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Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist
The first biography of Thomas Macaulay, from child prodigy to imperial administrator in India and revered elder statesman and historian in Britain Thomas Macaulay always inspired both admiration and hostility....
Battle of Plassey 1757
Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw...
Kathmandu: Biography of a City
One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences...
Chetna's 30-minute Indian: Quick and easy everyday meals
80 brilliant, flavour-packed Indian recipes to make in 30 minutes or less.Chetna Makan's bestselling cookbooks combine her creative flavour twists with a love of simple Indian home cooking. Taking inspiration...
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma ("great soul"), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was...
Everything the Light Touches
'A novel like none other' AMITAV GHOSH'A masterpiece' AVNI DOSHI'Wise, funny, touching' ROBERT MACFARLANE Winner, Sushila Devi 2023Winner, Atta Galatta 2023 for Best FictionWinner, AutHer Award 2023 for FictionFinalist, Tata...
The Rediscovery of India
Author: Meghnad Desai (Professor Emeritus, LSE, London School of Economics)Format: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 839g, 512 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2011What makes India a nation? What has held...
Clive: Founder of British India
Author: C. Brad FaughtFormat: Hardback, 263g, 140 pagesPublished: Potomac Books Inc, United States, 2013Robert Clive (1725-1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: Art, Representation and History
Author: Crispin BranfootFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 676g, 320 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in...
The Dream Builders: a novel
Author: Oindrila MukherjeeFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 384 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2023A stunning, multi-perspective epic about class division, the contraints of gender roles, and the history of India....
Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera
Author: Dayanita SinghFormat: Paperback, 180mm x 240mm, 620g, 248 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Dayanita Singh is the winner of the 2022 Hasselblad Award.With this book, the internationally celebrated artist Dayanita...
Everything the Light Touches
Author: Janice PariatFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 340g, 512 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A novel like none other' AMITAV GHOSH'A masterpiece' AVNI DOSHI'Wise, funny, touching' ROBERT MACFARLANE Winner, Sushila...
Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Weed Grey Collection
Author: Lynn GumpertFormat: Hardback, 216mm x 279mm, 1540g, 288 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2019Modernisms explores art from the 1960s and early '70s from Iran, Turkey, and India via selections from...
The Offbeat Sari: Indian Fashion Unravelled
Author: Priya KhanchandaniFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 240mm, 420g, 208 pagesPublished: Design Museum, United Kingdom, 2023The Offbeat Sari will explore how the sari has become a site for design innovation, an...
AAM AASTHA: Indian Devotions
Author: Charles FregerFormat: Hardback, 180mm x 230mm, 1260g, 324 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A festival of Indian folk rituals and costumes bursting with colour, captured by renowned...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
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...
Light on Pranayama: The Definitive Guide to the Art of Breathing
Author: B.K.S. Iyengar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The definitive guide to yogic breathing from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's most respected yoga teacher. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted...
The Analects
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of ConfuciusÕs sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together...
Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Tashi Tenzing Format: Paperback...
Coronation Talkies
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Susan Kurosawa Format: Paperback...
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Raj Patel Format: Paperback...
New Delhi / New Wave
Author: Jerome Neutres Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 The recent Bollywood craze in the West might get more exposure, but contemporary Indian artists aren't far behind. New Delhi, New...
Inhaling the Mahatma
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Christopher Kremmer Format: Paperback...
The Art of War
Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...
The Jungle Book
Author: Kipling Rudyard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Meet Mowgli the Man-cub as he embarks on a series of incredible adventures and meets a cast of unforgettable...
The Jungle Book (Collins Classics)
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Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The man's cub is mine, Lungri - mine...
Swordswoman!: The Queen of Jhansi in the Indian Uprising of 1857
Author: Devika Rangachari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Queen Lakshmibal of of Jhansi was an unconventional queen. She could read and write; she rode a horse and...
Never Mind the Bullocks, One Girl's 10,000 km Adventure around India in the Worlds Cheapest Car
Author, Vanessa Able Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 288 **A Scotsman Non-Fiction Book of the Year** Vanessa Able wanted a truly independent Indian adventure, but nothing prepared her...
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
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Author: Sunil Amrith (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 From a MacArthur Genius, a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to...
The Jungle Book
Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Join Mowgli in the jungle! Puffin Classics - the world's favourite stories - relaunched with exciting new covers.The Jungle...
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy's House
Author: Larry Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account by two fine journalists who conducted...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
The White Tiger
Author: Aravind Adiga (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You...
The Mahabharata
Author: John D. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 New selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody...
Kim
Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Kim told the older children tales of the size and beauty of Lahore, of railway travel, and such-like city...
Untouchable
Author: Mulk Raj Anand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'They think we are dirt because we clean their dirt' Bakha is a young man, proud and strong;...
An Autobiography
Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...
Baumgartner's Bombay
Author: Anita Desai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A daring and colourful novel. A superb observer of the human race' New York Times Book Review Hugo Baumgartner...
Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna'S Mulamadhyamakakarika
Author: Naagaarjuna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 334 This is not a standard translation of "Mulamadhyamakakarika." Translator Nishijima Roshi believes that the original translation from Chinese into Sanskrit...
Borders Battlers
Author: Michael Sexton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 It's the 1986 tour of India, and Australian cricket is reeling from the loss of key players to retirement...