Glorious Failure
The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India
ISBN: HB: 9781805262954,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
412 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
412 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
From war with the British to the enslavement of Indians, Ivermee uncovers the dark history of France's doomed imperial project in South Asia.
This is a powerful new account of a chapter in history that is crucial to understand, yet often overlooked....
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India's First Dictatorship
The Emergency, 1975-1977
ISBN: PB: 9781805263210,
ISBN: HB: 9781787384026,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
600 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
600 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Winner of the 2022 Karwaan Book Award
Sheds light on one of the darkest moments in India's recent history, drawing upon a trove of new sources.
In June 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency, resulting in a 21-month suspens...
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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 explori...
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Dethroned
The Downfall of India's Princely States
ISBN: PB: 9781805263098,
ISBN: HB: 9781805260530,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
352 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16 illus.
352 pp., 19,8x12,9 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 mo...
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Dravidian Pathway
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Politics of Transition in South India
ISBN: PB: 9781805262985,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Chronicles the transformation of a Dravidian socio-cultural movement into an electorally viable poChronicles the transformation of a Dravidian socio-cultural movement into an electorally viable political party in Tamil Nadu.
"The Dravidian Pathway"...
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Another India
The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77
ISBN: PB: 9781805263272,
ISBN: HB: 9781787388086,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
464 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
464 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A fresh take on the history of post-independence India, revealing how Muslim leaders in Congress and the community abandoned those they claimed to represent.
"Another India" tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together...
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Dapaan
Tales from Kashmir's Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781805262916,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
344 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
344 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
In this haunting, probing book, an award-winning journalist interviews ordinary Kashmiris about tales of war in their homes and communities.
In Kashmir, folktales often begin with the word dapaan - "it is said". So too do local narratives told and r...
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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 for...
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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 di...
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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" - Ar...
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