London. Deutsch. 1977. Profuse black and white illustrations, 142pp, very good in slightly worn dustjacket. 26 x 20.7cm. Charles Allen has drawn together an extraordinary range of pictures from family albums, scrapbooks, family papers, mail order catalogues and other ephemera to give a picture of life during the British Raj..... More
Collins. 1965. Plans, maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 254pp, a good copy in hardback. "'Black Hole of Calcutta' has become a casual expression for any stuffy, over-crowded place and is the perfect example of the distortion inflicted by Time on History, and the reduction of the tragic to the..... More
Kolkata. Deep Prakashan. 2004. viii + 555pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket laid down onto endpapers as issued. Lower margin title page marked. Good hardback copy. History of Calcutta using the writings of foreign residents (mainly British). When referring to this item please quote stockid 162835. More
United Kingdom: Curzon. 2001. xiv + 242pp, glossary, bibliography, index, hardback, dustjacket with light wear, signature on front endpaper, internally clean, very good copy. This is a study of the social, political, economic and public health aspects of the Second World War in South Asia, with particular attention being accorded..... More
Durham. Duke University Press, 2009. xi + 346pp, notes, references, index. Very good paperback copy. In "Stages of Capital", Ritu Birla brings research on non-western capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India's market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented..... More
London. Trubner. 1869. Volume II only. viii + 409pp, ex Parliamentary library, very worn half calf binding, marbled endpapers and edges. Some foxing, calf worn, tail of spine torn with loss, gilt library stamp upper cover. When referring to this item please quote stockid 53636. More
London. Bentley & Son. 1874. xx + 456pp, appendix, ex Parliamentary library copy, no internal library markings, gilt library stamp upper cover and spine, light foxing first and last leaves and some internal leaves, attractive marbled endpapers and edges, half calf binding somewhat worn, decorative gilt raised bands spine, gilt..... More
London. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2007. Map, 24 black and white illustrations, xvi + 575pp, index, bibliography, appendix, notes, glossary. Spine little creased, paperback cover extremities trifle worn, a very good copy. 24 x 16cm. An assessment of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in the context of a biography of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer..... More
Westminster. Archibald Constable. 1897. Black and white illustrations, xx + 253pp, first and last leaves and edges foxed, few internal leaves lightly foxed, ex Parliamentary library copy, library stamp title page, binding trifle worn with few minor marks, gilt NSW Parliamentary stamp uppercover, gilt lettering spine, a sound copy. Arthur..... More
Shannon. Irish University Press. 1972. Reprint. lxi + 606pp, index, signature of a prior owner front free endpaper. First published in 1920. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 60773). More
London. Nicholson & Watson. 1951. 9 colour maps, (1 folding), 4 black and white illustrations, 225pp, references, chronology, indices, book plate tipped in front free endpaper, little foxing fore edges, otherwise very good hardback copy. Chapters: Hindu India, The Coming of Islam, The Mogul Empire, The Maratha Confederacy, The European..... More
Karachi. Indus. 1977. Reprint. Maps, one folding, black and white illustrations (some fairly blurred), xvi + 298pp, index, stamp half-title, dustjacket a little soiled, a good hardback copy. "The author, the British agent at Gilgit in 1889-94, describes an interesting record of frontier travel, war, sport and history of the..... More
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1892. 4th edition. 53 black and white illustrations throughout the text by the illustrator of 'The Tribes On My Frontier' (F.C. Macrae). viii+159pp + 40pp illustrated publisher's catalogue, an inscription of prior owner with some phrases translated from English into Hindi? Pictorial cloth covered boards..... More
London. India Office Library and Records. HMSO. 1972. Black and white portrait frontispiece, 27pp, index, a good paperback copy, octavo. India Office Library and Records Occasional Publications No. 1. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 153834). More
London. Hamlyn. 1974. Black and white and some colour illustrations, 144pp, index, details of prior owners half title, very good copy in dustjacket. 29.5 x 21.5cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 157603). More
London. Murray. 1910. Colour folding map, xiii + 360pp + 8pp publisher's catalogue, index, ex-library copy, attractive gilt library stamp upper cover, library stamp title page, considerably foxed throughout, cloth covered boards somewhat worn and marked, minor insect damage lower edge upper cover, gilt title on browned spine, contents sound..... More
Calcutta. Mukhopadhyay. 1960. 263pp, appendix, bibliography, index, ex-library copy with the usual stamps and labels, a few annotations in ink, a sound copy in little worn hardback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 153224. More
London. Collins. 1971. Map, black and white illustrations, 288pp, index, endpapers very faint browning, dustjacket worn with closed tear lower cover, a good hardback copy otherwise. When referring to this item please quote stockid 161623. More
London. Macmillan. 1874. Detailed colour folding map, black and white folding map and 1 full page black and white map, 1 portrait steel engraving, 44 black and white wood engravings of which 4 are full page, xiv + 673pp + [2] + 60 page publisher's catalogue at rear, many leaves..... More
London. Bentley. 1891. Third edition. Sketch map, portrait frontis, black and white illustrations, xii + 321pp, neat inscription of prior owner in nineteenth-century hand half title page, very pale foxing edges, hinges starting, head and tail of spine worn, corners little worn, cloth little marked and worn although gilt medallion..... More
Delhi. National Publications. 1967. Foreword by Professor Humayun Kabir and introduction by Professor Bisheshwar Prasad. xxv + 295pp, index, binding trifle shelf worn extremities, one corner slightly bumped, otherwise good. When referring to this item please quote stockid 33882. More
London. Bentley & Son. 1859. 3rd Edition. 3 folding maps, 1 in colour, 1 folding plan, 3 full page plates, xx + 570pp, recased in a half leather binding retaining the original boards, modern endpapers, occasional marginalia in pencil and spotting, upper hinge cracked, edge of two folding maps carelessly..... More
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1983. 361pp, index, bibliography, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, dustjacket lightly worn and chipped, a good hardback copy. "The historiography of peasant insurgency in India has hitherto been a record of the colonial administration's effort to deal with insurgency. The result has been a failure..... More
Bombay. Asia Publishing. n.d. (c.1963). xix + 338pp, glossary, bibliography, index, binding considerably patchily faded, light foxing endpapers and edges, otherwise good. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 33880). More
United Kingdom: School of Oriental & African Studies, 1996. Maps, black and white illustrations, 330pp, bibliography, index, damage to lower section of dustjacket spine where label has been removed but no other signs of library use, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 159957... More
