"The essays focus on 'frontiers' in multiple contexts, all relating to John F. Richards's work: frontiers and state building, frontiers and environmental change, cultural ...

Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among the finest ...

"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery.... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." -- Edward A. Alpers, UCLA Despite its ...

The first survey of the political, economic, religious and cultural landscapes of medieval India.

In this book, Dr. Stewart Gordon presents the first comprehensive history of the Maratha polity, which was an important regional kingdom in the seventeenth century and the ...

The Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan plateau flourished from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries. During this period, the Deccan sultans built palaces, mosques and tombs, and ...

This book is primarily meant for the general public and students, who desire to understand the history and culture of India. It is the product of a joint venture undertaken by ...

The books have been prepared on the basis of the guidelines of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) and the syllabus brought out by the NCERT in 2005. They encourage ...