Caste, class and the Raj: a study of the Bengali society in transition in the colonial age

Sen, Ranjit et al.

ISBN: 9788186383773, 8186383778

Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age, Cambridge, 1999

Bayly, Susan

ISBN: 9780521798426, 0521798426

Castes of mind: colonialism and the making of modern India

Dirks, Nicholas B

ISBN: 9788178240725, 8178240726

The author traces the career of caste through history and also examines the rise of caste politics in contemporary India, in particular caste-based movements and their implications for Indian nationhood.

Caught by the police: the life story of Dr. Anandswarup Gupta, written by Anandswarup Gupta et al

ISBN: 9789351941583, 9351941582

The book is a story of a talented, public-spirited and erudite man, with a multidimensional personality, a republican bent of mind, Indian values and English sensibilities. Spanning a century of changing times, this book provides a unique account of the last decades of British Rule and the emergence of a new India, woven into the story of an extraordinary life lived in ordinary places, and a co...

Causes of Indian rebellion

Khan, Sir Syed Ahmed (1817-1898)

ISBN: 9788190257978, 8190257978

Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945, ed. by Sisir K. Bose et al

Bose, Subhas Chandra (1920-2000)

ISBN: 9788178241791, 817824179X

This volume brings together all his speeches and writings as leader of the Azad Hind movement from June 1943 to August 1945. His stirring speeches in Singapore, Malaya, and Burma electrified massive audiences of civilians and soldiers, united Indians of all religions, and inspired them to join the march towards Delhi.

Changing homelands: Hindu politics and the Partition of India

Nair, Neeti

ISBN: 9788178243245, 8178243245

This book offers a startling new perspective on what was and was not politically possible in late colonial India. In tracing the political and social history of Punjab from the early years of the twentieth century, Nair overturns the entrenched view that Muslims were responsible for Partition.

Chiefs and families of note in the Punjab, by Lepel H Griffin et al., revised and corrected by W L Conran, (3 vols., bound in 1)

ISBN: 9788175365155, 8175365153

This book contains historical and biographical notices of the principal chiefs and families of note in the Punjab, forming the Lahore and Rawalpindi division, furnishing details about the roles they played in the political history of Punjab from the closing decades of the 18th cent. to the establishment of the Sikh monarchy.

Children of Kali: through India in search of Bandits, the Thug cult and the British Raj

Rushby, Kevin

ISBN: 9781841193939, 1841193933

Part history and part personal record, this book reveals how British India demonized millions as hereditary criminals, setting off a witch-hunt whose effects are still felt today. It is a book about the misunderstanding of what is alien and exotic, and few things that have been more misunderstood than the nature of Kali herself.

Children of the raj

Brendon, Vyuyen

ISBN: 9780297847298, 0297847295

Story of the British children born in India under the Raj.

Christians and public life in colonial South India, 1863-1937: contending with marginality

Mallampalli, Chandra

ISBN: 9780415323215, 0415323215

Chronicles of time and chance

Isar, Raymond Francis

ISBN: 9789384082369, 9384082368

Far more than simply autobiographical these selections from the memoirs of a former ICS officer offer a fascinating cultural and social history of the subcontinent, notably of the Indian-Christian community of the Punjab in the first half of the twentieth century.

Acts of aid: politics of relief and reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake

Marcussen, Eleonor

ISBN: 9781108838092, 110883809X

This history of an Indian earthquake aftermath analyses the role of civil society, the colonial state and international aid in disaster relief.

Chuar disturbances

Sengupta, Amrita

ISBN: 9788192960401, 8192960404

The Chuar people rebelled in mid 1760's. Their protest continued up to mid Nineteenth century. The book essays to trace the causes, nature and the outcome of the relatively less known `resistance movement-Chuar Disturbances.'

Churchill, Roosevelt and India: propaganda during world war II

Weigold, Auriol

ISBN: 9788189643027, 8189643029

A clear star: C.F. Andrews and India 1904-1914

O'Connor, Daniel

ISBN: 9788180280238, 8180280233

This book focuses on the period which transformed Andrews into a significant player in modern Indian history. He first came to India in 1904 and was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.

Clothing for liberation: a communication analysis of Gandhi's Swadeshi revolution

Gonsalves, Peter

ISBN: 9788132103103, 8132103106

Nehru's India: a history in seven myths

Sherman, Taylor C.

ISBN: 9780691245775, 0691245770

This book 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, the author reevaluates the role of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, in shaping the nation.

The European encounter with Hinduism in India,

Schouten, Jan Peter

ISBN: 9789360804213, 9360804215

This book offers an account of European travellers coming into contact with the Hindu religion in India.

The colonel who would not repent: the Bangladesh war and its unquiet legacy

Tripathi, Salil

ISBN: 9789382277187, 9382277188