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Kashmir: The Case for Freedom by Tariq Ali
$30.45Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world-and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is... -
Pakistan: Eye of the Storm by Owen Bennett Jones 9780300154757
RRP: $29.38$25.73A fascinating look at Pakistan's past, an inside account of its recent history, and a knowledgeable assessment of its future options This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Bennett Jones' market-leading account of this critical modern state... -
Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
RRP: $31.48$23.00Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired... -
Ganesh: Remover of Obstacles by James H. Bae
RRP: $20.98$14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839330Author Mandala PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing Group -
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: $23.08$15.23WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced... -
The Laws of Manu by Wendy Doniger
RRP: $31.48$23.00The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. Manu encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the... -
Valmiki's Ramayana by Arshia Sattar
RRP: $73.50$66.30One of India's greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians... -
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction by Bhikhu Parekh
RRP: $18.88$13.55Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of... -
Enlightened Vagabond by Matthieu Ricard
RRP: $54.60$35.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611803303Author Matthieu RicardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition by C. J. Fuller
RRP: $84.00$64.97Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of... -
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster
RRP: $23.08$16.32R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. From 1970, things were changing in Ireland - the Celtic... -
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia
RRP: $52.48$44.58Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is... -
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury
RRP: $31.48$23.00SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING PRIZE 'Witty, polished, honest and insightful, The Epic City is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta's classic Maximum City is for Mumbai' William... -
Atisa Dipamkara: The Illuminator of the Awakened Mind by James Apple 9781611806472
RRP: $48.30$32.13Apologies 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 -
Nemesis: A brand-new historical epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781804182284
RRP: $35.68$24.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWilbur Smith (Author) Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has... -
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling
RRP: $121.80$98.97A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite... -
Die in Battle, Do Not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Stanley
RRP: $62.90$51.85Apologies 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 -
Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 by Kate O'Malley 9780719081712
RRP: $41.98$36.62Offering 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: $27.28$19.93Patrick 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: $65.00$51.09Spoken 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... -
The Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi's campaign to transform India by Lance Price
RRP: $23.08$15.54How 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. ... -
Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee
$40.38The 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... -
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu
RRP: $78.75$67.16A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries "Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early... -
A Short History of the Mughal Empire by Michael Fisher
RRP: $31.48$30.11The 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... -
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz by Sarah Fee
RRP: $73.50$67.14The 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:... -
Sufi Lyrics by Bullhe Shah
RRP: $62.90$49.54A 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,... -
The Palace of Lost Dreams by Charlotte Betts
RRP: $18.88$13.02A 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... -
Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson 9781844674633
RRP: $75.58$57.77After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through... -
First Buddhist Women: Songs and Stories from the Therigatha by Susan Murcott 9781888375541
RRP: $54.60$35.93Apologies 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: $35.68$25.35Secret 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: $71.30$56.47From 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: $35.68$31.44Abdul 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: $35.68$24.32'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: $29.30$22.07Apologies 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
RRP: $69.30$68.15David 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: $46.20$35.68How 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: $58.78$49.69The 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: $56.68$47.99Red 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
$33.14Apologies 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: $20.98$16.07'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...