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Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas by Mahatma Gandhi Publisher Comments Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market 
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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 $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Father India :how encounters with an ancient culture transformed the modern west by Jeffery Paine Publisher Comments "I don't quite know how Jeffery Paine has done it-- except by subtle and provocative genius-- but "Father India" is an utterly surprising and indispensible book... Learned... lively... It renders Jeffery Paine's vast knowledge intimately. Father India is... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety by Srimati Basu Publisher Comments Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. It... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage by William Sax Publisher Comments Every few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shiva's home, walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wisdom of Gandhi by Trudy Settel Publisher Comments Citadel Press is proud to announce the newest titles in the Wisdom Library, a collection of books showcasing the thoughts and writings of diverse literary, philosophical, political, and scientific immortals. These books deserve a place on every home... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mahatma Gandhi & His Apostles by Ved Mehta Publisher Comments In this book, the renowned author Ved Mehta brings Gandhi to life in all his holiness and humanness, shedding light on his principles and his purposes, his ideas and his actions. Through interviewing disciples of Gandhi in five countries, Mehta... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani Publisher Comments The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of the recent revelations of its nuclear capabilities. Sunil Khilnani's exciting, timely study... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Calcutta by Geoffrey Moorhouse Synopsis Kipling called it "the City of dreadful night", a city of unspeakable poverty, of famine, riot and disease. Yet Calcutta, once the seat of the Raj, is the second city in the Commonwealth, the fourth city in the world. This is a history-cum-travel book of... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Father India by Jeffery Paine Publisher Comments Chapter One On the third Friday in May, 1923, George Curzon left London for his country house in Somerset to await--curiously--a telegram from London that would demand his immediate return to the City. Not just any telegram; this telegram would make the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India by Gita Mehta Publisher Comments In this personally charged work of reflection and reminiscence, readers are guided through India's multi-hued mosaic. A high profile writer, Mehta gives a loving but unflinching assessment of India today--entertaining, informative and wholly personal.... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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India a Wounded Civilization by V S Naipaul Publisher Comments Returning to India -- the subject of his acclaimed An Area of Darkness -- in 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi's Emergency, V. S. Naipaul produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental... (read more) Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Punjabi Century, 1857-1947 by Prakash Tandon Publisher Comments An important document in the social history of India, this volume presents the autobiography of a Punjabi family over the three tumultuous generations that spanned years from the Mutiny to Independence. The book provides an absorbing view, from within... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Book Club Paperback
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Gandhi: Selected Writings by Mohandas Gandhi Publisher Comments This anthology of Gandhi's writings offers a revealing look at his life and philosophy, focusing on subjects of enduring interest — rather than day-to-day political matters — and the development of the philosophy of Satyagraha &... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Book of Prayers by M K Gandhi Synopsis Over three decades, Mahatma Gandhi compiled a hymnal of poetry and scripture for use in prayer meetings. Book of Prayers includes 108 passages from sacred Hindu and Moslem mystical literature, including works of Kabir, Tulsidas, and Mira.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 by Susan S Wadley Publisher Comments Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur--the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser--as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s.... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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India: Emerging Power by Stephen P Cohen Publisher Comments This landmark book provides the first comprehensive assessment of India as a political and strategic power since Indias nuclear tests, its 1999 war with Pakistan, and its breakthrough economic achievements.... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir by Sudha Koul Publisher Comments Like Indira Ghandi and her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sudha Koul was born a Kashmiri Brahmin. The Hindus, though a tiny minority of Kashmir's population, lived in great harmony with Muslims, leading lives intertwined in the same cultural fabric. Kashmiris... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Area of Darkness His Discovery Of by V S Naipul Publisher Comments AN AREA OF DARKNESS is V.S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, always concerned - of his first visit to India, the land of his forbears. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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