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India (Bharat)

  • The Rough Guide to Keralaby David Abram

    Rough Guides 2010; US$ 19.99

    The Rough Guide to Kerala will guide you through India?s tropical southwest tip, with reliable information and clearly explained cultural background. Whether you?re looking for great places to eat and drink, inspiring accommodation or the most exciting things to see and do, you?ll find the solution. Discover Kerala with stunning photography and information... more...

  • National Movement and Politics in Orissa, 1920 - 1929by Pritish Acharya

    SAGE India 2008; US$ 59.95

    This book is a comprehensive study of the nationalist movement and politics in. Orissa during the 1920s. It examines the national movement in the late nineteenth. century and the first two decades of the twentieth century prior to the launch. of the Civil Disobedience Movement by focusing on the regional peculiarities,. especially the Oriya linguistic... more...

  • Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalismby Katharine Adeney; Lawrence Saez

    Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95

    This new collection examines the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India and the ways in which its Hindu nationalist agenda has been affected by the constraints of being a dominant member of a coalition government. Religious influence in contemporary politics offers a fertile ground for political-sociological analysis, especially in... more...

  • Suspended Somewhere Betweenby Akbar Ahmed

    PM Press 2011; US$ 12.00

    This collection spanning a half century of writing gives a front row seat to a world in turmoil?from the forbidding valleys and mountains of Waziristan in the tribal areas of Pakistan to the think tanks and halls of power in Washington, DC. And through it all, they carry the message of hope and compassion. Throughout the range of poems from introspective... more...

  • Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals)by Akbar Ahmed

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95

    First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family... more...

  • Writing the Mughal Worldby Muzaffar Alam; Sanjay Subrahmanyam

    Columbia University Press 2011; US$ 29.99

    Two leading historians of early modern South Asia present nine major joint essays on the Mughal Empire, framed by an important introductory reflection. Stretching from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, this Indo-Islamic dynasty came to rule as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the... more...

  • Ashokaby Charles Allen

    Little, Brown Book Group 2012; Not Available

    India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone Ashoka turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion and set up a new yardstick for government which had huge implications for Asia. But his brave experiment ended in tragedy and his name was cleansed from the record so effectively... more...

  • Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fearby Dibyesh Anand

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    The representation of the Muslims as threatening to India's body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a political movement and normalizing anti-minority violence. Adopting a critical ethnographic approach, this book identifies the poetics and politics of fear and violence engendered within Hindu nationalism. more...

  • Rabhaby Erik Andre Andersen; Birgit Lindsnaes; Stig Ree

    BRILL 2006; US$ 310.00

    Aims to contribute to the debate on global public goods. This book investigates the possibilities and disadvantages of applying the idea of public goods in a global context. It explains the history of the concept and its significance for human rights. more...

  • Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial Indiaby David Arnold; Gordon Johnson; C. A. Bayly; John F. Richards

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 46.00

    In an historical reinterpretation, the author considers the role of science, technology and medicine to provide a survey of recent scholarship and an original overview. He asserts the role of science in the making of colonial India and in the fashioning of Indian responses to British rule. more...