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  • The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand by Benedict Anderson

    The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand by Benedict Anderson

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    In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre...
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  • How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani

    How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani

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    How India Became Democratic explores the greatest experiment in democratic human history. It tells the untold story of the preparation of the electoral roll on the basis of universal adult franchise in the world's largest democracy. Ornit Shani offers a...
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  • Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 by Berenice Guyot-Rechard

    Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 by Berenice Guyot-Rechard

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    Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of...
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  • A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas by Ian Talbot

    A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas by Ian Talbot

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    Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of...
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  • Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India by Jessica Namakkal

    Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India by Jessica Namakkal

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    After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished control. Once decolonization took hold across the...
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  • The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt

    The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt

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    In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states competing for territory, resources and skills, the medieval and early modern Deccan was a region of...
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  • Europe's India: Words, People, Empires, 1500 1800 by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

    Europe's India: Words, People, Empires, 1500 1800 by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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    When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as...
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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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  • The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: c.700–1800 CE by André Wink 9781108405652

    The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: c.700–1800 CE by André Wink 9781108405652

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    In a new accessible narrative, Andre Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the Indianized territories of South...
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  • In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by Sanjib Baruah

    In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by Sanjib Baruah

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    In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Tibetan areas of China are often referred to as just "the Northeast." In the Name of the Nation offers a critical and historical account of the country's troubled relations with...
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  • Remembrances by Mir Taqi Mir

    Remembrances by Mir Taqi Mir

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    A rare and remarkable example of Indo-Persian autobiography by the poet Mir Taqi Mir.Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is the author of six collections of Urdu poetry and widely regarded as the finest ghazal poet in that language. However, he also wrote...
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  • Aftermath of Revolt: India 1857-1970 by Thomas R. Metcalf 9780691624686

    Aftermath of Revolt: India 1857-1970 by Thomas R. Metcalf 9780691624686

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    The Mutiny of 1857 left a deep mark on Indian society and on the nature of British rule. Thomas Metcalf analyzes the influence of the Mutiny on many facets of Indian life and relations with Great Britain, examining social reform, education, land...
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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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  • Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle by Maia Ramnath 9781849350822

    Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle by Maia Ramnath 9781849350822

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350822Author Maia RamnathFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 247g
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  • Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation by Paul Staniland 9781501761119

    Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation by Paul Staniland 9781501761119

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    In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politics-bringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed political parties in a shared framework-to argue that governments' perception of the ideological threats posed...
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  • To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics by Rahul Sagar

    To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics by Rahul Sagar

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    To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival research, it unearths essays, speeches, and pamphlets that address fundamental questions about India's...
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  • These Are The Anglo Indians by James Reginald Maher 9781843560128

    These Are The Anglo Indians by James Reginald Maher 9781843560128

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843560128Author James Reginald MaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Simon Wallenberg PressPublisher Simon Wallenberg PressWeight(grams) 177g
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  • The Mughal Empire and British Raj: A Captivating Guide to the History of India, Starting from the Mughals to the British Empire by Captivating History 9781647488451

    The Mughal Empire and British Raj: A Captivating Guide to the History of India, Starting from the Mughals to the British Empire by Captivating History 9781647488451

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488451Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...
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  • Manual for a Decent Life by Kavita Jindal 9781944467234

    Manual for a Decent Life by Kavita Jindal 9781944467234

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944467234Author Kavita JindalFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Brighthorse BooksPublisher Brighthorse BooksWeight(grams) 535g
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  • Colonialism in Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of the Kandyan Highlands, 1833-1886 by Asoka Bandarage 9781734941401

    Colonialism in Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of the Kandyan Highlands, 1833-1886 by Asoka Bandarage 9781734941401

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734941401Author Asoka BandarageFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Vimukti PublishingPublisher Vimukti PublishingWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm...
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  • Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169575

    Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169575

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorChris Mason is professor of national security affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.AwardsWinner of SAHR Templer Medal/Chapple...
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  • The India Museum Revisited by Arthur MacGregor 9781800085725

    The India Museum Revisited by Arthur MacGregor 9781800085725

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085725Author Arthur MacGregorFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 37mm
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  • Gandhi: Selected Political Writings by Mahatma Gandhi 9780872203303

    Gandhi: Selected Political Writings by Mahatma Gandhi 9780872203303

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    Based on the complete edition of his works, this new volume presents Gandhi's most important political writings arranged around the two central themes of his political teachings: satyagraha (the power of non-violence) and swaraj (freedom). Dennis...
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  • The History of Akbar: Volume 8 by Abu'l-Fazl

    The History of Akbar: Volume 8 by Abu'l-Fazl

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    The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a...
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  • The Indian Mutiny Letters of Colonel H. P. Pearson by H.P. Pearson 9780948092657

    The Indian Mutiny Letters of Colonel H. P. Pearson by H.P. Pearson 9780948092657

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    In 1858, Ensign Hugh Pearson embarked at Chatham for service with the 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment in India, little suspecting that within a few short months he would be taking part in the dramatic events of the Indian Rebellion. His letters to his...
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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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  • Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi

    Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi

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    Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of 'history from below'. Later...
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  • Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about AD 1030 by Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biruni 9781108047197

    Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about AD 1030 by Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biruni 9781108047197

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    Translated and annotated by orientalist Edward Sachau (1845-1930), this 1887-8 two-volume work is the account by Muslim polymath and traveller Alberuni (973-1048) of Indian political and social life in the medieval period. Sachau published the manuscript...
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  • The History of Akbar: Volume 7 by Abu'l-Fazl

    The History of Akbar: Volume 7 by Abu'l-Fazl

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    The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a...
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  • Scars of 1947: Real Partition Stories by Rajeev Shukla

    Scars of 1947: Real Partition Stories by Rajeev Shukla

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670095674Author Rajeev ShuklaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm
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  • Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space by Manu Goswami 9780226305097

    Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space by Manu Goswami 9780226305097

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    When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable...
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  • Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture by James McHugh 9780199916320

    Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture by James McHugh 9780199916320

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    James McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India. Drawing on a wide range of textual sources, from poetry to medical texts, he shows the deeply significant religious and cultural...
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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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  • The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities by Hani Khafipour

    The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities by Hani Khafipour

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    In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in...
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  • The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 1660-1760 by K. N. Chaudhuri

    The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 1660-1760 by K. N. Chaudhuri

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    The main contribution of the work is to offer a comprehensive history of the English East India Company during the century 1660-1760. It also examines the commercial economy of the Asian countries in which the Company traded and its political relations...
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  • Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar 9780231195850

    Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar 9780231195850

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    One of twentieth-century India's great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace...
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  • The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel

    The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel

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    In The Nation's Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical...
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  • Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall

    Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall

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    The aim of Bengal: The British Bridgehead is to explain how, in the eighteenth century, Britain established her rule in eastern India, the first part of the subcontinent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Though the British were not in firm...
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  • Women in Modern India by Geraldine Forbes 9780521653770

    Women in Modern India by Geraldine Forbes 9780521653770

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    In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women,...
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  • Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia

    Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia

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    How 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...
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