Maurice Hindus (1891-1969) was a Russian-born novelist and American authority on the Soviet Union. He was the author of several books on peasant life in Russia as well as his own autobiography, Green Worlds (1938).
It has so often been said that Indian civilization lacks historical writing—and therefore a sense of history—that this notion passes for a truism. There has been little attempt to show up the f...
Social Evolution was Gordon Childe's last major work. It deals with the social evolution of the human race. V. Gordon Childe was a remarkable man who is considered the father of modern arc...
Increasing interest has been shown in recent decades in matters relating to ecology, especially under the influence of the debate on climate change. The scope of ecology is, of course, much wider t...
The Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012 is a book in two volumes which traces the complex history of the long-standing dispute, and the political discontent and dissent surrounding it relating espec...
This classic work lays out the main outlines and most important turning points of British history from the point of view of the ordinary people in an exceptionally clear and jargon-free style. From...
In this imposing new volume, Saurabh Dube writes against the grain of understandings which often set up objects of intellectual inquiry as the singular yardstick for judging the scholarly novelty a...
The Indus Civilization by Irfan Habib forms Volume 2 of the People's History of India series. It continues the story from the point reached in the preceding volume, Prehistory, an...
Marx once wrote that history weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Perhaps he did not know how right he would be. Even twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, activists a...
The construction of Hindu religious identity began in the late nineteenth century and has continued unabated. Accompanied by the demonization of minorities, especially Muslims, and the creation and...