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Die in Battle, Do Not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Stanley
RRP: £29.95£24.69Apologies 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 -
Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition by Guru Nanak
RRP: £16.95£12.55"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... -
Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 by Kate O'Malley 9780719081712
RRP: £19.99£17.44Offering 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... -
India: A Portrait by Patrick French 9780141041575
RRP: £12.99£9.49Patrick French's India: A Portrait tells the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a vibrant democracy with one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. India is the biggest democracy on earth, a... -
Tamil: A Biography by David Shulman 9780674059924
RRP: £30.95£24.33Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a... -
Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee
RRP: £18.99£16.62The 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... -
The Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi's campaign to transform India by Lance Price
RRP: £10.99£7.05How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. ... -
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz by Sarah Fee
£35.52The story of India's exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world Chintz, a type of multicolored printed or painted cotton cloth, originated in India yet exerted influence far beyond its home shores:... -
The Palace of Lost Dreams by Charlotte Betts
RRP: £8.99£5.91A sumptuously evocative story set in 18th century India from bestselling author Charlotte Betts, perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies, Lucinda Riley and Jenny Ashcroft.'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fforde on The Apothecary's... -
A Short History of the Mughal Empire by Michael Fisher
RRP: £14.99£14.34The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of... -
Sufi Lyrics by Bullhe Shah
RRP: £29.95£23.59A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day.The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature. Born in Uch, Panjab,... -
First Buddhist Women: Songs and Stories from the Therigatha by Susan Murcott 9781888375541
RRP: £26.00£17.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888375541Author Susan MurcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 152mm *... -
Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana by Michael Crowley 9780907791744
RRP: £16.99£12.07Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and religious iconography, this book calls attention to... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: £33.95£26.89From 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... -
My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef
RRP: £16.99£14.97Abdul 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... -
The Newlyweds: Young People Fighting for Love in the New India by Mansi Choksi
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Staggeringly good... Much like Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, it reads more like a novel than a piece of non-fiction... it does what all great writing should - it puts us into the world of someone else, so completely that days later I find myself missing... -
India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947 by Bipan Chandra
RRP: £13.95£10.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140107814Author Bipan ChandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India by David Gordon White 9780226894997
£33.94David Gordon White excavates and seeks to centre within its broader Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. This comprehensive study draws upon the ancient Sanskrit and medieval Hindu materials and asserts medieval traditions of Hindu... -
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport 9780691192703
RRP: £22.00£16.99How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its... -
Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation by Hafsa Kanjwal 9781503636033
RRP: £27.99£23.66The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir-its only Muslim-majority state-is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's... -
Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India by Akhil Gupta
RRP: £26.99£22.85Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the... -
Clipped Wings: Illustrated Diary of My RAF Service in India & Burma 1942-1946 by CPL Peter Walker by Elizabeth Dent 9780995581005
£15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995581005Author Elizabeth DentFormat PaperbackImprint Elizabeth Dent PublishingPublisher Elizabeth Dent Publishing -
The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden
RRP: £9.99£8.01'A tour de force of luminous writing.' Mark Cocker, Spectator In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The... -
Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India by Suchitra Vijayan
RRP: £25.00£16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198583Author Suchitra VijayanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: £14.99£9.88This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi's India. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today. How did an unsuccessful young... -
Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia
RRP: £22.99£19.60How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration... -
India: A Short History by Andrew Robinson 9780500295168
RRP: £9.99£7.11India has had many histories. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the Great it was a land of clever naked philosophers and indomitable, elephantine armies. At the height of the Mughal empire, India boasted... -
Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis by Padma Kaimal
RRP: £30.00£23.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304675Author Padma KaimalFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Introducing Einstein's Relativity: A Deeper Understanding by Ray d'Inverno 9780198862031
RRP: £44.49£36.22There is little doubt that Einstein's theory of relativity captures the imagination. Not only has it radically altered the way we view the universe, but the theory also has a considerable number of surprises in store. This is especially so in the three... -
Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism by Banu Subramaniam 9780295745596
RRP: £25.99£22.04Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans, animals, and gods transform each other and ancient... -
A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by David Snape
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113696Author David SnapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa by Jim Towey
RRP: £18.99£16.75From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity" (George Weigel).Mother... -
Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781503637788
RRP: £29.99£25.99After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new... -
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire by SherAli Tareen 9780231210317
RRP: £30.00£22.82Friendship-particularly interreligious friendship-offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities and dangers of Hindu-Muslim friendship? How did they... -
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India by Douglas Ober
RRP: £27.99£23.66Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350298
RRP: £30.00£27.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350298Author Margot FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1080g -
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: £25.95£20.22Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles... -
Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India by Benjamin Robert Siegel
RRP: £30.99£26.77This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical... -
Clever Adultress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain Literature by Phyllis Granoff 9780889628892
RRP: £21.95£15.98The stories in The Clever Adulteress span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the education and amusement of the faithful. Jain literature is both rich and varied... -
Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto
RRP: £11.99£8.43Discover this lyrical, sweeping and powerful book on the Bhutto family, an extraordinary, Kennedy-esque dynasty that is central to the story of modern Pakistan.In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room,...