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Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social ref...

Colonialism is a dehumanizing experience for all those at the mercy of its power structures. The officers of the Indian Civil Service (ICs) were no...

A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indian subcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situates Indian his...

This work seeks to determine the roles played by the paramount judiciary in the Indian polity between 1937 and 1964. The discussion starts with an ...

Telecommunications was vital to the imperial project and connecting India—the jewel in the British crown—was a key priority. However, intercolonial...

How do people respond to a state that is violent towards its own citizens? In State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India, this question is addressed ...

The political discourse in India experienced a fundamental shift when the Sachar Committee Report revealed that despite the national and state gove...

Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic sur...

Oxford India Short Introduction | KASHMIR | Complex Issues of Kashmir About its Past, Present and Future

A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indian subcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situates Indian his...

A political scientist, historian, cultural analyst, social anthropologist, and philosopher, Partha Chatterjee has consistently provided academia wi...

did you know that the latest delimitation of electoral constituencies in india was carried out after a hiatus of three decades? and that the next d...

This volume is about sustainable development and the complex global negotiations from the environmental capitals of the world. It explores the plig...

Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic sur...

India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth-century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in...

How have cinema and popular religion shaped each other? Is the display of devotion in a cinema hall the same as devotion in a temple? How do we und...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Moving away from a dominant cultural equation of love, desire and intimacy with marriage, Beyond Desire offers a radical view that reinstates the b...

The Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia and Brazil set foundational precedents for European imperialism. Jesuit missionaries were k...

India has the largest number of child labourers in the world and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed a...

Liberalisation officially began in 1991, but the seed for it was sown in the late 1950s by proponents of free markets. The debates over the opening...

It has long been recognized that productivity growth and the business cycle are closely interrelated. Yet, until recently, the two phenomena have b...

Light from the fire burning afar mingled with the moonlight in Kurukshetra to create a terrible twilight. Scattered corpses … broken chariots … spo...

Identification vs profiling; state welfare vs state surveillance; privacy vs transparency—Aadhaar has bitterly polarized India since its launch in ...