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Third Class in Indian Railwaysby Mahatma Gandhi
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, among other reasons, for the purpose of studying the conditions under which this class of passengers travel... more...
India and Southeast Asiaby Mohammed Ayoob
Routledge 1989; US$ 160.00Provides a close contextual analysis of India's interests and perceptions in the region during the 40 years of independence, putting it in the context of India's broad strategic and foreign policy framework including superpower relations. more...
History of Indiaby Hermann Kulke; Dietmar Rothermund
Routledge 1997; US$ 36.95This is a compact synthesis presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present. It remains the definitive text on the nation. This is a thoroughly revised new edition, containing new research, preface and index. more...
Self and Sovereigntyby Ayesha Jalal
Routledge 2000; US$ 49.95A survey of the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonisation and the partition period. It is an important and enlightening insight into the history of Muslims in South Asia. more...
Culture and Economy in the Indian Diasporaby Bhikhu Parekh; Gurharpal Singh; Steven Vertovec
Routledge 2003; US$ 160.00Examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK and the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development. more...
Perception, Politics and Security in South Asiaby P. R. Chari; Pervias Iqbal Cheema; Stephen Philip Cohen
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 39.95This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis between India and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of a nuclear war in 1990 and places the crisis in the context of concurrent international events. more...
Tourists at the Tajby Tim Edensor
Routledge 1998; US$ 55.95This book presents for the first time a sociological analysis of the cultural phenomenon, the Taj Mahal. It describes many of the tourist practices around the Taj as well as considering the notion of tourism in a wider context. more...
Britain and Tibet 1765-1947by Julie Marshall
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 180.00A hundred years ago, in 1904, a British mission under Francis Younghusband, along with a formidable military escort commanded by Brigadier-General James Macdonald, entered Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Thus nearly 150 years of British attempts from their Indian base to establish formal diplomatic relations with the ruling Tibetan theocracy culminated in the deployment of massive armed force. While the Younghusband venture failed to achieve nearly all its stated objectives, it undoubtedly marked the opening of a new era in Central Asian history the full consequences and complexities of which have yet to be revealed in full. To the steadily growing band of students of the history, nature and consequences of Anglo-Tibetan contacts, in which... more...
Modern South Asiaby Sugata Bose; Ayesha Jalal
Routledge 1998; US$ 28.95This is a social, economic, political and cultural history of modern South Asia from 1700 to the present. In a work of synthesis and interpretation, the authors offer an understanding of the sophisticated historiography of this area. more...
Religion and Nationalism in Indiaby Harnik Deol
RoutledgeCurzon 2000; US$ 160.00This book examines the growth of a nationalist sentiment among the Sikh community in the Punjab. Drawing on a wide range of resources, Deol explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. more...