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Lozikeyi Dlodlo. Queen of the Ndebele
PaperbackOriginal price $69.30 - Original price $69.30Original price $69.30$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /In 1999, a defiant 76-year old Mr Stanley Mhlanga confronted the Zimbabwean Forestry Commission. He claimed that Queen Lozikeyi had given his peopl...
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The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India
HardcoverOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of S...
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Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursu...
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The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Few figures in modern India have enjoyed such acclaim and adoration as Jayaprakash Narayan. And yet, he has been equally vilified for all that went...
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The Life and Times of George Fernandes: Many Peaks of a Political Life
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Since the time he left his coastal town of Mangalore and came to Bombay (now, Mumbai), more than seven decades ago, George Fernandes's was a life l...
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The Silver Tea Service: A memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A rich memoir about exploring a family mystery, and how a search for truth can yield unexpected outcomes.Eight years after the death of her mother,...
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The Power of Good People: Surviving Sri Lanka's Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In May 2009 Sri Lanka's long and dreadful civil war was finally brought to an horrific end. Ruthlessly driven to a small strip of land on the tip o...
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My Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /From walking with lions in the bush to dodging bombs in Tanzania's largest city, psychologist Susanne Rheault recounts with candor and humility the...
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The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a...
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Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Ayya's Accounts explores the life of an ordinary man--orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather--during a century of tremendous hope and upheava...
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The Man Who Remade India: A Biography of P.V. Narasimha Rao
HardcoverOriginal price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /When P.V. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited economic catastrophe, violent insurgencies and a nation a...
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Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding"...
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No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The astonishing true story of the man-eating tiger that claimed a record 437 human lives"Thrilling. Fascinating. Exciting." --Wall Street Journal -...
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Mother Teresa (Revised Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Manyhave called her a saint. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India'shighest civilian honor, the Jewel of India, in 1980. Pope John Paul I...
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In Search of Lost Glory: Sindhi Nationalism in Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Sindhi nationalism is one of the oldest yet least studied cases of identity politics in Pakistan. Ethnic discontent appeared in Sindh in opposition...
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India's First Dictatorship
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /In June 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a 'State of Emergency', resulting in a 21-month suspension of democracy. Jaffrelot and Anil explo...
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the aut...
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Cover Point: Impressions of Leadership in Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Jamsheed Marker's lifetime in the diplomatic service of Pakistan gave him a unique vintage point. In cricket terms, he was at cover point, near e...
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Modern India: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /India is widely recognized as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influe...
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Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this h...
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India After Gandhi Revised and Updated Edition: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From one of the subcontinent’s most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, published on the 6...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinar...
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On the Paths of Enlightenment: The Myth of India in Western Culture 1808-2017
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /From the German Romantics to the Beats and beyond: how the West has imagined IndiaIn 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published...
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. Pirates have long lived in the realm of ro...
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