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“benjamin b cohen”

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  • Water in Hyderabad and the Deccan

    A History of Power and Elites from the 11th to 20th Centuries

    by Benjamin B Cohen ...
    Water in Hyderabad and the Deccan explores how water has shaped power, society, and the environment in the Deccan over nearly a thousand years. Moving beyond technical views, it adopts a hydrosocial lens to show how water and society co-produced each other. From celebrated reservoirs and sacred springs to monsoons, canals, and everyday bodily experiences, the book reveals how elites used water to ... Read more

    $139.49 USD

  • An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad

    Scandal in the Raj

    by Benjamin B. Cohen ...
    The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals.In April 1892, a damning pamphlet circulated in the south Indian city of Hyderabad, the capital of the largest and wealthiest princely state in the British ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    The book is a comprehensive and authentic living record of the whole gamut of ancient Indian history. It deals with the cultural, political, geographical and socioeconomic conditions of ancient India. ... Read more

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  • The Discovery of Ancient India

    Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Archaeology

    by Upinder Singh ...
    This book is written as much for the general reader interested in India's antiquity and its pioneering archaeologists, as for students of the history of archaeology, colonialism, and constructions of the past. It breaks colonial archaeology down into its specific constituents and examines the ideas, impulses, tensions, and individual contributions that comprised early studies of India's ancient ... Read more

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  • India

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    by Audrey Truschke ...
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  • The Bangladesh Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Meghna Guhathakurta, Willem van Schendel ...
    Series series The world readers
    Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ranks sixth in the world in terms of native speakers. Founded in 1971, Bangladesh is a relatively young nation, but the Bengal Delta region has been a major part of international life for more than 2,000 years, whether as an important location for trade ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects

    Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir

    by Mridu Rai ...
    This is a remarkable work of scholarship which shows how Kashmirs modern Muslim identity came into existence. In doing this, it demonstrates the complex manner in which politics can enforce the creation of religious identity. Kashmir is a hotbed of religious politics. Disputed between India and Pakistan, this territory comprises a large majority of Muslims who are subject to the laws of a ... Read more

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  • India's Environmental History—A Reader

    Vol. 1: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period; Vol. 2: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation

    by Mahesh Rangarajan, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Environmental history in India has generated a rich literature on forests, wildlife, humananimal conflict, tribal rights and commercial degradation, displacement and development, pastoralism and desertification, famine and disease, sedentarism and mobility, wildness and civility, and the ecology versus equity debate.This reader brings together some of the best and most interesting writing on India ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • South Asia in World History

    by Marc Jason Gilbert ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    Few regions have shaped the world's history as deeply as South Asia. The birthplace of three of the world's major religions-Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism-the Indian subcontinent has made indelible contributions to the world, from foods such as curry and granulated sugar to the performance of meditation and yoga, from the architectural magnificence of the Taj Mahal to the binary system of numbers ... Read more

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  • Wild Fictions

    Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    From the 2025 recipient of the Pak Kyongni Prize, often referred to as Korea's Nobel Prize in Literature.A collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh's work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people making lives amid these historical forces.Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writings on subjects that have obsessed him over the ... Read more

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  • Ahimsa

    100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization

    by Devdutt Pattanaik ...
    In September 1924, John Marshall, Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, informed the world about the existence of the Indus (Harappan) civilization: some 4,500 years old, as ancient as Mesopotamia, as grand as ancient Egypt, and a part of the Bronze Age trading network.How did the Harappan civilization contribute to later Vedic and Tantrik thought?Did the Harappans follow ... Read more

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  • Nature in the City

    Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future

    by Harini Nagendra ...
    In a rapidly urbanizing India, what is the future of nature conservation? How does the march of development impact the conflict between nature and people in India’s cities? Exploring these questions, Nature in the City examines the past, present and future of nature in Bengaluru, one of India’s largest and fastest growing cities. Once known as the Garden City of India, Bengaluru’s tree-lined ... Read more

    $40.49 USD