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The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
ISBN: 9780140196153 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Shakya's groundbreaking history of modern Tibet shatters the popular conception of the country as an isolated Shangri-la unaffected by broader international developments. Shakya gives a balanced, blow-by-blow account of Tibet's ongoing struggle to maintain its independence and safeguard its cultural identity while being sandwiched between the heavyweights of Asian geopolitics: Britain, India, China, and the United States. With thorough documentation, Shakya details the Chinese depredations of Tibet, and reveals the failures of the...
Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Shakya's groundbreaking history of modern Tibet shatters the popular conception of the c...
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
ISBN: 9780142001004 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is the legend of the djinns, fire-formed spirits that are said to assure the city's Phoenix-like regeneration no matter how many times it is destroyed. Entertaining, fascinating, and informative, City of Djinns...
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of ch...
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74,09 zł |
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
ISBN: 9780142004128 / Angielski / Miękka / 459 str. White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.
James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa 'Most excellent among Women' the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister and a descendant of the Prophet. Kirkpatrick had gone out to India as an ambitious soldier in the army of the East India Company, eager to make his name in the conquest and subjection of the subcontinent.... White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious a...
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82,32 zł |
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In Light of India
ISBN: 9780156005784 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. One of the most brilliant and original essayists in any language (Washington Post Book World) reflects on the six years he spent in India as Mexican ambassador-and reveals how the people and culture of that extraordinary land changed his life. Translated by Eliot Weinberger.
" One of the most brilliant and original essayists in any language (Washington Post Book World) reflects on the six years he spent in India as Mexican a...
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69,76 zł |
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Selected Subaltern Studies
ISBN: 9780195052893 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. This provocative volume presents the most wide-ranging essays from the first five volumes of Subaltern Studies, along with an introductory essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak--the translator of Derrida's Of Grammatology into English--and a foreword by eminent critic Edward W. Said. Addressed to students and scholars throughout the humanities, these essays address what Antonio Gramsci--the founder of the Italian communist party--called the subaltern classes, reexamining well-known historical and political events, such as Gandhi's role in India, from a Marxist perspective....
This provocative volume presents the most wide-ranging essays from the first five volumes of Subaltern Studies, along with an introductory es...
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276,84 zł |
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Querying the Medieval: Texts and the History of Practices in South Asia
ISBN: 9780195124309 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers--"Orientalists"--and has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the representations of precolonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious...
Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rul...
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697,79 zł |
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Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra
ISBN: 9780195136616 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities. Using records of religious endowments from Andhra Pradesh, author Cynthia Talbot reconstructs a regional society of the precolonial past as it existed in practice.
The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing th...
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813,04 zł |
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Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
ISBN: 9780195141269 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself crowned in an orthodox Hindu ceremony. The legends of his life have become an epic story that everyone in western India knows, and an important part of the Hindu nationalists' ideology. To read Shivaji's legend today is to find expression of deeply held convictions about what Hinduism means and how it is opposed to Islam. James Laine traces the origin and development if the Shivaji legend from the earliest sources to the contemporary...
Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself ...
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507,63 zł |
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Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India
ISBN: 9780195151985 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century.
Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, Shameful Flight provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britain's decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire. Stanley Wolpert, a leading authority on Indian... Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophi...
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432,72 zł |
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A History of the Sikhs, Volume 1: 1469-1839
ISBN: 9780195673081 / Angielski / Miękka / 407 str. First published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition updated to the present recounts the return of the community to the mainstream of national life. Written in Khushwant Singh's trademark style to be accessible to a general, non-scholarly audience, the book is based on scholarly archival research.
First published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition updated to the present recounts the ...
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68,53 zł |
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The Delhi College: Traditional Elites, the Colonial State, and Education Before 1857
ISBN: 9780195677232 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. The Delhi College has been widely acclaimed as the centre of a Delhi Renaissance. This institution was the meeting ground of the British and Oriental culture before 1857. Through extensive translations programme and by making Urdu the medium of instruction, Delhi College aimed at making Western scholarship accessible to the Indian students without uprooting them from their own cultural traditions. This volume analyses the institution against the background of both traditional scholarship and the British education policy in the first half of the nineteenth century. This collection explores...
The Delhi College has been widely acclaimed as the centre of a Delhi Renaissance. This institution was the meeting ground of the British and Oriental ...
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137,41 zł |
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Business, Race, and Politics in British India, C. 1850-1960
ISBN: 9780198207115 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. This study examines the political, racial, and economic attitudes of an important group of British businessmen in India. In explaining the reasons for their decline, Misra casts new light on British colonial society and makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of race and culture in the erosion of British imperial power.
This study examines the political, racial, and economic attitudes of an important group of British businessmen in India. In explaining the reasons for...
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1158,78 zł |
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Short Oxford History of the Modern World
ISBN: 9780198731139 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. A new edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world's largest democracies and one of the most stable of the states to emerge from the experience of colonialism. The foundations of this rare phenomenon in either Asia or Africa are seen in India's society, the ideas and beliefs of her people, and the institutions of government and politics which have developed on the subcontinent, in a process of...
A new edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of th...
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169,20 zł |
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Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India
ISBN: 9780199287659 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families treats the Raj as a family affair and examines how, and why, many remained linked with India over several generations.
Due to the fact that India was never meant for permanent European settlement, many families developed deep-rooted ties with India while never formally emigrating. Their lives were dominated by long periods of residence abroad punctuated by repeated travels between Britain and India: childhood overseas followed by separation from... What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families treats th...
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294,14 zł |
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A History of India
ISBN: 9781138961159 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent. Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund provide a comprehensive overview of the structural pattern of Indian history, covering each historical period in equal depth. Fully revised throughout, the sixth edition of this highly accessible book has been brought up to date with analysis of recent events such as the 2014 election and its... Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major... |
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166,85 zł |
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A History of India
ISBN: 9781138961142 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent. Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund provide a comprehensive overview of the structural pattern of Indian history, covering each historical period in equal depth. Fully revised throughout, the sixth edition of this highly accessible book has been brought up to date with analysis of recent events such as the 2014 election and its... Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major... |
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556,31 zł |
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Migrations in Medieval and Early Colonial India
ISBN: 9781138121928 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. This book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective, breaking away from previous Eurocentric studies. The essays in the volume focus on labour, peasant and craft migrations, and in fleshing out the causes and trajectories taken by these communities, they speak to each other by addressing similar issues as well as documenting varying responses to analogous situations. A fascinating history of migrations of people from below,... This book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents mi... |
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606,88 zł |
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Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies
ISBN: 9780226100395 / Angielski / Miękka / 173 str. In "Habitations of Modernity," Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. The questions that motivate Chakrabarty are shared by all postcolonial historians and anthropologists: How do we think about the legacy of the European Enlightenment in lands far from Europe in geography or history? How can we envision ways of being modern that speak to what is shared around the world, as well as to cultural diversity? How do we resist the tendency to justify the violence...
In "Habitations of Modernity," Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in every...
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100,61 zł |
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Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843
ISBN: 9780226184883 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities.
"There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, "Mapping an Empire" sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism." D. Graham Burnett, "Times Literary Supplement" ""Mapping an... In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only c...
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136,55 zł |
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Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space
ISBN: 9780226305097 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people?
"Producing India" mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive... When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territ...
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134,15 zł |
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