Labour movement in India: documents: 1850-1937, Vols.1-14, Gen. ed.: A.R. Desai

A sourcebook on the origin, struggles and growth of Labour Movement in India based on eye-witness accounts and contemporary records. To be completed in about 25 volumes, this work covers the period starting from 1850 to 1947 when India became an independent country.

Land tenure, gender and globalisation: research and analysis from Africa, Asia and Latin America

Tsikata, Dzodzi et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788189884727, 8189884727

Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and people's responses to it.

Land, lineage and state: a study of Newar society in mediaeval Nepal

Sharma, Prayag Raj

ISBN: 9789937597272, 9937597277

This study of mediaeval Nepal (Kathmandu Valley) attempts to show how over a period of 600 years the interplay of land, lineage and state strongly shaped Newar society, including some of its key institutions such as kinship, guthi, religion and caste as well as their settlement patterns.

Landscapes and the law: environmental politics, regional histories, and contests over nature

Cederlof, Gunnel

ISBN: 9788178242088, 8178242087

Language policy, identity, and religion: aspects of the civilization of the Muslims of Pakistan and North India

Rahman, Tariq

ISBN: 9789698329136, 9698329137

This book comprises scholarly articles dealing with the themes of language policy, identity and religion among the Muslims of South Asia, especially Pakistan.

Languished hopes: tuberculosis, the state and international assistance in twentieth-century India, series ed: Sanjoy Bhattacharya

Brimnes, Niels

ISBN: 9788125062820, 8125062823

This book narrates and analyses the history of tuberculosis in India in the twentieth century: how the disease was `discovered', how it has been understood, and how national and international agencies have struggled to bring it to under control.;;

The last Jews of Kerala

Fernandes, Edna

ISBN: 9780670081479, 0670081477

This book is a narrative of the rise and fall of this Jewish diaspora over the centuries within the context of the grand history of the Jewish people.

Law and identity in colonial South Asia: Parsi legal culture 1772-1947

Sharafi, Mitra

ISBN: 9788178244976, 8178244977

This book explores the legal culture of the Parsis, or Zoroastrians, an ethnoreligious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma

The legacy of Indian indenture: historical and contemporary aspects of migration and diaspora, ed. by Maurits S. Hassankhan et al.

ISBN: 9789350981283, 9350981289

This volume is the second publication originating from a conference organized in June 2013 by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname, in collaboration with a number of government and non-government organizations.

Legacy of slavery and indentured labour: historical and contemporary issues: Suriname and the Caribbean, ed. by Maurits S. Hassankhan et al

ISBN: 9789350981276, 9350981270

This book is the first publication originating from a conference organized in June 2013 by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname, in collaboration with a number of government and non-government organizations.

Letters of a Mussoorie merchant, intro. by Ruskin Bond,

Monk, Mauger Fitzhugh

ISBN: 9789381523070, 938152307X

Mauger Fitzhugh Monk recorded the details of his extraordinary life in India, in a series of letters, written to his father and other family members in England, between 1828 and 1849. He elaborates about his army life and gives a fascinating insight into everyday life in Mussoorie and Landour.

Life on the old plantation in Ante Bellum days or a story based on facts

Lowery, I.E.

ISBN: 9789351286837, 9351286835

The life, times and miracles of Sree Narayana Guru

Ramachandran, K.K.

ISBN: 9788124608876, 8124608873

Literature, caste and society: the masks and veils

Stephen, S Jeyaseela (ed.)

ISBN: 9788178354484, 8178354489

This volume contains papers presented to a National Seminar on Society and Culture in Pre-Modern and Modern India held at the Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan, 24-25 Nov. 2002.

Mahad: the making of the first Dalit revolt, with the account of Comrade R.B. More

Teltumbde, Anand

ISBN: 9789350023983, 9350023989

Based on a rich array of primary sources in both Marathi and English, this fascinating book is the first substantial analysis of a major landmark in modern Indian history: the Mahad Satyagraha of 1927.

Maharanis: the lives and times of three generations of Indian princesses

Moore, Lucy

ISBN: 9780670915897, 0670915890

Through the story of Chimnabai, Maharani of Baroda and Sunity, Maharani of Cooch Behar, the authoress creates an intimate portrait of a nation during an era of great charge-- the rise and fall of the Raj and India's long road to independence and beyond.

Manadu: a social-history of Manavira Valanadu=Manatu: Manavira Valanattuc camuka varalaru

Thasarathan, A (b.1950)

History of Manadu, inferred from Tamil folk songs and ballads of that palce, includes selected texts.

Mapping connections: Indo-Thai historical and cultural linkages

Sahai, Sachchidanand et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788190230452, 819023045X

This book is a collection of incisive essays by some of the best-known names from India and Thailand, is an important initiative in the growth of civilizational relations between the two countries.

Maritime history of the Coromandel Muslims: a socio-historical study on the Tamil Muslims, 1750-1900

Raja Muhammad, J

Martial races of undivided India

Tyagi, Vidya Prakash

ISBN: 9788178357751, 8178357755

This volume examines martial races, such as, Ahir, Awans, Baloch, Dhangar, Gakhras, Garhwalis, Gujjars, Gurkhas, Jat, Kamboj, Kurmis, Marathas, Nagas, Nairs, Pashtuns, Rajputs and Sikhs through their history, culture and contribution to armed forces etc.