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

    by Sanjay Upadhya ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    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 ... Read more

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  • From Bharata to India

    Volume 1: Chrysee the Golden

    by M. K. Agarwal ...
    The origin of world civilization can be traced to the Sindhu and Sarasvati river valleys (located in present-day Pakistan) as early as 8,000 BC. Here, innovation and originality in every aspect of human endeavor, from mathematics and science to art and sports, flourished. Yet the importance of this civilization, known as the Vedic period, has been deliberately downplayed.Thoroughly researched and ... Read more

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  • A Matter of Rats

    A Short Biography of Patna

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores in this vivid, entertaining account of his hometown. We accompany him through many Patnas, the myriad cities locked within the city—the shabby reality of the present-day capital of Bihar; Pataliputra, the storied city of emperors; the dreamlike ... Read more

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  • The Indian Naval Revolt of 1946

    by Percy S Gourgey ...
    Here is an authentic account of a brief, momentous event that preceded Indias Independence fifty years ago. This is a personal account by the author, a junior naval officer at the time, caught by chance at the centre of the disturbances in Bombay, and it indicates their far reaching implicationsthe historic trials in New Delhi, when Nehru was one of the defence lawyers of the Indian National Army, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • India and Tibet

    by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband ...
    It is an interesting reflection for those to make who think that we must necessarily have been the aggressive party, that the far-distant primary cause of all our attempts at intercourse with the Tibetans was an act of aggression, not on our part, not on the part of an ambitious Pro-consul, or some headstrong frontier officer, but of the Bhutanese, neighbours, and then vassals, of the Tibetans, ... Read more

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  • 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

    $23.79 USD

  • Elite Forces of India and Pakistan

    by Kenneth Conboy ...
    Series Book 41 - Elite
    Influenced by the German use of paratroopers early in World War Two, General Sir Robert Cassels, the Commander-in-Chief India, ordered the formation of an airborne cadre in October 1940.Thus marked the origins of India's first élite units. Pakistan can trace the origins of its own army airborne to the common parentage of British-raised forces. Following the partition from India in August 1947, it ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Household

    Informal Order around the Hearth

    by Robert C. Ellickson ...
    Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Legal underpinnings, social considerations, and economic constraints all influence how household participants select their homemates and govern their interactions around the hearth. ... Read more

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  • Great saints of India

    Part III

    by Harry Krishna ...
    Series Book 3 - Indian Saints
    This is the third part of the three part series which include the following:Part IIIRamanujacharyaMadhwacharyaShankaracharyaSwami VivekanandaBhakta Tukaram ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Marriage and Modernity

    Family Values in Colonial Bengal

    by Rochona Majumdar ...
    An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered, “ancient” social ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Vidyasagar

    The Life and After-life of an Eminent Indian

    by Brian A. Hatcher ...
    Series series Pathfinders
    This book offers a new interpretation of the life and legacy of the Indian reformer and intellectual, Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–91).Drawing upon autobiography, biography, secondary criticism and a range of Vidyasagar’s original writings in Bengali, the book interrogates the role of history, memory and controversy, and emphasises the key challenge of pinning down the identity of an enigmatic ... Read more

    $42.99 USD