India has long been dominated by the upper castes, most notably the Brahmins and the warrior castes whose influence permeates society at every level.

India's Silent Revolution

Politics & Social Sciences

JAFFRELOT, Christophe

Social Sciences

Permanent Black

Through the intertwining stories of Dolly and Rajkumar, the history of the 20th century is told across three generations, spread over three interlinked parts of the British Empire: Burma, with its conflicting undercurrents of discontent; Malaysia, with its cast number of rubber plantations; and India, amid growing opposition to British rule. This is an epic novel written with unerring skill. The English novelist, has surpassed himself here. The author of The Shadow Lines has come up with a monumental work of the historical imagination.

Glass Palace

Literature & Fiction

Ghosh, Amitav

Genre Fiction

The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery

A medical thriller, a Victorian ghost story, a scientific quest--this novel ranges back and forth in time. dramatizes the adventures of an international scientist. By the author of Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace and other major novels.

Ghosh, Amitax

Contemporary

A major novel on recent Indian political history, covers partition and violence in Bengal. Reflects post-colonial concerns with historical memory, symbolism, and cultural transition. Excellent reviews in the West and South Asia.

Shadow Lines

AMITAV GHOSH

An examination of the prehistory of the present day tensions between Hindus and Muslims showing how gender was central to the establishment of Hindu identity and how deep-seated were the separatist and communal developments which interacted with high politics to create the division in India.

Sexuality, obscenity, community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu public in colonial India (Permanent Black monographs. The opus 1 series)

History

Gupta, Charu

Asia

Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories

Joshi, Chitra

Locates the Constitution in the history and sociology of modern India. 
First part consists of 'overview' essays on the Constitution and Justice; on Democracy; on the Nation and the State. The second part is on Organising Principles--on Federalism; on the rationale for incorporating in the Constitution fundamental ideological goals as binding upon the state; on Secularism; and on the Basic Structure Doctrine. The third part is on Rights and Justice--on Individual and Group rights; on Gender Equality and Personal Liberty. The fourth part is on Equity--on Economic Justice and on Affirmative Action. The fifth part is on the Polity--on Trends in the Constitution's Working; on Decentralization and Local Government; on Parties and Political Representation; and on Electoral Rules, Representation and Power-sharing.

India's Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices, Controversies

9 essays by leading specialists. This volume brings together historians and anthropologists to reflect on the place of history within present-day conditions. This volume reflects an urge to rethink the place of history in the present.

History and the Present

World

The idea of an 'eternal India', based on stable and unchanging villages, has been in disarray for at least two decades. This volume sets out to construct an alternative positive vision, using the idea of 'circulation' in relation to South Asia in the colonial period. It comprises a set of complementary essays which deal with merchant circulation, pilgrimages, cartography, policing, labour mobility, and the movement of itinerant groups - from colonial administrators to wandering bards - and demonstrates that the South Asia of this period was made and remade by changing patterns and the logic of circulation. This book will not only interest South Asianists but also those interested in historical method as well as wider comparative perspectives on early modern and contemporary history.

Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia 1750-1950

Premchand is the most famous Hindi novelist, and Godaan is Premchand's most celebrated novel. Economic and social conflict in a north Indian village are brilliantly captured in the story of Hori, a poor farmer, and his family's struggle for survival and self-respect. An engaging introduction to India before Independence, Godaan is at once village ethnography, moving human document, and insightful colonial history. Out of print for many years, this translation is regarded as a classic in itself. Includes a new introduction by Vasudha Dalmia. Godaan was first published in 1936.

The Gift of a Cow: A Translation of the Classic Hindi Novel Godaan

PREMCHAND

Anthropology

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