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India: Land of Celebration
by Rupindar Khullar  Publisher Comments India — a land of amazing complexity — continues to haunt and beckon travelers and book lovers the world over. This elaborate, richly illustrated collection has combined the work of an adventurous photographer with inspired commentary from...
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Indian Art in Detail (Art in Detail)
by A L Dallapiccola Publisher Comments The rich and diverse cultures of India are represented in exquisite detail in this book, which begins with a simple question: what is Indian art? The answer is as complex as the history of a nation that is only sixty years old and a civilization that is...
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A Concise History of India (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Barbara D Metcalf Publisher Comments In a challenging new history of modern India, the authors explore the imaginative and institutional structures that have changed and sustained the country. While previous histories have been composed as handmaids of British nationalism or as products of...
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Land Reforms in India, Volume 4: Karnataka: Promises Kept & Missed
by Abdul Aziz and Sudhir Krishna Publisher Comments The fourth in a major series that examines the status of land reforms in India, Land Reforms in India, Volume 4 critically reviews the implementation of land reform legislation in the state of Karnataka. It presents the most recent data available in...
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Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
by Ruby Lal Publisher Comments Domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century....
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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...
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India (Kharakter)
by Not Available (na) Synopsis The culture of a country is not just confined to its museums. Opulent and creative, it is everywhere and in everything: in this streets, in the local industries, in the foods people eat, the movies they watch, and in the buildings where they live, work...
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Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
by James W Laine Publisher Comments Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself crowned in an orthodox Hindu ceremony. The legends of his life have become an epic story that everyone...
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Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
by Diana Preston Publisher Comments While Galileo suffered under house arrest at the hands of Pope Urban VIII, the Thirty Years War ruined Europe, and the Pilgrims struggled to survive in the New World, work began on what would become one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Taj Mahal...
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Interpreting Early India
by Romila Thapar Publisher Comments Thapar argues the importance of understanding and positioning various well-established perspectives on the Indian past in order to arrive at an informed understanding of contemporary situations--such as disputes between Hindus and other Indian...
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India: A Civilization of Differences: The Ancient Tradition of Universal Tolerance
by Alain Danielou Publisher Comments A collection of Danilou's writings that builds a bold and cogent defense of India's caste system•Looks at the Hindu caste system not as racist inequality but as a natural ordering of diversity•Reveals the stereotypes of Indian society invented to...
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Ganga: A Journey Down the Ganges River
by Julian Crandall Hollick Publisher Comments The Ganges has always been more than just an ordinary river. For millions of Indians, she is also a goddess. According to popular belief, bathing in “Mother Ganga” dissolves all sins, drinking her waters cures illness, and dying on her banks...
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The Nehrus: Personal Histories
by Mushirul Hasan Synopsis A definitive pictorial biography on the first family of Indian politics...
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The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture
by Annemarie Schimmel Publisher Comments The Mughal Empire was the most powerful Islamic empire in the history of India, and it has lived for centuries in the Western imagination as a wonderland of unimaginable treasures, symbolized most clearly by the breathtaking beauty of the Taj Mahal. This...
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Reproductive Restraints: Birth Control in India, 1877-1947
by Sanjam Ahluwalia Publisher Comments Reproductive Restraints traces the history of contraception use and population management in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth control movements in Great Britain and the United States. Sanjam...
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The Mughal Empire (New Cambridge History of India)
by John Richards Synopsis The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in the pre-modern world and this new volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720....
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India Before Europe (06 Edition)
by Catherine B. Asher Publisher Comments The first survey of the political, economic, religious and cultural landscapes of medieval India....
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Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India
by Kathryn Hansen Synopsis The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In "...
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Endless Filth: The Saga of the Bhangis
by Mari Mar Thekaekara Publisher Comments This is a telling investigation and indictment of India's lack of resolve over the past 100 years to get rid of manual scavenging and transportation of human excrement. Since Gandhi raised the question of untouchability in 1901 there have been reports...
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The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India
by Richard K Wolf Synopsis A black cow leads the members of a South Indian hill tribe, the Kotas, to the Nilgiri Hills and, with its hoof, indicates where to found each village. This footprint acts as a moral center of gravity, an important place for music-making, dancing, and...
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