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  • One Hell Of a Life: An Anglo-Indian Wallah's Memoir from the Last Decades of the Raj

    par Stan Blackford ...
    This is the heart-warming story of a backward boy coming from a dysfunctional family and a broken home. Unable to talk at age four, he was sent to a boarding school to learn to speak. Branded a moron and dragged through ten schools in seven years, he suddenly "finds his feet" and becomes dux of one of India's most prestigious colleges. Later he becomes an officer in one of the Indian Army's most ... En savoir plus

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  • The Second Jungle Book

    Join Mowgli in his Most Action Packed Adventure Yet

    par Rudyard Kipling ...
    Collections Livre 6 - Rudyard Kipling Collection
    The tales in The Second Jungle Book includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. "How Fear Came": This story takes place before Mowgli fights Shere Khan. During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken river for a 'water truce', during which Hathi the elephant tells the story of how the first tiger got his ... En savoir plus

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  • Three Famines

    Starvation and Politics

    par Thomas Keneally ...
    Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three Famines, award-winning author Thomas Keneally uncovers the troubling truth -- that sustained widespread hunger is historically the outcome of government neglect and individual venality. Through the lens of three of the most disastrous famines in modern history -- the potato famine in Ireland, the famine ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

    The Story of a River

    par Alice Albinia ...
    “Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory StewartOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s ... En savoir plus

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  • India Divided

    Diversity and Democracy Under Attack

    par Vandana Shiva ...
    Collections series Open Media Series
    In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war of fundamentalisms in the age of terror. From the IT ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD

  • Capitalism

    A Ghost Story

    par Arundhati Roy ...
    The "courageous and clarion" Booker Prize–winner "continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism" ( Booklist).From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, ... En savoir plus

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  • India

    A Short History

    par Andrew Robinson ...
    Collections series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... En savoir plus

    $17.49 CAD

  • Japan's Last Bid for Victory

    The Invasion of India, 1944

    par Robert Lyman ...
    "This is an excellent account of a series of very hard fought battles that helped prepare the way for the British re-conquest of Burma." —History of WarRobert Lyman's deep knowledge and understanding of the war in Burma, and the great battles at Kohima and Imphal in 1944, are well known. In this book he uses original documents, published works and personal accounts to weave together an enthralling ... En savoir plus

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  • The Trouble with Empire

    Challenges to Modern British Imperialism

    par Antoinette Burton ...
    The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book tracks commonalities between different forms of resistance in order to understand how regimes of ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Portuguese in Malay Land

    par Geraldo Affonso Muzzi ...
    In his book “The Study Of Ancient Times In The Malay Peninsula”, Dato Sir Roland Braddell (1880-1966) writes, “No statement could be more untrue or more unwise than that Malaya has no history”. This dense work of 458 pages (reprinted edition no. 7 by MBRAS in 1989), from Dato Sir Braddells's studies appearing in the “Journal of Asiatic Society”, between 1935 and 1951, is followed by 50 pages of ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Beyond Belief

    India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism

    par Srirupa Roy, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Collections series Politics, History, and Culture
    Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state. Roy argues that the postcolonial nation-state is ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Demands of Recognition

    State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling

    par Townsend Middleton ...
    Collections series South Asia in Motion
    Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and secure political rights.In this groundbreaking study, Townsend Middleton tracks these newfound "lives" ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD