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Rome and Jerusalem
Martin Goodman
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• Author(s): Martin Goodman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, Martin Goodman explores the history of a titanic struggle whose repercussions are still fe...
View full detailsNo Easy Day
Mark Owen
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• Author(s): Mark Owen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus
Jim Corbett
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• Author(s): Jim Corbett • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Toby Wilkinson
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• Author(s): Toby Wilkinson • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: HistoryToby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power to reveal ancient Egypt in all its compl...
View full detailsThe Human Factor
Archie (Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford) Brown
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• Author(s): Archie (Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford) Brown • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History
The Philosophy Of Rabindranath Tagore
Radhakrishnan
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• Author(s): Radhakrishnan • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book In interpreting the philosophy and message of Rabindranath Tagore, the book interprets the Indi...
View full detailsMusaliar King: Decolonial Historiography of Malabar's Resistance
Abbas Panakkal
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• Author(s): Abbas Panakkal • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Acad Indi • Subject: General BooksThis book delves into decolonial saga of Malabar through the eyes of a native chronicler and uncover the hidden truth behind the...
View full detailsHimalayan Cities
Shankar, Pratyush
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• Author(s): Shankar | Pratyush • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Architecture & Interior Designs • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book Himalayan Cities: Settlement Patterns, Public Places and Archit...
View full detailsCodes Of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution In Late Colonial Bombay
Ashwini Tambe
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• Author(s): Ashwini Tambe • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: Law and CriminologyThis remarkable study focuses on the relationship between forms of prostitution, discourses on law making, and law enforcement practices. Acr...
View full detailsFrom the Oxus to The Indus
Suchandra Ghosh
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• Author(s): Suchandra Ghosh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaFrom the Oxus to the Indus explores the political and cultural history of the Indo...
View full detailsSport (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Mike Cronin
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• Author(s): Mike Cronin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sports and Physical Fitness • BISAC: Social HistorySport is one of the largest industries in the world and the global reach of major sporting events is enor...
View full detailsThe Ice Age (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Jamie Woodward
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• Author(s): Jamie Woodward • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Historical GeographyIn this Very Short Introduction Jamie Woodward examines the environmental shifts that took place d...
View full detailsThe Peripheral Centre: Voices from India's North East
Preeti Gill
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• Author(s): Preeti Gill • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThe last few decades have witnessed growing theoretical and practical concerns about the intersections b...
View full detailsThe Thought of Bal Gangadhar Tilak: An Intellectual Biography
Robert E. Upton
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• Author(s): Robert E. Upton • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThis work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought, focusing on his views on 'communal...
View full detailsModern Political Analysis
N. Jayapalan
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• Author(s): N. Jayapalan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Primemax • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsModern Political Analysis studies the nature and scope of Politics and its growth. It comprehensively deals with all aspects of m...
View full detailsAn Introduction to the Study of Literature
William Henry Hudson
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• Author(s): William Henry Hudson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureLiterature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about...
View full detailsGandhian Mysticism
Mohit Chakrabarti
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• Author(s): Mohit Chakrabarti • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyGandhian Mysticism, quoting generously from writing on Gandhi and by Gandhi, makes a thorough study and presents an excellent ana...
View full detailsThe British & the Sikhs: Discovery, Warfare and Friendship C1700-1900
Gurinder Singh Mann
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• Author(s): Gurinder Singh Mann • Publisher: Helion & Company • Publisher Imprint: Helion & Company • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyThe Sikh Confederacy consisting of military units or Misls rose from the ashes of the crumbling Mughal Empi...
View full detailsThey Fight Like Devils: Stories from Lucknow During the Great Indian Mutiny, 1857-58
D. A. Kinsley
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• Author(s): D. A. Kinsley • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralVastly outnumbered, British soldiers and civilians were threatened with extermination in their m...
View full detailsOperation Meghdoot: India's War in Siachen - 1984 to Present
Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
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• Author(s): Sanjay Badri-Maharaj • Publisher: Helion & Company • Publisher Imprint: Helion & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralIn 1984, the Indian Army carried out a stunning operation that captured the Siachen Glacier in th...
View full detailsRogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Ben Macintyre
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• Author(s): Ben Macintyre • Publisher: Broadway Books • Publisher Imprint: Broadway Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible untold story of World War II's greatest secret fighting fo...
View full detailsNehru and the Language Politics of India
King Robert D
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• Author(s): King Robert D • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThe language controversies that accompanied the first years of Indian independence had pushed ...
View full detailsMagna Carta (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Nicholas Vincent
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• Author(s): Nicholas Vincent • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe Magna Carta is arguably the greatest constitutional document in recorded history, yet few people t...
View full detailsThe Napoleonic Wars (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Mike Rapport
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• Author(s): Mike Rapport • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societie...
View full detailsSocial Formations of Early South India
Rajan Gurukkal
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• Author(s): Rajan Gurukkal • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kera...
View full detailsReligion, State, and Society in Medieval India
S. Nurul Hasan
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• Author(s): S. Nurul Hasan • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralWritten over the span of a lifetime, this collection of S. Nurul Hasan's essays (edited and int...
View full detailsIndira Gandhi, the Emergency, and Indian Democracy
P. N. Dhar
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• Author(s): P. N. Dhar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaAs head of the prime minister's secretariat under Indira Gandhi, P. N. Dhar witnessed and ...
View full detailsThe World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Carriers and Naval Aircraft: An Illustrated History of Aircraft Carriers and the Naval Aircraft That Launch from Th
Bernard Ireland
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• Author(s): Bernard Ireland • Publisher: Southwater Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Southwater Publishing • BISAC: Military - Naval
Operation Cactus: Indian Military Intervention in the Maldives, 1988
Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
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• Author(s): Sanjay Badri-Maharaj • Publisher: Helion & Company • Publisher Imprint: Helion & Company • BISAC: Military - GeneralIn 1988, the Indian Army and Air Force, ably supported by the Indian Navy, carried out a daring intervention ...
View full detailsDynasty (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Jeroen Duindam
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• Author(s): Jeroen Duindam • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryFor thousands of years bloodlines have been held as virtually unassailable credentials for leadership, with supreme politi...
View full detailsThe Rise of Rome: Books One to Five
Livy
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• Author(s): Livy • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - Rome"The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of t...
View full detailsThe Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Virginia Postrel
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• Author(s): Virginia Postrel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralFrom Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Str...
View full detailsHow Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World: Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century
Nick Collins
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• Author(s): Nick Collins • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: History • BISAC: Maritime History & PiracyWorld-wide maritime trade has been the essential driver of wealth-creation, economic progress and global human contac...
View full detailsThe Celts (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Barry Cunliffe
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• Author(s): Barry Cunliffe • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralSavage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, specul...
View full detailsRommel in North Africa: Quest for the Nile
David Mitchelhill-Green
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• Author(s): David Mitchelhill-Green • Publisher: Pen & Sword Books • Publisher Imprint: Pen & Sword Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralErwin Rommel is the arguably the most well-known German general of the Second...
View full detailsThe Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
Barry Cunliffe
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• Author(s): Barry Cunliffe • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralBrilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across th...
View full detailsModern Ireland (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Senia Paseta
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• Author(s): Senia Paseta • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - IrelandThis is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has become something of a ca...
View full detailsThe Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
Cornelius Tacitus
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• Author(s): Cornelius Tacitus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - RomeHere is a lively new translation of Cornelius Tacitus' timeless history of three of Rome's most memorable emperors. Tac...
View full detailsThe First World War (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Michael Howard
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• Author(s): Michael Howard • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IBy the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps ...
View full detailsAerial Warfare (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Frank Ledwidge
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• Author(s): Frank Ledwidge • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceAerial warfare has dominated war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular annou...
View full detailsThe Oxford History of the World
Fernandez Armesto
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• Author(s): Fernandez Armesto • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistorybHistories you can trust./b Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observe...
View full detailsThe Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain
Stephen Bungay
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• Author(s): Stephen Bungay • Publisher: Aurum Press • Publisher Imprint: Aurum Press • BISAC: Military - World War II"The magnitude and vital importance of the Battle of Britain has found a superb chronicler in Stephen Bungay, whose book is the ...
View full detailsTrans-Himalayan Caravans Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh
Rizvi Janet
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• Author(s): Rizvi Janet • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book documents the extraordinarily complex pattern of trade upon which the pre-Independence economy of Ladakh la...
View full detailsWriting Social History
Sarkar Sumit
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• Author(s): Sarkar Sumit • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: HistoriographyThe eight essays in this volume seek to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current de...
View full detailsLegacy Of A Divided Nation India'S Muslims Since Independence
Hasan Musirul
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• Author(s): Hasan Musirul • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History
Ibn Hajar (Oip) Mekers of Islamic Civilization
Jaques R Kevin
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• Author(s): Jaques R Kevin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryIbn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (1372–1449) was one of the most influential thinkers of the fifteenth century. Drawing on autobiographical texts and co...
View full detailsEssays On Medieval Indian History Oxford India Collection
Chandra Satish
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• Author(s): Chandra Satish • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: EssaysThe essays included in this volume explore the interconnections between society, economy, religion and state, and their interaction with political pr...
View full detailsThe Economy Of The Mughal Empire C. 1595 A Statistical Study
Shireen Moosvi
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• Author(s): Shireen Moosvi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Economic HistoryExploring the rich statistical material present in the earliest manuscripts of the A’in-i Akbari—the great official compilation of the Mugh...
View full detailsThe Dissent of Nazrul Islam
MitraPriti Kumar/Priti Kumar
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• Author(s): MitraPriti Kumar/Priti Kumar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asian - IndicKazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) came into prominence in the1920s as the 'Rebel Poet', startling the Indian lite...
View full detailsA Very Ingenious Man Claude Martin in Early Colonial India
Llewylln-Jones Rosie
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• Author(s): Llewylln-Jones Rosie • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History
State, Pluralism, and the Indian Historical Tradition Collected Essays
ChandraSatish
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• Author(s): ChandraSatish • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis collection of seminal essays, by one of the most eminent historians and educationists, provides a comprehensiv...
View full detailsSubaltern Studies Volume 1-10
Subaltern
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• Author(s): Subaltern • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
The Nawabs of Savanur
K.N. Chitnis
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• Author(s): K.N. Chitnis • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe Nawabs of Savanur presents a compelling exploration of the political, administrative, socio-economic and religious history of North Karnataka, foc...
View full detailsThe Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition
Dr Amar Sohal
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• Author(s): Dr Amar Sohal • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryConcerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in modern South Asia has often been associated wit...
View full detailsSoutheast Asia (VSI): Very Short Introduction
James R. Rush
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• Author(s): James R. Rush • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryStraddling the equator, Southeast Asia comprises Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines, as well as Laos, ...
View full detailsRethinking Early Medieval India : A Reader
Upinder Singh
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• Author(s): Upinder Singh • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis reader presents a new understanding of the early medieval period of Indian history (c. 600-1300 CE), highlight...
View full detailsObjects, Images, Stories: Simon Digby's Historical Methods
Professor Francesca Orsini
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• Author(s): Professor Francesca Orsini • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralWhat histories do objects like coins or gems help us to trace? How can we read photographs and paintin...
View full detailsColonialism, Culture and Resistance :
PanikkarK N
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• Author(s): PanikkarK N • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis unique collection discusses the different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation of alternative moderni...
View full detailsTale Of Four Indian Cities: Consequences of British Empire on Native Centres of Prosperity
Vijay K. Seth
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• Author(s): Vijay K. Seth • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: History
Indians in the First World War: The Missing Links
Aravind Ganachari
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• Author(s): Aravind Ganachari • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book Indians in the First World War: The Missing Links is the first authoritative and complete academic acc...
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