City of Kashmir
Srinagar: A Popular History
ISBN: HB: 9781911723769,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 illus.
A vibrant tapestry of Srinagar's rich historical and cultural heritage.
"City of Kashmir" offers readers a journey into the 2,000-year history of Srinagar, exploring its written history, legends and oral traditions to take a living pulse. In explo...
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30.00 GBP
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India and China at Odds in the Asian Century
A Diplomatic and Strategic History
ISBN: HB: 9781805260622,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A high-level insider's account of how China and India are locked in an ongoing struggle for supremacy in Asia.
The term "Asian century" was first coined by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1985 when discussing the Asian economic leap f...
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35.00 GBP
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Heaven Does Not Block All Roads
A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao
ISBN: HB: 9781911723622,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A hundred-year history of the challenges and triumphs of contemporary Taiwan, through the inspiring true story of one man who lived through it all.
Huang Chin-tao was born in 1926, when Taiwan was still part of the Japanese Empire. By the time he...
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25.00 GBP
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India's Near East
A New History
ISBN: HB: 9781805260615,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2024
480 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
480 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A revealing new history of India's faltering attempts to exert control over its eastern hinterland and the neighbouring states of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
India's near east encompasses Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Indian states of the "Northeast" –...
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Nehru's Bandung
Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy
ISBN: HB: 9781911723189,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The history of an Indian vision for Asian peace, driven by the energy of Prime Minister Nehru and the pressures of the early Cold War.
This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of India's Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Pri...
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40.00 GBP
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Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution
On Caste and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781911723233,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A revolutionary alternative to the misleading spiritualised image of India, through anti-caste political thought.
In their brave and challenging book, grounded in political science and the Continental philosophical tradition, Divya Dwivedi and Sh...
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25.00 GBP
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Malevolent Republic
A Short History of the New India (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781911723288,
ISBN: HB: 9781787380059,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2024
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
After decades of imperfect secularism, New Delhi radiates the ideological convictions of its new master, Narendra Modi, as he seeks irreversibly to transform India. The "invisible threads" holding together Nehru's diverse country have snapped under...
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14.99 GBP
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Dethroned
The Downfall of India's Princely States
ISBN: HB: 9781805260530,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2023
360 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 illus.
360 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 illus.
The dramatic story of how hundreds of Indian princes were betrayed by the departing British and Nehru's independent government.
In July 1947, India's last Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, stood before New Delhi's Chamber of Princes to deliver the...
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25.00 GBP
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Northeast India
A Political History
ISBN: HB: 9781787389526,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2023
432 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
432 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A journalist's history of the short yet troubled life of this "new" region bordering China and Southeast Asia, exploring its significance for the idea of India.
As India and the world are roiled by questions of nationalism and identity, this book...
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30.00 GBP
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Shrimp to Whale
South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
ISBN: PB: 9781805260301,
ISBN: HB: 9781787387041,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2023
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Charts the incredible rise of South Korea, from colonisation and civil war to today's thriving nation.
South Korea has a remarkable history. Born from the ashes of imperial domination, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were...
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16.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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