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Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire
by Arundhati Roy  Publisher Comments Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration reallymeans when it talks about "compassionate conservativism"and "the war on terror."Roy has characteristic fun in these essays, skewering the...
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Sustaining India's Growth Miracle
by Charles (edt) Calomiris Publisher Comments The economy of India is growing at a rate of 8 percent per year, and its exports of goods and services have more than doubled in the past three years. Considering these trends, economists, scholars, and political leaders across the globe are beginning to...
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Days and Nights in Calcutta
by Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee Synopsis In 1973, Clark Blaise and his Bengali wife, Bharati Mukherjee, decided to spend a year with her family in Calcutta. Clark came as a Westerner; Bharati, as an adult woman examining her life as it might have become had she followed the traditional course...
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War Talk
by Arundhati Roy 
Publisher Comments As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays. The...
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The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India: The Emerging 21st-Century Power
by Shashi Tharoor Publisher Comments Over the past 25 years, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to a bustling, innovative, fast-changing society. This book shows how and why....
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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
by Amartya Kumar Sen Publisher Comments In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a...
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An Area of Darkness
by V S Naipaul Publisher Comments An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from...
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta Publisher Comments A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer...
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Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion
by Maria Misra Publisher Comments As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world’s most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its...
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India Unbound
by Gurcharan Das Review "Gurcharan Das, a Harvard-educated businessman who has managed to run Procter & Gamble's Indian operations successfully while authoring three plays, a novel and a stream of newspaper columns, has seen Indian socialism up close and personal. . . ....
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India
by V S Naipaul Synopsis Naipaul returns to the country with which he has a close yet oblique relationship. He provides an in-depth analysis of society in India, from high to low, as he did 25 years ago in "Area of Darkness". Naipaul also wrote "India: A Wounded Civilization...
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha Publisher Comments Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story—the pain and the...
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Father India :how encounters with an ancient culture transformed the modern west
by Jeffery Paine Publisher Comments "I don't quite know how Jeffery Paine has done it-- except by subtle and provocative genius-- but "Father India" is an utterly surprising and indispensible book... Learned... lively... It renders Jeffery Paine's vast knowledge intimately. Father India is...
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Cost of Living (99 Edition)
by Arundhati Roy
Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government's disregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but...
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Regional Modernities the Cultural Politi
by K Sivaramakrishnan Publisher Comments This book advances public and scholarly debates on development and globalization in new directions. It presents carefully developed case studies to show how the subjects of development are shaped by, and actively reshape, development ideas, programs, and...
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Tiger Ladies : Memoir of Kashmir (02 Edition)
by Sudha Koul Publisher Comments This is a magical memoir of a land now consumed by political and religious turmoil, a richly detailed story of a girl's passage into maturity, marriage, and motherhood in the midst of an exquisite and fragile world that will never be entirely the same....
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Idea of India (97 Edition)
by Sunil Khilnani Publisher Comments The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of the recent revelations of its nuclear capabilities. Sunil Khilnani's exciting, timely study...
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Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India
by Narendra Jadhav Publisher Comments Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. Their story has...
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Kerala: A Magical Odyssey (Not Just a Good Food Guide)
by Anita Nair Publisher Comments Kerala is a small state in southwestern India. Despite its size, it is a land of astounding beauty, Beaches and majestic highland tea plantations are just a few of the sights. It was voted by National Geographic Traveler magazine as one of the most...
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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal
by Dominique Lapierre Synopsis In the ancient city of Bhopal, toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing thousands. When the noxious clouds cleared, the worst industrial disaster in history had taken place. Now, Lapierre brings the characters, conflicts, and...
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