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The making of modern Afghanistan
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B. D. Hopkins |
"This book examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century. It challenges the staid assump… |
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The devil's company
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David Liss |
From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, Davi… |
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Empire made
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Kief Hillsbery |
"Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India--a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light. In 1841, twenty-year-o… |
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Goddess of fire
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Bharti Kirchner |
Moorti--widowed at just 17 and about to be burned on her husband's funeral pyre--is saved from the fire by a mysterious Englishman. Taken to safety and given employment by her saviour Job Charnock, M… |
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These Savage Shores
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Sumit Kumar,Ram V |
Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, the East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 176… |
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Jewel of the Night
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Helen Dickson |
Impoverished Judith Wyatt had planned to become a schoolteacher at the academy where she had been educated after the murder of her parents in India. Yet after spending some weeks with her friend Char… |
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Bencoolen
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Alan Harfield |
A list of names and other lnformation from the British graves at Bengkuku on the west coast of Sumatra, which the Honorable East India Company occupied from 1685 to 1825. |
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