Asia - South - India
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India: A Short History
$16.95 Add to cartThroughout its long history, India has signified many things. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the Great it was a land of philosophers and indomitab
- Series: Short History
- Author: Robinson, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0500298254
- Language: English
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
$39.99 Add to cartAs recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian Empire.” I
- Author: Dalrymple, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123788
- Language: English
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India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent
$39.95 Add to cartA dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context–from antiquity to today
Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subc- Author: Truschke, Audrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 712
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 691221227
- Language: English
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
$32.99 Add to cartThe internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia’s under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it.
For a millenn- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1639734147
- Language: English
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Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition
$29.95 Read more“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” –Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste
The classic work of Indian Dalit politics, reframed- Author: Ambedkar, B. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1784783528
- Language: English
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Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition
$29.95 Read more“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” –Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste
The classic work of Indian Dalit politics, reframed- Author: Ambedkar, B. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1784783528
- Language: English
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Indian Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Myths, Gods, and Goddesses from India
$25.99 Add to cartFrom the creation of the universe to celestial wars to reincarnation, Indian mythology features enigmatic tales of time, creation, and spirituality.
Indian mythology is not simply a thing of the past.
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887652597
- Language: English
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In Light of India
$18.00 Add to cart“One of the most brilliant and original essayists in any language” (Washington Post Book World) reflects on the six years he spent in India as Mexican ambassador-and reveals how the people and culture
- Author: Paz, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0156005786
- Language: English
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The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom
$16.99 Read moreSo who really spearheaded India’s Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people-farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others-stood up to the British. People who never
- Author: Sainath, P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 067009692X
- Language: English
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Argumentative Indian
$28.99 Add to cartIn sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India’s intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy
- Author: Sen, Amartya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 031242602X
- Language: English
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Idea of India
$21.99 Add to cartA classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that addresses the paradoxes and ironies of the world’s largest democracy. When, in 1947, the Britis
- Author: Khilnani, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537623
- Language: English
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India: A History. Revised and Updated
$22.00 Add to cartFully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples
- Author: Keay, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 12 2011
- ISBN10: 0802145582
- Language: English
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy
$24.99 Add to cartFrom one of the subcontinent’s most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, published on the 60th anniversary of Independence
Told in lucid and beauti
- Author: Guha, Ramachandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0062978063
- Language: English
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Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
$35.00 Add to cartA profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.
Traditional interpretation- Author: Das, Nandini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 163936322X
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartIndia–a cradle of civilization with five millennia of history, a country of immense consequence and contradiction–often defies ready understanding. What holds its people together–across its many cu
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Zubrzycki, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199977
- Language: English
