The greased cartridge: the heroes and villains of 1857-58

Paul, E Jaiwant

ISBN: 9788174368232, 817436823X

The great agrarian conquest: the colonial reshaping of a rural world

Bhattacharya, Neeladri

ISBN: 9788178245249, 8178245248

The book examines how, over colonial times, the diverse practices and customs of an existing rural universe--with its many forms of livelihood--were reshaped to create a new agrarian world of settled farming. While focusing on Punjab, this pathbreaking analysis offers a broad argument about the working of colonial power: the fantasy of imperialism, it says, is to make the universe afresh.

The great awakening: an account of the renaissance of Bengal

Bhaumik, Barendra Nath

ISBN: 9789381707401, 9381707405

This book on the lives of the extraordinary heroes of the renaissance of India during the nineteenth century is an attempt to revive and refresh the memory of their stupendous achievements in the national consciousness.

The great divide: India and Pakistan

Pande, Ira (ed.)

ISBN: 9788172238360, 8172238363

This volume of essays by writers from both sides of the border attempts to take stock where they stand today sixty years after the two nations were carved out as two distinct entities. Lived experience, shared concerns, food and travel and analysis make this an unusual compilation on the subject of two nations forever in love and hate with each other.

The great fear of 1857: rumours, conspiracies and the making of the Indian uprising

Wagner, Kim A

ISBN: 9789381406342, 9381406340

The Great Indian Peninsula Railway: a journey through time, 1853-1871

Bhambi, Rita P.

ISBN: 9789385000768, 9385000764

The aim of the book is to give a detailed and historical narrative regarding the construction and growth of the railways by the GIPR in India, an appreciation of the background against which the first tracks were laid and the expansion of the system since then.

The great Indian revolt of 1857: flames, fire and freedom

Srivastava, KB

ISBN: 9788190420273, 8190420275

Attempts to understand the real nature of revolt of 1857 with special reference to Oudh.

The Great Orissa Famine 1866: Na'Anka Durbhikshya, ed. by Anil Dir et al.

ISBN: 9788190381338, 8190381334

This book contains articles from eminent historians, researchers and scholars, dealing with the Great Orissa Famine of 1866 and subsequent events related to this famine.

The great rebellion of 1857 in India: exploring transgressions, contests and diversities, ed. by Biswamoy Pati

ISBN: 9780415627450, 0415627451

The articles in this collection explores hitherto ignored diversities of the Great Rebellion such as gender and colonial fiction, courtesans, white `marginals', penal laws and colonial anxieties about the Mughals, even in exile.

The great Sikh warrior: Baghel Singh

Berar, Avtar Singh

ISBN: 9788171164424, 8171164420

Great speeches of modern India

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu (ed.)

ISBN: 9788184001808, 8184001800

Gumnami Baba: a case history, foreword by Jayanti Bose Rakshit, General Editor: Abhinandan Malik

Som, Adheer

ISBN: 9789351454779, 9351454770

Gumnami Baba was considered by many as Netaji Subhash Bose in disguise. The book in not meant to promote the claim, but is a narrative of those facts and reasons which have made many to believe so.

Habitations of modernity: essays in the wake of subaltern studies, with a foreword by Homi K. Bhabha

Chakrabarty, Dipesh

ISBN: 9788178240459, 8178240459

Hanging of Ram Prasad Bismil: the judgement

Waraich, Malwinderjit Singh (ed.)

ISBN: 9788189899493, 818989949X

Hating empire properly: India, the Indies, and enlightenment anticolonialism

Agnani, Sunil M.

This book is a novel attempt to think about the eighteenth-century view of India and the West Indies together, arguing this is how Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot actually saw them.

Health policy in Britain's model colony: Ceylon (1900-1948)

Jones, Margaret

ISBN: 9788125027591, 8125027599

The heroes of cellular jail

Aggarwal, SN

ISBN: 9788129109194, 8129109190

This book unfolds the saga of the heroic deeds of the young revolutionaries during India's struggle for freedom. It was their immense devotion to their motherland and to see India free that led them to perform valiant deeds.

Hidden treasures of tribal patriotism: reflections on tribal leaders of colonial Orissa

Patnaik, Nihar Ranjan

ISBN: 9788173414749, 8173414742

This book depicts the resistance movements of the valiant tribals of India against the aliens during the colonial rule.

An account of an embassy to the kingdom of Ava: in the year 1795

Symes, Michael

ISBN: 9789394262898, 939426289X

This book is a delightful account by the author of his stay in the kingdom of Ava in Burma (now Myanmar). The author was appointed as the plenipotentiary by Sir John Shore, governor-general of India, on admission to Burma authorized to deal with on behalf of the British India government. He was also asked to take cognizance of the conduct of the British nationals trading or residing in these ar...

Imperial sovereignty and local politics: the Bhadauria Rajputs and the transitions from Mughal to British India, 1600-1900

Singh, Tripurdaman

ISBN: 9781108497435, 1108497438