Noida. HarperCollins. 2019. Map, colour plates, xxii + 336pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. "Dara Shukoh - the emperor Shah Jahan's favourite son, and heir-apparent to the Mughal throne prior to being defeated by Aurangzib - has sometimes been portrayed as an effete prince, incompetent..... More
Haryana. Penguin Random House. 2019. Colour photographic plates, vii + 389pp, index, notes, dustjacket trifle worn, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178076. More
New Delhi. Aleph Book Company. 2018. Reprint. xvi + 473pp, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178075. More
London. Bloomsbury. 2009. Map, xvi + 284pp, glossary, bibliography, index, dustjacket. Edges little foxed, boards slightly bumped, otherwise a very good hardback copy. "A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends years trying to atone for the violence by hand-printing the best..... More
New Delhi. Juggernaut Books. 2016. Colour photographic and black and white line illustrations, viii + 239pp, index, notes, bibliography. Dustjacket torn with loss, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178073. More
Goa. S.K. Mhamai. 2001. Map, black and white line illustrations, ix + 177pp, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178072. More
Chicago. Haymarket Books. 2009. Map, 253pp, index, sources, notes, glossary, dustjacket spine slightly sunned, a very good hardback copy. 19.8 x 14.8cm. "Could it be that democracy, the sacred answer to our short-term hopes and prayers, the protector of our individual freedoms and nurturer of our avaricious dreams, will turn..... More
Gurgaon. Penguin. 2017. Black and white photographic plates, xiv + 495pp, index, bibliography, notes, upper edge trifle foxed, paperback covers little bumped, a good copy. "Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran, or MGR, dominated Tamil Nadu's stratosphere for four decades. In this richly detailed biography of the man often called vathiyar or teacher..... More
New York. Abingdon-Cokesbury Press. N.D. (Circa 1983). 160pp, hardback, dustjacket significantly worn with water stains and loss, edges and pages browned, a sound secondhand copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178068. More
New Delhi. Aleph Book Company. 2018. xvi + 302pp, index, bibliography. Dustjacket trifle worn, otherwise a very good copy. "In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India's finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world's oldest and greatest religions." (Publisher's description). When referring to..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1996. x + 317pp, index, bibliography, notes, prior owner's name half title, a very good paperback copy. "During the Raj, one group stands out as having prospered and thrived because of British rule: the Parsis. Driven out of Persia into India a thousand years ago..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 2012. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xx + 321pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, inscription title page, a very good paperback copy. "Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must retain a sense of cultural authenticity..... More
London. Phoenix. 2004. Reprint. Map, colour illustrations, xvi + 555pp, bibliography, index, notes, spine trifle sunned, a very good paperback copy. "In a mere century and a half, covering just four reigns from Akbar to Aurangzeb, Mughal rule changed the face of India, by which India would recognise herself and..... More
London. Herbert Jenkins. 1938. Black and white photographic illustrations, 282pp, hardback covers worn, edges browned, foxing preliminary and final leaves, a good advance review copy. A novel set amongst Hong Kong outlaws. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168463. More
New York. Howard Fertig. 1973. Reprint. Maps, x + 278pp, index, bibliography, appendices, hardback, deacquisitioned ex-library copy with usual pockets and stamps, text clean, a sound copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167514. More
Leiden. Brill. 1950. Fold out maps, xi + 335pp, index, deacquisitioned ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166871. More
London. Drane. N.D. (Circa 1923). Black and white photographic illustrations, 237pp, spine and covers significantly browned and worn, edges and leaves foxed throughout, a good reading copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166693. More
Shanghai. Commercial Press. 1935. xviii + 607pp, index, spine and covers quite worn with flecking, edges and front free endpaper browned, occasional marking in pen, a good reading copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 165751. More
New York. John Day. 1930. viii + 306pp, index, bibliography, hardback, de-acquisitioned ex-library copy with associated stamps and pockets, spine slightly worn, lower pastedown browned, a sound secondhand copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167911. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1970. xi + 280pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, glossary. Boards trifle marked, edges little foxed, preliminary and final leaves slightly browned, a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166465. More
Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2010. [Reprint]. Volume 1: Maps, black and white illustrations, xlviii + 480pp. Volume 2: Black & white illustrations, viii + 290 + cclx pp, appendices. A very good paperback set. 30 x 21cm. 3.1kg. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was a British civil servant and statesman, best..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2010. 132pp, glossary. Upper edge trifle foxed, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168832. More
London. Noel Douglas. 1927. xvii + 176pp, index, preliminary leaves and edges little foxed, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168267. More
Ipswich. Golgonooza Press. 1976. Single calligraphic illustration in blue, 23pp, very good in wrappers, octavo. When referring to this item please quote stockid 152379. More
New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1930. 4 full page colour plates, 169 black and white illustrations, xxxii + 286pp, bibliography. One leaf damaged with small marginal loss, minor wear paper covered boards, endpapers little soiled, otherwise good. When referring to this item please quote stockid 19237... More