Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Tailor's Needle The Tailor's Needle Lakshmi Raj Sharma A Novel set in British India OL16085651W
The princes The princes Malgonkar, Manohar this book describes the changing mind set of indians before and after independece emergence of new politicians and fading of kingdoms ..... OL1626363W
All my noble dreams and then what happens All my noble dreams and then what happens Gloria Whelan As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and sh… OL16672018W
Night Train to Jamalpur Night Train to Jamalpur Andrew Martin North East India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment al… OL17560406W
A rising man A rising man Abir Mukherjee In the days of the British Raj in 1919, Captain Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland Yard detective newly arrived in Calcutta, is confronted with the murder of a British official who was found with a note … OL20054931W
Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760-1950) Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760-1950) Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff "This unique study contributes to three important research fields: the history of commodities, the history of the colonial developmental state, and the agrarian history of South Asia. First, it demon… OL23400718W