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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

    $5.99 USD

  • Thomas Hoover's Collection :The Moghul with Active TOC

    by Thomas Hoover ...
    “...the finest book on India since Kipling.” India 1620: India is ruled by the son of the great Akbar, and is about to pass his crown to one of his sons. Brian Hawksworth, ship's captain and emissary of King James, must choose sides, but will he choose correctly? The future of England, and of India, depend on it. He had come to India to open trade for “barbaric” England and squeeze out the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Checkmate

    How the BJP Won and Lost Maharashtra

    On 28 November 2019, Uddhav Thackeray, the Shiv Sena chief, was sworn in as the eighteenth chief minister of Maharashtra. This event marked the culmination of a high-voltage political drama that had the entire nation glued to their television sets for days on end. With no party being able to claim a majority in the assembly, President's Rule was imposed in the state. This book takes its readers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Maximum City

    Bombay Lost and Found

    by Suketu Mehta ...
    A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

    by Katherine Boo ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’STEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People**“A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.” ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Street Corner Secrets

    Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai

    by Svati P Shah ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same analytic frame—brothels, streets, and public day-wage labor markets (nakas), where sexual commerce may be solicited discretely alongside other income-generating activities. Focusing on women who migrated to Mumbai from ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Calcutta

    Two Years in the City

    Series series Vintage Departures
    The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of his writing and for the ways in which he makes “place” as complex a character as his men and women. Now he brings these gifts to a spellbinding amalgam of memoir, reportage, and history in this intimate, luminous portrait of Calcutta.Chaudhuri guides us through the city where he was born, the home he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In the Shadows of the State

    Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

    by Alpa Shah ...
    In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)

    Series Book 0 - Shortest History
    5,000 years of history—from the Bhagavad Gita to Bollywood—fill this masterful portrait of the world’s most populous nation and a rising global power. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.India—a cradle of civilization with five millennia of history, a country of immense consequence and contradiction—often defies ready understanding. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • India in the Persianate Age

    1000–1765

    Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies, and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, and especially Central Asia and the Iranian plateau ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Frozen Chosin: U.S. Marines At The Changjin Reservoir [Illustrated Edition]

    Series Book 7 - Marines In The Korean War Commemorative Series
    Includes more than 40 maps, plans and illustrations.This volume in the official History of the Marine Corps chronicles the part played by United States Marines in the Chosin Reservoir Campaign.The race to the Yalu was on. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s strategic triumph at Inchon and the subsequent breakout of the U.S. Eighth Army from the Pusan Perimeter and the recapture of Seoul had ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greek and Roman Accounts of India

    Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced is a record of his investigation of the origins ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Amritsar Massacre

    The British Empire's Worst Atrocity

    The history and impact of one of the most heinous acts of colonial repression suffered in British India—a massacre that continues to divide opinion today.The shocking massacre of 379 unarmed Indians in the enclosed Jallianwala Bagh park on the command of a British army officer on April 13th, 1919 is considered a brutal example of colonial abuse. Immediately afterwards martial law was established ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Beneath Their Feet

    Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

    **Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/BiographyA saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war -- that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century.**As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Battle of Plassey and the Conquest of Bengal

    The Battle of Plassey, won by Robert Clive for Britain, was decisive in establishing a firm base in Bengal and from that victory the British became an imperial power whose Indian Empire was to last for nearly 200 years.Plentiful and apposite illustrations throughout this work lend humanity and colour to a study important not less in imperial than in purely military terms. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BEYOND COURAGE: Escape Tales Of Airmen In The Korean War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Clay Blair ...
    Includes ten illustrations and one map.Clay Blair, Jr., close to Air Force headquarters during the Korean war, heard, as did everyone there, fascinating stories of Air Force pilots who had crashed or been shot down behind enemy lines and then managed, by one means or another, often enduring incredible hardships, to make their way back to U.N. lines. However, at the time, these stories were highly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • India

    A Portrait

    A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Heart Is a Shifting Sea

    Love and Marriage in Mumbai

    Winner of the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism & Investigative Reporting"Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book set in Bombay that I've read in years. Flock's total access to her characters, and her highly sympathetic and nonjudgmental gaze, prove that love and literature know no borders. Easily the most intimate account of India that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Ghost in the Tamarind

    A Novel

    Who can you love? What do you owe to love and what to the world at large?Such are the questions that drive the story of Ramu, a Brahmin man, and Ponni, a woman of the Dalit “untouchable” caste. Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century South India, the novel takes readers from the 1890s village where Ramu’s grandmother grew up to the Emergency years of 1970s Madras. Against this sweeping ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lost in Shangri-La

    A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

    “A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying read!" —Simon Winchester, author of AtlanticAward-winning former Boston Globe ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Three Cups of Tea

    One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

    The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyardAnyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Anarchy

    The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

    Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR“Superb … A vivid and richly detailed story … worth reading by everyone.” -The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Return of a King<... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana (Mobi Classics)

    by Vatsyayana ...
    The Kama Sutra (alternative spellings: Kamasutram or simply Kamasutra), is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sex. Kama means sensual or sexual pleasure, and sutra are the guidlines of yoga, the word itself means thread in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictators and Autocrats

    Securing Power across Global Politics

    Edited by Klaus Larres ...
    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern ... Read more

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