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Terrorism and insurgency in Indian-English literature
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Alex Tickell |
"This book is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. Focusing on key historical episodes such as the Calcut… |
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Religious transactions in colonial south India
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Hephzibah Israel |
"Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and tr… |
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Afterimage of empire
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Zahid R. Chaudhary |
" Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception… |
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British encounters with India, 1750-1830
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Tim Keirn,Norbert Schürer |
"A collection of 18th- and early 19th-century primary texts and images that represent various facets of the cross-cultural interaction between India and Britain. The anthology suggests that for a bri… |
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Food culture in colonial Asia
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Cecilia Leong-Salobir |
"Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisin… |
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Coming of age in nineteenth-century India
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Ruby Lal |
"In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the n… |
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The siege
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Cathy Scott-Clark |
Describes what took place during the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai when terrorists assailed the luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and how the combined efforts of courageous staff and guests helped … |
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Reimagining India
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Clay Chandler,Adil Zainulbhai |
"Collection of essays by ... experts on what the new global elite needs to know about modern India"-- |
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The bargain from the bazaar
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Haroon K. Ullah |
"The story of one struggling middle-class Pakistani family, compellingly narrated by a young scholar and diplomat who has observed the traumas of the region firsthand. As a young boy, Awais Reza's fa… |
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The Fishing Fleet
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Anne de Courcy,Anne De Courcy |
"The fascinating and entertaining true stories of the young Victorian women on the hunt for husbands among the colonial businessmen and bureaucrats in the Raj"-- |
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Annihilation of caste
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Arundhati Roy,Bhimrao Ambedkar,B. R. Ambedkar,S. Anand,B. R. Ambedkar,Bhimrao R. Ambedkar |
"A new annotated critical edition of B.R. Ambedkar's speech "Annihilation of Caste.""-- |
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The age of aspiration
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Dilip Hiro |
"Nearly four decades ago, Dilip Hiro's Inside India Today, banned by Indira Gandhi's government, was acclaimed by The Guardian as simply 'the best book on India.' Now Hiro returns to his native count… |
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The Indian Ideology
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Perry Anderson |
"Today, the Indian state claims to embody the values of a stable political democracy, a harmonious territorial unity, and a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequa… |
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