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The nation and its fragments
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Partha Chatterjee |
xiii, 282 p. ; 25 cm |
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Ashraf Into Middle Classes Muslims In Nineteenthcentury Delhi
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Margrit Pernau |
xxxvi, 504 pages : 23 cm |
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The company rule in India
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Sheela Saha |
On the British and East India Company rule with particular focus on Bihar from 1757-1858; a study. |
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Indian embers
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Lawrence Lady |
Daily life in India, as experienced by a senior civil servant. |
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Purifying empire
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Deana Heath |
"Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I… |
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Climbing the Mango Trees
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Madhur Jaffrey |
Whether acclaimed food writer Madhur Jaffrey was climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard in Delhi or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tu… |
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Social and religious reform
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Amiya P. Sen |
Contributed articles. |
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The Fishing Fleet
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Anne de Courcy,Anne De Courcy |
"The fascinating and entertaining true stories of the young Victorian women on the hunt for husbands among the colonial businessmen and bureaucrats in the Raj"-- |
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Empire made
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Kief Hillsbery |
"Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India--a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light. In 1841, twenty-year-o… |
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The setting sun
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B. J. Moore-Gilbert |
"Setting Sun is the story of the dying days of an Empire, combined with gripping family history, in an extraordinary literary voyage across India. When a letter from an Indian historian arrives out o… |
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Agricultural Production and Indian History
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David Ludden |
Contributed articles. |
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White Mughals
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William Dalrymple |
"James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Khair un-Nissa - "Most Excellent among Women" - the great-niece of the Nizam's pri… |
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India inscribed
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Kate Teltscher |
India Inscribed is the first comprehensive study of European and British writing on India in the period 1600-1800, from the foundation of the East India Company to the defeat of Tipu Sultan. Britain'… |
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Modern India, 1885-1947
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Sumit Sarkar |
The present work tries to explore, in the light of the author's own research, some of the rich possibilities of a 'history from below'. The shift in focus towards tribals, peasants and workers is sho… |
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Silk and empire
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Brenda M. King |
xx, 195 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm |
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From Plassey to Pakistan
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Humayun Mirza |
"In this historical survey, Humayun Mirza traces the fortunes of his ancestors, the powerful rulers of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, whom Robert Clive defeated at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. Turning … |
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Gandhi and the struggle for India's independence
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F. W. Rawding |
A biography of Mohandas Gandhi, the Mahatma, who played a crucial role in the struggle for Indian independence from Great Britain in the 1930s and 40s. |
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Self and Sovereignty
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Ayesha Jalal |
Self and Sovereignty surveys the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonisation and the partition period.Commencing in colonial times, this book… |
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