The foundations of the composite culture in India

Mohamed, Malik

ISBN: 9788189833183, 8189833189

The author examines the contibution of Sufism which inherently Connoles syncretism - as well as the simultaneous rise of the Bhakti movement in medieval India.

Freedom: sixty years after Indian independence,

Sen, Amartya et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788190485807, 8190485806

Confident of its future but proud of its past, this new India is a markedly different place from the country that gained freedom that August midnight in 1947. How this came to be is a fascinating study that this volume records through words and visuals. Essays by finest minds analyze various aspects of the nation's progress while paintings by India's best and brightest reveal starling yet enthr...

From the Iranian plateau to the shores of Gujarat: the story of Parsi settlements and absorption in India

Kamerkar, Mani et al.

ISBN: 9788177643015, 8177643010

This book attempts to show the history of the Parsis in India as a continuous movement from the origin of the Aryan speaking people in the Margiana Bactria region, to the entry of part of the group into India.

From western medicine to global medicine: the hospital beyond the west

Harrison, Mark et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788125037026, 8125037020

This book provides account of the hospital's emergence in Asia, Africa and other non-western contexts. Its essays examine various facets of hospital medicine from eighteenth century onwards, including interaction with indigenous traditions of healing and with economic and political issues during the colonial and post-colonial periods.

Fundamentals of Indian society

Ahmed, Kasim Ali

ISBN: 9789380261089, 938026108X

It is a book with some new approaches to the study of Indian Society and highlights various aspects of Indian socio-cultural milieu concisely right from the vedic age to the Modern period.

The Gandhian path of development

Mallik, Sangita (ed.)

ISBN: 9788179754009, 8179754006

Women obscenity

Barman, Ranjit Deb

ISBN: 9788190333030, 8190333038

A study of the subject from pre-historic to modern times.

Gender, language, and learning: essays in Indo-Muslim cultural history

Minault, Gail

ISBN: 9788178242668, 8178242664

This book collects articles published over the last thirty and more years, by a scholar who is among the most eminent Americans ever to have studied the history, life, and culture of Indian Muslims.

The global eradication of smallpox, with CD Rom

Bhattacharya, Sanjoy et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788125039815, 8125039813

Global South Asians: introducing the modern diaspora

Brown, M Judith

ISBN: 9788175963849, 8175963840

It is a story compellingly told by one of the premier historians of modern South Asia, Judith Brown, whose particular knowledge of the diaspora in Britain and South Africa gives her insight as a commentator.

Global South Asians: introducing the modern diaspora

Brown, M Judith

ISBN: 9788175963832, 8175963832

It is a story compellingly told by one of the premier historians of modern South Asia, Judith Brown, whose particular knowledge of the diaspora in Britain abd South Africa gives her insight as a commentator.

Gorkhas: the warrior race

Rai, Bandana

ISBN: 9788178357768, 8178357763

This book covers the warrior race of Gorkhas thoroughly, its history, culture, religion, festivals, martial traditions, current politics and socio - political issues.

Growth of scheduled tribes and castes in medieval India

Lal, KS

ISBN: 9788186471036, 8186471030

Opening a new vista, what this work is about is contrary to modern-day make-believe, there is no evidence to show that the lower classes suffered from the tyranny of the Hindu upper classes in the medieval period. The case being exactly opposite, throughout the medieval period, the lower castes fought shoulder to shoulder with the upper castes against the foreign invaders and tyrannical rulers....

Health and society in Bengal: a selection from late 19th century Bengali periodicals

Bose, Pradip Kumar (ed.)

ISBN: 9788178295619, 817829561X

This volume discusses, for the first time, the nature of the interaction between western medical science and local knowledge and practices in late 19th century Bengal through excerpts from important Bengali medical and scientific journals published between 1850 and 1900.

Hidden women: the ruling women of the Rana dynasty

Rana, Greta

ISBN: 9788186939628, 8186939628

Narrated through the eyes of the women in his life, it is a novel look at Jung Bahadur Rana's story. Jung Bahadur Rana founded the Rana dynasty that ruled Nepal for 104 years.

Hindu social life in Northern India under the Mughals, 1526-1707

Sinha, Sanjay

ISBN: 9789350501283, 9350501287

Hindu-Catholic engagements in Goa: religion, colonialism, and modernity

Henn, Alexander

ISBN: 9788125055211, 8125055215

This book offers a novel perspective on the Portuguese empire and Catholic hegemony in Asia that for almost half a millennium-from 1510 to 1961-had its capital in Goa.

History and culture of Tamil Nadu as gleaned from the Sanskrit inscriptions, Vol.2: c.1310-c.1885 AD, with a foreword by K.V. Ramesh

Madhavan, Chithra

ISBN: 9788124603956, 8124603952

History in the vernacular

Aquil, Raziuddin et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788178242255, 8178242257

This book explores the status of regional and vernacular histories in relation to academic histories by professional historians. The essays in this volume is an outcome of a conference held at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in December 2004.

History of communal harmony in India

Bobade, Bhujang Ramrao et al.

ISBN: 9789386223067, 9386223066