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Adventures With the Buddha, A Buddhism Reader
• Jeffery Paine
• RELIGION
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Paine chooses nine influential 19th and 20th century western adventurers and their travels in China, Tibet, Nepal and India for this riveting tale of religion, adventure and enlightenment.
(REL12, $16.95)
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Along the Ganges
• Ilija Trojanow
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In this colorful travelogue, Trojanow follows the Ganges from its source in the Himalayas to the cities that it feeds, using the holy river as a means to ponder Hinduism, culture, ecology and the tension between ancient and modern India.
(IDA294, $19.95)
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An Area of Darkness
• V.S. Naipaul
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A reflective, personal account of Naipaul's travels in India in 1962 -- a portrait of a time and place and searing, honest chronicle of the country during transition.
(IDA13, $14.95)
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The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800
• Sheila Blair
• Jonathan Bloom
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A survey of the monuments and art produced by Muslims from the 13th to 19th centuries.
(ISL27, $37.00)
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The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent
• J.C. Harle
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A scholarly survey of the art and architecture of not only India but also of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
(IDA60, $37.00)
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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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One of the great works of modern Indian literature, reissued in 2001. It's at once the story of Chaudhuri's youth in rural Bengal and Calcutta and the story of modern India's origins; a masterpiece steeped in time and place.
(IDA196, $19.95)
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The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
• Zahiruddin Babur Shah
• Salman Rushdie
• Wheeler M. Thackson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The candid memoir of the first Moghul emperor of India (universally known as Babur), descended from Tamerlane.
(CAS149, $17.95)
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Baumgartner's Bombay
• Anita Desai
• LITERATURE
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The tale of Hugo Baumgartner, a Jewish businessman who flees to India to escape persecution.
(IDA245, $13.00)
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Beneath a Marble Sky, A Love Story
• John Shors
• LITERATURE
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Built to mourn the tragic death of the emperor's wife, the Taj Mahal is at the center of this murderous, fantastical and dazzling tale, told from the point of view of daughter Princess Jaharana. Shors conjures life in 18th-century Hindustan and its royalty.
(IDA301, $14.00)
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Berlitz Pocket Guide Delhi
• Berlitz Pocket Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A shirt pocket guide to the north Indian city with essential travel information, a few photos and some very useful maps.
(IDA333, $8.95)
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Bhagavad Gita, A New Translation
• Stephen Mitchell
• LITERATURE
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A lyrical translation and introduction to the Gita, an ancient Hindu poem. Mitchell's translation aims for the literary qualities of the original.
(IDA170, $13.95)
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Born Into Brothels
• Zana Briski
• Children of Calcutta
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A companion to the award-winning documentary of the same name, this charming book displays the beautiful photography of eight children growing up in Calcutta's red light district.
(IDA269, $35.00)
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The Child and the State in India
• Myron Weiner
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A thought-provoking no-nonsense evaluation of education and child labor in India.
(IDA40, $27.95)
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Climbing the Mango Trees, A Memoir of a Childhood in India
• Madhur Jaffrey
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• NEW
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An actress and food writer, Jaffrey combines her warm tale of coming-of-age in a sprawling homestead in Old Delhi with 32 recipes.
(IDA327, $14.95)
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The Complete Taj Mahal
• Ebba Koch
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Ebba Koch, an expert on Mughal architecture, is the only scholar who has been allowed to take measurements of the Taj Mahal. This is her impressive academic and photographic tribute to the magnificent structure.
(IDA332, $75.00)
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Conflict Unending
• Sumit Ganguly
• HISTORY
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An in-depth study of the turbulent relationship between India and Pakistan since independence in 1947, with a focus on Kashmir.
(IDA223, $27.00)
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The Dancing Girl
• Hasan Shah
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The realistically rendered tale of love for a dancing girl who entertained the British Army in colonial India, originally written in 1790.
(IDA61, $9.95)
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Daughter of the Ganges, The Story of One Girl's Adoption and her Return Journey to India
• Asha Miro
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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(IDA299, $24.00)
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Dharma's Daughters: Contemporary Indian Women and Hindu Culture
• Sara Mitter
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An insightful, many-layered social history of women in the author's adoptive India.
(IDA38, $22.95)
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Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras
• Diana L. Eck
• RELIGION
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With its wide geographic and spiritual scope, and combination of the personal and scholarly, this book is a fascinating introduction to religion, and the author.
(IDA78, $20.00)
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An End to Suffering, The Buddha in the World
• Pankaj Mishra
• RELIGION
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A personal and informative exploration of the life of Buddha and the history of Buddhism.
(IDA242, $15.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Delhi, Agra and Jaipur
• Anuradha Chaturvedi
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, gorgeously illustrated guide to Delhi and its environs featuring 900 color photographs, maps and site plans.
(IDA151, $25.00)
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Eyewitness Guide India
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A handsome, beautifully illustrated guide to India. It features color photographs, history and plenty of background information.
(IDA265, $30.00)
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Family Matters
• Rohinton Mistry
• LITERATURE
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An aging professor comes to live with his daughter, her husband and their two children in a cramped Bombay apartment in Mistry's moving, and often comic, tale of history, memory and familial bonds.
(IDA214, $15.95)
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Footprint Rajasthan Handbook
• Matt Barrett
• GUIDEBOOK
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A sturdy guide in the practical Footprint series with background information on the history and culture of Rajasthan.
(IDA267, $23.95)
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Freedom Song
• Amit Chaudhuri
• LITERATURE
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This three-novella volume contains Chaudhuri's finest work to date -- in particular "A Strange and Sublime Address," his evocation of childhood in Calcutta.
(IDA217, $14.00)
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Gandhi, His Life and Message for the World
• Louis Fischer
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A classic biography of Gandhi, still one of the most readable, lively, and interesting books on the subject.
(IDA162, $7.99)
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Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk
• Susan T. Hitchcock
• John Esposito
• Desmond Tutu
• Mpho Tutu
• RELIGION
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A handsomely photgraphed tour of the five major world religions and the places that each one holds most sacred.
(REL05, $24.00)
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A Guide to the Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives
• Richard Grimmett
• Carol Inskipp
• Tim Inskipp
• FIELD GUIDE
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Beautiful, comprehensive and up-to-date, this is the definitive field guide to birds from Bhutan to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. It covers 1300 species, and weighs 5 pounds. With 150 color plates and a detailed map for each species.
(FG31, $132.00)
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Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
• Jan Morris
• HISTORY
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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A wonderful portrait of early (pre-1897) British colonial rule in India, Central Asia, Africa and elsewhere. Morris weaves historical accounts, character studies, and much imagination into this readable, compelling tale.
(IDA20, $26.00)
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Henri Cartier-Bresson in India
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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(IDA295, $29.95)
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Hindi, Start Speaking Today!
• Educational Services Corporation
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A 90-minute crash course in Hindi featured in two audio tapes and a phrasebook. The course follows the foreign service method, focusing on whole dialogues and sentences.
(IDA142, $21.95)
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Hindu Art
• T. Richard Blurton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully large paperback of excellent quality, this book is a good introduction to the complexities of Indian painting, sculpture and sacred architecture.
(IDA35, $33.00)
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Hinduism, A Very Short Introduction
• Kim Knott
• RELIGION
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An introduction to the beliefs and practice of Hinduism, and a consideration of its influence in India and around the world.
(IDA329, $11.95)
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The Hungry Tide
• Amitav Ghosh
• LITERATURE
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A powerful, moving novel by the author of Glass Palace and Dancing in Cambodia, set in the Sundarban Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
(IDA258, $13.95)
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India Map
• ITMB
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The most detailed shaded relief map (at a scale of 1:2,100,000) of India available.
(IDA18, $10.95)
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India Safari Companion
• Alain Pons
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A colorful, illustrated slim guide to wildlife, photography and travel in India.
(IDA371, $14.95)
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India, Emerging Power
• Stephen Philip Cohen
• HISTORY
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A critical assessment of India as a world power by a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Cohen looks especially at the relations between India and Pakistan and China, as well as the United States.
(IDA263, $22.95)
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Indian Art
• Vidya Dehejia
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully illustrated, very readable history of Indian art and architecture. It considers the religious and intellectual contexts of three thousand years of Indian art, including the modern era.
(IDA185, $24.95)
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Indian Art, A Concise History
• Roy C. Craven
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This convenient volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series is a crisp, illustrated overview of the range of Indian art over the centuries.
(IDA16, $18.95)
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Indian Balm, Travels Amongst Fakirs And Fire Warriors
• Paul Hyland
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Hylands perceptive, witty account of travels along the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh.
(IDA287, $14.95)
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Indian Embers
• Lady Rosamund Lawrence
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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First published in 1949, this travelogue is a classic account of a journey through India.
(IDA54, $22.95)
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Indian Subcontinent Map
• Nelles
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A map of all of India as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and parts of Tibet, China and Burma, at a scale of 1:4,500,000.
(IDA271, $10.95)
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The Inheritance of Loss
• Kiran Desai
• LITERATURE
• NEW
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Kiran Desai's luminous family saga, a tale of East and West, shifts between life in a once grand household in northern India and that of the cook's son, struggling to get by in immigrant New York. Desai illuminates the aspirations, delusions and reality of both worlds.
(IDA303, $14.00)
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Interpreter of Maladies
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• LITERATURE
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In these nine stories, Lahiri captures the experience of first-generation Indian-Americans as their marriages shift and fall apart, and their families are threatened by miscarriages, infidelity, and the trials of assimilation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
(IDA243, $13.95)
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An Introduction to Hinduism
• Gavin D. Flood
• RELIGION
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A comprehensive overview of the Hinduism, from the basic principles and tenets of the religion to modern variations and controversies.
(IDA315, $25.99)
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An Invitation to Indian Cooking: With a New Preface by the Author
• Madhur Jaffrey
• FOOD
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An introduction to the food of India, and the diversity of flavors, ingredients, recipes, and styles of preparation and presentation. A classic in its field.
(IDA161, $27.00)
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Jaipur Nama, Tales from the Pink City
• Giles Tillotson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Three centuries of history in the city of Jaipur Nama are chronicled by diverse residents and visitors, presenting an energetic portrait of the passions and dramas of everything from the palaces to the people.
(IDA339, $14.00)
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Jewel in the Crown
• Paul Scott
• LITERATURE
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The first book in Scott's addictive Raj Quartet, set in British India in 1942, is a rousing, psychologically complex tale of English colonial rule.
(IDA66, $20.00)
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Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope
• Jael Silliman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly yet sentimental account of the longstanding female Jewish community in Calcutta.
(IDA244, $19.95)
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Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope
• Jael Silliman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly yet sentimental account of the longstanding female Jewish community in Calcutta.
(IDA244, $19.95)
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Karma Cola, Marketing the Mystical East
• Gita Mehta
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A witty, often poignant satire on the exploitation of both Westerners and Indians through tourism.
(IDA136, $13.95)
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Lonely Planet Hindi & Urdu Phrasebook
• Richard Somers Delacy
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A handy phrasebook for Hindi and Urdu basics.
(IDA82, $8.99)
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Lonely Planet India
• Tony Wheeler
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive practical guide to India geared for independent travelers.
(IDA44, $29.99)
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Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra
• Abigail Hole
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to Rajasthan, featuring 36 maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing.
(IDA238, $23.99)
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Love and Longing in Bombay
• Vikram Chandra
• LITERATURE
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Five transfixing stories in five different genres, united in setting and authorship by the contemporary wizard of the human condition, Vikram Chandra.
(IDA216, $13.95)
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Maharanis, A Family Saga of Four Queens
• Lucy Moore
• HISTORY
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Moore captures the passion, complexities and power of four influential women in this family saga covering the history of India from 1911 to Independence.
(IDA309, $16.00)
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Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles
• Ved Mehta
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A vivid examination of the life and work of Gandhi by novelist Ved Mehta.
(IDA21, $25.00)
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Malgudi Days
• R. K. Narayan
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• LITERATURE
• FAVORITE
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Wonderful tales about a fictional South Indian town by a beloved Indian writer. Malgudi is a composite of Narayan's two hometowns, Mysore and Madras, populated by quirky characters whose unique approaches to tradition and modernity are the stuff of great short stories.
(IDA59, $14.00)
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Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India and Bangladesh
• David Fraser
• Barbara Fraser
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An abundantly illustrated study of the textiles of the Chin peoples of southern and eastern Asia. With more than 600 color illustrations.
(ASA46, $60.00)
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Maximum City, Bombay Lost and Found
• Suketu Mehta
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The tale of the author who, after a 21-year sojourn in New York, returns to his native Bombay, "the biggest, fastest, richest city in India."
(IDA252, $16.95)
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Mirrorwork, 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997
• Salman Rushdie
• Elizabeth West
• ANTHOLOGY
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A selection of twentieth-century Indian prose, both fiction and non-fiction, compiled by Salman Rushdie and featuring work by Jawaharlal Nehru, R.K. Narayan, Satyajit Ray, Amit Chaudhuri, and Vikram Seth. Published in celebration of 50 years of independence.
(IDA293, $17.00)
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Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy
• Ayesha Jalal
• Sugata Bose
• HISTORY
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This scholarly, brief history of India up to the 1990s is particularly good at its coverage of the post-Independence political landscape. It's a popular textbook, co-authored by a Pakistani and an Indian.
(IDA192, $35.95)
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Monster of God: The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
• David Quammen
• NATURAL HISTORY
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In search of lions in India's Gir forest, Australia's formidable saltwater crocodiles, Romania's brown bears and tigers in the Russian Far East.
(BST84, $15.95)
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Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art
• Partha Mitter
• HISTORY
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Mitter presents a fascinating history of Indian art and a parallel history of its fascinated European spectators, ranging from the early days of Asian exploration up through the twentieth century.
(IDA285, $27.00)
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The Namesake
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• LITERATURE
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An intricate and beautifully told tale, Lahiri follows the Ganguli family as they leave Calcutta and settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now a feature film, directed by Mira Nair.
(IDA292, $14.00)
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Northern India Map
• Nelles
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A regional map of northern India scaled at 1:1,500,000, with excellent topographic detail and insets of Zanskar & Ladakh.
(IDA124, $10.95)
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A Passage to India
• E.M. Forster
• LITERATURE
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Forster's enduring masterpiece of the clash between Indian and British culture gives gripping insights into British imperial attitudes and Indian colonial responses.
(IDA26, $14.00)
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Raj, The Making and Unmaking of British India
• Lawrence James
• HISTORY
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An anecdotal, engrossing mostly military history of the East India Company.
(IDA87, $23.95)
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The Ramayana, A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
• R. K. Narayan
• LITERATURE
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Novelist Narayan's translation of the ancient Hindu epic of heroism, love and fate.
(IDA311, $13.00)
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The Rig Veda
• Wendy Doniger
• RELIGION
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Doniger's choice selection of 108 Sanskrit hymns (1200-900 B.C.E.), deftly translated and with notes. The earliest of the four surviving vedas, these hyms are a foundation of Hindu mythology and culture.
(IDA355, $15.00)
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A River Sutra
• Gita Mehta
• LITERATURE
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A civil servant moves to the banks of India's holy Narmada river.
(IDA43, $14.95)
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The Romantics
• Pankaj Mishra
• LITERATURE
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The story of a Brahman youth who travels to the holy city of Benares and there falls in with a motley crew of westerners enamored of India.
(IDA143, $13.95)
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The Root and the Flower
• L.H. Myers
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• LITERATURE
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A trilogy of historical novels about India in the time of the Mughals -- first published separately in the 1930s and now back in print as a single volume.
(IDA191, $16.95)
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Rough Guide India
• David Abram
• GUIDEBOOK
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Geared to the independent traveler, this Rough Guide combines an opinionated survey of culture and history with good information on sightseeing, food and accommodations.
(IDA86, $26.99)
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Say It in Hindi
• Veena T. Oldenburg
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A pocket phrasebook.
(IDA81, $5.95)
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Scoop-Wallah, Life on a Delhi Daily
• Justine Hardy
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A memoir of life in Delhi as a newspaper reporter.
(IDA127, $15.95)
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A Silence of Splendor
• Indu Sundaresan
• LITERATURE
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(IDA300, $25.00)
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South Asia
• Sumit Ganguly
• HISTORY
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A scholarly history of modern South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
(IDA308, $18.00)
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A Suitable Boy
• Vikram Seth
• LITERATURE
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A modern classic set in Calcutta, Delhi and other northern India cities after Independence, bursting with history, character, and politics. In this outstanding epic novel, Seth displays his cultural sensitivity, historical insight, and poetic creativity.
(IDA27, $21.95)
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Train to Pakistan, A Novel
• Khushwant Singh
• LITERATURE
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This novel, set during the violence following the 1947 creation of Pakistan by the British, follows the inhabitants of a fictional Punjab village.
(IDA264, $14.00)
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Travelers' Tales India
• James O'Reilly
• Larry Habegger
• ANTHOLOGY
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A collection of 45 descriptive and thought-provoking short excerpts on Indian life and culture, including contributions from Rushdie, Naipaul and Dalrymple, plus some valuable excerpts from books long out of print.
(IDA05, $19.95)
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A Traveller's History of India
• Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda
• HISTORY
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A condensed introduction to the themes and events that have shaped India from prehistory to Rajiv Gandhi.
(IDA57, $14.95)
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Untouchable
• Mulk Raj Anand
• E. M. Forster
• LITERATURE
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Referred to by some as his nation's answer to Charles Dickens, the author tackles India's caste system with urgency and conviction.
(IDA180, $13.00)
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The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature
• Amit Chaudhuri
• LITERATURE
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An introduction to Indian fiction and poetry since 1850, including works both in translation and written originally in English. The authors span a century and a half of Indian letters, from Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee to Rushdie and Anita Desai.
(IDA218, $15.00)
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War at the Top of the World, The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet
• Eric Margolis
• HISTORY
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An overview of geography, religion and politics of the High Himalayas, and its strategic value to Pakistan, India and China. Updated throughout in this second edition, with a new chapter on the Taliban.
(PKN09, $25.95)
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Western India Map
• Nelles
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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)
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White Mughals
• William Dalrymple
• HISTORY
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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)
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The Wisdom of the Buddha
• Jean Boisselier
• RELIGION
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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)
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A Woman's Asia
• Marybeth Bond
• ANTHOLOGY
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These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller.
(ASA49, $17.95)
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The Wonder House
• Justine Hardy
• LITERATURE
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(IDA302, $24.00)
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World Religions: Eastern Traditions
• Willard G. Oxtoby
• RELIGION
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A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars, covering Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and East Asian traditions. Scholarly, but still rewarding for the general reader.
(ASA07, $62.95)
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