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People Next Door The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9781787380196, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book traces the seven decades of the India-Pakistan relationship since the bloody partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nati...
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£20,00
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Parlour and the Street Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
ISBN: PB: 9780857426178, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta's urban poor following the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans who migrated from neighboring vill...
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£25,00
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Past as Present Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
ISBN: HB: 9780857426444, Seagull Books, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between...
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£20,00
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Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State
ISBN: HB: 9780300208269, Yale University Press, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded "in a fit of absence of mind". He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the mod...
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£40,00
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Partition The Long Shadow
ISBN: HB: 9789383074778, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2015
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 halftones
The Partition of British India into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the further redrawing of the borders in 1971 to create Bangladesh were major, wrenching events whose effects are still felt today in the everyday lives of people in all...
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£34,00
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Politics of Dialogic Imagination Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
ISBN: PB: 9780226060569, ISBN: HB: 9780226060422, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
In "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination", Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-d...
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£24,00
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£60,00
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Postcolonial People South Asians in Britain
ISBN: PB: 9781850657972, Hurst Publishers, May 2006
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "A Postcolonial People" is a lively, critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature. This specially commissioned book combines conceptually innovative analysis with empiricall...
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£16,99
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