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The Oxford Anthology of The Modern Indian City Vol I
Vinay Lal (Ed.)
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• Author(s): Vinay Lal (Ed.) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralBanaras, Bangalore, Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, Lucknow ... cities all, sharing certain character...
View full detailsDictionary of Social, Economic, and Administrative Terms in South Indian Inscriptions
Ramesh K.V.
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• Author(s): Ramesh K.V. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis is the first (A–D) of a six-volume dictionary on social, economic, and administrative terms used...
View full detailsRumi
Annemarie Schimmel, Paul Bergne
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• Author(s): Annemarie Schimmel | Paul Bergne • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralRumi (1207–1273), venerated as ‘Mevlana’ (‘our master’), is the most famous expon...
View full detailsThe Rout of Prabhakaran
M.R.Narayan Swamy
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• Author(s): M.R.Narayan Swamy • Publisher: Konark Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Konark Publishers
Kill Chain: Drone and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins
Andrew Cockburn
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• Author(s): Andrew Cockburn • Publisher: Verso Books • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books • Subject: Military and Police Studies
Islamism in the Modern World: A Historical Approach
W. J. Berridge
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• Author(s): W. J. Berridge • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Acad Indi • Subject: Religion and Philosophy
Hindi Dalit Literature in the United Provinces: Swami Acchutanand and Chandrika Prasad Jigyasu, 1900-1930
Tapan Basu
Hardcover
• Author(s): Tapan Basu • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Acad Indi • Subject: Hindi Literature
Clio Revisits Calliope: A Historian's Excursion to the Kavya Literature
Kesavan Veluthat
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• Author(s): Kesavan Veluthat • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History
Behind The Mask : The Cultural Definition Of The Legal Subject In Colonial Bengal (1715-1911)
Anindita Mukhopadhyay
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• Author(s): Anindita Mukhopadhyay • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThe book explores the complex inter-linkages between the formation of middle class identity, colonial legal discourse ...
View full detailsThe Medici
Paul Strathern
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• Author(s): Paul Strathern • Publisher: Vintage Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Vintage PublishingA history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, this book is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ...
View full detailsThe Last Days of Budapest
Adam LeBor
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• Author(s): Adam LeBor • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The History of Bhutan
Nancy Tucker
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• Author(s): Nancy Tucker • Publisher: Random House, India • Publisher Imprint: Random House, India
Renaissance State
Bin (Emory University, Atlanta) Xu
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• Author(s): Bin (Emory University, Atlanta) Xu • Publisher: HarperCollins India • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins India
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
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• Author(s): Yuval Noah Harari • Publisher: Vintage Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Vintage PublishingThe story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us ...
View full detailsNapoleon the Great
Andrew Roberts
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• Author(s): Andrew Roberts • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Simply dynamite' Bernard Corn...
View full detailsLand Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq
Bartle Bull
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• Author(s): Bartle Bull • Publisher: Atlantic Books • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic Books"Elegant, erudite, ambitious, inventive - a remarkable blend of research, imagination and first-hand experience"-Rory StewartLand Between the Rivers is the re...
View full detailsIndia's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947
James Boswell
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• Author(s): James Boswell • Publisher: Penguin Random House India • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House India"India's Struggle For Independence presents a detailed outlook on the struggle for Indian Independence in a new analytical framework...
View full detailsBattles that Changed History
DK
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• Author(s): DK • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: History
What If?
Robert Cowley
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• Author(s): Robert Cowley • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' The Spectator
The Oldest Book in the World
Bill Manley
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• Author(s): Bill Manley • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
The Ottomans
Marc David Baer
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• Author(s): Marc David Baer • Publisher: John Murray Press • Publisher Imprint: John Murray Press
The Golden Road
William Dalrymple
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• Author(s): William Dalrymple • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
London Perceived
V.S. Pritchett
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• Author(s): V.S. Pritchett • Publisher: Daunt Books • Publisher Imprint: Daunt Books
The Patriarchs
Angela Saini
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• Author(s): Angela Saini • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words
Andrew Morton
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• Author(s): Andrew Morton • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: General Books
How The Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
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• Author(s): Thomas Cahill • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton • Publisher Imprint: Hodder & StoughtonThis narrative tells how Irish monks and scribes saved classical and religious heritage by copying the manuscripts of writers such as Homer ...
View full detailsLords of the Desert
James Barr
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• Author(s): James Barr • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd
The East India Company, 16001858
Ian Barrow
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• Author(s): Ian Barrow • Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc • Publisher Imprint: Hackett Publishing Co, IncIn existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea...
View full detailsBismarck
Jonathan (Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History, University of Pennsylvania) Steinberg
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• Author(s): Jonathan (Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History, University of Pennsylvania) Steinberg • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University PressA comprehensive new biography exploring the gr...
View full detailsCity of Djinns
William Dalrymple
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• Author(s): William Dalrymple • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins PublishersAlive with the mayhem of the present and sparkling with William Dalrymple's irrepressible wit, City of Djinns is a fascinating portr...
View full detailsThe Egyptian Book of the Dead Oracle
Marie Bruce
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• Author(s): Marie Bruce • Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
PARALLEL UNIVERSES
Nicolae Sirius
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• Author(s): Nicolae Sirius • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD
Nine Lives of Pakistan
Declan Walsh
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• Author(s): Declan Walsh • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Book of Human Emotions
Tiffany Watt Smith
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• Author(s): Tiffany Watt Smith • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
The Last Days Of The Incas
Kim MacQuarrie
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• Author(s): Kim MacQuarrie • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group • Publisher Imprint: Little, Brown Book GroupIn 1572 the Spanish sacked Vilcabamba, the last Inca stronghold, and the city was rapidly overtaken by the jungle, receding for hundred...
View full detailsThe Pianist
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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• Author(s): Wladyslaw Szpilman • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionThe powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and...
View full detailsThe Longest Day
Cornelius Ryan
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• Author(s): Cornelius Ryan • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Motorcycle Diaries
Ernesto Che Guevara
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• Author(s): Ernesto Che Guevara • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: History
Bose Bandhu aani Bhartiya Swatantrya: Marmbandhatalya Aathvadi
Madhuri Bose, Bose
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• Author(s): Madhuri Bose | Bose • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGEBhasha • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyThis book chronicles the roles of Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian freedom struggle....
View full detailsWorking Lives And Worker Militancy
Ravi Ahuja
Hardcover
• Author(s): Ravi Ahuja • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book In contemporary India, work for wages has expanded substantially as a mode o...
View full detailsVoices of Komagata Maru: Imperial Surveillance and Workers from Punjab in Bengal
Suchetana Chattopadhyay
Hardcover
• Author(s): Suchetana Chattopadhyay • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Fashion & Textile • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book Early twentieth-century Calcutta was not just a point of passage withi...
View full detailsVoices of Dissent: An Essay
Romila Thappar
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• Author(s): Romila Thappar • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book People have disagreed since time immemorial. They have argued or agreed ...
View full detailsThe Unexplored Kingdom: People & Folk Cultures of Bhutan
Subrata Sanyal
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• Author(s): Subrata Sanyal • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Regional (see also Travel - Pictorials)About the Book The Unexplored Kingdom takes the reade...
View full detailsThe Social History Of Health And Medicine In Colonial India
Biswamoy Pati, Mark Harrison
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• Author(s): Biswamoy Pati | Mark Harrison • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and YogaReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of...
View full detailsThe Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition
Susan Solomon
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• Author(s): Susan Solomon • Publisher: Yale UP • Publisher Imprint: Yale UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Polar RegionsAbout the Book "These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." So penned Captain Robert Falcon Sco...
View full detailsState Formation and the Establishment of Non-Muslim Hegemony: Post-Mughal 19th-century Punjab
Rishi Singh
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• Author(s): Rishi Singh • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaExplores one of the most crucial factors leading to the non-Islamic paradigm in th...
View full detailsSamurai (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Michael Wert
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• Author(s): Michael Wert • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Encyclopaedias and References • BISAC: Asia - JapanAbout the Book The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in ...
View full detailsSayyid Ahmad Barailvi: His Movement and Legacy from the Pukhtun Perspective
Altaf Qadir
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• Author(s): Altaf Qadir • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GeneralSayyid Ahmad Barailvi (1786-1831), the man who first propagated and led jihad during the 19th century ...
View full detailsOrganizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency And India
Purnima Bose
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• Author(s): Purnima Bose • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: Business ManagementOrganizing Empire critically examines how concepts of individualism functioned to support and resist British imperialism in India. Through rea...
View full detailsOrders of Exclusion
LASCURETTES KYLE M.
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• Author(s): LASCURETTES KYLE M. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: World - GeneralAbout the Book When and why do powerful countries seek to enact major changes to international...
View full detailsNorms And Politics: Sir Benegal Narsing Rau In The Making Of The Indian Constitution 1935–50
Arvind Elangovan
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• Author(s): Arvind Elangovan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - GeneralDuring the Twilight of British rule in India, a little-known Civil servant, Sir Bengal narsing rau ...
View full detailsMaoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China
Xiaoxuan Wang
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• Author(s): Xiaoxuan Wang • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAbout the Book Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'a...
View full detailsMaking Officers Out of Gentlemen
Dr. Vipul Dutta
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• Author(s): Dr. Vipul Dutta • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book Making Officers out of Gentlemen aims to study the emergence and evolution of ...
View full detailsKnowing India
Cynthia Talbot
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• Author(s): Cynthia Talbot • Publisher: Yoda Press • Publisher Imprint: Yoda Press • Subject: General BooksKnowing India [Paperback] Talbot, Cynthia
In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes State and Violence in Northeast India
Wouters Jelle J.P.
Hardcover
• Author(s): Wouters Jelle J.P. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga s...
View full detailsFamine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid
Gill
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• Author(s): Gill • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAbout the Book The Ethiopian famine of 25 years ago was the greatest humanitarian disaster of the late 20th ce...
View full detailsDelhi’s Meatscapes: Muslim Butchers in a Transforming Mega City
Ahmad Zarin
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• Author(s): Ahmad Zarin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book This work is about the Qureshi Muslim butchers of Delhi-an endogamous group among M...
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