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Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
by Sonia Faleiro
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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)

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Empires of the Indus
Empires of the Indus
by Alice Albinia
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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)

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India a Portrait an Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People
India a Portrait an Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People
by Patrick French
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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)

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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
by Joseph Lelyveld
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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)

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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
by Alice Albinia
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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)

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Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict
Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict
by Joan V Bondurant
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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)

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Imperial Divas: The Vicereines of India
Imperial Divas: The Vicereines of India
by Penny Beaumont
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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)

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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
by Arundhati Roy
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"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)

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Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion. Maria Misra
Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion. Maria Misra
by Maria Misra
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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)

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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
by Amartya Kumar Sen
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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)

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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha
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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)

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India (Kharakter)
India (Kharakter)
by Art Stock
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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)

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Gandhi, the Man
Gandhi, the Man
by Eknath Easwaran
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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)

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Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History
Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History
by David Arnold
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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)

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Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
by Minal Hajratwala
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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)

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Nagaland. by Jonathan Glancey
Nagaland. by Jonathan Glancey
by Jonathan Glancey
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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)

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The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?
The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?
by Dipankar Gupta
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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)

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Gandhi: Naked Ambition. Jad Adams
Gandhi: Naked Ambition. Jad Adams
by Jad Adams
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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)

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Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
by Erik H Erikson
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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)

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India: The Rise of an Asian Giant
India: The Rise of an Asian Giant
by Dietmar Rothermund
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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)

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