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Raj the Making & Unmaking of British Ind
by Lawrence James
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Lawrence James explores the two hundred years the British were in India. An association that ended in 1947, when the British departed, leaving a divided country. "This is a wonderful book about the British presence in India... it will remain unsurpassed... ( read more)
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Sita's Daughters: Coming Out of Purdah: The Rajput Women of Khalapur Revisited
by Leigh Minturn
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Sita's Daughters vividly recounts the dramatic changes in role and status experienced by Rajput caste women in the Indian village Khalapur between 1955 and 1975. In the 20 years between her now-classic original field study and her follow-up with the same... ( read more)
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Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration Between India and Trinidad
by Tejaswini Niranjana
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Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad's population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what Indian signifies--about... ( read more)
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India: A Mosaic
by Robert B Silvers
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How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? The novelist Arundhati Roy has written, specially for this collection, a fierce denunciation of the Indian nuclear program... ( read more)
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Maharanis: A Family Saga of Four Queens
by Lucy Moore
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?Scintillating. Moore revels in every detail?from the elegance of the maharanis? attire, to the complexities of Indian family life and politics, to the trauma and heroism of breaking with tradition.?
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The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India
by Richard K Wolf
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A black cow leads the members of a South Indian hill tribe, the Kotas, to the Nilgiri Hills and, with its hoof, indicates where to found each village. This footprint acts as a moral center of gravity, an important place for music-making, dancing, and... ( read more)
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Peasant Labour & Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770
by Sugata Bose
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This book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change under British colonial rule. Sugata Bose analyses the relationships between demography, commercialization, class... ( read more)
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Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra
by Cynthia Talbot
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The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities. Using records of... ( read more)
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