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SHACKLESS OF POWER: THREE JEFFERSONIAN DECADES

By John Dos Passos. 1969

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ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS

By George Danger Field. 1977

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SHACKLES OF POWER: THREE JEFFERSONIAN DECADES

By John Dos Passos. 1978

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ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONGRESS

By Robert A. Diamond. Congressional Quarterly 1916

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WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT:THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA, 1815 - 1848

By Daniel Walker Howe. Oxford University Press 2007

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COUSIN BETTE : Part one of Poor relations

By Honore de Balzac . Penguin Books Ltd 1973 , A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honore de Balzac's "Cousin Bette" is translated from the French with an introduction by Marion Ayton Crawford in "Penguin Classics". Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family, plotting their ruin with patient, silent malice. The culmination of the "Comedie humaine", and a brilliant portrayal of the grasping, bourgeois society of 1840s Paris, "Cousin Bette" is one of Balzac's greatest triumphs as a novelist. Marion Ayton Crawford's lively translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the novel's portrayal of rapidly changing times, as the new, ambitious middle classes replaced France's old imperial ways. Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) failed at being a lawyer, publisher, printer, businessman, critic and politician before, at the age of thirty, turning his hand to writing. His life's work, "La Comedie humaine", is a series of ninety novels and short stories which offer a magnificent panorama of nineteenth-century life after the French Revolution. Balzac was an influence on innumerable writers who followed him, including Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe. 9780140441604

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MISSING LINKS IN MUGHAL HISTORY

By Sudhindra Kumar. New Delhi Swaraj Book Distributions 2014 9788192473123

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HINDU PAST women, religion, histories /

By Dalmia, Vasudha,. Ranikhet Permanent Black 2015 9788178243993

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TILL WE HAVE BUILT JERUSALEM Architects of a New City

By Hoffman,Adina. New York Farrar,Straus and Giroux 2016 9780374289102

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SOUTH AFRICAN GANDHI Stretcher-Bearer of Empire (South Asia in motion)

By Ashwin Desai. New Delhi Navayana 2015 , In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South African leaders, including Mandela, have consistently lauded him as being part of the epic battle to defeat the racist white regime. The South African Gandhi focuses on Gandhi's first leadership experiences and the complicated man they reveal—a man who actually supported the British Empire. Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed unveil a man who, throughout his stay on African soil, stayed true to Empire while showing a disdain for Africans. For Gandhi, whites and Indians were bonded by an Aryan bloodline that had no place for the African. Gandhi's racism was matched by his class prejudice towards the Indian indentured. He persistently claimed that they were ignorant and needed his leadership, and he wrote their resistances and compromises in surviving a brutal labor regime out of history. The South African Gandhi writes the indentured and working class back into history. The authors show that Gandhi never missed an opportunity to show his loyalty to Empire, with a particular penchant for war as a means to do so. He served as an Empire stretcher-bearer in the Boer War while the British occupied South Africa, he demanded guns in the aftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion, and he toured the villages of India during the First World War as recruiter for the Imperial army. This meticulously researched book punctures the dominant narrative of Gandhi and uncovers an ambiguous figure whose time on African soil was marked by a desire to seek the integration of Indians, minus many basic rights, into the white body politic while simultaneously excluding Africans from his moral compass and political ideals. 9788189059736

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CLOCKWORK ANGEL ( Internal Devices) Shadow hunters

By Clare,Cassandra. London Walker 2015 , Clockwork Angel is a Shadowhunters novel. When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa gray's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother. 9781406330342

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KARL MARX : Greatness and Illusion

By Stedman Jones,Gareth. New York Penguin 2016 , 'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark 'There is no better guide to Marx than Gareth Stedman Jones' Economist 'Rich and deeply researched' John Gray As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to come to terms with an unparalleled range of political, economic, religious and intellectual challenges. Distances shrank, new towns sprang up, and ingenious inventions transformed the industrial landscape. It was an era dominated by new ideas about God, human capacities, industry, revolution, empires and political systems - and above all, the shape of the future. One of the most distinctive and arresting contributions to this debate was made by Karl Marx, the son of a Jewish convert in the Rhineland and a man whose entire life was devoted to making sense of the hopes and fears of the nineteenth century world. Gareth Stedman Jones's impressive biography explores how Marx came to his revolutionary ideas in an age of intellectual ferment, and the impact they had on his times. In a world where so many things were changing so fast, would the coming age belong to those enthralled by the events which had brought this world into being, or to those who feared and loathed it? This remarkable book allows the reader to understand as never before the world of ideas which shaped Marx's world - and in turn made Marx shape our own. 9780713999044

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KARL MARX : Greatness and Illusion

By Stedman Jones, Gareth. New Delhi Penguin 2016 , 'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark 'There is no better guide to Marx than Gareth Stedman Jones' Economist 'Rich and deeply researched' John Gray As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to come to terms with an unparalleled range of political, economic, religious and intellectual challenges. Distances shrank, new towns sprang up, and ingenious inventions transformed the industrial landscape. It was an era dominated by new ideas about God, human capacities, industry, revolution, empires and political systems - and above all, the shape of the future. One of the most distinctive and arresting contributions to this debate was made by Karl Marx, the son of a Jewish convert in the Rhineland and a man whose entire life was devoted to making sense of the hopes and fears of the nineteenth century world. Gareth Stedman Jones's impressive biography explores how Marx came to his revolutionary ideas in an age of intellectual ferment, and the impact they had on his times. In a world where so many things were changing so fast, would the coming age belong to those enthralled by the events which had brought this world into being, or to those who feared and loathed it? This remarkable book allows the reader to understand as never before the world of ideas which shaped Marx's world - and in turn made Marx shape our own. 9780713999044

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INDIGO REBELLION : a selections (1859-1862)

By Ananda Bhattacharyya. Kolkata Dey's Publishers 2012 9788129517043 | 8129517043

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AYYANKALI : Dalit Leader of Organic Protest

By Nisar ,M. Calicut Other Books 2007 , On the life and activities of Ayyaṅkāḷi, 1863-1941, social reformer and Dalit leader from Kerala, India. 9788190388764

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VIVEKANANDA & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION OF INDIA

By Saha , P. Kolkata Nayak Enterprise 2016 , Swami Vivekananda was the very first Indian philosopher whose reflections on social problems became an inseparable part of his philosophy. Taking up urgent social problems of his time he dealt them as a philosopher in a systematic way. All his thinking was based on a new and original interpretation of the Advaita Vedanta philosophy, and that holds true also for hisphilosophical reflections on society : 'I base my teaching on the great Vedantic truth of the sameness and omnipresence of the Soul of the Universe, 'he stressed (III, 194) 9788192407043

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HOUSE OF FICTION : From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life

By Richardson,Phyllis . London Random House - Unbound 2017 , Houses in literature have captured readers’ imaginations for centuries, from Gothic castles to Georgian stately homes, Bloomsbury townhouses and high-rise penthouses. Step on to a tour of real and imagined houses that great English writers have used to reflect the themes of their novels... houses that became like characters themselves, embodiments of the social and historical currents of their time. Phyllis Richardson takes us on a journey through history to discover how authors’ personal experiences in their homes helped to shape the imaginative dwellings that have become icons of English literature: Virginia Woolf’s love of Talland House in Cornwall is palpable in To the Lighthouse, just as London’s Bloomsbury is ever-present in Mrs Dalloway. E.M. Forster’s childhood home at Rook’s Nest mirrors the idyllic charm of Howards End. Evelyn Waugh plotted Charles Ryder’s return to Brideshead while a guest at Madresfield. Jane Austen was no stranger to a manor house or a good ballroom. And Horace Walpole’s ‘little Gothic castle’ in Twickenham inspired him to write the first English Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. But the English country house, from the idyllic to the unloved, is also viewed through a modern lens – Kazuo Ishiguro’s Darlington Hall, Ian McEwan’s Tallis House, Alan Hollinghurts’s Two Acres. Using historic sources, authors’ biographies, letters, news accounts, and the novels themselves, The House of Fiction presents some of the most influential houses in Britain through the stories they inspired, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life. 9781783523801

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REVENANT

By Punke,Michael. UK Borough Press 2015 , THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE AWARD-WINNING MOVIE Winner of 3 OSCARS including BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ACTOR Winner of 5 BAFTAS including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film Winner of the 2016 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Actor - Drama, and Best Director 9780008124021

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ADHUNIKA INDIAYUDE SILPIKAL /ആധുനിക ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ശില്പികള്‍/Makers of Modern India

By Ramachandra Guha. Kottayam D C Books 2019 , ബൃഹത്തായ ഒരു രാഷ്ട്രീയ ചരിത്രം സ്വന്തമായുള്ള രാജ്യമാണ് ഇന്ത്യ. മാറി മാറി വരുന്ന നേതാക്കളുടെ ചിന്തകള്‍ക്കനുസരിച്ച് ആ ചരിത്രം നിരന്തരം മാറ്റി മറിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. നമ്മുടെ ജനാധിപത്യ ചരിത്രത്തില്‍ തങ്ങളുടെ മുദ്രകള്‍ അവശേഷിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ പരിശ്രമിച്ച അത്തരം നായകരുടെ ചിന്തകളും ജീവിതവുമാണ് ഈ പുസ്തകം കാഴ്ചവയ്ക്കുന്നത്. Summary: Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. This book collects the writings of nineteen of India's foremost thinker-activists, ranging from legends like Gandhi and Nehru to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers. 9789352820153

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THOUSAND YEARNINGS : a book of Urdu poetry and prose /

By NIL. New Delhi Speaking Tiger 2017 , For many people, Urdu is indelibly associated with a bygone era: the cultural renaissance of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the face of colonial oppression, heady mushairas and romantic poetry. For others, it brings to mind the gritty prose of the Progressive Writers portraying the grim social realities of the mid-twentieth century. In this luminous collection of Urdu poetry and prose, Ralph Russell expands our world of Urdu letters to include folk and oral narratives, besides prose and poetry. By situating each form historically, he gives us a refreshing perspective on the diverse literary cultures and histories of India. Besides canonical short stories by the likes of Manto and Premchand, there is Ismat Chughtai’s little-known autobiographical essay about her relationship with her brother, the writer Azim Beg Chughtai. There are creation tales from the Quran, popular stories of Akbar and Birbal, along with the legendary exploits of Sikandar (Alexander the Great). Selections from the sublime poetry of Mir, Ghalib and others are supplemented by astute commentary and roman transcriptions of the original Urdu. Farhatullah Beg’s brilliantly imagined account of the ‘last Delhi mushaira’ captures a moment in time never seen again, with the horrors of 1857 just around the corner. An accessible introduction for unfamiliar readers, and a pleasurable companion for those familiar with Urdu literature, this volume is a treasure trove of stories, poetry and history. Originally published as Hidden in the Lute (1995), this revised edition has been edited by Russell’s student and friend for several years, the novelist Marion Molteno. 9789386582799

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DIALECTICS OF THE ABSTRACT AND THE CONCRETE IN MARX'S CAPITAL

By Ilyenkonv , E.V. . Delhi Aakar 2017 9788189833381

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MARX'S CAPITAL

By Fine,Ben . Delhi Viva Books 2010 , This brilliantly concise book is a classic introduction to Marx’s key work, Capital. In print now for over a quarter of a century, and previously translated into many languages, the new edition has been fully revised and updated, making it an ideal modern introduction to one of the most important texts in political economy.The authors cover all central aspects of Marx’s economics. They explain the structure of Marx’s analysis and the meaning of the key categories in Capital, showing the internal coherence of Marx’s approach. Marx’s method and terminology are explored in detail, with supporting examples. Short chapters enable the meaning and significance of Marx’s main concepts to be grasped rapidly, making it a practical text for all students of social science. Discussing Capital’s relevance today, the authors consider Marx’s impact on economics, philosophy, history, politics and other social sciences. Keeping abstract theorising to a minimum, this readable introduction highlights the continuing relevance of Marx’s ideas in the light of the problems of contemporary capitalism. 9788130906201

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CRISIS IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS : reports of J.D. Cunningham, 1841-1842 /

By NIL. Delhi Aakar Books 2015 , Between 1834 to 1840 Zorawar singh, the famous Dogra General of Jammu ( a Feudatory state of the kingdom of punjab under Ranjit Singh) conquered Ladakh and Baltistan. After a year, he followed up this success by occupying a large part of Western Tibet. This aggression caused a major crisis, which pulled in a number of big and small powers viz. China, Tibet, Lahore Durbar, Jammu, Ladakh, Bashahr, Nepal and British India. As trade and production was adversely affected, the crisis threatened to mangnify into a large scale war. In these circumstances, the British authorities in India deputed J.D.Cunninghaam to the northern frontier in order to report on a potentially volatile in order to report on a potentially volatile situation, even as the First Opium War was in progress. Encamped in a remote village of Kinnaur, he sent detailed reports on the movement of armies, nature of warfare and diplomatic exchanges. He also made incisive observations on the changing patterns of long distance trade which sustained the societies of affected areas. He paid a particular attention to the most important item of this trade, shawl wool, which lay at the root of the imbroglio. His writings were characterized by diligence and objectivity. The present volume provides the original text of cunningham's reports, along with a critical introduction and relevant annotation. An invaluable and authentic source of information for several historical dimensions of the first half of the nineteenth century, this book will be of immense interest to the students of British colonialism, princely states, commercial, networks, international relations, military history and defence studies 9789350023570 (hardback) | 9350023571 (hardback)

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PRESS AND POLITICS IN THE PUNJAB 1860-1905

By Basra, Amrit Kaur. Delhi Shree Kala Prakashan 2015 9789385329029

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WRITING ANOTHER BENGAL : regional and local histories of Bengal in times of modernity and nationalism, 1860-1950 /

By Chatterjee ,Kanta. Kolkata Pragatishil Prokashak 2015 , Originally presented as the author's thesis (Doctoral--Jadavpur University, 2008) under the title: Evolution of local and regional histories of Bengal 1850-1950. 9788189846794

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EUROPE AND THE HUGHLI: THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS ON THE WEST BANK OF THE RIVER

By Suranjan Das . Kolkata KP Bagchi & Company 2014 , Department of History,University of Calcutta Monograph 31 9788170743439

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RISE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN BENGAL

By Asoke Basu. Kolkata : The Asiatic Society, 2012 9789381574027 | 9381574022

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CRISIS IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS : reports of J.D. Cunningham, 1841-1842 /

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IN DEFENCE OF HONOUR AND JUSTICE : sepoy rebellions in the nineteenth century /

By Sabyasachi Dasgupta. Delhi Primus Books 2015 9789384082062

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HISTORIOGRAPHY OF NORTH EAST INDIA

By Munin Saikia. Guwahati DVS 2014 9788186307847

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ENGLISH MAHARANI : Queen Victoria and India

By Taylor, Miles . USA Viking 2018 , Queen Victoria was at the head of the Raj, Britain's Indian empire, for much of her long reign. Passionately involved, she intervened in Indian politics, commissioned artists and photographers to record a landscape and people that she never saw herself, sent her sons as ambassadors to the subcontinent, and surrounded herself with the trappings of the Indian conquest, from the Koh-i-Noor diamond to her own Indian troop escort and servants. Indian politics and society were in turn fundamentally reshaped by her influence: maharajas vied for her favour, missionaries used her as a tool for conversion and Indian reformers turned to her as a symbol of justice and equality. She also became an object of fascination and veneration: hundreds of popular biographies and tributes emerged from the vernacular printing presses, and her two jubilees of 1887 and 1897 were celebrated with unprecedented gusto. In this new and original account, Miles Taylor charts the remarkable effects India had on the queen as well as the pivotal role she played in India. Drawing on official papers and an abundance of poems, songs, diaries and photographs, Taylor challenges the notion that Victoria enjoyed only ceremonial power and that India's loyalty to her was without popular support. On the contrary, the rule of the queen-empress penetrated deep into Indian life and contributed significantly to the country's modernisation, both political and economic. In this subtle portrayal of Victoria's India, Taylor suggests that the Raj was one of her greatest successes. 9780670091898

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AGE OF ENTANGLEMENT : German and Indian intellectuals across empire /

By Manjapra, Kris . London Harvard University Press 2014 9780674725140 (alk. paper)

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UNFORTUNATE CELEBRITY : the life and times of Buxi Jagabandhu /

By Subhakanta Behera. New Delhi Samskriti 2014 9788187374817 (pbk.) | 8187374810 (pbk.)

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ECOLOGY AND THE EPIDEMIC : STUDY ON 19TH CENTURY CONTROVERSY

By Sunil Sen Sarma. Kolkata Bibliophil 2016 9789380477121

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INTELLECTUAL ROOTS OF INDIAS FREEDOM STRUGGLE (1893-1918)

By Prithwindra Mukherjee. New Delhi Manohar Publishers & Distributors 2017 , Most people believe India’s struggle for independence to have begun with Mahatma Gandhi. Little credit goes to the proof that this call for a mass movement did not arise out of a void. For the past century and more, historians have overlooked the… . 9789350981719

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GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY : A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME (1853-1871)

By Rita P. Bhambi. New Delhi Bharti Publications 2016 , The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (reporting mark GIPR) was a predecessor of the Central Railway, whose headquarters was at the Boree Bunder in Mumbai (later, the Victoria Terminus and presently the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus). 9789385000768 (hardback) | 9385000764 (hardback)

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BINDING

By Collins, Bridget. London Borough Press 2019 , THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly brilliant' Joanna Cannon'Truly spellbinding' Guardian'Pure magic' Erin Kelly'A real treat' The Times'Gorgeous' Stella Duffy'Astounding' Anna Mazzola Imagine you could erase your grief.Imagine you could forget your pain.Imagine you could hide a secret.Forever. 9780008288594 | 0008288593 | 9780008272111 | 0008272115

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MEDICINE,HEALTHCARE AND THE RAJ : Unacknowledged Legacy

By Daya Ram Varma. Haryana Three Essays Collective 2015 9789383968060

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HINDUSTANI MUSIC IN COLONIAL BOBAY

By Aneesh Pradhan. Haryana Three Essays Collective 2014 , Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral). 9788188789962 | 8188789968

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DANGEROUS OUTCAST : Prostitute In Nineteenth Century Bengal

By Sumanta Banerjee. Culcutta Seagull Books 2019 , Like other pre-colonial socio-economic formations, the profession of prostitution also underwent a dramatic change in Bengal soon after the British take-over. Dangerous Outcast explores the world of the prostitute in 19th century Bengal. .. 9780857426154

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HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

By Grayling,A C. UK Viking 2019 , The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions. The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But since the long-popular classic, Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, first published in 1945, there has been no comprehensive and entertaining, single-volume history of this great intellectual journey. With his characteristic clarity and elegance A. C. Grayling takes the reader from the world-views and moralities before the age of the Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates, through Christianity's dominance of the European mind, to the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and on to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, and philosophy today. And, since the story of philosophy is incomplete without mention of the great philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world, he gives a comparative survey of them too. Accessible for students and eye-opening for philosophy readers, he covers epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, logic, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, political philosophy and the history of debates in these areas of enquiry, through the ideas of the celebrated philosophers as well as less well-known influential thinkers. He also asks what we have learnt from this body of thought, and what progress is still to be made. The first authoritative and accessible one-volume history of philosophy for decades, remarkable for its range and accessibility, this is a landmark work. 9780241304556

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ARYANS,JEWS,BRAHMINS : Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity

By Figueira, Dorothy M. New York Navayana 2017 , In Aryans, Jews, Brahmins, Dorothy Figueira provides a fascinating account of the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century. The myth concerns a race that inhabits a utopian past and gives rise first to Brahmin Indian culture and then to European culture. In India, notions of the Aryan were used to develop a national identity under colonialism, one that allowed Indian elites to identify with their British rulers. It also allowed non-elites to set up a counter identity critical of their position in the caste system. In Europe, the Aryan myth provided certain thinkers with an origin story that could compete with the Biblical one and could be used to diminish the importance of the West's Jewish heritage. European racial hygienists made much of the myth of a pure Aryan race, and the Nazis later looked at India as a cautionary tale of what could happen if a nation did not remain pure. As Figueira demonstrates, the history of the Aryan myth is also a history of reading, interpretation, and imaginative construction. Initially, the ideology of the Aryan was imposed upon absent or false texts. Over time, it involved strategies of constructing, evoking, or distorting the canon. Each construction of racial identity was concerned with key issues of reading: canonicity, textual accessibility, interpretive strategies of reading, and ideal readers. 9788189059712

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REGENCY REVOLUTION : jane austen, napoleon, lord byron and the making of the modern world

By Morrison, Robert.. London Atlantic Books 2019 , The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world. The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced his violently insane father George III as the sovereign de facto. It ended on 29 January 1820, when George III died and the Prince Regent became King as George IV. At the centre of the era is of course the Regent himself, who was vilified by the masses for his selfishness and corpulence. Around him surged a society defined by brilliant characters, momentous events, and stark contrasts; a society forced to confront a whole range of pressing new issues that signalled a decisive break from the past and that for the first time brought our modern world clearly into view. The Regency Revolution is the most thorough and vivid exploration of the period ever published, and it reveals the remarkably diverse ways in which the cultural, social, technological and political revolutions of this decade continue both to inspire and haunt our world. 9781786491237

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SALT SMUGGLERS : History of the Abbe De Bucquoy

By Nerval, Gerard De. New York Archipelago Books 2009 , First published as a feuilleton in a left-wing newspaper in 1850, The Salt Smugglers provides a political satire of the waning days of France’s short-lived Second Republic. With nods to Diderot and Sterne, this shaggy-dog story deals less with contraband salt smugglers than with the subversive power of fiction to transgress legal and esthetic boundaries. By writing what he claimed was a purely documentary account of his picaresque adventures in search of an elusive book recording the true history of a certain seventeenth-century swashbuckler, Nerval sought to deride the press censors of the day who forbade the serial publication of novels in newspapers – and in the process he provocatively deconstructed existing distinctions between fact and fiction. Never before translated into English and still unavailable as a separately published volume in French, The Salt Smugglers is a pre-postmodern gem of experimental prose. Richard Sieburth’s vibrant translation and illuminating afterword remind us why Gérard de Nerval’s blend of sly irony and acerbic social criticism proved so inspiring to authors as various as Baudelaire, Proust, and Leiris. 9780980033069

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ROMANTICISM AND THE RE-INVENTION OF MODERN RELIGION : The Reconciliation of German Idealism and Platonic Realism

By Hampton, Alexander J. B.. New York Cambridge University Press 2019 , Early German Romanticism sought to respond to a comprehensive sense of spiritual crisis that characterised the late eighteenth century. The study demonstrates how the Romantics sought to bring together the new post-Kantian idealist philosophy with the inheritance of the realist Platonic-Christian tradition. With idealism they continued to champion the individual, while from Platonism they took the notion that all reality, including the self, participated in absolute being. This insight was expressed, not in the language of theology or philosophy, but through aesthetics, which recognised the potentiality of all creation, including artistic creation, to disclose the divine. In explicating the religious vision of Romanticism, this study offers a new historical appreciation of the movement, and furthermore demonstrates its importance for our understanding of religion today. 9781108429443

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PICTURING INDIA : People, Places And The World Of The East India Company

By McAleer,John. New Delhi Niyogi Books 2017 , The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travellers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the role it played in Indian life. They mirror significant shifts in British policy and attitudes towards India. The Company's story is one of wealth, power, and the pursuit of profit. It changed what people in Europe ate, what they drank, and how they dressed. Ultimately, it laid the foundations of the British Raj. But few historians have considered the visual sources that survive and their implications for the link between images and empire, pictures and power. This book draws on the unrivalled riches of the British Library, telling the story of individual images, their creators, and the people and places they depict. It will present a detailed picture of the Company and its complex relationship with India, its people and cultures. 9788193393543

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LIFE OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA

By Muller,Max F.. New Delhi Deepali Publications 2017 9788188029563

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