Asia - South - General
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Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond
$19.99 Add to cart‘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 readable‘ Maya J- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1408888823
- Language: English
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Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj
$30.00 Add to cartThe true story of an audacious international movement to liberate India from colonial rule during World War I.
WANTED: Brave soldiers to stir up revolt in India;
REMUNERATIONS: Death;
PRIZE: Martyrdom;
P- Author: Miller, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0374609675
- Language: English
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
$30.00 Add to cartWhite Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.
James Achilles Kirkpa
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: April 27 2004
- ISBN10: 014200412X
- Language: English
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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
$25.00 Add to cartA provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.
When Indian leaders first took control of t
- Author: Mody, Ashoka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1503642011
- Language: English
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
$24.00 Add to cartPeeling back the layers of Delhi’s centuries-old history, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure.
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of D- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0142001007
- Language: English
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Arthashastra
$16.99 Add to cartArthashastra is arguably the greatest treatise ever written on political, military, and economic strategies, by a shrewd man popularly referred to as the Indian Machiavelli.
One of the most ancient- Author: Kautilya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 10 2021
- ISBN10: 9354403700
- Language: English
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Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore
$29.99 Add to cartA stunning history of Pakistan’s cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a viol
- Author: Asif, Manan Ahmed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1595589074
- Language: English
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1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India
$24.95 Read moreThe year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people’s homes and their stories, and in political discourse.
- Author: Zakaria, Anam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 014345403X
- Language: English
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Arthashastra
$24.99 Read moreA comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about the principles of politics, statecraft, and warfare tactics. What makes a king powerful? What makes a kingdom undefeatable? What makes a gove
- Author: Kautilya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9354409059
- Language: English
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B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India’s Dispossessed
$24.95 Read moreA household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly indepen
- Series: Global Icons
- Author: Tharoor, Shashi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1526173581
- Language: English
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Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy
$58.33 Add to cartA riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world’s largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance
Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationa- Author: Jaffrelot, Christophe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0691206805
- Language: English
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Whose Samosa Is It Anyway
$31.50 Read moreIn this book, accompany Sonal Ved on a journey of taste through the various timelines across the Indian subcontinent. We go from the banks of the Indus in 1900 bc to the great kingdoms of the north ma… [more below]
- Author: Ved, Sonal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0670092401
- Language: English
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
$27.99 Add to cartOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imp
- Author: Albinia, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338606
- Language: English
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Indian Summer
$34.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, lib- Author: Von Tunzelmann, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0312428111
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Modern India
$32.00 Add to cartA Concise History of Modern India, by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Metcalf, Barbara D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 22 2012
- ISBN10: 110767218X
- Language: English
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Kashmir: The Case for Freedom
$19.95 Add to cartKashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world–and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US for… [more below]
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1844677354
- Language: English
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Modern India: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIndia is widely recognized as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world’s emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jeffrey, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198769342
- Language: English
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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping, kaleidoscopic account of a horrific industrial disaster that shook the world, from wold-renowned humanitarian and internationally bestselling author Dominique Lapierre.
It was December 3,- Author: Lapierre, Dominique
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 14 2005
- ISBN10: 0446530883
- Language: English
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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
$40.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan
“[A] definitive new 20th-century thematic history- Author: Chatterji, Joya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300272685
- Language: English
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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
$35.00 Add to cartA provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.
When Indian leaders first took control of t
- Author: Mody, Ashoka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630056
- Language: English
