Social History

Williams reveals the real France beneath the tourist traps--where to stay, eat, and be entertained. New detailed information on gourmet self-catering and a dedicated food chapter serve up a rich dollop of cuisine culture, food history, and recipes.Discover France Gaze at the gargoyles and ponder Qua... More

Winner of the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year ‘City of Djinns is a delight. William Dalrymple is in command of his subject, seizes the reader and uses his skill to tempt and tantalize… The book is Dalrymple’s journey into the soul of Delhi�... More

Winner of the 2005 Kiriyama Prize for Non-fictionSuketu Mehta left Bombay at the age of 14. Twenty-one years later he returned to rediscover the city. The result is this stunning, brilliantly illuminating portrait of the megalopolis and its people—a book, seven years in the making, that is as vast... More

Raja Roychowdhury or ‘Kakababu’ is a name that strikes fear in the hearts of all who live in the shadowy world of crime. The ex-bureaucrat’s razor sharp intelligence and feats of breathtaking daring rushes the readers through a maze of spine-chilling mysteries and fearful adventure... More

Reissue of the sequel to the massive worldwide bestseller Princess Readers of Princess Sultana’s extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women’s lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Dau... More

The former Prime Minister examines the early history of one of the great loves of his life in a book that sheds new light on the summer game's social origins. In this work, the author examines the game from its origins up to the coming of the First World War. Along the way he considers the crucial r... More

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Discover Eastern Europe Make like 'King' Wenceslas and look out from Prague Castle then ponder your own metamorphasis at the Franz Kafka Museum.Go gently on the world's longest-and slowest-trolleybus route from Simferopol to Yalta.Get naked, hot, sweaty, and whipped with birch twigs with the locals ... More

Written by one of the West's foremost scholars of Islam, this book gives a coherent account of the development of Islamic thought beginning with Muhammad's death in 632. Drawing on many previously unresearched Arabic sources, William Watt describes how various religious and political movements withi... More

This book collectively outlines changing notions of history, power, knowledge and affection in the South Asian past. By piecing together narratives of specific families and households from complex sources, the essayist reveal multiple and new ways of thinking about the “political” in this region... More

HINDUISM CATEGORISES a man's life into four phases: brahmacharya (the young man as a student), grihasta (marriage and its encumbrances), vanaprastha (the process of moving into ashrams and retreats), and sanyas (renunciation). Following the stage of bachelorhood or brahmacharya, a man is expected to... More

This is the story of Kashmir as it appears in travel literature and historical writings from ancient times to the twentieth century. The first chapter provides an informal history of Kashmir—from Kalhana’s twelfth-century account which includes myths and legends, to Mughal descriptions in the re... More

Despite the progress made in Indian in many fields, its overall experience since the advent of independence has been one of defeated hopes, warped institutions and a fractured political life which has led to a sharp decline in the steering capacity of the state. This collection of over a hundred pie... More

The debate over the underlying causes of the clash between Hindus and Muslims which continues to polarize India is the central concern of this volume. Syed Nesar Ahmad challenges popular viewpoints regarding the Hindu-Muslim conflict by asserting that, although instrinsic differences between the two... More

McDonald's is the story of an American business success, a company that proved the value of hard work, ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instincts. In McDonald's: Behind the Arches, business writer John F. Love tells the astonishing story of the people and the strategies, the innovation and the br... More

A personal record of one of the most significant, yet least written about, decades in Indian historyDaniel O’Connor and his wife arrived in India in 1963, virtually the last days of the Nehruvian era, to live and work at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. This was the beginning of a relationship that... More

This is the story of the most intense and bitterly fought battles of the twentieth century, and their lasting impact on the world. From Amiens in the First World War to the First Gulf War in 1990-1, each of the battles featured in this book marked a turning point in military history. This high-octan... More

The essays in this volume bring together historians and anthropologists to reflect on the place of history and the historical within present-day conditions. The central focus here is on aspects of the popular, on the ways in which the popular relates to the scientific, the professional, the aestheti... More

A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery, A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinary men and women, both black and... More