India category: 2353 books
Poetics, Plays, and Performances
The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre. Starting with the plays of Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1870s Banaras, the book moves forward to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan...
by Srinath Raghavan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The war of 1971 that created Bangladesh was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since partition in 1947. It tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. Srinath Raghavan contends that the crisis and its cast of characters can be understood only in a wider international context.
by Mark Shand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With the help of a Maratha nobleman, Mark Shand bought an elephant named Tara and rode her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned...
by Anita Nair
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
This is Anita Nair’s first crime novel. Inspector Gowda is a fascinating character, a Rebus in love with someone else’s woman. It was published in India in 2013.
A story set in an exotic location in a fascinating social context: the underbelly of Bangalore is lovingly and revealingly...
by Lynnie Saint-James
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
She said she’d never, ever wear a sari, let alone go camping. Just the Ticket tells how this well-heeled, blonde Aussie author got it wrong and how her Indian-born boyfriend is, infuriatingly, always right.
Join Lynnie on her fun-filled journey that starts with an invitation to 5-day...
Sentiment and Self
Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sex and Sensibility) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life. While Sex and Sensibility...
Sex and Sensibility
Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life. While Sentiment and...
by R. V. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2006
This small book consisting of some interesting write-ups by eminent writer on eternal monument of love , supplies a serious absence which I found in the programme of celebration.
by James Baehler
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Historical fiction at its best! A page-turner that transports the reader into India at the time of the Sepoy Mutiny with fidelity to the historical record and a vivid portrayal of the people involved. The reader follows the Logsdon family as they live through the tumultuous times of the Mutiny with penetrating...
On the Ganges
Encounters with Saints and Sinners Along India's Mythic River
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Journey along one of the world’s greatest rivers and catch a glimpse into the lives and cultures of the people who live along its banks
The Ganges flows through northern India and Bangladesh for more than 1,500 miles before emptying into the Bay of Bengal. It is sacred to Hindus who worship...
Indians and the Antipodes
Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
The Indian diaspora in Australia and New Zealand represents a successful ethnic community making significant contributions to their host societies and economies. However, because of their small number—slightly more than half a million— they rarely find mention in the global literature on Indian...
Genealogy of the South Indian Deities
An English Translation of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's Original German Manuscript with a Textual Analysis and Glossary
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
For the first time Genealogy of the South Indian Deities, the work of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), the first Protestant missionary in India, is made accessible to an English readership. Originally published in 1713, the text reveals Ziegenbalg's ethos in the emerging European Enlightenment...
by Harpreet Kaur
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2010
India is a fascinating country. For a person who is born and brought up here it may seem a mundane comment, but this is my viewpoint. Having lived in India for 40 years now, the different places and their people remain as fascinating as always.
Traveling has been a passion with me since childhood and over the years I have collected my travel experiences and feelings in the form of a book.
Photographic Guide to the Birds of India
And the Indian Subcontinent, Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutanh, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & the Maldives
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Periplus is proud to present the first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent. This ebook offers over 800 species and distinct sub-species and contains over 1,000 full-color photographs. Each species has a distribution map. Many of the photographs in this magnificent...