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  • The Train to Tanjore (Series: Songs of Freedom)

    From Dreams to Building Billion-Dollar Cyient

    by Devika Rangachari ...
    Tanjore, 1942 There are few excitements in Thambi's quiet life. There is the new hotel, disapproved of by elders, which lures him with the aroma of sambar with onions. There are visits to the library to read the newspaper, and once in a while, a new movie at the Rajaram Electric Theatre. More disagreeably, there are fortnightly visits from his uncle to lay down the law. When Gandhiji announces the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Queen of Ice

    by Devika Rangachari ...
    Didda, princess of Lohara, is beautiful, intelligent--and lame. Despised by her father and bullied by his heir, Didda's childhood is miserable and her future, bleak. When she is married off to the dissolute ruler of Kashmira, she must learn to hold her own in a court ridden with factions and conspiracies. But Didda is no ordinary queen. Ruthless and ambitious, she wants to rewrite history. Will ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Swordswoman!

    The Queen of Jhansi in the Indian Uprising of 1857

    by DEVIKA RANGACHARI ...
    Illustrated by Amerigo Pinelli ...
    Series series True Adventures
    The true story of the fearsome Rani of Jhansi, the Indian Queen who took on the East India Trading Company in the Indian Uprising of 1857Queen Lakshmibai of Jhansi was an unconventional queen. She could read and write; she rode a horse and wielded a sword; she trained other women to ride and fight alongside her. When the East India Trading Company, who ruled India in the 19th century, demanded ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Queen of Water (Queen Series)

    A Remarkable Story of Kundavai Pirattiyar, a Chola Princess | Young Adult Historical Fiction | Ages 13+

    by Devika Rangachari ...
    The Kaveri is eternal; it will never let us down—and we Cholas live by this adage.’Kundavai is the daughter of the mighty Sundara Chola. She glories in the history of her dynasty and their victories in their perpetual battles for supremacy against the Cheras and Pandyas, and tries to understand the nature of power. She also constantly challenges herself—in ways discouraged by her mother, who wants ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • 10 Indian Monarchs

    by Devika Rangachari ...
    This book tells the stories of ten Indian monarchs who find, at best, passing mention in the history textbooks we read, though their lives were exciting and their achievements considerable: Ajatashatru | Bindusara | Rudradaman | Pulakeshin II | Jayapida | Didda | Ramapala | Abbakka | Chand Bibi | Ahilyabai Holkar Historian and award-winning novelist, Devika Rangachari writes absorbing tales of the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Mauryas

    Chandragupta to Ashoka: The Backstories, The Sagas, The Legacies

    by Devika Rangachari ...
    From c. 324 BCE to c. 185 BCE, the Mauryas controlled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with efficiency and administrative finesse. Beginning with the origins of Magadha in the sixth century BCE, this definitive book on the Mauryas captures the drama, the colourful betrayals and the intrigues of the Mauryan dynasty in Magadha, starting with its enigmatic founder, Chandragupta Maurya, and his ... Read more

    $15.94 CAD

  • Antagonistic Tolerance

    Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites and Spaces

    by Robert M. Hayden, Aykan Erdemir, Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Timothy D. Walker, Devika Rangachari, Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Enrique López-Hurtado, Milica Bakić-Hayden ...
    Antagonistic Tolerance examines patterns of coexistence and conflict amongst members of different religious communities, using multidisciplinary research to analyze groups who have peacefully intermingled for generations, and who may have developed aspects of syncretism in their religious practices, and yet have turned violently on each other. Such communities define themselves as separate peoples ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • From Obscurity to Light

    Women in Early Medieval Orissa (Seventh to Twelfth Centuries AD)

    by Devika Rangachari ...
    This book attempts to reintegrate women into the socio-political milieu of early medieval Orissa. Its sources are inscriptions, mostly Sanskrit, that date from the seventh century to the end of the reign of the Imperial Ganga ruler, Anantavarman Codagangadeva (CE 1078-1147). The evidence indicates that royal and non-royal women had varying but undeniably important roles to play in the socio ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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    From the Origins to AD 1300

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  • The Secret Lives Of The Dalai Lama

    Holder of the White Lotus

    by Alexander Norman ...
    His Holiness the Dalai Lama is renowned the world over for his unswerving dedication to non-violence in his efforts to achieve justice for Tibet, yet the Chinese call him 'a wolf in monk's robes'.He is fourteenth in a lineage whose history is every bit as bloody and intrigue-laden as that of the Papacy. The sixth Dalai Lama was a notorious womaniser, four successive ones were almost certainly ... Read more

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  • Ashoka in Ancient India

    by Nayanjot Lahiri ...
    In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka’s life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid ... Read more

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  • Rajaraja Chola: Interplay between an Imperial Regime and Productive Forces of Society

    by Raghavan Srinivasan ...
    When Rajaraja Chola ascended the throne, the land of Tamils entered upon centuries of grandeur. He left behind a stupendous legacy, which has not lost its sheen even after a thousand years. During his regime, we see powerful productive forces at work, newly liberated by the advances made in manufacturing and trade.Through interesting facts and riveting analyses, the reader can vividly experience ... Read more

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