New York. Carroll & Graf. 2003. Map, xii + 322pp, glossary, bibligraphy, index, paperback covers lightly rubbed, a very good copy. "Acclaimed historian of the Raj, Charles Allen marvellously depicts a band of extraordinary eighteenth and nineteenth-century Western adventurers who travelled to lost holy places across Asia in search of... More about The Search for the Buddha. The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion
Assam. Lawyer's Book Stall. 1962. xv + 98pp, covers somewhat marked, head of spine little torn, inscribed to Professor Basham by the author front free endpaper. These sketches are compiled primarily on the basis of the author's personal aquaintance with the men and as a tribute to their memory. (When... More about Men I Have Met. Brief Sketches of One Hundred and Fifty-two Contemporaries
New Delhi: Lancer International. 1992. Map, xx + 327p, lacks frontispiece, index, faint foxing edges, little browned throughout, a good copy. First published in London 1907. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159119). More about The Pirates of Malabar. And an English woman in India Two Hundred Year's Ago
New Delhi. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. 1968. Black and white portrait frontispiece, 224pp, appendices, bibliography, index, one gathering starting, stiff card covers with little worn and marked dustjacket, still a good copy. In the Builders of Modern India series. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 152591). More about Surendranath Banerjea
London. Hogarth. 1991. 1st Edition. 506pp, minor wear covers, very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 70101). More about The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
London. George Allen & Unwin. 1966. Foreword by Arnold Toynbee. Portrait frontis, 186pp, index, priceclipped dustjacket little chipped, good copy. The author served as Australian Ambassador in India. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 65773). More about Nehru. A Contemporary's Estimate
London. Allen & Unwin. 1961. Black and white photographic frontis, 256pp, bibliography, index, light foxing first and last leaves and edges, reverse dustjacket foxed and browned, dustjacket rather worn and marked with price sticker lower cover, otherwise good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 74498). More about The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru
Middesex. Penguin Books. 1971. 351pp, index, paperback rebound in leather with gilt decorative trim on covers and spine and faux raised bands, gilt lettering on spine, pages and edges evenly browned, marbled endpapers, spine faded, edges of covers little rubbed, still a sound copy. (When referring to this item please... More about Nehru. A Political Biography. Political Leaders of the Twentieth Century
New Delhi. Rupa & Co., 2002. Reprint of the 1st edition. 218pp., index, paperback in very good condition. "Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831), one of the pioneers among the makers of modern Bengal, was born to a Portuguese man and his Indian wife in Calcutta on 18 April 1809. He... More about Henry Derozio
London. Michael Joseph. 1951. Illustrated with stunning black and white illustrations by Shrimati Arnakali E. Carlile, 304pp, very good copy in trifle worn dustjacket. The second in Ghose's autobiographical writings, this book traces his life after leaving school and his departure for Calcutta to join the university. "It is part... More about Cradle of the Clouds
London. Michael Joseph. 1955. Stunning illustrations by Shrimati Arnakali E. Carlile, 288pp, first and last blanks a trifle browned, very good copy in dustjacket. This fourth volume in Ghose's autobiographical writings follows on from The Vermilion Boat. In this volume he is searching for his first job. He fails to... More about The Flame of the Forest
London. Michael Joseph. Reprint.1953. Illustrated with striking full page illustrations by Shrimati Arnakali E. Carlile, 302pp, very good copy in trifle worn dustjacket. The subject of this third volume of Ghose's autobiography is the young writer's university education in Calcutta. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 6299). More about The Vermilion Boat
London. Michael Joseph. 1953. Illustrated with striking full page illustrations by Shrimati Arnakali E. Carlile, 302pp, signature of a prior owner title page and front free endpaper and title page, very occasional light foxing, good copy in chipped and torn dustjacket. The subject of this third volume of Ghose's autobiography... More about The Vermilion Boat
Calcutta. Cambray. 1911. Black and white illustrations, 239pp, appendices, modern binding with gilt lettering spine, first and last few leaves marked and little browned, one leaf with illustration loose, contents otherwise clean and sound. Edited by his grandson. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 33875). More about The Life of Grish Chunder Ghose. The Founder and First Editor of "The Hindoo Patriot"...
London. Jonathan Cape. 1975. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 398pp, notes, bibliography, index, edges and endpapers lightly foxed, very good in hardback. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 152546). More about Jawarharlal Nehru. A Biography. Volume One 1889-1947
London. Allen Lane. 1982. 198pp, index, very good in slightly worn dustjacket. Autobiographical account of his years in India by former foreign correspondent and Australian High Commissioner. After witnessing India's democractic crisis in 1975 when Mrs Gandhi invoked Emergency powers to jail her opponents, Bruce Grant returned to Australia to... More about Gods & Politicians
London. Asia Publishing House. 1963. viii+ 148pp, bibliograpy, index, a good copy in little marked hardback. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 154509). More about Studies in the Social Thought of M.G. Ranade
London. Asia Publishing House. c.1965. Black and white portrait frontispiece, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 130pp, endpapers little foxed, cloth covers lifting slightly, otherwise a good hardback copy. Rafi Ahmad Kidwai was a politician, an Indian independence activist and a socialist as well as a major ally of... More about Rafi Ahmad Kidwai. A Memoir of His Life and Times
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1978. xvii + 368pp, notes, references, appendices, biblio, index, dustjacket little worn and faded, now protected, good copy. A biography of Swami Dayananda. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 8945). More about Dayananda Sarasvati. His Life and Ideas
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1963. Endpaper maps, 303pp, glossary, endpapers and edges little foxed, some spotting cloth covers, upper covers slightly lifting, still a sound hardback copy. Autobiographies of 5 people who grew up in Maharashtra in the period between the 1860s and the First World War, a time... More about The New Brahmans. Five Maharashtrian Families
London. Century Publishing. 1985. Plan of village, 13 black and white photographic plates, 215pp, maroon cloth covered boards and spine, patchily faded dustjacket but otherwise a good copy. When a series of misfortunes stranded Jainub and her children, this young Afrikaans mother had to find the courage and determination to... More about Once Upon a Far Hillside. Life and Times of an Indian Village
London. Secker & Warburg. 1972. Black and white photographic plates, 195pp, glossary, minor browning endpapers and edges, shelf-rubbed and creased dustjacket, otherwise a sound copy. Biography of Amolak Ram Mehta, a distinguished Indian public-health officer, written by his son, which also captures life in India at the time. (When referring... More about Daddyji
New York. Dutton. 1927. vii + 303pp, bookplate paste down endpaper, signed by the author on title page, spine little discoloured, a good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159239). More about Caste and Outcast
London. Oxford University Press. 1942. 78pp, edges and wrappers little foxed, wrappers browned, two small tears on spine, still a sound copy, 12mo. In the 'Living Names' series. Profiles of Asoka Maurya, Sri Harsha of Kanauj, Akbar, the Great Mogul, Sivaji the Maratha, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Sir Saiyid Ahmed Khan... More about Makers of India
Vikas Publishing. 1995. Reprint. Black and white photographic illustrations, 160pp, hardback quarto, dustjacket torn with loss, now protected, corners bumped, still a good copy. "My Music My Life is more than the story of one man's remarkable life, for it embraces the history and theory of Indian music and the... More about My Music, My Life
