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The Epic City

The World on the Streets of Calcutta

by Mr Kushanava Choudhury
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice. Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong...
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by Melissa R. Kerin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015

Sixteenth-century wall paintings in a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan cultural zone of northwest India are the focus of this innovative and richly illustrated study. Initially shaped by one set of religious beliefs, the paintings have since been reinterpreted and retraced by a later Buddhist community,...
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by SYED RIZWAN
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

This is a compilation of six essays which have a common thread- all are about the city of Lucknow, which is the Capital of the most populous state in India. The main markets from a historical point of view and the unique dialect of the common people have been incorporated in these essays. It...
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by Bill Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012

Away from over-used tourist trails and trekking routes, Bill Aitken wanders through the Himalaya. His inclination is to enter disused colonial dak bungalows and ruined temples, meander in wild glades above the treeline carpeted with wild flowers, filling his water bottle from mountain springs and waterfalls....
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Gilgit Rebelion

The Major Who Mutinied Over Partition of India

by William Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014

In 1942 William Brown was posted as a recently commissioned Indian Army Officer to the Gilgit Agency in the very north of the North West Frontier. He travelled widely, learnt the local dialects and built the Chilas Polo ground. After a brief period away from Gilgit, just prior to Partition in early...
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Summer in Siam

Tales of Thai & other lands

by John Borthwick
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013

“I walked out the door, a bit dazed. I had ten dollars and two not-quite diamonds, and it was summer in Siam.” John Borthwick’s first day in Thailand seemed far from auspicious — but it has been uphill from then on. Dropping him in the middle of everything from three-day tribal weddings, elephant...
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Exodus Burma

The British Escape through the Jungles of Death 1942

by Felicity Goodall
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011

Until a few weeks before the fall of Rangoon, the British had not dreamed the Japanese would invade Burma. So in early 1942, British soldiers trained for desert warfare fought a Japanese Army trained and equipped for the jungle. Those who survived this fierce fighting faced malaria, air attack, and...
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New Songs of the Survivors

The Exodus of Indians from Burma

by Yvonne Vaz Ezdani
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

During the Second World War, many of the Indians settled in Burma were killed following the bombing of Rangoon by the Japanese Air Force. Thousands more were forced to give up everything—their homes, their businesses and shops, even their families—and flee to India to escape the invasion. The...
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The Age of Kali

Indian Travels & Encounters

by William Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives: the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness” predicted...
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by Gyan Prakash
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010

A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires...
Cover of Gandhi: A Beginner's Guide
by Genevieve Blais
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012

This title is an introduction to the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi. It investigates: his background and the times he lived in, Britain's role in the history of India, the events leading up to the Salt March, his assassination and his legacy.
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Kolkata

To be Young was Paradise

by H. A. Barari
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006

Author's reminiscences of his life and times in Kolkata in the late 1940's and early 1950's, in effect a political and socio-cultural history of post-world war II and post-partition India, make a scholarly tome laced with deep studies and gripping accounts of a wide range of subjects: origin of Kolkata,...
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by David Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

Gandhi's is an extraordinary and compelling story. Few individuals in history have made so great a mark upon their times. And yet Gandhi never held high political office, commanded no armies and was not even a compelling orator. His 'power' therefore makes a particularly fascinating subject for investigation....
Cover of South Asia in World History
by Marc Jason Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017

Few regions have shaped the world's history as deeply as South Asia. The birthplace of three of the world's major religions-Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism-the Indian subcontinent has made indelible contributions to the world, from foods such as curry and granulated sugar to the performance of meditation...
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