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India : a History (00 Edition) by John Keay Publisher Comments John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South Asian history, from the first Harrapan settlements on the banks of the Indus River to the recent nuclear-arms race. In a tour de force of narrative... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart.-Alice Walker Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy. This series of essays examines the dark... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (New Press People's Histories) by Vijay Prashad Publisher Comments An alternative Account of the Cold War from the point of the view of the world's poor—"The first comprehensive political history of the third world as concept and as project" Immanuel Wallerstein). "The Third World today faces Europe like a colossal... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex Von Tunzelmann 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 the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth (83 Edition) by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Publisher Comments Boyhood, legal studies, purification, the growth of the Satyagraha -- nonviolent protest -- movement. Critical, inspiring work of the man responsible for the freedom of India.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Soldier Sahibs: The Daring Adventurers Who Tamed India's Northwest Frontier by Charles Allen Publisher Comments A colourful piece of narrative history which describes the military achievements of a band of men who fought on the North West frontier to defend British interests in India in the mid-nineteenth century. Allen weaves their individual stories into a true... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre Synopsis Made into a movie starring Patrick Swayze, this is the inspiring story of an American doctor who experienced a spiritual rebirth in an impoverished section of Calcutta.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Interpreting Mughal Painting: Essays on Art, Society and Culture by Som Prakash Verma Publisher Comments Focusing on issues like the origins of Mughal painting, its evolution and development under different Mughal emperors, the significance of various symbols and motifs, the existence of the different contemporary visual art traditions and famous Mughal... (read more) Your price: $33.50 New - Hardcover
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For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) by Anjali Arondekar Publisher Comments Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a... (read more) Your price: $23.25 New - Trade Paper
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An Eye at the Top of the World: The Terrifying Legacy of the Cold War's Most Daring CIA Operation by Peter Takeda Publisher Comments At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects — one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna — plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Early India : From Origins To Ad 1300 (03 Edition) by Romila Thapar Publisher Comments "Early India "represents a complete rewriting by Romila Thapar of her classic work, "A History of India "(the first volume in the "Penguin History of India "series), thirty-five years after it was first published. Thapar has incorporated the vast changes... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French Publisher Comments The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred. Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Locked in Place (03 Edition) by Chibber Synopsis "Vivek Chibber's "Locked in Place" is a brilliant, benchmark study of the developmental state and its dilemmas. Over the past two decades there has been a steady move away from systematic class analysis of state strategies toward state-centric approaches.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham Publisher Comments Curry serves up a delectable history of Indian cuisine, ranging from the imperial kitchen of the Mughal invader Babur to the smoky cookhouse of the British Raj. In this fascinating volume, the first authoritative history of Indian food, Lizzie Collingham... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China by James Louis Hevia Publisher Comments Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (91 Edition) by C. A. Bayly Publisher Comments This volume reassesses the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.... (read more) List Price $43.99 Your price: $33.50 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, reminiscence, and reportage, Gita Mehta serves as a guide to India's multihued mosaic. India is a land of great contrasts. It is the world's most populous democracy, but still upholds the caste system. It is... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya by Jules Stewart Publisher Comments From the early nineteenth century, Imperial Russian expansion threatened the increasing British dominance of India. In the 1860s, Captain Thomas Montgomerie hit on the idea of training natives from Indian border states to be surveyors, and have them... (read more) Your price: $42.95 New - Hardcover
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Punjabi Century, 1857-1947 by Prakash Tandon Synopsis 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) Your price: $28.50 New - Trade Paper
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