Chronological account of Indian history: important persons and events from 600 B.C. to August 15, 1947

Ganguly, Ashoke (b.1952)

ISBN: 9788176461955, 8176461954

A new history of India: from its origins to the twenty-first century

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu et al.

ISBN: 9789391047511, 9391047513

The book covers all the major landmarks of Indian history from prehistoric times up to the twenty-first century-starting with the country's geological origins a few billion years in the past and the migration of Homo sapiens from Africa into the region several millennia ago. It traces the evolution of Indian civilization through a multitude of epochs, personalities, and turning points, includin...

Citizen historian: explorations in historiography

Mukherjee, SN

ISBN: 9788186263389, 8186263381

This is a collection of essays on historiography written in the past thirty-four years (1961-95) on a single theme-- that is, the problems of historiography.

The City and the country in early India: a study of Malwa

Basant, PK

ISBN: 9789380607153, 9380607156

City improbable: an anthology of writings on Delhi, ed. with an introduction by Khushwant Singh

ISBN: 9780670912353, 0670912352

Contributed articles on history and social life of Delhi, India.

The city in South Asia

Heitzman, James

ISBN: 9780415343558, 0415343550

The macro-region of South Asia-including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka-today supports one of the world's greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000 years.

Civilising natures: race, resources and modernity in colonial south India

Philip, Kavita

ISBN: 9788125025863, 8125025863

It tells how race and nature are fundamental to understanding post colonial modernities and subtly reveals the multi-layered and complex relationships that exist between science and religion, pre-modern and civilised, environment and society.

Civilization and modernity: narrating the creation of Pakistan

Gilmartin, David

ISBN: 9789380403106, 9380403100

India through the ages: a survey of the growth of Indian life and thought

Sarkar, Jadunath

ISBN: 9789392015199, 9392015194

Clio and her descendants: essays for Kesavan Veluthat, ed. by Manu V. Devadevan

ISBN: 9789386552976, 9386552973

The book is a collection of essays dedicated to honour Veluthat's scholarship, and brings together the work of thirty historians who look to expand the horizons of South Asia's diverse and polyphonic past.

Coastal histories: society and ecology in pre-modern India, ed. by Yogesh Sharma

ISBN: 9789380607009, 9380607008

The present volume examines a number of themes pertaining to different coastal regions of India: coastal ecology, commercial crops, transmission of diseases, fortifications, port hierarchy, new port towns, vessels and boats, fishing communities, social life of women, etc.

Coins and currency systems in South India c. AD 225-1300

Chattopadhyaya, Brajadulal

ISBN: 9788121502665, 8121502667

Coins and currency systems of early Bengal, up to c.A.D. 300

Mukherjee, Bratindra Nath (b.1932)

ISBN: 9788186383780, 8186383786

Coins and currency systems of post-Gupta Bengal (c. AD 550-700)

Mukherjee, Bratindra Nath

ISBN: 9788121505635, 8121505631

Parmeshwari Lal Gupta's coins and history of medieval India,compiled and ed. by Sanjay Garg

ISBN: 9788173880704, 8173880700

The essays presented in this volume cover various aspects of medieval Indian history form the Sultans of Delhi to the East India Company and have been selected amongst Dr.Gupta's large number of learned writings contributed in various prestigious jounals over a span of fifty years.

Coins of ancient India

Thapyal, Kiran Kumar (b.1936) et al.

It surveys briefly the various aspects of histories of tribal republics and individual kings and royal dynasties, It not only presents salient features of their coins, but also describes the obverse and reverse devices and legends of the important coin-types.

The collected works of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Vol. 15: (last volume) 1 January 1950--15 December 1950, ed. by P.N. Chopra et al

Patel, Sardar Vallabhbhai (b.1950)

ISBN: 9788122005486, 8122005489

Sardar Patel strives of a strong and united India; exhorts Hindus and Muslims to live in complete harmony; stresses need for a big and fully mechanised army; reorientation of education, controls and nationalisation, if necessary; prophetic observation about Chinese designs on India and capture of some of its strategic areas.

The collected works of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel; Vol. 13 (1 January 1948-31 December 1948), ed. by P.N. Chopra et al.

Patel, Sardar Vallabhbhai

ISBN: 9788122005202, 8122005209

Colonial India and the making of empire cinema: image, ideology and identity

Chowdhary, Prem

ISBN: 9788178290621, 8178290626

This book is an empirico-historical enquiry into the empire cinema made in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonised people.

Colonial India in children's literature

Goswami, Supriya

ISBN: 9780415886369, 0415886368