The British Committee of the Indian National Congress, 1889-1921

Shankar, Prabha Ravi

ISBN: 9789380188096, 9380188099

This book is about an important aspect of the Indian national movement on which not much has been written so far. It is the first comprehensive and definative history of the British Committee of tne Indian National Congress.

British forest policy and tribal community in Bengal: (1880-1947)

Majumdar, Anindita

ISBN: 9788187891581, 8187891580

British India 1772-1947: a survey of the nature and effects of alien rule, by Michael Edwardes, fourth impression

British India's policy towards the Persian Gulf 1873-1914: special reference to Bahrain and Qatar

Sawant, Priyamvada A.

ISBN: 9789385160660, 9385160664

British lions and the Indian tigers: Triumph of the Sepoy against the British sword

Yadav, Kim (b.1921)

ISBN: 9788170491408, 8170491401

The book looks at the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857 as a cause for the British to quit India in 1947.

The British origin of cow-slaughter in India: with some British documents on the anti-kine-killing-movement 1880-1894

Dharampal et al.

ISBN: 9788187827047, 8187827041

This book includes three major documents regarding the anti-kine-killing movement of 1880-1894. The first is the very precise report of the Superintendent of Thagi & Dacoity Department, on the movement written for his superiors (dated 9 August 1893). The second is a narrative of the happenings in the Punjab from 1882-1893, as reported by the Punjab Intelligence Department. The third is a report...

British policy in India, 1858-1905

Gopal. S.

ISBN: 9781108465649, 1108465641

The book seeks to examine the ideas and aspirations of British parties and statesmen, their ways and methods of implementing them and the gradual withdrawal of British authority.

The British Raj: keywords

Nayar, Pramod K.

ISBN: 9781138098299, 1138098299

This book documents the words and terms that the British used to describe, define, understand and judge the subcontinent. It offers insight into the cultures of the Raj through a sampling of its various terms, concepts and nomenclature, and utilizes critical commentaries on specific domains to illuminate not only the linguistic meaning of a word but its cultural and political nuances.

The British, the bandits and the bordermen, from the diaries and articles of K.F. Rustamji

Rajgopal, PV (ed.)

ISBN: 9788183281355, 8183281354

An autobiographical narrative, is an eyewitness account of some of the most stirring and epoch-making events in Indian history.

Brown over black: race and the politics of postcolonial citation

Burton, Antoinette

ISBN: 9788188789795, 8188789798

Drawing on the writings of the Ansuyah R Singh, Frank Moraes, Chanakya Sen and Phyllis Naidoo, this bok reframes post-1947 Indian history in a set of Afro-Asian contexts, asking what the ideological and material work of race has been in shaping both geopolitical alliances and diasporic Indian histories.

History of the far east in modern times

Vinacke, H.M.

ISBN: 9789386302120, 9386302128

Gandhi in Simla, 1921-1946

Bhardwaj, Vinod

The present volume is the first detailed study of Mahatma Gandhi's visit to the Imperial Capital of the British India from 1921 to 1946. Most of the generations born after Independence are unaware of Gandhiji's Simla connection.

Grand transitions: how the modern world was made

Smil, Vaclav

ISBN: 9780197696750, 0197696759

This book is an interdisciplinay inquiry into the five fundamental transitions whose interactions have created the moderl world: the eponymous Grand Transitions.

Essays on modern India

Ghosh, Suresh Chandra

A number of features like the spread of English education that characterise modern India have a genesis in institutions and systems set up in British colonial India.

A bunch of old letters: being mostly written to Jawaharlal Nehru and some written by Him, selected and ed. by Jawaharlal Nehru, with an introd. by Sunil Khilnani, rev. and updat...

ISBN: 9780670058273, 0670058270

The letters in this volume, written by some of the leading figures of our times, cover the three eventful decades leading up to India's Independence in 1947. With an illuminating introduction, that provides new insights into the personalities, issues and events that shaped the destiny of modern India, this book is essential reading for an understanding of the history of the national movement.

Bundela rebellion

Mishra, Jai Prakash

ISBN: 9788175740242, 8175740248

A feudal revolt against the British rule in Saugor and Nebudda territories.

The butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer

Collett, Nigel

This book is a comprehensive biography of General Dyer, giving a complete understanding of his psychology as an army officer and about his personal life. It brings to light the tragic happenings of April 13, 1919 at the Jallianwala Bagh.

The aeroplane and the making of modern India

Iqbal, Aashique Ahmed

ISBN: 9780192864208, 0192864203

The aeroplane played a small but significant role in India's transformation from British colony to independent republic.

The campaign in India, foreword by Mushirul Hasan

Atkinson, GF

ISBN: 9789381523377, 9381523371

A reprint from the library collection of the National Archives of India, this book illustrates the progress, rather than the process, leading to the siege of Delhi and its recapture. The principal events of the 1857 revolt are represented but only as pointers to the imminent victory of the British army.

Churchill and India: manipulation or betrayal?

Rana, Kishan S.

ISBN: 9781032467399, 1032467398

Beginning with the early years of his career in India when he spent 22 months between 1896 and 1899 as a subaltern with the 4th Hussars, it traces his rise as a politician, his years as the Prime Minister of Great Britain during the second world war, his profound distrust of the Indian Independence movement, and his machinationas in preserving the British empire's rule over India.