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	Eyewitness Guide Delhi, Agra and Jaipur  •  Anuradha Chaturvedi GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES A compact, gorgeously illustrated guide to Delhi and environs featuring maps, site plans and 900 color photographs. With annotated recommendations of where to stay and eat and what to buy. It includes chapters on the Taj Mahal, Amber Fort Palace, Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Red Fort and dozens of other highlights for the traveler. (IDA151, $25.00)
	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)
	City of Djinns, A Year in Delhi  •  William Dalrymple CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2003 •  PAPER  • 350 PAGES • 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 and the social forces that have shaped it. A must-read for any curious traveler to Delhi. First published in 1993. (IDA06, $16.00)
	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. (IDA73, $10.95)

	Footprint Rajasthan Handbook  •  Matt Barrett   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A sturdy guide in the practical Footprint series with background information on the history and culture of Rajasthan. (IDA267, $23.95)
	Love Delhi  •   Love Travel Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This beautifully made, affectionate guide, packaged in its own satchel of locally woven raw silk and printed on hand-made paper, captures the soul of the city, pointing with authority to neighborhoods, shops, markets, restaurants and attractions. (IDA403, $40.00)
	Banaras  •  Diana L. Eck   • HISTORY  •  This history of the holiest and oldest of Indian cities, the home of Shiva, encompasses many millennia of Buddhist and especially Hindu practices along the Ganges. (IDA211, $27.50)
	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, $14.95)
	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)
	India, A Wounded Civilization  •  V.S. Naipaul   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A vivid and unsentimental cultural portrait that draws together conversations with Indians, news reports, politics and literature, paying particular attention to the Hindu confrontation with the West. (IDA224, $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)
	Taj Mahal, Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire  •  Diana Preston  •  Michael Preston   • HISTORY  •  A vivid narrative history of the creation of the Taj Mahal, a memorial created by Moghul emperor Shah Jahan for his beloved wife. (IDA340, $16.95)
	The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857  •  William Dalrymple   • HISTORY  •  The riveting tale of the poet, mystic and Mughal Emperor Shah Zafar II, culminating in the 1857 Indian Rebellion. (IDA350, $16.95)
	Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India  •  Diana L. Eck   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A fascinating and rigorous guide to deciphering Hindu symbolism, this scholarly book will help you understand and appreciate religious art in India. Despite its scholarly paraphernalia and language, the book is extremely useful for the traveler. (IDA75, $21.00)
	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)
	Taj Mahal  •  M.C. Joshi  •  Jean-Louis Nou  •  Amina Okada   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This lavish portrait features 158 full-color photographs (including four magnificent foldout panels) by Jean-Louis Nou. He balances grand exterior and panoramic views with detailed photographs of filigreed inscriptions and bejeweled floral mosaics. (IDA108, $75.00)
	The Taj Mahal  •  Giles Tillotson   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • COMING IN NOVEMBER  •  More than a richly illustrated history, though it is that as well, this book is an eloquent meditation on the place of the Taj Mahal in the cultural imagination of India and the wider world. (IDA528, $19.95)
	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)
	Slowly Down the Ganges  •  Eric Newby   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  In 1963, the author and his wife set out an a 1,200-mile voyage down the Ganges River. The title could apply as easily to the ruminative attitude Newby takes towards his journey as to the many mishaps which bedevil the quest. (IDA179, $14.95)
	The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor  •  Zahiruddin Babur Shah  •  Salman Rushdie  •  Wheeler M. Thackson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The candid memoir of the first Moghul emperor of India (universally known as Babur), descended from Tamerlane. (CAS149, $17.95)
	A Fine Balance  •  Rohinton Mistry   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  Set in Indira Gandhi's "emergency Raj" of 1975 in an unnamed Indian "city by the sea," which bears a striking resemblance to Bombay, this tender novel follows the intermingled fortunes of a Parsi widow, her boarder and two tailors. (IDA92, $15.95)
	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  •  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)
	The Inheritance of Loss  •  Kiran Desai   • LITERATURE • NEW  •  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)
	India Safari Companion  •  Alain Pons   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A colorful, illustrated slim guide to wildlife, photography and travel in India. (IDA371, $14.95)
	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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