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"The recent emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as India's strongest political party has changed the face of Indian politics. The growth of Hindu nationalism, which the BJP largely represents, has been widely debated as a potential threat to the future of democracy in India, to Indian secularism, and to the constitutional protection of India's minorities." "This book examines systematically, for the first time, the history of the BJP and its current strategies and dilemmas. Well-known scholars with an intimate knowledge of India's states analyse the specific trajectory of the BJP at the regional level, the structure of its electorates, and the specific challenges it faces in major parts of India." "Topical and wide-ranging as well as rigorously historical and empirical, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the current transformation of Indian politics."--BOOK JACKET.

"This new, expanded edition of The Unquiet Woods, Ramachandra Guha's study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, offers a new epilogue that brings the story of Himalayan social protest up to date, reflecting the Chipko movement's continuing influence in the wider world. A new appendix charts the progress of environmental history in India, and both bibliography and index have been revised and updated."--BOOK JACKET.

Contributed articles on history of India during the time of Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605.

This volume, based on extensive and critical use of sources, focuses on aspects of political, social, economic, and cultural history that have previously been inadequately treated. The papers touch on themes of agrarian relations, civil engineering, ruling-class structures, administration, social mobility, and religion.

"This volume comprises the autobiographical works of three men who had a special relationship with the Indian jungles - Jim Corbett, Verrier Elwin and Salim Ali. It comes with an Introduction by Ramachandra Guha and will appeal to all those interested in literature, anthropology, cultural survival and the social history of modern India."--BOOK JACKET.

A balanced selection of Gandhi's writings, taken from his letters, articles, and books, representing the complete cross-section of his thought.

Edward John Thompson, a young English poet and Wesleyan educational missionary, came to Bankura College in West Bengal in 1910 and remained there (with an interval for war service) until 1923. He first met Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan on the day when the news of the Nobel Prize came through in 1913. He subsequently set himself the difficult task of writing the first major English-language critical study of Tagore's poetry. This work involved him in difficult relations with Tagore, and also with a wide circle of Calcutta intellectuals and scholars, including Brajendranath Seal, Ramananda Chatterji, and a great statistician and Tagore scholar - Prasanta Mahalanobis. The present study by E.P. Thompson - the internationally famous historian and Peace Movement campaigner - draws upon the extensive correspondence and manuscripts in the Thompson Collection, and throws light on unfamiliar (sometimes entertaining, sometimes painful) aspects of an interface between Bengali and British culture. In an important appendix another scholar, Dr Uma Das Gupta, edits a hitherto unknown notebook of Thompson's conversations with Tagore.

Reminiscences of the Indic (English) author of his association with his friends and other 20th century English authors whom he met at the residence of Virginia Woolf, English author.

"In this volume, A. G. Noorani collects important documents recording reactions of Muslims in this period and in the subsequent fifty years." "The emphasis is largely on the responses of the minority community to the problems they faced and on intra-community debates that ensued in the aftermath of Partition. Besides recording key political developments, documents on issues like Hindu revivalism and Muslim responses, the Babari Masjid question, the Supreme Court's ruling on the Shah Bano case, Rajiv Gandhi's discussions with Muslim leaders and the issue of personal laws, provide important insights into Muslim participation in post-independence polity and society." "Documents on related themes, such as recent trends in Muslim politics, the development of Urdu since Independence, and the significant role of the Aligarh Muslim University in imparting secular education in India, complete this picture." "Presented by the author as a complete and comprehensive documentary record of the problems and politics of the Muslims of India, this volume is essential reading for scholars and students of modern Indian history and politics, and will also interest policy-makers, journalists, and general readers."--BOOK JACKET.

xvi, 280 p., p. of plates : 22 cm

Contributed essays.