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Cover of Letters to a Friend
by Rabindranath Tagore
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

This title, first published in 1928, is a collection of letters from the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore to C. F. Andrews. The letters have been divided into several chapters, accompanied by introductory notes by Andrews, and provide the reader with an expression of Tagore’s anxiety about modern...
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by Som Prakash Verma
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source andthe earliest record of Babur’s memoirs. The authoritative translation uses paintings from the original work and draws on contemporary texts of the period to delve into the history of the legendary Mughal ruler. It provides a fresh...
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Kashmir

The Case for Freedom

by Arundhati Roy, Pankaj Mishra, Hilal Bhatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011

At home, the Kashmiri people’s ongoing quest for justice and self-determination is as much ignored by their venal politicians as it is rejected by Pakistan. Internationally, their struggle is forgotten, as the West refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally India. Kashmir: The Case for...
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Mourning the Nation

Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition

by Bhaskar Sarkar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009

What remains of the “national” when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm in which roughly one million people died and ten to twelve million were displaced. Combining film...
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The Nation's Tortured Body

Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh “Diaspora”

by Brian Keith Axel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001

In The Nation’s Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence...
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by Tim Leadbeater
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History...
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by Daljit Nagra
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Attributed to Valmiki, thought to be India's first poet, the Ramayana's origins date back thousands of years when it was first committed to Sanskrit. Since then, generations of children the world over have grown up with its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana,...
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Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains

Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award

by Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

**SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD AWARD** A thrilling and dangerous adventure through Arunachal Pradesh, one of the world's least explored places. 'A fabulously thrilling journey through a beguiling land' Joanna Lumley 'With tremendous verve...
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Photographic Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka

Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutanh, Bangladesh, & the Maldives

by Bikram Grewal, Bill Harvey, Otto Pfister
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka and India is the best, most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of South Asia. Because of its vast size and geographical location, the Indian subcontinent has some of the world's most diverse avifauna. It boasts of thousands of species....
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After Colonialism

Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements

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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 1994

After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America...
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Much Ado Over Coffee

Indian Coffee House Then And Now

by Bhaswati Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017

Based on oral history, fiction, fascinating intellectual gossip, and records of the Coffee Board of India, this study is a multi-sited ethnography of the Indian Coffee House, possibly the world’s first coffee house chain. It offers a critical analysis of adda (informal meetings) of the educated...
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A History of the Pakistan Army

Wars and Insurrections

by Brian Cloughley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016

The scope of this study of the Pakistan Army must be wide and in-depth, as the army has played a major part in the country’s history. The author describes Pakistan’s violent internal politics and erratic international relations with a deep knowledge gained through his long association with the...
Cover of Routledge Revivals: The Indian Earthquake (1935)
by C.F. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

First published in 1935, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake, giving a background to the earthquake zone, describing the event itself and surveying the ensuing devastation. The author also looks at the government’s actions and the response of India’s...
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The Defiant Border

The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936–1965

by Elisabeth Leake
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016

The Defiant Border explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls from the colonial period into the twenty-first century. This book looks at local Pashtun tribes' modes for evading first British colonial, then Pakistani, governance; the ongoing border...
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