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Driven by the Monsoons: Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China
Barry Cunliffe
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• Author(s): Barry Cunliffe • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralBarry Cunliffe tells the story of trade across the Indian Ocean using the evidence of archaeology and the tales o...
View full detailsHistory, Religion and Culture of North East India
T. Raatan
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• Author(s): T. Raatan • Publisher: Isha Books • Publisher Imprint: Isha Books • BISAC: Bisac.His017000North East Indian States have been in limelight since Indian Independence. North East Region is situated in – between the two great traditions ...
View full detailsThe Case For India
Will Durant
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• Author(s): Will Durant • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House • BISAC: Bisac.His000000The Title 'The Case For India written/authored/edited by Will Durant', published in the year 2017. The ISBN 97881212903...
View full detailsIndia Under British Rule From the Foundation of the East India Company
J. Talboys Wheeler
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• Author(s): J. Talboys Wheeler • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House • BISAC: Bisac.His000000The Title 'India Under British Rule From the Foundation of the East India Company written/authored/edited by J. ...
View full detailsThe Hidden String: Agrarian Economy of Colonial Bengal and Its Institutional Framework
Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri
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• Author(s): Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri • Publisher: Primus Books • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe Hidden String is a remarkable study undertaken over a two-and-a-half decades and revisited after a gap of three decades. It exami...
View full detailsThe Temples of Mandi: A Study of the Architecture & Sculpture
Amrit Bolaria
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• Author(s): Amrit Bolaria • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: History The Temples of Mandi is a study of the temple architecture and sculpture of a picturesque temple town situated in Himachal Pradesh. The histor...
View full detailsThe Painted Towns of Shekhawati
Ilay Cooper
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• Author(s): Ilay Cooper • Publisher: Prakash Book Depot • Publisher Imprint: Prakash B. • Subject: History • BISAC: Travel
Empress: the Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
Ruby Lal
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• Author(s): Ruby Lal • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: PenguinThe fascinating biography of the most powerful Mughal woman in historyWhen it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could match. An in...
View full detailsRaiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
David Chaffetz
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• Author(s): David Chaffetz • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: CivilizationNo animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy ...
View full detailsGlorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India
Robert Ivermee
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• Author(s): Robert Ivermee • Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd • Publisher Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdThis is a powerful new account of a chapter in history that is crucial to understand, yet often overlooked. For 150 years...
View full detailsPhilip's Big Easy to Read France, Spain & Portugal Road Atlas: (Traveller's edition A3 Spiral)
Philip's Maps
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• Author(s): Philip's Maps • Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Octopus Publishing GroupThe Philip''s Big Easy to Read France, Spain and Portugal Road Atlas, in a large spiral bound lie-flat edition, is the must-have travell...
View full detailsFall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Paul Cooper
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• Author(s): Paul Cooper • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: HistoryTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'You need to read this book' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'Cooper is a phenomenon' Max Hastings, Sunday Times**Based ...
View full detailsThe Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It
Iain MacGregor
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• Author(s): Iain MacGregor • Publisher: Scribner Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Scribner Book Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - Pacific TheaterAn epic, riveting history based on new interviews and research that elucidates...
View full detailsHistory of India: From the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century Vol. 1
Henry George Keene
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• Author(s): Henry George Keene • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryHistory of India: From the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (Volume 1) offers a richly detailed chronicle of the Indian subcontinent, tra...
View full detailsThe Punjab Bloodied Partitioned (Revise Edition)
Ishtiaq Ahmed
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• Author(s): Ishtiaq Ahmed • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Asia - South - India '[...] The great many in Pakistan and India who wish to preserve a society where freedoms are mutually respected should...
View full detailsThe Silk Road
Peter Frankopan
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• Author(s): Peter Frankopan • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt LtdThe No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the econ...
View full detailsA New History Of India
Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Shobita Punja, Toby Sinclair
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• Author(s): Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Shobita Punja, Toby Sinclair • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: Asia - GeneralA complete one-volume history of India illustrated throughout by maps and photographs in ...
View full detailsRelativity
Albert Einstein
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• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • BISAC: GeneralAlong with quantum mechanics in the 1920s, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (1905) and General Theory of Relativity (1916) s...
View full detailsMen At Home
Gyanendra Pandey
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• Author(s): Gyanendra Pandey • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Ori BlackSIn Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of men’s comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous commitm...
View full detailsPirate Alley: Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia
Terence E. McKnight
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• Author(s): Terence E. McKnight • Publisher: Naval Institute Press • Publisher Imprint: Naval Institute Press • BISAC: Maritime History & PiracyNamed a Notable Naval Book of 2012 by Proceedings magazine, Pirate Alley is now available in pape...
View full detailsA Textbook of Historiography: 500 BC to AD 2000
E Sreedharan
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• Author(s): E Sreedharan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThis book traces the development of historiography from the days of Herodotus to those of postmodernism. It covers the ancient, medieval ...
View full detailsHistory of Kerala: Prehistoric to the Present
Rajan Gurukkal and Raghava Varier
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• Author(s): Rajan Gurukkal and Raghava Varier • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThis book provides a concise and lucid outline of the history of Kerala from the earliest period to the present, enc...
View full detailsGandhi: In His Time and Ours
David Hardiman
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• Author(s): David Hardiman • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThis book examines Gandhi as the creator of a radical style of politics. It argues that whereas politicians garner support by demonisin...
View full detailsHistory of India 1707-1857
Lakshmi Subramanian (Ed.)
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• Author(s): Lakshmi Subramanian (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe period 1707–1857 was punctuated by dramatic events which had porofound consequences for the history of the subcontinen...
View full detailsUnderstanding Mughal India: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Meena Bhargava
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• Author(s): Meena Bhargava • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe Mughal Empire is a fascinating phase in the history of India. Its power and wealth, extent and territoriality, socio-economic dynam...
View full detailsPunjabi Centuries
Anshu Malhotra
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• Author(s): Anshu Malhotra • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe historical and territorial space of Punjab has been politically and spatially unstable and changing, What Punjab means to different...
View full detailsFrom Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
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• Author(s): Sekhar Bandyopadhyay • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdSince its first publication in 2004, From Plassey to Partition has come to be regarded as an authoritative history of modern Indi...
View full detailsCalcutta : The Stormy Decades
Tanika Sarkar and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Ed)
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• Author(s): Tanika Sarkar and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Ed) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPolitics and culture are originally related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chao...
View full detailsThe G N Devy Reader: After Amnesia, ‘Of Many Heroes', The Being of Bhasha and Countering Violence
with a Foreword by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
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• Author(s): with a Foreword by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaA dominated culture not only learns to be like the culture that dominates it, ...
View full detailsSymbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu
Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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• Author(s): Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdSymbols of Substance is a groundbreaking analysis of the political culture and political eco...
View full detailsMarshalling the Past: Ancient India and its Modern Histories
Nayanjot Lahiri
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• Author(s): Nayanjot Lahiri • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIconic sites and ‘monumental’ subjects in Indian history are the core of this fascinating collection of essays. Nayanjot Lahiri ra...
View full detailsCultural History of Medieval India
Meenakshi Khanna (Ed.)
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• Author(s): Meenakshi Khanna (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdCultural History of Medieval India is a part of the series, Readings in History. The books in this series have been edited and ...
View full detailsHeritage of the Kakatiyas: Hanamkonda, Warangal, Palampet, Ghanpur
Phillip B. Wagoner
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• Author(s): Phillip B. Wagoner • Publisher: Jaico Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Publishing HouseThe Kakatiyas were the most powerful kings of Telangana during the 12th and 13th centuries. The 200 or so years of their rule mark the ...
View full detailsThe Original Gospel of Rāmakrishna
Edited by Swami Abhed?nanda , Joseph A. Fitzgerald
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• Author(s): Edited by Swami Abhed?nanda | Joseph A. Fitzgerald • Publisher: Jaico Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Publishing HouseBased on M.’s English Text, Abridged Foreword by Alexander Lipski Introduction by Swāmī Vivekānanda ...
View full detailsThree Feet from Gold
Sharon Lechter , Greg Reid
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• Author(s): Sharon Lechter | Greg Reid • Publisher: Jaico Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Publishing HouseDON’T QUIT! YOU ARE JUST THREE FEET FROM GOLD! This remarkable business allegory tells a fascinating story, presents key pri...
View full detailsAn Unshakable Mind (Gujarati)
Ryuho Okawa
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• Author(s): Ryuho Okawa • Publisher: Jaico Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Publishing HouseNow in Gujarati Many of us find ourselves unable to deal with the problems that life throws at us. Whether it is professional or personal dis...
View full detailsChanakya: His Teachings and Advice (Kannada)
Ashwani Sharma
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• Author(s): Ashwani Sharma • Publisher: Jaico Pub. House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Pub. • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyNew in Kannada CHANAKYA was undoubtedly ancient India’s finest political strategist and thinker. But up to this point in ...
View full detailsStalin's Library
Geoffrey Roberts
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Roberts • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."--Mi...
View full detailsCryptic
Garry J. Shaw
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• Author(s): Garry J. Shaw • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalAn absorbing history of Europe's nine most puzzling texts, including the biggest mystery of all: the Voynich Manusc...
View full detailsMaterial World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Ed Conway
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• Author(s): Ed Conway • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: CivilizationTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of th...
View full detailsRome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
Adrian Goldsworthy
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• Author(s): Adrian Goldsworthy • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ancient - RomeA "magnificent" (Spectator) history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world's two great superpowers The Roman empire was like...
View full detailsMaps of Time
David Christian
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• Author(s): David Christian • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: World - GeneralAn introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the be...
View full detailsThe World War II Collection
Nigel Cawthorne
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• Author(s): Nigel Cawthorne • Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Invisible Romans
Professor Robert C. Knapp
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• Author(s): Professor Robert C. Knapp • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Profile Books Ltd'Invisible Romans' seeks out the ordinary men, housewives, prostitutes, slaves, soldiers and gladiators, who formed the fabric of everyday...
View full detailsThe Caliph and the Imam
Matthiesen, Toby (Senior Lecturer in Global Religious Studies
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• Author(s): Matthiesen | Toby (Senior Lecturer in Global Religious Studies • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsNo sectarian division has had a more momentous impact than that between the t...
View full detailsEnvironmental Accounting Sustainability and Accountability
Somnath Debnath
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• Author(s): Somnath Debnath • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaAbout the Book The study of the interactions between business organizations and their natural environme...
View full detailsThe Republic
Thomas Taylor
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• Author(s): Thomas Taylor • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Non-ClassifiablePlato's best-known work, it has proven to be one of the world's most inf...
View full detailsAdventures in Democracy
Erica Benner
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• Author(s): Erica Benner • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Vibhajan Ki Asali Kahani
Narendra Singh Sarila, Tr. Varsha Surve
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• Author(s): Narendra Singh Sarila | Tr. Varsha Surve • Publisher: Rajkamal Prakashan • Publisher Imprint: Rajkamal Prakashan‘विभाजन की असली कहानी’ सत्ता एवं विश्वासघातों का वह आख्यान है जो उद्घाटित करता है कि भारत के बँटवारे के समय अंग्रेजों के ...
View full detailsBharat Ka Saral Itihas
Om Prakash Prasad, Prashant Gaurav
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• Author(s): Om Prakash Prasad | Prashant Gaurav • Publisher: Lokbharti Prakashan • Publisher Imprint: Lokbharti Prakashanप्रस्तुत पुस्तक में बारह अध्याय हैं। इतिहास की परिभाषा एवं अवधारणा तथा इतिहास लेखन के विभिन्न पहलुओं पर प्रथम अध्याय में प्र...
View full detailsTriumph of Leadership
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• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic Monthly Press • BISAC: Military - StrategyFrom an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War IIBor...
View full detailsThe Oxford India Kosambi
KosambiD.D.
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• Author(s): KosambiD.D. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology"Accepted as a polymath, D.D. Kosambi was first to use an interdisciplinary method in historical investigation, and to deploy his ...
View full detailsIndia's North-East
Udayon Misra
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• Author(s): Udayon Misra • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralIndia’s North-East has been the subject of much debate and interpretations since Independence. Be...
View full detailsThe 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 detailsTughlaq
Karnad Girish
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• Author(s): Karnad Girish • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English LiteratureGirish Karnad was born in Matheran, near Bombay, in 1938. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1960–63) and a Bhabha Fellow (1970–72), he is one ...
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