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Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro Synopsis Already published in India to great acclaim and named a Time Out Subcontinental Book of the Year and an Observer Book of the Year, Beautiful Thing is a stunning piece of reportage that offers a rare firsthand glimpse into Bombays notorious sex industry... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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
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India a Portrait an Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People by Patrick French Publisher Comments A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul. Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the... (read more) Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld Publisher Comments A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing Indias imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict by Joan V Bondurant Publisher Comments When Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 by an assassin's bullet, the most potent legacy he left to the world was the technique of satyagraha (literally, holding on to the Truth). His "experiments with Truth" were far from complete at the time of his death, but... (read more) Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Imperial Divas: The Vicereines of India by Penny Beaumont Publisher Comments In 1858 the entire landmass of India came under the direct control of the British Crown. To reflect the status of the role of the governor general as a representative of the monarch to the feudal rulers of the princely states, the term Viceroy was... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments "Gorgeously wrought...pitch-perfect prose...In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again."—Time Magazine Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion. Maria Misra by Maria Misra Publisher Comments As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world's most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Kumar Sen Publisher Comments In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha Publisher Comments Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $9.77 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gandhi, the Man by Eknath Easwaran Publisher Comments In 1892 Mohandas K. Gandhi was 23 years old, a shy, tongue-tied man whose past was full of failure; 30 years later he was the acknowledged leader of 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence through nonviolent revolution. Gandhi, the Man... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History by David Arnold Publisher Comments This book serves as a window into the rich and revealing lives and self-representations of the particular individuals who have produced the life histories. In so doing, it makes very important broader points about the use of life histories in social... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $3.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Nagaland. by Jonathan Glancey by Jonathan Glancey Publisher Comments Landlocked, almost inaccessible to foreigners, Nagaland has been fighting a secret, often brutal war for independence for more than half a century. Portrayed either as a land of ruthless guerrillas or exotic natives, Nagaland is in fact a complex and... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly? by Dipankar Gupta Publisher Comments Dipankar Gupta, one of India's foremost thinkers on social and economic issues, takes a critical—and controversial—look at the limits of the Indian success story in The Caged Phoenix. Through a fine blend of theory and new evidence on... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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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: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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
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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: $13.97 Sale - Hardcover
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