Ordinary life in Mughal India: the evidence from painting

Verma, SP

ISBN: 9788173054242, 817305424X

The present study illustrates the life of the people at the bottom of the society, frequently overlooked by the historians. ;The volume, containing no less then ninety illustrations, provides an authentic visual documentation of people's life and their work, and throw light on various aspects of the life of village men and women. It is a unique picturesque volume and brings in the role of the v...

Peasant pasts: history, politics and Nationalism in Gujarat

Chaturvedi, Vinayak

ISBN: 9788178242262, 8178242265

This book offers an imaginatively conceived new model of combining structural analysis, meticulous social history, and fine-grained attention to the dynamic unfolding of political narratives.

People and legends of Himalaya and the Ganga

Kuksal, MP

ISBN: 9788178355948, 8178355949

The book is full of mythological lore, legends about gods, sages and the Holy Ganga. It presents graphic picture of picturesque places, towns, holy shrines alpine meadows, snow peaks and gives their historical religious and legendry background.

The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha 1929-1942: a study of an Indian Peasant Movement, foreword by Willian R. Pinch, curated with an afterword by Kailash Chandra Jha

Hauser, William

ISBN: 9789388540094, 9388540093

People of Nepal

Bista, Dor Bahadur

ISBN: 9789993304180, 9993304182

This volume is the best study of Nepali society in its entirely and constitutes an important contribution to the literature on Himalayan area.

People without history, India's muslim ghettos

Seabrook, Jeremy & Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

ISBN: 9788189059446, 8189059440

This book is about life in the inner-city areas of Kolkata's mainly Muslim settlements. It asks a simple question-how do the vast majority of Muslims, especially the poor,live,work,love and die?;

Peoples' history: glimpses of contemporary Nepal

Ojha, Meena

ISBN: 9788182500266, 8182500265

Plain speaking: a sudra's story, ed. with an introd. and notes byy Uttara Natarajan

Sattanathan, AN

ISBN: 9788178241814, 8178241811

The memories and lectures of A.N. Sattanathan (1905-1991), presented here in a fully annotated edition, with a critical introduction, constitute a key literary-historical document of the caste struggle.

Planning the city: urbanization and reform in Calcutta, c. 1800-1940

Datta, Partho

ISBN: 9788189487904, 8189487906

Playing off the field: explorations in the history of sport

Bandyopandhyay, Kausik

ISBN: 9788182060104, 8182060109

A collection of essays and book reviews by the author using sport as a lens which considers some relevant themes of social history and brings forth some important issues of contemporary history.

Poetry and history: Bengali Magnal-kabya and social change in precolonial Bengal

Curley, David L

ISBN: 9788180280313, 8180280314

The essays in this volume represent Curley's interdisciplinary work in social history and literary criticism.

The politics of marriage in medieval India: gender and alliance in Rajasthan

Singh, Sabita

ISBN: 9780199491452, 0199491453

The history of marriage is viewed as social history related to customs and laws, but it is also a reflection of an inner life--one that comprises tales of joy, suffering, and the mundane--most of it hidden from the historians's eye. Analysing the institution of marriage in medieval Rajasthan, Singh reconstructs the regional social structures and cultures of the time.

The Portuguese in Malabar: a social history of Luso Indians

Dias, Charles

ISBN: 9788173049149, 8173049149

This book is an attempt to go deep into the history of European interaction with Malabar, concentrating on the Portuguese period from the end of the fifteenth century to present times, exploring their commercial and religious interventions in Malabar and the resultant political polarization and social changes.

The position of women in colonial India: a blueprint for change and empowerment, London, 1911

Gaikwad, Chimanbai

ISBN: 9788178710426, 8178710420

The position of women in Hindu law, 2 vols., Calcutta, 1912

Mitter, Dwarka Nath

ISBN: 9788130704166, 8130704161

The position of women in Indian life, London, 1911

Mitra, SM (ed.)

ISBN: 9788130700946, 8130700948

Starting from what became later a popular debate in gender studies about women's participation in public life, the Maharani of Baroda not only traces the history of women's roles in ancient and medieval times, but also highlights the manner in which women could regain self respect in Indian society.

Pracin evam madhyakalin samajik sanracanaem aur sanskritiyam (social formation) (in Hindi)

Swarnakar, Lal Bahadur

ISBN: 9788188808052, 8188808059

Kalkhunta: a living ancestral heritage: a panorama of Bastar

Roy, K.M. Sinha

ISBN: 9789391685256, 9391685250

This book is about living ancestral heritage of Bastar region. The study is present megalithic culture of the Gond. Their belief, rituals in relation to the erection of memorial stone in the memory of ancestor is still practiced among different Gonds.

Pratap Prakasa: a contemporary account of life in the Royal Court at Jaipur in the late 18th century, ed. with annotations by Gopal Narayan Bahura, with a note on arms and.........

Krishnadatta Kavi

....weapons by Y. Sahai.

Indians in London: from the birth of the East India Company to independent India

Chatterjee, Arup K.

ISBN: 9789389449174, 9389449170

This book is a scintillating adventure across the Thames, the Embankment, the Southwarks, Bloomsbury, Kensingtons, Piccadillys, Wembleys and Brick Lanes that saw a nation-a cultural, historical and literary revolution that redefined London over half a millennium of Indian migrations- reborn as independent India.