Joseph Campbell's classic cross-cultural study of the hero's journey has inspired millions and opened up new areas of research and exploration. Original...
As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British co...
In this book, Professor Iyer elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Mahatma Gandhi, bringing out the subtlety, potency, and unive...
For its British population, the India that swelters in the late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing and flirtations under the aegis of...
Although “Man the Hunter” is a popular description of our ancestry, the central importance of hunting is firmly fixed only in the archeological reco...
This volume contains many of Amartya Sen's most important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage...
This internationally acclaimed investigation of emotions and personal relationships shows how people, past and present, escape from loneliness, fear and aimless...
Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched: their food, drink, clothes o...
The effects of the partition of India linger on to this day, more than half-a-century after its occurrence. The two nation theory created a divide between Musli...
Reprint of a 1846 classic on Sikh religion, history, Ranjit Singh, colonialism and military. valuable document on a transitional point in Punjab and Sikh histor...