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  • The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics by John Clifford Holt

    The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics by John Clifford Holt

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    The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island's recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian...
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  • Empire Building: The Construction of British India, 1690–1860 by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

    Empire Building: The Construction of British India, 1690–1860 by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

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    'Empire Building' is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines...
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  • The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass 9781849044578

    The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass 9781849044578

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    New York Times Book of the Year The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the...
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  • India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750-2000 by Claude Markovits

    India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750-2000 by Claude Markovits

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    In this pioneering history of modern India, Claude Markovits offers a new interpretation of events of world importance, focusing on the multiplicity of connections between India and the world. Beginning with an examination of India's evolving role in the...
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  • Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947 by Joya Chatterji

    Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947 by Joya Chatterji

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    Whereas previous studies of the end of British rule in India have concentrated on the negotiations of the transfer of power at the all-India level or have considered the emergence of separatist politics amongst India's Muslim minorities, this study...
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  • The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781783082339

    The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781783082339

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    In this path-breaking new work, Ali Usman Qasmi traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan by drawing on revealing new sources. This volume is the first scholarly study of the declassified material of...
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  • Risalo by Shah Abdul Latif

    Risalo by Shah Abdul Latif

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    The greatest classic of Sindhi literature presented here in an authoritative and vivid modern English translation.Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this...
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  • Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 by Kalyani Ramnath 9781503636095

    Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 by Kalyani Ramnath 9781503636095

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    For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and...
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  • Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier by Charles Allen

    Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier by Charles Allen

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    This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan...
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  • The First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-46: The betrayal of the Khalsa by David Smith

    The First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-46: The betrayal of the Khalsa by David Smith

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    The First Anglo-Sikh War broke out due to escalating tensions between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in the Punjab region of India in the mid-nineteenth century. Political machinations were at the heart of the conflict, with Sikh...
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  • Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 by Nancy K. Shields 9781780600796

    Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801 by Nancy K. Shields 9781780600796

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    Henrietta is a true original. Clever, vivacious and interested in everything, she managed to balance the demands of high profile public life with that of a caring mother. She was the home-schooled daughter of a bankrupt Earl and more than just a little...
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  • The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War by Yasmin Khan

    The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War by Yasmin Khan

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    The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between...
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  • An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy

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    Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is...
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  • Enlightened Vagabond by Matthieu Ricard

    Enlightened Vagabond by Matthieu Ricard

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611803303Author Matthieu RicardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...
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  • 1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India by Anam Zakaria 9780143454038

    1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India by Anam Zakaria 9780143454038

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    The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, its liberation...
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  • The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden 9780008353179

    The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden 9780008353179

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    'A tour de force of luminous writing.' Mark Cocker, Spectator 'Imagine if your family had lived in the mountains for a thousand years or more, what effect would that have upon your mind and your...
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  • The East India Company, 1600-1858: A Short History with Documents by Ian Barrow

    The East India Company, 1600-1858: A Short History with Documents by Ian Barrow

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    In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China's...
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  • A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara Daly Metcalf

    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara Daly Metcalf

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    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students...
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  • Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha 9780008498764

    Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha 9780008498764

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    WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced...
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  • The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India by Philip J. Stern

    The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India by Philip J. Stern

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    Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining...
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  • Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash

    Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash

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    This is a place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have...
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  • Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris by Christopher Snedden

    Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris by Christopher Snedden

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    In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called 'Kashmir' - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over...
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  • Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman

    Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman

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    Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired...
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  • Ganesh: Remover of Obstacles by James H. Bae

    Ganesh: Remover of Obstacles by James H. Bae

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839330Author Mandala PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing Group
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  • Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha

    Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha

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    WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced...
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  • The Laws of Manu by Wendy Doniger

    The Laws of Manu by Wendy Doniger

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    The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. Manu encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the...
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  • Valmiki's Ramayana by Arshia Sattar

    Valmiki's Ramayana by Arshia Sattar

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    One of India's greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians...
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  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction by Bhikhu Parekh

    Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction by Bhikhu Parekh

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    Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of...
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  • The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition by C. J. Fuller

    The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition by C. J. Fuller

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    Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of...
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  • Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster

    Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster

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    R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. From 1970, things were changing in Ireland - the Celtic...
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  • Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia

    Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia

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    Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is...
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  • The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury

    The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING PRIZE 'Witty, polished, honest and insightful, The Epic City is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta's classic Maximum City is for Mumbai' William...
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  • Atisa Dipamkara: The Illuminator of the Awakened Mind by James Apple 9781611806472

    Atisa Dipamkara: The Illuminator of the Awakened Mind by James Apple 9781611806472

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806472Author James AppleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc
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  • The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma

    The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma

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    Apologies 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
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  • Nemesis: A brand-new historical epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781804182284

    Nemesis: A brand-new historical epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781804182284

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWilbur Smith (Author) Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has...
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  • The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule by Kumari Jayawardena

    The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule by Kumari Jayawardena

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    In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie...
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  • The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling

    The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling

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    A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite...
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  • Die in Battle, Do Not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Stanley

    Die in Battle, Do Not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Stanley

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059148Author Peter StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company
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  • Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition by Guru Nanak

    Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition by Guru Nanak

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    "A landmark volume, filled with beautiful renderings of writings from the Guru Granth Sahib."-Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your LifeAn exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the...
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  • Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 by Kate O'Malley 9780719081712

    Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 by Kate O'Malley 9780719081712

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    Offering a fresh new perspective on the history of the end of Empire, with the Irish and Indian independence movements as its focus, this book details how each country's nationalist agitators engaged with each other and exchanged ideas. Using previously...
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