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Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King by Patrick Olivelle 9780300270006
RRP: $42.90$36.19An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history "Mr. Olivelle has produced an outstanding monument of scholarship and sound judgment."-Maxwell Carter, Wall... -
Medieval Indian Armies (2): Indo-Islamic Forces, 7th–Early 16th Centuries by Dr David Nicolle 9781472853349
RRP: $25.33$17.73This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. From 1206, much of what is now India as well as parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal were ruled by a... -
The First Anglo-Sikh War by Amarpal Singh
RRP: $29.23$18.92During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent, stretching to the borders of the Punjab. There the great Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh had developed his... -
Kathmandu by Tomas Bell
RRP: $25.33$17.06One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city--exploring in... -
A History of Bangladesh by Willem van Schendel
RRP: $54.58$46.82Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of... -
Illustrated Stories of Mermaids by Margarita Kukhtina 9781474989633
RRP: $25.33$14.45Discover the mysterious selkies of the Scottish seas and the haunting Philippine tale of the curse of Sirena. Meet the merman from China whose tears turn to pearls and Hans Christian Anderson's brave little mermaid, pursuing her dream. These nine... -
Pakistan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Safia Haleem 9781857336771
RRP: $19.48$14.27Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $25.33$17.73In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India:... -
Thousands of Heroes Have Arisen: Sikh Voices of the Great War 1914-1918 by Sukwinder Singh Bassi 9781914059070
RRP: $48.75$41.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059070Author Sukwinder Singh BassiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781408829004
RRP: $33.13$25.08The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong, new difficulties, resulting from British... -
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: $29.23$21.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymple, Spectator A sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins 9780745331959
RRP: $33.13$26.91This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing... -
Bhagat Singh: A Life in Revolution by Satvinder S. Juss 9780670095230
RRP: $58.48$37.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670095230Author Satvinder S. JussFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm -
Tibet: A History by Sam van Schaik
RRP: $29.23$25.41A timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan today Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the... -
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941-45 by Robert Lyman
RRP: $48.75$36.31SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'This is a superb book.' - James Holland In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories... -
India before Europe by Catherine B. Asher
RRP: $58.48$52.79India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was ever the case, and at no time more so than in the India that existed from... -
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab by Marina Wheeler
RRP: $21.43$14.43'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times'A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora... Wheeler taps a rich vein of... -
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
RRP: $19.48$13.86**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** 'Haunting ... lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned' Sunday Times 'A compelling whodunnit ... Devastating'... -
The Indian Mutiny by Julian Spilsbury
RRP: $17.53$12.09An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courageThe Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate... -
Electric Arches by Eve Ewing
RRP: $19.48$13.86Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical... -
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari
RRP: $25.33$16.54After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - they were supposed to be the answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's protege and the political leader of... -
Modern India: A Very Short Introduction by Craig Jeffrey
RRP: $17.53$12.58India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes... -
Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion by Thomas Holden 9780192871329
RRP: $117.00$105.55Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion presents a new scholarly interpretation of Hobbes's treatment of religious speech and practice. It argues that the key to Hobbes's treatment of religion is his theory of religious language. According to Hobbes, the proper... -
The Words of Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: $17.53$15.33Gandhi's ideas are as meaningful today as they were during his long and inspiring life. His enlightening thoughts and beliefs, especially on violence and the atomic bomb, reveal his eloquent foresight about our contemporary world. The words of one of the... -
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
RRP: $44.85$29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003619Author Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Ahoms: A Reimagined History by Arup Kumar Dutta
$42.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356294141Author Arup Kumar DuttaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm)... -
The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors by Abraham Eraly
RRP: $33.13$22.50A history of the great Mughal rulers of India, one of the world's greatest empires.In December 1525 Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At the battle... -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities by Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
$79.01In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
The Hydaspes 326 BC: The Limit of Alexander the Great’s Conquests by Nic Fields
RRP: $33.13$23.95The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece. In the years that followed Alexander the Great's victory at Gaugamela on 1 October 331 BC, his Macedonian and Greek army fought a truly... -
The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: $25.33$16.77Longlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST 'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE SUNDAY TIMES'So far as adventure stories go, this book is tops.'... -
Japanese Conquest of Burma 1942: The Advance to the Gates of India by Tim Moreman
RRP: $31.18$22.64This book provides a fascinating exploration of the Japanese conquest of Burma, as the Allied forces were forced back in disarray to India and China. The Japanese invasion of Burma in January 1942 marked the beginning of the single longest campaign of... -
Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India by Ali Raza
RRP: $48.73$43.62In this engaging and innovative history of the communist movement in colonial India, Ali Raza reveals the lives, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and how they sought to remake the world. Driven by the utopian visions of... -
Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $25.33$16.69India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its exploitation and reflect its ambition. But, by building India's railways, Britain radically changed the nation and unwittingly planted the seed... -
Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India by Zahid R. Chaudhary
RRP: $50.68$43.76Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857... -
The History and Topography of Ireland by Gerald of Wales
RRP: $19.48$13.86Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry... -
Kohima 1944: The Battle That Saved India by Robert Lyman 9781846039393
RRP: $33.13$25.08In March 1944, the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising against British rule. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go, which was intended as a feint to draw British attention... -
Ramayana by Daljit Nagra
RRP: $21.43$15.15The Ramayana is one of the great epics of the ancient world, with versions spanning the cultures, religions and languages of Asia. Its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld, has enchanted... -
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now by Fay Blanchard 9781781301258
RRP: $58.50$42.88A richly illustrated exploration of the impact of South Asian Miniature painting on contemporary art. This book tells the dynamic story of contemporary art's engagement with the miniature painting traditions of South Asia from the sixteenth century... -
Against a Peacock Sky: Two Years in the Life of a Nepalese Village by Monica Connell 9781780600420
RRP: $25.33$16.77For two years Monica Connell lived as a paying guest of Kalchu and Chola in the Nepalese Himalayan village of Talphi, ten days walk from the nearest road. This book poetically captures the immediacy of Connell's experience, and her empathy and sense of... -
Whose Health Is It, Anyway? by Sally Davies 9780198863458
RRP: $47.76$40.52Covid-19 has shown how vulnerable society, our economy, and day-to-day lives are to illness, but despite this we have not yet valued the pivotal role of good health. Our healthcare system is now an illness service with little resilience, importing...