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  • 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...

  • The Indian Economy Sixty Years after Independenceby Professor Raghbendra Jha

    Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 110.00

    Provides a detailed analysis of the achievements and disappointments of the modern Indian economy, and an exploration of the issues which are shaping India's economic future. Offers a comprehensive overview of the state of India's economy in the twenty-first century and is essential for postgraduates and scholars interested in this area. more...

  • AIDS in South Asiaby Stephen Moses

    World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 9.99

    South Asia's HIV epidemic is highly heterogeneous. As a result, informed, prioritized, and effective responses necessitate an understanding of the epidemic diversity between and within countries. Further spread of HIV in South Asia is preventable. The future size of South Asia's epidemic will depend on an effective two-pronged approach: firstly,... more...

  • The Upside-Down Treeby Richard Connerney

    Algora Publishing 2009; US$ 33.95

    When he called India a ?functioning anarchy,? economist Kenneth Galbraith may have been thinking about Uttar Pradesh (UP), in northern India. Some Indians laughingly refer to Uttar Pradesh as a ?loser state.? Known as a home of deep poverty, incurable corruption and sticky social problems, UP is not the India that now appears regularly in The New York... more...

  • Maharanisby Lucy Moore

    Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 18.00

    Through the sumptuous, adventurous lives of three generations of Indian queens?from the period following the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to the present, Lucy Moore traces the cultural and political changes that transformed their world. This is the fantastic nonfiction version of THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN .Until the 1920s, to be a Maharani, wife to the Maharajah,... more...

  • The Modernity of Sanskritby Simona Sawhney

    University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 67.50

    Sanskrit texts have usually been discussed either within the frames of anthropology and religious studies or with a veneration that has substituted for analysis. Going beyond such approaches, Simona Sawhney argues that only a literary approach that resists the closure of interpretation can reveal the fragility, ambivalence, and tension that mark the... more...

  • Indiaby V. S. Naipaul

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.95

    A  New York Times  Notable Book Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul?s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author.   Arising out of Naipaul?s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien,  India: A Million Mutinies Now  relates the stories of... more...

  • Sideways on a Scooterby Miranda Kennedy

    Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 26.00

    When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman?it?s next to impossible?and the proper way for women... more...

  • After Colonialismby Gyan Prakash

    Princeton University Press 1994; US$ 46.95

    After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine... more...