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Brahma's Pushkar, Ancient Indian Pilgrimage
• Aman Nath
• Rajan Kapoor
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 204 PAGES
• COMING IN
The myth, history, ancient rites and legdens surrounding Pushkar, its pilgrims, traders, and visitors are documented in nearly 500 color photographs and illuminating text. Ample attention is paid to the celebrated Camel Fair (held once a year during the full moon in November). With notes and album on the the three parikramas (walking pilgrimages).
(IDA304, $55.00) |
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Delhi, Jaipur, Agra Map
• Globetrotter
2009 •
MAP
Covering northern India from Rajasthan to Bangaldesh, this double-sided regional also includes color photographs, site diagrams and city plans of The Golden Triangle, Agra, Jaipur, the Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Delhi, Old Delhi and the Delhi Metro. The main map (1:3.5 million) shows neighboring areas of Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangaldesh and Burma.
(IDA566, $8.95) |
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Kim
• Rudyard Kipling
LITERATURE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
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 this classic novel. It's one of the great adventure stories -- the enduring tale of an orphan boy who, through happenstance, travels the Grand Trunk Road.
(IDA65, $9.00) |
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A Passage to India
• E.M. Forster
LITERATURE •
1976 •
PAPER
• 362 PAGES
The story of an Indian wrongly accused of assaulting an English woman. The book, an enduring masterpiece, challenged the attitudes of the British occupation of India, and prophetically showed why British elistist and racist attitudes would lead to the downfall of the empire in India.
(IDA26, $14.00) |
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Raj, The Making and Unmaking of British India
• Lawrence James
HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 544 PAGES
An anecdotal, engrossing mostly military history of the East India Company.
(IDA87, $24.99) |
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A Suitable Boy
• Vikram Seth
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 1488 PAGES
A modern classic set in Calcutta, Delhi and Brahmpur after Independence. Big and unabashedly plotty, it's like a 19th-century English novel in its structure and resolution, yet its trappings are all Indian. While courtesans sing ghazals, while young men make mischief in celebration of Holi, while pilgrims bathe in the Ganges, the newly independent nation of India launches itself into history.
(IDA27, $21.99) |
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Taj Mahal, Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
• Diana Preston
• Michael Preston
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 317 PAGES
A vivid narrative history of the creation of the Taj Mahal, a gift from Moghul emperor Shah Jahan to his wife. An excellent examination of not only this architectural marvel, but also Mughal culture and society. From two popular Oxford-trained historians.
(IDA340, $16.95) |
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
• William Dalrymple
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2003 •
PAPER
• 350 PAGES
• FAVORITE
A year's sojourn in Old Delhi provides the springboard for a brilliant ramble through several thousand years of the city's history; architecture, art and literature are leavened and lightened by a mixture of the author's daily life. Any visitor will see a Delhi, New and Old, with fresh eyes after walking through the crowds on Chandni Chowk with the incomparable Dalrymple as guide.
(IDA06, $16.00) |
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May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons, A Journey Among the Women of India
• Elisabeth Bumiller
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1991 •
PAPER
• 220 PAGES
A veteran journalist stationed in India, the author portrays Indian women from Bollywood stars to Indira Gandhi to prostitutes in this wonderfully written, fascinating book. It's an insightful portrait of the country as seen through the eyes of its women.
(IDA37, $14.95) |
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In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India
• Edward Luce
HISTORY •
2008 •
PAPER
• 346 PAGES
Luce tackles the challenges and reality of the world's largest democracy with insight and balance in this stimulating portrait of a nation in transition. Luce, Delhi-based Financial Times's South Asia bureau chief from 2001-2005, married to his college sweetheart who is Indian, considers India his second home.
(IDA349, $16.00) |
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The Idea of India
• Sunil Khilnani
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1999 •
PAPER
• 263 PAGES
A provocative survey of India since independence, presented as four essays: Democracy, Economics, Cities, and Who is an Indian. Khilnani confronts the complexities, paradoxes and challenges of the nation in this short, elegant book. He teaches politics at Birkbeck College at the University of London.
(IDA160, $17.00) |
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Taj Mahal
• Giles Tillotson
• Mary Beard
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 190 PAGES
This pocket book in Harvard's Wonders of the World series is a guide and witty meditation on the place of the Taj Mahal in the cultural imagination of India and the wider world. An art historian, Tillotson demolishes myths about the structure ("the queen of architecture"), its history and meaning.
(IDA528, $19.95) |
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An Autobiography, Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth
• Mohandas K. Gandhi
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1995 •
PAPER
• 480 PAGES
There is no substitute for reading Gandhi in his own simple, direct prose. A highly recommended glimpse into the personal life of this remarkable figure.
(IDA163, $10.95) |
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The White Tiger, A Novel
• Aravind Adiga
LITERATURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
Adiga explores the materialism and technology-induced mania of twenty-first century urban India through the tale of Balram Halwa, a village pauper-turned-entrepreneur. It's a transfixing story, both shocking and entertaining, of hard-fought success. 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. Winner of the 2008 Booker Prize.
(IDA542, $15.00) |
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Birds of India
• Richard Grimmett
• Carol Inskipp
• Tim Inskipp
FIELD GUIDE •
2012 •
PAPER
• 384 PAGES
A field edition of the masterful five-pound handbook to birds of the region (FG31), featuring the same stunning color plates, up-to-date range maps and condensed descriptive information. The book covers 1,300 bird species of the Indian Subcontinent from Nepal and Bhutan to Sri Lanka. With 153 color plates. Descriptions, range maps and illustrations are integrated on the same page for easy reference. Designed and built for use in the field with a sturdy binding and water-resistant cover.
(FG43, $39.50) |
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