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  • Fluent Bodies

    Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance

    Series series Body, commodity, text
    Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as Ayurveda evolved from an eclectic set of healing practices into a sign of Indian national culture, it was reimagined as a healing force not simply ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Indira

    The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

    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

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  • The Indian Mutiny

    An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courageThe Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and ... Read more

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  • The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway

    A Travel Companion

    Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge, religion, philosophy, disease and war. From the East came silk, precious stones, tea, jade, paper ... Read more

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  • History of India

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    by Ross Hilton ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    India is a vast country in Southern Asia and is the land of great natural diversity. A proud country that has been home to many civilizations, religions and peoples over the centuries. The earliest civilization in the Indian subcontinent grew around Harappa and Indus Valley. ... Read more

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  • Tamil Brahmans

    The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

    " An impressive biography. . . . [A] standard reference in the scholarship of Tamil Nadu and the conundrum of caste and class." — American AnthropologistA cruise along the streets of Chennai—or Silicon Valley—filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a global visibility of rapid economic advancement and ... Read more

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  • Many Kamasutras: A Guide to Postures and Methods for Compatibility in Sexual Union

    by Ravi Soni ...
    Many Kamasutras is a guide to postures and methods for compatibility in sexual union. It is a new, modern Interpretation of Vatsyayana's Kamasutra and 11 other Kamasastras.This book compares eleven kamasastra treatises with the Kamasutra in the core area of sexual union. In a new interpretation of the Kamasutra and the later kamasastra works, this book contends that sexual compatibility between ... Read more

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  • Mahatma Gandhi

    Nonviolent Power in Action

    by Dennis Dalton ...
    Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how Gandhi's lifelong career in national politics gave him the opportunity to develop and refine his ideals. He then concludes with a comparison of ... Read more

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  • Fifty Years with the British

    by Kirpalani S K ...
    This is a remarkable document derived from meticulously kept diaries by S K Kirpalani, ICS, the second Sindhi to become collector(his brother was the first). The author presents a compelling portrait, beautifully written, of his life and administrative career-an account that spans the first half of the twentieth century. The early chapters vividly recapture his childhood in Sind at the beginning ... Read more

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  • Between Monopoly and Free Trade

    The English East India Company, 1600–1757

    by Emily Erikson ...
    Series series Princeton Analytical Sociology Series
    The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports ... Read more

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  • Mourning the Nation

    Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition

    What remains of the “national” when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm in which roughly one million people died and ten to twelve million were displaced. Combining film studies, trauma theory, and South Asian cultural history, Bhaskar Sarkar follows the shifting traces of ... Read more

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  • Age of Entanglement

    German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire

    by Kris Manjapra ...
    Series Book 183 - Harvard Historical Studies
    Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of a diverse collection of individuals from South Asia and Central Europe who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another’s worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques ... Read more

    $68.19 CAD