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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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