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PUSPIKA eBook Series

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  • Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

    Contributions to Current Research in Indology, Volume 1

    Edited by Nina Mirnig, Peter-Daniel Szanto, Michael Williams ...
    Series Book 1 - PUSPIKA
    It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since the inception of Western Indology. And yet, what this monumental scholarship has achieved is still outweighed by the huge tracts ... Read more

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  • Battles of the New Republic

    A Contemporary History of Nepal

    by 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 ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Exodus Burma

    The British Escape through the Jungles of Death 1942

    by Felicity Goodall ...
    Until a few weeks before the fall of Rangoon, the British had not dreamt the Japanese would invade Burma. So in early 1942, British soldiers trained for desert warfare fought a Japanese Army trained and equipped for the jungle. Those who survived this fierce fighting faced malaria, air attack, and lack of food and water, on the long walk out through the Valley of Death. Ragged groups of soldiers ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Midnight's Descendants

    A History of South Asia since Partition

    by John Keay ...
    Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants-the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India-are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous influence over global economics and geopolitics, yet their impact is too often simplified by accounts that focus solely on one nation ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Sikhs of the Punjab

    by J. S. Grewal ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of India
    In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • House of Shivaji

    Studies and Documents on Maratha History: Royal Period

    by Jadunath Sarkar ...
    This volume contains writings on the 'Royal Period' (1626-1700), as distinguished from the 'Peshwa Period' of Maratha history, and added a long life of Malik Ambar (from original Persian sources) and biographies of four eminent Marathi historical research-pioneers, Rajwade, Sane, Khare and Parasnis. The materials have come from Persian manuscripts (patiently gathered during a life-time), newly ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War

    Edited by Rotem Kowner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specifically for control of Korea, was watched at the time very closely by observers from many other countries keen to draw lessons about the conduct of war in the modern industrial age. The defeat of a traditional European power by a non-white, non-western ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Women in God’s Army

    Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army

    by Andrew Mark Eason ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Women and Religion
    The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women had the right to preach and hold any office in the organization. But did they?Women in God’s Army is the first study of its kind devoted to the critical analysis of this central claim. It traces the extent to which this egalitarian ideal was realized ... Read more

    $35.99 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

    $23.79 USD

  • 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

  • Environment and Pollution in Colonial India

    Sewerage Technologies along the Sacred Ganges

    by Janine Wilhelm ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in South Asian History
    India is facing a river pollution crisis today. The origins of this crisis are commonly traced back to post-Independence economic development and urbanisation. This book, in contrast, shows that some important early roots of India’s river pollution problem, and in particular the pollution of the Ganges, lie with British colonial policies on wastewater disposal during the late 19th and early 20th ... Read more

    $62.99 USD