Routledge Library Editions: British in India
About the Book Series
This set of previously-out-of-print titles reissues a selection of classic works on India. These range from works on the Indian princes, the palaces of the Raj, the plight of the untouchables, Congress, and British attitudes and politics. Taken together, these books form an essential reference source.
Palaces of the Raj: Magnificence and Misery of the Lord Sahibs
1st Edition
By Mark Bence-Jones
September 04, 2018
This book, first published in 1973, gives a vivid picture of British-Indian social life from the eighteenth century to Independence, as well as of the houses themselves. The Government Houses were not only buildings on a palatial scale, but were also a background to a way of life that was as full ...
Prophet of a New Hindu Age: The Life and Times of Acharya Pranavananda
1st Edition
By Ninian Smart, Swami Purnananda
September 04, 2018
This is the fascinating biography, first published in 1985, of the remarkable Bengali religious leader Swami Pranavananda who lived in the turbulent years of the early twentieth century. The story of his life has to some extent been eclipsed by the struggle for Indian independence, but his ...
Sources for the History of British India in the Seventeenth Century
1st Edition
By Shafaat Ahmad Khan
September 04, 2018
This book, first published in 1926, is neither a catalogue of libraries and record offices, no is it a selection of transcripts from the English and Indian archives. The object of the undertaking is two-fold: in the first place, it looks at supplying a critical analysis of essential data for ...
The Congress and Indian Nationalism: Historical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By John L. Hill
September 04, 2018
The celebration of the centenary of the Indian National Congress prompted a scholarly re-examination of that organization in the midst of an active international discussion about the nature of Indian society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Any group of historians who come together to ...
The Congress in Tamilnad: Nationalist Politics in South India, 1919-1937
1st Edition
By David Arnold
September 04, 2018
Although primarily defined in cultural terms, as the land of the Tamil-speaking people, Tamilnad’s geographical location in the south-eastern corner of the Indian sub-continent has enabled it to develop and maintain a distinctive character. The story of the Congress in Tamilnad has two essential ...
The Making of the Indian Princes
1st Edition
By Edward Thompson
September 04, 2018
This book, first published in 1943, sets forth the history of the rise and development of the states of princely India from the end of the eighteenth century until the beginning of nineteenth. This was also the formative period for the East India Company and thus for India itself. It describes the ...
The Social System and Culture of Modern India: A Research Bibliography
1st Edition
By Danesh A. Chekki
September 04, 2018
According to Arnold J. Toynbee, ‘India is a world in itself; it is a society of the same immensity and importance as is our Western society’. In global perspective, the immensity, diversity, and unique importance of Indian society and culture can hardly be underestimated. This reference volume, ...
The State, Industrialization and Class Formations in India: A Neo-Marxist Perspective on Colonialism, Underdevelopment and Development
1st Edition
By Anupam Sen
September 04, 2018
The purpose of this book, first published in 1982, is to probe the nature of the state in India and the role played by it in the evolution of the social economy, particularly in the growth of industry. In fact, the problematic of the state and its relationship with socio-economic progression or ...
Truth About India: Can We Get It?
1st Edition
By Verrier Elwin
September 04, 2018
Verrier Elwin wrote this book to show the people of Britain the situation in India as it appeared in the early 1930s. His book, first published in 1932 and full of valuable insights into India at the time as well as the British public’s ignorance of the facts on the ground, is a powerful ...
Untouchable: An Indian Life History
1st Edition
By James M. Freeman
September 04, 2018
Nearly 16% of India’s population – or over 100 million people – are untouchables. Most of them, despite decades of government efforts to improve their economic and social position, remain desperately poor, illiterate, subject to brutal discrimination and economic exploitation, and with no prospect ...
Women of India: An Annotated Bibliography
1st Edition
By Harshida Pandit
September 04, 2018
The status and position of Indian women have undergone many changes since the high status they enjoyed in the Vedic era yielded to forced suicide during the dark ages, female infanticide, purdah, child marriages and the denial of property and political rights. This book, first published in 1985, ...
Modernization and Kin Network
1st Edition
By Danesh A. Chekki
August 10, 2018
This book, first published in 1974, seeks to answer the questions whether the nuclear family tends to be an isolated unit relatively cut off from its extended kin network; whether the patterns and effects of urbanization in the developing nations follow exactly the same lines as in the ...