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Incarnations: A History of India in 50 Lives by Sunil Khilnani
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after' Daily TelegraphFor all of India's myths, its sea of... -
Pakistan: A Personal History by Imran Khan
RRP: $27.28$19.09"A must-read for anyone interested in the intrigue of politics in the most dangerous country on earth" (The Sunday Times)Read the unique insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a Western audience, seen through the eyes of the man set to become... -
The Indian Mutiny: 1857 by Saul David 9780141005546 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.81In The Indian Mutiny: 1857 Saul David explores one of Britain's most harrowing colonial battles.In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the... -
The Indian Mutiny: 1857 by Saul David
RRP: $31.48$23.00In The Indian Mutiny: 1857 Saul David explores one of Britain's most harrowing colonial battles.In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the... -
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941–45 by Robert Lyman
RRP: $35.68$26.63SHORTLISTED 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... -
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
RRP: $29.38$25.73A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan"Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent was dismantled in 1947. . . . A new look at... -
Medieval Indian Armies (1): Hindu, Buddhist and Jain by Dr David Nicolle
RRP: $25.18$17.70This fully illustrated study explores the armies of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain states within what are now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal during the period AD 500-1500, as well as Afghanistan until the early 13th century AD. ... -
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: $27.28$19.09Curry tells the story of an array of familiar Indian dishes and the people who invented, discovered, cooked and ate them. Curry is vivid, entertaining and delicious.'Fascinating and meticulously researched...layers historical fact with mouth-watering... -
A History of India by Peter Robb 9780230279827
$59.60This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India. Peter Robb's accessible study analyses India's... -
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
RRP: $35.68$25.79A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack 9781408707692
RRP: $52.50$12.01A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean. After years of neglect, The Indian Empire at War... -
Nepal: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present by Axel Michaels 9780197650936
RRP: $48.28$41.08Until 1951 Nepal was closed to the world, landlocked between the strongest Asian powers, India and China. With its exceptional landscape, it touts the highest mountains and the greatest biodiversity on earth. It is best known as the home of Mt. Everest... -
The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson
RRP: $35.68$29.61The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world's most populous democracy. Even critics of injustices within Indian... -
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
RRP: $31.48$22.24'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times 'Dynamic, original and supremely readable' Maya Jasanoff, Guardian The first comprehensive and... -
Dignity: From the award-winning author of Pigeon by Alys Conran
RRP: $20.98$12.52Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award'I loved this... Magda is a real stand-out character for me in books I've read recently, I can't quite stop thinking about her' Jane Garvey, BBC Woman's Hour 'Brilliant... A truly convincing... -
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
RRP: $23.08$16.32From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many... -
Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria 9780241989319
RRP: $23.08$16.32Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it'Thoughtful and provocative... It is a must-read' Roxane Gay'A book to make you stop and think' Mishal... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy
RRP: $52.50$37.00'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that... -
The Billionaire Raj: SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 by James Crabtree 9781786073808
RRP: $39.88$28.58SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A Financial Times Book of the Year and an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year India's explosive rise has driven inequality to new extremes, with millions trapped in slums as... -
A People`s History of India 5 - Mauryan India by Irfan Habib
RRP: $37.78$31.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381624Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 161mm * 14mm -
To End a Civil War: Norway's Peace Engagement with Sri Lanka by Mark Salter
RRP: $52.50$47.10Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushing defeat of the Tamil... -
Waging War in Waziristan: The British Struggle in the Land of Bin Laden, 1849-1947 by Andrew M. Roe 9780700616992
RRP: $113.40$76.84Waziristan is a remote district of Pakistan populated by fiercely independent tribes who owe allegiance to no one and unite only to repel invaders or wage jihad. Its mountainous landscape is a natural fortress - sanctuary to the Taliban, probable refuge... -
In Xanadu: A Quest William Dalrymple 9780006544159
RRP: $23.08$16.32One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in... -
Moth: The powerful story of a family attempting to hold themselves together through the heartbreak of Partition Melody Razak 9781474619257
RRP: $20.98$14.28Observer's 'Ten Debut Novelists' of 2021 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel AwardHarper's Bazaar's 'Five Debut Female Authors to Read This Summer''Powerful and heartbreaking'Observer'Gripping..... -
The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West by Alistair Shearer
RRP: $27.28$25.10How did a venerable Indian spiritual discipline turn into a GBP20 billion-a-year mainstay of the wellness industry? What happened along yoga's winding path from the caves and forests of the sages to the gyms, hospitals and village halls of the modern... -
The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise by Kartar Lalvani
RRP: $56.70$41.90The first ever history of India to explore the benefits - institutional, political and civil - of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent. The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth... -
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian
RRP: $27.28$17.98SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For... -
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: The British in Bengal by Robert Travers 9780521861458
RRP: $189.00$152.40Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the... -
Bhutan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Karma Choden
RRP: $20.98$15.83Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Often called the "Land of the Thunder Dragon," Bhutan was secluded for much of its history, its towering mountains and lush green valleys virtually unvisited, evoking a sense of mystery and wonder. A... -
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab Marina Wheeler 9781473677746
RRP: $52.50$35.24SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE'The Lost Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which turns out to be so much more than that... it takes the reader into the contested history of India and Pakistan in the 1940s, and... -
Meet Me in Bombay: All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is. Jenny Ashcroft 9780751573220
RRP: $20.98$14.28'An epic love story full of exotic charm and rich historical detail . . . Meet Me In Bombay will sweep you away to another time and place.' Red Magazine'Powerful and evocative' Woman & HomeAll he needs is to find her. First he must remember who she is... -
The Great Mutiny: India 1857 by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $37.78$27.20'By far the best single-volume description of the mutiny yet written' - Economist A beautifully written and meticulously researched narrative history of the great Indian uprising of 1857 by one of our most acclaimed living historians. First published in... -
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective by Gregory L. Possehl 9780759101722
RRP: $98.70$87.36The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of... -
The Gurkhas by John Parker
RRP: $23.08$15.54Their ferocity is as legendary as their loyalty to the British Monarch and their regimental histories are crammed with actsof incredible bravery and sacrifice. The Gurkhas' particular reputation as fearsome fighting men remains undisputed and the mere... -
Access to History: Rebellion and Disorder under the Tudors 1485-1603 for OCR Second Edition by Geoffrey Woodward
$52.94Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom Sanjeev Sanyal 9789356996557
RRP: $33.58$27.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356996557Author Sanjeev SanyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India -
Access to History: Indian Independence 1914-64 Second Edition Tim Leadbeater 9781471838125
$52.94Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: $31.48$23.00SHORTLISTED 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... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy
RRP: $88.18$77.18This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by R. F. Foster
RRP: $27.28$19.09OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016'The most complete and plausible exploration of the roots of the...