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	Insight Guide India  •   Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its wonderful photography, full-color maps, superb production and informative short essays on contemporary topics such as India's movie industry, language, and cuisine. It includes introductions to the major temples, forts, and wildlife sites, as well as background on each region, and plenty of photos and maps. A well illustrated overview of the culture, history and attractions of the subcontinent for travelers. (IDA19, $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)
	India and the Mughal Dynasty  •  Valerie Berinstain  •  Paul Bahn HISTORY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 159 PAGES A pocket-size encyclopedia of knowledge, this slim volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series presents the history, culture and splendor of the Mughal Dynasty. With hundreds of archival drawings and paintings, it provides great background to the architecture and Muslim heritage of the splendid courts of 16th-century India. (IDA50, $12.95)
	Kim  •  Rudyard Kipling LITERATURE •  1992 •  PAPER  • 365 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, $7.00)
	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 Map  •   ITMB 2006 •  MAP A double-sided shaded relief map of India at the excellent scale of 1:2,100,000, printed on tear and waterproof paper. With an index, it shows major roads, rivers, and locations of national parks. (IDA18, $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)
	Hindi, Start Speaking Today!  •   Educational Services Corporation   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  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)
	Rough Guide India  •  David Abram   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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, $29.99)
	A Traveller's History of India  •  Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda   • HISTORY  •  A condensed introduction to the themes and events that have shaped India from prehistory to Rajiv Gandhi's rule. (IDA57, $14.95)
	Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress  •  Jan Morris   • HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  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)
	India Unveiled  •  Robert Arnett   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A celebration of the people, landscapes and traditional culture of India, organized regionally and featuring 268 beautiful color photographs. It's a revealing, insightful portrait of the country combining history, geography and travelogue. (IDA107, $55.00)
	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)
	Meeting God, Elements of Hindu Devotion  •  Thomas Moore  •  Stephen Huyler   • RELIGION  •  A stunningly photographed introduction to the rituals and daily devotion of contemporary Hinduism in India. A companion to the traveling exhibition "Puja, Expressions of Hindu Devotion." (IDA132, $24.00)
	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 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)
	World Religions: Eastern Traditions  •  Willard G. Oxtoby   • RELIGION  •  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, $64.95)
	Hindu Art  •  T. Richard Blurton   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  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)
	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)
	Indian Art, A Concise History  •  Roy C. Craven   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  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)
	Hindoo Holiday, An Indian Journal  •  J.R. Ackerly   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Ackerly traipses across India as the English tutor to a handsome and extravagantly homosexual maharajah in this comic, beautifully turned-out novel masquerading as a travelogue. (IDA115, $14.00)
	The Age of Kali, Indian Travels and Encounters  •  William Dalrymple   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT  •  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)
	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)
	Malgudi Days  •  R. K. Narayan  •  Jhumpa Lahiri   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  Wonderful tales about a fictional South Indian town, populated by quirky characters whose unique approaches to tradition and modernity are the stuff of these great short stories. (IDA59, $15.00)
	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 the Booker." The title refers to those, like the narrator, born at the stroke of midnight August 15, 1947. (IDA12, $14.95)
	The God of Small Things  •  Arundhati Roy   • LITERATURE  •  A mystery, family saga and tale of lost innocence set in Kerala during the tumult of the 1960s. The luminous, Booker-prize winning novel opens in June, at the beginning of the monsoon season, when "The countryside turns an immodest green ... Pepper vines snake up electric poles. Wild creepers burst through laterite banks and spill across the flooded roads." (IDA31, $15.00)
	Of Tigers and Men  •  Richard Ives   • NATURAL HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A haunting, beautifully written tale of a man's quest to encounter tigers in the wild, and to understand the meaning of the threat of the tiger's extinction. Ives visits the forests of India, Thailand, and Sumatra. (IDA30, $12.50)
	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)
	Field Guide to the Mammals of the Indian Subcontinent  •  K. K. Gurung  •  Raj Singh   • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT  •  This compact guide to 106 species features color illustrations, tracks, range maps and information about habitats and conservation. With an overview of 23 parks and reserves, including location maps and species lists. (FG33, $41.00)

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