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Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City by Gyan Prakash Publisher Comments "A fascinating exploration of my favorite city, full of insider knowledge and sharp insights."--Salman Rushdie "Gyan Prakash brilliantly combines the historian's savoir faire with the savvy seductions of the urban raconteur. Mumbai Fables splendidly... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper 
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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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Vishnu's Crowded Temple 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 $24.00 Your price: $22.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sacred India by Sharan Kaur Publisher Comments From a humble postal worker performing puja for the safe passage of a parcel, to people who believe they are gods, religion suffuses every aspect of daily life in India. Sacred India explores the presence of the divine in the mundane through breathtaking... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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India's Century: The Age of Entrepreneurship in the World's Biggest Democracy by Kamal Nath Publisher Comments “India has put itself on the radar screen of every investing entity in the world. The world recognizes that it would be impossible to do business without India….its assets-both tangible and intangible-are going to play a crucial role in the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Hardcover
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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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India: A Wounded Civilization by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul Publisher Comments A series of personal encounters throughout Indira Gandhi's India clearly reveals the overwhelming problems and agonies of the nation torn by overpopulation, poverty, and dissent. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce Publisher Comments Luce presents an enlightening study of the forces shaping India as it tries to balance the stubborn traditions of the past with an unevenly modernizing present. Deeply informed by scholarship and history, this work shows that India has huge opportunities... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 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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India Unbound by Gurcharan Das Publisher Comments Traces India's economic and social transformation into a free-market democracy, sharing the stories of its top players while weaving in the author's own life experiences as a former CEO for Procter & Gamble India. 25,000 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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India: A Wounded Civilization by V S Naipaul Publisher Comments In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years before. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir by Baby Halder Publisher Comments When she was very young, Baby Halder was abandoned by her mother and left with a cruel, abusive father. She was married off at twelve to a man twice her age who beat her. At fourteen, she was a mother herself. Her early life was marked by overwhelming... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 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: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration reallymeans when it talks about "compassionate conservativism"and "the war on terror."Roy has characteristic fun in these essays, skewering the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.95 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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Essays on India (Modern Voices) by Carlo Levi Publisher Comments With his typically perceptive insights, Levi writes evocatively on his experiences in India, including his interview with Pandit Nehru, his tour of a tent city at a political convention, and his meeting with a Hindu nationalist party. This only available... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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India Briefing: Quickening the pace of Change by Alyssa Ayres Publisher Comments Since 1998, India has held two national elections, begun the second phase of economic reforms, achieved new intellectual and literary prominence, and opened itself to a new spirit of Indo-U.S. cooperation. This edition of India Briefing covers these most... (read more) List Price $31.16 Your price: $27.65 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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