Speak, memory: Oral Histories of Kodaikanal Dalits, by Alexandra de Heering

ISBN: 9788184702200, 8184702205

This book is the outcome of a research based on Dalitoral narratives, to record and to understand their interpretation of their own pasts.

State language movement in East Bengal 1947-1956

Muhith, AMA

ISBN: 9789840517954, 9840517953

Strange riches: Bengal in the mercantile map of South Asia

Mukherjee, Rila

ISBN: 9788175963245, 8175963247

This book attempts to understand the commercial and social history of erstwhile Bengal in terms of its links with its neighbouring countries in the northern region of the Bay of Bengal. It touches upon the key issues in both maritime and territorial history such as the early medieval trade revolution and its impact on the borders of Bengal.

Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean

Simpson, Edward et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9781850658696, 1850658692

This volume compares and contrasts anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the vexed nature of `cosmopolitanism'.

Studies in Jat history, Vol.1: Ballabhgarh

Singh, Raj Pal (b.1953)

ISBN: 9788186622940, 8186622942

A study in Hindu social polity

Chakraberty, Chandra

ISBN: 9788130704227, 8130704226

Contents: (i) Physical geography of India. (ii) Ethnic elements in Hindi nationality. (iii) Hindu myths. (iv) Hindi languages. (v) Hindi scripts. (vi) Caste. (vii) Social organisation.;

Subalternity, exclusion and social change in India, ed. by Ashok K. Pankaj et al.

ISBN: 9789382993247, 938299324X

This book emphasizes the need for adopting an integrated approach to understand the concepts of subalternity, exclusion and social change in India. It also explores the dynamic relations between three concepts, instead of treating them as unconnected and discrete social facts. ;

Subalterns and Raj: an introduction to South Asia since 1600

Bates, Crispin

ISBN: 9780415214841, 041521484X

Subects, citizens and law: colonial and independent India, ed. by Gunnel Cederlof and Sanjukta Das Gupta

ISBN: 9781138743939, 1138743933

This volume investigates how, where and when subjects and citizens come into being, assert themselves and exercise subjecthood or citizenship in the formation of modern India.

Subjugated nomads: the Lambadas under the rule of the Nizams

Bhukya, Bhangya

ISBN: 9788125039617, 8125039619

This book traces the historical transition of the Lambada community of Hyderabad state under the Nizams during colonial rule. The study spans nearly two centuries-from the early eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century.

Tantra in Bengal: a study in its origin, development and influence, (second rev. & enlarged ed.)

Banerji, S.C.

ISBN: 9788185425634, 8185425639

The work deals in considerable detail the deep and wide influence of Tantra on the life and literature of Bengal.

Tamil cultural relations with Southeast Asia, with special reference to Tamil Bhakti literature

Sachithanantham, Singaravelu

This book of contains a selection of awe-inspiring research articles that deal with the cultural history of the Southeast Asian region till AD 1500.

Tazias of Chiniot

Abbas, Ghulam

ISBN: 9789695620328, 9695620329

Terror, crime and punishment: order and disorder in early colonial Bengal 1800-1860

Chakrabarti, Ranjan

ISBN: 9788187891895, 8187891890

The temple road towards a great India: Birla Mandirs as a strategy for reconstructing nation and tradition

Kudelska, Marta et al.

ISBN: 9789394852457, 939485245X

This book presents an analysis of the foundations organised by the Birla family in India. The book also examines whether the temples founded by the Birla family and the religious activities undertaken therein apply the concept of inventing tradition, and whether traditions created (or modernised) in contemporary times are a way of enhancing the appeal of the message conveyed from temple to soci...

Cricket, public culture and the making of postcolonial Calcutta

Naha, Souvik

ISBN: 9781108494588, 1108494587

This book pursues these threads of the people's uncanny attachment to cricket, seeking to understand the sport's role in the making of a postcolonial society. With a focus on Calcutta, it unpacks the various connotations of international cricket that have produced a postcolonial community and public culture.

Third sex: the society hesitates, a socialogical report

Barman, Ranjit Deb

ISBN: 9788190333009, 8190333003

A research work on eunuchs.

Through moments in history: memoirs of two decades of intellectual and social life (1970-1990)

Rahman, Anisur (b.1933)

ISBN: 9789848120774, 9848120777

It presents the author's memoirs of his life through three momentous periods of history traversed by him. He is a famous economist from Bangladesh.

Thuggee: Banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India

Wagner, Kim A

ISBN: 9789380607764, 9380607768

Tibetan national flag and anthem, compiled by library of Tibetan works and archives