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  • Travel Delhi, Indiaby MobileReference

    MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 4.99

    An illustrated guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. Street and attractions maps. Museum hours and admission info. Restaurant information. . Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway. Plan the trip during a flight.... more...

  • Cave by Caveby Walter Spink

    BRILL 2006; US$ 154.00

    Part of the "Ajanta" series, this title systematically describes each cave, starting with the imperial cave 1. Along with the other volumes in this series, this detailed analysis of each cave's features assists the reader as well as visitor in piecing together Ajanta's history and development and also enable him to read the stones... more...

  • Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Oceanby Satadru Sen

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 42.95

    This book examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands ? beginning tentatively in 1789 and renewed on a larger scale... more...

  • Crafting Peace in Kashmirby Verghese Koithara

    SAGE India 2004; US$ 37.95

    The chronic conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir has generated a great deal of scholarly and popular literature. The dominant and prevailing view is that the conflict is essentially beyond solution. This book examines a contrary hypothesis that such a view, though widely held, is unjustified. In this regard the author presents a realist... more...

  • The Garrison Stateby Tan Tia Yong

    SAGE India 2005; US$ 78.95

    Following the Mutiny of 1857, various factors impelled the British to turn to the province of Punjab in north-western India as the principal recruiting ground for the Indian Army. This book examines the processes by which the politics and political economy of colonial Punjab was militarised by the province`s position as the `sword arm` of the Raj.... more...

  • Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayasby Michael Tarr; Stuart H. Blackburn

    BRILL 2008; US$ 105.00

    Here is the first visual history of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in northeast India bordering on Tibet/China, Burma and Bhutan. Based on ample archival and field research, it illustrates a century and a half of cultural change in this culturally diverse and little-known region of the Himalayas. more...

  • The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in Indiaby Jugdep S Chima

    SAGE India 2010; US$ 39.95

    The “Punjab crisis,” a two-decade long armed insurgency that emerged as a violent ethnonationalist movement in the 1980s and gradually transformed into a secessionist struggle, resulted in an estimated 25,000 casualties in Punjab. This ethnonationalist movement, on one hand, ended the perceived notion of looking at Punjab as the model of... more...

  • Grass in their Mouths: The Upper Doab of India under the Company's Magna Charta, 1793-1830by Dirk H.A. Kolff

    BRILL 2010; US$ 248.00

    Scholarship on the pre-Bentinck period of Indian history has taken little notice of the inevitable dilemmas of colonial rule as they became visible in the districts. This book argues that the disdain the eighteenth-century Westminster parliaments expressed both for Indians and the East India Company induced the Bengal civil service to formulate for... more...

  • The Lower Damodar River, Indiaby Kumkum Bhattacharyya

    Springer 2011; US$ 139.99

    Interweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro-physical data, including historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph is a comprehensive evaluation of the Damodar's lower reaches. While the Damodar River isn't an exceptional tropical river, nor does it feature classic examples of river control structures,... more...

  • The Rough Guide to Rajasthan, Delhi & Agraby Gavin Thomas

    Rough Guides 2010; US$ 23.99

    The Rough Guide to Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra will guide you through India's most colourful and fascinating region, with reliable practical 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, this guide will provide your solution.... more...