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  • Unsettling Partition

    Literature, Gender, Memory

    de Jill Didur ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nation-states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan.Diverse representations of the violence that accompanied this migration (including the abduction ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Red Fort

    de James Leasor ...
    ‘This is a battle piece of the finest kind, detailed, authentic and largely written from original documents. Mr. Leasor has a formidable gift of narrative. Never has this story of hate, violence, courage and cowardice been better told.’Cecil Woodham-Smith in the New York TimesA year after the Crimean War ended, an uprising broke out in India which was to have equal impact on the balance of world ... Leer más

    $3.46 USD

  • Obscure Objects

    de Caroline Adderson ...
    Series series FPQ
    Coming out of an unhappy relationship and a stint at an artist colony, Charlotte, a writer, takes a job teaching at a private ESL college. There she befriends Renata—audacious, sexy, and as changeable as Proteus. “I have a story for you,” Renata says to her one day over lunch. She doesn’t elaborate further, but Charlotte soon discovers that she has found in Renata an unexpectedly passionate and ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • The India Pakistan War of 1965

    de S N Prasad, U P Thapliyal ...
    For the first time, the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, has made public the official records of the 1965 war with Pakistan. This book provides the detailed military history as per military records maintained by the History Division of the MoD. ... Leer más

    $8.50 USD

  • Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

    Remembering 1971

    de Yasmin Saikia ...
    Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD

  • Mahatma Gandhi: His Life and Ideas

    de Charles F. Andrews ...
    In this intimate biography, Charles (Charlie) AndrewsEnglishman, Anglican priest, and a close friend and colleague of Gandhis in both South Africa and Indiaexplores the life and times of this great soul, providing fascinating insight into the spiritual, political, and historical environment that affected Gandhi, playing key roles in the development of his thought and action. ... Leer más

    $13.69 USD

  • Courtly Encounters

    Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia

    de Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. ... Leer más

    $24.59 USD

  • Sonia Gandhi

    An Extraordinary Life, An Indian Destiny

    de Rani Singh ...
    Sonia Gandhi's story represents the greatest transformational journey made by any world leader in the last four decades. Circumstance and tragedy, rather than ambition, paved her path to power. Born into a traditional, middle-class Italian family, Sonia met and fell in love with Rajiv Gandhi, son of future Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, while studying English ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947

    de Alex Tickell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, the anti-thug campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 Rebellion, anti-colonial terrorism in Edwardian London and the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • More than Real

    A History of the Imagination in South India

    de David Shulman ...
    From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our attention to a period in Indian history that signified major civilizational change and the emergence ... Leer más

    $40.49 USD

  • Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

    de Lorraine York ...
    For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents working in concert with her, including her assistants and office staff, her publicists, her literary agents, and her editors. Lorraine ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • In the Shade of the Golden Palace

    Alaol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan

    de Thibaut d'Hubert ...
    Series series South Asia Research
    In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. The book maps the genres, structures, and themes of Alaol's works, paying special attention to his discourse on poetics and his literary genealogy, which included Sanskrit, Avadhi, Maithili ... Leer más

    $140.39 USD