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Hindu nationalism from the 1920s to the present and its implications for the future.

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

Sumantra Bose

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When the daughter of the exiled Ottoman Caliph married the son of the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1931, it seemed that the union might revive the Caliphate. But Partition was on the horizon...

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

Imran Mulla

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At last - a novel from the author of the Pulitzer-winning collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (2009): a portrait of contemporary Pakistan, at once cinematic and intimate.

This is Where the Serpent Lives

Daniyal Mueenuddin

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Best known for his A Year in Marrakesh, Mayne also wrote two books about Pakistan. This one – about Sufi shrines in the Indus Valley – is a new edition from Eland.

Saints of Sind

Peter Mayne

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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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The author of the excellent Kathmandu sets out on four long hikes at different seasons to understand the fragile relationship of the mountain communities and their environments.

Human Nature: A Walking History of the Himalayan Landscape ...

Thomas Bell

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Horn Please! The many delights of richly caparisoned vehicles, from the team who brought us Soviet Bus Stops and other treats.

Trucks and Tuks: Decorated Vehicles of South Asia

Christopher Herwig

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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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A brilliant angle on the Cold War. By his grandson.

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 19 ...

Thant Myint-U

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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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A magnificent work by a preeminent scholar of Buddhism, this ranges from ancient India to the contemporary 'Western gaze'.

Buddhism: A Journey through History

Donald S Lopez Jr

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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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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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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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The expanding geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean.

The Contest for the Indian Ocean: And the Making of a New World Order ...

Darshana M Baruah

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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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He ruled an area of the Indian subcontinent greater than anyone until the British 2000 years later; famously he renounced war for Buddhism and promoted religious toleration throughout his mu... read more

Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King

Patrick Olivelle

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How the daughter of Babur, first Mughal Emperor, wrangled her way out of the harem (for a while) to travel around India, to Persia and beyond. Based on her own account.

Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan ...

Ruby Lal

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The latest in Penguin's handsome and imaginative anthologies of national literatures: a hundred years of stories from the colonial period to the present.

The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories

Arunava Sinha

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His new novel is based on George Orwell's years as a young man working in the Colonial Service in Burma.

Burma Sahib

Paul Theroux

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A celebrated writer leaves precise instructions for a party after her death and arranges for six letters of invitation to be sent. Secrets will out...

No Funeral for Nazia

Taha Kehar

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A magnificent new Everyman edition of the Bengali polymath's poems and writings.

The Best of Tagore

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

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800 years of cave paintings, from the C2nd BC to the C6th CE: a revised edition with digitally restored images, and a new introduction by Dalrymple who has been researching the history of Bu... read more

The Ajanta Caves: Ancient Buddhist Paintings of India ...

Benoy K. Behl

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Clever mice, cunning crocodiles, loquacious tortoises: many of the stories from the Panchatantra made their way into the fables of Aesop and even La Fontaine. Here are a handful, retold by t... read more

Animal Tales from India: Ten Stories from the Panchatantra ...

Nikita Gill

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A deft, moving, witty novel about Muslims in contemporary Delhi.

History’s Angel

Anjum Hasan

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Fieni's remarkable 20-year restoration project of stunning Buddhist murals in Lo Manthang, high in western Nepal.

Tibetan Mustang: A Cultural Renaissance

Amy Heller

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Moraes was an Indian poet educated in London and Oxford. This is an account of his wanderings as a very young man through northern India, Nepal and Sikkim in 1959, when military tensions wit... read more

Gone Away

Dom Moraes

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A thematic approach combining social history with the political: the household as well as nationhood.

Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Joya Chatterji

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A fine debut novel about a family's trajectory from India in 1898 to Idi Amin's Uganda, and then to Canada in the 1990s; it's underpinned by a secret, and a letter.

A History of Burning

Janika Oza

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One of the core texts of the early Buddhist canon, this is an introduction to mindfulness and meditation with a weather eye to modern psychology and neuroscience. With the original Pali on f... read more

How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions ...

The Buddha

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