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Meaningful Rituals: Persian, Arabic and Bengali in the Nurnama Tradition of Eastern Bengal explores a corpus of texts that centre around the creation of the world by God through his prophet Mu?ammad...

This book on the city of Agra makes a close examination of this medieval Indian urban centre that grew into a multifunctional town completely outside of the supposed agenda or impact of Turkish rule,...

This eclectic collection of essays is embedded in both the past and present of the region's complex interface with modernity. It is pertinent to note that despite the postmodernist critiques of the...

Police Power and Colonial Rule analyses the increasing deployment and growing authority of the police in the Madras Presidency of British India, demonstrating the centrality of policing to the...

Pondicherry under the French: Illuminating the Urban Landscape, 1674-1793 explores how the town of Pondicherry developed as the epicentre of the French presence in India, becoming a major centre of...

Prehistoric Research in the Indian Subcontinent is, on the one hand, a commemoration of the 150 years of the study of Indian prehistory, whose beginnings stretch back to Robert Bruce Foote's...

Pure Entertainment traces how Parsi theatre wedded vernacular narrative and musicality to new stage technologies to create an aesthetic that appealed across classes and communities. Its performing...

Pushing the Boundaries of South Asian History is a tribute to Professor Dwijendra Narayan Jha's skill and craftsmanship as a historian. He was an outstanding scholar, who constantly reinvented...

The similarities and differences in the evolution of modern nations across the world are most evident in the ways in which ideas of development and progress engage with the natural environment. India...

Religion, Community and Nation: Hindu Consciousness and Nationalism in Colonial Punjab examines the emergence and growth of a Hindu communitarian identity in Punjab and its interface with the...

Rethinking Human-Animal Relationship engages with animal studies, a growing interdisciplinary field that reveals the deep human unreason and moral schizophrenia regarding their animal 'others'. This...

Revisiting Hindavi Sufi Romances : Late Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth CenturiesAuthor: Madhu TrivediPublisher: Primus BooksPublication Date: Apr 22, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Immensely rich and diverse documentation for the region have resulted in exceptional growth in the research conducted on the history of medieval Rajasthan. Professor Dilbagh Singh has been one of the...

Reconnecting with nature: New history.Author: Rupa Kumara Barma?aPublisher: Primus BooksPublication Date: Mar 11, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The eleven articles in this volume mark a significant advance in Vedic studies. Contributions range widely across critical topics in early, middle, and late Vedic texts and their commentaries, as...

Sikander Hyat-Khan: Collected Papers of the Premier of United Punjab, 1928-1942 presents a comprehensive examination of a pivotal figure in the history of unified Punjab. Hyat-Khan, whose tenure was...

Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba'i's Siyaru'l-muta'akhkhirin is divided into three unequal parts. The first part traces the history of the Mughal Empire from the death of Aurangzeb in 1707 to the latter...

State, Power and Legitimacy: The Gupta Kingdom presents a comprehensive account of the Gupta state, with particular emphasis on its strategies of legitimizing its power. The political strategies that...

Previous editions published under the title: Såur Dåas.Author: John Stratton HawleyPublisher: Primus BooksPublication Date: Jun 25, 2018Number of Pages: 375 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) represented an ideational universe in which universal humanism was one of the most significant pillars. In conventional terms, Tagore is conceived as a poet which is,...

The Bahmani Sufis explores the the spiritual, intellectual and socio-political role of the Chishtis, the Junaydis and the Qadiris in the Deccan during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries...

The Ceremonial of Power studies the court ceremonial during the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628-58) and its use as an indispensable tool in asserting imperial authority. It examines Shah...

The Dying Lineage has at its core the crises of reproduction that underwrite Vyasa's Mahabharata, a text that best exemplifies the transitional moment from kin-based chiefdoms to monarchical kingdoms...

In this first critical edition of the legal treatise of Vi??u (Vi??u Sm?ti), Olivelle locates the text geographically in Kashmir and dates it to around the seventh century CE based, among other...

A wordsmith, an extempore poet and a satirist, Ka?amekam (also known as Ka?ameka Pulavar; fifteenth century) is widely known for his ta?ippa?als or 'self-contained verses', on a panoply of topics...

During his lifetime Dwijendralal Roy (1863-1913) was one of Bengal's best known poet-musician-dramatists, and his lyrical songs and comic poetry which captured the imagination of the people were used...

The Shattered Earth : Histories of Climate, Catastrophe, and the WildernessAuthor: Mili GhosePublisher: Primus BooksPublication Date: Apr 22, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In the 'rebel world' of 1857, indigenous discourse on the great uprising in the form of proclamations, pamphlets and appeals issued by rebel leaders and other ideologues offers primary data for...

Traditions, Personalities and Memories: Aspects of Sikh History, 1469-1914, Essays in Honour of Sardar Saran Singh highlights the traditions of self-sacrifice associated with the Sikh Gurus and their...

Transcending Boundaries: Premodern Cultural Transactions across Asia celebrates the scholarship of Osmund Bopearachchi, a pioneering scholar in the fields of art history and numismatics, whose work...