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Mumbai fables
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Gyan Prakash |
"A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different … |
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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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A history of India
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Hermann Kulke |
"Covers the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent"--Provided by the publisher. |
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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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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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Fierce enigmas
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Srinath Raghavan |
"South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Rag… |
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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 essential Gandhi
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
Gandhi's thoughts on such topics as civil disobedience, non-violence,liberty, socialism and communism, and how to enjoy jail. |
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