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Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India
by Narendra Jadhav
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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)
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India: A Wounded Civilization
by V S Naipaul
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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)
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Mahatma Gandhi at Work: His Own Story Continued
by C F Andrews
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Gandhi's long-time friend and collaborator presents Gandhi's autobiography and many of his writings, and relates his experiences in India and South Africa.... ( read more)
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Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India
by Gita Mehta
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In this personally charged work of reflection, reminiscence, and reportage, Gita Mehta serves as a guide to India's multihued mosaic. India is a land of great contrasts. It is the world's most populous democracy, but still upholds the caste system. It is... ( read more)
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Local Democracy in India: Interpreting Decentralization
by Girish Kumar
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The fundamental objective of this large-scale study is to reconstruct the contemporary historical value of panchayats (a traditional rural Indian political system) in the decentralization of the country. Using interviews and discussions with all the... ( read more)
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Nehru: A Political Life
by Judith M Brown
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-399) and index.... ( read more)
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Motibas Tattoos a Granddaughters Journey
by Mira Kamdar
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"From the Bible to the Odyssey to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the journey or quest has been a staple motif of Western literature. Motiba's Tattoos is a welcome addition to that list." (The Washington Post) Mira Kamdar was born in the United States... ( read more)
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Power Politics
by Arundhati Roy
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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)
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Gandhi Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mohandas K Gandhi
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Boyhood, legal studies, purification, the growth of the Satyagraha -- nonviolent protest -- movement. Critical, inspiring work of the man responsible for the freedom of India.... ( read more)
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Gandhi: The Traditional Roots of Charisma (Modernity of Tradition Series: PT. 2)
by Susanne H Rudolph
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The Rudolphs' analysis reveals that Gandhi's charisma was deeply rooted in the aspects of Indian tradition that he interpreted for his time. They key to his political influence was his ability to realize in both his daily life and his public actions... ( read more)
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Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
by Erik H Erikson
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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)
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Pilgrimage to India: A Woman Revisits Her Homeland
by Pramila Jayapal
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In Pilgrimage to India, Pramila Jayapal, an Indian-born, Western-educated woman, returns to her country of birth and gives readers an inside look at a culture that is both fascinating and largely inaccessible. During her two-year stay, Jayapal finds a... ( read more)
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The History of British India: A Chronology
by John F Riddick
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This book is a history of British India from 1599 to 1947. It is divided into three parts addressing political history, topical studies, and a collection of four hundred biographies of noteworthy English men and women who played a role in the creation of... ( read more)
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The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
by Homer A Jack
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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)
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Legacy of Love My Education in the Path
by Arun Gandhi
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The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi presents the lessons he learned from his elders as a youth.... ( read more)
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The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur, Wife of Mahatma Gandhi
by Arun Gandhi
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Numerous books have been written about Mahatma Gandhi, the man who freed India, but nothing about the woman who shared his successes and failures. Known simply as "Ba" -- Mother -- to millions of people in India, her story has been untold until now. She... ( read more)
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History of India 3RD Edition
by Hermann Kulke
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Presenting a grand sweep of Indian history, this work covers antiquity to the later half of the 20th century. The authors examine the major political, social and cultural forces which have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent.... ( read more)
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha
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Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of Indias wild ride since independence is a riveting one. Guha explores the dramatic protests and conflicts that have shaped modern India, but he writes also of the factors that have kept the country together.... ( read more)
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Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope
by Judith M Brown
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The definitive biography of one of this century's most important--and controversial--figures. Drawing on sources only recently made available, Brown sketches a fresh and surprising portrait of Gandhi as a complex man whose actions followed honorably from... ( read more)
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Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception: With the Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey (Anthem South Asian Studies)
by Irfan Habib
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This volume brings together, for the first time, several of Professor Habib’s essays, representing three decades of scholarship and providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history from the standpoint of Marxist... ( read more)
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