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Architecture of Mughal India
Inbunden, 1992
2566 kr
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In Architecture of Mughal India Catherine Asher presents the first comprehensive study of Mughal architectural achievements. The work is lavishly illustrated and will be widely read by students and specialists of South Asian history and architecture as well as by anyone interested in the …
The Politics of India since Independence
Av Paul R. Brass, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
720 kr
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The Politics of India since Independence provides a comprehensive study of the major political, cultural, and economic changes in India since gaining independence. Paul Brass focuses on the consequences of the centralising drives of the national leadership to create a strong, unified nation, and a …
The Economy of Modern India
From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2013
1391 kr
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Rapid economic growth has put India at the centre of current debates about the future of the global economy. In this fully revised and updated text, B. R. Tomlinson provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the Indian economy over the last 150 years. He sets arguments about growth, …
Bengal: The British Bridgehead
Eastern India 1740-1828
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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The aim of Bengal: The British Bridgehead is to explain how, in the eighteenth century, Britain established her rule in eastern India, the first part of the subcontinent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Though the British were not in firm control of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa until 1765, …
The Portuguese in India
Av M. N. Pearson, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr Pearson's volume of their history is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards written squarely from an Indian point of view. Laying particular stress on social, economic and …
Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India
Häftad, 2006
422 kr
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The third part of The New Cambridge History of India is devoted to the Indian Empire and the Beginnings of Modern Society. In the first volume, Kenneth Jones looks at the numerous nineteenth-century movements for social and religious change - Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian - that …
The Marathas 1600-1818
Av Stewart Gordon, Gordon Johnson
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India during the following century, and was conquered by …
Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
Rural Bengal since 1770
Av Sugata Bose, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change under British colonial rule. Sugata Bose analyses the relationships between demography, commercialization, class structure and peasant resistance unfolding over the …
The Indian Princes and their States
Häftad, 2007
459 kr
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Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable degrees of autonomy until the disintegration of the …
An Agrarian History of South Asia
Av David Ludden
Häftad, 2011
435 kr
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Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian …
Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India
Inbunden, 1990
1644 kr
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The third part of The New Cambridge History of India is devoted to the Indian Empire and the Beginnings of Modern Society. In the first volume, Kenneth Jones looks at the numerous nineteenth-century movements for social and religious change - Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian - that …
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
Av C. A. Bayly, Gordon Johnson
Inbunden, 1988
1693 kr
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The past twenty years have seen a proliferation of specialist scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from recent work and seeks in particular to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and …
The Mughal Empire
Av John F. Richards, Gordon Johnson
Inbunden, 1993
2029 kr
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The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions. The Mughal emperors …
Bengal: The British Bridgehead
Eastern India 1740-1828
Inbunden, 1988
2029 kr
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The aim of Bengal: The British Bridgehead is to explain how, in the eighteenth century, Britain established her rule in eastern India, the first part of the subcontinent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Though the British were not in firm control of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa until 1765, …
A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761
Eight Indian Lives
Inbunden, 2005
1693 kr
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In this fascinating account of one of the least known parts of South Asia, Eaton recounts the history of the Deccan plateau in southern India from the fourteenth century to the rise of European colonialism. He does so, vividly, through the lives of eight Indians who lived at different times during …
The Portuguese in India
Inbunden, 1988
2029 kr
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The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr Pearson's volume of their history is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards written squarely from an Indian point of view. Laying particular stress on social, economic and …
European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India
Av Om Prakash
Inbunden, 1998
2046 kr
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European traders first appeared in India at the end of the fifteenth century and began exporting goods to Europe as well as to other parts of Asia. In a detailed analysis of the trading operations of European corporate enterprises such as the English and Dutch East India Companies, as well as those …
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
Av Susan Bayly, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1928 kr
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The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial …
Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
Rural Bengal since 1770
Av Sugata Bose
Inbunden, 1993
1912 kr
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This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change under British colonial rule. Sugata Bose analyses the relationships between demography, commercialization, class structure and peasant resistance unfolding over the …
The Indian Princes and their States
Inbunden, 2003
1693 kr
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Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable degrees of autonomy until the disintegration of the …
Women in Modern India
Inbunden, 1996
1677 kr
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In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed …
The Marathas 1600-1818
Av Stewart Gordon, Gordon Johnson
Inbunden, 1993
2029 kr
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In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India during the following century, and was conquered by …
The Sikhs of the Punjab
Av J. S. Grewal
Inbunden, 1991
1794 kr
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In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human …
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
Av C. A. Bayly
Häftad, 1990
341 kr
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The past twenty years have seen a proliferation of specialist scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from recent work and seeks in particular to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and …
Ideologies of the Raj
Av Thomas R. Metcalf, Gordon Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1403 kr
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Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British themselves, while the other emphasised …
Mughal and Rajput Painting
Av Milo Cleveland Beach, Christopher Alan Bayly m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1677 kr
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The Mughals - descendants of Timur and Genghiz Khan with strong cultural ties to the Persian world - seized political power in north India in 1526 and became the most important artistically active Muslim dynasty on the subcontinent. In this richly illustrated book, Dr Milo Beach shows how, between …
The Politics of India since Independence
Inbunden, 1994
1693 kr
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The Politics of India since Independence provides a comprehensive study of the major political, cultural, and economic changes in India since gaining independence. Paul Brass focuses on the consequences of the centralising drives of the national leadership to create a strong, unified nation, and a …
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
Av David Arnold
Inbunden, 2000
1677 kr
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Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David …
Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates
Av George Michell, Mark Zebrowski
Inbunden, 1999
2700 kr
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The Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan plateau flourished from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries. During this period, the Deccan sultans built palaces, mosques and tombs, and patronised artists who produced paintings and decorative objects. Many of these buildings and works of art still survive as …
The Mughal Empire
Av John F. Richards, Gordon Johnson
Häftad, 1996
459 kr
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The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions. The Mughal emperors …
