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  • Love and Death in Kathmandu

    A Strange Tale of Royal Murder

    by Amy Willesee, Mark Whittaker ...
    "A drama as poignant as any a novelist could create—a love story that led to murder. For true-crime aficionados and followers of the troubled history of Nepal." — BooklistOn June 1, 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne, Crown Prince Dipendra, donned military fatigues, armed himself with automatic weapons, walked in on a quiet family gathering, and, without a word, mowed his family down before ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • History of India

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    by Ross Hilton ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    India is a vast country in Southern Asia and is the land of great natural diversity. A proud country that has been home to many civilizations, religions and peoples over the centuries. The earliest civilization in the Indian subcontinent grew around Harappa and Indus Valley. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Struggle for Pakistan

    A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

    by Ayesha Jalal ...
    Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history that has unfolded in the vortex of dire regional and international conflicts. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Indian Naval Revolt of 1946

    by Percy S Gourgey ...
    Here is an authentic account of a brief, momentous event that preceded Indias Independence fifty years ago. This is a personal account by the author, a junior naval officer at the time, caught by chance at the centre of the disturbances in Bombay, and it indicates their far reaching implicationsthe historic trials in New Delhi, when Nehru was one of the defence lawyers of the Indian National Army, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Subject Lessons

    The Western Education of Colonial India

    by Sanjay Seth, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge “traveled” to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India’s British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation that it would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing. From the start, western education was ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Selling Empire

    India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830

    by Jonathan Eacott ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    2017 Bentley Book Prize, World History AssociationLinking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India — both as an idea and a place — to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India’s strengths to build ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Muslim Heritage of Bengal

    The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal

    by Muhammad Mojlum Khan ...
    "The Muslim Heritage of Bengal is a multidimensional work. . . . I am sure this book will add to the vista of knowledge in the field of Muslim history and heritage of Bengal. I recommend this work."-Dr A. K. M. Yaqub Ali, Professor Emeritus, Islamic History & Culture, University of Rajshahi"Khan's book provides invaluable information which will inspire present and future generations."-Dr M. Abdul ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Vedic People: Their History and Geography

    by Rajesh Kochhar ...
    In The Vedic People, well-known astro-physicist Rajesh Kochhar provides answers to some quintessential questions of ancient Indian history. Drawing upon and synthesizing data from a wide variety of fields linguistics and literature, natural history, archaeology, history of technology, geomorphology and astronomy Kochhar presents a bold hypotheses by which he seeks to resolve several paradoxes ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Life of Mahabalipuram: Pulsing Stories Trapped in Stone

    by Apoorva Malarvannan ...
    Mahabalipuram is an Indian historical landmark, vastly important to Tamilian culture. Yet it has largely been forgotten by the long arch of history. This book serves to uncover and untangle the many fascinating narratives of the people and art that have populated that little town by the sea, both past and present.What results is an engaging look at a little-known piece of world history, that ... Read more

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  • The Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu

    The Sultan's Book of Delights

    by Norah M. Titley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in South Asia
    The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of the recipes of the eccentric Sultan of Mandu (Madhya Pradesh), Ghiyath Shahi, collected and added to by his son and successor, Nasir Shah. It contains recipes for cooking a variety of delicacies and epicurean delights, as well as providing remedies and aphrodisiacs for the Sultan and his court. It also includes important sections on the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Himalaya Calling: The Origins Of China And India

    by Chung Tan ...
    Himalaya Calling: The Origins of China and India will take the reader through a journey through the periods of time and places starting from the beginning of civilization from the Himalayas and extending into the Himalaya Sphere. The chapters in the book enable the reader to view the dynamics of China and India from the geo-civilizational paradigm of the Himalaya Sphere. Among the other new ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Roasted Seeds

    by Brenda Beck, Cassandra Cornall ...
    Series Book 6 - The Legend of Ponnivala [Series 1
    "The Legend of Ponnivala" is a vast, ancient epic from the Kongu region of South India, where it is known as the "Annanmar Kathai" or "Elder Brothers' Story." It is the story of three generations of a farming family who through their exploits and the intercession of the Hindu gods rise to become kings of their region. Previously only told orally by bards in the local area, it is surprisingly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD