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A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Barbara D. Metcalf Publisher Comments A new history of modern India challenges traditional interpretations, and explores the politics and cultural life of a unique society.... (read more) Your price: $28.99 New - Trade Paper 
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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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Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi by Steve Inskeep Publisher Comments In recent decades, the world has seen an unprecedented change in human life: for the first time in history, more people now live in cities than in the countryside. As Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep so aptly puts it, we are living in the age of the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Roadmap by Suragamika Publisher Comments This remarkable work of creative nonfiction takes place in Burma, spanning more than two decades of the pro-democracy movement. It is a spare and poignant portrayal of the country's continuing political instability and two fictitious families whose lives... (read more) Your price: $18.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Indian Summer: the Secret History of the End of an Empire (07 Edition) by Alex Vontunzelmann Publisher Comments At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, inviting in all the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society. In this vivid, atmospheric popular history, Alex von Tunzelmann chronicles these times through... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos by Luis 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy by Bertil Lintner Publisher Comments Burma's pro-democracy movement emerged in 1988 when massive demonstrations swept across the country. This book gives an account of the movement, its emergence and growth, and Aung San Suu Kyi's prominent leadership role since its inception. Woven into... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Sources of Indian Tradition, II by Stephen (ed.) Hay Publisher Comments Primary sources in the history, philosophy, and religions of South Asia: Volume II focuses on the subcontinent's history from 1498 to 1984, with such topics as the opening of India to the West; Hindu and Muslin social and religious movements; and... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $29.00 Used - Trade Paper
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An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas K Gandhi Publisher Comments Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Emperor by Fergus Nicoll Publisher Comments Shah Jahan ruled the Mughal Empire at its high water mark, his name translating literally from the Persian as "King of the World."After ruthlessly suppressing his rivals, he went on to promote Mughal artistic and architectural achievements to the zenith... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.24 Sale - Hardcover
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Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India by Gyan Prakash Publisher Comments Gyan Prakash mounts a powerful and sustained argument in this book for treating the dissemination of science in colonial India not, as conventional historiography would have it, as the gradual supersession of backwardness and superstition and the spread... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ancient Futures by Helen Norberg Hodge Publisher Comments This gripping portrait of the rapidly evolving socioeconomic life of Ladakh - the Western Himalayan land known as "Little Tibet" - offers crucial lessons in sustainable development as its people attempt to balance growth and technology with cultural... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Empires of Indus ; Story of a River (10 Edition) by Alice Albinia Publisher Comments One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan's... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pakistan-Us Conundrum: Jihadists, the Military and the People--The Struggle for Control (Columbia/Hurst) by Yunas Samad Publisher Comments Yunas Samad's trenchant analysis of contemporary Pakistan illuminates five key players: the country's people, army, Islamists, and politicians, and the American forces struggling to maintain Pakistan's social and political stability. Samad describes the... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Gandhi, the Man by Eknath Easwaran Publisher Comments In 1892 Mohandas K. Gandhi was 23 years old, a shy, tongue-tied man whose past was full of failure; 30 years later he was the acknowledged leader of 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence through nonviolent revolution. Gandhi, the Man... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign, 1848-49: The Battles of the Second Sikh War by an Eyewitness by James Henry Lawrence-archer Publisher Comments An infantry officer's view of the fall of the Sikhs The author of this book served with No 6 company of HM 24th Regiment-an infantry regiment of the British Army-which saw much service in the Second Sikh War and suffered greatly in the fighting... (read more) Your price: $18.25 New - 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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Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India: Society and the State, 1930s - 1960s (Routledge Studies in South Asian History) by William Gould Publisher Comments Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar... (read more) Your price: $148.00 New - Hardcover
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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm Before the Storm 1951-1955 (Philip E. Lilienthal Books) by Melvyn C. Goldstein Publisher Comments It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened--and why--during the 1950s. In a book that continues the story of Tibet's history that he began in his acclaimed A History... (read more) Your price: $40.25 New - Trade Paper
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