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Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
' Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor ' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times ' Dynamic, original and supremely...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept...
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India
The gripping story of Indira Gandhi's premiership-and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi's ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon...
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan "Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent...
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India
'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
Paul Scott's Raj
The book titled Paul Scott's Raj by the author Robin Moore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Namesake
The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy...
Shooting Leave: Spying out Central Asia in the Great Game
Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
Mary Martin: a Double Life: Australia - India 1915-1973
The book titled Mary Martin: a Double Life: Australia - India 1915-1973 by the author Julie Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The Incarcerations
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of...
The Incarcerations
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of...
The Idea of India
Republished with a new introduction - one of the key books on modern India 'A rich analysis of contemporary India ... spirited, combative and insight-filled' Amartya Sen, TLS The Idea...
The Incarcerations
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of...
The Greater Game: India's Race with Destiny and China
The Greater Game offers a fresh look at India, showing it to be a dramatically changing democracy after decades of domination by the Nehru-Gandhi family dynasty and a newly emerging...
Gone Away: A John Murray Journey
Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis. At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded...
Gone Away: A John Murray Journey
Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis. At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded...
India: A Portrait
A fresh, illuminating narrative exploration of one of the most contradictory and dynamic countries on earth One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in...
The Namesake
The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy...
Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi
Introduced by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Ubuntu collection is a unique series of exquisitely produced small-format books that take inspiration from Ubuntu and are each founded on the work and...
The Price of Freedom
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the...
Children of the Raj
And then there were the children educated in India. Brendon reveals appalling stories of abuse at the hands of servants. What frequently unites Brendon's wildly different subjects is their loneliness--drawing...
Snakes and Ladders
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By the world-famous novelist, this fascinating blend of personal memoir, historical anecdote and wry observation offers the indispensable guide and key to contemporary India in the fiftieth year of its...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important territory of the British Empire The British in this book lived...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women...
An Autobiography
Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
A searing and addictive literary debut about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a...
Baumgartner's Bombay
'A daring and colourful novel. A superb observer of the human race' New York Times Book Review Hugo Baumgartner is a man who doesn't belong anywhere. He's a Berlin Jew...
Midnight's Children
Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at...
The Namesake
The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri.'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan...
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Story of Nuncomar
The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885) examines some of the most controversial events of 18th century English colonial legal history from the point of...