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In the Circle of the Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Feeling initially aimless and out of place in rural Nepal where she accompanied her anthropologist husband for a year of fieldwork, Katharine Bjo...
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The Boer War: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /On October 11th, 1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally...
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Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power ...
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The Sikhs of the Punjab: Unheard Voices of State and Guerilla Violence
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Village people in the Punjab have lived with the terror of the conflict between Sikh militants and Indian security forces since the attack on the...
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South Africa: The rise and fall of apartheid
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to racial segreg...
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India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War
HardcoverOriginal price $68.00Original price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00Current price $63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /World War II was a global catastrophe. Far broader than just the critical struggle between Allies and Axis, its ramifications were felt throughou...
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Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism
PaperbackOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction à l'histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great Fren...
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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle...
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The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In 1835, Lord Macaulay, in his Minute on Indian Education, had prophesied that the eventual self-rule of India would be "the proudest day in Brit...
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Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /If there is one question that haunts Indian Christians, it is this: "What does it mean to be Indian and Christian?" This matter of identity present...
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The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A literary investigation into India as a society in transition through the lens of forbidden love, as three young couples reject arranged marriages...
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Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped th...
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Instant Amazon Best Seller and Hot New Release For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded i...
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The Anarchy
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR The epic story of how th...
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His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle Against Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The man whom Indian nationalists perceived as the "George Washington of India" and who was President of the Indian National Congress in 1938-1939 i...
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Ancient India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization Through th
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the first agricultural settlement more than seven thousand years ago to the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great and the vast Maurya Empire,...
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The Anarchy
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Finalist for the Cundill History Prize ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street ...
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The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/Biography A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human phys...
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Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa: The National Peace Accord, 1991-1994
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Examines the creation and implementation of South Africa's National Peace Accord and this key transitional phase in the country's history, and it...
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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths,...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacis...
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Meet Me in Miami
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Food, romance, and magic: Charles St. Anthony discovered more than he bargained for in Miami. After a wobbly welcome to the South Florida metropoli...
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Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic: Gender Politics of the Framing of the Constitution
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$126.99$126.99 - $126.99Current price $126.99| /The book begins with the momentous task of demolishing the prejudices attached with the phrase 'founding fathers' that has held an immense sway ove...
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»We Are Here to Stay«: Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Drawing primarily on oral sources from the author's own research carried out between 1993 and 1997, this book outlines the settlement history of Pa...
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