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These 3 items are available for $58, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXIDA128)

Hindi, Start Speaking Today!  •  Educational Services Corporation LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •  CASETTE TAPE A 90-minute crash course in Hindi featured in two audio tapes and a phrasebook packaged in a vinyl sleeve. Geared for travelers, the course follows the foreign service method -- which focuses on dialogues and useful sentences instead of individual words. In each case, an English phrase is spoken once, and repeated in Hindi twice. Topics include introductions, transportation, business and health. (IDA142, $21.95)
Travelers' Tales India  •  James O'Reilly  •  Larry Habegger ANTHOLOGY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 496 PAGES A collection of 45 descriptive and thought-provoking short excerpts on Indian life and culture, from the famous and not-so-famous. It includes Rushdie, Naipaul and Dalrymple, plus some valuable excerpts from books long out of print. (IDA05, $19.95)
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, $19.95)

Delhi Map  •  Bharat Graphics    •  (IDA150, $6.95)
Western India Map  •  Nelles    •  A detailed regional map including Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Rajasthan. Scaled at 1:1,500,000, with insets of Delhi and Mumbai. (IDA73, $10.95)
Lonely Planet India  •  Tony Wheeler   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive practical guide to India geared for independent travelers. (IDA44, $29.99)
Survival Kit for Overseas Living, For Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad  •  L. Robert Kohls   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handbook for Americans planning to live abroad. (GEN137, $19.95)
City of Djinns, A Year in Delhi  •  William Dalrymple   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE  •  Dalrymple describes his year in Delhi with enormous humor, heart and understanding, skillfully interweaving his own adventures with a solidly researched history of the city. (IDA06, $16.00)
India and the Mughal Dynasty  •  Valerie Berinstain  •  Paul Bahn   • HISTORY  •  Lavishly illustrated, this pocket guide presents the history, culture and splendor of the Mughal court and its celebrated architecture. (IDA50, $12.95)
Karma Cola, Marketing the Mystical East  •  Gita Mehta   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A witty, often poignant satire on the exploitation of both Westerners and Indians through tourism. (IDA136, $12.95)
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 Art of Crossing Cultures  •  Craig Storti   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Tips for travelers adjusting to a new culture. (GEN136, $21.95)
The Wisdom of the Buddha  •  Jean Boisselier   • RELIGION  •  A pocket-size primer of Buddhism, this book is an illustrated history of the sixth-century Indian prince and his quest for enlightenment. With 207 illustrations, 160 in full color. (IDA55, $12.95)
White Mughals  •  William Dalrymple   • HISTORY  •  A portrayal of the experiences of "white mughals," 18th- and 19th-century British colonialists who adopted traditional Indian lifestyles and took Indian women as their brides. (IDA233, $18.00)
Hindu Art and Architecture  •  George Michell   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An excellent survey of Hindu art and architecture, explaining the meaning and construction of principal images and buildings, as well as the development of Hinduism and the corpus of myths that have influenced its artistic tradition. (IDA147, $18.95)
Scoop-Wallah, Life on a Delhi Daily  •  Justine Hardy   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A memoir of life in Delhi as a newspaper reporter. (IDA127, $15.95)
The Age of Kali, Indian Travels and Encounters  •  William Dalrymple   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • COMING IN  •  A journalist stationed in Delhi, Dalrymple recounts his travels and interviews over the past decade, including memorable encounters with Tamil tigers, Benazir Bhutto and Imran Khan. Humorous, insightful and well-informed. (IDA152, $14.95)
Cracking India, a Novel  •  Bapsi Sidhwa  •  R.W. Scholes   • LITERATURE  •  The observant tale of an Indian girl in Lahore from ages four to eight. (IDA229, $15.95)
Midnight's Children  •  Salman Rushdie   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  Rushdie's greatest novel is a madcap, comic take on the birth of modern India in all its many splendid and unexpected manifestations. Its narrator, not coincidentally, is born at the stroke of midnight August 15, 1947. (IDA12, $14.95)
Snakes and Ladders, Glimpses of Modern India  •  Gita Mehta    •  Essays on contemporary India, culture, politics and personalities, by the profilic writer and thinker. (IDA68, $13.95)