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by Christian Bleuer, Michael Clarke, Reuel R. Hanks
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The planned reductions in NATO troop numbers in Afghanistan through 2015 and a final withdrawal at the end of 2016 brings up numerous pressing questions about the security and national interests of not just Afghanistan, but of the broader region itself. The problem of a chaotic Afghanistan—or of...
South Asia and the Great Powers
International Relations and Regional Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
In the wake of the international combat mission in Afghanistan, South Asia's security is becoming a factor of increasing importance both to local and more distant great powers: Pakistan, India, Iran, China and the US. Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of...
State Failure and Human Miseries
A Study with Special Focus on Famines in British Malabar
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book deals with a more or less discarded piece of the history of famines in British Malabar – a region that presently constitutes the northern and central Kerala in India - during the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Wh at distinguishes this study from a host of scholarly works...
Police Administration Under The British Rule
In the Northern Range of the Madras Presidency 1924-47
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The Northern range was one of the police divisions of the erstwhile Madras Presidency of the British India. This range included the Northern most part of the present Andhra Pradesh state and the Southern part of Orissa state, which included the districts of Ganjam, Jeypore, Vizagapatam, Godavari,...
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters
Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial...
A Few Thousand Kilometres of Happiness
A Long Journey of Two Men in Two Motorcycles
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In India, there are a lot of motorcycle travellers: for some it’s a means to live, for some it’s another way to show off and for some others it’s their soul. They desire to travel the whole world on two wheels.
A Few Thousand Kilometres of Happiness is a story of two such bikers, Anand...
Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social fragmentation, the growing isolation of elders,...
Mobilizing Krishna's World
The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Savant Singh (1694�1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped by his younger brother, while Savant Singh was...
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by Mohammad Akmal Makhdum
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
This book tells us that Alexander of Macedon was not great. He was not undefeated. He was defeated repeatedly in present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. He and his mercenaries ran away to save their lives after a series of crushing defeats. These defeats in battles sapped his and his Macedonian army's...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel...
Finding Duong, Finding Myself
A Journey of Socially Conscious Travel and Personal Healing
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
When author Robyn Ramsay, a middle-class western woman, interacted with a family living on a dirt ledge in India, her life changed. The meager assistance she was able to provide them led to a deep yearning to contribute something more significant to individuals in developing countries. Her story is...
Becoming a Mountain
Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul.
Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the...
by W.H. Fitchett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
To many Indians, it was their First War of Independence. To the British, it was a military mutiny. Either way, neither country would be the same by the time it was over.
In 1857, the soldiers (sepoys) belonging to the army of the British East India Company were issued new rifles. To load them,...
Cementing Ethics with Modernism
An Appraisal of Sir Sayyed Ahmed Khan's Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Cementing Ethics with Modernism: An Appraisal of Sir Sayyed Ahmed Khan's Writings Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) better known as the founder of the Aligarh Muslim University was not only the first Renaissance Indian Muslim of the 19th century but was also one of the prime movers of modern, scholar...