Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxi + 273 pages, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket. The rise of independent cinema in Southeast Asia, and the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers there, is among the most significant recent developments in global cinema. The advent..... 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
New Delhi. Penguin Books India. 1998. xi + 278pp, dustjacket mildly worn with closed tear, occasional pencilling throughout text, prior owner's name front free endpapers, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 177559. 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
No place of publication. Mapin. 1999. Colour frontispiece, numerous colour photographic illustrations, 120 pp, glossary, bibliography, dustjacket. A presentation of the Goddess Parvati in all of her manifestations, with photographic illustrations of stone sculptures, bronzes and paintings. When referring to this item please quote stockid 67538. 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
Ankara. Publications of the Ministry of Culture of the Turkish Republic. 2002. 2nd Edition. Numerous photographic illustrations - generally black & white, a few in colour, xi + 947pp. Red cloth covered boards stamped with gilt decorative device and lettered in gilt, illustrated dustwrapper and silk marker tie. Text in..... 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
Bangkok. Orchid Press. 2001. First edition. Map, profuse colour photographic plates, folding landscape line illustration, xiv + 206pp, notes, bibliography, index, protected dustjacket. Quarto. The monumental cave complexes of the Baodingshan site at Dazu, in Sichuan Province, and their vast treasure trove of Buddhist sculpture and painting have been little..... 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
Folkestone. Global Oriental. 2008. Colour photographic plates, xi + 240pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket.. Using an interdisciplinary, theoretical and ethnographic approach, this book brings together a collection of research on contemporary Japanese performance practices. When referring to this item please quote stockid 102569. 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
Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press. 2010. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, xxxi + 254 pages, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, dustjacket. This is the first book on Korean opera in a language other than Korean. Its subject is ch'angguk, a form of musical theatre that has developed over the..... 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
No place of publication. Mapin Publishing. 2010. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout, 90pp, oblong hardback, colour pictorial laminated boards. Very good. A visually delightful book which offers a fascinating picture of this form of Bangladeshi street art. This marvellous little book brings to life, through its very readable text, the..... 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
Singapore. NUS Press. 2019. Black and white photographic illustrations in the text, 349pp, endnotes, bibliography, index, paperback. As new. "Much has been said about how Javanese puppet theatre, Wayang Kulit, richly reflects the Javanese world, and how changes and tensions in performance practice mirror those in culture and society. For..... 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