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Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments From the award-winning author of The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposandeacute; of brutal repression in India In her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper 
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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: $19.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Cost of Living (99 Edition) by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government's disregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India by Peter Van Der Veer Publisher Comments Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between religion and politics in India goes well beyond other books on this subject. He brings together several... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation by Nandan Nilekani Publisher Comments A visionary look at the evolution and future of India by a preeminent business leader Indias recent economic boomsimilar in scope to that of the United States during the early 1990s or Europes during the 1970shas triggered tremendous social... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das Publisher Comments India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nations rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Invisibles : a Tale of the Eunuchs of India (96 Edition) by Zia Jaffrey Publisher Comments A spellbinding book--part travelogue, part history--about eunuchs in India today. They are both reviled and accepted, not officially acknowledged but a constant topic of conversation, believed to bring good luck to newlyweds and newborns but accused of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In Service of Emergent India: A Call to Honor by Jaswant Singh Publisher Comments In Service of Emergent India is an evocative insider's account of acrucial period in India's history. It provides an in-depth look at events thatchanged the way the world perceived India, and a unique view of Indian statecraft.As Minister of External... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer's voice in simple yet telling ways. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these... (read more) List Price $20.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C Chaudhuri Publisher Comments The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta Publisher Comments A brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people — a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself — from an award-winning Indian-American fiction writer and journalist. A native of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power by Shashi Tharoor Synopsis Over the past 25 years, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to a bustling, innovative, fast-changing society. This book shows how and why.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 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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Economic Growth in India: History and Prospect by Pulapre Balakrishnan Publisher Comments It is a measure of the youthfulness of economics as a discipline that two centuries after the appearance of Adam Smith's landmark treatise The Wealth of Nations, an economist has posed the question "How do economies grow?" This comprehensive study of... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Children of Kali by Kevin Rushby Synopsis Part travelogue, part history and part personal record, this book investigates this dark side of India. The author's quest takes him to prisons and gangster hideouts, probing the nature of crime and punishment in a country where the distinction between... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Daughters of Independence: Gender, Caste, and Class in India by Joanna Liddle Publisher Comments Joanna Liddle and Rama Joshi explore the connection in India between gender and caste, and gender and class. They ask whether the subordination of women has diminished as India moves from a caste to a class structure, and what effect colonization had on... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das by Merrily Weisbord Publisher Comments Kamala Das (1934–2009) is one of Indias most beloved and controversial literary figures. She was hailed and reviled as the first Indian woman to write an autobiographical cult classic about love and desire. Admirers dubbed her, “The First... (read more) Your price: $25.75 New - Hardcover
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