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Religious Transformation in South Asia
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 124.99In the last decades of the nineteenth century, urgent and unprecedented demands among oppressed peoples in colonial India drove what came to be called 'mass conversion movements' towards a range of Christian denominations, launching a revolution in South Asia's two thousand-year Christian history. For all the scale, drama, and lasting controversy... more...
The River of Lost Footsteps
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57Combining both personal and political experience, this is a brilliantly illuminating and profound portrait of Burma. more...
Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2009; US$ 89.90The expansion of the Cholas from their base in the Kaveri Delta saw this growing power subdue the kingdoms of southern India, as well as occupy Sri Lanka and the Maldives, by the early eleventh century. It was also during this period that the Cholas initiated links with Song China.Concurrently, the Southeast Asian polity of Sriwijaya had, through its... more...
India
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableOne of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of clich?s: 'hi-tech', 'materialistic', 'go-getting'. But what is the real nature of this rapid change, and what are its roots? ... more...
Pakistan: A Hard Country
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableDAILY TELEGRAPH and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012 2011 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST In the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin Laden, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan... more...
A History of India
Penguin Books Ltd 1990; Not AvailableA history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics more...
A Short History of Byzantium
Penguin Books Ltd 1998; Not AvailableWith wit, intelligence and his trademark eye for riveting detail, John Julius Norwich has brought together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire. more...
City of Heavenly Tranquillity
Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableThe great city of Beijing, capital of China from the ninth century, and given its form for five hundred years by the Ming Dynasty, was for a millennium one of the most extraordinary places on earth. At a time when London, Paris, or Rome had only several hundred thousand residents, Beijing held over a million. This book tells the history of this great... more...
Hanoi Adieu
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; US$ 18.11Michel L'Herpiniere arrived in Hanoi as a teenager in the years before World War II. He fell in love with the country and the people, but gradually became aware that not all those around him felt the same way. Michel's story, brilliantly recreated by his stepdaughter Mandaley Perkins, is inevitably entwined with the history of Vietnam: the rise of... more...
China in Disintegration
Free Press 2008; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...









