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Songs of Blood and Sword
By Fatima Bhutto [Ebook, Adobe epub]
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In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Description: In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father Murtaza was murdered, along with six of his associates. In December 2007,... more
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Climbing the Mango Trees
By Madhur Jaffrey [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! About the Book : 'I was born in a sprawling house by the Yamuna River in Delhi. When I was a few minutes old, Grandmother welcomed me into the world by writing 'Om', which means 'I am' in Sanskrit, on my tongue with a little finger dipped in honey. When... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2006 Paperback 2006 Paperback 2007 Hardcover 2005, 1st Edition
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The Indian Mutiny
By Julian Spilsbury [Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
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In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! By 1857, the British East India Company was India's de facto ruler, having won the subcontinent by subterfuge and force of arms. Discontent was rising however, and in the following Spring, entire regiments of Indian troops turned on their British overlords and challenged the global trading powerhouse in open warfare.... more
Other Editions: Hardcover Paperback 2008
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A Blue Hand
By Deborah Baker [Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
868 695 (20% OFF)
Discontinued Description: In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he... more
Other Editions: Unknown Ebook, Adobe pdf 2008
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India Arriving: How This Economic Powerhouse is Redefining Global Business
By Rafiq Dossani [Ebook, Adobe pdf 1905]
1,390 973 (30% OFF)
Discontinued Description: Once the jewel in the crown of the formidable British Empire, India has been surrounded by myth for years. After gaining independence in 1948, this often misunderstood country found itself faced with a new sense of freedom - and along with it, enormous burdens and challenges. While exotic, mysterious,... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2007
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The Indian Princes and their States
By Barbara N Ramusack [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2000]
2,696 2,426 (10% OFF) Download Now!
In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 5 selections every 30 days. Printing allowed, 20 pages every 30 days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not... more
Other Editions: 2005 Paperback 2008 Hardcover 2003 Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004 Paperback
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The Golden Triangle: An Ethno- Semiotic Tour of Present- Day India
By Arthur Asa Berger [Ebook, Adobe pdf]
1,445 982 (32% OFF) Download Now!
In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! This book offers a semiotically informed ethnographic study of contemporary culture in Rajasthan and in India generally. It adapts the methodology of analyzing cultures found in Roland Barthes' semiotic portrait of Japanese culture, "Empire of Signs," but adds an analysis of lifestyles as explicated in the work of social anthropologist... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2008
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Melting Everest and Falling Mountains
By Hari Prasad Shrestha [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2011]
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In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! This book presents vital aspects and events of Nepal including South Asia and Tibet. The writer has transformed realities in the form of essays. The articles are short but are potent in describing the inner convolution of the society. The writings are not merely treatise; they represent realism. It is... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2013 Paperback Paperback Paperback
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A History of India
By Hermann Kulke , Dietmar Rothermund [Ebook, Adobe pdf]
1,412 1,271 (10% OFF)
Discontinued Reviews of previous editions: 'The most comprehensive history of India today' Jean Filliozat, Journal Asiatique 'They have succeeded in compressing into a limited number of pages a history of the subcontinent ... Their joint achievement is remarkable ... For the student and the general reader who wants a balanced introduction... more
Other Editions: Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004 Ebook, Adobe pdf Hardcover Hardcover 2004, 4th Edition Paperback 2004, 4th Edition Paperback 1991 ...
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Indias Nuclear Bomb and National Security
By Karsten Frey [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2007]
2,120 1,908 (10% OFF)
Discontinued India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security gives an analytic account of the dynamics of India's nuclear build up. It puts forward a new comprehensive model, which goes beyond the classic strategic model of accepting motives of arming behaviour, and incorporates the dynamics in India's nuclear programme. The core argument of... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2006
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Jews and India
By Yulia Egorova [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2007]
2,145 1,930 (10% OFF)
Discontinued Exploring the image of Jews in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book looks at both the Indian attitudes towards the Jewish communities of the subcontinent and at the way Jews and Judaism in general have been represented in Indian discourse. Despite the fact that the Indian Jewish... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2009 Hardcover 2006
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Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi
By Bidyut Chakrabarty [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005]
7,959 7,163 (10% OFF)
Discontinued Description: During his campaign against racism in South Africa and his involvement in the Congress-led nationalist struggle against British colonial rule in India, Mahatma Gandhi developed a new form of political struggle based on the idea of satyagraha or non-violent protest. He ushered in a new era of nationalism in... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2005
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The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai
By Mary E Hancock [Ebook, Adobe pdf]
1,966 1,867 (5% OFF) Download Now!
In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Description: Space and public memory in the neoliberal city In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a center for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing,... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2008
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Aligarhs First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India
By David Lelyveld , Mushirul Hasan [Ebook, Adobe epub]
578 376 (35% OFF)
Discontinued The book explores the nature of Muslim cultural identity in nineteenth century India and the changes it underwent through colonial rule. It shows how one institution, The Mohammadan Anglo Oriental College, with its founders and early students mediated these changes during the first 25 years of its existence, and evolved... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2003 Paperback 1996
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Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860- 1920
By Thomas R Metcalf [Ebook, Adobe pdf]
1,734 1,301 (25% OFF) Download Now!
In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! "Imperial Connections challenges the Eurocentrism implicit in many accounts of modern European empires. Focusing on the British empire when it was at its zenith, Metcalf analyzes the pivotal role the Raj played in the running of the empire in regions as far flung from one another as, say, Egypt, Uganda,... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2008 Hardcover 2007
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Globalizing India: Perspectives from Below
By Jackie Assayag , Chris Fuller [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005]
4,922 4,429 (10% OFF)
Discontinued This is one of the first books to present a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society. This is one of the first books to present a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society. Description: This is one... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2005 Hardcover 2005