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Jnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosopher of his generation. His theory of exclusion combined a philosophy of language with a theory of conceptual content to explore the nature of...

The Sathya Sai global civil religious movement incorporates Hindu and Muslim practices, Buddhist, Christian, and Zoroastrian influences, and "New Age"-style rituals and beliefs. Shri Sathya Sai Baba, its charismatic and controversial leader,...

In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143425526Author Khushwant SinghFormat PaperbackImprint Penguin Books India Pvt LtdPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193401576Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 214gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 159mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788182901155Author Mukta NaikFormat HardbackPage Count 98Imprint Shubhi PublicationsPublisher Shubhi Publications

Situated at the crossroads of South and Central Asia, the State of Jammu and Kashmir has made lasting contribution to Indian philosophy, arts and aesthetics, historiography and various other aspects, thus becoming an inalienable part of India's spiritual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788131600955Author Jaya ArunachalamFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint RawatPublisher Rawat

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120616646Author William ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 557Imprint Asian Educational ServicesPublisher Asian Educational Services

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In northern Thailand, Laos, and southern China, marginal fishing communities along the Mekong River and its tributaries are experiencing the adverse effects of changing ecosystems on their fish stocks, local economies, lifestyles, and cultural practices...

The Tai Lu are a Tai-speaking group closely related to the Khon Muang or Tai Yuan, the dominant ethnic group in Northern Thailand. According to their own historical tradition, the ancestors of the Tai Lu migrated from what is now northwestern Vietnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700170013Author Kei KataokaFormat PaperbackImprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences PressWeight(grams) 1089g

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The historical relationship between Scotland and India is a relatively unexplored part of colonial history. This project seeks to re-examine the interchange of ideas initiated in the 18th century by the Scottish Enlightenment, and the ways in which ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355170Author Alastair GornallFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy: Metals, Gems and Minerals in South Asian Traditions investigates the way in which Indian culture has represented inorganic matter and geological formations such as mountains and the earth itself. The volume is divided...

In the 20th century Nepal was in isolation until 1950, and afterwards, the pace of socio-political and economic progresses faced lots of ups and downs. The 1950 revolution of people tried to established people's sovereignty, but was hijacked by the then...

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways...

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...

The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently oppress Hindus, he is even blamed by some for setting into motion conflicts that would result in the...

Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes...

The research for this book was motivated by speculations about the religious movements that may have influenced the plans and arrangements of temples built by the Hoysalas of Karnataka in the period between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It...

The study provides an in-depth, up-to-date, and scholarly analysis of the liberation war and the Sheikh Mujib Regime of Bangladesh. Situating the emergence of Bangladesh in the broader historical context of the partition of British India in 1947, the...

Radical Islam is a major affliction of the contemporary world. Each year, radical Islamists carry out terrorist attacks that result in a massive death toll, almost all involving noncombatants and innocents. Estimates of how many Muslims could be...

The planned reductions in NATO troop numbers in Afghanistan through 2015 and a final withdrawal at the end of 2016 brings up numerous pressing questions about the security and national interests of not just Afghanistan, but of the broader region itself...