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Eyewitness Guide Delhi, Agra and Jaipur •  Anuradha Chaturvedi
GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • 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 • 2009 • PAPER • 281 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)

Mughal India, Splendours of the Peacock Throne •  Valerie Berinstain •  Paul Bahn
HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 159 PAGES
A pocket-size encyclopedia of knowledge, this slim volume in the acclaimed "New Horizons" 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, $15.95)

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)

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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India West 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, $11.95)

Culture Smart! India •  Nick Grihault • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN SEPTEMBER • A concise, well-illustrated guide to both social and business customs in India. (IDA298, $13.35)

Lonely Planet India Phrasebook •  Omkar Koul • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A handy, palm-sized guide. (IDA538, $10.99)

Love Delhi •  Fiona Caulfield • 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)

Love Mumbai •  Fiona Caulfield • 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. (IDA389, $40.00)

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, $16.00)

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)

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, $17.00)

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 and mid 19th century Delhi, culminating in the 1857 Indian Rebellion. (IDA350, $16.95)

Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India •  Diana L. Eck • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Tremendously useful for the traveler, this rigorous guide explains the significance and meaning of Hindu temples, festivals and ritual. Darsan, which translates as "seeing", reveals religious expression in India. (IDA75, $25.00)

Great Monuments of India •   DK Publishing • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Featuring 600 photographs, maps and essays on history, culture and architecture. (IDA597, $30.00)

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 the extraordinary Jean-Louis Nou. With grand exterior views, filigreed inscriptions and bejeweled floral mosaics. (IDA108, $75.00)

Taj Mahal •  Giles Tillotson •  Mary Beard • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An enlightening pocket guide to the myth, meaning and legends of the celebrated tomb, "the queen of architecture." (IDA528, $19.95)

Taj Mahal, Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire •  Diana Preston •  Michael Preston • ART & ARCHITECTURE • 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)

A Princess Remembers, The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur •  Devi Gayatri • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • The memoirs of an extraordinary life. Widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur, member of parliament and a fascinating character, Devi recalls growing up in the palace compound, marrying the Maharaja, her political triumphs and work on behalf of education in India. (IDA149, $39.95)

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)

India, A Traveler's Literary Companion •  Chandrahas Choudhury • ANTHOLOGY • Organized geographically, this latest entry in the series of Traveler's Literary Companions is both an introduction to 14 of India's contemporary writers and to its diverse cultures and history. (IDA598, $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, $17.00)

Beneath a Marble Sky, A Love Story •  John Shors • LITERATURE • 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. (IDA301, $14.00)

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 • 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 Booker." The title refers to those, like the narrator, born at the stroke of midnight August 15, 1947. (IDA12, $16.00)

Shadow Princess •  Indu Sundaresan • LITERATURE • Princess Jahanara's story, replete with sibling rivalries, unfulfilled love and her father's grief, is set against the construction of her mother's tomb, the Taj Mahal, in this third installment in the bestselling Taj Mahal trilogy. (IDA596, $25.99)

The Case of the Missing Servant •  Tarquin Hall • MYSTERY • Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, India's Most Private Investigator Vish Puri cuts a determined swath through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers in Delhi in this first novel in the series by Tarquin Hall. Married to an Indian-born BBC reporter and former South Asia bureau chief of Associated Press TV, Hall brings knowledge and a light touch to his loving descriptions of the popular culture, mores, and cuisine of modern India, and his insights into the impact of modernization and globalization on age-old traditions and values. (IDA606, $14.00)

The White Tiger, A Novel •  Aravind Adiga • LITERATURE • Mordant, funny, angry, horrifying, this Booker Prize-winning tale of a village pauper turned success (and murderer) skewers the ambition, inequity and corruption of 21st-century India. 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. (IDA542, $15.00)

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)

Mammals of India •  Vivek Menon • FIELD GUIDE • A Princeton Field Guide edition of Menon's authoritative survey of 400 mammalian species from tropical lowlands to the Himalayas. With large, clear photographs, range maps and introductory chapters on the groups of mammals, conservation and protected areas. (IDA546, $35.00)

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	Eyewitness Guide Delhi, Agra and Jaipur • Anuradha Chaturvedi GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • 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 • 2009 • PAPER • 281 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)
	Mughal India, Splendours of the Peacock Throne • Valerie Berinstain • Paul Bahn HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 159 PAGES A pocket-size encyclopedia of knowledge, this slim volume in the acclaimed "New Horizons" 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, $15.95)
	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)
	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)

	India West 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, $11.95)
	Culture Smart! India • Nick Grihault • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN SEPTEMBER • A concise, well-illustrated guide to both social and business customs in India. (IDA298, $13.35)
	Lonely Planet India Phrasebook • Omkar Koul • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A handy, palm-sized guide. (IDA538, $10.99)
	Love Delhi • Fiona Caulfield • 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)
	Love Mumbai • Fiona Caulfield • 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. (IDA389, $40.00)
	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, $16.00)
	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)
	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, $17.00)
	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 and mid 19th century Delhi, culminating in the 1857 Indian Rebellion. (IDA350, $16.95)
	Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India • Diana L. Eck • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Tremendously useful for the traveler, this rigorous guide explains the significance and meaning of Hindu temples, festivals and ritual. Darsan, which translates as "seeing", reveals religious expression in India. (IDA75, $25.00)
	Great Monuments of India • DK Publishing • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Featuring 600 photographs, maps and essays on history, culture and architecture. (IDA597, $30.00)
	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 the extraordinary Jean-Louis Nou. With grand exterior views, filigreed inscriptions and bejeweled floral mosaics. (IDA108, $75.00)
	Taj Mahal • Giles Tillotson • Mary Beard • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An enlightening pocket guide to the myth, meaning and legends of the celebrated tomb, "the queen of architecture." (IDA528, $19.95)
	Taj Mahal, Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire • Diana Preston • Michael Preston • ART & ARCHITECTURE • 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)
	A Princess Remembers, The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur • Devi Gayatri • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • The memoirs of an extraordinary life. Widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur, member of parliament and a fascinating character, Devi recalls growing up in the palace compound, marrying the Maharaja, her political triumphs and work on behalf of education in India. (IDA149, $39.95)
	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)
	India, A Traveler's Literary Companion • Chandrahas Choudhury • ANTHOLOGY • Organized geographically, this latest entry in the series of Traveler's Literary Companions is both an introduction to 14 of India's contemporary writers and to its diverse cultures and history. (IDA598, $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, $17.00)
	Beneath a Marble Sky, A Love Story • John Shors • LITERATURE • 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. (IDA301, $14.00)
	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 • 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 Booker." The title refers to those, like the narrator, born at the stroke of midnight August 15, 1947. (IDA12, $16.00)
	Shadow Princess • Indu Sundaresan • LITERATURE • Princess Jahanara's story, replete with sibling rivalries, unfulfilled love and her father's grief, is set against the construction of her mother's tomb, the Taj Mahal, in this third installment in the bestselling Taj Mahal trilogy. (IDA596, $25.99)
	The Case of the Missing Servant • Tarquin Hall • MYSTERY • Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, India's Most Private Investigator Vish Puri cuts a determined swath through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers in Delhi in this first novel in the series by Tarquin Hall. Married to an Indian-born BBC reporter and former South Asia bureau chief of Associated Press TV, Hall brings knowledge and a light touch to his loving descriptions of the popular culture, mores, and cuisine of modern India, and his insights into the impact of modernization and globalization on age-old traditions and values. (IDA606, $14.00)
	The White Tiger, A Novel • Aravind Adiga • LITERATURE • Mordant, funny, angry, horrifying, this Booker Prize-winning tale of a village pauper turned success (and murderer) skewers the ambition, inequity and corruption of 21st-century India. 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. (IDA542, $15.00)
	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)
	Mammals of India • Vivek Menon • FIELD GUIDE • A Princeton Field Guide edition of Menon's authoritative survey of 400 mammalian species from tropical lowlands to the Himalayas. With large, clear photographs, range maps and introductory chapters on the groups of mammals, conservation and protected areas. (IDA546, $35.00)