Books of History / Asia / South / India
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Historical Dictionary of India
By Surjit MansinghWhile building a modern economy and a democratic, secular society, India has inherited a rich civilization with an unparalleled diversity of ethnic, linguistic and religious groups going back many thousands...
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What Life was Like in the Jewel in the Crown: British India, AD 1600-1905
By Time-Life BooksSail with the British to India and follow their progress from traders to rulers of the vast subcontinent. Examines the lives of British pirates, soldiers, diplomats, adventurers, and missionaries as...
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Nationalism
By Rabindranath TagoreMan's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters. These have offered us problems and claimed their solutions from us, the penalty of non-fulfilment being death or degradation....
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The Amritsar Massacre, 1919: General Dyer in the Punjab
By Stationery OfficeThe story of the action taken by Brigadier-General Dyer at Amritsar in the Punjab in 1919. Faced with insurrection in support of Mahatma Gandhi, the British Army declared martial law....
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Amritsar: The Massacre that Ended the Raj
By Alfred DraperBased On Unpublished Material, It Tells The Fascinating Story Of Political Intrigue And Expediency, Deception And Deliberate Concealment Of The Truth, It Tells The Story Of Jalianwala Bagh Massacre.
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Witness to Partition: A Memoir
By Bal Ram NandaThis is eyewitness history of the highest order. It has a compelling authenticity that those who write about the partition of India, without having lived the experience, can never convey....
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Situating Environmental History
By Ranjan ChakrabartiConcern For The Environment Is Not New; It Has Always Existed. One Of The Flash Points In The Inner Conflicts Within Human Societies Of The Past Was Fuelled By The Continuous Effort To Resolve The Legitimate Use Of The Natural World.
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Basic Education and National Development: Lessons from China and India
By Manzoor Ahmed, A. K. Jalaluddin, K. RamachandranBasic Education and National Development: Lessons from China and India
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Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay
By Balachandra RajanSpanning nearly two and a half centuries of English literature about India, Under Western Eyes traces the development of an imperial discourse that governed the English view of India well...
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Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs
By Kenneth J. Conboy, M. S. KohliIn the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America...
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Politics of Time: "primitives" and History-writing in a Colonial Society
By Prathama BanerjeePolitics of Time seeks to understand what it meant for a colonial modern subject to write and make history. It investigates how time, as a concept and as an experience,...
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The Partition Omnibus
By David Page"The second book, The Origins of the Partition of India 1936-1947, investigates the act of decolonization by the British and its far-reaching consequences for their international status. In this work,...
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The First Great Civilizations: Life in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and Egypt
By Jacquetta HawkesThe First Great Civilizations is an enthralling historical work which carries the full excitement of archaeological discovery and provokes a large reappraisal of the impact these cultures still exercise on...
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Clive of India: A Political and Psychological Essay
By Nirad C. ChaudhuriClive of India: A Political and Psychological Essay
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Waging War in Waziristan: The British Struggle in the Land of Bin Laden, 1849-1947
By Andrew M. RoeWaziristan is a remote district of Pakistan populated by fiercely independent tribes who owe allegiance to no one and unite only to repel invaders or wage jihad. Its mountainous landscape...
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The Correspondence of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Governor-General of India, 1828-1835: 1832-1835
By University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Lord William Henry Cavendish BentinckThe Correspondence of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Governor-General of India, 1828-1835: 1832-1835
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Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India: Collected Works of S. Nurul Hasan
By Saiyid Nurul HasanThe collected essays of Nurul Hasan cover a wide range of topics in medieval Indian history: historiography and new sources; state, religion, and the ruling class; and urban and rural...
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The British Raj and the Indian Princes: Paramountcy in Western India, 1857-1930
By Ian CoplandThe British Raj and the Indian Princes: Paramountcy in Western India, 1857-1930
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Outstanding Victories of the Indian Army, 1947-1971
By Bhaskar SarkarThis book deals with 11 outstanding victories of the Indian Army; Shalateng, Rajauri and Zoji La from the Kashmir War 1947-48; Chusul from the 1962 Chinese War; Hajipir, Assal Uttar and Phillora from the lndo-Pak War 1965 and Bayra, Sylhet, ...
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India, the Grand Experiment
By Vishal MangalwadiAn outline, chiefly of political events, relating mainly to the 19th-20th centuries.