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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447068321Author Monika HorstmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 299g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189738891Author Suraj 'Eskay' SriramFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Niyogi BooksPublisher Niyogi Books

This book provides an overview of the development of a small country, which on the one hand, is unique, and on the other hand, is also an interesting reflection and microcosm of the global economy. Sri Lanka's development is one of the contrasts,...

The assertion that even institutions often viewed as abhorrent should be dispassionately understood motivates Arkotong Longkumer's pathbreaking ethnography of the Sangh Parivar, a family of organizations comprising the Hindu right. The Greater India...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472456075Author Agustín PánikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Editorial KairosPublisher Editorial KairosWeight(grams) 739g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670089826Author Jaimini BhagwatiFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895004278Author Christoph CuppersFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 707g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447069007Author Katrin BinderFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher Harrassowitz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447057325Author Jorg GengnagelFormat HardbackPage Count 341Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 7930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788174463890Author Ahad AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Excel BooksPublisher Excel Books

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788376383798Author ArcheobooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 2850g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500976319Author Professor Alex McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 830g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700173311Author Anne MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700170006Author Eli FrancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 521Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred years when successive empires struggled to harness lands and peoples to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197690185Author Community History Fellow Priya AtwalFormat PaperbackImprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 340g

The volume provides a complex portrait of the chieftains of Bihar and their relationship with the Mughal Empire as well as their role in the consolidation and expansion of the Mughal Empire in India. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or...

The central point that this volume makes is that much of what happened in Jammu & Kashmir in the critical first few years (1947-53) needs a more careful reassessment. It is argued that there were little voices of ordinary people that should have been...

Guru Nanak had gifted the Sikhs with an ideology. Guru Angad had given them the Gurmukhi script. Guru Arjan Dev coalesced the hymns authored or collected by the Gurus and made them a people of the book. Guru Govind Rai created the Khalsa identity with...

Writing histories of literature means making selections, passing value judgments, and incorporating or rejecting foregoing traditions. The book argues that in many parts of India, literary histories play an important role in creating a cultural ethos...

One of the only ethnographic studies of Dalit women, this book gives a rich account of individual Dalit women’s lives and documents a rise in patriarchy in the community. The author argues that as Dalits’ economic and political position improves,...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi took pride in calling himself a Sanatani Hindu. He lived by what he professed. Indeed, he spiritualized his entire political existence and his very opinion, world view and discourse was weighted with morality and ethics born of...

For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri...

"Frey's concise and readable history of the Indian Rebellion is an excellent introduction to one of the most important wars of the nineteenth century. The rebellion lasted more than a year and pitted broad sections of north Indian society against the...

Between 1946 and 1952, the British Raj, the world's largest colony, was transformed into the Republic of India, the world's largest democracy. Independence, the Constituent Assembly Debates, the founding of the Republic, and India's first universal...

Roger Jeffery in this book has brought together 10 original, well-researched and well-written essays which bring to life the presence of India in the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh. On the surface Edinburgh is a purely Scottish city: its ‘India’...

Written Indian history begins in sixth century bc with the history of Magadh (present day states of Jharkhand and Bihar). For almost a millennium Magadh dominated Indian history. The situation changed when Islamicized Turks entered India. The Mughals who...

Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447068789Author Rosane RocherFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 340g

Already in 1786, Sir William Jones, founder of the Asiatick Society in Calcutta, wrote "What their astronomical and mathematical writings contain, will not, I trust, remain long a secret: they are easily procured, and their importance cannot be doubted"...

One of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic...

The 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...

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's history, India’s changing status in the region, and India's cross-cultural networking over a long period are explored...

Received 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126115174Author Om PrakashFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Anmol Publications Pvt LtdPublisher Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd

In this first book-length study of Mumbai's taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from the lives and voices of chillia taxi drivers who have sustained a hereditary trade for more than a century. Bedi considers the...

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...