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Gandhi : an Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth ((Rev)93 Edition)
by Mohandas Gandhi  Publisher Comments Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New Preface The only authorized American edition 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...
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Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India (Vintage)
by Madhur Jaffrey Publisher Comments Whether acclaimed food writer Madhur Jaffrey was climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard in Delhi or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tucked into freshly baked spiced pooris, today these...
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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 Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Vintage)
by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the...
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Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
by Madhur Jaffrey 
Publisher Comments The best-selling author of An Invitation to Indian Cooking offers a charming memoir of growing up in Delhi, India, detailing life in a large family marked by dinners in which forty or more members of her extended family would enjoy the savory dishes of...
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In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India
by Edward Luce Publisher Comments As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and...
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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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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
by Alex Von Tunzelmann Publisher Comments An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century. The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British...
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The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India
by Publisher Comments Wheeler Thackstons lively new translation of The Jahangirnama, co-published with the Freer/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, presents an engaging portrait of an intriguing emperor and his flourishing empire. The Emperor Jahangir...
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Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India
by Margaret Macmillan Publisher Comments In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country–where they attempted to replicate their...
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History of India (03 Edition)
by Peter Robb Publisher Comments A History of India explores the principal themes that unify Indian history and offers the reader a sophisticated and accessible view of India's dynamics from ancient times, the Mughal Empire, the British Raj through post-1947 India. The book examines...
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India: What Can It Teach Us
by F. Max Muller Synopsis A course of lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge. The author is an assiduous student of philology and regarded it as an important key to history and intellectual progress. The lectures contained in this volume are entitled: What Can...
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Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia
by Ayesha Jalal Publisher Comments The idea of jihadis central to Islamic faith and ethics, and yet its meanings have been highly contested over time. They have ranged from the philosophical struggle to live an ethical life to the political injunction to wage war against enemies of Islam....
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The Ruling Caste
by David Gilmour Publisher Comments A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India...
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The Moon Princess: Memories of the Shan States
by Sao Sanda Synopsis An important record of the Shan States, now under Burmese Rule...
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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...
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The Blessings of Bhutan
by Russ Carpenter Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-182) and index....
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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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Visions of Mughal India: An Anthology of European Travel Writing
by Michael H. Fisher Publisher Comments The Mughal Empire, which conquered and ruled virtually all of today's India, Pakistan and Bangladesh over several centuries, created one of the richest and most colourful of all historical eras. Peoples of different cultures – including Muslims...
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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....
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