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Raj
The Making and Unmaking of British India
Lawrence James
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In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent nations of...
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The Idea of India
Sunil Khilnani; With a New Introduction by the Author
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of...
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Married To The Empire
Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883-1947
Studies in Imperialism
Mary A. Procida
Manchester University Press
In Married to the Empire, Mary A. Procida provides a new approach to the growing history of women and empire by situating women at the center of the practices...
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The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849-1947
Studies in Military and Strategic History
Timothy Robert Moreman
Palgrave Macmillan
Shows how the insistent demands of "small wars" in tribal territory exerted a powerful influence on the organization, equipment, training and ethos of the army...
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The Politics of Hunger in India
A Study of Democracy, Governance and Kalahandi's Poverty
Bob Currie
Palgrave Macmillan
Do people starve in democratic polities? It is often claimed that as government must respond to public needs during times of crisis, democracy has reduced...
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Ethnic Conflict in India
A Case-Study of Punjab
Gurharpal Singh
Palgrave Macmillan
This important new book critically evaluates the conventional reading of ethnicity and ethnic conflict in contemporary Indian politics. By focusing on India's...
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Indian Voices of the Great War
Soldiers' Letters, 1914-18
David Omissi
Palgrave Macmillan
Indian soldiers served in France from 1914 to 1918. This book is a selection of their letters. By turns poignant, funny, and almost unbearably moving, these...
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Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism
The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900
James Mills
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This fascinating, entertaining, and often grueling book by James Mills examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in 19th-century India. The author...
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Leprosy in Colonial South India
Medicine and Confinement
Jane Buckingham
Palgrave Macmillan
Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of a disease, it is also a history of colonial power in 19th-century British India as seen through the...
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Hinduism and Secularism
After Ayodhya
Arvind Sharma
Palgrave Macmillan
The demolition of the Babri Mosque at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 was an event as significant as it was unexpected. In this book, nine scholars (Theodore P....
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Jaipur
The Last Destination
Aman Nath; Photographs by Samar Singh Jodha
I.B. Tauris
Jaipur: The Last Destination brings alive nine centuries, pulling history out of the realm of text books and making it a wondrous narrative of war and bravery;...
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In the Land of Poverty
Memories of an Indian Family, 1947-97
Siddharth Dube
Zed Books
On August 15, 1947, the day of India's independence from Britain, Ram Dass and his family were Untouchables--lowest of the low in an apparently unchanging...
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The Begums of Bhopal
A History of the Princely State of Bhopal
Shaharyar M. Khan
I.B. Tauris
Between 1819 and 1926 four Muslim women rulers reigned over Bhopal, the second largest Muslim state of India, despite staunch opposition from powerful...
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Colonial Educators
The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1858-1983
International Library of Historical Studies
Clive Whitehead
I.B. Tauris
This book explores the question of education in the British Empire and its debated interpretations: cultural imperialism or vital preparation for independence...
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Reporting the Raj
The British Press and India, c. 1880-1922
Studies in Imperialism
Chandrika Kaul
Manchester University Press
This highly original and lively study represents the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British...
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Love and Death in Kathmandu
A Strange Tale of Royal Murder
Amy Willesee and Mark Whittaker
St. Martin's Press
A riveting investigation of a devastating crime--the full story of the June 2001 massacre of Nepal's royal family by the heir to the throne
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Last Children of the Raj
Volume II
Edited by Laurence Fleming with introduction by Sir Mark Tully
Radcliffe Press
Here is a unique entry-point into British and Indian social and cultural history in the last and momentous period in the history of the Raj. It is a vivid...
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Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India
David Hall-Matthews
Palgrave Macmillan
Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, drawn out, and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the...
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State, Community and Neighbourhood in Princely North India, c. 1900-1950
Ian Copland
Palgrave Macmillan
Ian Copland's aim in this book is to explain why, during the colonial period, the erstwhile Indian "princely" states experienced significantly less Muslim-Sikh...
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Representations of Indian Muslims in Colonial Discourse
Alex Padamsee
Palgrave Macmillan
This study questions current views that Muslims represented a secure point of reference for the British understanding of colonial Indian society. Through...
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Kingship and Colonialism in India's Deccan
1850-1948
Benjamin B. Cohen
Palgrave Macmillan
An examination of resilient Hindu elites who lived, fought, and adapted to political and social change during the turbulent late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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The Ruling Caste
Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
David Gilmour
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“[A] lavishly enjoyable book.” —Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand Britons at any one time managed...
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Sultans and Mosques
The Early Muslim Architecture of Bangladesh
Perween Hasan; Foreword by Oleg Grabar
I.B. Tauris
Before the Mughal style came to dominate the Islamic architecture of the Indian sub-continent, Bengal and its rulers had developed their own forms. The mosque...
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Gandhi
A Political and Spiritual Life
Kathryn Tidrick
I.B. Tauris
"My struggle is not merely political. It is religious and therefore quite pure." How did Gandhi reconcile his political career with his religious beliefs?...
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