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India After Gandhi
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 9.58Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. Ramachandra Guha?s hugely acclaimed book tells the full story - the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories - of the world?s largest and least likely... more...
Selected Political Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1996; US$ 13.50Based on the complete edition of his works, this new volume presents Gandhis most important political writings arranged around the two central themes of his political teachings: satyagraha (the power of non-violence) and swaraj (freedom). Dennis Daltons general Introduction and headnotes highlight the life of Gandhi, set the readings in... more...
The Age of Kali
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives : the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the ?age of darkness? predicted by an ancient Hindu cosmology in a final epoch... more...
Transnationalizing Viet Nam
Temple University Press 2012; US$ 26.95Vietnamese diasporic relations affect—and are directly affected by—events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding of this globalized community. Valverde draws on 250 interviews and almost two decades of research to show the complex relationship... more...
The Khyber Rifles
The History Press 2013; US$ 13.11Still recruited from the Pathan tribes that live in the no-man's land between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Khyber Rifles continue to stand guard over this area, one of the world's most volatile borders. For more than a century, these gallant poachers turned gamekeepers fought for the British Raj against their own kith and kin, but to date nothing... more...
Golden Goa
ECW Press 2000; US$ 10.95Recounting the author?s travels in India by paralleling them with those of 16th-century Portuguese soldier and poet Luis de Camoens?author of the Portuguese national epic The Lusiads?this magical, exquisite narrative, reminiscent journeys to the island of more...
Third Class in Indian Railways
The Floating Press 1917; US$ 4.95From the text: I have now been in India for over two years and a half after my return from South Africa. Over one quarter of that time I have passed on the Indian trains travelling third class by choice. I have travelled up north as far as Lahore, down south up to Tranquebar, and from Karachi to Calcutta. Having resorted to third class travelling,... more...
Infant Mortality, Population Growth and Family Planning in India
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 140.00First published in 1972, this reissue deals with the crucial issue of population explosion, one of the most crucial problems facing the contemporary developing world. Written by a world-renowned demographer and family planning specialist, the book deals specifically with the Indian experience. Reviewing population change in India over the last... more...
Democracy, Development, and the Countryside
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 23.00This book examines how the rural sector in India uses its numbers in a democracy to further its economic and political interests. more...









