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Trade Paperback : $26.99 Buy	Raj The Making and Unmaking of British India Lawrence James St. Martin's Griffin In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent nations of...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Idea of India Sunil Khilnani; With a New Introduction by the Author Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of...

Hardcover : $74.95 Buy	Married To The Empire Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883-1947 Studies in Imperialism Mary A. Procida Manchester University Press In Married to the Empire, Mary A. Procida provides a new approach to the growing history of women and empire by situating women at the center of the practices...

Hardcover : $173.00 Buy	The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849-1947 Studies in Military and Strategic History Timothy Robert Moreman Palgrave Macmillan Shows how the insistent demands of "small wars" in tribal territory exerted a powerful influence on the organization, equipment, training and ethos of the army...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	The Politics of Hunger in India A Study of Democracy, Governance and Kalahandi's Poverty Bob Currie Palgrave Macmillan Do people starve in democratic polities? It is often claimed that as government must respond to public needs during times of crisis, democracy has reduced...

Hardcover : $154.00 Buy	Ethnic Conflict in India A Case-Study of Punjab Gurharpal Singh Palgrave Macmillan This important new book critically evaluates the conventional reading of ethnicity and ethnic conflict in contemporary Indian politics. By focusing on India's...

Hardcover : $147.00 Buy	Indian Voices of the Great War Soldiers' Letters, 1914-18 David Omissi Palgrave Macmillan Indian soldiers served in France from 1914 to 1918. This book is a selection of their letters. By turns poignant, funny, and almost unbearably moving, these...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900 James Mills Palgrave Macmillan This fascinating, entertaining, and often grueling book by James Mills examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in 19th-century India. The author...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Leprosy in Colonial South India Medicine and Confinement Jane Buckingham Palgrave Macmillan Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of a disease, it is also a history of colonial power in 19th-century British India as seen through the...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Hinduism and Secularism After Ayodhya Arvind Sharma Palgrave Macmillan The demolition of the Babri Mosque at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 was an event as significant as it was unexpected. In this book, nine scholars (Theodore P....

Hardcover : $75.00 Buy	Jaipur The Last Destination Aman Nath; Photographs by Samar Singh Jodha I.B. Tauris Jaipur: The Last Destination brings alive nine centuries, pulling history out of the realm of text books and making it a wondrous narrative of war and bravery;...

Hardcover : $89.95 Buy	In the Land of Poverty Memories of an Indian Family, 1947-97 Siddharth Dube Zed Books On August 15, 1947, the day of India's independence from Britain, Ram Dass and his family were Untouchables--lowest of the low in an apparently unchanging...

Hardcover : $49.50 Buy	The Begums of Bhopal A History of the Princely State of Bhopal Shaharyar M. Khan I.B. Tauris Between 1819 and 1926 four Muslim women rulers reigned over Bhopal, the second largest Muslim state of India, despite staunch opposition from powerful...

Hardcover : $94.00 Buy	Colonial Educators The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1858-1983 International Library of Historical Studies Clive Whitehead I.B. Tauris This book explores the question of education in the British Empire and its debated interpretations: cultural imperialism or vital preparation for independence...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Reporting the Raj The British Press and India, c. 1880-1922 Studies in Imperialism Chandrika Kaul Manchester University Press This highly original and lively study represents the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British...

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Love and Death in Kathmandu

A Strange Tale of Royal Murder

Amy Willesee and Mark Whittaker St. Martin's Press

A riveting investigation of a devastating crime--the full story of the June 2001 massacre of Nepal's royal family by the heir to the throne

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Hardcover : $73.00 Buy	Last Children of the Raj Volume II Edited by Laurence Fleming with introduction by Sir Mark Tully Radcliffe Press Here is a unique entry-point into British and Indian social and cultural history in the last and momentous period in the history of the Raj. It is a vivid...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India David Hall-Matthews Palgrave Macmillan Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, drawn out, and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	State, Community and Neighbourhood in Princely North India, c. 1900-1950 Ian Copland Palgrave Macmillan Ian Copland's aim in this book is to explain why, during the colonial period, the erstwhile Indian "princely" states experienced significantly less Muslim-Sikh...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Representations of Indian Muslims in Colonial Discourse Alex Padamsee Palgrave Macmillan This study questions current views that Muslims represented a secure point of reference for the British understanding of colonial Indian society. Through...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Kingship and Colonialism in India's Deccan 1850-1948 Benjamin B. Cohen Palgrave Macmillan An examination of resilient Hindu elites who lived, fought, and adapted to political and social change during the turbulent late nineteenth and early twentieth...

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The Ruling Caste

Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

David Gilmour Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

“[A] lavishly enjoyable book.” —Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand Britons at any one time managed...

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Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Sultans and Mosques The Early Muslim Architecture of Bangladesh Perween Hasan; Foreword by Oleg Grabar I.B. Tauris Before the Mughal style came to dominate the Islamic architecture of the Indian sub-continent, Bengal and its rulers had developed their own forms. The mosque...

Hardcover : $40.00 Buy	Gandhi A Political and Spiritual Life Kathryn Tidrick I.B. Tauris "My struggle is not merely political. It is religious and therefore quite pure." How did Gandhi reconcile his political career with his religious beliefs?...

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