The Honourable Company
1,396円 A history of the English East India company. During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it a...
The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan
330円 CONTENTS (abridged list) PART I. CHAPTER I Preliminary Observations on Hindustan and the City of Dehli CHAPTER II. Greatness of the Timurides Causes of Empire's decline Character of Aurungzeb Progress of disruption under his descendants Muhamadan and Hindu enemies The stage emptied ... PART III. ...
India: A Million Mutinies Now
2,847円 The third book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, with a preface by the author. India: A Million Mutinies Now is a truly perceptive work whose insights continue to inform travellers of all generations to India. Much has changed since V. S. Naipaul’s first trip to India and this fascinat...
Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore
403円 Robert Henry Elliot (1837 – 1914), was an early British coffee planter in Mysore, India, and author of books on plantation life in Mysore. He arrived in Bombay in 1855 at 18 years of age. From there he sailed to Mangalore, then headed inland through the ghauts to the high plateau of Mysore where ...
Great Soul
2,334円 **A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointmentsーhis success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip servi...
The God of Small Things
1,202円 ‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’ This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana jam vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, a...
Great Kings of India
1,657円 This is the second of the three part series on Indian kings. In this part you will be able to review the biographies of: Part II Ashoka Ambareesha Parashurama Bali
Studies in Indian History and Culture
1,326円 This book, first published in 1944, then revised and enlarged in 1957, has been in the archives for a long time and has now taken a new avatar in the electronic version.It does a thorough examination of Indian History and Culture, the beginnings of the historiography in the vedas, the early lives...
Righteous Republic
8,789円 What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nati...
Small Town Capitalism in Western India
6,633円 This book charts the history of artisan production and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. While the textile mills of western India's biggest cities have been the subject of many rich studies, the role of artisan producers located in the region's small towns have been virtually ...
Modern India (1904)
164円 Account of travel experiences, first published in 1904. "The book begins: "A voyage to India nowadays is a continuous social event. The passengers compose a house party, being guests of the Steamship company for the time. The decks of the steamer are like broad verandas and are covered with comfo...
L'instabilità finanziaria: dalla crisi as...
1,019円 Negli ultimi tre decenni abbiamo assistito a un forte aumento dell'instabilità finanziaria. Tutti i maggiori continenti sono stati colpiti da crisi che hanno avuto effetti assai severi sull'economia reale. Negli anni ottanta del secolo scorso, l'instabilità ha scosso molte nazioni dell'America La...
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