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Books by Sumit Sarkar
  | | Women and Social Reform in Modern India A Reader by Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar, Professor Tanika Sarkar Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2008 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22049-3, ISBN: 0-253-22049-1 "Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to nascent nationalist movements. Debates over practices such as widow immolation, widow remarriage, and child marriage, as well as those governing marriage and property within different religious communities, continued to exert profound influence on Indian society and politics throughout the 20th ..." |
 | | Beyond Nationalist Frames Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History by Sumit Sarkar Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2002 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34203-4, ISBN: 0-253-34203-1 "The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian’s intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India’s foremost contemporary historians offers his v ..." |
 | | Modern India 1885–1947 (Cambridge Commonwealth Series) by Sumit Sarkar, D.A. Low Paperback, 489 Pages, Published 1989 by Palgrave Macmillan Import ISBN-13: 978-0-333-43806-0, ISBN: 0-333-43806-X "'...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low" |
 | | Essays of a Lifetime Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns (SUNY series in Hindu Studies) by Sumit Sarkar Hardcover, 666 Pages, Published 2019 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-7431-1, ISBN: 1-4384-7431-8 "A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903–1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was rep ..." |
 | | Essays of a Lifetime Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns (Paperback) by Sumit Sarkar Paperback, Published 2020 by State Univ Of New York Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-7432-8, ISBN: 1-4384-7432-6 |
 | | Modern India, 1885-1947(Reprint) by Sumit Sarkar, David Henry Wilson, Axel Scheffler, Sumit Kumar Paperback, 486 Pages, Published 2002 by Macmillan India ISBN-13: 978-0-333-90425-1, ISBN: 0-333-90425-7 "Modern India provides an insight into the historiography of India and its freedom struggle from the colonial era to the year of Independence. It uses archival data from various sources and collates it with new research elements in the history of the period. As a result, it has been able to provide a critical perspective on the historical, political, social and cultural events of the time. The book is credited as one of the most widely r ..." |
 | | The Success of India's Democracy(1st Edition) (Contemporary South Asia) by Atul Kohli, Sumit Sarkar, James Manor, Myron Weiner, Pranab Bardhan, Amrita Basu, D.S. Rawat Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 2001 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-80530-8, ISBN: 0-521-80530-9 "How has democracy taken root in India in the face of a low-income economy, widespread poverty, illiteracy, and immense ethnic diversity? Atul Kohli brings together some of the world's leading scholars of Indian politics to consider this intriguing anomaly. They do so by focusing, not so much on socio-economic factors, but rather on the ways in which power is distributed in India. Two processes have guided the negotiation of power confli ..." |
 | | Writing Social History(Updated) by Sumit Sarkar Paperback, 390 Pages, Published 1999 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-564633-7, ISBN: 0-19-564633-9 "The eight essays in this volume seek to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current debates about the extent and nature of Western colonial domination. Sumit Sarkar makes a powerful case for the importance of richly-detailed, nuanced social history." |
 | | Writing Social History by Sumit Sarkar Hardcover, 404 Pages, Published 1998 by Oup India ISBN-13: 978-0-19-564024-3, ISBN: 0-19-564024-1 "On India; essays, most written between 1991 and 1996" |
 | | Modern India, 1885-1947 by Sumit Sarkar Hardcover, 489 Pages, Published 1989 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-312-01299-1, ISBN: 0-312-01299-3 |
 | | Modern India, 1885-1947(2nd Edition) (Cambridge Commonwealth) by Sumit Sarkar, D.A. Low Hardcover, 515 Pages, Published 1989 by Palgrave Macmillan Import ISBN-13: 978-0-333-43805-3, ISBN: 0-333-43805-1 |
 | | KHAKI SHORTS SAFFRON FLAGS(1st Edition) (TFTT) by Tapan Basu, Tanika Sarkar, Sumit Sarkar, Pradip Datta, Sambuddha Sen, T. Basu Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 1993 by Orient Longman ISBN-13: 978-0-86311-383-3, ISBN: 0-86311-383-4 "Khaki Shorts And Saffron Flags is a penetrating and meticulously researched critique of the forces of Hindutva. The authors trace the roots of the Hindutva ideology to the politics of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. They discuss the history of the RSS and the Vishwa Hindu parishad, analyse the institutional structures of the organisations, their political language, their attempts at transforming Hinduism, and their strategies of commun ..." |
 | | Towards Freedom(Updated) Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1946, Part 2 (Pt. 2) by Sumit Sarkar, Sabyasachi. Bhattacharya Hardcover, 518 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-806005-5, ISBN: 0-19-806005-X "Part of the Towards Freedom series, this volume edited by K.N.Panikkar contains documents related to the year 1940. The first part systematically covers in five chapters, different aspects of the history of socio-political history of British India like political and constitutional negotiations surrounding the Second World War. The first chapter discusses the various responses to the Second World War. Chapter 2 deals with the constituti ..." |
 | | Women and Social Reform in Modern India A Reader by Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar Hardcover, 560 Pages, Published 2008 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35269-9, ISBN: 0-253-35269-X "Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to nascent nationalist movements. Debates over practices such as widow immolation, widow remarriage, and child marriage, as well as those governing marriage and property within different religious communities, continued to exert profound influence on Indian society and politics throughout the 20th ..." |
 | | Essays of a Lifetime Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns by Sumit Sarkar 666 Pages, Published 2018 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-7433-5, ISBN: 1-4384-7433-4 "of a rich tradition of religious poetry and song (shyamasangit) from Ramprasad onwards added a vital emotional dimension, absent in the often purely mechanical Tantric practices.176 Derived in part from Vaishnava imagery, and repeatedly ..." |
 | | Towards Freedom Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1945 by Bimal Ed. Prasad, Basudev Chatterji, Pran Nath Chopra, Mushirul Hasan, Partha Sarathi Gupta, Sumit Sarkar, Amit Kumar Gupta, Arjun Dev Hardcover, 1,081 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-569530-4, ISBN: 0-19-569530-5 "Part of the Towards Freedom series, this volume edited by Bimal Prasad contains documents related to the year 1945. One the one hand, the 1945 volume discusses the various conciliation moves-Desai Liyaqat Pact, Sapru Committee, Wavell Pan and Simla Conference; on the other, military and civil resistance-Indian National Army and the States Peoples' and Workers'-Peasants' Movements. It contains detailed information on the INA Trials and t ..." |
 | | Towards Freedom Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1939, Part 1 (Ichr: Towards Freedom) (Pt. 1) by Mushirul Hasan, Pran Nath Chopra, Basudev Chatterji, Partha Sarathi Gupta, Bimal Prasad, Sumit Sarkar Hardcover, 1,392 Pages, Published 2008 by Oup India ISBN-13: 978-0-19-569339-3, ISBN: 0-19-569339-6 |
 | | The Crisis of Secularism in India(Updated) by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Contributor-V. Geetha, Contributor-Sunil Khilnani, Contributor-Nivedita Menon, Contributor-Gyanendra Pandey, Contributor-Romila Thapar, Contributor-Shyam Benegal, Contributor-Shabnum Tejani, Contributor-Upendra Baxi, Paula Richman, Ashis Nandy, Partha Chatterjee, Arvind Rajagopal, Ravi S. Vasudevan, Flavia Agnes, Sumit Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen, Gyan Prakash, Contributor-Ravi Vasudevan Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2007 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3831-4, ISBN: 0-8223-3831-9 "While secularism has been integral to India’s democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and religion include the violence directed against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the precarious situation of India’s minority religious groups more generally; the existence of personal laws that vary by religious community; the affiliation of politi ..." |
 | | Cambridge Commonwealth Modern India 1885-1947 by Sumit Sarkar 489 Pages, Published 1989 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-349-19712-5, ISBN: 1-349-19712-2 "The official edition of the Collected Works of Gandhi (New Delhi, 1958, onwards) now runs into 70 volumes, while the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru (New Delhi, 1972 onwards) have gone up to 13 volumes so far. ... Gokhale, The Indian Moderates and the British Raj (Delhi, 1977); Tendulkar's 8 volumes biography of Gandhi, The Mahatma (Delhi, 1960-63); Pyarelal's works on Gandhi's first and last ..." |
 | | The Other Side of the Medal by Edward John Thompson, Sumit Sarkar Hardcover, 131 Pages, Published 1989 by Oriental University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7465-0094-1, ISBN: 0-7465-0094-7 |
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