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    Languages: English Decline and disintegration of the Mughal Empire • Rise of Autonomous States • Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century

This book presents a socio-political history of the city of Delhi from 1803, when it was conquered by the  British to 1931, when New Delhi was formally inaugurated Unlike most books on Delhi,which dwell on its medieval inheritance and monuments, this scholarly study provides a lively portrait of the city...

Based on the prescribed syllabi for the upsc, this book caters to aspirants of both the upsc and state civil service examinations. Lucidly written, it provides a definitive account of events andmovements that led to the formation of modern, independentindia. The emphasis is on providing precise information required for the...

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Author: Meenaxi Phukan Edition: 1   About the Book: Rise of the Modern West This book deals with European History from the decline of feudalism in the late Middle Ages (around the 15th century) to the beginning of industrial capitalism(towards the end of the 18th century). The transition from Medievel...

A New History of Modern India: An Outline is an introductory text that provides a well-rounded historical account of the history of modern India. The book will be of use to school and university students, teachers, competitive examinees and general readers who require a clear and concise delineation of Modern...

    Details: In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world’s most bizarre tourist attractions, Wat Phai Rong Wua...

How does myth find its way into the historical record?

Muslims do not venerate the sun, they do not venerate the lotus, yet these motifs are omnipresent in Islamic' architecture. But nobody objected to them, because they were not perceived as Hindu symbols they were seen, understood and appreciated as Indian. or shall we say Sout Asian motifs.

Nationalism, when it is qualified by race or religion or language and then taken to an extreme

Author: Shepherd, Kancha IlaiahBrand: Vintage BooksBinding: paperbackNumber Of Pages: 352Release Date: 30-11-2023Details: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd pens a thought-provoking critique of Brahmanism and the caste system in India, while anticipating the death of Hinduism as a direct consequence of, what he says is, its anti-scientific and anti-nationalistic stand. This work challenges...

Author: J. L. MehtaBrand: Sterling Publications Private LimitedEdition: 2Features: Publication Year: 2015 ISBN: 9788120706170 Language: English Pages: 355 Binding: Paperback Binding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 326Release Date: 01-01-2019Details: Contents: introduction: contemporary sources of history Twilight of ancient India ghaznavid inroads northern India between the two holocausts (1030 1175) the second Holocaust...

Author: Andrews, William L.Brand: Oxford University Press, USABinding: paperbackNumber Of Pages: 416Release Date: 16-01-2003Part Number: 5 halftones & 2 line illustrationsEAN: 9780195141351Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 5.8 x 1.1 inchesLanguages: English

  Details: In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen, but Britain’s concerns lay elsewhere––expansionist...

    Details: The last nizam is the story of an extraordinary dynasty, the Nizams of Hyderabad and how the heir to India's richest princely state gave up a kingdom and retired to the dusty Paddocks of outback Australia. With vivid detail and anecdotes, John Zubrzycki charts the rise of...

   

  Details: In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marche, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized. Through an original interpretation of paternalism, public images, and family-firm...

  Details: Early Modern Catholicism makes available in modern spelling and punctuation substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Rather than perpetuate the usual stereotypes and misinformation, it provides a fresh look at Catholic writing long suppressed, marginalized, and...

    Details: India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward from its bestselling predecessor, India That Is Bharat. It explores the combined influence of European and Middle Eastern colonialities on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation, and on the...

Author: Deepak, J SaiBrand: BloomsburyColor: BlueEdition: Standard EditionFeatures: In order to liberate Bharat's distinctive indigeneity, 'decoloniality' is presented as a civilisational imperative in the spheres of nature, religion, culture, history, education, language and, crucially, in the realm of constitutionalism. Their subsequent role in subverting the indigenous Indic consciousness through a...

  Details: The Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East has unsettled the world for over half a century. What are the roots of this violence? Is it simply the 'normal' prejudice found through time between neighbouring peoples of different cultural traditions or ethnic origins? Or is hostility toward Israel a...

  Details: Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated his audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant political analyses, the...

   

    Details: From the WORLD OF ART series, a survey of the artistic achievements of the Renaissance sculptors from Nicola Pisano through Brunelleschi and Donatello to Michelangelo and Cellini.  

  Details: This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents-including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists-that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials...

    Details: Product Description In A New Republic, one of America's most respected historians offers a major statement on the nature of our political system and a critical look at the underpinnings of our society. American democracy, says John Lukacs, has been transformed from an exercise in individual freedom...

  Details: Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social...

  Brand: Hodder Education Binding: paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 224 Release Date: 03-11-1994 EAN: 9780340559291 Package Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches Languages: English

  Details: The Modern History of Japan covers Japanese history from approximately 1800--the last decades of rule by the military lords of the Tokugawa family--to the start of the twenty-first century. It begins when a crisis-ridden political and social order intersected with fast emerging Euro-American power. It then analyzes Japan's...

  Brand: Granta Books Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 840 Release Date: 01-08-2005 EAN: 9781862078048 Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.5 x 2.6 inches Languages: English

  Brand: The New Press Color: Pink Binding: hardcover Format: Import Number Of Pages: 481 Release Date: 01-05-2001 Details: Offers thrity-nine articles, chapters, or prefaces by noted figures in French Greco-Roman studies. EAN: 9781565843769 Package Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches Languages: English

  Details: One of the best-known historians working today, and a world-renowned expert on the ancient world, presents a brilliant account of the lives of the stonemasons, scribes, and painters who created some of Egypt's finest treasures. Illustrated with both color photos and black-and-white drawings, this groundbreaking study goes back...

      Details: Product Description Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published a wide variety of works including poems, plays, letters and treatises of natural philosophy, but her significance as a political writer has only recently been recognised. This major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts includes the first...

    Details: This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands...

    Details: The practice of piracy dates back thousands of years. This riveting chronicle provides a glimpse into the vivid history of "sea thieves," from ancient Greek, Roman, and Norse brigands to the pirates of the Golden Age?the infamous seventeenth century buccaneers of the Caribbean’s Spanish Main.Delve into the...

    Details: Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion is a collection of 27 contributed introductory essays on individual plays from the early modern period. Each essay, written by an authoritative scholar, addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary epic, from London to the law,...