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  • Empire's Garden

    Assam and the Making of India

    by Jayeeta Sharma ...
    Series series Radical perspectives
    In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • The Last Mughal

    The Fall of Delhi, 1857

    by William Dalrymple ...
    WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of BooksA stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century Indi... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Kamasutra 2.0: An Authentic Guide with Description of ALL Postures, Kisses, Embraces from the Sanskrit Original

    by Ravi Soni ...
    Kamasutra 2.0 condenses the expertise of the core parts of Vatsyayana's Kamasutra, the famous two thousand year old Sanskrit treatise which has dominated the erotic love traditions of India, into a simple, essential guide book.This book describes all the sexual postures and methods -- embraces, kisses, nail marks, bites, strikes, and moans – enumerated in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra (as well as some ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Modern Spirit of Asia

    The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India

    by Peter van der Veer ...
    A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and IndiaThe Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western ... Read more

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  • Gandhi

    A Spiritual Biography

    by Arvind Sharma ...
    In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve—what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years—is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end." While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869–1948), nearly all ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Mahabharata Sabhaparva

    Mahabharata, #2

    by Srinivasa Prasad Pillutla ...
    Series Book 2 - Mahabharata
    In this book Pandavas are cheated by Kauravas in a game of dice and take all their wealth and banish them to forest for 14 years.I have recorded my study of Mahabharata second chapter Sabhaparva in this ebook.Mahabharata is history of India, an epic war that ended one era and ushered in the current era. It is a story of what is Dharma, what is right or wrong. Characters of all shades of human ... Read more

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  • The Raj on the Move

    by Rajika Bhandari ...
    Rajika Bhandari researcher and writer, is the author of four books on international higher education. She is also an avid traveller who enjoys documenting her experiences of travel within India and abroad. Her personal and travel essays have appeared in independent magazines and on National Public Radio in the United States. Originally from Delhi, she lives in New York City. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Roots of Hinduism

    The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization

    by Asko Parpola ...
    Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Spectral Wound

    Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

    by Nayanika Mookherjee ...
    Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

    $38.99 CAD

  • History Of The Indian Mutiny Of 1857-8 – Vol. III [Illustrated Edition]

    by Colonel George Bruce Malleson ...
    Series series History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8
    [Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny]By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. This inherent weakness would be exposed during the events of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858, as the Sepoy soldiers ... Read more

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  • Ruffling the Peacock’S Feathers

    Stories from Village India

    by David Howard Day ...
    Book description: In fifteen stories unified by a piquant sense of place and vivid dialogue,readers are immediately taken away from Indias teeming cities to a single mud-walled village, "Saratpur", and its rich panoply of memorable characters. The author introduces you to his Hindu and Muslim neighbors,their customs, family life, conflicts and their hopes for the future. These are timeless stories ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD