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Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India
This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India a
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Political Economy of Development and Environment in Modern India Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book captures the complexities of both development and environment, from the political economy point of view, to offer a broad economic and environmental history of post-independence India. It analyses the various components of constitutional provisions, policies, programmes and ecology protection measures during the post-independence period, that is, 1947–2020. ...
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Gandhi in India’s Literary and Cultural Imagination
This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture. It explores multiple iterations of
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Breaking Barriers in Post-independence India Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book looks at India of the 1950s and 60s while it was still emerging from two centuries of colonial rule and striving to come together as a nation. It critically explores the history of nationalism and identity in Northeastern India, a region with diverse ethnolinguistic communities and people, through the personal history of the first Manipuri (Meitei) direct recrui...
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Regional perspectives on India´s Partition Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India by including localities and life stories from and beyond the regions of Punjab and Bengal. This book is a unique and comprehensive contribution in enabling a more complex understanding of how Partition played out and continues to do so for groups and generati...
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Regional perspectives on India´s Partition Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India by including localities and life stories from and beyond the regions of Punjab and Bengal. This book is a unique and comprehensive contribution in enabling a more complex understanding of how Partition played out and continues to do so for groups and generati...
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Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India Taylor & Francis Ltd
Never before in human history have vegetarianism and a plant-based economy been so closely associated with sustainability and the promise of tackling climate change. Nowhere is this phenomenon more visible than in India. The book’s empirical focus is on the changing relationship between vegetarian/non-vegetarian as understood, practiced and contested in middle-class India...
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Asian Britain - A Photographic History - Nasta Susheila
Anotace: Unique and arresting photographic history of South Asians in Britain (namely in Birmingham, Leeds, Bradford, Glasgow and London`s East End ), from 1858 to the present Includes rich and rarely seen images from archives in Britain, India and the US. Published in partnership with the British Library and Getty Images. With a preface by Razia Iqbal.
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Culture: A new world history - Martin Puchner
<p>Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner...
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Local Adaptation to Climate Change in South India Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book critically discusses the vulnerabilities and local adaptation actions of the traditional marine fishers of the tsunami-hit coastal regions of South India to climate change and risks, with an emphasis on their local institutions. Thereby, it offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which marine fishers live and respond to climate change. The Coromandel coast...
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Tale of the Horse
Without the horse, India would not be this India ... The history of the horse in India is an epic tale of life and war, of migration and intermingli
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Triumph of Modernism
Explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. With a fascinating array of art works,
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Bollywood State of Mind
An exhilarating journey through the complex histories of India, performance traditions and cultural history, A Bollywood State of Mind is a love lette
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Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History - Hugh Williams
<p>What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through our past, what would they be? Hugh Williams has made that selection, and the result is a fascinating overview of Britain's...
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Voices of Dissent: An Essay
A powerful history of the long tradition of political dissent in India published at a moment when the very idea of dissent is under attack.
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Mizo Discovery of the British Raj
Based on a wide range of research and enriched by sources newly digitised by the author, Kyle Jackson presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India
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World War II in Minutes
The shortest history of our greatest conflict.
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Secret Of The Royal Throne
It is believed that, in ancient India there was a noble king who had a throne guided by 13 deities. His kingdom was prosperous and invincible until an angry sage cursed the royal throne locking the deitie's powers. One day a renowned archeologist from the United States learns during his archeological site visit in India, that the kingdom really exists today and its R...
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Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State of Man
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767-March 25, 1825) was a French author, poet, and composer whose biblical and philosophical hermeneutics in?uenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi and Gerard Encausse (Papus), and René Guénon. D'Olivet spent his life pursuing the esoteric wisdom concealed in the Hebrew scriptures, Greek philosophy, and the symbolism of many anci...
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The Art of a Corporation Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Company’s history. ...
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Secret Of The Royal Throne (PC)
It is believed that, in ancient India there was a noble king who had a throne guided by 13 deities. His kingdom was prosperous and invincible until an angry sage cursed the royal throne locking the deitie's powers.One day a renowned archeologist from the United States learns during his archeological site visit in India, that the kingdom really exists today a...
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Post-Western Histories of Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical analyses of various areas of the world, including Europe, Latin America, Africa, China, Australia, India and Japan, where particular movements of architecture have developed as active ‘political acts’....
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank - Rosemary Sullivan
<p>‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York Times</p> <p>Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept</p> <p>The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?</p> <p>Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI ag...
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Sugar, Sugar : Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers - Malkani Lainy
Anotace: Sugar, Sugar is a contemporary collection of short stories which reveals a rich and culturally diverse history behind India`s migrant workers and one of the most abundant and controversial commodities in the world. Inspired by historical documents between 1838 and 1917, and the living memories of the descendents of indentured workers, Sugar, Sugar, spans five co...
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Sugar, Sugar : Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers - Lainy Malkani
<p>Sugar, Sugar is a contemporary collection of short stories which reveals a rich and culturally diverse history behind India's migrant workers and one of the most abundant and controversial commodities in the world. Inspired by historical documents between 1838 and 1917, and the living memories of the descendents of indentured workers, Sugar, Sugar, spans five con...
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The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly Palmer Hall
<p>Embracing an expansive range of occult teachings, this vast encyclopedia unveils the arcane myths and mysteries of thousands of years of human civilization. First published in 1928, Manly Palmer Hall’s magnum opus has been meticulously reproduced in its original size in collaboration with his archives at the Philosophical Research Society.</p> <p>The ...
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Toward a Free Economy
The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations - Simon Schama
<p>Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, with...
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A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four (Collector´s Edition) - Doyle Arthur Conan
Anotace: `Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes` - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective`s faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also prov...
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Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know - Tim Marshall
<p>DISCOVER THE TEN MAPS THAT REVEAL THE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD IN THE POWER OF GEOGRAPHY - THE SEQUEL TO PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY - OUT ON 22/04/2021 - PREORDER NOW! THE MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERGeography shapes not only our history, but where we're headed...All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and co...
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Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know - Marshall Tim
Anotace: THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER; All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements...but if you don`t know geography, you`ll never have the full picture.; To understand Putin`s actions, for example, it is ess...
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power - James Walvin
<p>A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Wal...
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches: the heartwarming and uplifting magical romance - Sangu Mandanna
<p>She found magic in the most unlikely of places.The House in the Cerulean Sea meets Practical Magic in this cosy, heartwarming, and uplifting magical romance about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family - and a new love - changes the course of her life.As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon has lived her life by three rules: hi...
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Plain Tales From The Raj
* A classic history of Britons' experiences of India in the last days of the Raj.
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Mughal Throne
A history of the great Mughal rulers of India, one of the world's greatest empires.
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Company
A unique history of Britain's most influential invention - from the East India Company to Enron
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From Kutch to Tashkent
A new diplomatic and military history of South Asia's 'Forgotten War' and of its impact on India and Pakistan A compellingly told history of a nasty f
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Midnight's Children
A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted.
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Indian Summer
A brilliantly compelling and insightful re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independence of India, a
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Iran and the Deccan
The Deccan plateau of southwest India has been a place of significant cross-cultural exchange for thousands of years. This volume traces the history o
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Provincial Democracy
Tracks the history of democracy as it began to establish roots at the height of anticolonial nationalism in British India through calls for self-deter
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Cold War in South Asia
This transnational history of the rise and fall of Anglo-American relations with India and Pakistan during the Cold War offers a new multidisciplinary
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Science and the Indian Tradition
Charting an important process in modern Indian history, this book gives an in-depth assessment of the introduction of Westen science into India.
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Company-State
The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial p
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Science and the Indian Tradition
Charting an important process in modern Indian history, this book gives an in-depth assessment of the introduction of Westen science into India.
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Raj at War
Yasmin Khan presents the overlooked history of India at war, and shows how mobilisation for the war unleashed seismic processes of economic, cultural
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Beyond the Madrasa
This book looks at madrasas and education institutions run by Muslim communities in India focusing on the history, social relevance and importance of
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Transcendental Meditation Movement
This Element provides a comprehensive overview of the Transcendental Meditation and examines the movement's history, beginning in India in 1955, and c
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Subalterns and Raj
Subalterns and Raj is a stimulating and controversial read which presents a unique introductory history of India that also pursues the continuities wi
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Hinduism in America
A concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India. Ideal for students and scholars approaching the top
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Sugar, Sugar
A rich and culturally diverse history of SUGAR! Sugar, Sugar tells the story behind India's migrant workers who first left the Sub-Continent more tha
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Banned a Censored
The book dives into the history of sedition and censorship in colonial India. Closely examining 100 texts that the British Empire banned, censored or
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Peace, Poverty and Betrayal
Skewering the simplistic binaries that often dominate the debate, 'Peace, Poverty and Betrayal' is a fresh and elegant history of British India.
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Peace, Poverty and Betrayal
Skewering the simplistic binaries that often dominate the debate, 'Peace, Poverty and Betrayal' is a fresh and elegant history of British India.
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Jasmine Throne
The Jasmine Throne begins a romantic epic fantasy trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a
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Green Unpleasant Land
Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company. Combining essay
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Indian Summer
A brilliantly compelling and insightful re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independence of India, and the final days of the Raj.
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Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India. A novel contribution to the study of Bengal and Pakistan’s origins, the book will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian history, the history of colonialism and end of empire...
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Mahasweta Devi Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This book engages with Devi’s works as a writer-activist who critically explored subaltern subjectivities, the limits of history and the harsh social realities of post-independence India....
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Tipping Point Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book sketches the history of political forces in modern India. It begins defining these political categories of left, right and far-right with the usual reference to French Revolution (for want of an indigenous equivalent), and discusses movement of forces towards left, or towards the right from the balance of socio-political forces or status quo at a point of time i...
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