London. Dorling Kindersley. 2017. Profuse colour illustrations, 512pp, hardback. "Take a fresh look at India's great epic with The Illustrated Mahabharata and rediscover the lost kingdoms, dynasties, and characters of the Mahabharata. Follow the tale as it unfolds through 18 parvas with stunning photographs, paintings, sculptures, and historical artefacts. Discover..... More
United Kingdom. Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2014. Maps, xx + 298pp, bibliography, index. "South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current position as a region of central strategic importance to both global economic development..... More
Viking. Penguin Books India. 1998. First Edition. xi + 278pp, dustjacket mildly worn with closed tear, occasional pencilling throughout text, prior owner's name front free endpapers, a good hardback copy. Untold personal stories of Partition from oral narratives and testimonies, many cases from women, children and dalits, marginal voices never..... More
New Delhi. Asian Educational Services. 1990. [Reprint]. 3 volumes. Translated, folding maps, Vol I From France through Syria, Ira and the Persia Gulf to Surat, Goa and Bijapur with an account of his grave illness. lvi + 315pp, Vol II From Bijapur to Madras and St Thome. Account of the..... More
London. V & A Publishing. 2020. 66 colour illustrations. Hardback. "V&A Pattern: Indian Florals provides a dazzling introduction to the vibrant designs of the Indian subcontinent. A source of inspiration for designers from William Morris to Alexander McQueen, the V&A holds over three million designs for textiles, decorations, wallpapers and..... More
Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 2005. index, xiv + 252pp, paperback. "There is a growing dialogue between India and Southeast Asia. From a marginal relationship during the Cold War days to the participation of India at the East Asia summit in December 2005 has been a long journey. This..... More
New Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2002. Second Edition. xxxviii + 837pp, table of cases, appendices, index, paperback, remainder mark on lower edge. "Environmental law and policy in India affects almost all sections of society. Those most deeply affected by it are the poor. Displaced and dispossessed by deforestation and despoliation..... More
Australia: Black Inc., 2011. 214pp, paperback. When Sonia Faleiro set out to report on Bombay's bar dancers, she thought she knew what she would find: downtrodden, voiceless women, the helpless victims of predictable poverty. Instead she meets Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken, Leela has been dancing in Bombay's bars..... More
United Kingdom. Penguin Books. 2007. 464pp, paperback. Translated from the original Gujarati by Mahadev Desai with a foreword by Pankaj Mishra. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the..... More
Amsterdam. Jointly published by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society (KNAG), Utrecht University/Explokart (UU) and Asia Maior/Atlas Maior Publishers. Oct, 2009. Profusely illustrated throughout with high quality reproductions of manuscript maps and plans held in Dutch institutions, 420pp, ribbon bookmark. As new in dustjacket in slip case. A very handsome volume..... More
USA: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton. 1988. New ed. Map, xxvii + 433 pages, lower edges little marked, little worn covers lifting slightly, still a good copy in paperback. The Opening of India to the West, The Renascence of Hinduism, Nationalism Takes Root: The Moderates, The Marriage of..... More
New Delhi. Munshiram Manoharlal. 1975. Reprint. xiv + 252pp, index, worn dustjacket. English translation of the Latin work De Imperio Magni Mogolis, sive India vera, Commentarius ex variis auctoribus congestus by Joannes De Laet. Consisting of two parts the first part contains geographical, commercial and adminstrative details abstracted from various..... More
Bangkok. Orchid. 1998. xx + 187pp, index, bibliography, appendices, dustjacket. This book is about cultural translation and comparison between Hinduism and capitalism, which can both be concieved as sociocultural systems which influence the ways people think, feel and communicate. When referring to this item please quote stockid 48941... More
New Delhi. Vision Books. 2002. Reprinted. Black and white line maps, 576pp, glossary, a good hardback copy. "The vast and varied physical and human geography of India has now been packed into this unique encyclopedic reference work - the first-ever of its kind - by a noted scholar who has..... More
Singapore. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 2007. Black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 212pp, bibliography, index, paperback. This book looks closely at the Malaysian following of the contemporary Indian godman, Sathya Sai Baba, a new Hindu guru famed for his miracle-working. The "911" attacks on the United States and..... More
Ontario. Broadview Press. 2005. Edited by Maire ni Fhlathuin. 400pp, appendices, references, paperback. "Tells the story of Kimball O'Hara, an orphaned Irish boy growing up in late nineteenth-century India, and his quest for identity as he strives to reconcile his Western inheritance with the Indian life he has always known..... More
Melbourne. Brass Monkey Books. 2011. 156pp, paperback. A mother farewells her dead children on an unusual pilgrimage; a wife’s affair with an old schoolfriend brings unexpected joy and pain; a young domestic worker rediscovers the husband she thought she had lost. Mridula Koshy tells the stories of ordinary women in..... More
New Delhi. Sterling Publishers Private. (c. 1996). ix + 223pp, index, notes, dustjacket. Asian Studies Association of Australia, South Asian Publications Series No. 10. A volume of essays relating to the period of the British retreat from India in the decades prior to independence in 1947. "Among the essays collected..... More
Albany. State University of New York Press. 1998. Notes, bibliography, index, xx + 205pp.. A good paperback copy. "Examines the legendary life and poetic works of Ramprasad, the eighteenth-century Bengali devotee of the Goddess, whose songs were influential in his own time and remain popular today." (Publisher's description). When referring..... More
United States: Indiana University Press, 2010. 2nd Edition. 28 b&w illustrations 2 maps "This anthology provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays..... More
London. Vintage. 2018. 374pp, paperback. "The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-not' Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven..... More
London. Vintage. 2021. 339pp. Paperback. "Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee track down those responsible in time to stop a...... More
London. Vintage. 2019. 332pp, paperback. "India, 1921. Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. But Wyndham finds himself in a tight spot when he stumbles across a corpse in an opium den. When he..... More
New Delhi. Sterling Publishers Private. (c. 1989). Map, xviii + 178pp, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket. Asian Studies Association of Australia, South Asian Publication Series No. 4. "In a visual, almost photographic manner, the book presents that reality of schools and the problems of teachers and local administrators in three different..... More
United States. Dover Publications. 2004. 48 pages, black and white illustrations, accompanying CD-ROM, paperback. 197 black-and-white illustrations selected from ancient pottery, mosaics, and other authentic sources include details from fresco paintings, jewellery patterns, and other artifacts. The striking royalty-free motifs are easily adaptable for use in textiles and wallpaper, furniture..... More
