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Dispersed radiance: caste, gender, and modern science in India

Dispersed radiance: caste, gender, and modern science in India

Sur, Abha

ISBN: 9788189059323, 8189059327

This book makes an important contribution to the social history of science. It provides a nuanced and critical understanding of the role and location of science in the construction of Indian modernity and in the continuation of social stratification in colonial and postcolonial contexts.;

Dressing the colonised body: politics, clothing and identity in Sri Lanka

Dressing the colonised body: politics, clothing and identity in Sri Lanka

Wickramasinghe, Nira

ISBN: 9788125024798, 8125024794

The book explores popular, political and symbolic meanings assigned to dress in a variety of colonial contexts in Sri Lanka.

Dutch sources on South Asia, c. 1600-1825, Vol.6: between Colombo and the Cape; letters in Tamil, Dutch and Sinhala, sent to Nicolaas Ondaatje from Ceylon, exile at the Cape of...

Dutch sources on South Asia, c. 1600-1825, Vol.6: between Colombo and the Cape; letters in Tamil, Dutch and Sinhala, sent to Nicolaas Ondaatje from Ceylon, exile at the Cape of...

Tieken, Herman

ISBN: 9789350980675, 9350980673

...good hope (1728-1737). These letters give an intimate picture of an early eighteenth-century elite Chettiyar community in Ceylon employed by the Dutch East India Company. By contrast, at the Cape Nicolaas Ondaatje found himself in the company of the Free Blacks at the very bottom of the social ladder.

A Jingle of Bells: a short history of the General Post Office  Kolkata

A Jingle of Bells: a short history of the General Post Office Kolkata

Chattopadhyay, Basudeb

ISBN: 9788170742586, 8170742587

East faces West: impressions of a Turkish writer in India, introduced and ed. by Mushirul Hasan

East faces West: impressions of a Turkish writer in India, introduced and ed. by Mushirul Hasan

Edib, Halide

ISBN: 9788189833510, 8189833510

This book is an adaptation of the eight lectures delivered in 1934 at Jamia in New Delhi expounding the idea of the East and West with utmost clarity. Her intervention evoked responses from, among others, Mahatma Gandhi, M.A. Ansari and Mohammed Iqbal.

Emigration of Andhras to Burma: a history survey

Emigration of Andhras to Burma: a history survey

Bollepally, Sudhakshana

ISBN: 9789351711070, 9351711072

The Vaisya caste: the Gandhavaniks of Bengal

The Vaisya caste: the Gandhavaniks of Bengal

Das, Abinas Chandra

ISBN: 9789384101626, 9384101621

Roma and the steel route

Roma and the steel route

Chandra, Lokesh

ISBN: 9788194085041, 8194085047

It is a comprehensive work on the history, language, Atharvanic rituals and human rights of the Roma across countries and centuries. It discusses various opinions about the romance of the Roma who left India either in the pre-Christian era as steel-smiths manufacturing arms across ancient Iran and Greece, or they left after the battle of Tarain. The Roma have preserved magical cures which go ba...

Ethnicity and social change: an anthology of essays

Ethnicity and social change: an anthology of essays

Kamei, Gangmumei

ISBN: 9788183701495, 8183701493

The essays in this book deal with both history and contemporary issues of the country specially the northeast India and Manipur.

The ethnohistory of the Koras of Bengal: diversification of the Hor group

The ethnohistory of the Koras of Bengal: diversification of the Hor group

Jana, Ashoke Kumar (b.1958)

ISBN: 9788187661276, 8187661275

The first substantial ethnographic account of the Kora which make important cross-cultural comparison with other Munda speaking communities.

Expedition Naga: diaries from the hills in northeast India, 1921-1937, 2002-2006, with a foreword by Alan Macfarlane, and DVD

Expedition Naga: diaries from the hills in northeast India, 1921-1937, 2002-2006, with a foreword by Alan Macfarlane, and DVD

Ham, Peter van et al.

ISBN: 9788189497163, 8189497162

This book is an exciting multi-sensory trip into one of the world's most remote and least accessible regions - the interiors of Nagaland in Northeast India near the border of Burma (Myanmar) - to meet the Naga, a people once notorious for their headhunting activities. With nearly 600 stunning contemporary and historic photographs, most of which are published here for the first time, along with ...

Explorations in economic and social history, 1200-1900

Explorations in economic and social history, 1200-1900

Basu, Bhaskarjyoti (ed.)

ISBN: 9788175224643, 8175224649

Faiths, fairs and festivals of India, Calcutta, 1917

Faiths, fairs and festivals of India, Calcutta, 1917

Buck, CH

ISBN: 9788175363854, 8175363851

Describes some of the chief ceremonies and festivals together with leading features of the principal Indian religions of India.

Feasts and fast: A history of food in India

Feasts and fast: A history of food in India

Sen, Colleen Taylor

ISBN: 9789385755347, 938575534X

The book is an exploration of Indian cuisine in the context of the country's religious, moral, social and philosophical development. This lavishindly illustrated book gives a mouth-watering tour of India's regional cuisines, containing numerous recipes to interest and excite readers.

Fields and farmers in western India, 1850-1950

Fields and farmers in western India, 1850-1950

Nand, Brahma

An account of the long-term trends in the colonial rural economy measured through a large number of indices such as population, cultivated area, livestock, deadstock, prices, commodity circulation and farm budgets and their impact upon the nature of agricultural production and functional possibilities of growth which in a colonial milieu were extremely limited.

Folk India: a comprehensive study of Indian folk music and culture, 11 vols

Folk India: a comprehensive study of Indian folk music and culture, 11 vols

Sharma, Manorma (b.1937)

ISBN: 9788175741423, 8175741422

These volumes present the contemporary folk lore of India comprising of music, dance, drama, art forms, ballads, musical instruments and songs of different states of India.

The school at Ajmeri Gate: Delhi's educational legacy

The school at Ajmeri Gate: Delhi's educational legacy

Razzack, Azra et al.

ISBN: 9788194831624, 8194831628

This book is the story of the Anglo Arabic School situated at Ajmeri Gate, Delhi, just outside what was known as Shahjahanabad. It explores a fascinating journey that has its beginnings over three centuries ago.

For the record: on sexuality and colonial archive in India

For the record: on sexuality and colonial archive in India

Arondekar, Anjali

ISBN: 9788125040255, 8125040250

Arondekar examines the spectracularisation of sexuality in anthropology, law, literature, the pornography form 1843-1920.

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