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Moeurs, institutions et cérémonies des peuples de l'Inde
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J. A. Dubois |
Translated from the French by Henry K. Beauchamp. |
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Pilgrimage and power
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Kama Maclean |
"Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world. In 2001, according to the government of Uttar Pradesh, 30 million pi… |
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Centres out there?
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Hermann Kulke |
Contributed articles presented at the fourth Salzau conference in 2003. |
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Embroidery from India and Pakistan
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Sheila Paine |
"Focusing on over twenty textiles from the British Museum's fabulous collection, this book explores the wonderful folk embroidery of India and Pakistan - in particular the domestic work made by women… |
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People of India
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K. Suresh Singh |
Ethnological study. |
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Embodiment
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Meenakshi Thapan |
Papers presented at an international workshop held in 1994. |
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Telling lives in India
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Arnold, David,Stuart H. Blackburn |
Contributed articles drawn from a workshop held at the British Library on May 15-17, 2000. |
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Social conflict
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Satish Saberwal,N. Jayaram |
Contributed articles. |
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Daddyji
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Ved Mehta |
Biographical portrait of the author's father Amolak Ram Mehta (Daddyji), b. 1895, distinguished Indian public health officer. |
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Biting through the skin
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Nina Mukerjee Furstenau,Nina Furstenau |
At once a traveler's tale, a memoir, and a mouthwatering cookbook, Biting through the Skin offers a first-generation immigrant's perspective on growing up in America's heartland. |
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The sun in the morning
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M.M. Kaye |
After 77 pages of family background--her mother was the daughter of a China-based missionary and her father was a British army officer--bestselling novelist Kaye ( The Far Pavilions ), at age 82, rec… |
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Delirious Delhi
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Dave Praeger |
"When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave Prager and his wife, Jenny, moved to a city of sixteen million people-with seemingly twice as many honking horns. This book, is Dave's top-to-botto… |
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The end of karma
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Somini Sengupta |
"A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India--the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition. Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning… |
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White Mughals
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William Dalrymple |
"James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Khair un-Nissa - "Most Excellent among Women" - the great-niece of the Nizam's pri… |
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Mitch Epstein
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Mitch Epstein |
"These pictures, made in the seventies and eighties, offer a window onto the beginning and breadth of Mitch Epstein's career. Most of these photographs are previously unpublished - culled from a body… |
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The Hmars of Manipur
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Vijay Prakash Sharma |
Sociocultural life of the Hmar people of Manipur and Mizoram, India. |
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The Customs of the Kingdoms of India
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Marco Polo |
As Marco Polo (1254-1324) returned home across the Indian Ocean, after years in the service of Genghis Khan, he picked up a fabulous array of stories from sailors and merchants, about the peoples of … |
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Community and public culture
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Anne Hardgrove |
Adroitly and effectively combining historical and anthropological approaches, this study examines the growth and character of Marwari identity as it developed among migrants from Rajasthan who grew t… |
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Journeys to the edge
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Peter M. Gardner |
"Gardner offers a vicarious anthropological experience as he describes his research trips to study the Paliyans of the tropical forests of India, the Dene in the Northwest Territories of Canada, and … |
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India in color
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Claude Soleillant |
Suggests activities, foods, and handicrafts with an Indic theme. |
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