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Dictionary of Social, Economic, and Administrative Terms in South Indian InscriptionsVolume 1 (AD)K.V. Ramesh (ed.), Former Joint Director-General, Archaeological Survey of India.9780198080152 2012 HB Rs 2100

The one-stop resource for scholars, students, and teachers of south Indian history

This is the first of a multi-volume dictionary on terms used in south Indian inscriptions from the earliest times to AD 1800.

A landmark project in span and scope, this include:

Inscriptions from all major south Indian languages, as well as from Sanskrit and Prakrit

Published as well as unpublished inscriptions

Entries on over fifty social, economic, and administrative aspects, including religion, geography, crafts, agriculture, trade and commerce, health and medicine, and wildlife

A detailed guide to understanding nuances of words and linguistic complexities

Atlas of Ancient Indian HistoryIrfan Habib, Professor Emeritus, History, Aligarh Muslim University.Faiz Habib, Cartographer, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University.9780198065647 2012 HB Rs 4350

An indispensable reference for scholars, researchers, and historians of ancient India

This atlas provides detailed information on various aspects of ancient India. Each map is supported by a detailed description in the accompanying text, which also address contemporary debates.

Comprehensive and authoritative, this atlas:

Includes 13 colour maps (including a base map)

Covers the period from the beginnings of human civilization to early medieval period

Brings together latest excavations and research

Provides information on kingdoms and dynasties, inscriptions, geopolitical orbits, cropping and vegetation patterns, minerals, industries, and other economic activities

Highlights

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Reference

The Oxford India Collection

Companions

The Oxford India KosambiCombined Methods in Indology & Other Writings D.D. Kosambi (19071966)Compiled, edited and introduced by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya

9780198060185 2009 HB Rs 1250

This book puts together essays, notes and other writings of D.D. Kosambi, who introduced pioneering perspectives and methods in Indological studies, written and published over almost thirty years. Together, although on disparate themes, they reflect

an integrated framework which, in Kosambis own characterization, was Marxist.

The Oxford India ElwinSelected WritingsVerrier Elwin (19021964)9780195697919 2008 HB Rs 795

In a world of shrinking cultural options, Verrier Elwins writings remain as a powerful archive of lifeworlds from which we still have everything to learn.

Christopher Pinney

The Oxford India Collection is a series which brings together writings of enduring value published by Oxford University Press.

The Oxford India SrinivasM.N. Srinivas (19161999)97801998060345 2009 HB Rs 995

This collection of essays ... is perhaps the most important collection of its kind to be found between the covers of a single volume. M.N. Srinivas did more than any other scholar to establish sociology on firm intellectual foundations ... to bring it to wide public attention.

Andre Bteille

Atlas of Ancient Indian HistoryIrfan Habib & Faiz Habib

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Reference-Highlights]

The Oxford India GandhiEssential WritingsGopalkrishna Gandhi (ed.)9780195692525 2007 HB Rs 850

The Oxford India NehruJawaharlal NehruUma Iyengar (ed.)9780195686708 2007 HB Rs 795

The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in IndiaFrom the Eighteenth Century to Present TimesKaushik Roy9780195698886 2009 HB Rs 1950

The Oxford Companion to Indian ArchaeologyThe Archaeological Foundations of Ancient IndiaDilip K. Chakrabarti9780195673425 2006 HB Rs 2250


Reference

Towards Freedom Series

General Editor: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is former Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research.

The Towards Freedom volumes, each edited by a distinguished scholar, bring together historical materials relating to the period 1937-47 from a wide variety of sources-official records, private and organizational papers, newspapers and another contemporary publications available within the country. It presents- within the limits set by the sources-documents relating to the activities, attitudes, and ideas of diverse classes and sections of Indian society, all of which contributed to the attainment of independence with partition.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1947 [Part I]

Sucheta Mahajan (ed.) Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

9780198083979 2013 forthcoming

Part of the Towards Freedom series, this collection brings together archival documents from the period 1 January 1947 to 2 June 1947. Together they discuss areas like Constituent Assembly, interim government, the civil

disobedience movements organized by Muslim League, communalism, partition besides refugees and minority groups.

Readership: This book will interest scholars, teachers, and students of modern Indian history, particularly those interested in the Indian national movement.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1941 [Part I]Amit K. Gupta & Arjun Dev (ed.) are associated with the Indian Council of Historical Research.

9780198065371 2009 HB Rs 3750

This volume consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 focusing on the constitutional politics and World War II, provides insights into Indias economic condition, war industries, defence preparations, curbs on the press and the provincial ministries. Chapter 2 examines national struggle and government

repression through the activities of political parties, other organizations, and the condition of political prisoners. Chapter 3 studies the role of students, women, and culture in the Indian national movement.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1940 (Part I)K.N. Panikkar (ed.) is currently Vice Chairman of Higher Education Council, Kerala and Chairman, Kerala Council of Historical Research.

9780198060789 2009 HB Rs 3450

This volume systematically covers the sociopolitical history of Biritish India during 1940. It examines the events and negotiations surrounding the Second World War. The first chapter discusses the various responses to the War. Chapter 2 deals with the

constitutional negotiations promised/demanded in lieu of Indian support of the

War. The next examines civil disobedience programmes and activities of the Indian National Congress and the Left parties. The concluding two chapters respectively deal with the individual satyagraha movement and the communal politics.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1940 (Part II)K.N. Panikkar (ed.)9780198070030 2010 HB Rs 3950

This volume focuses on popular movements. Chapter 6 discusses labour movement through case studies of Bombay, Central Provinces and Berar, Madras, Bihar, Bengal, Orissa, United Provinces. Chapter 7 studies peasant movements in different parts of India like Bihar, Bombay, United Provinces, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Malabar, Punjab, Orissa, and Tamil Nadu.

Movements of students, women, and depressed classes are discussed in Chapter 8. The last chapter examines movements in Princely States of Rajputana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Central India, Hyderabad, Mysore, and Travancore.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1946 (Part I)Sumit Sarkar (ed.) retired as Professor of History, University of Delhi.

9780195692457 2007 HB Rs 3950

This volume systematically covers in five chapters, different aspects of the history of British India beginning with anti-British movements in 1946, including the protests against the trial of the officers and soldiers of the Indian National Army and the famous Royal Indian Navy Mutiny.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1946 (Part II)Sumit Sarkar (ed.)9780198060055 2009 HB Rs 2950

This volume focuses on popular struggles against British-backed tyranny and feudalistic oppression in the Princely States. The first chapter gives an overall perspective on the functioning of the All-India States Peoples Conference (AISPC). Chapter two examines aspects of popular struggle in Kashmir and northern states while the third discusses Hyderabad,

Travancore, and the South. The last three chapters deal respectively with western Indian states, central Indian states, and eastern and north-eastern states.


Reference

Towards Freedom Series / History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization (PHISPC)

General Editor: D.P. ChattopadhyayaTowards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1939 (Part I)Mushirul Hasan (ed.), is Director General of National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia.

9780195693393 2008 HB Rs 3950

This volume contains primary sources and archival documents related to the year 1939. It systematically covers in four chapters, different aspects of the history of British India governments formed after

the 1937 elections; the role of India in World War II; and political radicalism; the developments in Princely India; the role of Congress or the State Peoples Conference; and the role of Kisan Sabha.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1939 (Part II)Mushirul Hasan (ed.)9780195696516 2008 HB Rs 3950

This volume explores, among other things, workers struggles, strikes and their organizations in different parts of India. Congress organizations, and especially the correspondence between Gandhi, Subhas Bose, and J. Nehru constitute the chapter on nationalist politics.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1945 Bimal Prasad (ed.) is currently Honorary Director, Rajendra Prasad Academy, and Honorary Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.

9780195695304 2008 HB Rs 3950

This volume contains documents related to the year 1945. It discusses the various conciliation movesDesai Liyaqat Pact, Sapru Committee, Wavell Plan, Simla Conference; military and civil resistance as well as economic issues, foreign relations and language policy-thoughts shaping New India.

Development of Modern Indian Thought and the Social SciencesVolume X Part 5Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (ed.) is former Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research.

9780195689679 2007 HB Rs 1950

Part of the PHISPC series on modern Indian history, this volume provides an overview of the history of social, economic, and political thought prior to the development of disciplinary categories in social sciences.

Readership: This volume, and others in the series, will be of special interest to students and scholars of history, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as general readers interested in the civilization and culture of India.

Religious Movements and Institutions in Medieval IndiaVolume VII Part 2J.S. Grewal (ed.) Padmashree and a renowned Sikh scholar, served as the Chairman of the Governing Body and the Director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Formerly, he was Professor of History and Vice Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.

9780195677034 2006 HB Rs 1950

This volume deals with a variety of themes related to religion in medieval India, with a wide range of

factual information, significant detail, and new ideas.

Readership: This volume will be of special interest to students and scholars of history, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as general readers interested in the civilization and culture of India.

The State and Society in Medieval IndiaVolume VII Part 1J.S. Grewal (ed.)9780195667202 2005 HB Rs 1950

Indias Interaction with China, Central and West AsiaVolume III Part 2A. Rahman (ed.)9780195657890 2002 HB Rs 1750

History of Indian Science, Technology and Culture ad 10001800Volume III Part 1A. Rahman (ed.)9780195646528 1999 HB Rs 1250


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Essential Writings

The Essential Writings of B.R. AmbedkarValerian Rodrigues (ed.) Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

9780195670554 2004 OIP Rs 445

[This book] pays due attention to [Ambedkars] writings on caste, but it also reserves ample space for his important work in the fields of public finance, nationalism, the Constitution, and Buddhism. The book is enriched by a deeply informative, yet studiedly non-polemical, introduction by the editor.

Ramachandra Guha

Readership: This book is an indispensable source for scholars of Dalit studies, Indian nationalism, sociology, modern Buddhism, and affirmative action.

The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal NehruVolumes I & IIS. Gopal (19232002), Padma Vibhushan, was director of the Historical Division of the Ministry of External Affairs in India from 1954 to 1966. He was also Professor of Contemporary History at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Uma Iyengar (ed.) is editor, The Book Review.9780195653243 2003 HB Rs 2750

This anthology of Jawaharlal Nehrus writings includes nearly 500 extracts and covering almost

every aspect of his life and times.

Readership: The anthology will be of enduring interest and benefit to the scholarly as also the general reader.

The Essential Writings of Netaji Subhas Chandra BoseSisir K. Bose (ed.) (Late) was Director, Netaji Research Bureau, Calcutta.Sugata Bose (ed.) Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University.

9780195648546 1999 OIP Rs 355

Distilled from the authoritative, twelve-volume Collected Works, this collection stands a concise introduction to the thought of Indias foremost militant nationalist.

Readership: Scholars of modern Indian history and of South Asian history.

The Essential Writings of AurobindoPeter Heehs (ed.) is an American Historian based in Pondicherry at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.

9780195649765 1999 OIP Rs 295

This volume includes writings covering more than fifty years (18931950) of Aurobindos life that suggest the diversity of Aurobindos thought and are arranged in six sections according to his main areas of interest.

Readership: Students of Indian literature.

The Essential Writings of Mahatma GandhiRaghavan Iyer (ed.) formerly of St Antonys College, Oxford, was Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.

9780195632088 1998 OIP Rs 395

This balanced selection of Gandhi s writings, taken from his letters, articles, and books, represents the complete cross-section of his thought, from his early years as a young barrister in London, to his final days as sage and counsel to newly independent India.

Readership: Scholars of modern Indian history and politics.


Omnibus Editions

Exploring the WestThree Travel Narratives

Comprising

Images of the West; Westward Bound & Seamless BoundariesMushirul Hasan (ed.), is Director General of National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia.

9780198063117 2009 HB Rs 795

This omnibus presents a unique perspective of travel writing by Indians describing Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. It presents the missing link in the east-west paradigm.

Readership: Scholars, students, and teachers interested in the study of travel writing in Indian history, tourism studies, culture studies, sociology, and anthropology.

The C.A. Bayly OmnibusComprising The Local Roots of Indian Politics; Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars; Origins of Nationality in South AsiaC.A. Bayly is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, St Catharines College, Cambridge.9780198062561 2009 HB Rs 1450

The imagination of the colonial north Indian landscape has been shaped immensely by the scholarship of C.A. Bayly. This omnibus brings together landmark writings

providing a sense of the wide range of subjects and their multiple dimensions examined by one of the finest living historians of British India.

Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaarsimmensely important volumea full-length study of a central, yet surprisingly little studied era in the history of India...

Thomas R. Metcalf

Baylys ground-breaking volume will long remain central to the discussion of early modern north Indian history.

Michael H. Fisher

The Gyanendra Pandey OmnibusComprising

The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh; The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India; Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in IndiaGyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Emory University, Atlanta, USA. A founding member of the Subaltern Studies collective, he taught earlier at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Delhi.

9780195697032 2008 HB Rs 995

Gyanendra Pandeys writings have profoundly influenced our understanding of anti-colonial nationalism, communal strife, and history-writing. This omnibus brings together three landmark books by him that describe an arc from a critique of nationalism to a critique of history.

Readership: Students, teachers, and researchers of Indian history, sociology, anthropology, and politics.

OUP Indias Omnibus collection offers readers a comprehensive coverage of works of enduring value, woven together by a new introduction, attractively packaged for easy reference and reading.

Indias Muslims An Omnibus

Comprising

Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband 18601900; The Bengal Muslims 18711906: A Quest for Identity; Legacy of a Divided Nation: Indian Muslims since IndependenceBarbara Daly Metcalf, Rafiuddin Ahmed & Mushirul Hasan9780195691986 2007 HB Rs 895

This omnibus brings together three analytical frameworks the empathetic view to identity formation, the regional articulation of identity, and developments at the national level. In his introduction to the omnibus, Mushirul Hasan locates these important studies in the extant literature and emphasizes the need to draw Islam in South Asia into the contemporary discourses on colonial and postcolonial writings.

Readership: Students, teachers, researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, political science, and the general reader interested in the emergence and growth of Muslim identity in India.

The Hinduism OmnibusComprising

Hinduism: A Religion to Live By; Hinduism: The Anthropology of a Civilization; Mind, Body and Wealth: A Study of Belief and Practice in an Indian Village; Non-Renunciation: Themes and Interpretations of Hindu Culture

With an Introduction by T. N. Madan

T.N. Madan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi.

M. Biardeau, Nirad Chaudhuri & J.L. Brockington (eds)

9780195664119 2003 HB Rs 795

This omnibus with an introduction by T.N. Madan, brings together four classic works on Hinduism by renowned scholars, providing the liturgical, historical, anthropological, and individualists interpretation of the religion.

Readership: Scholars and students of Hinduism/Sanskrit studies, religious studies and comparative religion, sociology and anthropology.

The Buddhism OmnibusComprising

Gautama Buddha; The Dhammapada; The Philosophy of Religion With an Introduction by Matthew T. KapsteinIqbal Singh, S. Radhakrishna & Arvind Sharma9780195668988 2004 HB Rs 750

The three works brought together in this omnibus explore Buddhism as a rich source of literary legend, an austere ethical guide, and a contemporary philosophy very relevant in the modern world in view of the resurgence of interest in the Buddha and his

philosophy.

Readership: Scholars and students of Buddhist studies, religious studies, and comparative religion.


Omnibus Editions / Archaeology & Ancient India

The Bernard Cohn Omnibus Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilization, University of Chicago.

9780195668711 2004 HB Rs 795

(For sale in South Asia only)

This volume brings together posthumously three classic collections of Professor Cohns essays, which provide a comprehensive understanding of the working of colonialism in South Asia: An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays; Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge; and India: The

Social Anthropology of a Civilization.

Readership: Historians, anthropologists, sociologists, students, and general readers with an interest in colonial history and culture.

Maritime India Comprising

Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800; Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century; The Indian Ocean: A History of the People and the Sea.

With an Introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

9780195664287 2004 HB Rs 2500

Readership: Scholars and students of modern Indian history, maritime and imperial history, as well as general readers interested in the famed maritime regions,

contacts and history of the subcontinent.

The Partition Omnibuswith an Introduction byMushirul Hasan, is Director General of National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia.

9780195671766 2004 OIP Rs 695

The Partition Omnibus brings together four authoritative readings comprising: Prelude to Partition by David Page; The Origins of the Partition of India 1936 - 1947 by Anita Inder Singh; Divide and Quit: An Eyewitness Account of the Partition of India by Penderel

Moon; and Stern Reckoning: A Survey of the Events Leading up to and Following the Partition of India by G.D. Khosla.

Readership: Scholars and students of modern South Asian history in general and those concerned with the debates surrounding the partition, and the general reader interested in first hand accounts of what happened during the partition.

The Ashin Das Gupta Omnibus: India and the Indian Ocean World Comprising

Malabar in Asian Trade 1740-1800; Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat c. 1700-1750 Ashin Das Gupta (Late)9780195666700 2004 HB Rs 750

Two classic texts from this renowned historian, accompanied by critical discussion from leading scholars, P.J. Marshall and Irfan Habib.

Readership: Students, scholars, and the general reader interested in South Asian maritime history, trade, and economics.

Early Indian HistoryA ReaderRomila Thapar is Professor Emeritus at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She also holds the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress, and is Professorial Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. An Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, she has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell University.

9780198083764 2013 HB forthcoming

This reader brings together essays on various aspects of ancient Indian history. It discusses historiography; society and economy; changing political formations; religion, philosophy and society; and the changes which paved way for new socio-economic and political formations.

Readership: This book is an important reading for teachers, students, and scholars of ancient Indian history.

The Changing Gaze Regions and the Constructions of Early IndiaB.P. Sahu is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.9780198089193 2013 HB Rs 850

Focusing on histories of regions, this book traces the changing perceptions of history and historiography in early India. It studies politics; state formation and the role of patronage and legitimation; Kali Age crisis; rural society; caste system; and the various aspects of regional rural economy like agrarian changes, peasantry,

and land system.

Readership: This book will interest scholars and students of Indian history, ancient India, medieval India, regional studies, and informed general readers.

Dictionary of Social, Economic, and Administrative Terms in South Indian InscriptionsVolume 1 (AD)K.V. Ramesh (ed.), Former Joint Director-General, Archaeological Survey of India.

9780198080152 2012 HB Rs 2100









Archaeology & Ancient India

Atlas of Ancient Indian HistoryIrfan Habib, Professor Emeritus, History, Aligarh Muslim University.

Faiz Habib, Cartographer, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University.

9780198065647 2012 HB Rs 4350

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Reference]

Social Formations of Early South IndiaRajan Gurukkal is the Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.

9780198089391 2012 OIP Rs 345

It successfully demolishes the myth of homogenised unidimensional notion of the definitional parameters of social formation

K.M. Shrimali, The Hindu

This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period.

Readership: This volume will interest students, scholars, and teachers of ancient and medieval history, archaeology, and sociology, particularly those concerned with south India.

Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 3/e Series: Oxford India Perennials

Romila Thapar is Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2008, she was awarded Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities.

9780198077244 2012 PB Rs 345

This classic provides a comprehensive account of the history of the Mauryas with a special emphasis on the reign and activities of Asoka. It examines the sources, socio-economic conditions, administration, Dhamma,

foreign relations, and the decline of the Mauryas. This edition comes with a new Pre-word which updates research on the subject.

Readership: This book is an important reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students and teachers, as well as researchers of ancient Indian history. It will also interest the informed general reader.

The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient IndiaThe Geographical Frames of the Ancient Indian Dynasties Dilip K Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology, and Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University.

9780198069898 2010 HB Rs 650

This book argues that the web of inter-regional interaction was not limited to a particular set of regions but had a pan-Indian ramification. None of

the regions could therefore thrive in political isolation. It underscores that regions in ancient Indian history never had any immutable historical shape or identity but were fluid, both in their interactions and outlines.

Readership: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars, teachers, and students of ancient Indian history and archaeology. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers concerned with the period.

The Power of Gender and the Gender of PowerExplorations in Early Indian History

Kumkum Roy is Professor, Centre for Historical

Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru

University, New Delhi.9780198066767 2010 HB Rs 850

Although Kumkum Roy has written extensively on gender history in early India, she has not written them with a feminist pen, but as a social historian. She has emerged, over time, as one of the foremost scholars who have researched on gender in history and has given new

directions to the subject. ... One of the outstanding qualities of [her] work has been in the way she has re-read varieties of early texts in the light of gender history across other cultures.

B. D. Chattopadhyaya

Readership: This volume will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of early Indian history and gender studies.

Ancient IndiaNew ResearchUpinder Singh (ed.) is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.

Nayanjot Lahiri (ed.) is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.

9780198068303 2010 OIP Rs 325

the editorschallenge [usual] perceptions with a quiet confi dence in a new generation the future of our past is safe...

Economic and Political Weekly

[The book] raise[s] refreshing questions and bring together new research [it] reassures us about the future of the discipline

The Book Review

Readership: The book will be of immense interest to scholars, teachers, and students of ancient and early medieval history, archaeology, and anthropology.

Rethinking Indias PastR.S. Sharma (19192011) was Professor Emeritus of History, University of Patna.

9780198068297 2010 OIP Rs 310

indispensable to every serious student at all levels.

The Hindu

a brilliant and comprehensive collectionof path-breaking essays.

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

[the volume refl ects] his nuanced understanding and profound analytical insights

Bhairabi P. Sahu

Readership: This book is essential reading for students and teachers of ancient Indian history.



Krishnas MandalaBhagavata Religion and BeyondD. Dennis Hudson (19382006) was Emeritus Professor of World Religions, Smith College.

John Stratton Hawley (ed.) Professor of Religion, Barnard College, Columba University.

9780198062769 2009 HB Rs 725

This volume studies different aspects of Bhagavata religion and Vaishnavism in south India and also the connections between the Vaishnavism of south India and a remembered or imagined north. It explores methods of reading religious and mythological texts in their historical context.

Readership: Scholars and students of Indian history, religious studies, and philosophy.

The Illustrated History of South IndiaFrom Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar

With an Introduction by R. Champakalakshmi

and an Epilogue by P.M. Rajan Gurukkal

K.A. Nilakanta Sastri (18921975) was Professor of History at the University of Madras.

R. Champakalakshmi was Professor at the Centre for Historic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

P.M. Rajan Gurukkal is Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala.

9780198063568 2009 PB Rs 325

This special illustrated edition of the classic work showcases Sastris unmatched grasp over a wide variety of primary sources (Sanskrit and Tamil), his interpretative acumen, and his interdisciplinary approach to the study of history.

Readership: The rich visual contentsixty new illustrations and the redrawn maps and genealogical chartstogether with the additional contextual material will be useful to students and teachers of south Indian history as well as lay readers.

India: An Archaeological History, 2/e Palaeolithic Beginnings to Early Historic FoundationsDilip K. Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology and Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University.

9780198064121 2009 OIP Rs 425

[This] book presents [archaeological] history in all its continuity and diversity covering a vast area through a long period

The Hindu

Readership: This comprehensive and up to date book will be an essential reading for students and teachers of archaeology and ancient Indian history.

Indias Ancient Past R.S. Sharma (d. 2011) was Professor Emeritus, Patna University, and the Founder Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research.

9780195687859 2006 OIP Rs 310

The narrative is highly readable, demarcating the major periods of social formation, political and cultural evolution, underlying which is a judicious use of all available sources and their relative importance for each period.

R. Champakalakshmi

Readership: Students, foreign tourists and the general reader interested in the history of early India.

The Unknown Hsuan-TsangD. Devahuti (19291988) (ed.) specialized in ancient Indian and early South-east Asian history. She taught at the universities of Malaya and Queensland. Her last teaching assignment was with the history department of University of Delhi.

9780195683493 2006 OIP Rs 245

The Unknown Hsuan-tsang adds to as well as updates our knowledge of source material on the life and work of the Buddhist pilgrim from China . comparative study of various versions in different languages of the same text reflects the high competence and hard work of Devahuti in this context.


Readership: This book will be a significant read for scholars and students of early Indian history, Buddhist, and religious studies. The readership would also include followers of Buddhism, tourists, and an informed general audience.

Ancient Delhi, 2/e Upinder Singh is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.

9780195684056 2006 OIP Rs 255

Singh certainly achieves her objective of sensitizing readers to the variegated past of the region. The visuals are often strikingly beautiful

Kumkum Roy

Readership: Historians, students of history, the general reader and visitors to Delhi.



Trading EncountersFrom the Euphrates to the Indus in the Bronze Age Shereen Ratnagar, Former Professor of Archaeology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Currently an independent researcher.

9780195680881 2005 OIP Rs 350

In this is the second, thoroughly revised edition of Shereen Ratnagars Encounters: The Westerly Trade of the Harappa Civilization, the author has included exciting new data recently available from excavations in West Asia.

Readership: Students and scholars of ancient Indian history, Indian archaeology (particularly the Harappa Civilization), anthropology, and economics, as well as the informed lay reader.

Iron and Social Change in Early IndiaBhairabi Prasad Sahu (ed.)

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Debates in Indian History & Society Series]

Trade in Early IndiaRanabir Chakravarti (ed.)

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Themes in Indian History Series]

Cultural PastsEssays in Early Indian HistoryRomila Thapar is Professor Emeritus at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

9780195664874 2003 OIP Rs 765

This volume, a collection of papers and lectures, focuses on historiography and on the changing dimensions of social and cultural history pertaining to early Indian history.

Readership: Scholars and students of early Indian history, as well as general readers interested in the culture and history of ancient India.

History and Beyond Romila Thapar9780195668322 2003 OIP Rs 425

This is an omnibus edition comprising four of Romila Thapars classic works Interpreting Early India; Time as a Metaphor of History; Cultural Transaction and Early India; From Lineage to State.

Readership: Students and scholars of ancient Indian history and culture.

Narratives and the Making of HistoryTwo Lectures Romila Thapar9780195651775 2000 OIP Rs 175

These two lectures were given as the D.D. Kosambi Memorial Lectures at Bombay University in 1999. They are an exploration of some facets of the interface between narrative and history.

Readership: Scholars and students of Indian history.

From Lineage to StateSocial Formations of the Mid-First Millenium BC in the Ganga ValleyRomila Thapar9780195626759 1999 OIP Rs 225

This book examines the major change from a lineage-based society to the establishment of state systems, and takes into account the emergence of a peasant economy and the process of urbanization.

Readership: Students, teachers and scholars of ancient Indian history.

The Aryan Debate Thomas R. Trautmann (ed.)


LekhapaddhatiDocuments of State and Everyday Life from Ancient and Early Medieval GujaratPushpa Prasad

(for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on India & South Asia)

Cultural Transaction and Early India Romila Thapar9780195633641 1999 OIP Rs 95

Cultural Transaction suggests alternative ways of assessing the early Indian tradition. Using more recent concepts of culture and tradition, it distances itself from the static notion of fixed traditions and exclusive high cultures.

Readership: Scholars and students of Indian history.


Archaeology & Ancient India / Medieval India

Interpreting Early IndiaRomila Thapar9780195633429 1999 OIP Rs 275

In recent years historical interpretation has drawn on other disciplines and this is evident in Interpreting Early India. The subject is history, but the discussions in this work move beyond history to provide a glimpse of explorations of new historical territories relating to early India.

Readership: Graduate students and historians of ancient India and those interested in India.

Trade, Ideology and UrbanizationSouth India 300 BC to AD 1300R. Champakalakshmi, former Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

9780195648751 1999 OIP Rs 765

In this volume, the author analyses the reasons for urbanization not merely in terms of the economy and demography but also Cola imperialism and the bhakti ideology in this process.

Readership: This book would interest students of ancient Indian history, urban and economic history.

Political History of Ancient India, 8/eHemchandra Raychaudhuri9780195643763 1997 OIP Rs 575

This book traces the political history of ancient India from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty. The aim of the author is to present materials for an authentic chronological history of ancient India through facts recovered from sources.

Readership: Undergraduate students, and teachers of ancient Indian history.

A History of South India, 4/eK.A. Nilakanta Sastri (18921975) was Professor of History at the University of Madras.

With an Introduction by R. Champakalakshmi

9780195606867 1997 OIP Rs 345

This classic study offers a compact and comprehensive account of the much-neglected history of south Indiatreated here as a single geographical entityup to the middle of the seventeenth century.

Readership: Undergraduate students and teachers of ancient Indian history.

The Changing GazeRegions and the Constructions of Early IndiaB.P. Sahu is Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.9780198089193 2013 HB Rs 850

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Archaeology and Ancient India]

Fathpur Sikri Revisited Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi is Associate Professor, Centre for Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

9780198084037 2013 forthcomingThis book presents a multi-dimensional history of Fathpur Sikri, a capital city under the Mughals. It discusses architectural traditions, town planning, economic centres, location of imperial and bureaucratic establishments, the bazaars, the waterworks, road networks, and residential areas to provide a wider understanding of the Mughal world.

Readership: This book will be useful for scholars and students of medieval Indian history, Mughal art and architecture, and the interested general reader.

Delhi Sultanate and Its TimesMohammad Habib (Late), Professor, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University.

Irfan Habib (ed.), Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University.

9780198069942 2013 HB forthcoming

The volume cover the entire political history of Delhi Sultanate, focusing on Mahmud Ghaznis campaigns, Ziyauddin Baranis descriptions, Sufi saints and their records, as well as peasants,

artisans, tailors, weavers and a plethora of people who constituted the landscape of the subcontinent during the eleventh to seventeenth centuries.

Readership: It will be a significant resource for scholars, teachers, and students of medieval Indian history, especially Delhi Sultanate.

The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India, 2/eAwadh and Punjab, 170748Series: Oxford India Perennials

Muzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

9780198077411 2013 PB forthcoming

In the backdrop of the decline of the Mughal empire, this book studies two contrasting regions in north IndiaAwadh and Punjab. It offers a bold new interpretation of the period by focussing

on the agrarian uprisings, the jagirdari system, and the emergence of a new regionally-based political order. This edition includes a new introduction.

Readership: This book is an important reading for students, scholars, and teachers of Mughal history and early modern India.


Medieval India

The Agrarian System of Mughal India 15561707, 3/eSeries: Oxford India Perennials

Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Advanced Study in History, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, UP.

9780198077428 2013 PB forthcoming

This book presents a detailed historical analysis of the agrarian conditions in pre-colonial India. It examines areas like land revenue, administration, and agrarian economy and social structure in the Mughal period. The new edition includes a new prologue.

Readership: Sstudents, teachers, and scholars of medieval India particularly

those interested in agrarian systems.

The Making of Early Medieval India, 2/eSeries: Oxford India Perennials

Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, Former Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

9780198077251 2013 PB Rs 395

This volume explores the processes and nature of change in the making of early medieval Indian society from the seventh to the thirteenth century AD. This edition comes with an extensive introduction highlighting a new framework for understanding early medieval

India.

Readership: Undergraduate and post graduate students, teachers, and researchers of medieval Indian history.

Three Bhakti VoicesMirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Times and OursJohn Stratton Hawley 9780198085393 2012 OIP Rs 495

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Religion - General]

Rethinking Early Medieval IndiaA Reader

Upinder Singh (ed.) is Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi. 9780198086062 2012 OIP Rs 350

[T]he editor has very ably provided [the essays] the necessary binding thread in her very insightful introduction...a must read for all scholars of that period as well as the general reader interested in knowing its true character and its contribution to modern India...

Purattatva

This book changes the way we look at the history of early medieval India (c. 6001300 ce). Raising questions about periodization, it highlights the complex and multilinear nature of historical processes in the subcontinent.

Readership: The thought-provoking essays, along with the incisive and critical Introduction, will interest students and teachers of ancient and medieval Indian history.

Sufism, Culture, and PoliticsAfghans and Islam in Medieval North IndiaRaziuddin Aquil, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.

9780198069157 2012 OIP Rs 375

a significant contribution to the understanding of role of Sufis and their influence not only on rulers but also on HinduMuslim relations. The book is a result of original painstaking research.

Asghar Ali Engineer, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism

This book makes an innovative and original intervention in the existing debates on the questions of medieval politics, patterns of governance as well as the relationship between politics, Islam and Muslim religious leaders.

Readership: Scholars and students of medieval Indian history, Islamic, religious, and cultural studies.

Making SpaceSufis and Settlers in Early Modern IndiaNile Green, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

9780198077961 2012 HB Rs 795

Nile Green is at the forefront of a new transnational history that is transforming the study of South Asia. In the beautifully integrated essays here, Green brings alive the role of Sufis, texts about them, shrines, and landscapes that together shape enduring forms of meaning and belonging...The volume is a pleasure to read.

Barbara D. Metcalf, Professor Emerita, University of California, Davis

This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social transformation in medieval India between 1500 and 1750 by studying various Sufi movements. Tracing how different Muslim communities located their sense of belonging, it reveals how religious resources were deployed to create new spaces of memory on Indian soil through the interplay of architecture and narrative.

Readership: This book will be an important reading for scholars, researchers, and students of medieval Indian history, Islamic studies, and religion particularly those interested in Sufism.

South India Under the CholasY. Subbarayalu, Researcher and Head, Department of Indology, French Institute of Pondicherry.

9780198077350 2012 HB Rs 675

This volume deals with different aspects of statesociety interactions in medieval south India, especially under the Cholas. It discusses the nature of the state, revenue system, local governance bodies, land rights, along with trade, merchant guilds, and maritime trade.

Readership: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars, teachers, and students of medieval history, particularly those interested in south India, Cholas, and early medieval India.


Medieval India

South India Under VijayanagaraArt and ArchaeologyAnila Verghese (ed.) is Principal of Sophia College for Women, Mumbai.

Anna L. Dallapiccola (ed.) is former Professor of Indian Art at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University and Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University.

9780198068617 2011 HB Rs 1450

Divided into two equal parts, the first focuses on Hampi, a World Heritage Site. It examines Vijayanagara scholarship, archaeological work,

heritage site management, conservation, photography, epigraphy, sculptures, and sacred topography. The second links the city with the wider regions of the empire. It discusses the development of regional art and architecture, Vijayanagara and post Vijayanagara paintings, Shaivite ascetic iconography, and Vijayanagara coinage.

Readership: Scholars and students of medieval Indian history, archaeology, art, architecture, and religion, particularly those concerned with Vijayanagara Empire and south India.

Sufism and Society in Medieval IndiaRaziuddin Aquil (ed.)

(for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Debates in Indian History and Society Series)

Forging a RegionSultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 12001500Samira Sheikh is Assistant Professor of history, Vanderbilt University, USA.

9780198060192 2010 HB Rs 750

Part of the SOAS series, this book delineates strands of the politics of Gujarat over the three centuries when it was emerging as a political and linguistic region. It also examines how the political landscape was differentiated by a variety of religious and sectarian groups competing for resources and

legitimation.

Readership: Scholars, students, and researchers of medieval history especially those concerned with Gujarat or western India, and more importantly those interested in regional histories.

Ancient to MedievalSouth Indian Society in TransitionNoboru Karashima, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo.

9780198063124 2009 HB Rs 750

This volume traces the emergence of the medieval state, social formation, and landholding and production system in south India, specifically in Tamil Nadu from twelfth to fourteenth centuries. The essays also throw light on the role of temples, jatis, merchant guilds, trade, and ports in the development of socio-economic milieu.

Readership: Scholars, teachers, and students of ancient and medieval south Indian history, archaeology, anthropology, and sociology

Interpreting Mughal PaintingEssays on Art, Society, and CultureSom Prakash Verma, Retired Professor, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, UP.

9780195692570 2009 HB Rs 595

Focusing on issues like the origins of Mughal painting, its evolution and development under different Mughal emperors, the significance of various symbols and motifs, this collection highlights the links between painting and humanistic values and the ordinary events of day-to-day life in the Mughal Empire.

Readership: This book will interest scholars, teachers, and students of medieval India particularly art history as well as general reader interested in painting and culture.

Information and the Public SpherePersian Newsletters from Mughal Delhi Margrit Pernau (ed.) Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Yunus Jaffrey (ed.) Professor (retd.), Department of Persian, Delhi University.

9780195690859 2009 HB Rs 1295

Through a study of Persian newsletters, this sourcebook examines the creation of knowledge and of the public sphere during the years of interface between British and Mughal culture.

Readership: Scholars, students, and researchers of Mughal and early modern history of India.


State, Pluralism, and the Indian Historical TraditionSatish Chandra, former Chairman, University Grants Commission, is presently Vice Chairman of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies. He is also Secretary of the History of India Scheme of the Indian History Congress.

9780198064206 2009 OIP Rs 295

This collection of seminal essays explores four main themes on medieval Indiaevolution of state, role of towns and urbanism, the historical and maritime traditions, and cultural pluralism. Satish Chandra

surveys the role of some leading Indian historians in promoting a more critical and secular view of medieval India. In a historical assessment of the last fifty years, he highlights the role India could play in a challenging world order.

relevant to contemporary issues beautifully written

Muzaffar Alam

Readership: This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of medieval and modern Indian history, politics, and cultural studies.

The Early Medieval in South IndiaKesavan Veluthat[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Collected Essays]

People, Taxation, and Trade in Mughal IndiaShireen Moosvi is Professor, Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

9780198066316 2009 OIP Rs 410

I marvel at the impressive scholarship wedded to skills in economic and statistical analysis that are rare.

The Book Review

Moosvis book calls for attention at a time when Indias economic experience is being widely debated. She has kept the interest in economic history alive by making it

possible for readers to hold scattered pieces of quality research in a single volume.

The Hindu

Piety and Politics in the Early Indian MosqueFinbarr Barry Flood (ed.)[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Debates in Indian History & Society Series]

The Illustrated History of South IndiaFrom Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar(for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Archaeology & Ancient India)

Mughal IndiaStudies in Polity, Ideas, Society, and CultureM. Athar Ali (Late) was Professor, Aligarh Muslim University and University Grants Commission National Professor.

9780195696615 2008 OIP Rs 445

(Preface by Irfan Habib)

It is a tribute to Athar Alis choice of themes, clarity of thought, and fluent prose that the reader gets here a large amount of informationin such lucidly analysed form...

Irfan Habib

Readership: Lucidly written, this classic collection will be essential reading for students, scholars, and teachers of history, particularly medieval India.

Religion, State, and Society in Medieval India S. Nurul Hasan (1921-1993) was Professor of History at Delhi University and former Governor of West Bengal and Orissa.

Satish Chandra (ed.) former Chairman, University Grants Commission, is presently Vice Chairman of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies. He is also Secretary of the History of India Scheme of the Indian History Congress.

9780195696608 2008 OIP Rs 375

a collection with an excellent introduction, of essays ... Hasan was perhaps the best example of ... a unique combination of tradition and modernity.

The Statesman

Readership: Scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students of early medieval Indian history and the history of the Mughal period.

Medieval India


Vijayanagara VisionsReligious Experience and Cultural Creativity in a South Indian EmpireWilliam J. Jackson, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA.

9780195683202 2007 HB Rs 695

This book explores new ideas about religious imagination. By considering the visual images which the south Indian singer-saints, poets and others left recorded in their lyrics, verses, stone carvings, and stories, the author explores the religious ideas and

visions that engaged and inspired these culturally creative figures.

Readership: Scholars and students of south Indian religion, culture, and history, especially those concerned with the Vijayanagara Empire and the bhakti movement.

Songs of the Saints of IndiaJohn Stratton Hawley, Professor of Religion, Barnard College Columbia University, USA.

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies and the Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

9780195694208 2007 OIP Rs 345

This book presents the life stories and poems of six well-known saint-poets of north India Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai, and Tulsidas who have contributed more to the religious vocabulary

of Hinduism in north India today than any voices before or since. In worship, in education, even in politics, modern Hinduism sings their tune.

Readership: This will be useful for scholars, teachers, researchers, and students of Indian literature, culture, religion, history, as well as tourists, travellers, and general reader.

A European Experience of the Mughal OrientThe Ijaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Henri Polier Muzaffar Alam (ed.) Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

Seema Alavi (ed.) is Professor, Department of History, Delhi University.

9780195691870 2007 OIP Rs 695

a subtle and valuable source for the social, economic and cultural history of the early colonial period[t]his book whets the readers appetite

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Readership: Scholars interested in Mughal and early modern Indian history, European expansion in Asia and literary cultures.

India and Central AsiaCommerce and Culture, 15001800Scott C. Levi (ed.) Assistant Professor of Central Asian and Islamic World History, University of Louisville.


Textiles and Weavers in South India, 2/eVijaya Ramaswamy, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

9780195676334 2006 HB Rs 595

Textiles and Weavers provides a comprehensive history of the world of weaving in South India from the tenth century onwards. This second edition takes the story of the South Indian handloom industry into the colonial period and beyond. It revisits the conditions of weavers in a context of rapidly changing lifestyles

and technology explosion.

Readership: This book will interest students and scholars of Indian history particularly South India and those interested in fashion, textile designing, and the growth of technology.

Text and PracticeEssays on South Asian History

Ronald Inden, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

9780195668957 2006 HB Rs 695

SOAS Studies in South Asia

The essays included in this book represent the bulk of Ronald Indens essays dealing with the two major themes he worked on during his scholarly career caste and religion.

Readership: Scholars and students of medieval Indian history, specifically engaging with the issues of caste and the evolution of the state will find this collection very useful.

Indias Islamic Traditions, 711-1750Richard M. Eaton (ed.) Professor of History, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Themes in Indian History Series]

Religious Movements in South Asia 600-1800David N. Lorenzen (ed.)[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Debates in Indian History & Society Series]

Medieval India


Religious Movements and Institutions in Medieval IndiaVolume VII Part 2J.S. Grewal (ed.) [for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on PHISPC Series]

The State and Society in Medieval IndiaVolume VII Part 1J.S. Grewal (ed.), Padmashree, is former Professor and Vice Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and Director and later Chairman, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

9780195667202 2005 HB Rs 1950

This important volume prepared under the auspices of The Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture makes an attempt to fill a serious lacuna by providing a comprehensive look at the

social history within the larger parameters of state and society: state forms and patronage, demographic distribution, societal organisation, slavery, social change, gender relations, and urbanization. This is also a truly pan-Indian volume on medieval Indian history as it looks at state forms and social organizations among the Cholas, the Delhi Sultante, the Sultante of Bengal, Himachal, Kumaon and Garhwal, medieval Rajasthanm the Vijayanagar State, Kerala, the Mughal Empire, Marahastra, and the Punjab.

Readership: Graduate and undergraduate students of early medieval and Mughal Indian history, scholars interested in the social, economic, and political aspects of medieval India, libraries, institutions, and government departments

Essays on Medieval Indian HistorySatish Chandra, former Chairman, University Grants Commission, is presently Vice Chairman of the Society for Indian Ocean Studies. He is also Secretary of the twelve-volume History of India Scheme initiated by the Indian History Congress.

9780195672459 2004 OIP Rs 395

The essays included in this volume explore the interconnections between society, economy, religion and state, and their interaction with political processes in medieval India.

Readership: Undergraduate students and teachers and historians working on Medieval India.

Essays on Islam and Indian HistoryRichard M. Eaton9780195662658 2002 OIP Rs 350

Eaton presents case studies and reviews scholarly trends, to challenge the notion of Islam being a fixed, monolithic entity.

Readership: Scholars and students of Islamic and Indian history.

The Mughal Nobility under AurangzebM. Athar Ali (Late)9780195655995 2001 OIP Rs 350

This important book, first published in 1966, led to a reconsideration of many long-held views regarding the ethnic composition of the Mughal ruling classes and the role of the nobility in a formally centralized state apparatus.

Readership: The book is essential reading for students, scholars and historians of medieval India.

The Mughal State 1526-1750Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

9780195652253 2000 OIP Rs 395

The wealth of this volume lies in its putting together a selection of 18 essays which articulate clearly the shifting trends in the understanding of the Mughal state. The articles are put in context by the editors ... [This is] a splendid historiographical survey on Mughal researchers.

Seema Alavi

Akbar and His IndiaIrfan Habib (ed.)9780195646320 1999 OIP Rs 345

This volume focuses on Akbar, his empire and environment, to present a picture of the polity and culture of India.

Readership: Scholars and students of medieval Indian history.

Medieval India IResearches in the History of India 12001750Irfan Habib (ed.)9780195646580 1997 OIP Rs 325

The papers collected in this volume aim at exploring new themes without abating the rigour of the orientalist tradition. The period covered extends from 1200 to 1750, and the themes touched upon belong to agrarian relations, civil engineering, ruling-class and religion.

Readership: Students and scholars of the political, cultural, social and economic history of medieval India.

Medieval India


Dictionary of Social, Economic, and Administrative Terms in South Indian InscriptionsVolume 1 (AD)K.V. Ramesh (ed.), Former Joint Director-General, Archaeological Survey of India.

9780198080152 2012 HB Rs 2100








The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 Richard M. Eaton (ed.)9780195641738 1997 OIP Rs 345

(For sale in South Asia only)

A History of South India, 4/eK.A. Nilakanta Sastri (18921975)9780195606867 1997 OIP Rs 345

This classic study offers a compact and comprehensive account of the much-neglected history of south Indiatreated here as a single geographical entityup to the middle of the seventeenth century.

Readership: Undergraduate students and teachers of ancient Indian history.

Medieval India / Modern Indian History

Medical Encounters in British IndiaDeepak Kumar (ed.), Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Raj Sekhar Basu (ed.), Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calcutta

9780198089216 2013 HB Rs 875

This volume explores the nature of interactions between the East and the West in the field of medicine. It focuses on examples from Indias medical tradition and the challenges it faced

when modern medical system entered the country as part of the British colonial rule.

Readership: This volume will interest scholars, researchers, and students of Indian history especially those concerned with issues of health and medicine in colonial India.

Founding an Empire on Indias North-Eastern Frontiers, 17901840Climate, Commerce, Polity

Gunnel Cederlf, Professor, Department of History, Uppsala University, Sweden

9780198090571 2013 HB forthcoming

This book examines how north-east Bengal and the neighbouring kingdoms of the north-east India came under the control of the British East India Company. Combining colonial, legal, and environmental history, it explores the daily

administrative and military practices which shaped colonial polities and subject formation in the varied social ecologies of the region.

Readership: This book will interest students and scholars of colonial Indian history, environmental and legal history, particularly of Bengal and north-east India, as well as the informed general reader.

Forgotten FriendsMonks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast IndiaIndrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

9780198089223 2013 HB forthcoming

This book traces the changing long-term history of a vast Brahmaputra valley region by outlining now-forgotten relationships between its distinct languages, faiths, monastic traditions, and communities.

Readership: This volume will interest scholars, researchers, and students of Indian history, anthropology, and gender studies, especially those involved in studying the northeast India.


Modern Indian History

From Ghalibs Dilli to Lutyens New Delhi A Documentary RecordMushirul Hasan (ed.) is Director General, National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Dinyar Patel (ed.) is an independent scholar. He is also a PhD candidate, Modern South Asia, Department of History, Harvard University.

9780198084990 2013 HB forthcoming

This book brings together official government correspondence which reveals Delhis evolution from 1911 and 1914. It describes the hurdles encounteredadministrative, financial, legal, military, and interest group-basedin establishing the capital city as well as many unknown facets on urban planning, health, environment, and geography in the early twentieth century Delhi.

Readership: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history as well as the general reader.

Partitioned LivesMigrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 194765Haimanti Roy is Assistant Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

9780198081777 2013 HB Rs 695

... an excellent example of reorientation of Partitions histories. With her access to hitherto unused sources, the author looks at the territorial division as a lived experience and offers us a human and nuanced narrative of the partition.

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University

This book focuses on the partition of Bengal, its effects on minorities, and the subsequent reordering of national identities in India and East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). It examines how India and East Pakistan engaged with their post-Partition predicaments and how ordinary people on both sides reacted, adopted, and negotiated.

Readership: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history, sociology, and the interested general reader.

Towards FreedomDocuments on the Movement for Independence in India 1947, Part 1Sucheta Mahajan (ed.)Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (General Editor)9780198083979 2013 forthcoming

(for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Reference)

Crime through TimeSeries: Themes in Indian HistoryAnupama Rao (ed.), Associate Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.

Saurabh Dube (ed.), Professor of History, Center of Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City.

9780198077619 2013 HB forthcoming

Examining the notions, ideas, and concepts of crime and justice from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the volume covers laws, judiciary, policing, crime, criminals, Dalits,

minorities, and violence.

Readership: This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history, sociology, and cultural studies.

The Cracked Mirror An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory

Gopal Guru Sundar Sarukkai 9780198078319 2012 HB Rs 625

[for detailed blurb, please see entry in section on Philosophy]

Dalit Art and Visual ImageryGary Michael Tartakov (ed.) is Professor Emeritus of Art and Design History, Iowa State University. He is former Interim Director of African American Studies, Iowa State University.

with a Foreword by Sukhadeo Thorat

9780198079361 2012 HB Rs 1495

Gary Tartakov is [a] serious art historian. His book has embarked on a new aspect of Ambedkars Buddhism. It offers us a brilliant insight into the emerging forms of Buddhist-Ambedkarite imageries that are constitutive of cultural identity. The book painstakingly foregrounds

radical realism of Buddhist-Ambedkarite art forms in universal understanding of imagery. It makes refreshingly new reading; as it unfolds to us the revolutionary meaning that is constitutive of the imagery.

Gopal Guru, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Untouchability and discrimination against Dalits is a hidden, yet widely prevalent, phenomenon in Indian society. Raising the face of contemporary untouchability into view, this book analyses the uses of visual imagery by, for, and against Dalits in the historical and contemporary periods.

Readership: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of Dalit studies, sociology, modern Indian history, and religion (particularly Buddhism) and others concerned with caste politics.



Gandhis ReligionA Homespun ShawlJ.T.F. Jordens established the first Department of Indian Studies in Australia at Melbourne University in 1961. He also served as the Dean of Australian National University from 1982 to 1988.

With an Introduction by Ramachandra Guha

9780198084976 2012 HB Rs 795

(For sale in India only)

Allowing Gandhi to speak for himself, this book sensitively resurrects the religious life of the Mahatma. It reveals how intrinsic his faith was to the

man, his politics, and his idea of service. It shows how Gandhi formulated his own religious ethic, weaving his experiences with the teachings of the Gita and other texts. At times of anarchy and communal strife it was Gandhis belief in his convictions that restored peace and amity.

Readership: Based on extensive research, and written in elegant, understated, prose, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of modern Indian history, religious studies, and Gandhian studies. It will also interest the general reader seeking a deeper understanding of the greatest Indian of modern times.

Globalizing Labour?Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 18701945G. Balachandran, Professor, International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

9780198078845 2012 PB Rs 795

This book explores the world of maritime workers and shipping during a formative period for the modern world economy and a crucial period of the British empire. From the recruitment and control of shipping crews to their social and regional

composition, wages, itineraries, work, voyages, as well as patterns of resistance, it underscores the importance of Indian labour in histories of modern world trade and shipping.

Readership: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history and economics, particularly those working on maritime labour and shipping.

Punjab ReconsideredHistory, Culture, and PracticeAnshu Malhotra (ed.), Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi.

Farina Mir (ed.), Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

9780198078012 2012 HB Rs 695

This book considers the notion of Punjabiyat, and examines if there exists an idea of Punjab or ideas of Punjab that connects people from the region, now scattered across the globe. It discusses changing contours and notions of

territoriality, migrations, and diaspora; language and literary cultures; colonial experience; religious identities; Sikh studies and identity; cultural and religious syncretism; and middle class and urban spaces; and conversion and politics of difference.

Readership:This book will interest scholars, students, and researchers of history, particularly modern India, as well as sociology and cultural studies.

Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars, 3/eNorth Indian Society in the Age of British

Expansion 17701870

Series: Oxford India PerennialsC.A. Bayly is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharines College, Cambridge.

9780198077466 2012 PB Rs 425

This path-breaking work offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century India and traces the evolution

of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of British empire following the 1857 mutiny.

Readership: This book is an important reading for students, scholars, and teachers of modern Indian history and economic history.

Writing IndiaColonial Ethnography in the Nineteenth CenturyMushirul Hasan (ed.), is Director General of National Archives of India, New Delhi. A Padmashree awardee, he is former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia.

9780198074069 2012 HB Rs 2950

This volume brings together rare ethnographic documents from late nineteeth century India which provide comprehensive information about everyday lives, geographical distribution, physical and linguistic

attributes, myths and genealogies, customs and traditions, religious and social observances, and livelihood patterns of communities such as Brahmans, Rajputs, Sikhs, Garhwalis, Muhammadens, and Dogras.

Readership: This book will interest researchers, students, and scholars of modern Indian history, sociology, and anthropology.

The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, 3/eSeries: Oxford India PerennialsGyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, and Director, Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, USA.

9780198077305 2012 PB Rs 445

A milestone in contemporary debates on the modern political community, this book initiated a radically new analysis of communalism, nationalism, and

colonialism. It offered a sustained critique of an identity theory of politics and history, a mode of thinking and analysis that was the gift of nineteenth and early twentieth century social and behavioural science.

Readership: Students and scholars, teachers, and students of modern Indian history. It will also interest sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists.


Partition of IndiaWhy 1947?

Series: Debates in Indian History and SocietyKaushik Roy (ed.) is Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW), Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and Reader, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

9780198077602 2012 HB Rs 695

The Partition of British India has left more questions than answers. In the wake of the violence and mayhem in the aftermath, there emerged looming

questions: Why was India partitioned in 1947?; Was it inevitable? This book chronicles the seminal studies by leading scholars to analyse the timing and causation of Partition. From first-hand accounts of the process of Partition to the reconstruction of the experiences of the subordinate and the marginal, this book presents balanced analyses of the process and events leading to the Partition. It locates long term imperatives in Hindu and Muslim revivalist movements of the nineteenth century; regional factors with focus on the United Provinces, Punjab, and Bengal; as well as the international contexts.

Readership: Addressing several issues like identity, communalism, and regionalism, this book will interest scholars, teachers, and students of modern Indian history and politics.

Appropriation and Invention of TraditionThe East India Company and Hindu Law in Early Colonial BengalNandini Bhattacharyya-Panda, is an independent researcher.

9780198083788 2012 OIP Rs 395

The author of this bookshould be congratulated for having opened up a new line of enquiry in the field of modern Indian history.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Telegraph

This book, with a strong focus on primary sources, makes an important contribution to the legal and intellectual history of early modern Bengal. It brings to light the complex interpenetration of diverse interests, opinions, and ideologies articulated by various social groups implicated in the process of colonization.

Readership: This edition will be useful to students and scholars of law, modern Indian history, and political science.

Behind the MaskThe Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (17151911)Anindita Mukhopadhyay is Reader at Department of History, University of Hyderabad.

9780198089674 2012 OIP Rs 350

[This] book is most welcome in the genre of historical writings.

The Indian Historical Review

The book addresses a fundamental discursive discontinuity when the Bengali bhadralok sought to claim a new position of the aware and good

legal subject. It also underlines the development of a new cultural language of morality and the rule of law.

Readership: This edition will be useful to students and scholars of law, modern Indian history, and political science

Developing IndiaAn Intellectual and Social HistoryBenjamin Zachariah is Professor of History, Presidency University, Kolkata, and a research fellow at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University.

9780198086079 2012 OIP Rs 395

The book deserves to be essential reading for students of Indian nationalism. It is elegantly written, extraordinarily detailed, and analytically polished.


This unusual work delves into the underlying notions of progress, self-government, and nation-building in developmental goals articulated in India between the 1930s and 1950s. It examines three intertwined themes around which development was conceptualized during this periodthe importance of science and technology, the need for government to express certain social concerns, and attempts to discipline and control populations. This paperback edition includes a new preface through which the author revisits and re-engages with his own work in todays context, taking forward the debates of which the book is a part.

Readership: Sharply analytical and thought-provoking, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, sociology, politics, and cultural studies, as also historians of science and technology.

Violence, Martyrdom and PartitionA Daughters TestimonyNonica Datta teaches History at Miranda House, University of Delhi.

9780198083993 2012 OIP Rs 345

If getting into the skin of Subhashini is one of the obvious triumphs of the book, the other remarkable aspect of the book is its craft.

Dilip Menon, Biblio

This book presents the oral testimony of Subhashini (19142003), the woman head of a well-known Arya Samaj institution devoted to womens education in

rural north India.

Readership: A highly readable and novel work, this book will be of interest to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and those engaged with culture and gender studies.

Sex and SensibilityRichard Blechyndens Calcutta Diaries, 17911822

Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in colonial Calcutta. Sifting through anecdotes, extracts, and stories from over eighty volumes of diaries and papers, Sex and Sensibility, and Sentiment and Self give a unique perspective into colonial households, daily life, corruption in law and private conduct, and emerging norms of identity.

Peter Robb is Research Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

9780198075110 2011 HB Rs 745

Piecing together the intimate and everyday life of Richard Blechynden, Peter Robb reveals the politics of power within households and the position of women. Demarcating the concepts of domestic, public, and private spaces, Peter Robb allows us to eavesdrop on the lives of ordinary people, both European and Indian, richly detailing their day-to-day exchanges, their hopes, and their fears.



Sentiment and SelfRichard Blechyndens Calcutta Diaries, 17911822Richard BlechyndenPeter Robb9780198075127 2011 HB Rs 745

Exploring the British impact on Indians and the Indian experience of the British, Sentiment and Self etches detailed portraits of the servants and the children in Blechyndens household. He examines employeremployee relations between the colonials and the Indians, as well as the gross imperfections of

petty systems of administration and justice.

Readership: These books will be of immense interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history, gender studies, cultural studies, and British imperialism.

B.R.AmbedkarThe B

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