Quercus, 2011. — 224 p. The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance through mass civil disobedience, and the man honoured in India as 'father of the nation', Mohandas K. Gandhi has inspired civil rights and liberation movements the world over. Yet he was also a man of many contradictions: a lifelong pacifist...
HarperCollins, 2020. — 299 p. Seventy years since it became a republic, India has come a long way. But it is still failing on some key fronts: the provision of water, health, education, power, and law and order. Piped drinking water for all continues to be a pipe dream; homes and businesses are haunted by power outages; the lack of proper primary health care renders the poorest...
New Delhi: Srishti Publishers & Distributors, 2008. — 262 p. Editor and translator: Sanju Ramachandran. Аджита К. Наксалиты Кералы: мемуары молодой революционерки (на англ. яз.) On the night of November 24, 1968, a group of sixty determined to change the world, ran over a police station in the forests of Western Ghats. One of them was a girl, young enough to be a senior...
Bloomsbury, 2020. — 923 p. — ISBN: 978-93-89449-14-3 Gandhi, a devout Hindu, believed faith could nurture the civilizational harmony of India, a land where every religion had flourished. Jinnah, a political Muslim rather than a practicing believer, was determined to carve up a syncretic subcontinent in the name of Islam. His confidence came from a wartime deal with Britain,...
Columbia University Press, 2011. — 516 p. Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south. The Mughals constructed a sophisticated, complex system of government that facilitated an era of profound...
John Murray, 2009. — 820 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-06322-6 One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two...
Little, Brown, 2017. — 432 p. Coromandel. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India. This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel journeys south, exploring the less well known, often neglected and very different...
Penguin Random House, 2005. — 160 p. The Naga people of the troubled northeastern region of India have endured more than a century of bloodshed in their struggle for an independent Nagaland and national identity. It is on this uneasy backdrop that the stories in this unusual collection are set. Exploring how ordinary people cope with violence, negotiate power, and seek safe...
Penguin, 2017. — 256 p. The Army major who led the legendary September 2016 surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC; a soldier who killed 11 terrorists in 10 days; a Navy officer who sailed into a treacherous port to rescue hundreds from an exploding war; a bleeding Air Force pilot who found himself flying a jet that had become a screaming fireball. Their own...
Viking, 2021. — 691 p. — ISBN: 978-9-35305-287-4 What do we really know about the Aryan migration theory and why is that debate so hot? Why did the people of Khajuraho carve erotic scenes on their temple walls? What did the monks at Nalanda eat for dinner? Did our ideals of beauty ever prefer dark skin? Indian civilization has existed for many millennia, but how much do we know...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 350 p. India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was ever the case, and at no time more so than in the India that existed from c. 1200 to 1750, before European intervention. In this thoughtfully...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 336 p. India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was ever the case, and at no time more so than in the India that existed from 1200 to 1750, before the European intervention. This beautifully illustrated book...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 336 p. Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? This is a subject of heated debate in scholarly circles and contemporary political discourse. Manan Ahmed Asif argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India share a common political ancestry: they are all part of...
Hurst and Company, 2020. — 312 p. In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh, whose Sikh Empire stretched throughout northwestern India into Afghanistan and Tibet. Priya Atwal shines fresh light on this long-lost kingdom,...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2016. — 350 p. India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book engages with methodological and...
Rare Publications, 2014. — 224 p. This book is part of series of books which will "De-Falsify our existing History", We have seen, read, and heard about a lot of phony people claiming to be freedom fighters and receiving pensions from the Government. Several of these worthies would not have been born before Independence; yet they succeed in such blatant manipulations. There are...
Frontline Books, 2019. — 253 p. The Indian Rebellion of 1857-58 was the most ferocious explosion of violence in the history of the British Empire. It tested Britain’s colonial resources to the limit, and nearly brought about the downfall of its rule in India. As the rebellion spread the strategic garrison at Cawnpore came under siege from rebels. The British inhabitants,...
Harper India, 2019. — 539 p. — ISBN: 978-93-5357-005-7 The accession of Kashmir to the Indian Union in 1947 had raised objections both in Kashmir and India, echoes of which continue to be heard even today. At the time, Sheikh Abdullah was the uncrowned king of Kashmir; today, his grave is under security lest it be vandalized. What accounts for this change in attitude?A...
Haus Publishing, 2017. — 380 p. Mihir Bose was born in January 1947. Eight months later, India became a modern, free nation. The country he knew growing up in the 1960s has undergone vast and radical change. India today exports food, sends space probes to Mars, and, all too often, Indian businesses rescue their ailing competitors in the West. In From Midnight to Glorious...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 354 p. An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict—from 1947 to the present. The India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world’s incendiary conflicts. Since 1990, at least 60,000 people have been killed—insurgents, civilians, and military and police personnel. In 2019, the conflict entered a dangerous new...
Hourly History, 2023. — 62 p. Discover the remarkable history of the British Raj... The British Raj refers to the time from 1858 to 1947 when the British Crown directly ruled the Indian subcontinent. During those 90 years, India saw enormous social, political, and cultural upheaval. New systems of education were introduced, and increasing industrialization brought societal...
Routledge, 2014. — 304 p. Concentrates on the period 1790-1833, especially the early nineteenth century when the Bombay merchant fleet was at its zenith, studying the ships, their trade and the men who owned or sailed in them. The picture is built up from a mass of details and references unearthed in the English East India Company's records and elsewhere, and includes...
3rd Edition. — Primus Books, 2016. — 492 p. This third edition of Exploring Early India up to c. AD 1300 offers a broad overview and connected narrative of early Indian history, taking into consideration major historical developments from the earliest times to c. AD 1300. Salient features of political, socio-economic and cultural history have been discussed elaborately, and...
Simon and Schuster, 2022. — 526 p. Traders, Pushers, Soldiers, Spies. A pivot for India’s Act-East policy. The gateway to a future of immense possibilities from hydrocarbons to regional trade over land and water that could create a new Silk Route. A bulwark against China. A cradle of climate change dynamics and migration. ‘Northeast’ India, the appellation with which India’s...
Penguin Books, 2000. — 600 p. India’s struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra is your go to book for an in-depth and detailed overview on Indian independence movement . Indian freedom struggle is one of the most important parts of its history. A lot has been written and said about it, but there still remains a gap. Rarely do we get to hear accounts of the independence from...
Plon, 1993. — 224 p. Les Grands Moghols occupent dans l'imaginaire occidental une place voisine des califes de Bagdad. Ces descendants de Gengis Khan et de Tamerlan transformèrent l'Inde en quelques décennies. Derniers de ces conquérants venus d’Asie qui dévalèrent, dès la fin du premier millénaire, les portes du nord-ouest pour envahir la péninsule indienne, mosaïque d’États...
McGraw-Hill Education, 2017. — 574 p. — ISBN 978-93-5260-673-3. Ancient and Medieval India shall be meant for candidates from the state of Union Civil Services as well as various state public service examinations. The book covers the complete syllabus of ancient and medieval history for the Main exam union civil service, and has material that is immensely helpful for the...
HarperCollins, 1994. — 805 p. — ISBN : 978-1-101-12701-8 City of Djinns is the portrait of a city as has never been attempted before. Meeting an extraordinary array of characters, from the city's elusive eunuchs to the embattled descendants of the great Moghuls, from the nouveauriche Punjabis to the last witnesses of the British Raj, and investigating the resonances of these...
Vintage, 2008. — 578 p. In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar—a...
Inner Traditions, 2011. — 352 p. Alain Daniélou approaches the history of India from a unique perspective—as a sympathetic outsider, yet one who understands the deepest workings of the culture. Because of the continuity of its civilization, its unique social system, and the diversity of its cultures, races, languages, and religions, India is like a history museum. Even today...
Bloomsbury, 2019. — 256 p. Political Representation in India: Ideas and Contestations, 1908–1951 maps extensive and wide-ranging debates, marked by contestations and strident demands on political representation in colonial India. Further, it explores these themes during the Constitution-framing process. These debates, previously overlooked, are significant for they helped shape...
Routledge, 2023. — 225 p. If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years, it is evident that Indian ideas, peoples, and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to reach the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Americas to Gandhi’s creed of non-violence that created...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 938 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–882905–8 A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day. It is a period during which the population grew from just a...
University of California Press, 2019. — 512 p. Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies, and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe,...
Allen Lane, 1971. — 350 p. Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India. A rare gem, 1971 version. Nonetheless, did not really find it exciting. Michael Edwardes has written a political biography of Jawaharlal Nehru. It is concerned with Nehru`S formation as a national Politician, his rise from a rich Indian background, his Aristocratic education, his odd relationship to...
Phoenix, 2005. — 484 p. — ISBN10: 075381854X; ISBN13: 978-0753818541. This sweeping account of ancient India begins with the Indus Valley civilization, then moves on to the Vedic Aryan culture, the age of religious and philosophical ferment, the tenets of Jainism, the founding and consolidation of Buddhism, and Alexander the Great’s advance into India. It concludes with the...
Penguin Books, 2013. — 944 p. A vivid, encyclopedic and readable book on the Mughal empire--the Mongol-descended leaders who pretty much ran the Indian show from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Eraly's style has the rhythms of Indian-inflected English, but he's a good storyteller: he keeps the huge cast in focus and keeps the empire moving along. The first...
Routledge, 2007. — 246 p. This book reassesses the place of the Indian princely states within the history of South Asia and weaves together hitherto uncharted areas. It employs a multi-disciplinary approach and critiques some of the received paradigms of conventional historiography about Princely India, leading the reader into new realms of discussion such as literary...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 288 p. In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, had never been to the ocean. Presumably anxious with the news about the Mughal military campaign in Gujarat, several Portuguese merchants in Khambayat rushed to Akbar's presence. This encounter...
Aleph Publishers, 2013. — 400 p. For centuries, the fertile land of five rivers in the north of the Indian subcontinent was coveted by numerous empires and invaders. In this, the first major account of undivided Punjab, award-winning historian, biographer and scholar, Rajmohan Gandhi, traces its history during its most tumultuous phase from the death of Aurangzeb, in the early...
Penguin Random House, 2023. — 762 р. — ISBN: 978-9-357-08255-6 The story of a decade-1947 to 1957-that made and unmade India The first decade after India's independence, 1947-1957, was probably the most crucial in the nation's history. Opening a window to this period, this book weaves a story out of the complex ideas and events that have largely remained beneath the surface of...
Penguin Group, 2022. — 740 p. There are not many Indian heroes whose lives have been as dramatic and adventurous as that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. That, however, is an assessment of his life based on what is widely known about him. These often revolve around his resignation from the Indian Civil Service, joining the freedom movement, to be exiled twice for over seven...
Allen Lane, 2019. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-0241004524. The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. They were soldiers, officials, businessmen, doctors and missionaries of both sexes, planters, engineers and many others, together with children, wives and sisters. This book describes their lives, their...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 256 p. Fifty years in a nation's life is a small period of time. However, it is quite likely that collective memory will have faded about several events...and so it is with the 1965 war that India was dragged into by Pakistan's chronic insecurities and territorial ambitions. This time in the form of a forcible attempt to annex Kashmir. Today, the...
Bloomsbury India, 2017. — 308 p. In Securing India the Modi way - Pathankot, Surgical strikes and More, Nitin A. Gokhale provides the most intimate and sweeping account yet of Team Narendra Modi's approach to national security and foreign policy initiatives. Drawing on internal memos, as yet classified information, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with key...
Knopf, 2018. — 1108 p. This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral...
Dehli: HarperCollins, 2007. — 944 p. — ISBN: 9780060958589. Prologue: Unnatural Nation. Picking Up The Pieces. Nehru’s India. Shaking the Centre. The Rise of Populism. A History of Events. Epilogue: Why India Survives.
Ecco, 2008. — 900 p. A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly...
New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2012. — 334 p. In this wonderfully readable collection of essays, Ramachandra Guha defends the liberal centre against the dogmas of left and right with style, depth and polemical verve. The essays turn a critical eye on topics as wide-ranging as Hindutva, the Communist left, and the dynasty obsessed Congress party. Whether writing about politics...
William Collins, 2022. — 495 p. An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence from Ramachandra Guha. Rebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 264 p. In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work...
Mariner Books, 2016. — 820 p. — ISBN 978-0-547-66921-2 Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so violent—it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for more than a century. But as the summer of 1947 approached, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs were heavily armed and on edge after a year of riots...
Speaking Tiger Books, 2015. — 352 p. Nandita Haksar's magnum opus traces the tortured history of Kashmiri nationalism through the lives of two men: Sampat Prakash, a Kashmiri Pandit and Communist trade union leader who became active in politics during the Cold War years, and Mohammad Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri Muslim who became active in the early days of the Kashmir insurgency....
HarperCollins India, 2019. — 192 p. In 1978, around 1.5 lakh Hindu refugees, mostly belonging to the lower castes, settled in Marichjhapi an island in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal. By May 1979, the island was cleared of all refugees by Jyoti Basu's Left Front government. Most of the refugees were sent back to the central India camps they came from, but there were many deaths: of...
Harper Collins India, 2016. — 328 p. I want a unit of brave Indian women to form a Death-defying Regiment who will wield the sword which the brave Rani of Jhansi wielded in India s First War of Independence in 1857. Subhas Chandra Bose The Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR), the first all-female infantry fighting unit in military history, was created in Singapore in July 1943 by...
The New Press, 2015. — 400 p. Nearly four decades ago, Dilip Hiro's Inside India Today, banned by Indira Gandhi's government, was acclaimed by The Guardian as simply “the best book on India.” Now Hiro returns to his native country to chronicle the impact of the dramatic economic liberalization that began in 1991, which ushered India into the era of globalization. Hiro describes...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 328 p. During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the "Martial Races", including British Christians, Hindustani Muslims, Punjabi Sikhs, Hindu Rajputs, Pathans from northwestern India, and "Gurkhas" from...
Routledge, 2016. — 505 p. India is the second largest country in the world with regard to population, the world’s largest democracy and by far the largest country in South Asia, and one of the most diverse and pluralistic nations in the world in terms of official languages, cultures, religions and social identities. Indians have for centuries exchanged ideas with other cultures...
Simon and Schuster, 2022. — 200 p. This Hindu Sahiya dynasty is now extinct, and of the whole house there is no longer the slightest remnant in existence. We must say that, in all their grandeur, they never slackened in the ardent desire of doing that which is good and right, that they were men of noble sentiment and noble bearing.’ People and their acts of bravery are often...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 182 p. India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom?...
Vintage Books, 2022. — 344 p. A confirmed bigot and an oddball, the man who became Gandhi's assassin was something of a miracle baby. Born to Brahmin parents after several stillbirths, Nathuram Godse started off as a child mystic. However, success in everything serious-studies or work-eluded him. The expectations and frustrations that mark the path of young men who cannot cope...
Juggernaut, 2025. — 768 p. — ISBN: 9789353455606 The great empire of the Cholas was unexpected. It sprouted out of the blue in the Kaveri floodplain around 850 CE. Till then, the region had for centuries been dotted by self-governing village assemblies. From here, the Cholas established a vast empire, the first – and only – time an empire based in coastal South India was the...
Juggernaut, 2022. — 470 p. Our tale begins in the sixth century CE, a few decades after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in Europe, only a few years after the disintegration of the Gupta empire of northern India. In the dry and arid heartland of the Deccan, cattle raids, banditry and abduction were ubiquitous. Here, an obscure clan of chalke (crowbar)-wielding...
Penguin India, 2000. — 288 p. On 8 January 1979, in the late evening, Naval, the third son of Pirojsha Godrej, was brutally stabbed at his residence, along with his daughter-in-law and mother-in-law. This dastardly attack, incited by a powerful trade union leader in Mumbai, outraged people in trade circles and the public at large. The victim was one of those rare industrialists...
Grove Press, 2001. - 480 p. ISBN10: 0802137970 ISBN13: 978-0802137975 Jhon Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South Asian history, from the first Harrapan settlements on the banks of the Indus River to the recent nuclear-arms race. In a tour de force of narrative history, Keay blends together insights from a variety of...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 352 p. Amongst the riches of nineteenth century India, as the British fought their way across Mughal territory, an orphaned street girl ends up at court with the ear of the Emperor. That girl was Farzana, and she would become a courtesan, a leader of armies, a treasured defender of the last Mughal emperor and the head of one of the most legendary courts in...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. — 394 p. — ISBN10: 9780520286467; ISBN13: 978-0520286467 — (South Asia Across the Disciplines) Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan “Brahman” (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar...
HarperCollins India, 2021. — 256 p. Maharashtra. Among the country's largest, wealthiest, most significant constituents. A great state in name and in deed that has been the cradle of individuals and events that have shaped India. Girish Kuber - seasoned journalist and one of Maharashtra's foremost opinion makers - tells its story in Renaissance State. Taking in his vast sweep...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. — 336 p. When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in her parents’ mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River that inspired her stepson’s Taj Mahal. And she was both celebrated and reviled for her political acumen and diplomatic skill, which rivaled...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 432 p. This book brings to life the world of caravan trade - constituting not only merchants, but also pilgrims, pastoralists, and mercenaries; flows not only of goods, credit and money, but also of ideas, secret intelligence and fighting power. Contrary to the view that the ages of sail and steam rendered obsolete these more 'archaic' forms of...
Stanford University Press, 2020. — 336 p. The assertion that even institutions often viewed as abhorrent should be dispassionately understood motivates Arkotong Longkumer's pathbreaking ethnography of the Sangh Parivar, a family of organizations comprising the Hindu right. The Greater India Experiment counters the urge to explain away their ideas and actions as inconsequential...
Scarecrow Press, 1996. — 511 pp. — (Asian Historical Dictionaries; No. 20). — ISBN: 0810830787. Few countries are as vast and varied as India. Few possess as large a population and as strategic a location. And few can boast as glorious a past as well as a promising future. As many observers have realized, India is a very special place and one which is extremely difficult to sum...
Knopf, 2004. — 459 p. A brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people–a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself–from an award-winning Indian-American fiction writer and journalist.A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us a true insider’s view of this stunning city, bringing to his account a rare level of insight,...
Penguin Viking. 2021. — 352 p. — ISBN-10 0670093688; ISBN-13 978-0670093687. One of India's most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if not multilingual. Delving into the fascinating early history of South Asia, this original book reveals how migration, both external and internal, has shaped all Indians from ancient times. Through a...
Editions Dedicaces, 2014. — 234 p. This book explores the tragic ending of the last of the Moghuls. Three hundred and eleven years of Moghul rule with eighteen emperors in between separate Bahadur Shah Zafar from the first Moghul emperor of India during the history of the great Moghuls. He was virtually a prisoner in his own palace in Delhi, subsisting on pension from British...
Simon and Schuster, 2015. — 773 p. A controversial history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family, the Lows, ancestors of the author, Ferdinand Mount. The book brings to vivid life not only the most dramatic incidents of their lives—the massacre at Vellore, the conquest of Java, the deposition of the boy-king of Oudh, the disasters in...
Harper Collins, 2016. — 264 p. In the three centuries that followed Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route from Europe to India, European powers made a beeline for India's fabled riches, its spices, gold and gems. Though they ostensibly came for trade and commerce, and the thrill of discovering a new land, the lines between exploration and exploitation soon blurred. The Theft...
Haryana: Penguin Books, 2015. — 265 p. Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent that Bose had begun to view Nehru as his enemy? But then, why did he name one of the regiments of the Indian National Army after Jawaharlal? And what prompted Nehru to weep when he heard of Bose's untimely death in 1945, and to recount soon after, 'I used to treat...
Routledge, 2024. — 244 p. Tagore’s Solutions for Colonial Degeneration - Indic Societalism, Nation, Identities, and Communities focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a social and political thinker revolving around Tagore’s ideas on the seeds of civil society, nation, identities, and communities in the Indic tradition. The author deconstructs Tagore’s concepts against the...
Columbia Global Reports, 2021. — 150 p. A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it? Millions of people today are still enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else. This book is the story of a small group of enslaved villagers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who founded their own town...
Vij Books, 2016. — 241 p. This book is essentially an observation of Ladakh in the early nineteen fifties, after tracing its social evolution from ancient times. The author gives first hand account of his interactions with the local lamas, the elders and the educated amongst the people to trace their roots and habits and culture. Thereafter, the author has given an account of...
Rupa Publications, 2005. — 228 p. The opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India is brought to life in this book. The text cover various aspects of their lifestyles, such as their food and drinks; clothes and ornaments; perfumes and incense; addictions and intoxicants, amusements and pastimes; rituals of circumcision; marriage and harem life. This...
Hachette India, 2022. — 267 p. Apart from the fifteen years that Sher Shah Suri snatched upon defeating Humayun, the flag of the grand Mughal Empire flew over Delhi undefeated for over 300 years. But then, 1857 arrived and the mighty sword fell helpless in the face of a mightier British force. After the fall of Delhi and Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar's tragic departure from the...
Penguin Group, 2021. — 256 p. Who continues to pay the costs of war long after our soldiers are gone? There are many stories of courageous heroes at the borders, but how much do we know about the women standing strong behind them? The Force behind the Forces is a collection of seven true stories of eternal love, courage and sacrifice. Written by an army wife, Swapnil Pandey,...
Scribner, 2010. — 240 p. Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir, more than 70,000 people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat Peer brings this little-known part of the world to life in haunting, vivid detail. Peer reveals stories from his youth as well as gut-wrenching...
Allen Lane, 2024. — 564 p. A brave and magnificent book, and a vital as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly. Manu Pillai is fast becoming one of India’s most accomplished and impressively wide-ranging historians’ William DalrympleWhen European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 453 p. The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India. On the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime...
Routledge, 2019. — 216 p. First published in 1963. The Moguls, the descendants of the Mongols, two and a half centuries later than Jenghiz Khan, created an empire that stretched from Persia to Burma and from the Himalayas to the centre of the Indian subcontinent. It was a creation almost more astonishing than Jenghiz Khan's own: an empire that was civilized and prosperous, and...
Juggernaut, 2022. — 320 p. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the legendary seventeenth-century Maratha warrior who audaciously took on the Mughal empire at the height of its powers under Emperor Aurangzeb, and became a beacon of inspiration well after his death for those fighting for Indian independence, is one of the most compelling figures of early modern India. This is his...
Orient Black Swan, 2008. — 168 p. Kashmir: Insurgency and After attempts to understand the nature and historical roots of the insurgency in Kashmir, and examines the causes and consequences of the blood-soaked rupture between the Kashmiri people and the Indian state. It delves into the erosion of the basis for secular and democratic politics in the state by narrating the...
Routledge, 2019. — 438 p. This book provides an integrated view of the Delhi Sultanate government from 1206 to 1526. It is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the political events and the dynastic history of the Sultans and the second part with the administration, different land issues, social life including two major religious movements and other cultural aspects...
Routledge, 2014. — 264 p. An analysis of the socio-economic changes brought about by colonial rule in a frontier area of Bengal, Jalpaiguri. Challenging long established debates focused around the powers of dominant groups over a settled peasantry, this book broadens our perspective on the 18th century, promoting a deeper understanding of the change-over from the pre-colonial...
Thames & Hudson, 2019. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0500295168. Throughout its long history, India has signified many things. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha. To Alexander the Great, it was a land of philosophers and armies mounted on elephants. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries. At the height of the Mughal Empire in 1700, India meant...
Viking, 2022. — 470 р. — ISBN: 978-9-35492-827-7 So who really spearheaded India's Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people-farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others-stood up to the British. People who never went on to be ministers, governors, presidents, or hold other high public office. They had this in common: their opposition to...
Routledge, 2018. — 309 p. Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts – of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a critical transformative...
VIJ Books, 2016. — 280 p. This book is a great contribution to Peace Research. It places India in the world as a worthy player in international relations from ancient times. The selection of four of the most significant historical peaks over two millennia, the Ashoka era, the Pala era, the Orientalist era and the Gandhi era shows the uniqueness of India's peaceful history,...
I.B.Tauris, 2012. — 288 p. Ranjit Singh was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire and one of the greatest figures in the history of the Punjab. Despite the difficult conditions he faced, including harsh terrain, a mixed ethnic population and surrounding aggressors (particularly the British in India), Ranjit Singh managed to unite the various Sikh factions and built a nation...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 785 p. — ISBN 978-069-122-2585 An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India. Nehru’s India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor Sherman reevaluates the role of Jawaharlal...
Penguin Books, 2013. — 170 p. Why are the Himalayas considered geologically alive? When did the First train huff and puff its way between two stations in India? What was Indias very own desi dino called? How did Indias currency come to be Named the rupee? Which Indian glacier is the highest battleground in The world? Who wrote the worlds first grammar book? If questions like...
Viking, 2022. — 340 p. — ISBN: 978-9-354-92410-1 After more than seven decades, the burden of grief for those displaced and affected by the Partition of India in 1947 still bears heavy. The two pieces of land were carved by a mere stroke of ink on the surface of a map, but the resultant wounds ran way deeper, from one generation to the next. This is the story of India's...
Sage, 2010. — 315 p. Stateless in South Asia - The Chakmas between Bangladesh and India is a comprehensive study that explores issues pertaining to the ′stateless′ status of the ethnic Buddhist Chakma refugees in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, who originally belonged to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs). What sets it apart is its holistic overview of the social history...
Routledge, 2023. — 600 p. — (Routledge Worlds). The Sikh World is an outstanding guide to the Sikh faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, it contains substantial thematic articles on the dynamic living experiences of the global Sikh community. The volume is organised into ten distinct...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 401 p. Concerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in modern South Asia has often been associated with religious nationalism and the creation of Pakistan. The Muslim Secular complicates that story by reconstructing the ideas of three prominent thinker-actors of the Indian freedom struggle: the...
Routledge, 2021. — 632 p. This handbook presents an authoritative account of the development of movements, thoughts and policies of OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in India. Despite the adoption of egalitarian principles in the Indian Constitution, caste inequalities, discrimination and exclusionary practices against people from backward classes and other lower castes continue to...
Leadstart Instate, 2021. — 224 p. When Rajaraja Chola ascended the throne, the land of Tamils entered upon centuries of grandeur. He left behind a stupendous legacy, which has not lost its sheen even after a thousand years. During his regime, we see powerful productive forces at work, newly liberated by the advances made in manufacturing and trade. Through interesting facts and...
Routledge, 2012. — 237 p. This book explains how access to and use of land, water and language helped shape Andhra politics in India from 1850 down to the present day. After independence, the debate over land reform and policies on irrigation has shaped the fortunes of various governments, while the debate over the make-up of the language-based state has stimulated separatist...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 9780674972261, ISBN13: 978-0674972261. When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by...
HarperCollins Publishers India, 2016. — 1323 р. — ISBN13: 9789351777502 In the old days when fighter pilots had the luxury of making multiple passes over the target areas during ground attack missions, they let loose what was called a sighter burst in their first pass to check whether their guns were firing properly or not. This burst also allowed them to size up the enemy,...
Harper Collins, 2015. — 280 p. Sanjay Suri was a young crime reporter with The Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards on 31 October 1984. He was among the few journalists to experience the full horror of the anti-Sikh violence that followed and carried on unchecked for the next couple of days, while the police...
Indiana University Press, 2008. — 302 p. Many of the central issues in modern Indian politics have long been understood in terms of an opposition between ideologies of secularism and communalism. Observers have argued that recent Hindu nationalism is the symptom of a crisis of Indian secularism and have blamed this on a resurgence of religion or communalism. Shabnum Tejani...
Aleph Book Company, 2014. — 344 p. Understanding India's past is of vital importance to the present. Many popularly held views about the past need to be critically enquired into before they can be taken as historical. Why is it important for Indian society to be secular? When did communalism as an ideology gain a foothold in the country? How and when did the patriarchal system...
Wisdom Tree Publishers, 2013. — 176 p. India: The Future is Now is an inspiring vision of India, by her young parliamentarians. These nation-builders provide a perspective on a wide range of sectors: from technology to infrastructure, healthcare, education to environmental issues. The contributors prove how even the biggest problems can be solved by exercising bold, ambitious...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 284 p. An incisive new biography of the great secularist who-alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi-led the movement for India's independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become India's first prime minister started out as a...
Aleph Book Company, 2018. — 492 p. Narendra Modi is a paradoxical man. He says one thing and does another. He gives voice to a number of liberal ideas (such as the constitution being his holy book, and sab ka saath, sab ka vikas), while at the same time pandering to some of the most illiberal elements in Indian society, on whom he depends for political support. Another paradox...
Hurst Publishers, 2021. — 356 p. Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong to modern India, Shashi Tharoor explores hotly contested notions of nationalism, patriotism, citizenship and belonging. Two opposing ideas of India have emerged: ethno-religious nationalism, versus...
Sage Publications, 2021. — 423 p. This edited book offers insights into the social inequalities that plague India and are often hidden behind terms like ‘law and order’ and ‘constitutional democracy’. Though the market-driven economy was once expected to radically transform the heavily hierarchical Indian society into a more egalitarian order, the society remains unequal...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 216 p. Telecommunications was vital to the imperial project and connecting India—the jewel in the British crown—was a key priority. However, intercolonial rivalries outside and within India as well as contestation between private and public ownership of telecommunications made that task difficult. The author explores these differences and ties...
Rupa Publications, 2010. — 468 p. Tatya Tope's Operation Red Lotus is a quest to understand the real history of the Anglo-Indian War of 1857. A quest by the contemporary members of the Tope family, which led to the discovery of the dramatic battle manoeuvres of their ancestor, the legendary Tatya Tope, as well as the true import of the war.
Random House Publishers, 2017. — 216 p. Aurangzeb Alamgir (ruled in 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. Hindu hater, murderer and religious zealot are just a handful of the modern caricatures of this maligned ruler. While many continue to accept the storyline peddled by colonial-era thinkers that Aurangzeb, a Muslim, was a Hindu-loathing...
Picador, 2008. — 512 p. An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties -- set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century. The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. With the loss of India, its greatest colony, Britain ceased to be a superpower, and its king ceased to...
Penguin Books, 2014. — 382 p. Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy is a collection of essays written and compiled by Ashutosh Varshney. This book essentially discusses about the deepening of Indian democracy from the time of its formation after independence in 1947. It also talks about the challenges faced by Indian democracy due to its evolution since its inception....
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 256 p. Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work. How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy design are critical but often insufficient...
Springer, 2024. — 504 p. This book comprehensively examines the extensive history of India by focusing on the unifying themes of history. The profound analysis of special events and impactful personalities of Indian history form the core of the book. Handbook of Indian History includes articles on cultural, social, and political history of India, topics of religion, philosophy,...
Routledge, 2019. — 182 p. This volume depicts the life and times of the Mughal emperor Jahangir in the light of his memoirs, Jahangirnama, popularly known as Tuzuk-i Jahangiri. With its fresh treatment of source material and a vivid account of historical events, the book tells the history of Jahangir’s India through his intimate and confessional memoirs incorporated in the...
Vij Books India, 2017. — 90 p. Tipu Sultan was a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore renowned for his bravery in the wars against the British East India Company. Well known for his valor and courage, he is regarded as the first freedom fighter of India for his fierce battles against the British who tried to conquer the territories under the sultan's rule. This book gives complete...
Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 432 p. Between January and August 1947 the conflicting political, religious and social tensions in India culminated in independence from Britain and the creation of Pakistan. Those months saw the end of ninety years of the British Raj, and the effective power of the Maharajahs, as the Congress Party established itself commanding a democratic government...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 304 p. Steven I. Wilkinson explores how modern India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. He uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy.
De Gruyter, 2020. — 260 p. This volume examines the tension between the "nation" idea as a necessary language of legitimacy with which to claim liberation, and its role in disciplining people and their identities in India, in the name of national liberation. It is an attempt to open up new lines of thinking, and ways of reading Indian history.
Hurst Publishers, 2021. — 320 p. The Jaipurs were India’s mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Jai and Ayesha, as they were known to friends like Frank Sinatra, Truman Capote and ‘Dickie’ Mountbatten, entertained lavishly at their magnificent palaces and hunting lodges in Rajasthan—and in the nightclubs of London, Paris...
Black, 2022. — 308 p. One of the oldest civilisations and the largest democracy in the world, India is an amalgam of customs, races, castes, languages and spiritual beliefs, woven together over 5000 years of wonderfully colossal and chaotic history. From the earliest humans and the Harappān civilisation to Muslim invaders, the Great Mughals, British rule, the country’s struggle...
М.: Восточная литература, 1960. – 256 с. «История феодальных государств домогольской Индии и, в частности, Делийского султаната не исследовалась специально в советской востоковедной науке. Настоящая работа не претендует на исследование всех аспектов истории Делийского султаната XIII–XIV вв. В ней лишь делается попытка систематизации и анализа данных доступных источников,...
Пер. с англ. Т. Ю. Адаменко — Москва ; Берлин : Директмедиа Паблишинг, 2021. — 112 с.; ил. (Серия "Люди. Судьбы. Эпохи") Впервые на русском языке – книга Изабеллы Бёрд о путешествии на север британской Индии. Изабелла Бёрд — английская путешественница XIX века, которая объездила полмира и написала множество книг о своих путешествиях, нравах и обычаях разных народов. Сухой...
Добрый день! Предлагаю добавить в раздел "История Индии" книги о Пакистане: /file/883223/ /file/651204/ /file/520204/ /file/471245/ и, соответственно, переименовать его в "Историю Индии и Пакистана", поскольку очень много смежных тем - историю Пакистана трудно понять без истории Индии. По крайней мере до тех пор, пока для создания отдельного раздела по Пакистану не наберется достаточно материалов.
Здесь явно не хватает книг известного индолога Р. Б. Рыбакова. К тому же, отсутствует конкретно-историческая литература о Махадме Ганди, Дж. Неру, Индире Ганди и других выдающихся деятелях постколониальной Индии... в конце концов, индология не исчерпывается одними трудами Г. Бонгард-Левина. :-)
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и, соответственно, переименовать его в "Историю Индии и Пакистана", поскольку очень много смежных тем - историю Пакистана трудно понять без истории Индии. По крайней мере до тех пор, пока для создания отдельного раздела по Пакистану не наберется достаточно материалов.