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“catherine b asher”

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  • India before Europe

    by Catherine B. Asher, Cynthia Talbot ...
    India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was ever the case, and at no time more so than in the India that existed from c. 1200 to 1750, before European intervention. In this thoughtfully revised and updated second edition, readers are taken on a richly illustrated ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • India before Europe

    by Catherine B. Asher, Cynthia Talbot ...
    India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was especially the case in the India that existed from 1200 to 1750, before the European intervention. The book takes the reader on a journey across the political, economic, religious and cultural landscapes of medieval ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • India

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.India’s history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • A History of India

    by Romila Thapar ...
    A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Sikhs

    by Patwant Singh ...
    Five hundred years ago, Guru Nanak founded the Sikh faith in India. The Sikhs defied the caste system; rejected the authority of Hindu priests; forbade magic and idolatry; and promoted the equality of men and women -- beliefs that incurred the wrath of both Hindus and Muslims. In the centuries that followed, three of Nanak's nine successors met violent ends, and his people continued to battle ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Brief History of India

    Translated by Kenneth F. Hurry ...
    by Alain Daniélou ...
    Daniélou's powerful rebuttal to the conventional view of India's history, which calls for a massive reevaluation of the history of humanity• Explores historical occurrences from each major time period starting with the first appearance of man 30,000 years ago• Couples the clarity and perspective of an outsider with the unique and specific knowledge of an insider• By the internationally recognized ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Empress

    The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan

    by Ruby Lal ...
    **Finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History"A luminous biography." —Rafia Zakaria, Guardian**Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, leading troops into battle, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • In Search Of The First Civilizations

    by Michael Wood ...
    Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, China and the Americas. The ideals of these ancient civilizations still shape the lives of the majority of mankind. In Search of the First Civilizations (previously published as Legacy) asks the ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • The Silk Road in World History

    by Xinru Liu ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in consequence of the inter-dependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive societies. In their ... Read more

    $108.89 USD

  • Aurangzeb

    The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King

    by Audrey Truschke ...
    The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently oppress Hindus, he is even blamed by some for setting into motion conflicts that would result in the creation of a separate Muslim state in South Asia. In her lively overview of his life and influence, Audrey Truschke offers a clear-eyed perspective on ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Great Mughals and their India

    by Dirk Collier ...
    A definitive, comprehensive and engrossing chronicle of one of the greatest dynasties of the world – the Mughal – from its founder Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last of the clan.The magnificent Mughal legacy – the world-famous Taj Mahal being the most prominent among countless other examples – is an inexhaustible source of inspiration to historians, writers, moviemakers, artists and ordinary ... Read more

    $4.99 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