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My Life with the Taliban by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef
RRP: $33.13$29.85Abdul 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... -
Risalo by Shah Abdul Latif
RRP: $58.40$46.92The greatest classic of Sindhi literature presented here in an authoritative and vivid modern English translation.Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this... -
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction by Bhikhu Parekh
RRP: $17.53$12.58Gandhi (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... -
The Inner Light: How India Influenced the Beatles by Susan Shumsky
RRP: $42.90$27.40The hidden meanings of the Beatles' most esoteric lyrics and sounds are revealed by a rare insider who spent two decades with the man who made "meditation," "mantra," and "yoga" household words: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. "I absolutely love this book... -
Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation by Hafsa Kanjwal 9781503636033
RRP: $48.73$42.26The 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... -
Women of Empire: Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West by Verity McInnis 9780806157740
$59.79In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers... -
Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: $29.23$19.27This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi's India. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today. How did an unsuccessful young... -
India: A Short History by Andrew Robinson 9780500295168 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.41India has had many histories. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the Great it was a land of clever naked philosophers and indomitable, elephantine armies. At the height of the Mughal empire, India boasted... -
Pakistan: Eye of the Storm by Owen Bennett Jones 9780300154757
RRP: $27.28$23.89A 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... -
Tamil: A Biography by David Shulman 9780674059924
RRP: $60.35$48.40Spoken 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... -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 Tom Young 9781913107390
RRP: $78.00$65.50Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the... -
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon by Angela McCarthy
$67.29This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the... -
A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by David Snape
RRP: $58.40$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113696Author David SnapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa by Jim Towey
RRP: $37.03$31.04From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity" (George Weigel).Mother... -
Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781503637788
RRP: $54.58$47.07After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new... -
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India by Douglas Ober
RRP: $48.73$42.26Received 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... -
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire by SherAli Tareen 9780231210317
RRP: $58.50$45.42Friendship-particularly interreligious friendship-offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities and dangers of Hindu-Muslim friendship? How did they... -
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: $50.60$40.25Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles... -
Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity by Raghuram G. Rajan 9780691263632
RRP: $58.50$41.89The new path for economic development that India must create The whole world has a stake in India’s future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world’s largest—while staying democratic... -
Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India by Benjamin Robert Siegel
RRP: $60.43$52.20This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical... -
Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge by Nivi Manchanda
RRP: $48.73$43.62Over time and across different genres, Afghanistan has been presented to the world as potential ally, dangerous enemy, gendered space, and mysterious locale. These powerful, if competing, visions seek to make sense of Afghanistan and to render it legible... -
The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition by C. J. Fuller
RRP: $81.90$64.43Popular 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... -
Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race by Hale
RRP: $54.58$49.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471262923Author HaleFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 243mm *... -
Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India by Suchitra Vijayan
RRP: $48.75$31.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198583Author Suchitra VijayanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Clipped Wings: Illustrated Diary of My RAF Service in India & Burma 1942-1946 by CPL Peter Walker by Elizabeth Dent 9780995581005
$31.43Apologies 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 -
Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India by Shetty V.T. Rajshekar 9780932863058
$19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863058Author Shetty V.T. RajshekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
The Marathas 1600-1818 by Stewart Gordon 9780521033169
RRP: $44.83$38.14In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India during... -
A History of India by Romila Thapar 9780140138351 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$1.76A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamicsAbout the AuthorRomila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.Book InformationISBN 9780140138351Author Romila ThaparFormat... -
Same-Sex Love in India: Readings in Indian Literature by Ruth Vanita 9780312293246
RRP: $155.98$147.24Same-Sex Love in India presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and modern fictional traditions, these writings... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy 9781784741204
RRP: $27.28$23.26'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... -
Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle by Maia Ramnath 9781849350822
RRP: $23.40$15.60Apologies 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 -
The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947 by Denis Judd
RRP: $42.88$41.54The British experience in India began in earnest over four hundred years ago, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. For many years the English interlopers and traders who made contact with the subcontinent were viewed by Indians as little more than... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350298
RRP: $58.50$53.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350298Author Margot FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1080g -
The Pirates of Malabar: Pirates of the Coast of the Indian Sub-Continent During the 17th & 18th Centuries by John Biddulph 9780857067548
$20.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067548Author John BiddulphFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 204g -
Bengal Lancer Francis Yeats-Brown 9781780602011
RRP: $29.23$19.11Bengal Lancer is a complete one off. On one hand this book is a love affair with the spiritual traditions of India while on the other it is the memoir of a carefree young cavalry officer in the halcyon days of the British Empire. Francis Yeats-Brown... -
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today by Ashoka Mody
RRP: $54.58$44.95A provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today. When Indian leaders first took control of their government in 1947, they proclaimed the ideals... -
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia
RRP: $42.88$37.42The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five... -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393357677
RRP: $31.18$23.99In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she... -
India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200 Burjor Avari (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9781138828216
RRP: $85.78$74.96India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the... -
The Scorpion-Fish Nicolas Bouvier 9781780600444
RRP: $25.33$16.77The narrator arrives in his 117th rented room at the end of an epic journey, abandoned by his lover, almost broke and certainly feverish. His obsession with the insects he shares the room with and his beautifully articulated observations of himself on...