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Pathfinders eBook Series

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  • Raja Serfoji II

    Science, Medicine and Enlightenment in Tanjore

    by Savithri Preetha Nair ...
    Series series Pathfinders
    In the early nineteenth century, the south Indian kingdom of Tanjore, which had come under the control of the East India Company, flourished as a ‘centre’ of enlightenment. This book traces the contours of the Tanjore enlightenment, which produced a knowledge that was at once modern and deeply rooted in the indigenous tradition. The chief protagonist of this first ever full-length study on Tanjore ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

    by Mohandas Gandhi ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics
    Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. It is a key to understanding not only his life and thought but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. For the first time this volume presents the 1910 text of Hind Swaraj and includes Gandhi's own Preface and Foreword (not found in other editions) and annotations by the editor. In his Introduction, Anthony Parel ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Travels to Europe

    Self and Other in Bengali Travel Narratives, 1870-1910

    by Simonti Sen ...
    Series series New Perspectives in South Asian History
    This work examines in detail the world of travelogues of a highly interesting culture-universe: the Bengali bhadralok. A travelogue is usually a crucial political/aesthetic text. Its very fabric is structured in space and power - it creates, relates, compares and contrasts spaces and powers. Bengalis travelling to Europe in the colonial period felt compelled to produce such texts. An analysis of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Islanded

    Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

    by Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka.How did the modern nation of Sri Lanka come to be? In search of an answer to this question, Islanded returns us to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and to the advance of the British on the kingdom of Kandy. This advance saw the fall of the last foothold of kingly rule, centered in the highlands of the island. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant

    Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel

    by Kanakalatha Mukund ...
    The book focuses on the changes in the Trading world of the Tamil Merchants in the southern Coromandel region, with the arrival of European trading companies and the concomitant creation of European port enclaves and the rapid expansion of demand for Coromandel cotton textiles. The author uses impressive range of original sources — literary, inscriptional and archival — to cover a long period of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Peoples of India

    by J. D. Anderson ...
    Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. The Peoples of India by J. D. Anderson was first published in 1913. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Lies with Long Legs

    by Prodosh Aich ...
    In his painstakingly long academic journey through mountains of source material available in Europe, Prof Prodosh Aich establishes that the entire understanding of India developed by self-claimed scholars from West is erroneous, since the initial attempt to comprehend ancient India through the Vedas was itself faulty.He questions the validity of the works of the famous western scholars who ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science and National Consciousness in Bengal 1870 1930

    by J Lourdusamy ...
    This book gives a flavour of the Indian response to modern science by analysing the lives and careers of four scientifically influential personalities in Bengal. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Princely India and the British

    Political Development and the Operation of Empire

    by Caroline Keen ...
    In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Position of Woman in Primitive Society: A Study of the Matriarchy

    by Catherine Gasquoine Hartley ...
    The twentieth century is the age of Woman; some day, it may be that it will be looked back upon as the golden age, the dawn, some say, of feminine civilisation. We cannot estimate as yet; and no man can tell what forces these new conditions may not release in the soul of woman. The modern change is that the will of woman is asserting itself. Women are looking for a satisfactory life, which is to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ruler's Gaze

    A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian Perspective

    by Arvind Sharma ...
    Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern world for its patronizing attitude and tendency to view it as exotic, backward and uncivilized. Arvind Sharma, longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, now takes up the Palestinian academic's ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905

    Five Stories of Speculation, Resistance and Rebellion

    Edited by Mary Ellis Gibson ...
    "Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905" shows, for the first time, how science fiction writing developed in India years before the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. The five stories presented in this collection, in their cultural and political contexts, help form a new picture of English language writing in India and a new understanding of the connections among science fiction, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD