The colonial city and the challenge of modernity: urban hegemonies and civic contestations in Bombay city (1900-1925)

Hazareesingh, Sandip

ISBN: 9788125032373, 8125032371

This is an original story about the coming of `modernity in Bombay city in the early twentieth century. It book offers fresh and stimulalting insights into the multi-layered relationships between modernity, colonialism, and the production of urban sapce.

Colonial dominance and local resistance in South India

Reddy, G. Samba Siva

ISBN: 9789351710691, 9351710696

This book is an attempt to elucidate vividly, the unrest, voice and resistance of Kadapa distict in Andhra Pradesh in South India.

Colonial justice in British India: white violence and the rule of law

Kolsky, Elizabeth

ISBN: 9780521190787, 0521190789

Describes and examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial India.

Colonial land tax and property rights: the agrarian conditions in Andhra under the British rule: 1858-1900

Kumar, Thangellapali Vijay

ISBN: 9789350981993, 9350981998

The colonial state: theory and practice

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi

ISBN: 9789384092016, 9384092010

The aim in this work is to address, through historical narrativization of some specific moments of colonial state building, the question: What, in theory, are the historical specificities of the 'colonial' state as distinct from other state forms?

Colonial syndrome: the videshi mindset in modern India

Rao, Ramakrishna K.

ISBN: 9788124609330, 8124609330

The book is an outcome of Prof. Rao's work as a National Fellow of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), attempts to define and elucidate this syndrome and its ill effects on the modern Indian mindset, and suggests means to contain and overcome it.

Colonialism and politics

Chaturvedi, Archana

ISBN: 9788193418888, 8193418883

A study of various aspects of colonialism and politics in India in proper historical perspective.

The coming of the book: the impact of printing 1450-1800, tr. by David Gerard, Paris, 1958

Febvre, Lucien et al.

ISBN: 9788170462668, 8170462665

The authors put together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.

Communalism in Bengal: from famine to Noakhali, 1943-47

Batabyal, Rakesh (b.1966)

ISBN: 9788178294711, 8178294710

This book argues that the period after 1943 witnessed a clash between nationalism and communalism, where communal ideologies embarked on a new phase, determined to replace nationalism.

Communalism in modern India, 3rd rev. edition

Chandra, Bipan

ISBN: 9788124114162, 8124114161

Communism and nationalism in colonial India, 1939-45

Gupta, DN

ISBN: 9780761936367, 076193636X

An incisive and original contribution to our understanding of the Communist Party of India's approach towards the Indian national movement and British colonialism from 1935 to 1945.

The company rule in India: some regional aspects

Saha, Sheela et al.

ISBN: 9788178352510, 8178352516

A study of political and administrative history of the Diwani Provinces, particularly Bihar, in Indian perspective covering the entire period of century of tremendous historical importance from AD 1757 to 1857-58.

Gandhi's search for the perfect diet: eating with the world in mind

Slate, Nico

ISBN: 9789352876235, 9352876237

The book focuses on the issue of Gandhi's obsessive preoccupation with diet reform and food in general, pointing out how intricately meshed were his ideas and practices concerning, morality, ethics, and political activism.

The complete biography of Mahatama Gandhi, 3 vols.

Mishra, Anil Dutta et al

Vol.1: An autobiography, ISBN:9788180698927;Vol.2: Satyagraha in South Africa, ISBN:9788180698934;Vol.3: Chronological biography of Mahatama Gandhi, ISBN:9788180698941

A most noble life: the biography of Ashrafunnisa Begum (1840-1903) by Muhammadi Begum (1877-1908),

ISBN: 9789354421150, 9354421156

......C.M. Naim. The work is a first detailed study of the life and works of its author, Muhammadi Begum and highlights social issues like women's literacy and widows remarriage.

Completing the first year of Independence: British official reports from South Asia, 1 May-17 Sept. 1948, 2 parts

Carter, Lionel

ISBN: 9789350981054, 935098105X

The present volume, in two parts, completes the documentation of the first year of South Asian Independence as seen from British official records. The work covers a wide range of developments but two issues are at its centre--Kashmir and Hyderabad.

A comprehensive history of Nepal-China relations upto 1955 AD, 2 vols

Manandhar, Vijay Kumar (b.1952)

ISBN: 9788187392453, 8187392452

A concise history of India

Metcalf, Barbara D (b.1941) et al.

ISBN: 9780521630276, 0521630274

A concise history of India since the time of the Mughals upto 1990s.

A concise history of modern India, 3rd edition

Metcalf, Barbara D. et al

ISBN: 9781107619128, 1107619122

In the language of remembering: the inheritance of Partition

Malhotra, Aanchal

ISBN: 9789354898914, 9354898912

This book reveals how Partition is not yet an event of the past and its legacy is threaded into the daily lives of subsequent generations. Bringing together conversations recorded over many years with generations of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and their respective diaspora.