiya P. 43
Lynton, Ronken 61 Orsini, Francesca 17, 56 Sen, Asoka Kumar 14
Overy, Caroline 18, 24 Sengupta, Parna 16
MacFarlane, Alan 54 Sengupta, Saswati 32
Madhusudan, M. D. 11, 61 Padel, Felix 21, 24, 62 Sen, Indrani 16, 18, 33
Majumdar, Ramendu 56 Pandian, M. S. S. 48, 51 Sen, Simonti 64
Malik, Jamal 15 Parobo, Parag D. 9, 19 Seshan, Radhika 12
Mandal, D. 56 Patel, Hitendra 20 Shahabuddin, Ghazala 11, 61
Manikumar, K. A. 35 Pati, Biswamoy 17, 18, 35, 59, 63 Shah, Alpa 53
Manor, James 7 Peers, Douglas M. 18 Shah, A. M. 5
Mantena, Karuna 45 Pettigrew, Judith 53 Sharma, Jayeeta 43
Markovits, Claude 52 Phalkey, Jahnavi 41 Sharma, R. S. 10, 61
Mason, David S. 13 Philip, Kavita 18, 34, 57 Sharma, Suresh 23, 61
Mathur, Saloni 21 Pingle, Gautam 10, 58 Sharma, Yogesh 56
Mayaram, Shail 51 Pollock, Sheldon 48 Shobhi, Prithvi Datta Chandra 42
Mazumder, Rajit K. 43 Prasad, Ishwari 61 Shulman, David 51, 66
McGrath, Kevin 21 Price, Pamela Gwynne 13, 64 Silva, Kalinga Tudor 19
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna 39 Puri, Balraj 30, 60 Simpson, Edward 23, 63
Menon, Dilip M. 53 Purkayastha, Sharmila 32 Singh, Upinder 52, 55
Menon, Kalyani Devaki 53 Sivaramakrishnan, K. 41–2
Menon, V. P. 10, 60, 64 Radhakrishna, Meena 29, 57 Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita 18, 33, 62
Messenger, Sharon 18, 22, 24, 59 Raghavan, Srinath 38, 45 Skaria, Ajay 37, 51
Metcalf, Barbara D. 42 Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur 56 Slate, Nico 42
Metcalf, Thomas 49 Rahman, Tariq 20, 30, 61 Smith, R. V. 55
Michaels, Axel 34 Rai, Mridu 49, 65 Smith, Thomas 55
Mir, Farina 46 Rajan, Mohini 12, 57 Som, Reba 57
Mishra, Ganeswar 63 Ramagundam, Rahul 30 Soneji, Davesh 40
Mitchell, Lisa 40 Ramanna, Mridula 18, 35 Spear, Margaret 23, 60
Mitra, Ashok 2 Ramaswami, N. S. 58 Spear, Percival 23, 60
Mohanty, Sachidananda 30 Ramaswamy, Vijaya 56 Spodek, Howard 13
Moienuddin, Mohammad 63 Rangarajan, Mahesh 9, 11, 13, 37, 41, 51, 61–3, 65 Sreedharan, E. 35
Mukherjee, Alok 26 Rao, Anupama 43 Sreenivasan, Ramya 50
Mukherjee, Rudrangshu 52 Rao, Mukunda 61 Sreenivas, Mytheli 29
Mukherjee, Sujit 60 Rao, Parimala V. 11, 20 Srimanjari 25
Mukherjee, Tilottama 9 Rao, Velcheru Narayana 51, 66 Srinivasan, Vasanthi 47, 65
Mukhia, Harbans 58
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Thampi, Madhavi 54
Stark, Ulrike 47 Thapar, Romila 22, 39 Vicente, Filipa Lowndes 16
Stietencron, Heinrich von 49 Thillainayagam, S. 33, 60 Virmani, Arundhati 48
Subba Rao, C. V. 32 Thorner, Alice 35 Vora, Rajendra 66
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay 39, 45, 51, 66 Tiné, Harald Fischer 27
Subramanian, Lakshmi 23, 31, 54 Tomory, Edith 34, 59 Weber, Thomas 10
Sudan, Rajani 1 Trautmann, Thomas R. 38 Wells, Ian Bryant 51
Sugimoto, Masanobu 21 Tyagi, Jaya 30 Wickramasinghe, Nira 35
Suhrud, Tridip 10, 23–4, 28–9, 32, 61 Woolcock, Michael 15
Sullivan, Robert E. 23 Vanita, Ruth 14 Worboys, Michael 18, 34, 58
Sweet, Helen 18, 25, 58 Veluthat, Kesavan 16
Szreter, Simon 15 Venkatachalapathy, A. R. 10, 33, 39, 60 Zeldin, Theodore 36
Zia Mian 56
Tahseen, Mohammad 56 Zutshi, Chitralekha 44, 65
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Studies 18, 31, 56 Everyday in Colonial South Asia 43 Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in
Bombay (1900–1925) 32
1857 29 Beloved Bapu: The Gandhi-Mirabehn
1971: Global History of the Creation of Correspondence 10 Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity, The:
Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in
Bangladesh, A 38 Bengal Renaissance: The Identity and Creativity Bombay City (1900–1925) 18
from Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore
Adivasis and the Raj: Socio-economic Transition of 47 Colonial Economy in the Great Depression, A:
the Hos, 1820–1932 17 Madras (1929–1937) 35
Between History and Legend: Status and Power in
Adivasis in Colonial India: Survival, Resistance and Bundelkhand 35 Colonialism in Action: Trade, Development and
Negotiation 17 Dependence in Late Colonial India 35
Beyond Caste: Identity, and Power in South Asia:
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought and Past and Present 35 Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle
the Politics of Friendship 50 for Freedom in the United States and India 42
Beyond Nationalist Frames: Relocating
African Dispersal in the Deccan, The 56 Postmodernism, Hindutva, History 51, 64 Common Cause, The: Postcolonial Ethics and the
Against Stigma: Studies in Caste, Race and Justice Practice of Democracy 38
Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling Across Cultural
since Durban 18, 25, 56 Borders in South India 10 Communalism and the Intelligentsia in Bihar,
Agra: Rambles and Recollections of Thomas Smith 1870–1930: Shaping Caste, Community and
Biography as History: Indian Perspectives 56 Nationhood 20
55 Black Hole of Empire, The: History of a Global
Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in
Practice of Power 41 Diaspora 35
India 13 Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and
Alchemy of Empire, The: Abject Materials and the Concise History of Modern Architecture in India,
Performative Worlds in North India 35 A 46
Technologies of Colonialism 1 Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the
Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Concise History of Modern Europe, A: Liberty,
Tamil Political Present 48 Equality, Solidarity 13
Liberal Imperialism 45 Bridging Partition: People’s Initiative for Peace
Alternative Leadership, The: Speeches, Articles, Congress President: Speeches, Articles, and
between India and Pakistan 56 Letters, January 1938–May 1939 52
Statements and Letters 1939–1941 51 Burden of Refuge: The Partition Experiences of the
Ambassador of Hindu–Muslim Unity: Jinnah’s Early Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of
Sindhis of Gujarat 25 Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan 8
Politics 51
Ancient Indian Social History Some Interpretations Calling of History, The: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Continuities and Transformations: Studies in Sri
Empire of Truth 36 Lankan Archaelogy and History 57
(Second Edition) 22
Anthropologist among the Marxists and Other Call of the Sea, The: Kachchhi Traders in Muscat Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in
and Zanzibar, c. 1800–1880 20 Western India, 1700–1960 41
Essays, An 52
Archaeological Geography of the Ganga Plain: The Cambridge Economic History of India, The: Crises and Creativities: Middle-Class Bhadralok in
Volume 1: c.1200–c.1750 (New Edition) 34 Bengal, c.1939–52 25
Lower and the Middle Ganga 52
Architecture in Medieval India: Forms, Contexts, Cambridge Economic History of India, The: Cultural Encounters in India: The Local Co-
Volume 2: c.1757–2003 (New Edition) 34 workers of the Tranquebar Mission, 18th to
Histories 48, 64 19th Centuries 53
Ashoka in Ancient India 38 Caste, Conflict, and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao
At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth- Cultural History of Early South Asia 57
Century Western India 43 Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader 9
the West 50 Cultural History of Medieval India (Second
Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth-Century Caste in Modern India: A Reader (Two Volume
Set) 38, 65 Impression) 53
India 41 Cultural History of Modern India (Second
Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage Caste Question, The: Dalits and the Politics of
Modern India 43 Impression) 53
to India 38
Autobiography of a Revolutionary in British India, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Dalit Personal Narratives: Reading Caste, Nation
Modern India 52 and Identity 20
The 53
Awadh in Revolt, 1857–1858: A Study of Popular Chalo Delhi: Writings and Speeches 1943–1945 Dalit Studies 36
48 Days of the Beloved, The 12, 57
Resistance 52 Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the
Ayodhya: Archaeology after Demolition 56 Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the
Azad Hind: Writings and Speeches, 1941–1943 49 Partition of India 43 Transcolonial World 18, 33, 57
Decline and Fall of The Indus Civilization, The 52,
Bangladesh, My Bangladesh: Selected Speeches and China after 1978: Craters on the Moon 57
Statements: October 28, 1970 to March 26, Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India 65
1971 56 Decolonisation and the Politics of Transition in
1863–1937: Contending with Marginality 33
Bankim’s Hinduism: An Anthology of Writings by Civilising Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity South Asia 1
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay 43 Decolonisation, Development and Disease: A
in Colonial South India 18, 34, 57
Beacon Across Asia, A: A Biography of Subhas Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Social History of Malaria in Sri Lanka 19
Chandra Bose 25, 56 Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of
Plantations: Two Centuries of Power and
Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Protest 8 Freedom in Postindependence West Bengal,
Culture 17, 56 Clear Star, A: C.F. Andrews and India, 1904–1914 1947–52 14
55

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Financial Foundations of the British Raj, The:
Delhi: Ancient History 55 Global Eradication of Smallpox, The 22, 59
Delhi that No-one Knows, The 55 Ideas and Interests in the Reconstruction of Govind: A Novel 59
Dharmanand Kosambi: The Essential Writings 41 the Indian Public Finance 1858–1872 (Revised Gujarat Carnage, The 59
Differences within Consensus: The Left-Right Edition) 58
Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Harilal Gandhi A Life 32
Divide in the Congress 57 Civilization was Discovered 39 Hating Empire Properly: India, the Indies, and
Discovery of Ancient India, The: Early First Spark of Revolution 58
Foundations of Tilak’s Nationalism: Discrimination, Enlightenment Anticolonialism 36
Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Education, Hindutva 20 Health and Population in South Asia: From Earliest
Archaeology 52 Founding of Madras, The 58
Dishonoured by History: ‘Criminal Tribes’ and Founts of Knowledge 2 Times to the Present 47
British Colonial Policy 29, 57 Fractured States: Smallpox, Public Health and Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on
Displaying India’s Heritage: History, Policy and the Vaccination Policy in British India 18, 34, 58
Asian Perspective 8 Freedom and Beef Steaks: Colonial Calcutta Colonial India 59
Down Melody Lane 57 Culture 14 Health Policy in Britain’s Model Colony: Ceylon
Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and French Studies in History: Volume 2 58
Fighting Caste 51 From Autocracy to Integration: Political (1900–1948) 18, 34, 59
Dressing the Colonised Body: Politics, Clothing Developments in Hyderabad State, 1938–1948 Hidden Pleasures of Life, The: A New Way of
and Identity in Colonial Sri Lanka 35 35, 58
From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History Remembering the Past and Imagining the
Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in 20 Future 36
Feudalisation 10 From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Hill Politics in Northeast India (Third Edition) 15
Modern India (Second Edition) 8 Hinduism: Past and Present 34
Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and From Village Elder to British Judge: Custom, Hindu Myth, Hindu History: Religion, Art, and
Identities in South Asia 42 Customary Law and Tribal Society 14 Politics 49
From Western Medicine to Global Medicine: The Hindu Nationalism: A Reader 47, 65
Education and the Disprivileged: Nineteenth and Hospital Beyond the West 18 Hindu Pasts: Women, Religion, Histories 36
Twentieth Century India 35 From Western Medicine to Global Medicine: The Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and
Hospitals beyond the West 25, 58 the History of Kashmir 49, 65
Eighteenth Parallel, The 57 Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion,
Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History Gandhi: Anti-Biography of a Great Soul 52 and Cultural Nationalism 52, 65
Gandhi: In His Time and Ours 52, 65 Historical Demography and Agrarian Regimes:
38 Gandhi is Gone. Who Will Guide Us Now?: Understanding Southern Indian Fertility,
Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, The 46 1881–1981 22
Empire and Nation: Essential Writings, 1985–2005 Nehru, Prasad, Azad, Vinoba, Kripalani, JP, and History and the Present 52
Others Introspect, Sevagram, March 1948 47, History, Bhakti, and Public Memory: Namdev in
42 65 Religious and Secular Traditions 47
Empire of Books, An: The Naval Kishore Press and Gandhi’s Conscience Keeper: C. Rajagopalachari History, Historians and Development Policy: A
and Indian Politics 47, 65 Necessary Dialogue 15
the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial Gandhi’s Khadi: A History of Contention and History in the Vernacular 46, 65
India 47 Conciliation 30 History of Assam, The: From Yandabo to Partition,
Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India Gandhi’s Prisoner?: The Life of Gandhi’s Son 1826–1947 15
43 Manilal 49 History of Education in Modern India, The:
Engendering Individuals 57 Gender and Cultural Identity in Colonial Orissa 1757–2012 (Fourth Edition) 12
Engendering the Early Household: Brahmanical 30 History of Fine Arts in India and the West 34, 59
Precepts in the Early Grhyasutras, Middle of Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual History of Fine Arts in India and the West, A 34
the First Millennium B.C.E. 30 Explorations 59 History of Human Rights, The: From Ancient
Engines of Change: The Railroads That Made India Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print Caste Times to the Globalization Era 30
14 and Communalism 15 History of India: 1707–1857 23
Essays on Colonialism 35 Gender of Caste, The: Representing Dalits in Print History of Jaipur, A: c. 1503–1938 26, 59
Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right 36 History of Medieval India 32
in India 53 Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhtıˉ Poetry, History of Modern India 26
Exploring Medieval India, Sixteenth to Eighteenth 1780–1870 14 History of the Bengali People: From Earliest
Centuries: Volume I: Culture, Gender, Regional George Joseph: The Life and Times of a Kerala Times to the Fall of the Sena Dynasty (Second
Patterns 22 Christian Nationalist 59 Edition) 12, 59
Exploring Medieval India, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Gift of English, The: English Education and the History of the Social Determinants of Health:
Centuries: Volume II: Politics, Economy, Formation of Alternative Hegemonies in India Global Histories, Contemporary Debates 18,
Religion 22 26 26, 60
Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of History of the World: From the Late Nineteenth
Smallpox in India, 1947–1977 18, 33, 58 to the Early Twenty-First Century 26
History through the Lens: Perspectives on South
Fall and Rise of Telangana, The 10, 58 Indian Films 26, 60
Fall of the Mughal Empire, The (Four Volumes: Hoodlum Years, The 2

Available as a box set) 32
Famine of 1896–1897 in Bengal, The: Availability or

Entitlement Crisis? 34

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72  TITLE INDEX Islam in South Asia: A Short History 15 Mind of Jawaharlal Nehru, The 61
Islam in South Asia: In Practice 42 Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin’s Wonders of Vilayet
Hospital System and Health Care, The: Sri Lanka, Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the
1815–1960 27, 60 55
Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj: A Critical Edition 23,
House of Shivaji 60 Asia 44
Hyderabad: The Social Context of Industrialisation 61
Journeys and Dwellings: Indian Ocean Themes in Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration
32 South Asia 30, 60
between India and Trinidad 31
Ideals, Images and Real Lives: Women in Literature Kashmir: Insurgency and After 30, 60 Modern Medicine and International Aid: Khunde
and History 35
Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998 18, 27, 61
Idea of Gujarat, The: History, Ethnography and Making of a Mother Tongue 40 Modern Times: India 1880s–1950s 39
Text 23 Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art
Language, Ideology and Power: Language-learning
Ideas and Institutions in Medieval India: Eighth to among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India in Colonial and Postcolonial India 50
Eighteenth Centuries 12 30, 61 Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake

Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City 46 Language of Secular Islam, The: Urdu Nationalism of Partition 23
Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean and Colonial India 12 Moveable Type: Book History in India 48
My Days with Gandhi 61
Arena, 1860–1920 49 Language of the Gods in the World of Men, The: My Dear Nawab Sahib 61
Imperialists, Nationalists, Democrats: The Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern My Life is My Message Sadhana (1869–1905) 28
India 48 My Life is My Message Satyagraha (1915–1930) 28
Collected Essays 40 My Life is My Message Satyapath (1930–1940) 28
In Burmese Prisons: Correspondence, May 1923– Language Politics, Elites, and the Public Sphere: My Life is My Message Svarpan (1940–1948) 28
Western India under Colonialism 40 Mysore Modern: Rethinking the Region under
July 1926 48
India and Central Asia: A Reader 42 Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, Princely Rule 16
India and China in the Colonial World 54 and the Making of Kashmir 44, 65
India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural National Flag for India, A 48
Languages of Political Islam in India, The: c. Nationalism in the Vernacular: Hindi, Urdu, and
Display 21 1200–1800 48, 65
Indian Army and the Making of Punjab, The 43 the Literature of Indian Freedom 46
Indian Cricket Century, An 60 Languished Hopes: Tuberculosis, the State and Nationalization of Hindu Traditions, The:
Indian Naval Revolt of 1946, The 60 International Assistance in Twentieth-century
Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History, India 3, 19 Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-
Century Banaras 46
1890–1950 43 Last Liberal and Other Essays, The 50, 65 Nature and Nation: Essays on Environmental
India Remembered (Revised Edition) 60 Leader of Youth: Netaji Collected Works, volume History 37
India Remembered (Second Edition) 23 Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain,
India’s Environmental History: A Reader: Volume 6 37 and the ‘Improvement’ of the World 34
Letters to Emilie Schenkl, 1934–1942 52 Nature without Borders 11, 61
I: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period Life and Times of Humayun, The 61 New Mansions for Music: Performance, Pedagogy
41 Listening to the Loom: Essays on Literature, and Criticism 31, 54
India’s Environmental History: A Reader: Volume New Perspectives in the History of Indian
II: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation 41 Politics and Violence 42 Education 11
India’s First Democratic Revolution: Dayanand Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Nivedan: The Autobiography of Dharmanand
Bandodkar and the Rise of the Bahujan in Goa Kosambi 44, 65
9, 19 Histories of Modern Indian Languages 54 Notes from Gandhigram: Challenges to Gandhian
India’s Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Looking for the Aryans 61 Praxis 28, 61
Century 49, 65 Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Nursing and Empire: Gendered Labor and
India’s Polity in the Age of Akbar 37 Migration from India to the United States 3,
India’s Wildlife History: An Introduction 51, 65 Histories 51, 65 19
India Through the Ages 60 Low and Licentious Europeans: Race, Class and
India Wins Freedom 27, 60 Old Potions, New Bottles: Recasting Indigenous
In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib ‘White Subalternity’ in Colonial India 18, 27 Medicine in Colonial Punjab, 1850–1945 18,
Chaube and William Crooke 27 33, 62
Integration of the Indian States 10, 60 Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power 23
In the Club: Associational Life in Colonial South Mahatma, The—A Novel 61 Other Orientalisms: India Between Florence and
Asia 8 Many Lives of a Rajput Queen, The: Heroic Pasts Bombay, 1860–1900 16
In the Tracks of the Mahatma: The Making of a
Documentary 33, 60 in India, c.1500–1900 50 Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the
Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Many Worlds of Sarala Devi, The: A Diary 54 Aluminium Cartel 24
Ideal in India, 1945–1997 18, 35 Marshalling the Past: Ancient India and its Modern
Invincibility, Challenges and Leadership 21, 60 Outside the Archives 66
Is ‘Indian Civilization’ a Myth?: Fictions and Histories 42
Histories 39 Masculinity, Asceticism, Hinduism: Past and Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and Literary
Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo- History 39
Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600–1900 50 Present Imaginings of India 44
Memories and Movements: Borders and

Communities in Banni, Kutch, Gujarat 13, 61
Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on

Indian Women 16

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Rule of Property for Bengal, A: An Essay on the TITLE INDEX  73
Idea of Permanent Settlement 4, 37
Partitions of Memory, The: The Afterlife of the Strıˉ: Feminine Power in the Mahaˉ bhaˉ rata 21
Division of India 44 Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape Structure of Hindu Society, The 63
21, 62 Studies in Indian History and Culture 63
Past Before Us, The: Historical Traditions of Early Studying Early India: Archaeology, Texts, and
North India 39 Sarojini Naidu 62
Scandal of Empire, The: India and the Creation of Historical Issues 51, 66
Pathways of Empire: Circulation, Public Works and Subaltern Studies XI: Community, Gender and
Social Space in Colonial Orissa, 1780–1914 28 Imperial Britain 49
Science and National Consciousness in Bengal: Violence 52
Pathways of Empire: Circulation, ‘Public Works’ Subaltern Studies XII: Muslims, Dalits and the
and Social Space in Colonial Orissa, c. 1870–1930 18, 34, 63
1780–1914 18 Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment 40 Fabrications of History 51
Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari: Vol. I, Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas Under the
Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and
the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal 1907–21 13, 62 Rule of the Nizams 25, 63
16 Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari: Vol. II, Sundarbans, The: Folk Deities, Monsters and

People’s History of the World, A 34 1921–22 11, 62 Mortals 24, 54
Polio Eradication and Its Discontents: A Historian’s Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari: Vol. III, Sunset at Srirangapatam 63
Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, The: 1903–1908
Journey Through an International Public Health 1923–25 9, 63
(Un)civil War 62 Selections from Nehru 63 45, 66
Political Culture and Economy in Eighteenth Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and
Century Bengal: Networks of Exchange, Tagores and Sartorial Styles, The: A Photo Essay
Consumption and Communication 9 America, 1600–1830 5 54
Political Structure of Early Medieval South India, Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women,
The (Second Edition) 16 Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market: The
Politics of Sanitation in India, The: Cities, Services Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and Unani
and the State 62 51, 66 Industry, 1980–2000 18, 31, 63
Power, Knowledge, Medicine: Ayurvedic Shivaji and His Times (Fifth Edition) 24
Pharmaceuticals at Home and in the World Short History of Aurangzib, A 28, 63 Techniques to Technology: A French
18, 28, 62 Short History of Aurangzib, A (Revised Edition) Historiography of Technology 63
Pre- and Protohistoric Andhra Pradesh up to 500 28
BC 35 Sinhalese Monastic Architecture: The Viharas of Text and Tradition in South India 37
Primal Land, The 62 Anuraˉdhapura 28 Textbook of Historiography, A: 500 BC to AD
Province of the Book, The: Scholars, Scribes and Situating Social History: Orissa, 1800–1997 18,
Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu 39 35, 63 2000 35
Smallpox Eradication Saga, The: An Insider’s View Textures of Time: Writing History in South India,
Readings on Dalit Identity: History, Literature and 21
Religion 4 Small Voice of History, The: Collected Essays 46, 1600–1800 51, 66
66 The Global Eradication of Smallpox 18
Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical History, Social Determinants of Health: Assessing Theory, The Hospital System and Health Care: Sri Lanka,
Contested Meanings, and the Globalization of Policy and Practice 18, 24
South Asia 52 Social Movements and Cultural Currents: 1815–1960 18
1789–1945 24 The Making of a Small State: Populist Mobilisation
Reading the East India Company, 1720–1840: Social Space of Language, The: Vernacular Culture
Colonial Currencies of Gender 34 in British Colonial Punjab 46 and the Hindi Press in the Uttarakhand
Society and History of Gujarat since 1800: A Movement 19
Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Select Bibliography of the English and European There Comes Papa: Colonialism and the
Nations in Colonial Times 39, 66 Language Sources 63 Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala and
Sociology and History: Dialogues Towards Malabar, c. 1850–1940 35
Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit Integration 5 Thinking Gender, Doing Gender: Feminist
History in North India 40 Soulmates: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and Scholarship and Practice Today 6
Hermann Kallenbach 16 Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our
Refiguring Unani Tibb: Plural Healing in Late Sourcebook of Indian Civilization, A 35 Times 34
Colonial India 18, 32, 62 Speaking of Gandhi’s Death 24 Three Ways to be Alien: Travails and Encounters
Stages of Life: Indian Theatre Autobiographies in the Early Modern World 45
Reflections on Cambridge 54 44 Through War and Famine: Bengal, 1939–45 25
Renaissance Reborn: In Search of a Historical State of Being Stateless, The: An Account of South Time Treks: The Uncertain Future of Old and
Asia 6 New Despotisms 50
Paradigm 55 State of Vaccination: The Fight Against Smallpox in Time Warps: The Insistent Politics of Silent and
Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Colonial Burma 18, 29 Evasive Pasts 52
States of Indian Cricket, The: Anecdotal Histories Towards Freedom: Critical Essays on Ghare Baire
Controversies 18, 34 45 32
Rethinking 1857 31, 62 Trading World of the Tamil Merchant, The:
Rethinking Democracy 62 Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Coromandel 64
Tranquebar—Whose History?: Transnational
Global Perspectives 28 Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading
Rethinking Issues in Islam 62 Colony in South India 19
Rethinking Western India: The Changing Contexts Transfer of Power in India, The 64

of Culture, Society, and Religion 19
Rise of a Folk God, The: Vitthal of Pandharpur 44

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74  TITLE INDEX Urbanising Cholera: The Social Determinants of Its Woman and Empire: Representations in the
Reemergence 64 Writings of British India, 1858–1900 33
Travels to Europe: Self and Other in Bengali Travel
Narratives, 1870–1910 64 Vaisnava Iconography in the Tamil Country 64 Women and Social Reform in Modern India (in
Vedic People, The: Their History and Geography two volumes) 45
Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar, The 32
Tropics and the Travelling Gaze, The: India, 35, 64 World’s First Anti-Dam Movement, The: The
View from Below, The: Indigenous Society, Mulshi Satyagraha 1920–1924 66
Landscape and Science, 1800–56 51
Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of Temples and the Early Colonial State in Tamil Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the
Nadu, 1700–1835 34 Past Work 31, 55
an Indian Classical Tradition 49 Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics 64
Writing Life: Three Gujarati Thinkers 29
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic Writings of Bipan Chandra, The: The Making of
Colonial Modernities 55 History of the Nehru Years 45
Modern India: From Marx to Gandhi 17
Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Writings of James Manor, The: Politics and State–
Resistance 37 Bombay: 1845–1895 18, 35
Society Relations in India 7
Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Writings of Pamela Price, The: State, Politics,
Modernity in South India 40 Methods, Colonial Practices 47, 66
and Cultures in Modern South India: Honour,
Un-Gandhian Gandhi, The: The Life and Afterlife Wicked City, The: Crime and Punishment in Authority, and Morality 13, 64
of the Mahatma 52 Colonial Calcutta 29 Writings of Richard Falk, The: Towards Humane
Global Governance 17
Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Windows into a Revolution: Ethnographies of Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political
Indian Intellectual History 45 Maoism in India and Nepal 53 Culture 41

Unquiet Woods, The: Ecological Change and Wives, Widows and Concubines: The Conjugal Year of Blood, The: Essays on the Revolt of 1857
Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya (Twentieth Family Ideal in Colonial India 29 52
Anniversary Edition) 41
Woman and Empire: Representations in the Yuganta: The End of an Epoch (Reissue) 33
Unsettling the Past: Unknown Aspects and Writings of British India (1858–1900) 18
Scholarly Assessments of D. D. Kosambi 40

Urbanising Cholera: The Social Determinants of Its
Re-emergence 19

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