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In only six decades since independence, India has gone from a place associated with some of the most wretched poverty on Earth to one that, economically, could dominate the 21st century. French examines the cultural foundations that have made possible a... [More...]

India: A History. Revised and Updated
Keay, John

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Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay's "India: A History" spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient beginnings in... [More...]

No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The Untold Story of One of History's Deadliest Floods
Sandesara, Utpal

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With its suspenseful plot, compelling characters, and moving nonfiction narrative, No One Had a Tongue to Speak reads more like a novel than a nonfiction account, revealing the profound human tragedy of the 1979 Machhu dam disaster.

Querying the Medieval: Texts and the History of Practices in South Asia
Inden, Ronald B.

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Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers — "Orientalists" — and has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very... [More...]

Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra
Talbot, Cynthia

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The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities. Using records of... [More...]

Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self
Nandy, Ashis

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The destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in December 1992 was a watershed in the politics of independent India. It was also an apocalyptic turning-point for community life at Ayodhya, and for the highly interdependent cultural lives of Hindus and... [More...]

Selected Works of Govind Ballabh Pant: Volume 12
Pant, Govind Ballabh

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This volume covers the period from August 1947 to March 1949. Following the partition of the subcontinent, communal violence erupted. As this volume shows, Pant dealt with the situation with skill and firmness. The book also looks at the creation of the... [More...]

Gifts of Power: Lordship in an Early Indian State
Heitzman, James

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This study of state formation, religious institutions, and the economy during the Chola period in South India (9th-13th centuries) uses locational and statistical methods to analyze the relationship between ritual and administration in a dynamic empire.

Subordinate and Marginal Groups in Early India
Parasher-Sen, Aloka

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This collection of eleven essays, part of the Themes in Indian History Series, discusses different historiographical approaches to the study of subordinate and marginal groups in early India.

Religion, State and Society in Medieval India
Hasan, S. Nural

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The 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 life.

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