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The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their...
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Sikh Nationalism
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This important volume provides a clear, concise and comprehensive guide to the history of Sikh nationalism from the late nineteenth century to th...
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The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong ...
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth ...
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The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Beautiful and the Damned presents an affecting, incisive portrait of the vast, fascinating, and incongruent country that is globalized India....
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent ...
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the M...
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A Concise History of Modern India / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Concise History of Modern India, by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in...
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Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each ye...
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Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Booklist "Top 10 History Book of 2022" The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along it...
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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize—winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentati...
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The Sikhs of the Punjab / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This important new contribution to the New Cambridge History of India examines chronologically the entire span of Sikh history from prehistoric t...
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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie”—the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slav...
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Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decr...
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously ...
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionWinner of the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Book AwardWinner of the Lionel Gelbe...
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A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on In...
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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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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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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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