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  • Kashmirby Humra Quraishi

    Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not Available

    Dispatches from a valley under siege Since 1989, Kashmir has rarely been out of the headlines, as local militants, foreign terrorists and Indian security forces battle it out in a region once known as `paradise on earth'. In all the propaganda, and news and statistics about terrorist strikes, counter insurgency operations and the foreign hand, the... more...

  • Connections and Complexityby Shinu Anna Abraham; Praveena Gullapalli; Teresa P Raczek; Uzma Z Rizvi

    Left Coast Press 2013; US$ 89.00

    This compilation of original research articles highlight the important cross-regional, cross-chronological, and comparative approaches to political and economic landscapes in ancient South Asia and its neighbors. Focusing on the Indus Valley period and Iron Age India, this volume incorporates new research in South Asia within the broader universe... more...

  • Shaping Of Modern Gujaratby Achyut Yagnik; Suchitra Sheth

    Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not Available

    Looking at the 19th and 20th centuries, and drawing on scholarly sources, this book traces the history of Gujurat from the time of the Indus Valley civilization, where Gujarati society came to be a synthesis of diverse cultures, to the state's encounters with the Turks, Marathas and the Portuguese. more...

  • Everyday Technologyby David Arnold

    University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00

    In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj , laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading... more...

  • Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial Indiaby Tirthankar Roy; C. A. Bayly; Rajnarayan Chandavarkar; Gordon Johnson

    Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 48.00

    Tirthankar Roy challenges the view that traditional industry was destroyed in the colonial period. Roy argues that while traditional industry did evolve during the industrial revolution, these transformations had a galvanizing effect on manufacturing generally and that the major industries in post-independence India were shaped by such transformations. more...

  • Alive and Well in Pakistanby Ethan Casey

    Vision Paperbacks 2006; US$ 19.99

    How wide is the gulf in understanding between the West and the Muslim world? How real is the risk of nuclear war on the subcontinent? What will be the long term effects of the Afghan Wars? How widespread - and how justified - is resentment towards the US and the West? Ethan Casey examines these compelling questions while living, working and teaching... more...

  • Indian Business Cultureby Rajiv Desai

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95

    Indian Business Culture addresses the cultural issues related to doing business in India. It looks at the impact of history and politics on business practice, and provides case studies to show how different companies have fared in India. India is one of the most rapidly developing economies in the world. Increasing numbers of multi-national companies... more...

  • Science and the Indian Traditionby David L. Gosling

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95

    This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction... more...

  • Devil's Guardby George R. Elford

    Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 7.99

    The personal account of a guerrilla fighter in the French Foreign Legion, reveals the Nazi Battalion's inhumanities to Indochinese villagers. more...

  • Radical Politics in Colonial Punjabby Shalini Sharma

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 153.00

    The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign. This book examines some of these deterministic misapprehensions and establishes that, in fact, Punjabi communism was inextricably... more...