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  • Archive Stories

    Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History

    by Durba Ghosh, Jeff Sahadeo, Craig Robertson, Tony Ballantyne ...
    Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Gentlemanly Terrorists

    Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947

    by Durba Ghosh ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' used assassinations, bomb attacks, and armed robberies to accelerate the departure of the British from India and how, in response, the colonial government effectively declared a state of emergency, ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Decentring Empire

    Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (1 Edition)

    by Durba Ghosh, Dane Kennedy ...
    Series series NPSAH
    This volume charts a new direction in the study of British imperialism, its impact on India and other colonial territories, and its influence in propelling the forces of globalisation. Moving beyond the standard model of a bilateral circuit between imperial centre and colonial periphery, it highlights instead the web of transcolonial and transnational networks that spread across and beyond the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sex and the Family in Colonial India

    The Making of Empire

    by Durba Ghosh ...
    Series Book 13 - Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
    In the early years of the British empire, cohabitation between Indian women and British men was commonplace and to some degree tolerated. However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a challenge to the existing historiography, anxieties about social status, appropriate sexuality, and the question of who could be counted as 'British' or 'Indian' were constant concerns of the colonial government even at this ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

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  • Gandhi the Man

    How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

    by Eknath Easwaran ...
    This is the story of Gandhi’s spiritual evolution – the turning points and choices that made him not just a great political leader but also a timeless icon of nonviolence.Eknath Easwaran grew up in India and witnessed how Gandhi inspired people of all races, backgrounds, and religions to turn anger into compassion and hatred into love.How had Gandhi transformed himself from an ineffective young ... Read more

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  • The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War

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  • India: An Archaeological History

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  • Ashoka

    by MOHANACHAND KEERANAGI ...
    Series series Bharata Bharati
    The Wheel, which adorns the flag of free India, has kept His memory green. Lord of a vast empire, after a great victory on the battlefield he grew sick of violence and took an oath never to fight again. He was an ideal ruler. He strove to carry to other lands the light he had won in his life. He dedicated himself to the victories of righteousness. ... Read more

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