The author maintains that the impact of the European trade on Bengal economy was only marginal, t...

Francis Buchanan was born in Scotland in 1762 and qualified as a medical doctor in 1783. He made ...

He in fact sees the possibility of building upon the basis of Indian civilisation and culture a b...

Examining the texts that describe it, the people who experience it, and the traditions that suppo...

Therefore, Sartori concludes, the use of the culture concept in non-Western sites was driven not ...

This book covers the cultural, regional, and socio-economic aspects of the Travancore region, whi...

The Sang¿täiromani, 'Crest-jewel of Music', is a major Sanskrit work on Indian musicology, compos...

Burnouf was an impeccable scholar, and his vision, especially of the Buddha, continues to profoun...

Religious traditions from both Indic and non-Indic backgrounds have significantly contributed to ...

This book is the seventh instalment in the Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour series, explor...

As well as the comparative study of world religions.

Whether you are a history enthusiast or simply curious about the past, Ancient India offers a cri...

This long overdue volume addresses the pressures of beautification that Indian women face as they...

These contributions are both from within the region as well as from neighbourhood. Thus, presenti...

Above all, Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence and assertive political use made of Hin...

Mosse throws new light on the contemporary nature of caste, conversion, religious synthesis, secu...

Historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalizati...

Greater Magadha, roughly the eastern part of the Gangetic plain of northern India, has so far bee...

This book explores the intellectual and literary engagements of the Indo-Persianate intelligentsi...

The book explores the social, cultural, and religious history of the Tamang, an indigenous ethnic...

This book, excluding the introduction chapter, consists of ten chapters. Each chapter explores ap...

Essential for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of Indian cultural studies and social history s...

The chapters of the book correspond to the festivals and are organised chronologically according ...

This new edition carries a very useful 21-page introduction by Peter Penner (in addition to the o...

Shocking, original, beautifully written, City of Dreadful Night offers readers a captivating imme...

Officials championed the status quo not so much because of ideology but because of the brittle re...

The approach is a compromise between purely structural and purely cultural orientation. Course di...

The present book is a revised version of the author's doctoral thesis, for which he was awarded a...

This volume contains essays Mostly About Bengal written by the author over?a?period?of?fifteen ye...

This book examines money use in the Bay of Bengal world, using the case of medieval Bengal as a f...

National politics alongside international drug diplomacy and how these together shaped the discou...

The volume talks about the emergence of the French as a colonial power in the Indian subcontinent...

This volume reproduces in full Mountbatten's own account of the last five months of British ...

This book traces the important role played by Prakrit language and narrative literature in the de...

The cultural psyche of Lucknow is heavily informed by a deeply sentimental nostalgia for past glo...

Tukoba (Tukaram) was a seventeenth-century Bhakti Sant (saint-poet) of the Varkari movement in Ma...

Wade, B: Music in India

History and literature both endeavour to reflect the truth in different ways and assist in a bett...

This is an anthology of excerpts from the works of authors who have shaped or understanding of ge...

A few hundred at most, found themselves among quite unwarlike tribes the Todas, Kotas and Kurumba...

The relationship between a spiritual master and his disciple (piri-muridi) becomes important when...

Dynamics of a Caste Movement deals with the attempts of the Rajbansi community to establish thems...

The volume comprises eighteen papers by scholars from North America, Western Europe, India, Japan...

Published in association with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi This Book is an attempt to c...

The colonial period saw important social movements in India. Among the strongest of these was non...

K S Singh was a versatile scholar apart from being an administrator and an ardent practitioner of...

Bhimrao Ambedkar born in a Mahar (untouchable caste) family converted to Buddhism at Nagpur in Ma...

This second volume is the continuation discussing the emergence of the Portuguese as a powerful p...