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Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth (83 Edition) by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Publisher Comments Personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha — nonviolent protest — movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce Publisher Comments India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the worlds third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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India in Mind (05 Edition) by Pankaj Mishra Publisher Comments Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that has been written about the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas by Mahatma Gandhi Publisher Comments Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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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... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mahatma Gandhi: His Life and Ideas (SkyLight Lives) by C F Andrews Publisher Comments Originally published as 'Mahatma Gandhi's Ideas' by Macmillan in the 1930s, this updated edition showcases a new foreword by Dr Arun Gandhi.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power by Shashi Tharoor Synopsis 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.... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.95 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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Princely States of India: A Guide to Chronology and Rulers by David Henige Publisher Comments In providing a carefully assembled chronology of the 290 most significant of the 600 states in India, the author provides new research for all scholars of South Asia, as well as Sikkim and the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, in the colonial period.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sacred India by Sharan Kaur Publisher Comments From a humble postal worker performing puja for the safe passage of a parcel, to people who believe they are gods, religion suffuses every aspect of daily life in India. Sacred India explores the presence of the divine in the mundane through breathtaking... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament by Lucy Moore Publisher Comments Here is a rare glimpse behind purdahs curtain into the lives of four brilliant maharanis-the wives of Maharajas-who helped shepherd princely India into the twentieth century. Tracing the lives of these influential women from the final days of the raj... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Land Acquisition, Displacement and Resettlement in Gujarat: 1947-2004 by Lancy Lobo Publisher Comments Land Acquisition, Displacement and Resettlement in Gujarat: 1947-2004 is the first ever detailed analysis of the land acquired for development projects and its impact on the displaced and project affected persons of Gujarat from 1947 to 2004. Part of a... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Wisdom of Gandhi by Trudy Settel Publisher Comments Citadel Press is proud to announce the newest titles in the Wisdom Library, a collection of books showcasing the thoughts and writings of diverse literary, philosophical, political, and scientific immortals. These books deserve a place on every home... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims from Independence to Ayodhya by Mushirul Hasan Publisher Comments In the opening chapters of Legacy of a Divided Nation, Mushirul Hasan examines the origins of Muslim separatism under the British, the making of the partition of India, and the meaning of partition for a host of Muslim communities, individuals, and... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - 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 $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mahatma Gandhi & His Apostles by Ved Mehta Publisher Comments In this book, the renowned author Ved Mehta brings Gandhi to life in all his holiness and humanness, shedding light on his principles and his purposes, his ideas and his actions. Through interviewing disciples of Gandhi in five countries, Mehta... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Idea of India 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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $54.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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