This historical book has been recently reprinted it traces the history, ethnology and administration of the north-western provinces of india it presents, in detail and great depth, a look at an era long gone by the area described in this book includes...

Pp. xv, 561; 16 full page black-and-white photo-plates, 11 full-page maps, 9 text-figures. Publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, brown pictorial dust jacket lettered in white, lg 8vo. The 36 chapters are based on papers submitted...

India--a cradle of civilization with five millennia of history, a country of immense consequence and contradiction--often defies ready understanding. What holds its people together--across its many cultures, races, languages, and creeds--and how has...

Part of a continuing series of biographies of Mehta's family in India, this one concerns his aged poor uncle Chachaji. This book is as much about the making of the documentary as it is about Chachaji, and thus depicts a poignant, frenzied, and often...

By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation.The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in...

In this fascinating psycho-analytic study of Hindu childhood and society, Sudhir Kakar uses anthropological evidence, clinical data, mythology and folklore to open the door on to the daily lives of the Hindu family and the shadowy world of collective...

A.r. Mukherjea. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.At the time of the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, it was widely expected that India would be secular, home to members of different religious traditions...

"Although ethnic and sectarian tensions have always been a feature of modern Indian history, the country was founded and governed in its first decades by a nationalist political movement - associated with the Indian National Congress -- that stressed the...

The life of Nathuram Godse, the man who shot GandhiDhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism.On...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesMerchants of...

These essays unearth and analyze the nature of subaltern consciousness and dissent across a variety of India's regions during the colonial period.