|
India
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia Publisher Comments One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan's... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
What Life Was Like in the Jewel in the Crown: British India, Ad 1600-1905 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James Publisher Comments In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent nations of India and Pakistan when they finally withdrew in 1947. Both nations would owe much to the British... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert Publisher Comments Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a shameful flight by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
History of India Volume 1 by Romila Thapar Publisher Comments A full account of Indian history from the establishment of Aryan culture to the coming of the Mughals in 1526 A.D.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash Publisher Comments "A fascinating exploration of my favorite city, full of insider knowledge and sharp insights."--Salman Rushdie "Gyan Prakash brilliantly combines the historian's savoir faire with the savvy seductions of the urban raconteur. Mumbai Fables splendidly... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire by Diana Preston Publisher Comments The dazzling story of the Taj Mahal and the empire whose spirit it epitomizes. Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahals flawless symmetry and gleaming presence have or centuries dazzled... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
India: A Mosaic by Robert B Silvers Publisher Comments How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? The novelist Arundhati Roy has written, specially for this collection, a fierce denunciation of the Indian nuclear program... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Gandhi: Naked Ambition. Jad Adams by Jad Adams Publisher Comments Jad Adams traces the course of Gandhi s multi-faceted life, and the development of his religious, political, and social thinking over seven tumultuous decades: from his comfortable upbringing in a princely state in Gujarat; his early civil rights... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H Erikson Synopsis In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents by Minal Hajratwala Publisher Comments An inspiring personal saga that explores the collisions of choice and history that led one unforgettable family to become immigrants In this groundbreaking work,Minal Hajratwala mixes history,memoir, and reportage to explore the questions facing not only... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.24 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India by Raka Ray Publisher Comments Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
India (Kharakter) by Art Stock Publisher Comments The culture of a country is not just confined to its museums. Opulent and creative, it is everywhere and in everything: in this streets, in the local industries, in the foods people eat, the movies they watch, and in the buildings where they live, work... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Nchi: Bengal: The British Bridgehead (New Cambridge History of India) by P. J. Marshall Publisher Comments 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 sub-continent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Professor Marshall begins his analysis... (read more) List Price $140.25 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
India Exposed: The Subcontinent A-Z by Clive Limpkin PW Review "Following a visit, retired photojournalist Limpkin was so taken with India that he spent three years 'crisscrossing the subcontinent, seeing the best and enough of the worst.' This is his roundup, a know-it-all's travelogue with bright, crisp... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
India: The Rise of an Asian Giant by Dietmar Rothermund Publisher Comments With growing economic might, new political influence, and changing social dynamics, India has emerged as a major world power in the twenty-first century. This book charts the important features of Indias development since its independence in 1947... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.50 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings by Homer A Jack Synopsis The Gandhi Reader collects the significant writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi, culled form 500 volumes, newspapers, and magazines. Here is Gandhi in his own words and those of his closest associates, including selections from his autobiography... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society #15: The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967 by Joya Chatterji Publisher Comments The partition of India in 1947 was a seminal event of the twentieth century. Much has been written about the Punjab and the creation of West Pakistan; by contrast, little is known about the partition of Bengal. This remarkable book by an acknowledged... (read more) List Price $119.25 Your price: $15.97 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
