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  • Cover image of book The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki
    The Shortest History of India - by John Zubrzycki

    £12.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913083342 | ISBN 10: 1913083349

    From the tantalising traces of ancient Harappan civilisation to today’s emerging superpower, here is India’s story, expertly condensed and brimming with colour.  John Zubrzycki transforms five millennia of gods and kings, conquerors and col ... more

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  • Cover image of book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories by Kavita Puri
    Partition Voices: Untold British Stories - by Kavita Puri

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526638403 | ISBN 10: 1526638401

    UPDATED FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTITION  'Puri does profound and elegant work bringing forgotten narratives back to life. It's hard to convey just how important this book is' Sathnam Sanghera   'The most humane account of partiti ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Newlyweds: Young People Fighting for Love in the New India by Mansi Choksi
    The Newlyweds: Young People Fighting for Love in the New India - by Mansi Choksi

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781785789069 | ISBN 10: 1785789066

    'Staggeringly good... Much like Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, it reads more like a novel than a piece of non-fiction... it does what all great writing should – it puts us into the world of someone else, so completely that days later I find myself miss ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village by Lexi Stadlen
    Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village - by Lexi Stadlen

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784744106 | ISBN 10: 1784744107

    On an island at the eastern edge of India, rural, remote and dense with jungle, is a Muslim village. In an ever-shifting landscape of mangroves and rivers, the women here dwell among contradictions, constrictions and change in a place where one's nei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings by Saumya Roy
    Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings - by Saumya Roy

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788165372 | ISBN 10: 1788165373

    A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.  'If you read one book about India, read this one.' Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love
    Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriages in Modern India - by Ruth Vanita

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780144000593 | ISBN 10: 0144000598

    A CHRONICLE OF LOVE’S TRIUMPH OVER ALL OBSTACLES   Long before the debate on marriage equality began, young, non-English speaking, low-income female couples all over India got married by religious rites or committed joint suicide, which they ... more

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  • Cover image of book AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
    AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. - by Arundhati Roy

    £6.00   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241470022 | ISBN 10: 0241470021

    The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre by Kim Wagner
    Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre - by Kim Wagner

    £11.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780300250718 | ISBN 10: 0300250711

    A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire — the Amritsar Massacre — to mark its 100th anniversary   The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, y ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mind is the Ride by Jet McDonald
    Mind is the Ride - by Jet McDonald

    £16.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783526901 | ISBN 10: 1783526904

    When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn't want to write a straightforward travel book. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. Mind is the Ride takes the reader on a physical and intellectual adventure from West to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
    Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India - by Sujatha Gidla

    £14.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911547204 | ISBN 10: 1911547208

    ‘My stories, my family’s stories, were not stories in India. They were just life.  When I left and made new friends in a new country, only then did the things that happened to my family, the things we had done, become stories. Stories wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Curry: Eating, Reading and Race by Naben Ruthnum
    Curry: Eating, Reading and Race - by Naben Ruthnum

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781925603668 | ISBN 10: 1925603660

    No two curries are the same. Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do. Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
    Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India - by Shashi Tharoor

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141987149 | ISBN 10: 0141987146

    In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love by Per J Andersson
    The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love - by Per J Andersson

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786072085 | ISBN 10: 1786072084

    The story begins in a public square in New Delhi. On a cold December evening a young European woman of noble descent appears before an Indian street artist known locally as PK and asks him to paint her portrait - it is an encounter that will change t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Midnight
    Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition - by Nisid Hajari

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781445660134 | ISBN 10: 144566013x

    After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody — they were supposed to be the answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus.   Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s protégé and the politi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sugar, Sugar: Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers by Lainy Malkani
    Sugar, Sugar: Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers - by Lainy Malkani

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781908446602 | ISBN 10: 1908446609

    A fascinating web of honey-coloured threads linking Indian migrant workers, who first left the Sub-Continent more than a hundred and fifty years ago, and their descendants now living in contemporary Britain.   Sugar Sugar: Bitter-sweet Tales ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Midnight to Glorious Morning? India Since Independence by Mihir Bose
    From Midnight to Glorious Morning? India Since Independence - by Mihir Bose

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910376690 | ISBN 10: 1910376698

    Mihir Bose was born in January 1947. Eight months later - and seventy years ago in August - India became a modern, free nation. The country he knew growing up in the 1960s has undergone vast and radical change. India today exports food, sends space p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Raj at War: A People
    The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War - by Dr. Yasmin Khan

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099542278 | ISBN 10: 0099542277

    The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar, edited by S. Anand, with an introduction by Arundhati Roy
    Annihilation of Caste - by B.R. Ambedkar, edited by S. Anand, with an introduction by Arundhati Roy

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784783525 | ISBN 10: 1784783528

    The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy.   B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audaci ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moments of Mindfulness: Indian Wisdom by Danielle and Olivier Föllmi
    Moments of Mindfulness: Indian Wisdom - by Danielle and Olivier Föllmi

    £8.95   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780500518212 | ISBN 10: 0500518211

    Moments of Mindfulness: Ancestral aphorisms and reflections that open windows on a world of wisdom.   Danielle and Olivier Föllmi travelled far and wide to witness the celebrations, landscapes, rituals and traditions of cultures all over the w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class by Immanuel Ness
    Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class - by Immanuel Ness

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335995 | ISBN 10: 0745335993

    The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers’ self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
    Capitalism: A Ghost Story - by Arundhati Roy

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780944 | ISBN 10: 1784780944

    An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world  In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy—a nation of 1.2 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Badshah Khan: Islamic Peace Warrior by Heathcote Williams
    Badshah Khan: Islamic Peace Warrior - by Heathcote Williams

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993014123 | ISBN 10: 0993014127

    A book-length investigative poem from the author of ‘Whale Nation’ about the amazing life and legacy of Badshah Khan, Islamic Peace Warrior and friend of Mahatma Gandhi. As the violent excesses of Islamic extremist groups dominate the media, here is ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes by Sam Miller
    A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes - by Sam Miller

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099555865 | ISBN 10: 0099555867

    From Thomas the Apostle to Slumdog Millionaire: how we imagine India, from the author of Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity.  A Strange Kind of Paradise is an exploration of India’s past and present, from the perspective of a foreigner who has lived in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Strength to Say No: One Girl
    The Strength to Say No: One Girl's Fight Against Forced Marriage - by Rekha Kalindi with Mouhssine Ennaimi

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780720617924 | ISBN 10: 0720617928

    An inspiring true-life story that will resonate among those who decry the oppression of women, Rekha Kalindi’s book has been a publishing sensation in France and is now published in English for the first time. Kalindi’s story and her advocacy of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind by Rosemary Mahoney
    For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind - by Rosemary Mahoney

    £13.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780316043434 | ISBN 10: 0316043435

    In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school.   F ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rogue Elephant: Harnessing the Power of Democracy in the New India by Simon Denyer
    Rogue Elephant: Harnessing the Power of Democracy in the New India - by Simon Denyer

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408849798 | ISBN 10: 1408849798

    At the beginning of the twenty-first century, India stood on the brink of an exciting new era. Yet only a decade later, a series of corruption scandals and acts of violence against women had tarnished the nation's image and slowed her economic growth ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India by Amana Fontanella-Khan
    Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India - by Amana Fontanella-Khan

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780744063 | ISBN 10: 1780744064

    A Radio 4 Book of the Week.   When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician in the notoriously crooked region of Uttar Pradesh, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she had alleged ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen
    An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions - by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141975825 | ISBN 10: 0141975822

    From two of India's leading economists, Jean Drèze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Kama Sutra Diaries: Intimate Journeys Through Modern India by Sally Howard
    The Kama Sutra Diaries: Intimate Journeys Through Modern India - by Sally Howard

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781857885897 | ISBN 10: 1857885899

    Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a 'sexploration' through modern India, travelling by train, plane and auto-rickshaw.  From the heat of anti-rape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the coo ... more

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  • Cover image of book India: Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse by Gurpreet Mahajan
    India: Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse - by Gurpreet Mahajan

    £19.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780320922 | ISBN 10: 1780320922

    In this groundbreaking work, Gurpreet Mahajan tackles the predisposition of political theory to be limited by the Western canon. Bringing into focus how concepts central to the modern democratic political imaginary are interpreted in India, this book ... more

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  • Cover image of book Draupadi: The Fire-Born Princess by Saraswati Nagpal
    Draupadi: The Fire-Born Princess - by Saraswati Nagpal

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9789380741093 | ISBN 10: 938074109x

    "In an ancient age, when gods and mortals walked the earth together..."   ...A mysterious prophecy resounds for all to hear, and the bewitchingly beautiful princess Draupadi arises from a sacred fire. Draupadi is in love with Arjuna, the Panda ... more

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  • Cover image of book India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation by Oliver Balch
    India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation - by Oliver Balch

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571259267 | ISBN 10: 057125926x

    India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software and service companies abound. Millionaire e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo
    Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum - by Katherine Boo

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846274510 | ISBN 10: 1846274516

    Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani
    The Idea of India - by Sunil Khilnani

    £11.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780718197254 | ISBN 10: 0718197259

    This is one of the key books on modern India, acclaimed as the definitive account, and now republished with a new introduction.   The Idea of India was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since est ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nagaland: A Journey to India
    Nagaland: A Journey to India's Forgotten Frontier - by Jonathan Glancey

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571221493 | ISBN 10: 0571221491

    Landlocked, almost inaccessible to foreigners, Nagaland has been fighting a secret, often brutal war for independence for more than half a century. Portrayed either as a land of ruthless guerrillas or exotic natives, Nagaland is in fact a complex and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb
    The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India - by Siddhartha Deb

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141033341 | ISBN 10: 0141033347

    India is a country where you take a nap and someone has stolen your job, where you buy a BMW but still have to idle for cows crossing your path.   In his dazzling new book Siddhartha Deb leads us into the new India through the lives of a ... more

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  • Cover image of book India: A Portrait by Patrick French
    India: A Portrait - by Patrick French

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141041575 | ISBN 10: 0141041579

    One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. What is the real nature of this rapid change, and where are its roots?   India takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, geographically from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shame Travels: A Family Lost, a Family Found by Jasvinder Sanghera
    Shame Travels: A Family Lost, a Family Found - by Jasvinder Sanghera

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780340962091 | ISBN 10: 0340962097

    When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised to take her there so she could meet her half-sister, Bachanu, who had stayed behind. But at the age of s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kashmir: The Case for Freedom by Arundhati Roy, Pankaj Mishra, Hilal Bhat, Angana P. Chatterji, and Tariq Ali
    Kashmir: The Case for Freedom - by Arundhati Roy, Pankaj Mishra, Hilal Bhat, Angana P. Chatterji, and Tariq Ali

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677351 | ISBN 10: 1844677354

    Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation.  Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world — and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million stron ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreaming in Hindi: Life in Translation by Katherine Russell Rich
    Dreaming in Hindi: Life in Translation - by Katherine Russell Rich

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846272622 | ISBN 10: 1846272629

    'I took up with Hindi at a time when it seemed my life had buckled out from under me ... I no longer had the language to describe my own life. So I decided I'd borrow someone else's.'   Having survived a serious illness and now at a ... more

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  • The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid - by Anand Teltumbde

    £26.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848134492 | ISBN 10: 1848134495

    While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime is committed in India on a member of the dalit caste.  Understanding Caste uses the shocking ca ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Honey Gatherers by Mimlu Sen
    The Honey Gatherers - by Mimlu Sen

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846041891 | ISBN 10: 1846041899

    Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India. They wear flowing, multicoloured robes and play frenetic rhythms on strange instruments made of wood and clay, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy by Arundhati Roy
    Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy - by Arundhati Roy

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141044095 | ISBN 10: 0141044098

    This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's la ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Jews of Kerala by Edna Fernandes
    The Last Jews of Kerala - by Edna Fernandes

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846270994 | ISBN 10: 1846270995

    Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and distinguished by the color of their skin, the Black Jews and the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries. Only now, when their combined number has diminished to less than 5 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia
    Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River - by Alice Albinia

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719560057 | ISBN 10: 0719560055

    One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eating India: Exploring the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices by Chitrita Banerji
    Eating India: Exploring the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices - by Chitrita Banerji

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596387 | ISBN 10: 0747596387

    In Eating India, the award-winning writer Chitrita Banerji takes us on a thrilling journey through a national food formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests.   In mouth-watering prose, she explores how each wave of newcom ... more

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  • Cover image of book India
    India's Unending Journey - by Mark Tully

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846040184 | ISBN 10: 1846040183

    Sir Mark Tully is one of the world's leading writers and broadcasters on India, and the presenter of the much loved radio programm 'Something Understood'. In this remarkable and timely work, he reveals the profound changes happening in India today, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book India: One Man
    India: One Man's Personal Journey Round the Subcontinent - by Sanjeev Bhaskar

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007247394 | ISBN 10: 0007247397

    As a young British Asian growing up in 1960s west London, writer and actor Sanjeev Bhaskar was fed stories of exotic old India - of cobras and leopards, trapping fireflies and riding in rickshaws. But his childhood visits to the old country revealed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Holy Warriors: A Journey into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism by Edna Fernandes
    Holy Warriors: A Journey into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism - by Edna Fernandes

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846270970 | ISBN 10: 1846270979

    Home to all the major religions, India is also, inevitably, host to virtually every type of religious fanatic. For centuries, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Muslims have waged bloody wars, sought violent conversion and declared jihad against their ene ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra by James McConnachie
    The Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra - by James McConnachie

    £20.00   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843543749 | ISBN 10: 1843543745

    The Kamasutra was written in northern India in the third century AD, when erotic culture lay at the heart of an exquisite civilization. The Book of Love is a unique portrait of this sensuous era, evoking the world of the pleasure-seeking men - and wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women
    The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities - by Kalpana Kannabiran

    £45.00   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9788188965069 | ISBN 10: 8188965065

    This volume attempts to look at the experience and articulation of violence against women in relation to feminist debates and organising on the issue, and the positive/ negative responses to that articulation, particularly from the standpoint of law ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity by Amartya Sen
    The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity - by Amartya Sen

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141012117 | ISBN 10: 0141012110

    India is a hugely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a feast of viewpoints. In this landmark book Amartya Sen argues that only by exploring its long, pioneering tradition of sceptic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey
    Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India - by Madhur Jaffrey

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091908935 | ISBN 10: 0091908930

    'I was born in a sprawling house by the Yamuna River in Delhi. When I was a few minutes old, Grandmother welcomed me into the world by writing "Om", which means "I am" in Sanskrit, on my tongue with a little finger dipped in honey. When the family pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Being Indian by Pavan K. Varma
    Being Indian - by Pavan K. Varma

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099486824 | ISBN 10: 0099486822

    In the twenty-first century every sixth human being will be Indian. India is very close to becoming the second-largest consumer market in the world, with a buying middle class numbering over half a billion. It is in the top ten in overall GNP. Yet at ... more

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  • Cover image of book Yoga School Dropout by Lucy Edge
    Yoga School Dropout - by Lucy Edge

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091899233 | ISBN 10: 0091899230

    After over a decade spent working and drinking too much in the world of advertising, Lucy decided she'd had enough of debating what song sunflowers should sing and went in search of a more meaningful way of life. She'd find a guru and strip away the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
    Shantaram - by Gregory David Roberts

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780349117546 | ISBN 10: 0349117543

    In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence.  After two years, he escaped from a maximum-s ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Ear At His Heart: Reading My Father by Hanif Kureishi
    My Ear At His Heart: Reading My Father - by Hanif Kureishi

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571224043 | ISBN 10: 0571224040

    Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's attempts to be a writer.  The wellspring of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Myth of the Holy Cow by D.N. Jha
    The Myth of the Holy Cow - by D.N. Jha

    £13.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781859844243 | ISBN 10: 1859844243

    Hugely controversial upon its publication in India, this book has already been banned by the Hyderabad Civil Court and the author's life has been threatened. Jha argues against the historical sanctity of the cow in India, in an illuminating response ... more

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  • Cover image of book Clouds of Injustice: Bhopal Disaster 20 years on by Amnesty International
    Clouds of Injustice: Bhopal Disaster 20 years on - by Amnesty International

    £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780862103644 | ISBN 10: 0862103649

    More than 7,000 people died within a matter of days when toxic gases leaked from a chemical plant in Bhopal, India in December 1984. Since then, exposure to the toxins has resulted in the deaths of a further 15,000 people as well as chronic and debil ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mahabharata by Translated by R.K. Narayan
    The Mahabharata - by Translated by R.K. Narayan

    £12.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141185002 | ISBN 10: 0141185007

    The Mahabharata is some 3,500 years old and is the longest poem in any language. It is one of the founding epics of Indian culture and, with its mixture of cosmic drama and profound philosophy (one small section forms the Bhaghavad Gita) it holds a u ... more

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  • Cover image of book Out of the Nuclear Shadow by Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian (Editors)
    Out of the Nuclear Shadow - by Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian (Editors)

    £21.95   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781842770597 | ISBN 10: 1842770594

    Outraged conscience, careful arguement, poetry, political analysis - gathered here is the diversity of voices, traditions, approaches, that are weaving themselves into an anti-nuclear and peace movement in India and Pakistan. In these essays, written ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament by Pratful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik
    New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament - by Pratful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik

    £12.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781902669250 | ISBN 10: 1902669258

    The recent Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests brought nuclear proliferation and the terrible threat of nuclear war back to the world's centre stage. The south Asian nuclear moves have raised regional tensions, transformed Kashmir into a potentially n ... more

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