Smuggling as Subversion is the first comprehensive account of the opium industry in western India during the colonial period, from its beginnings to the mid-19th century. This ...

It was primarily opium that linked Bombay to the international capitalist economy and the western Indian hinterland in the nineteenth century. The essays in this book explore ...

Life and activities of an Indian communist leader.

This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on ...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This history of the Bengal Famine of 1943 describes the interplay of politics, economics, sociology and military policy, which caused a famine due to a lack of cash, not a lack ...

From The Earliest Times To Fall Of Rome, To The Fall Of Babylon The Persian Period, Herodotus. The Maurya Empire, Megasthanese. Greece And Some Greek Dynasties Of The Punjab ...