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HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION2011-12

CONTENTS

HISTORY

REFERENCE 2

SUBJECTS 11

Archaeology & Ancient India 11

Medieval India 17

Modern Indian History 25

India & South Asia 45

World History 54

Ecology & Environment 55

History of Art & Architecture 46

STUDENT READINGS 57

Ancient India 58

Medieval India 61

Modern India 64

SERIES 67

Oxford India Perennials 68

Debates in Indian History and Society 70

Themes in Indian History 72

Monumental Legacy 74

Collected Essays 76

Subaltern Studies 80

Makers of Islamic Civilization 82

REGIONAL STUDIES 83

South India 84

PHILOSOPHY 87

RELIGION 89

Hinduism 91

Sikhism 92

Buddhism 96

Islam 97

General 99

PRICE LIST 101

FROM THE GLOBAL LIST 116

AUTHOR INDEX 123

TITLE INDEX 125

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DICTIONARY OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ADMINISTRATIVE TERMS IN SOUTH INDIAN INSCRIPTIONSVolume 1 (AD)

K.V. Ramesh (ed.), Former Joint Director-General, Archaeological Survey of India.

9780198080152 2012 HB Rs 3470

The one-stop resource for scholars, students, and teachers of south Indian history

This is the first of a multi-volume dictionary on terms used in south Indian inscriptions from the earliest times to AD 1800.

A landmark project in span and scope, this include: InscriptionsfromallmajorsouthIndianlanguages,aswellas

from Sanskrit and Prakrit Publishedaswellasunpublishedinscriptions Entriesonoverfiftysocial,economic,andadministrative

aspects, including religion, geography, crafts, agriculture, trade and commerce, health and medicine, and wildlife

Adetailedguidetounderstandingnuancesofwordsandlinguistic complexities

THE OXFORD ATLAS OF ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY

Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus, History, Aligarh Muslim University.Faiz Habib, Cartographer, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University.

9780198065647 2012 HB forthcoming

An indispensable reference for scholars, researchers, and historians of ancient India

This atlas provides detailed information on various aspects of ancient India. Each map is supported by a detailed description in the accompanying text, which also address contemporary debates

Comprehensive and authoritative this atlas: Includes13colourmaps(includingabasemap) Coverstheperiodfromthebeginningsofhumancivilization

to early medieval period Bringstogetherlatestexcavationsandresearch Providesinformationonkingdomsanddynasties,

inscriptions, geopolitical orbits, cropping and vegetation patterns, minerals, industries, and other economic activities


The Oxford Atlas of Ancient Indian HistoryIrfan Habib & Faiz Habib

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Reference-Highlights]

The Oxford India KosambiCombined Methods in Indology & Other Writings D.D. Kosambi (19071966)Compiled, edited and introduced by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya9780198060185 2009 HB Rs 1250

This book puts together essays, notes and other writings of D.D. Kosambi, who introduced

pioneering perspectives and methods in Indological studies, written and published over

almost thirty years. Together, although on disparate themes, they reflect an integrated

framework which, in Kosambis own characterization, was Marxist.

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The Oxford India Collection

The Oxford India ElwinSelected WritingsVerrier Elwin (19021964)9780195697919 2008 HB Rs 795

In a world of shrinking cultural options, Verrier Elwins writings remain as a powerful archive of lifeworlds from which we still have everything to learn. Christopher pinney

The Oxford India SrinivasM.N. Srinivas (19161999)97801998060345 2009 HB Rs 995This collection of essays ... is perhaps the most important collection of its kind to be found between the covers of a single volume. M.N. Srinivas did more than any other scholar to establish sociology on firm intellectual foundations ... to bring it to wide

public attention. Andre Bteille

The Oxford India GandhiEssential WritingsGopalkrishna Gandhi (ed.)9780195692525 2007 HB Rs 850

The Oxford India NehruJawaharlal NehruUma Iyengar (ed.)9780195686708 2007 HB Rs 795

ALSO AVAILABLE

The Oxford India Collection is a series which brings together writings of enduring value published by Oxford University Press.

Companions

The Oxford Companion toModern Warfare in IndiaFrom the Eighteenth Century to Present TimesKaushik Roy9780195698886 2009 HB Rs 1950

The Oxford Companion toIndian Archaeology

The Archaeological Foundationsof Ancient India

Dilip K. Chakrabarti9780195673425 2006 HB Rs 2250


Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1941 [Part I]Amit K. Gupta & Arjun Dev (ed.) are associated with the Indian Council of Historical Research. 9780198065371 2009 HB Rs 3750

This volume consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 focusing on the constitutional politics

and World War II, provides insights into Indias economic condition, war industries,

defence preparations, curbs on the press and the provincial ministries. Chapter 2

examines national struggle and government repression through the activities of

political parties, other organizations, and the condition of political prisoners. Chapter

3 studies the role of students, women, and culture in the Indian national movement.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1940 (Part I)K.N. Panikkar (ed.) is currently Vice Chairman of Higher Education Council, Kerala and Chairman, Kerala Council of Historical Research.9780198060789 2009 HB Rs 3450

This volume systematically covers the sociopolitical history of Biritish India during

1940. It examines the events and negotiations surrounding the Second World War.

The first chapter discusses the various responses to the War. Chapter 2 deals with

the constitutional negotiations promised/demanded in lieu of Indian support of the

War. The next examines civil disobedience programmes and activities of the Indian

National Congress and the Left parties. The concluding two chapters respectively deal

with the individual satyagraha movement and the communal politics.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1940 (Part II)K.N. Panikkar (ed.)9780198070030 2010 HB Rs 3950

This volume focuses on popular movements. Chapter 6 discusses labour movement

through case studies of Bombay, Central Provinces and Berar, Madras, Bihar, Bengal,

Orissa, United Provinces. Chapter 7 studies peasant movements in different parts of

India like Bihar, Bombay, United Provinces, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Malabar, Punjab,

Orissa, and Tamil Nadu. Movements of students, women, and depressed classes are

discussed in Chapter 8. The last chapter examines movements in Princely States of

Rajputana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Central India, Hyderabad, Mysore, and

Travancore.

TOWARDS FREEDOM SERIESGeneral Editor: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is former Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research.

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The Towards Freedom volumes, each edited by a distinguished scholar, bring together historical materials relating

to the period 1937-47 from a wide variety of sources-official records, private and organizational papers, newspapers

and another contemporary publications available within the country. It presents- within the limits set by the sources-

documents relating to the activities, attitudes, and ideas of diverse classes and sections of Indian society, all of which

contributed to the attainment of independence with partition.


TOWARDS FREEDOM SERIESGeneral Editor: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1946 (Part I)Sumit Sarkar (ed.) retired as Professor of History, University of Delhi.9780195692457 2007 HB Rs 3950

This volume systematically covers in five chapters, different aspects of the history of

British India beginning with anti-British movements in 1946, including the protests

against the trial of the officers and soldiers of the Indian National Army and the

famous Royal Indian Navy Mutiny.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1946 (Part II)Sumit Sarkar (ed.)9780198060055 2009 HB Rs 2950

This volume focuses on popular struggles against British-backed tyranny and feudalistic

oppression in the Princely States. The first chapter gives an overall perspective on the

functioning of the All-India States Peoples Conference (AISPC). Chapter two examines

aspects of popular struggle in Kashmir and northern states while the third discusses

Hyderabad, Travancore, and the South. The last three chapters deal respectively with

western Indian states, central Indian states, and eastern and north-eastern states.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1939 (Part I)Mushirul Hasan (ed.), is Director General of National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia.9780195693393 2008 HB Rs 3950

This volume contains primary sources and archival documents related to the year

1939. It systematically covers in four chapters, different aspects of the history of British

India governments formed after the 1937 elections; the role of India in World War

II; and political radicalism; the developments in Princely India; the role of Congress

or the State Peoples Conference; and the role of Kisan Sabha.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India, 1939 (Part II)Mushirul Hasan (ed.)9780195696516 2008 HB Rs 3950

This volume explores, among other things, workers struggles, strikes and their

organizations in different parts of India. Congress organizations, and especially the

correspondence between Gandhi, Subhas Bose, and J. Nehru constitute the chapter

on nationalist politics.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1945 Bimal Prasad (ed.) is currently Honorary Director, Rajendra Prasad Academy, and Honorary Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. 9780195695304 2008 HB Rs 3950

This volume contains documents related to the year 1945. It discusses the various

conciliation movesDesai Liyaqat Pact, Sapru Committee, Wavell Plan, Simla

Conference; military and civil resistance as well as economic issues, foreign relations

and language policy-thoughts shaping New India.

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INDIAN CIVILIZATION (PHISPC)General Editor: D.P. Chattopadhyaya

Development of Modern Indian Thought and theSocial SciencesVolume X Part 5Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (ed.) is former Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research.9780195689679 2007 HB Rs 1950

Part of the PHISPC series on modern Indian history, this volume provides an

overview of the history of social, economic, and political thought prior to the

development of disciplinary categories in social sciences.

Readership: This volume, and others in the series, will be of special interest to

students and scholars of history, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as general

readers interested in the civilization and culture of India.

Religious Movements and Institutions in Medieval IndiaVolume VII Part 2J.S. Grewal (ed.) Padmashree and a renowned Sikh scholar, served as the Chairman of the Governing Body and the Director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Formerly, he was Professor of History and Vice Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.9780195677034 2006 HB Rs 1950

This volume deals with a variety of themes related to religion in medieval India,

with a wide range of factual information, significant detail, and new ideas.

Readership: This volume will be of special interest to students and scholars of

history, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as general readers interested in the

civilization and culture of India.

The State and Society in Medieval IndiaVolume VII Part 1J.S. Grewal (ed.)9780195667202 2005 HB Rs 1950

Indias Interaction with China, Central and West AsiaVolume III Part 2A. Rahman (ed.)9780195657890 2002 HB Rs 1750

History of Indian Science, Technology and Culture ad 10001800Volume III Part 1A. Rahman (ed.)9780195646528 1999 HB Rs 1250


ESSENTIAL WRITINGS

The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru (2 Volumes)Volumes I & IIS. Gopal (19232002), Padma Vibhushan, was director of the Historical Division of the Ministry of External Affairs in India from 1954 to 1966. He was also Professor of Contemporary History at Jawaharlal Nehru University.Uma Iyengar (ed.) is editor, The Book Review.9780195653243 2003 HB Rs 2750

This anthology of Jawaharlal Nehrus writings includes nearly 500 extracts and

covering almost every aspect of his life and times.

Readership: The anthology will be of enduring interest and benefit to the scholarly

as also the general reader.

The Essential Writings of B.R. AmbedkarValerian Rodrigues (ed.) Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.9780195670554 2004 OIP Rs 425

[This book] pays due attention to [Ambedkars] writings on caste, but it also reserves ample space for his important work in the fields of public finance, nationalism, the Constitution, and Buddhism. The book is enriched by a deeply informative, yet studiedly non-polemical, introduction by the editor.

rAmAChAndrA GuhAReadership: This book is an indispensable source for scholars of Dalit studies, Indian

nationalism, sociology, modern Buddhism, and affirmative action.

The Essential Writings of Netaji Subhas Chandra BoseSisir K. Bose (ed.) (Late) was Director, Netaji Research Bureau, Calcutta.Sugata Bose (ed.) Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University.9780195648546 1999 OIP Rs 355

Distilled from the authoritative, twelve-volume Collected Works, this collection stands a

concise introduction to the thought of Indias foremost militant nationalist.

Readership: Scholars of modern Indian history and of South Asian history.

The Essential Writings of AurobindoPeter Heehs (ed.) is an American Historian based in Pondicherry at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.9780195649765 1999 OIP Rs 295

This volume includes writings covering more than fifty years (18931950) of Aurobindos

life that suggest the diversity of Aurobindos thought and are arranged in six sections

according to his main areas of interest.

Readership: Students of Indian literature.

The Essential Writings of Mahatma GandhiRaghavan Iyer (ed.) formerly of St Antonys College,Oxford, was Professor of Political Science, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara.9780195632088 1998 OIP Rs 395

This balanced selection of Gandhi s writings, taken from his letters, articles, and books,

represents the complete cross-section of his thought, from his early years as a young

barrister in London, to his final days as sage and counsel to newly independent India.

Readership: Scholars of modern Indian history and politics.

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Omnibus Editions

Exploring the WestThree Travel NarrativesComprising

Images of the West; Westward Bound &

Seamless BoundariesMushirul Hasan (ed.), is Director General of National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia.9780198063117 2009 HB Rs 795

This omnibus presents a unique perspective

of travel writing by Indians describing

Europe during the eighteenth and

nineteenth century. It presents the missing

link in the east-west paradigm.

Readership: Scholars, students, and

teachers interested in the study of

travel writing in Indian history, tourism

studies, culture studies, sociology, and

anthropology.

The C.A. Bayly OmnibusComprising The Local Roots of Indian Politics; Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars; Origins of Nationality in South AsiaC.A. Bayly is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, St Catharines College, Cambridge.9780198062561 2009 HB Rs 1450

The imagination of the colonial north Indian

landscape has been shaped immensely by

the scholarship of C.A. Bayly. This omnibus

brings together landmark writings providing

a sense of the wide range of subjects and

their multiple dimensions examined by one

of the finest living historians of British India.

Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaarsimmensely important volumea full-length study of a central, yet surprisingly little studied era in the history of India...

thomAs r. metCAlf

Baylys ground-breaking volume will long remain central to the discussion of early modern north Indian history.

miChAel h. fisher

The Gyanendra Pandey OmnibusComprising The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh; The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India; Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in IndiaGyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Emory University, Atlanta, USA. A founding member of the Subaltern Studies collective, he taught earlier at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Delhi.9780195697032 2008 HB Rs 995

Gyanendra Pandeys writings have

profoundly influenced our understanding

of anti-colonial nationalism, communal

strife, and history-writing. This omnibus

brings together three landmark books by

him that describe an arc from a critique of

nationalism to a critique of history.

Readership: Students, teachers, and

researchers of Indian history, sociology,

anthropology, and politics.

Indias MuslimsAn OmnibusComprising Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband 18601900; The Bengal Muslims 18711906: A Quest for Identity; Legacy of a Divided Nation: Indian Muslims since Independence

Barbara Daly Metcalf, Rafiuddin Ahmed & Mushirul Hasan9780195691986 2007 HB Rs 850

This omnibus brings together three

analytical frameworks the empathetic

view to identity formation, the regional

articulation of identity, and developments

at the national level. In his introduction to

the omnibus, Mushirul Hasan locates these

important studies in the extant literature and

emphasizes the need to draw Islam in South

Asia into the contemporary discourses on

colonial and postcolonial writings.

Readership: Students, teachers, researchers

of modern Indian history, sociology, political

science, and the general reader interested

in the emergence and growth of Muslim

identity in India.

OUP Indias Omnibus collection offers readers a comprehensive coverage of works of enduring value, woven together by a new introduction, attractively packaged for easy reference and reading.

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The Hinduism OmnibusComprising Hinduism: A Religion to Live

By; Hinduism: The Anthropology of a

Civilization; Mind, Body and Wealth: A

Study of Belief and Practice in an Indian

Village; Non-Renunciation: Themes and

Interpretations of Hindu CultureWith an Introduction by T.N. MadanT.N. Madan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi.M. Biardeau, Nirad Chaudhuri & J.L. Brockington (eds)9780195664119 2003 HB Rs 795

This omnibus with an introduction

by T.N. Madan, brings together four

classic works on Hinduism by renowned

scholars, providing the liturgical, historical,

anthropological, and individualists

interpretation of the religion.

Readership: Scholars and students of

Hinduism/Sanskrit studies, religious studies

and comparative religion, sociology and

anthropology.

The Buddhism OmnibusComprising Gautama Buddha; The

Dhammapada; The Philosophy of Religion

With an Introduction by

Matthew T. KapsteinIqbal Singh, S. Radhakrishna &Arvind Sharma9780195668988 2004 HB Rs 750

The three works brought together in this

omnibus explore Buddhism as a rich source

of literary legend, an austere ethical guide,

and a contemporary philosophy very

relevant in the modern world in view of the

resurgence of interest in the Buddha and

his philosophy.

Readership: Scholars and students of Buddhist

studies, religious studies, and comparative

religion.

The Bernard Cohn Omnibus Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilization, University of Chicago.9780195668711 2004 HB Rs 795(For sale in South Asia only)

This volume brings together posthumously

three classic collections of Professor Cohns

essays, which provide a comprehensive

understanding of the working of colonialism

in South Asia: An Anthropologist Among

the Historians and Other Essays; Colonialism

and its Forms of Knowledge; and India: The

Social Anthropology of a Civilization.

Readership: Historians, anthropologists,

sociologists, students, and general readers

with an interest in colonial history and

culture.

Maritime IndiaComprising Rival Empires of Trade in the

Orient, 1600-1800; Maritime India in the

Seventeenth Century; The Indian Ocean: A

History of the People and the Sea.With an Introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. 9780195664287 2004 HB Rs 850


modern Indian history, maritime and

imperial history, as well as general readers

interested in the famed maritime regions,

contacts and history of the subcontinent.

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The Ashin Das Gupta Omnibus: India and the Indian Ocean World Comprising 1. Malabar in Asian Trade

1740-1800; 2. Indian Merchants and the

Decline of Surat c. 1700-1750 Ashin Das Gupta (Late)9780195666700 2004 HB Rs 750

Two classic texts from this renowned

historian, accompanied by critical discussion

from leading scholars, P.J. Marshall and

Irfan Habib.

Readership: Students, scholars, and the

general reader interested in South Asian

maritime history, trade, and economics.

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with an Introduction byMushirul Hasan, is Director General of National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia.9780195671766 2004 OIP Rs 695

The Partition Omnibus brings together four

authoritative readings comprising: Prelude

to Partition by David Page; The Origins

of the Partition of India 1936 - 1947 by

Anita Inder Singh; Divide and Quit: An

Eyewitness Account of the Partition of India

by Penderel Moon; and Stern Reckoning:

A Survey of the Events Leading up to and

Following the Partition of India by G.D.

Khosla.


modern South Asian history in general

and those concerned with the debates

surrounding the partition, and the general

reader interested in first hand accounts of

what happened during the partition.


The Oxford Atlas of Ancient Indian HistoryIrfan Habib, Professor Emeritus, History, Aligarh Muslim University.Faiz Habib, Cartographer, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University.9780198065647 2012 HB forthcoming

Based on recent excavations and research,

this coloured atlas provides detailed

information on various aspects of ancient

Indiasociety, economy, polity. Each

map deals with a historical period and is

supported by a detailed description in the

accompanying text.

Readership: Scholars and teachers of

ancient Indian history, archaeology, and

anthropology.

Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 3/eSeries: Oxford India PerennialsRomila Thapar, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.9780198077244 2012 PB forthcoming

This book discusses the history of the

Mauryas with a special emphasis on the

reign and activities of Aoka. It focuses

on sources, socio-economic conditions,

administration, Dhamma, foreign relations,

and the decline of the Mauryas. This third

edition contains a new Pre-word which

updates research.

Readership: This book is an important

reading for undergraduate and

postgraduate students and teachers, as

well as researchers of ancient Indian history.

It will also interest the informed general

reader..

The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient IndiaThe Geographical Frames of the Ancient Indian Dynasties Dilip K Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology, and Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University.9780198069898 2010 HB Rs 650

This book argues that the web of inter-

regional interaction was not limited to a

particular set of regions but had a pan-

Indian ramification. None of the regions

could therefore thrive in political isolation.

It underscores that regions in ancient Indian

history never had any immutable historical

shape or identity but were fluid, both in

their interactions and outlines.

Readership: This book will be of

considerable interest to scholars, teachers,

and students of ancient Indian history

and archaeology. It will also interest

anthropologists and geographers

concerned with the period.

The Power of Gender and the Gender of PowerExplorations in Early Indian HistoryKumkum Roy is Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.9780198066767 2010 HB Rs 850

Although Kumkum Roy has written extensively on gender history in early India, she has not written them with a feminist pen, but as a social historian. She has emerged, over time, as one of the foremost scholars who have researched on gender in history and has given new directions to the subject. ... One of the outstanding qualities of [her] work has been in the way she has re-read varieties of early texts in the light of gender history across other cultures.

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Readership: This volume will be of

considerable interest to scholars and

students of early Indian history and gender

studies.

Ancient IndiaNew ResearchUpinder Singh (ed.) is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.Nayanjot Lahiri (ed.) is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.9780198068303 2010 OIP Rs 295

the editorschallenge [usual] perceptions with a quiet confi dence in a new generation the future of our past is safe... Economic and Political Weekly

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[The book] raise[s] refreshing questions and bring together new research [it] reassures us about the future of the discipline

The Book Review

Readership: The book will be of immense

interest to scholars, teachers, and students

of ancient and early medieval history,

archaeology, and anthropology.

Rethinking Indias PastR.S. Sharma (19192011) was Professor Emeritus of History, University of Patna.9780198068297 2010 OIP Rs 295

indispensable to every serious student at all levels. The Hindu

a brilliant and comprehensive collectionof path-breaking essays.

sAByAsAChi BhAttAChAryA

[the volume refl ects] his nuanced understanding and profound analytical insights BhAirABi p. sAhu

Readership: This book is essential reading

for students and teachers of ancient Indian

history.

Krishnas MandalaBhagavata Religion and BeyondD. Dennis Hudson (19382006) was Emeritus Professor of World Religions, Smith College.John Stratton Hawley (ed.) Professor of Religion, Barnard College, Columba University.9780198062769 2009 HB Rs 725

This volume studies different aspects of

Bhagavata religion and Vaishnavism in

south India and also the connections

between the Vaishnavism of south India

and a remembered or imagined north. It

explores methods of reading religious and

mythological texts in their historical context.

Readership: Scholars and students of Indian

history, religious studies, and philosophy.

Social Formations of Early South IndiaRajan Gurukkal, Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.9780198064329 2009 HB Rs 750

This book examines the socio-economic

and political processes in south India from

ancient to early medieval period by focusing

on areas like technology, social relations,

agrarian structures and institutions, political

processes, and state.

Readership: This book will be indispensable

for scholars, teachers, and students of

ancient and early medieval south India.

The Illustrated History ofSouth IndiaFrom Prehistoric Times to the Fall of VijayanagarWith an Introduction by R. Champakalakshmi

and an Epilogue by P.M. Rajan GurukkalK.A. Nilakanta Sastri (18921975) was Professor of History at the University of Madras.R. Champakalakshmi was Professor at the Centre for Historic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.P.M. Rajan Gurukkal is Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala.9780198063568 2009 PB Rs 325

This special illustrated edition of the classic

work showcases Sastris unmatched grasp

over a wide variety of primary sources

(Sanskrit and Tamil), his interpretative

acumen, and his interdisciplinary approach

to the study of history.

Readership: The rich visual contentsixty

new illustrations and the redrawn maps

and genealogical chartstogether with the

additional contextual material will be useful

to students and teachers of south Indian

history as well as lay readers.

India: An Archaeological History, 2/e Palaeolithic Beginnings to Early Historic FoundationsDilip K. Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology and Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University. 9780198064121 2009 OIP Rs 395

[This] book presents [archaeological] history in all its continuity and diversity covering a vast area through a long period

The Hindu


Readership: This comprehensive and up to

date book will be an essential reading for

students and teachers of archaeology and

ancient Indian history.

Indias Ancient Past R.S. Sharma (d. 2011) was Professor Emeritus, Patna University, and the Founder Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research.9780195687859 2006 OIP Rs 295

The narrative is highly readable, demarcating the major periods of social formation, political and cultural evolution, underlying which is a judicious use of all available sources and their relative importance for each period.

r. ChAmpAkAlAkshmi

Readership: Students, foreign tourists and

the general reader interested in the history

of early India.

The Unknown Hsuan-TsangD. Devahuti (19291988) (ed.) specialized in ancient Indian and early South-east Asian history. She taught at the universities of Malaya and Queensland. Her last teaching assignment was with the history department of University of Delhi. 9780195683493 2006 OIP Rs 245

The Unknown Hsuan-tsang adds to as well as updates our knowledge of source material on the life and work of the Buddhist pilgrim from China . comparative study of various versions in different languages of the same text reflects the high competence and hard work of Devahuti in this context.

Economic and Political Weekly

Readership: This book will be a significant

read for scholars and students of early

Indian history, Buddhist, and religious

studies. The readership would also include

followers of Buddhism, tourists, and an

informed general audience.

Ancient Delhi, 2/e Upinder Singh is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.9780195684056 2006 OIP Rs 255

Singh certainly achieves her objective of sensitizing readers to the variegated past of the region. The visuals are often strikingly beautiful kumkum roy

Readership: Historians, students of history,

the general reader and visitors to Delhi.

Trading EncountersFrom the Euphrates to the Indus in the Bronze Age Shereen Ratnagar, Former Professor of Archaeology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Currently an independent researcher.9780195680881 2005 OIP Rs 350

In this is the second, thoroughly revised

edition of Shereen Ratnagars Encounters:

The Westerly Trade of the Harappa

Civilization, the author has included

exciting new data recently available from

excavations in West Asia.

Readership: Students and scholars of

ancient Indian history, Indian archaeology

(particularly the Harappa Civilization),

anthropology, and economics, as well as the

informed lay reader.

Iron and Social Change inEarly IndiaBhairabi Prasad Sahu (ed.)

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in

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Trade in Early IndiaRanabir Chakravarti (ed.)


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Cultural PastsEssays in Early Indian HistoryRomila Thapar is Professor Emeritus at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.9780195664874 2003 OIP Rs 675

This volume, a collection of papers and

lectures, focuses on historiography and

on the changing dimensions of social and

cultural history pertaining to early Indian

history.

Readership: Scholars and students of early

Indian history, as well as general readers

interested in the culture and history of

ancient India.

History and Beyond Romila Thapar9780195668322 2003 OIP Rs 425

This is an omnibus edition comprising

four of Romila Thapars classic works

Interpreting Early India; Time as a Metaphor

of History; Cultural Transaction and Early

India; From Lineage to State.

Readership: Students and scholars of

ancient Indian history and culture.

Narratives and the Makingof HistoryTwo Lectures Romila Thapar9780195651775 2000 OIP Rs 145

These two lectures were given as the D.D.

Kosambi Memorial Lectures at Bombay

University in 1999. They are an exploration

of some facets of the interface between

narrative and history.


history.

From Lineage to StateSocial Formations of the Mid-First Millenium BC in the Ganga ValleyRomila Thapar9780195626759 1999 OIP Rs 225

This book examines the major change

from a lineage-based society to the

establishment of state systems, and takes

into account the emergence of a peasant

economy and the process of urbanization.

Readership: Students, teachers and scholars

of ancient Indian history.

The Aryan Debate Thomas R. Trautmann (ed.)



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LekhapaddhatiDocuments of State and Everyday Life from Ancient and Early Medieval GujaratPushpa Prasad

(for detailed blurb, please see entry in

section on India & South Asia)

Cultural Transaction andEarly IndiaRomila Thapar9780195633641 1999 OIP Rs 75

Cultural Transaction suggests alternative

ways of assessing the early Indian tradition.

Using more recent concepts of culture and

tradition, it distances itself from the static

notion of fixed traditions and exclusive high

cultures.


history.

Interpreting Early IndiaRomila Thapar9780195633429 1999 OIP Rs 275

In recent years historical interpretation

has drawn on other disciplines and this

is evident in Interpreting Early India. The

subject is history, but the discussions in

this work move beyond history to provide

a glimpse of explorations of new historical

territories relating to early India.

Readership: Graduate students and

historians of ancient India and those

interested in India.

Trade, Ideology and UrbanizationSouth India 300 BC to AD 1300R. Champakalakshmi, former Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.9780195648751 1999 OIP Rs 425

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In this volume, the author analyses the

reasons for urbanization not merely in

terms of the economy and demography

but also Cola imperialism and the bhakti

ideology in this process.

Readership: This book would interest

students of ancient Indian history, urban

and economic history.

Political History of Ancient India, 8/eHemchandra Raychaudhuri9780195643763 1997 OIP Rs 550

This book traces the political history of

ancient India from the accession of Parikshit

to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty. The

aim of the author is to present materials

for an authentic chronological history of

ancient India through facts recovered from

sources.

Readership: Undergraduate students, and

teachers of ancient Indian history.

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With an Introduction by R. Champakalakshmi9780195606867 1997 OIP Rs 295

This classic study offers a compact and

comprehensive account of the much-

neglected history of south Indiatreated

here as a single geographical entityup to

the middle of the seventeenth century.

Readership: Undergraduate students and

teachers of ancient Indian history.

Dictionary of Social, Economic, and Administrative Terms in South Indian InscriptionsVolume 1 (AD)K.V. Ramesh (ed.)


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Delhi Sultanate and Its TimesMohammad Habib (Late), Professor, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University.Irfan Habib (ed.), Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University.9780198069942 2012 HB forthcoming

The volume cover the entire political history

of Delhi Sultanate, focusing on Mahmud

Ghaznis campaigns, Ziyauddin Baranis

descriptions, Sufi saints and their records, as

well as peasants, artisans, tailors, weavers

and a plethora of people who constituted

the landscape of the subcontinent during

the eleventh to seventeenth centuries.

Readership: It will be a significant resource

for scholars, teachers, and students of

medieval Indian history, especially Delhi

Sultanate.

Making SpaceSufis and Settlers in Early Modern IndiaNile Green, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).9780198077961 2012 HB forthcoming

This volume provides a comprehensive view

of the social transformation in medieval

India between 1500 and 1750 by studying

various Sufi movements. Tracing how

different Muslim communities located their

sense of belonging, it reveals how religious

resources were deployed to create new

spaces of memory on Indian soil through

the interplay of architecture and narrative.

Readership: This book will be an important

reading for scholars, researchers, and

students of medieval Indian history, Islamic

studies, and religion particularly those

interested in Sufism.

South India Under the CholasY. Subbarayalu, Researcher and Head, Department of Indology, French Institute of Pondicherry.9780198077350 2012 HB Rs 675

This volume deals with different aspects

of statesociety interactions in medieval

south India, especially under the Cholas. It

discusses the nature of the state, revenue

system, local governance bodies, land

rights, along with trade, merchant guilds,

and maritime trade.


considerable interest to scholars, teachers,

and students of medieval history,

particularly those interested in south India,

Cholas, and early medieval India.

The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India, 2/eAwadh and Punjab, 170748Series: Oxford India PerennialsMuzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.9780198077411 2012 PB forthcoming

In the backdrop of the decline of the

Mughal empire, this book studies two

contrasting regions in north India

Awadh and Punjab. It offers a bold new

interpretation of the period by focussing on

the agrarian uprisings, the jagirdari system,

and the emergence of a new regionally-

based political order. This edition includes a

new introduction.


reading for students, scholars, and teachers

of Mughal history and early modern India.

The Agrarian System of Mughal India 15561707, 3/eSeries: Oxford India PerennialsIrfan Habib, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Advanced Study in History, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, UP.9780198077428 2012 PB forthcoming

This book presents a detailed historical

analysis of the agrarian conditions in

pre-colonial India. It examines areas like

land revenue, administration, and agrarian

economy and social structure in the Mughal

period. The new edition includes a new

prologue.

Readership: Sstudents, teachers, and

scholars of medieval India particularly those

interested in agrarian systems.

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The Making of Early Medieval India, 2/eSeries: Oxford India PerennialsBrajadulal Chattopadhyaya, Former Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.9780198077251 2012 PB forthcoming

This volume explores the processes and

nature of change in the making of early

medieval Indian society from the seventh

to the thirteenth century AD. This edition

comes with an extensive introduction

highlighting a new framework for

understanding early medieval India.

Readership: Undergraduate and post

graduate students, teachers, and

researchers of medieval Indian history.

South India Under VijayanagaraArt and ArchaeologyAnila Verghese (ed.) is Principal of Sophia College for Women, Mumbai.Anna L. Dallapiccola (ed.) is former Professor of Indian Art at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University and Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University.9780198068617 2011 HB Rs 1450

Divided into two equal parts, the first

focuses on Hampi, a World Heritage Site.

It examines Vijayanagara scholarship,

archaeological work, heritage site

management, conservation, photography,

epigraphy, sculptures, and sacred

topography. The second links the city

with the wider regions of the empire. It

discusses the development of regional art

and architecture, Vijayanagara and post

Vijayanagara paintings, Shaivite ascetic

iconography, and Vijayanagara coinage.


medieval Indian history, archaeology, art,

architecture, and religion, particularly those

concerned with Vijayanagara Empire and

south India.

Rethinking Early Medieval IndiaA ReaderUpinder Singh (ed.) is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. 9780198070023 2011 HB Rs 750

This reader presents a new understanding

of the early medieval period of Indian

history (c. 600-1300 CE), highlighting

the complex and multilinear nature of its

historical processes.

Readership: Teachers and students of

ancient and early medieval Indian history

and will also interest general readers.

Sufism and Society in Medieval IndiaRaziuddin Aquil (ed.)


section on Debates in Indian History and

Society Series)

Forging a RegionSultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 12001500Samira Sheikh is Assistant Professor of history, Vanderbilt University, USA.9780198060192 2010 HB Rs 750

Part of the SOAS series, this book delineates

strands of the politics of Gujarat over the

three centuries when it was emerging

as a political and linguistic region. It also

examines how the political landscape was

differentiated by a variety of religious and

sectarian groups competing for resources

and legitimation.


researchers of medieval history especially

those concerned with Gujarat or western

India, and more importantly those

interested in regional histories.

Ancient to MedievalSouth Indian Society in TransitionNoboru Karashima, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo.9780198063124 2009 HB Rs 750

This volume traces the emergence of

the medieval state, social formation, and

landholding and production system in south

India, specifically in Tamil Nadu from twelfth

to fourteenth centuries. The essays also

throw light on the role of temples, jatis,

merchant guilds, trade, and ports in the

development of socio-economic milieu.

Readership: Scholars, teachers, and students

of ancient and medieval south Indian

history, archaeology, anthropology, and

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Focusing on issues like the origins of

Mughal painting, its evolution and

development under different Mughal

emperors, the significance of various

symbols and motifs, this collection

highlights the links between painting and

humanistic values and the ordinary events

of day-to-day life in the Mughal Empire.

Readership: This book will interest scholars,

teachers, and students of medieval India

particularly art history as well as general

reader interested in painting and culture.

Information and the Public SpherePersian Newsletters from Mughal Delhi Margrit Pernau (ed.) Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Bielefeld, Germany.Yunus Jaffrey (ed.) Professor (retd.), Department of Persian, Delhi University.9780195690859 2009 HB Rs 1295

Through a study of Persian newsletters,

this sourcebook examines the creation

of knowledge and of the public sphere

during the years of interface between

British and Mughal culture.


researchers of Mughal and early modern

history of India.

State, Pluralism, and the Indian Historical TraditionSatish Chandra, former Chairman, University Grants Commission, is presently Vice Chairman of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies. He is also Secretary of the History of India Scheme of the Indian History Congress.9780198064206 2009 OIP Rs 295

This collection of seminal essays explores

four main themes on medieval India

evolution of state, role of towns and

urbanism, the historical and maritime

traditions, and cultural pluralism. Satish

Chandra surveys the role of some leading

Indian historians in promoting a more

critical and secular view of medieval India.

In a historical assessment of the last fifty

years, he highlights the role India could play

in a challenging world order.

relevant to contemporary issues beautifully written

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Readership: This volume will be of great

interest to scholars and students of

medieval and modern Indian history,

politics, and cultural studies.

The Early Medieval in South IndiaKesavan Veluthat


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People, Taxation, and Trade in Mughal IndiaShireen Moosvi is Professor, Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.9780198066316 2009 OIP Rs 395

I marvel at the impressive scholarship wedded to skills in economic and statistical analysis that are rare.

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Moosvis book calls for attention at a time when Indias economic experience is being widely debated. She has kept the interest in economic history alive by making it possible for readers to hold scattered pieces of quality research in a single volume.

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Piety and Politics in the Early Indian MosqueFinbarr Barry Flood (ed.)



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The Illustrated History of South IndiaFrom Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar(for detailed blurb, please see entry in

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Mughal IndiaStudies in Polity, Ideas,Society, and CultureM. Athar Ali (Late) was Professor, Aligarh Muslim University and University Grants Commission National Professor. 9780195696615 2008 OIP Rs 395(Preface by Irfan Habib)

It is a tribute to Athar Alis choice of themes, clarity of thought, and fluent prose that the reader gets here a large amount of informationin such lucidly analysed form...

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Readership: Lucidly written, this classic

collection will be essential reading for

students, scholars, and teachers of history,

particularly medieval India.

Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India S. Nurul Hasan (1921-1993) was Professor of History at Delhi University and former Governor of West Bengal and Orissa.Satish Chandra (ed.) former Chairman, University Grants Commission, is presently Vice Chairman of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies. He is also Secretary of the History of India Scheme of the Indian History Congress.9780195696608 2008 OIP Rs 375

a collection with an excellent introduction, of essays ... Hasan was perhaps the best example of ... a unique combination of tradition and modernity.

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Readership: Scholars, undergraduate and

postgraduate students of early medieval

Indian history and the history of the Mughal

period.

Sufism, Culture, and PoliticsAfghans and Islam in MedievalNorth IndiaRaziuddin Aquil, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.9780195685121 2007 HB Rs 5959780198069157 2012 OIP forthcoming

This book makes an innovative and original

intervention in the existing debates on the

questions of medieval politics, patterns

of governance as well as the relationship

between politics, Islam and Muslim religious

leaders.


medieval Indian history, Islamic, religious,

and cultural studies.

Vijayanagara VisionsReligious Experience and Cultural Creativity in a South Indian EmpireWilliam J. Jackson, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA.9780195683202 2007 HB Rs 695

This book explores new ideas about

religious imagination. By considering the

visual images which the south Indian

singer-saints, poets and others left recorded

in their lyrics, verses, stone carvings, and

stories, the author explores the religious

ideas and visions that engaged and inspired

these culturally creative figures.

Readership: Scholars and students

of south Indian religion, culture, and

history, especially those concerned with

the Vijayanagara Empire and the bhakti

movement.

Songs of the Saints of IndiaJohn Stratton Hawley, Professor of Religion, Barnard College Columbia University, USA.Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies and the Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.9780195694208 2007 OIP Rs 325

This book presents the life stories and

poems of six well-known saint-poets of

north India Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak,


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vocabulary of Hinduism in north India today

than any voices before or since. In worship,

in education, even in politics, modern

Hinduism sings their tune.

Readership: This will be useful for scholars,

teachers, researchers, and students of

Indian literature, culture, religion, history,

as well as tourists, travellers, and general

reader.

A European Experience of the Mughal OrientThe Ijaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Henri Polier Muzaffar Alam (ed.) Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.Seema Alavi (ed.) is Professor, Department of History, Delhi University.9780195691870 2007 OIP Rs 465

a subtle and valuable source for the social, economic and cultural history of the early colonial period[t]his book whets the readers appetite

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Readership: Scholars interested in Mughal

and early modern Indian history, European

expansion in Asia and literary cultures.

India and Central AsiaCommerce and Culture, 15001800Scott C. Levi (ed.) Assistant Professor of Central Asian and Islamic World History, University of Louisville.



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Textiles and Weavers in South India, 2/eVijaya Ramaswamy, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.9780195676334 2006 HB Rs 595

Textiles and Weavers provides a

comprehensive history of the world of

weaving in South India from the tenth

century onwards. This second edition takes

the story of the South Indian handloom

industry into the colonial period and

beyond. It revisits the conditions of weavers

in a context of rapidly changing lifestyles

and technology explosion.

Readership: This book will interest students

and scholars of Indian history particularly

South India and those interested in fashion,

textile designing, and the growth of

technology.

Text and PracticeEssays on South Asian History Ronald Inden, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.9780195668957 2006 HB Rs 695SOAS Studies in South Asia

The essays included in this book represent

the bulk of Ronald Indens essays dealing

with the two major themes he worked on

during his scholarly career caste and

religion.


medieval Indian history, specifically

engaging with the issues of caste and

the evolution of the state will find this

collection very useful.

Indias Islamic Traditions, 711-1750Richard M. Eaton (ed.) Professor of History, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.


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Religious Movements in South Asia 600-1800David N. Lorenzen (ed.)



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Religious Movements and Institutions in Medieval IndiaVolume VII Part 2J.S. Grewal (ed.)


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The State and Society in Medieval IndiaVolume VII Part 1J.S. Grewal (ed.), Padmashree, is former Professor and Vice Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and Director and later Chairman, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

This important volume prepared under

the auspices of The Project of History of

Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture

makes an attempt to fill a serious lacuna

by providing a comprehensive look at the

social history within the larger parameters

of state and society: state forms and

patronage, demographic distribution,

societal organisation, slavery, social change,

gender relations, and urbanization. This is

also a truly pan-Indian volume on medieval

Indian history as it looks at state forms and

social organizations among the Cholas,

the Delhi Sultante, the Sultante of Bengal,

Himachal, Kumaon and Garhwal, medieval

Rajasthanm the Vijayanagar State, Kerala,

the Mughal Empire, Marahastra, and the

Punjab.

Readership: Graduate and undergraduate

students of early medieval and Mughal

Indian history, scholars interested in the

social, economic, and political aspects of

medieval India, libraries, institutions, and

government departments9780195667202 2005 HB Rs 1950

Essays on Medieval Indian HistorySatish Chandra, former Chairman, University Grants Commission, is presently Vice Chairman of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies. He is also Secretary of the twelve-volume History of India Scheme initiated by the Indian History Congress.9780195672459 2004 OIP Rs 395

The essays included in this volume explore

the interconnections between society,

economy, religion and state, and their

interaction with political processes in

medieval India.

Readership: Undergraduate students

and teachers and historians working on

Medieval India.

Essays on Islam and Indian HistoryRichard M. Eaton9780195662658 2002 OIP Rs 350

Eaton presents case studies and reviews

scholarly trends, to challenge the notion of

Islam being a fixed, monolithic entity.

Readership: Scholars and students of Islamic

and Indian history.

The Mughal Nobility under AurangzebM. Athar Ali (Late)9780195655995 2001 OIP Rs 350

This important book, first published in

1966, led to a reconsideration of many

long-held views regarding the ethnic

composition of the Mughal ruling classes

and the role of the nobility in a formally

centralized state apparatus.

Readership: The book is essential reading

for students, scholars and historians of

medieval India.

The Mughal State 1526-1750Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.9780195652253 2000 OIP Rs 395

The wealth of this volume lies in its putting together a selection of 18 essays which articulate clearly the shifting trends in the understanding of the Mughal state. The articles are put in context by the editors ... [This is] a splendid historiographical survey on Mughal researchers.

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Akbar and His IndiaIrfan Habib (ed.)9780195646320 1999 OIP Rs 325

This volume focuses on Akbar, his empire

and environment, to present a picture of

the polity and culture of India.


medieval Indian history.

Medieval India IResearches in the History of India 12001750Irfan Habib (ed.)9780195646580 1997 OIP Rs 325

The papers collected in this volume aim

at exploring new themes without abating

the rigour of the orientalist tradition.

The period covered extends from 1200

to 1750, and the themes touched

upon belong to agrarian relations, civil

engineering, ruling-class and religion.

Readership: Students and scholars of the

political, cultural, social and economic

history of medieval India.

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 Richard M. Eaton (ed.)9780195641738 1997 OIP Rs 345(For sale in South Asia only)

A History of South IndiaK.A. Nilakanta Sastri


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Dictionary of Social, Economic, and Administrative Terms in South Indian InscriptionsVolume 1 (AD)K.V. Ramesh (ed.)


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Crime Through TimeAnupama Rao (ed.), Associate Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.Saurabh Dube (ed.), Professor of History, Center of Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City.9780198077619 2012 HB forthcoming

Examining the notions, ideas, and concepts

of crime and justice from the eighteenth to

the twentieth century, the volume covers

laws, judiciary, policing, crime, criminals,

Dalits, minorities, and violence.

Readership: This book will be of great

interest to scholars and students of modern

Indian history, sociology, and cultural

studies.

Partition of IndiaWhy 1947?Kaushik Roy (ed.) is Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW), Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and Reader, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.9780198077602 2012 HB Rs 695

The Partition of British India has left more

questions than answers. In the wake of the

violence and mayhem in the aftermath,

there emerged looming questions: Why

was India partitioned in 1947?; Was

it inevitable? This book chronicles the

seminal studies by leading scholars to

analyse the timing and causation of

Partition. From first-hand accounts of the

process of Partition to the reconstruction

of the experiences of the subordinate and

the marginal, this book presents balanced

analyses of the process and events leading

to the Partition. It locates long term

imperatives in Hindu and Muslim revivalist

movements of the nineteenth century;

regional factors with focus on the United

Provinces, Punjab, and Bengal; as well as

the international contexts.

Readership: Addressing several issues like

identity, communalism, and regionalism,

this book will interest scholars, teachers,

and students of modern Indian history and

politics.

Sex and SensibilityRichard Blechyndens Calcutta Diaries, 17911822Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in colonial Calcutta. Sifting through anecdotes, extracts, and stories from over eighty volumes of diaries and papers, Sex and Sensibility, and Sentiment and Self give a unique perspective into colonial households, daily life, corruption in law and private conduct, and emerging norms of identity. Peter Robb is Research Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.9780198075110 2011 HB Rs 695

Piecing together the intimate and everyday

life of Richard Blechynden, Peter Robb

reveals the politics of power within

households and the position of women.

Demarcating the concepts of domestic,

public, and private spaces, Peter Robb

allows us to eavesdrop on the lives of

ordinary people, both European and Indian,

richly detailing their day-to-day exchanges,

their hopes, and their fears.

Sentiment and SelfRichard Blechyndens Calcutta Diaries, 17911822Richard BlechyndenPeter Robb9780198075127 2011 HB Rs 695

Exploring the British impact on Indians

and the Indian experience of the British,

Sentiment and Self etches detailed

portraits of the servants and the children

in Blechyndens household. He examines

employeremployee relations between the

colonials and the Indians, as well as the

gross imperfections of petty systems of

administration and justice.

Readership: These books will be of immense


Indian history, gender studies, cultural

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Globalizing Labour?Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 18701945G. Balachandran, Professor, International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.9780198078845 2012 PB forthcoming

This book deals with maritime workers,

seafarers, and merchant shipping in the

Indian subcontinent during the colonial

period. It provides a detailed account of

the social and individual lives of Indian

seafarers; development of shipping

industry; and economic life in the

subcontinent.



students of modern Indian history and

economics, particularly those working on

maritime labour and shipping.

Punjab ReconsideredHistory, Culture, and PracticeAnshu Malhotra (ed.), Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi.Farina Mir (ed.), Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.9780198078012 2012 HB forthcoming

This book considers the notion of

Punjabiyat, and examines if there

exists an idea of Punjab or ideas of

Punjab that connects people from the

region, now scattered across the globe.

It discusses changing contours and

notions of territoriality, migrations, and

diaspora; language and literary cultures;

colonial experience; religious identities; Sikh

studies and identity; cultural and religious

syncretism; and middle class and urban

spaces; and conversion and politics of

difference.

Readership:This book will interest scholars,

students, and researchers of history,

particularly modern India, as well as

sociology and cultural studies.

Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars, 3/eNorth Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 17701870 Series: Oxford India PerennialsC.A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, St Catharines College, University of Cambridge.9780198077466 2012 PB forthcoming

This book traces the evolution of north

Indian towns and merchant communities

from the decline of Mughal dominion to the

consolidation of British empire. Focussing

on the network of towns, bazaars, and

merchant communities; and their impact on

colonial trade and administration, it offers

a new perspective on eighteenth-century

India. This edition comes with a new

introduction.


reading for students, scholars, and teachers

of modern Indian history and economic

history.

Writing IndiaColonial Ethnography in the Nineteenth CenturyMushirul Hasan (ed.), is Director General of National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia.9780198074069 2012 HB forthcoming

This volume brings together rare

ethnographic documents from late

nineteeth century India which provide

comprehensive information about everyday

lives, geographical distribution, physical and

linguistic attributes, myths and genealogies,

customs and traditions, religious and social

observances, and livelihood patterns of

communities such as Brahmans, Rajputs,

Sikhs, Garhwalis, Muhammadens, and

Dogras.

Readership: This book will interest

researchers, students, and scholars of

modern Indian history, sociology, and

anthropology.


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Communalism in Colonial North India, 3/eSeries: Oxford India PerennialsGyanendra Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Emory University, Atlanta, USA.9780198077305 2012 PB forthcoming

This book presents a radically new

analysis of communalism along with

nationalism and colonialism. It offers a

new understanding of the construction of

Indian society and politics in recent times

by offering new theoretical cues to grasp

their nature and dynamics. The new edition

includes a new foreword.

Readership: This book will be an important

reading for scholars, teachers, and students

of modern Indian history. It will also interest

sociologists, anthropologists, and political

scientists.

B.R.AmbedkarThe Buddha and His DhammaA Critical EditionAakash Singh Rathore (ed.) is Research Professor, Centre for Ethics and Global Politics, Luiss University, Rome.Ajay Verma (ed.) is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi.9780198068679 2011 HB Rs 895

Published posthumously, it presented a

radical reorientation of Buddhist thought

and literature, aptly called navayana. It

deals with Ambedkars conceptualization

of Buddhism and the possibilities it offered

for liberation and upliftment of the Dalits.

It presents his reflections on the life of the

Buddha, his teachings, and the spread of

Buddhism by interweaving anecdotes with

detailed analyses of the religions basic

tenets.

Readership: This volume will be of great

interest to scholars and students of

Buddhist studies, Dalit studies, modern

Indian history, politics, and sociology.

Practising Buddhists and followers

of Ambedkar will also find the work

invaluable.

Jawaharlal NehruA BiographyVolume one three 1889 1964Sarvepalli Gopal9780198079828 2011 (3 vol. box set) Rs 2250

An exceptionally good biographical study. Indispensable reading for any serious student of modern Indian affairs. This work is not merely a life of Indias first Prime Minister, it is a history of the struggle for Indian independence. The Times

Professor Gopal has produced not only a distinguished piece of biography but a tract for the times. The Times Literary Supplement

Readership: This box-set will be

indispensable for scholars, researchers, and

students of modern Indian history, and

politics, as well as the general reader.

State, Society, and Culture in Indian HistorySatish Chandra, former Chairman, University Grants Commission, is presently Vice Chairman of the Society of Indian Ocean Studies. He is also Secretary of the twelve-volume History of India Scheme initiated by the Indian History Congress.9780198077398 2011 HB Rs 650

Satish Chandra is one of the leading historians of India who laid the foundations for scientific research in post-independent Indian historiography. All the essays in this volume are good...A very substantial chunk of the essays address the issues he himself brought into historiography of medieval India.

muzAffAr AlAm

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students of medieval and modern Indian

history, and cultural studies.

Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India, 2/e The Namasudras of Bengal, 18721947Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Professor at the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is also Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.9780198075967 2011 HB Rs 795(For sale in South Asia only)


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Sekhar Bandyopadhyays richly documented historical text maps the political history of this untouchable community, tracing its moments of convergence and divergence, solidarity and betrayal as they attempt to make their way out of untouchability using the weapon of their caste identity. With a twin focus on agency and ideology, the author successfully foregrounds the dual nature of Namasudra politics.

edwArd A. rodriGues

Readership: This book will interest scholars and students of modern Indian history, politics, sociology, and anthropology, especially those concerned with caste and Dalit politics, and Bengal.

Dependence & Disillusionment, 2/eEmergence of National Consciousness in Later Nineteenth Century IndiaSudhir Chandra is a Fellow at the Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies, France.9780198071624 2011 HB Rs 675

This book offers a comprehensive

framework for the study of Indian

nationalism. Departing from unidimensional

explanations of nationalism, it highlights the

role of change and continuity in the making

of modern India. It discusses the emergence

of national consciousness

Readership: Based on a wealth of archival

sources this book will be indispensable for

students and scholars of modern Indian

history.

Diversity, Identity, and LinkagesExplorations in Historical EthnographyK.S. Singh (19352006) was former Director General, Anthropological Survey of India. He was also the editor of the People of India series.

with a Foreword bySabyasachi Bhattacharya

9780198075134 2011 HB Rs 545

K. Suresh Singh was one of the leading historical anthropologists of India. In this book, one discovers his exemplary sensitivity to tribal problems, which he analyses with a sophisticated methodological approach. He will remain a role model for social scientists as well as tribalologists for times to come.

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Readership: Multilayered yet elegant in its

simplicity, this book will interest scholars

and students of modern Indian history,

anthropology, and sociology.

Talking BackThe Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist DiscourseSabyasachi Bhattacharya is former Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research. Earlier he was the Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati.9780198075042 2011 HB Rs 495

This book explores the evolution of the idea

of civilization in the writings of luminaries

like Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, and

Nehru, as well as works of intellectuals,

historians, linguists, and sociologists like

M.G. Ranade, V.K. Rajwade, D.D. Kosambi,

Sardar K.M. Panikkar, Nirmal Kumar Bose,

and many present-day scholars.

Readership: This book will interest scholars

and students of modern Indian history, and

informed general readers.

The Bhagavadgita in the Nationalist DiscourseNagappa Gowda K. is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Government Womens First Grade College and Post-graduate Centre, Ajjarakadu, Udupi.9780198072065 2011 HB Rs 695

This book explores the role of the

Bhagavadgita in the formation of

nationalist discourse. It examines the ways

in which the Gita became the central

terrain of nationalist contestation, and the

diverse ethico-moral mappings of the Indian

nation.



students of religion, philosophy, and

modern Indian history, particularly those

concerned with nationalist movement.

Theorizing the PresentEssays for Partha ChatterjeeAnjan Ghosh (ed.) was Fellow in Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.


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History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.Janaki Nair (ed.) is Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.9780198071631 2011 HB Rs 695

This is an important volume with essays by some of the finest scholars writing on South AsiaThis book will be an appropriate tribute to an intellectual whose writings have so profoundly shaped the way we think about colonialism, nationalism, and the present.

neelAdri BhAttAChAryA

Readership: This book will generate

considerable interest among scholars

and students of political science, history,

sociology, and cultural anthropology.

History and Politics in Post-colonial IndiaMichael Gottlob is an independent historian and human rights activist based in Berlin. He has also been a visiting lecturer at universities in Italy and India.9780198072485 2011 HB Rs 695

The book discusses diverse areaslike

methodological research and public use

of history; cultural identity and diversity;

nationalism and communalism; and social

movementsand deconstructs their

far-reaching implications in contemporary

India. It also examines the role of women,

Dalits, and Adivasis to understand their

position in the multicultural reality of India.


modern Indian history and politics, but

will also be of great interest to the general

reader.

The Mushirul Hasan OmnibusComprisingModerate or Militant; From Pluralism to Separatism; A Moral Reckoning; Legacy of a Divided NationMushirul Hasan is Director General, National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.9780198070016 2010 HB Rs 1195

Mushirul Hasans writings have profoundly

shaped our understanding of Indias

secular traditions and syncretic culture.

This omnibus brings together his critically

acclaimed writings on a variety of

issues confronting India today. From the

Partition to identity politics in modern

India, from HinduMuslim relations to

religious pluralism, this eclectic collection

gives a comprehensive overview of the

development of his thinking in these areas.


modern Indian history.

Images and ContextsThe Historiography of Science and Modernity in IndiaDhruv Raina is Professor at the Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.9780198068808 2010 OIP Rs 350

The book under review is a pioneering attempt to trace the history of science and technology in India [It] will prove to be an eye-openerto know the subtle interrelationship between science and arts.

The Hindu

The book is erudite and interestingthe essays are vignettes that shed light on complicated questions by using different lenses.

The Book Review

Readership: Scholars, teachers and students

of history, philosophy, sociology, general

science, particularly those interested in the

development of science in India.

The Economic History of India, 18571947, 3/eTirthankar Roy, is Reader, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.9780198074175 2011 PB Rs 395

This book documents and examines

multilayered structural shifts in Indias

economy initiated by the Raj. Strongly

differing from linear perspectives, this book

situates colonial Indias transition to a stable

democratic state in the rubric of global and

South Asian economic history. .

Readership: Students and teachers of

economic history.


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From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy, 2/eA Social History of Music in South India Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.9780198071907 2011 OIP Rs 295

[A]n important contribution to the historicizing of classical music in IndiaAmAndA weidmAn, Economic and Political

Weekly

a fascinating story well told.pushpA sundAr, The Hindu

... brings a close understanding and appreciation of classical music of South India

keshAv desirAju, The Book Review

Readership: The volume will be important

for students and scholars of history, music,

sociology, ethnomusicology, cultural

studies, and south India.

Freedom Struggle in Uttar PradeshS.A.A. Rizvi (ed.) served as OSD of the project and Secretary, Advisory Board for The History of Freedom Struggle in Uttar Pradesh. He taught history, first at Jammu and Kashmir University, and later at the Department of Asian Civilizations, Australian National University, Canberra.M.L. Bhargava (ed.) worked as the Research officer in the project.9780198069713 2010 6 Volumes Box Set Rs 9500

This six-volume set brings together an

exhaustive survey of files, bastas, official

reports and original consultations, trial

proceedings, newspapers, periodicals,

diaries and memoirs of officers, and

contemporary worksboth in English

and the vernacular to provide a detailed

and authoritative account of the freedom

struggle in Uttar Pradesh.

Readership: With rare original documents,

detailed annotations, and painstaking

translations of vernacular sources, this book

is an invaluable sourcebook for research

scholars, professional historians, teachers,

and students of modern Indian history,

particularly those concerned with the 1857

struggle.

Pilgrimage, Politics, and PestilenceThe Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 18601920Saurabh Mishra is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of History, Oxford. He is a DPhil from University of Oxford. 9780198070603 2010 HB Rs 595

The epicentre of the Muslim universe,

Mecca attracts hundreds of thousands of

believers every year. Pilgrimage, Politics,

and Pestilence studies the organization

and meanings of the Haj from India during

colonial times and analyses it from political,

commercial, and medical perspectives

between 1860, the year of the first

outbreak of cholera epidemic in Mecca,

and 1920, when the subject of holy places

of Islam became a very powerful political

symbol in the Indian subcontinent. Contrary

to the general belief about colonial policy

of non-intervention into religious subjects,

the book argues that the state, in fact, kept

a close watch on the pilgrimage.

Readership: This book will be of immense


Indian history, cultural and Islamic studies,

and public health and sanitation.

Atiyas Journeys A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian BritainSiobhan Lambert-Hurley is Lecturer in Modern History, Department of Politics, History and International Relations, Loughborough University.Sunil Sharma is Associate Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures, Boston University.9780198068334 2010 HB Rs 550

Atiyas Journeys is the first English

translation of Atiya Fyzees travelogue-cum-

diary, Zamana-i-tahsil, published in an Urdu

journal in 19067. A fascinating account of

a Muslim womans experience of Edwardian

Britain, this unique narrative moves away

from formulaic European travelogues by

Indian men in placing its emphasis on the

everyday.


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rare photographs, and extracts from Atiyas

other writings, this book will appeal to

scholars and students interested in travel

narratives, gender studies, Urdu literature,

Islam as well as modern history of India and

Britain.

Heterotopias Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South AsiaManu Bhagavan (ed.)

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