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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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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos by Luis H. Francia Publisher Comments The Philippines is a country in its adolescence, struggling by fits and starts to emerge from a rich, troubled and multilayered past. From its first settlement through the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century to the subsequent American occupation... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Elite Forces of India and Pakistan by Kenneth Conboy Publisher Comments Influenced by the German use of paratroopers early in World War II (1939-1945), General Sir Robert Cassels, the Commander-in-Chief India, ordered the formation of an airborne cadre in October 1940. Thus marked the origins of India's first elite units... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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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Reimagining Asoka Memory and History by Patrick (edt) Olivelle Publisher Comments This volume explores on the material, social, and ideological aspects of Asoka's reign in light of advances made in archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics. Thematically divided into three parts, the first to pillars and rocks, which bear his... (read more) Your price: $98.95 New - Hardcover
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Imperial Encounters : Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (01 Edition) by Peter Van Der Veer Publisher Comments Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and... (read more) List Price $37.75 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth (83 Edition) by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Publisher Comments 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) List Price $10.95 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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A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951 by Melvyn Goldstein Publisher Comments The "Tibetan Question," the nature of Tibet's political status vis-à-vis China, has been the subject of often bitterly competing views while the facts of the issue have not been fully accessible to interested observers. While one faction has... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $25.00 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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Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular by Bishnupriya Ghosh Publisher Comments A widely disseminated photograph of Phoolan Devi, India’s famous bandit queen, surrendering to police forces in 1983 became an emotional touchstone for Indians who saw the outlaw as a lower-caste folk hero. That affective response was reignited... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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Indus Civilization by Mortimer Wheeler Publisher Comments In 1921 at Harappa, a small town in the Punjab, and in 1922 at Mohenjo-daro in Sind, evidence was discovered of an evolved urban culture nearly two thousand years older than any previously recognized in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. From the... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India (Vintage) by Joseph Lelyveld Publisher Comments A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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India & South Asia: A Short H by David Ludden Publisher Comments Ideal for students of regional studies as well as for travelers and historians, this book offers much insight into the key economic, social, and political developments that have shaped both the individual countries of South Asia and the region as a whole.... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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Pakistan: Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State by Mary Anne Weaver Publisher Comments No nation is more critical to U.S. foreign policy than nuclear-armed Pakistan. Wedged between India and Afghanistan, it is the second largest country in the Islamic world. But with militant Islamists now expanding their control over some of the country's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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More Than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India by David Shulman Publisher Comments From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi by Steve Inskeep Publisher Comments Morning Edition cohost Steve Inskeep presents a riveting account of a single harrowing day in December 2009 that sheds light on the constant tensions in Karachi, Pakistanandmdash;when a bomb blast ripped through a Shia religious procession, followed by... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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White Mughals : Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India (02 Edition) by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800-1947 by E M Collingham Publisher Comments This innovative volume demonstrates that the body was central to the construction and maintenance of British authority in India. Imperial Bodies explores ways in which the transformation of the British presence in India between 1800 and 1947 involved and... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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