Asian history

ndia: The Siege Within is a non-fiction work by M J Akbar, who is the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and an influential journalist.

6 June 1984: The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

Kashmir lies at the edge of India's borders and at the heart of India's consciousness.

The existing histories of the Partition of British India have very little chance of capturing the moods and mindsets, the helplessness and the frustration of those who steered the course.

Hidden Women are women about whom we know nothing, or very little, so they are shades or shadows in the life of Jung Bahadur Rana who founded the Rana dynasty that ruled Nepal for 104 years.

Shaheed Bhagat Singh was executed by the Britishers on 23rd March, 1931.

Established in the 1840s by the peripatetic British, dak bungalows forever changed the way officers of the Empire and their families travelled across the subcontinent and got to know the real India.

A courtesan had told Nadir Shah that the priceless diamond hidden in Mohammed Shah's turban.

When the First World War raged from 1914 to 1918, hundreds of thousands troops fought valiantly and millions of lives were lost.

My Experiments with Truth' recounts Gandhiji's journey from being Mohandas to becoming the Mahatma and also recollects the various incidents that lead him to develop the ideology of Ahimsa.

In most accounts of the revolt, the greased cartridge has been referred to as the spark and tinder that lit the flames of rebellion.

'Meeting the Mahatma' was a special moment for most of the people who captured it later in memorable prose.

The Indus region, comprising the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent (now Pakistan), has always had its distinct identity - racially, ethnically, linguistically and culturally.

A young British officer deserted during the First Afghan War (1839-42) and went to ground in the wilds of Tehri-Garhwal.

The rioting in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, in 1961 was a watershed event for India.

Quite distinct from the abundant literature available on Mahatma Gandhi, this historical biography attempts to articulate the historiography of India's freedom struggle, of which Gandhi was undoubtedly the central figure.

It is 1948.

A landmark historical work, written at the cusp of modernity in the early nineteenth century, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan was Lieutenant Colonel James Tod's classic tribute to this grand desert region of India.

This book is about the 100 years of World Wars and Regional Collaboration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, investigating and considering how to foster Good Governance and New World Order.

This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the late 1930s.

Britain's Army in India (1978) tells how a joint stock company, the Honourable East India Company, came to organise a private army and lay the foundations for the establishment of the British Empire in India.

Ono examines cross-cultural artistic exchange between the West and Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Black Flags in Vietnam (1968) examines nineteenth-century conflict between China, Vietnam and France.

A History of the Georgian People (1971) begins with an account of the early history and ethnographic background of Georgia, and goes on to cover the country's political history from 1000 to 1800 and Russian conquest.

Ono examines cross-cultural artistic exchange between the West and Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

A History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana.

A History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana.

Britain's Army in India (1978) tells how a joint stock company, the Honourable East India Company, came to organise a private army and lay the foundations for the establishment of the British Empire in India.

A History of the Georgian People (1971) begins with an account of the early history and ethnographic background of Georgia, and goes on to cover the country's political history from 1000 to 1800 and Russian conquest.

Black Flags in Vietnam (1968) examines nineteenth-century conflict between China, Vietnam and France.

This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the late 1930s.

This is the first comprehensive work in English dealing with the nineteenth-century Armenian revolutionary movement and the subsequent rise of Armenian political parties.

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Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Choson dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained by the labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean capital.

This book looks at China's May Fourth Movement and how it has been contextualised in modern Chinese history.

In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

This book looks at China's May Fourth Movement and how it has been contextualised in modern Chinese history.

There are an estimated 600 million Evangelicals in the world today, crossing cultures, histories, languages, politics, and nationalities.

"e;Blog"e; is short for "e;Web log"e;?

A popular look at the separation of church and state: what it is, what it isn't, and why it matters for the future of religion in America.

When it comes to high-level journalism, you're either "e;in the know"e; or you're out of business.

Jerome Corsi's newest opus, No Greater Valor, examines the Siege of Bastogne-one of the most heroic victories of WWII-with a focus on the surprising faith of the Americans who fought there.

This study investigates the connections between opium policy and imperialism in Burma.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der Geishas!

A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine's religious, ethical, and political thoughtAugustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context.

"e;A magnificent study"e; (New York Review of Books) of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey's pragmatism.

This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context.

Was macht den Reiz der Gegenstände aus, mit denen wir uns umgeben?