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Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas
by Louis Fischer
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Gandhi's thoughts on such topics as civil disobedience, non-violence,liberty, socialism and communism, and how to enjoy jail.... ( read more)
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Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir
by Sudha Koul
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Like Indira Ghandi and her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sudha Koul was born a Kashmiri Brahmin. The Hindus, though a tiny minority of Kashmir's population, lived in great harmony with Muslims, leading lives intertwined in the same cultural fabric. Kashmiris... ( read more)
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Non-Violent Resistance
by M K Gandhi
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This volume focuses on Gandhi’s vision of Satyagraha, whereby one appeals to reason and conscience and puts an end to evil by converting the evil-doer. The book begins with an explanation of Satyagraha and proceeds with detailed discussions of self-... ( read more)
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The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
by Arundhati Roy
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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)
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Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City
by Christopher Justice
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Exploring the Hindu concepts of good and bad deaths, this rich ethnography follows pilgrims who choose to travel to the holy city of Kashi to die. Dying the Good Death is a unique ethnography, the first to focus on the experiences of dying at the end of... ( read more)
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The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
by Urvashi Butalia
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The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five... ( read more)
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Gandhi's Way
by Mark Juergensmeyer
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Gandhi's Way provides a primer of Mahatma Gandhi's principles of moral action and conflict resolution. It offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach that can be used in any conflict--at home or in business; in local, national, or international... ( read more)
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The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India
by Lloyd T Rudolph
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Stressing the variations in meaning of modernity and tradition, this work shows how in India traditional structures and norms have been adapted or transformed to serve the needs of a modernizing society. The persistence of traditional features within... ( read more)
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Armies of the Raj: From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947
by Byron Farwell
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'Now that the Raj has gone with the winds of change, Byron Farwell's masterly picture if doubly welcome, ...whether emphasizing the jewels in its military crown, the Jam Sahibs in its cricket matches, the mutinies, massacres and finally, Independence... ( read more)
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Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India
by Kathryn Hansen
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The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In "... ( read more)
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Sustaining India's Growth Miracle
by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Charles W. Calomiris
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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)
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Endless Filth: The Saga of the Bhangis
by Mari Mar Thekaekara
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This is a telling investigation and indictment of India's lack of resolve over the past 100 years to get rid of manual scavenging and transportation of human excrement. Since Gandhi raised the question of untouchability in 1901 there have been reports... ( read more)
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Bazaar India
by Anand A Yang
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The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the... ( read more)
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Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains
by Eknath Easwaran
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Dialogue and History
by Eugene F Irschick
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Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a... ( read more)
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From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture
by Lindsey Harlan
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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)
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India: Land of Celebration
by Rupindar Khullar
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India — a land of amazing complexity — continues to haunt and beckon travelers and book lovers the world over. This elaborate, richly illustrated collection has combined the work of an adventurous photographer with inspired commentary from... ( read more)
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The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir
by Sudha Koul
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This is a magical memoir of a land now consumed by political and religious turmoil, a richly detailed story of a girl's passage into maturity, marriage, and motherhood in the midst of an exquisite and fragile world that will never be entirely the same.... ( read more)
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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal
by Dominique Lapierre
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In the ancient city of Bhopal, toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing thousands. When the noxious clouds cleared, the worst industrial disaster in history had taken place. Now, Lapierre brings the characters, conflicts, and... ( read more)
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New History of India 6TH Edition
by Stanley Wolpert
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After more than twenty years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India currently available. Wolpert has condensed over 4,000 years of India's continuity and development into a graceful and... ( read more)
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