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by Arundhati Roy  
Publisher Comments Arundhati Roy, the author of The God of Small Things, explores the politics of writing and the price of "development" driven by profit. Roy challenges the idea that only "experts" can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the human costs of... (read more)  List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Homer A Jack Publisher Comments The Gandhi Reader collects the significant writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi, culled form 500 volumes, newspapers, and magazines. Here is Gandhi in his own words and those of his closest associates, including selections from his autobiography... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Erik H Erikson Synopsis In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mohandas K 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer's voice in simple yet telling ways. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $21.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Keith Axel Publisher Comments In The Nation's Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of colonialism and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Hibbert Synopsis On a brutally hot day in May, 1857, the famous Sepoy Rebellion erupted, a mutiny by native troops that swept across northern India, weakened the British Raj, and set up future confrontations between India and Britain.... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Wolpert Publisher Comments Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, this text provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britain's decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire. Wolpert, a leading authority on Indian... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lucy Moore Publisher Comments Here is a rare glimpse behind purdah's 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 $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mohandas Gandhi Publisher Comments Assembled with skill and sensitivity by social activist Homer A. Jack, this selection of brief and incisive quotations range from religion and theology, personal and social ethics, service, and international and political affairs, to the family... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ranajit Guha Publisher Comments This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha -- intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Group -- describes from the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Charles W. 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... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elisabeth Bumiller Publisher Comments "The most stimulating and thought-provoking book on India in a long time..Bumiller has made India new and immediate again."<BR>THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD<BR>In a chronicle rich in diversity, detail, and empathy, Elisabeth Bumiller... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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