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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
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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)

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Gandhi
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Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth
Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth
by James W. Douglass
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In 1948, at the dawn of his country's independence, Mohandas Gandhi, father of the Indian independence movement and a beloved prophet of nonviolence, was assassinated by Hindu nationalists. In riveting detail, author James W. Douglass shows as he... (read more)

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Ancient and General
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Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
by Diana Preston
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The dazzling story of the Taj Mahal and the empire whose spirit it epitomizes. Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahals flawless symmetry and gleaming presence have or centuries dazzled... (read more)

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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
by Edward Luce
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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)

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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur Herman
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In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and... (read more)

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Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas
Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas
by Mahatma Gandhi
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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)

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India: A Mosaic
India: A Mosaic
by Robert B Silvers
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How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? The novelist Arundhati Roy has written, specially for this collection, a fierce denunciation of the Indian nuclear program... (read more)

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Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth (83 Edition)
Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth (83 Edition)
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha — nonviolent protest — movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is... (read more)

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History of India Volume 1
History of India Volume 1
by Romila Thapar
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A full account of Indian history from the establishment of Aryan culture to the coming of the Mughals in 1526 A.D.... (read more)

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Punjabi Century, 1857-1947
Punjabi Century, 1857-1947
by Prakash Tandon
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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)

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