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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India by Gita Mehta Publisher Comments In this personally charged work of reflection and reminiscence, readers are guided through India's multi-hued mosaic. A high profile writer, Mehta gives a loving but unflinching assessment of India today--entertaining, informative and wholly personal.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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India: A History by John Keay Synopsis 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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 really means when it talks about “compassionate conservativism” and “the war on terror.” Roy has characteristic fun in... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture by Lindsey Harlan Publisher Comments Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on normative expectations within marriage, they examine times in which... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Elephant, Tiger, and Cell Phone (08 Edition) by 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: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gandhi: A Spiritual Biography by Arvind Sharma Publisher Comments In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, What I want to achieve — what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years — is self-realization, to see God face to face....All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Family and Other Saints (07 Edition) by Kirin Narayan Publisher Comments In 1969, young Kirin Narayans older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone&... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 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 Empire... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $17.50 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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Viramma by Viramma Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India by Peter Van Der Veer Publisher Comments Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between religion and politics in India goes well beyond other books on this subject. He brings together several... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $10.50 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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Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism by Jyotirmay Sharma Publisher Comments Hindutva offers us original insights into the intellectual traditions that have nourished political Hindutva. While being a powerful indictment of this position, it proposes the need for an enquiry into traditions that perceive Hinduism as complimentary... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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India: A Wounded Civilization by V S Naipaul Publisher Comments In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years before. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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