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  • The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 Ferdinand Mount 9781471129469

    The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 Ferdinand Mount 9781471129469

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    The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan...
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  • Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable by Iftikhar Dadi

    Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable by Iftikhar Dadi

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    A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature filmsCommercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and...
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  • Privileged Witness: A Patriot's Journey Through Partition and the Independence of Pakistan by M.K. Janjua 9780992756406

    Privileged Witness: A Patriot's Journey Through Partition and the Independence of Pakistan by M.K. Janjua 9780992756406

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992756406Author M.K. JanjuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Geepy PublishingPublisher Geepy Publishing
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  • Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India by Sandhya Fuchs 9781503639362

    Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India by Sandhya Fuchs 9781503639362

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    Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. In 2019, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice urgently asked how legal...
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  • Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee

    Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee

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    The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the...
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  • Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Ms Peggy Mohan 9780670093687

    Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Ms Peggy Mohan 9780670093687

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093687Author Peggy MohanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm
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  • Nehru: The Debates that Defined India by Tripurdaman Singh

    Nehru: The Debates that Defined India by Tripurdaman Singh

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    'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic - and which remain deeply relevant and contentious...
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  • For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18 by Shrabani Basu

    For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18 by Shrabani Basu

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    Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, the largest force from the colonies and dominions. Their contribution, however, has been largely forgotten. Many soldiers were illiterate and travelled from remote villages in India to fight...
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  • The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas Scott Ellsworth 9781473649620

    The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas Scott Ellsworth 9781473649620

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    The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted 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...
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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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  • The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism by Ashis Nandy 9780198062172

    The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism by Ashis Nandy 9780198062172

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    Political, economic, and cultural domination under colonialism has repeatedly been studied during the last hundred years. Breaking with the tradition, Ashis Nandy explores the ways in which colonialism damaged the colonizing societies themselves, and how...
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  • Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

    Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

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    B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. It offers a scholarly critique of Hindu...
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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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  • Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now by Fay Blanchard 9781781301258

    Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now by Fay Blanchard 9781781301258

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    A 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...
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  • The Indian Contingent: The Forgotten Muslim Soldiers of Dunkirk by Ghee Bowman

    The Indian Contingent: The Forgotten Muslim Soldiers of Dunkirk by Ghee Bowman

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    'An incredible and important story, finally being told' - Mishal Husain On 28 May 1940, Major Akbar Khan marched at the head of 299 soldiers along a beach in northern France. They were the only Indians in the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. With...
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  • Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad

    Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad

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    Described as 'a masterpiece' by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing. If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistry's Fine Balance or...
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  • Six Battles for India: Anglo-Sikh Wars, 1845-46 and 1848-49 by George Bruce 9781800550438

    Six Battles for India: Anglo-Sikh Wars, 1845-46 and 1848-49 by George Bruce 9781800550438

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800550438Author George BruceFormat PaperbackImprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere Books
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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 Hunt for Mount Everest Craig Storti 9781529331530

    The Hunt for Mount Everest Craig Storti 9781529331530

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    The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mt. Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain...
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  • The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire by Ashwin Desai 9780804797177

    The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire by Ashwin Desai 9780804797177

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    In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular...
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  • Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal by Prashant Jha

    Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal by Prashant Jha

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    Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history,...
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  • Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India by Shetty V.T. Rajshekar 9780932863058

    Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India by Shetty V.T. Rajshekar 9780932863058

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863058Author Shetty V.T. RajshekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press
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  • Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 Tom Young 9781913107390

    Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 Tom Young 9781913107390

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    Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the...
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  • Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System by Yashica Dutt 9780807045282

    Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System by Yashica Dutt 9780807045282

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807045282Author Yashica DuttFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press
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  • Indian Tiles: Architectural Ceramics from Sultanate and Mughal India and Pakistan Arthur Millner 9783791387666

    Indian Tiles: Architectural Ceramics from Sultanate and Mughal India and Pakistan Arthur Millner 9783791387666

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    Historic India, which now encompasses the modern nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is celebrated for the richness of its architectural and decorative arts, but less well known for glazed tiles. Arthur Millner opens up this hitherto neglected...
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  • Passages through India: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 by Somak Biswas 9781009337984

    Passages through India: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 by Somak Biswas 9781009337984

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    Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and...
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  • Treasures of India: From Antiquity to Modernity by DK India 9780241608067

    Treasures of India: From Antiquity to Modernity by DK India 9780241608067

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    An exquisite collection of artefacts, sculptures, and historically significant treasures from across India. If the captivating bronze dancing girl of Harappa denoted sophisticated early civilisation, the stunning Sanchi Stupa symbolized the peak of...
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  • Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806

    Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806

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    A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism...
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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 Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan by Owen Bennett-Jones

    The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan by Owen Bennett-Jones

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    A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day "Students of geopolitics and South Asia will find this a valuable book."-Kirkus Reviews "Fluently written, impeccably...
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  • My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef

    My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef

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    Abdul Zaeef describes growing up in poverty in rural Kandahar province, which he fled for Pakistan after the Russian invasion of 1979. Zaeef joined the jihad in 1983, was seriously wounded in several encounters and met many leading figures of the...
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  • Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris

    Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris

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    From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West.Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on...
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  • Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War by Frances Harrison 9781846274701

    Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War by Frances Harrison 9781846274701

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    The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were...
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  • Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 by Heather Streets 9780719069635

    Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 by Heather Streets 9780719069635

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    This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As 'martial races' these men were believed to possess a...
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  • The Scorpion-Fish Nicolas Bouvier 9781780600444

    The Scorpion-Fish Nicolas Bouvier 9781780600444

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    The narrator arrives in his 117th rented room at the end of an epic journey, abandoned by his lover, almost broke and certainly feverish. His obsession with the insects he shares the room with and his beautifully articulated observations of himself on...
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  • Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War by Niromi de Soyza

    Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War by Niromi de Soyza

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    How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers? Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of seventeen, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a...
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  • Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan by Dr Sanaa Alimia

    Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan by Dr Sanaa Alimia

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    Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan. This book provides a...
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  • Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal by Mark Liechty

    Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal by Mark Liechty

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    Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and repository of redemptive power and wisdom. Beatniks, hippie seekers, spiritual tourists, mountain climbers diverse groups of people have traveled there over the years,...
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  • Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot

    Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot

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    A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism...
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  • The Mughal World: India's Tainted Paradise Abraham Eraly 9780753823620

    The Mughal World: India's Tainted Paradise Abraham Eraly 9780753823620

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    Inside the opulent, decadent world of the Mughal emperorsThe Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures, men written on a supra-human scale who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE...
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