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	Footprint Rajasthan Handbook  •  Matt Barrett GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES A sturdy guide in the practical Footprint series. It features background information on the history and culture of Rajasthan with sections on Jaipur, Delhi and Agra, as well as practical information for the independent traveler on accommodations and sightseeing. (IDA267, $23.95)
	India  •  Stanley Wolpert HISTORY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 300 PAGES A wonderfully literate introduction to India by the acknowledged master. Author of 14 books and a professor of history since 1958, Wolpert distills a tremendous amount of information in this detailed overview, tackling the environment, religion and philosophy, the arts and sciences, domestic and foreign policy, and culture. (IDA04, $21.95)
	Royal Rajasthan  •  Kishore Singh CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 192 PAGES With 250 aerial photographs, interiors of princely palaces and archival images, this lavish book celebrates Rajasthan's beauty and royal history. (IDA530, $39.95)
	A Straw Epic and Other Stories, Rajasthani Tales  •  Vijay Dan Detha  •  Christi Merrill  •  Kailish Kabir LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 200 PAGES • COMING IN JULY Only now translated into English (he has been winning awards in India since the 1970s), Detha's rollicking, inventive stories weave Rajasthani folk traditions with social issues. His tales have been adapted for many plays and movies, including Habib Tanvir's Charandas Chor and Amol Palekar's Paheli. A Rajisthani folk rebel and hero, Detha is cofounder with the late Komal Kothari of Rupayan Sansthan (Rajasthan Institute of Folklore) in Borunda, the village which is the source of many of his tales. (IDA531, $18.95)
	Western India Map  •   Nelles MAP A detailed double-sided regional map of India covering the western region of the subcontinent and including Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Rajasthan, at a scale of 1:1,500,000. The map (one in a regional series) extends from Chandigarh and Dehra Dun to Mumbai. With insets of the Mumbai area and Delhi. Two Sides. 20x31 inches. (IDA73, $10.95)

	Eyewitness Guide Delhi, Agra and Jaipur  •  Anuradha Chaturvedi   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, gorgeously illustrated guide to Delhi and its environs featuring 900 color photographs, maps and site plans. (IDA151, $25.00)
	City of Djinns, A Year in Delhi  •  William Dalrymple   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE  •  With enormous humor, heart and understanding, Dalrymple describes a year in Delhi, skillfully interweaving his own adventures with a solidly researched history of the city and the social forces that have shaped it. (IDA06, $16.00)
	In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India  •  Edward Luce   • HISTORY  •  Luce tackles the challenges and reality of the world's largest democracy with insight and balance in this portrait of a nation in transition. (IDA349, $15.95)
	India Sublime, Princely Palace Hotels of Rajasthan  •  Melba Levick   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Vivid colors, delicate stonework and opulent decor are the trademarks of the palaces, forts and mansions of India's maharajas, including the 21 celebrated hotels featured in this sumptuous survey. (IDA404, $65.00)
	May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons, A Journey Among the Women of India  •  Elisabeth Bumiller   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A wonderfully written, fascinating portrayal of Indian women from Bollywood stars to Indira Gandhi to prostitutes. It's an insightful portrait of the country as seen through the eyes of its women. (IDA37, $14.95)
	The Idea of India  •  Sunil Khilnani   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Khilnani confronts the complexities, paradoxes and challenges of the nation in this brief, elegant survey of India since independence. (IDA160, $15.00)
	The Taj Mahal  •  Giles Tillotson  •  Mary Beard   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An enlightening pocket guide to the myth, meaning and legends of the celebrated tomb, "the queen of architecture." (IDA528, $19.95)
	A Princess Remembers, The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur  •  Devi Gayatri   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  The memoirs of an extraordinary life. Widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur, member of parliament and a fascinating character, Devi recalls growing up in the palace compound, marrying the Maharaja, her political triumphs and work on behalf of education in India. (IDA149, $39.95)
	An Autobiography, Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth  •  Mohandas K. Gandhi   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  There is no substitute for reading Gandhi in his own simple, direct prose. A highly recommended glimpse into the personality and life of this remarkable figure. (IDA163, $10.95)
	Kim  •  Rudyard Kipling   • LITERATURE  •  For the sheer pleasure of its prose, insight into the British in India and its extraordinary sense of place, you can't do better than Kipling's classic novel about a boy who travels the Grand Trunk Road with the Dalai Lama. (IDA65, $7.00)
	Midnight's Children  •  Salman Rushdie   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  A madcap, comic take on the birth of modern India in all its splendid and unexpected manifestations, Rushdie's greatest novel was recently crowned "Best of the Booker." The title refers to those, like the narrator, born at the stroke of midnight August 15, 1947. (IDA12, $14.95)
	The White Tiger, A Novel  •  Aravind Adiga   • LITERATURE • NEW  •  Mordant, funny, angry, horrifying, this Booker Prize-winning tale of a village pauper turned success (and murderer) skewers the ambition, inequity and corruption of 21st-century India. Adiga's India is a place where religion doesn't create morality and money doesn't solve every problem, though craven ambition can get you far indeed. (IDA542, $14.00)
	Brahma's Pushkar, Ancient Indian Pilgrimage  •  Aman Nath  •  Rajan Kapoor   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The myth, history, ancient rites and legends surrounding Pushkar, its pilgrims, traders, and visitors are documented in nearly 500 color photographs and illuminating text. (IDA304, $55.00)
	Wild India, The Wildlife of India and Nepal  •  Guy Mountefort  •  Gerald Cubitt   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An informative introduction to the natural history of the region in a handsome oversize volume. With hundreds of extraordinary photographs of the wildlife and landscapes of the Himalayas, the Indo-Ganges Plain and the Deccan. (IDA02, $29.95)
	Birds of India  •  Richard Grimmett  •  Carol Inskipp  •  Tim Inskipp   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, authoritative guide to 1,300 birds of the subcontinent, from Nepal and Bhutan to Sri Lanka, with stunning color plates, range maps and descriptive information on facing pages. (FG43, $35.00)

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