Asian history Books
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Technique of Casting Coins in Ancient India
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£22.79
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Route to European Hegemony: India's
Book SynopsisThe mechanism and implications of Europe's sustained engagement in Intra-Asian trade, need to be analysed as an essential context to the establishment of colonial empires. India, concentric to Indian Ocean trade, became the âJewel in the Crownâ.
£55.58
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion,
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£66.49
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Panjab Castes: Races Castes and Tribes of the
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£39.89
Manohar Publishers and Distributors History Of Kerala: Written in the Form of Notes
Book SynopsisThe History of Kerala is a monumental work in four volumes. Chaplain of Cochin (1717-23), Jacobus Canter Visscher wrote descriptive letters to his friends and which were edited and published. K.P. Padmanabha Menon re-edited the English translation of the letters with an extensive and exhaustive commentary. His notes speak eloquently of his wide range of information and study and no less of his power to present the varied material into a highly readable historical narrative. The author has used Visscher''s book as the thread on which to string the ancient history of Kerala. It contains cameos on many of the important events and institutions, customs and manners and the salient features of the region, and of its social, political and economic conditions, based as far as possible, on contemporary records.
£161.99
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Folklore of Bombay
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£39.89
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Khasis
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£39.89
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Portuguese, Indian Ocean and European
Book SynopsisMost of the articles are authored by renowned historians who are part of the new historiographical school, which tries to explode the various myths regarding the European expansion in the East and attempts to reconstruct the European activities in India in their right perspective, giving focus on their Indo-centric dimensions.
£74.09
Manohar Publishers and Distributors A Haunting Tragedy: Gender, Caste and Class in
Book SynopsisThis book is a detailed analysis of the food scarcity and epidemics among the womenfolk and other vulnerable sections of society in colonial Orissa. Its major significance lies in the fact that the food crisis, mass exodus and adverse sex ratio continue to raise questions in the contemporary world. Studies of such experiences help in re-designing strategies to meet the challenges arising from natural disasters, wars, pandemics, besides poverty and uncertain production outcomes. The study of Orissa Famine of 1866 explodes the myth upheld by the colonial administrators that women died at a lower rate than men in famines, because they could easily adapt to food scarcity and were supposedly less prone to infectious diseases. Evidence based on historical, sociological and biological factors showed that increasing male migration, much of it, leading to high mortality, explains the change in sex ratio during the colonial period. This work also shows that many of today''s consumption preferences, linguistic usages and cultural habits of people, carry traces of cataclysmic experiences.
£69.82
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Experience and Identity
Book SynopsisIts main themes are the organization of work in the factories, wages, trade unions, and marriage. These are viewed from the perspective of class, caste, and gender to elucidate women's experience and identity.
£45.12
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Rani Lakshmi Bai: Jhansi
Book SynopsisLakshmi Bai, Jhansi Ki Rani, a fearless voice against British rule, stood up for the weak, fought oppression, and became a legendary role model in Indian history.
£10.66
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Seedbed of Pakistan: Cultural Conflicts,
Book SynopsisTo bring them around, the Congress made some initial concessions which legitimised a distinct Muslim interest in Indian politics, while it later refused to substantively engage with this interest. Resultantly, it charted its own course through the âSimla Deputationâ, the All-India Muslim League and, finally, the idea of Pakistan.
£17.99
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Black Magic Witchcraft and Occultism: Secret
Book SynopsisBlack magic, occult practices and witchcraft still evoke huge curiosity, interest and amazement in the minds of people. Although witchcraft in Europe has been a widely studied phenomenon, black magic and occult are not yet a popular theme of academic research, even though India is known as a land of magic, tantra and occult. The Indian State of Assam was historically feared as the land of Kamrup-Kamakhya, black magic, witchcraft and occultic practices. It was where different Tantric cults as well as other occult practices thrived. The Khasi Hills are known for the practice of snake vampire worship. The village of Mayong is the village, where magic and occult is still practiced as a living tradition. This book is one of the rarest collections, where such practices are researched, recorded and academically analyzed.
£82.64
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Eleven Years in Ceylon: Comprising Sketches of
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£81.60
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Eleven Years in Ceylon: Comprising Sketches of
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£46.54
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Sentinel Islanders: The Most Isolated Tribe
Book SynopsisIt was, however, in November-December 2018, that the Sentinelese received international attention, when an American national went missing after having ventured to encroach upon their land. It was alleged that a Sentinelese killed him after warning him twice to leave the island.
£43.22
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Gandhi and Adivasis: Tribal Movements in Eastern
Book SynopsisAdivasi movements played a very important, if not determining, role in the India's freedom struggle. Gandhi's idea of mass mobilization couldn't have been successful without the active participation of all sections of the Indian society. Adivasi movements were swelled by Gandhian ideology only during the Non-Cooperation movement. Though Gandhi's interest in the tribal problems crystallized at a later stage of his life, his influence on tribal movements was revealing. His association with Thakkar Bapa and Verrier Elwin also enriched his knowledge about tribal state of affairs. Adivasis started looking at Gandhi as saviour or a saint, who could deliver them justice and peace. But, Gandhi always supported Adivasi movements in order to give a mass character to his movements. There were some particular demands of the Adivasis that were not supported by Gandhi. Their armed struggle was also against his non-violent principles.
£49.39
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Cultural Heritage of Nagaland
Book SynopsisThe contributors have mainly focussed on the cultural heritage of the majority Naga tribes, but other tribes like the Kukis and Kacharis are part and parcel of the cultural melting pot of Nagaland, and this volume in a way underscores the cultural exchange and interactions.
£60.79
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Encounter and Interventions: Christian
Book SynopsisThe advent of colonialism and its associated developments has been characterized as one of the most defining moments in the history of South Asia. The arrival of Christian missionaries has not only been coeval to colonial rule, but also associated with development in the region. Their encounter, critique, endeavour and intervention have been very critical in shaping South Asian society and culture, even where they did not succeed in converting people. Yet, there is precious little space spared for studying the role and impact of missionary enterprises than the space allotted to colonialism. Isolated individual efforts have focused on Bengal, Madras, Punjab and much remains to be addressed in the context of the unique region of the North East India. In North East India, for example, by the time the British left, a majority of the tribals had abandoned their own faith and adopted Christianity. It was a socio-cultural revolution.
£88.34
OM Books International Escape from Pakistan: A War Hero's Chronicle
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£17.58
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Darjeeling: In Search Of People's History Of The
Book SynopsisAccepting history as constantly âextra muralâ the objectives of the book are to focus on un documented histories related to harmony, intimacy, belongingness and environmental care and thereby, interact the living with what is often projected as âdeadâ, by rejecting to abide by any given set of references.
£66.02
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Chariot in Indian History
Book SynopsisThe Turk invasion marked by the dominance of cavalry arm brought the curtain down on chariot as a war machine. However, it survived in the Indian milieu in some other incarnations.
£39.89
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Ill Health Among Tribal Communities in India
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£39.42
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Nirguna Bhakti in Eastern India: Ideology,
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£76.95
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Adaptation of the Jarawa to Andaman Islands
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£45.12
Manohar Publishers and Distributors India and the West: Proceedings of a Seminar
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£51.78
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Jews and India: Mutual Influences over Two
Book SynopsisThe book concludes with a section about inter-religious dialogues between Jews and Indic faiths like Hindus, Bud dhists and Jains. Based on two thousand years of cohabitation, these old/new friendships reveal old surprises and new insights.
£61.62
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Tipping Point: A Short Political History of India
Book SynopsisA French journalist once asked Nehru that, what was the most difficult part of his experience at the helm had been?' He replied, making a just society using just means. He further added, making a secular republic in a religious country.' Both these projects appear endangered today. In the circumstance that we find ourselves today, this book sketches the history of political forces in modern India. It begins defining these political categories of left, right and far-right with the usual reference to French Revolution (for want of an indigenous equivalent), and discusses movement of forces towards left, or towards the right from the balance of socio-political forces or status quo at a point of time in India. It recalls historical facts, uses chronological order for clarity and leaders' names and political parties, their world view and ideas of nation, social groups they represented, and their movements. It progresses by reopening only a few windows to modern Indian history and looks at periods like, the 1920-30s, and 1970s-80's, when there were significant movements and consolidation of socio-political forces to the right and far right.
£69.82
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Resilience of Indigenous Religion: A Struggle
Book SynopsisThe book is a sociological study of the resilience of Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak one of the indigenous religions of the Rongmei people of Manipur. It examines the underlying factors contributing towards the ability of the adherents of Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak to continue with their religion despite stigmatisation, conversion and persecution by sections of Christians. This book reflects the contemporary relevance of the legacies of the religious movements under Jadonang Malangmei and Rani Gaidinliu. Thus, the book also examines the continuity between the past and the present religious movements with complex underlying factors contributing to the resilience of an indigenous religion. The Rongmei people following Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak, a reformed religion, are seen to be not shying away from changes in their religious beliefs and practices.
£41.79
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Ravaged Paradise: Environmental History of
Book SynopsisThe book makes a systematic attempt to explore the environmental history of Darjeeling during the British colonial period (1835-1947), which profoundly transformed the environment of Darjeeling by introducing commercial control over the natural resources. After the foundation of Darjeeling as the hill station for the low-income groups of British administration living in Bengal and Burma, the place was transformed into a social, recreational and commercial centre for the British authorities. The railway construction boom, introduction of tea plantation, the growth of a commercial market for timber and increasing demands for fuel and building materials depleted the forest cover. The less explored regions of Darjeeling attracted the adventure-thirsty Britons. A series of investigations were made on the marketable products, the condition of roads, and quality of soil of these regions. The ethnographic, geological, botanical and zoological study of the Darjeeling was started by the colonial officials in the nineteenth century.
£47.49
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Small Island, Large Ocean: Mauritius and the
Book SynopsisThis book is about a Small Island', namely Mauritius in the southwestern Indian Ocean. It is also about a Large Ocean', the Indian Ocean world its peoples, histories and cultures. It casts down a light on the life of an island through what is known not only about the island itself, but also through what is known about the wider Indian Ocean world. It is also about the Indian Ocean world in that it focuses on an island, which, in many senses and dimensions, is not only a model of, but in some respects also a model for wider developments and features of relevance to the Indian Ocean world as a whole. Chapter one provides some basic background information, on first the island itself, and secondly, on the ocean in question. This introductory chapter concludes with some remarks on Indian Ocean Studies' more generally and on the methodological question of how to study an ocean. Chapter two deals with the issue of islandness', and looks closer at the overall world of Indian Ocean islands.
£49.88
Manohar Publishers and Distributors History of the Climate Change on the Coromandel
Book SynopsisThis book offers a deeper historical context to the interplay between the physical fortunes of climate and weather and the ways, in which the Tamil society experienced it in the medieval age. It touches upon the rainfall, famines and droughts, storms and cyclones, earthquakes, floods and tsunamis, temperature and atmospheric pressure of the modern age, noticed by the Catholic and Protestant missionaries, European traders, travellers, the East India Company officials and servants using scientific instruments. Based on a greater variety of Tamil sources, missionary letters and reports.
£45.12
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Sacred Waters of Varanasi: The Colonial
Book SynopsisThis book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely deluged metropolitan cities and other parts of India in recent years. The recurring natural catastrophes in water-stressed cities of India and alarming rate of diminishing water bodies, wetlands and catchment areas needs a re-visit to an entire urban water-cycle. This book, thus, discusses how the processes and implementation of colonial urban development policies and projects have radically transformed the water bodies and their catchment areas traditional water holding systems of Varanasi city. In this imperative colonial process, through the case study of Varanasi, this book mainly engages with the reasons behind the elimination of the temple tanks and ponds after the annexation of Varanasi by the British from 1775 till 1947.
£33.59
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Communal and Pan-Islamic Trends in Colonial India
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£66.49
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Heirs of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in
Book SynopsisThis comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the Vijayanagara empire during the 16th to 18th centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research offers a captivating new analysis of political culture, power relations, and dynastic developments. This monograph provides, in great detail, both new facts and fresh insights that contest existing scholarship. By highlighting their competitive, fluid, and dynamic nature, it undermines the historiography viewing these courts as harmonic, hierarchic, and static. Far from being remote, ritualised figures, we find kings and Brahmins contesting with other courtiers for power. At the same time, by stressing continuities with the past, this study questions the recent scholarship that perceives a fundamentally new form of Nayaka kingship.
£78.38
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Mahasthan Record Revisited: Querying the Empire
Book SynopsisA small record consisting of six to seven lines that has been published by eminent epigraphists several times, would require a fresh interpretation was almost beyond imagination. It was by chance that the Indian Museum displayed the Mahasthan stone plaque, and after seeing this record, several questions arose which demanded a fresh interpretation, and this enquiry finally culminated into this slim monograph. The book attempts a re-reading of this inscription and also a fresh interpretation. It tries to situate this record in a broader canvas by interrogating the record along with several other evidences.
£37.99
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon 1839-1877
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£51.78
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The English Translation of Candayan: The Pioneer
Book SynopsisThis book is the first English translation of Candayan, the pioneer work in a long tradition of Indian-Sufi love narratives. The story was adapted from an oral epic Chanaini, popular in the Awadhi speaking region of north India in the fourteenth century. The early manuscripts of Candayan, though composed in the Awadhi dialect, were recorded in the Persian script. Each stanza-like unit is introduced by a phrase or sentences in the Persian language style, making it necessary for a reader to know the Persian script and language, as well as the Awadhi dialect. This somewhat limits the access to fully explore Candayan. In addition to this, the esoteric interpretation, which is the distinguishing feature that gives the Indian-Sufi masnavi literature its unique identity, was also not yet realized. Candayan deserves to be celebrated and recognized because it marks the beginning of the indigenizing process of the masnavi in India, and served as a model for this literary genre for the next 540 years. A serious study of Maulana Daud's Candayan, composed in 1379, in the reign of Firoz Shah Tughlaq, did not begin until well into the twentieth century because only a few pages of its manuscript folios were discovered at a time, in various academic institutions and museums around the world.
£48.74
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Ancient History of the Deccan
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£24.69
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Roots of Zoroastrianism in Iran and India
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£44.09
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence:
Book SynopsisThe book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and vividly analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context, due to which the tribes are going through massive upheaval induced displacement and dispossession from livelihood. They are unable to advance their existentialist interests and fulfil their aspirations, because of which they are taking recourse to extremism and get caught into the battle of state sponsored militia and forces on the one hand, and the extremists on the other. The mechanism of structural violence is embedded in the global capitalism, which has its roots in colonialism and imperialism. Tribal movements of the central-eastern India, inspired by human rights exigencies, are up against this imperial project that violates the trajectories of state-led development initiatives for the reason that these movements have been brutally suppressed by the military forces.
£41.79
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Maritime Southeast Asia: History, Culture and
Book SynopsisThe book looks into the issue of complex interactions between local and extra-local influences in maritime Southeast Asia. It traces the pro-cesses through which extra-local influences were localized.
£53.19
Manohar Publishers and Distributors An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava in
Book SynopsisThis book is a delightful account by the author of his stay in the kingdom of Ava in Burma (now Myanmar). Symes was appointed as the plenipotentiary by Sir John Shore, Governor-General of India, on admission to Burma authorized to deal with on behalf of the British India government. He was also asked to take cognizance of the conduct of the British nationals trading or residing in these areas. The author embarked from Calcutta on the 21st February 1795 to reach Ava on Nov 26th, 1796.
£73.14
Manohar Publishers and Distributors India Through the Ages: A Survey of the Growth of
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£19.99
Mapin Publishing Pvt Raza The Other Modern
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£24.70
KIT Publishers Architecture from the Indonesian Past: Life and
Book SynopsisThings are changing and we are changing with it, was their motto. Since 1927 uprising broke out against the Dutch in the colony, the crisis followed. They continued to design stoically at Fermont-Cuypers; schools, churches, villas and offices. All buildings on which the Dutch flag fluttered. Nationalism played worldwide. At the end of the 1930s, the crisis was over for them too, they designed, hospitals, head offices, hotels, and even a passenger terminal in Tanjung Priok. The busy season will soon start again, many tourists are expected, wrote the newspapers shortly before the German invasion of the Netherlands. Everything changed because of the war in the archipelago. After Indonesian independence, the firm had a restart until 1958. Their buildings still exist in Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung and many other cities. Indonesia is proud of it. This book tells the story of a productive architecture firm, unique buildings and the people behind them. This is the English revised edition of the book Architectuur met vlag en wimpel.
£50.34
KIT Publishers The Kwee Family of Ciledug: A Family, Status and
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£32.99
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij The Chinese Revolution and the Theses of Comrade
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£16.10
