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  • Ruffling the Peacock’S Feathers

    Stories from Village India

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Moghul

    par Thomas Hoover ...
    THE MOGHUL was immediately a European bestseller, optioned by Indian producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with the BBC.Based on real people (ca. 1620) – THE MOGHUL begins in a rip-roaring sea battle north of Bombay in which the vastly out-gunned adventurer, Brian Hawksworth, ship's captain and emissary of King James, blows away a flotilla of Portuguese ... En savoir plus

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  • The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway

    A Travel Companion

    par Jonathan Tucker ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Battles of the New Republic

    A Contemporary History of Nepal

    par Prashant Jha ...
    Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history, part-analysis, part-memoir, and part-biography of the key characters, the book breaks new ground in political writing from the region. With access to ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • India's War

    World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia

    par Srinath Raghavan ...
    Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and-something simply never imagined-against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India. With the threat of the Axis powers looming, the entire country was pulled into the vortex of wartime ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Metabolic Living

    Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

    par Harris Solomon ...
    Collections series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Mother, Where's My Country?

    Looking for Light in the Darkness of Manipur

    par Anubha Bhonsle ...
    In her powerful, poignant book—one of the best non-fiction works from India in recent years—Anubha Bhonsle examines the tangled and tragic history of Manipur, and of much of India’s North East. Through the story of Irom Sharmila—on a protest fast since 2000—and many others who have fallen victim to violence or despair or stood up to fight for peace and justice, she shows us an entire society ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • India in the World Economy

    From Antiquity to the Present

    par Tirthankar Roy ...
    Collections Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Pity of Partition

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

    par Ayesha Jalal ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $45.09 CAD

  • Subject Lessons

    The Western Education of Colonial India

    par Sanjay Seth, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Collections series Politics, History, and Culture
    Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge “traveled” to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India’s British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation that it would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing. From the start, western education was ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Democratic Transition and Security in Pakistan

    Modifié par Shaun Gregory ...
    Collections series Asian Security Studies
    This volume examines the trajectory of Pakistan’s democratic transition and the implications of this change for its security.In May 2013, for the first time in its 66-year history, Pakistan saw an elected government complete a full term in office and transfer power through the ballot box to another civilian government. At this important moment in Pakistan’s history, this collection brings together ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Nepal and the Geo-Strategic Rivalry between China and India

    par Sanjay Upadhya ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
    The importance of the Himalayan state of Nepal has been obscured by the international campaign to free Tibet and the vicissitudes of the Sino-Indian rivalry. This book presents the history of Nepal’s domestic politics and foreign relations from ancient to modern times.Analysing newly declassified reports from the United States and Britain, published memoirs, oral recollections and interviews, the ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD