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Great Mutiny: India, 1857
by Christopher Hibbert
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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)
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Father India :how encounters with an ancient culture transformed the modern west
by Jeffery Paine
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"I don't quite know how Jeffery Paine has done it-- except by subtle and provocative genius-- but "Father India" is an utterly surprising and indispensible book... Learned... lively... It renders Jeffery Paine's vast knowledge intimately. Father India is... ( read more)
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The Cost of Living (Modern Library)
by Arundhati Roy
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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)
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Land Reforms in India, Volume 4: Karnataka: Promises Kept & Missed
by Abdul Aziz and Sudhir Krishna
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The fourth in a major series that examines the status of land reforms in India, Land Reforms in India, Volume 4 critically reviews the implementation of land reform legislation in the state of Karnataka. It presents the most recent data available in... ( read more)
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Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender & Kinship
by Gloria Goodw Raheja
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In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of... ( read more)
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India a Wounded Civilization
by V S Naipaul
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Returning to India -- the subject of his acclaimed An Area of Darkness -- in 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi's Emergency, V. S. Naipaul produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental... ( read more)
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All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
by Rachel Manija Brown
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In the bestselling tradition of Running with Scissors and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - a hilarious, affecting memoir of the author's upbringing in an ashram in India. In 1980, when she was seven, the author's parents, 60s-holdover hippies, leave... ( read more)
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In Gandhiji's Mirror
by Pyarelal Nayar
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The sketches of some of Gandhiji's close associates given in this book show how he brought out the best in all those who came to him and worked with him in the service of humanity. Many of the sketches included in the volume were written in Gandhiji's... ( read more)
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Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths
by Chetan Bhatt
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The rise of authoritarian Hindu mass movements and political formations in India since the early 1980s raises fundamental questions about the resurgence of chauvinistic ethnic, religious and nationalist movements in the late modern period. This book... ( read more)
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The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of India
by Zia Jaffrey
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A spellbinding book--part travelogue, part history--about eunuchs in India today. They are both reviled and accepted, not officially acknowledged but a constant topic of conversation, believed to bring good luck to newlyweds and newborns but accused of... ( read more)
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Contemporary South Asia #9: India in the World Order: Searching for Major-Power Status
by Thazha Varkey Paul
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-283) and index.... ( read more)
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Dilemmas of Growth: The Indian Experience
by M L Dantwala
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The 22 papers that constitute this volume contain the essence of the observations on the problems of growth and development by the leading Indian economist, M L Dantwala. The six parts of the book cover: values in economic thought; agricultural... ( read more)
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Social Structure & Change Vol. 4: Development & Ethnicity
by A M Shah
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This volume, the fourth in a series of five volumes in honor of M. N. Srinivas, deals with issues related to development and ethnicity. The distinguished contributors analyze a number of important problems facing contemporary Indian society. These... ( read more)
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North India Human Development Report
by National Council Of
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As a sequel to the South India: Human Development Report and the West and Central India Human Development Report this report contains a compilation of economic and social data based on a primary survey of four states in Northern India: Haryana, Himachal... ( read more)
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India: Emerging Power
by Stephen P Cohen
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This landmark book provides the first comprehensive assessment of India as a political and strategic power since Indias nuclear tests, its 1999 war with Pakistan, and its breakthrough economic achievements.... ( read more)
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Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime
by Veena Tal Oldenburg
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The Hindu custom of dowry has long been blamed for the murder of wives and female infants in India. In this highly provocative book, Veena Oldenburg argues that these killings are neither about dowry nor reflective of an Indian culture or caste system... ( read more)
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Drought, Policy & Politics in India: The Need for a Long-Term Perspective
by Kuldeep Mathur
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The book has achieved its objective in highlighting the manner in which drought-mitigation rather than drought-proofing, and the need to move from a crisis management strategy to an area development strategy with a perspective of maintaining ecological... ( read more)
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India's Nuclear Bomb
by George Perkovich
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In May 1998, India shocked the world--and many of its own citizens--by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. Why did India bid for nuclear weapon status at a time when 149 nations had signed a ban on nuclear testing? What drove India's... ( read more)
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Time Warps: Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion
by Ashis Nandy
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Ashis Nandy, one of India's foremost public intellectuals, contends in this book that India's political and cultural elites have been trying to impose a secular ideology on their country. This ideology makes little sense to most Indians, who have their... ( read more)
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Changing India 2ND Edition Bourgeois Revolution
by Robert W Stern
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A comprehensive, provocative, and highly readable introduction to contemporary India's modern history and social institutions.... ( read more)
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