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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover 
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India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India by Akash Kapur Publisher Comments A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur spent his formative years in India and his early adulthood in... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey out of the Caste System in Modern India by Narendra Jadhav Publisher Comments Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. Their story has... (read more) List Price $54.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Motiba's Tattoos: a Granddaughter's Journey From America Into Her Indian Family's Past by Mira Kamdar Publisher Comments "From the Bible to the Odyssey to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the journey or quest has been a staple motif of Western literature. Motiba's Tattoos is a welcome addition to that list." (The Washington Post) Mira Kamdar was born in the United States... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Power Politics by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments Arundhati Roy, the author of The God of Small Things, explores the politics of writing and the price of "development" driven by profit. Roy challenges the idea that only "experts" can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the human costs of... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.00 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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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce Publisher Comments India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the worlds third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 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: $5.50 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: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir by Baby Halder Publisher Comments Abandoned by her mother, beaten by her father, and hurriedly married off at twelve to an abusive man twice her age, Baby Halder's early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak. Exhausted and desperate, the young mother finally fled with... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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India in Mind (05 Edition) by Pankaj Mishra Publisher Comments Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that has been written about the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - 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: $13.95 Sale - Hardcover
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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 $17.99 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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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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Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World by Mira Kamdar Publisher Comments A cutting-edge exploration of America's stake in India's ongoing efforts to become a global power depicts the region as the world's fastest-growing center of technology, global economics, and democracy, outlining the challenges facing the country to... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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