India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European 'colonial consciousness' (or 'coloniality'), in particular its religious and racial roots, on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation and the origins of the India…
Organized around the themes of tradition, dissent and ideology, which are in many ways central to Romila Thapar's concerns, this collection of essays covers a time span from the Vedic age to the Nehruvian era of Indian history and ranges across cultural regions from ancient Meso…
"In India: Living with Modernity Javeed Alam seeks to untangle the complex, and often contradictory, trajectories of modernity. He suggests new ways of approaching modernity which are emancipatory, rather than oppressive, and may help in the struggle for a more equitable and jus…
