Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged […]
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
A study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan life trajectories in Vietnam and India.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Draws from an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. The purpose of the conference was to bring together the world's leading Indologists, representing a variety of disciplines, to discuss and share various research on a hitherto neglected period of Indian history.
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Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today.
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Peter Robb's narrative explores the interplay between India's empires and regions of rule, custom and belief. His focus on the principal themes which serve to unify Indian history offers the reader a sophisticated yet accessible view of its dynamics.
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