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Catalogue of the largest exhibition to date in India of the superb 'Company' paintings - by Indian artists for European patrons, spanning botanical, architectural, horticultural and many oth... read more

A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings, c. 1790-1835 ...

Giles Tillotson

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The Hour of the Wolf

Fatima Bhutto

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A vivid and moving account of moving from Delhi to a derelict cottage in an old hill station. An accomplished novelist, Roy's text is augmented by her own watercolours.

Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya

Anuradha Roy

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The Modi Era: India and the Story of a Democracy in Eclipse ...

Sumantra Bose

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The Indian Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince ...

Imran Mulla

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The Edge of Darkness

Vaseem Khan

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Pahari Paintings: Art and Stories

Sonya Rhie Mace

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This dynamic memoir by the political campaigner and Booker-winning author of The God of Small Things centres on her relationship with her mother.

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

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The new case for Wyndham and Banerjee begins with a man discovered on the burning ghats of Calcutta with his throat cut. Entertaining crime in vividly imagined Imperial India.

The Burning Grounds

Abir Mukherjee

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The changing fortunes of cites and kingdoms resound in this seminal, soaring, multivocal work of modern Indian poetry. Translated from the Hindi.

Magadh

Shrikant Verma

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Ravishment!! Printed and painted cotton textiles from the Indian subcontinent from the C14th onwards. Large format.

Chintz: Indian Cotton Textiles from the Karun Thakar Collection ...

Karun Thakar

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Drawn from Kew's previously uncatalogued archive and many of them painted by 'Company' painters: an engaging and scholarly study.

Flora Indica: Recovering Lost Stories from Kew’s Indian Drawings ...

Henry Noltie

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Superb regional recipes.

Vegetables: The Indian Way

Camellia Panjabi

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A Passage to India

E M Forster

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The special, limited edition is contained in a cloth slip case, and comes with two limited edition prints. Some of these masterful photos look directly at devotion: a woman dances, a sacrifi... read more

Indian Rites: Signs of Devotion (Special Edition)

Paul Wakefield

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Some of these masterful photos look directly at devotion: a woman dances, a sacrificial ram is covered in holi handprints, and prayer flags are swept up in the wind. Others capture quotidian... read more

Indian Rites: Signs of Devotion

Paul Wakefield

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The un-making of the Raj: the 50-year process by which a single entity was torn into a dozen modern nations. SD tackles the immense complexities with gusto and intelligence.

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia ...

Sam Dalrymple

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A substantial and comprehensive new book from a professor at Rutgers University.

India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent

Professor Audre Truschke

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Another regional cookery cookbook - this time in the company of a Michelin-starred chef on his journey around India.

Yatra: A culinary journey across India

Rohit Ghai

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Argues that modern Hinduism is partly shaped by resistance to the simplistic perception of Indian 'idolatry' by European missionaries, traders and invaders.

Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity ...

Manu S Pillai

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A vivid first novel set among the young super-rich of Delhi, where two capable women struggle to manage the patriarchal expectations of their brothers in a changing world. Clever and often f... read more

The Tiger’s Share

Keshava Guha

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An elegant anthology that tries to encompass India's plurality, from the C6th BC to the C18th, with excerpts of works in Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu. P... read more

Ten Indian Classics

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In this philosophical, discursive, many-layered diary, the author wanders the coastal city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.

Intertidal: The Hidden World Between Land and Sea

Yuvan Aves

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Europe and the Middle East at the turn of the century through the eyes of Begum SJ, descendant of Mughal nobility. Translated from Urdu into English for the first time.

A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, ...

Sarbuland Jung

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Mazhar Ali Khan recorded the sprawling city's former glory in a dazzling 5-metre panorama, published in its entirety now for the first time. Two vols.

Delhi 360 Degrees | Shahjahanabad: Mapping the Panoramic Views of a Mu ...

Jerry Losty

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The daughter of Lord Mountbatten, Lady P was also Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen and married to David Hicks. This is a large, lavishly illustrated biography by her daughter.

Lady Pamela: My Mother’s Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the ...

India Hicks

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A zestful exegesis - drawing on the latest scholarship and archaeology - of India's central role in global trade in the ancient and early medieval world, and how this co-existed with the tra... read more

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World ...

William Dalrymple

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Bombay, 1951 - a third adventure for Persis Wadia.

City of Destruction

Vaseem Khan

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An amazing illustrated compendium that covers everything from woodwork in Kashmir to tinselcraft in Ahmedabad. What fun it must have been to research this unmissable treasure!

Handmade in India: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Indian Handicrafts ...

M.P. Ranjan

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A perceptive account of the author's travels and encounters in Bangalore, Cochin, Pondicherry, Madurai etc in the early 1990s. From Eland Books.

Three Quarters of a Footprint: Travels in South India ...

Joe Roberts

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This magnificent catalogue from an exhibition at the Met in New York earlier this year looks at the early Buddhist art of the Deccan, 200BCE-400CE: early iconography, the development of the... read more

Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India

John Guy

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Before the East India Company took hold, the dazzling Mughal courts received a raggle-taggle caravan of C16th and C17th merchants, priests and adventurers.

Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to ...

Lubaaba Al-Azami

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A collection of interviews over 20 years with the activist and author of God Of Small Things.

The Architecture of Modern Empire

Arundhati Roy

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The life of a man from the time of Gandhi to that of Modi, who experiences the winds of change blowing from many different directions.

My Beloved Life

Amitava Kumar

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From Buddhist, Jain and Hindu temples through to Islamic and European centres of worship and commerce, this two volume set covers two-thousand years of Indian architectural history. Vol. ... read more

The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India in Two Volumes ...

George Michell

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First edition, first printing, in fine condition with a very good jacket. The spine is sun-faded and there is minimal shelf wear. Cerulean boards are straight; the page block is firm. Black ... read more

The Golden Oriole: Childhood, Family and friends in India ...

Raleigh Trevelyan

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