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  • Colonial Modernities

    Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon

    Edited by Peter Scriver, Vikramaditya Prakash ...
    Series series Architext
    A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved – both the colonizer and the colonized.Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between the various different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions. Providing a ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

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  • In the Valley of Mist

    Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World

    by Justine Hardy ...
    A personal, moving, and vibrant picture of one of the most beautiful and troubled places in the world, described through the experiences of one family, whose fortunes have changed dramatically with those of the region.If there is a paradise on earth, it is definitely here, here and only here," said the early seventeenth-century Mughal Emperor Jehangir when describing the Kashmir Valley. But for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Thirst for Empire

    How Tea Shaped the Modern World

    by Erika Rappaport ...
    How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes—in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies—the effects of which are with us ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Appropriately Indian

    Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

    by Smitha Radhakrishnan ...
    Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India. Comprising a small but prestigious segment of India’s labor force, these transnational knowledge workers dominate the country’s economic and cultural scene, as do their notions of what it means to be Indian. Drawing on the stories of Indian professionals ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Sri Lanka in the Modern Age

    A History

    by Nira Wickramasinghe ...
    Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minority communities, Wickramasinghe places their claims alongside the political, social and economic demands of other communities, parties, associations and groups, tracing their ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • 1971

    A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh

    by Srinath Raghavan ...
    The war of 1971 was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since its partition in 1947. At one swoop, it led to the creation of Bangladesh, and it tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. The Line of Control in Kashmir, the nuclearization of India and Pakistan, the conflicts in Siachen Glacier and Kargil, the insurgency in ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Monumental Matters

    The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture

    by Santhi Kavuri-Bauer ...
    Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent. In Monumental Matters, Santhi Kavuri-Bauer focuses on the prominent role of Mughal architecture in the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Wake up Indians Wake Up

    Know How Great Your Country Is

    by Dr. Arun Kumar Suri ...
    The book presents a bird’s eye view of the glorious heritage of India. Since time immemorial, India has proclaimed that man needs both scientific and spiritual knowledge to enjoy material prosperity and happiness. Unfortunately, this advice has been forgotten by the people of this country. They have been under foreign rule for centuries, and blindly followed their lifestyle and approach to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • House, but No Garden

    Apartment Living in Bombay's Suburbs, 1898-1964

    by Nikhil Rao ...
    Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city’s fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. In House, but No Garden Nikhil Rao considers this phenomenon and its significance for South Asian urban life. It is the first book to explore an organization of the middle ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture

    Edited by Elana Shapira, Alison J. Clarke ...
    This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European émigré designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M. ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Banaras Reconstructed

    Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

    by Madhuri Desai ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces). Banaras’s refurbished sacred landscape became the subject of pilgrimage maps ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Between Colonialism and Diaspora

    Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World

    by Tony Ballantyne ...
    Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first. Ballantyne considers Sikh communities and experiences in Punjab, the rest of South Asia, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD