Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.

Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent. Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund provide a comprehensive overview of the structural pattern of Indian history, covering each historical period in equal depth. Fully revised throughout, the sixth edition of this highly accessible book has been brought up to date with analysis of recent events such as the 2014 election and its consequences, and includes more discussion of subjects such as caste and gender, Islam, foreign relations, partition, and the press and television. This new edition contains an updated chronology of key events and a useful glossary of Indian terms, and is highly illustrated with maps and photographs. Supplemented by a companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/kulke), it is a valuable resource for students of Indian history.

Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrative—now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations. From the Trade Paperback edition.

William Erskine'S Baber And Humayun Stands As The Earliest Scholarly Acco¬Unt Of The Mughal Rulers In India By A British Author. Erskine Combined A Meticulous And Critical Knowledge Of The Voluminous Persian Source Mate¬Rial With The Philosophical Outlook Of An 'Enlightenment' Historian, Emulating Montesquieu And Voltaire In His Desire To Present Individual Historical Facts As Expressive Of The Constitution And Spirit Of A Whole Society.Erskine'S High Regard For Baber As A Man Was Tempered By His Realisation Of Baber'S True Status Among The Indian Mughals, Recognizing Him To Have Been At Best A Successful Soldier Of Fortune And Leader Of A Band Of Indivi¬Dual Adventurers, Rather Than An 'Em¬Peror' Faced In His Lawful Inheritance By Contumacious Afghan Subjects.