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  • Out of the Way Places in the Orient, 3 Pieces. Illustrated

    by Mrs. Lockwood DeForest, Marion Pope, V C Scott O'Conner ...
    Three short pieces detailing a trip to Nepaul in the late 19th century, a visit to the deserted capital of Rajaputana, and the defiles of the Irrawaddy in Burma. ... Read more

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    The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

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    The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)Indira Gandhi’s life, from her birth in 1917, through partition and up to her assassination in 1984, was dominated by the politics of her country. Always directly involved in India’s turbulent twentieth-century history, once she ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of India: Volume 1, Ancient India

    by E.J. Rapson ...
    The Cambridge History of India, Ancient India is an authoritative history of India from the beginning of history until the time after Alexander the Greats conquest. 26 chapters and over 500 full-length pages discuss topics such as the geography of India, the ethnic origins of its people, the history of the Aryans and the Jains, and Indias interactions with Greece, Persia, Scythia, and Parthia. ... Read more

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  • Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

    by Edgar Thurston ...
    This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin. Edgar Thurston CIE (1855-1935) was a superintendent at the Madras Government Museum who contributed to studies in the zoology, ethnology and botany of India and published works related to his work at the museum. Thurston was ... Read more

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  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest, which he made the basis of his successful struggle against British rule in India. In this Very Short ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Mumbai Fables

    by Gyan Prakash ...
    A sweeping cultural history of India’s largest cityA place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and ambitions. Mumbai Fables explores the mythic ... Read more

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  • The Pity of Partition

    Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

    by Ayesha Jalal ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A history of partition seen through the life and fiction of one of the subcontinent's most important modern writersSaadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Nagarjuna in Context

    Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture

    by Joseph Walser ...
    Joseph Walser provides the first examination of Nagarjuna's life and writings in the context of the religious and monastic debates of the second century CE. Walser explores how Nagarjuna secured the canonical authority of Mahayana teachings and considers his use of rhetoric to ensure the transmission of his writings by Buddhist monks. Drawing on close textual analysis of Nagarjuna's writings and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Autobiography of an Archive

    A Scholar's Passage to India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ... Read more

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  • History of India, Volume 9: Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers Classic, Oriental, and Occidental

    by A.V. Williams Jackson, Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes Table of ContentsA.V. Williams Jacksons History of India Volume 9: Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers Classic, Oriental, and Occidental is a fascinating collection of accounts of India by travelers, from antiquity to the modern era. Greek, Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English sources are cited. A table of contents is included. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • India in the World Economy

    From Antiquity to the Present

    by Tirthankar Roy ...
    Series Book 10 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian ... Read more

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  • Gandhi’s Dharma

    by Koneru Ramakrishna Rao ...
    When asked about his message to the world, the Mahatma famously said, ‘My life is my message.’ In him there was no room for contradiction between thought and action. His life in its totality is a series of experiments to convert dharma, moral principles, into karma, practices in action. Gandhi believed that development is a dialectical process stemming from the antinomy of two aspects latent ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD