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When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage open……続きを見る

A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Parti……続きを見る

Mahabharata with 100,000 verses, and many prose passages, adding up to a phenomenal total of 1.8 million words is the biggest known Epic. Originally, based on a real story that took place 5000 years……続きを見る

En la actualidad, la República de la India pretende encarnar los valores de una democracia política estable, una unidad territorial armoniosa y una imparcialidad inquebrantable en asuntos de religió……続きを見る

India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an ……続きを見る

The book deals with the medical encounter between eastern and western medicine. So far, Philip Curtin, David Arnold, Ira Klein, Michael Worboys, Ian Catanach, Ralph Nicholas, Paul greenough and Roy ……続きを見る

Anita's book is a deep and enlightening study of the spiritual experience of the Kutchi Kohli Christians of Pakistan. Producing a complex, versatile, and appealing conceptual framework for studying ……続きを見る

राजस्थानी लोकगीत यहां की नारियों के हृदय की पुकार है। वह पुकार, जो उनकी वास्तविक भावनाओं की प्रतीक है। यहां के पुरुष-प्रधान सामन्ती परिवेश में पराधीनता को भी उन्होंने काल्पनिक आकांक्षाओं की स्वाधीनत……続きを見る

The book seeks to situate caste as a discursive category in the discussion of Partition in Bengal. In conventional narratives of Partition, the role of the Dalit or the Scheduled Castes is either co……続きを見る

In this first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from the lives and voices of chillia taxi drivers who have sustained a hereditary……続きを見る

This innovative, multidisciplinary exploration of the unique history of the Andaman Islands as a hunter-gatherer society, colonial penal colony, and state-engineered space of settlement and developm……続きを見る

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Negotiating nations Claiming Pakistan Resisting Hindutva Redoing South Asia Conclusion Bibliography Index 続きを見る

First published in 1883, this book contains Richard Francis Burton's English translation of the “Kama Sutra”. Believed to have been written between 400 BCE and 300 BCE, the “Kama Sutra” is an ancien……続きを見る

For the first time, the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, has made public the official records of the 1965 war with Pakistan. This book provides the detailed military history as per military……続きを見る

The Varnas are 4 in number and they are termed Brahmana or Intellectual. Kshatriya or Martial. Vaishya or Commercial. Shudra or Manual. 続きを見る

Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian ……続きを見る

The Cucurbitaceae is predominantly a family of tropics and subtropics and a good number of its members are represented in the Indian flora. This family is important not only for its unique morpholog……続きを見る

It needs no clairvoyance to affirm the fact that the muse of language used to chair on the tips of the fingers and was seated on the lips of Veer Savarkar, that when he spoke, every sentence nay eve……続きを見る

Sikkim, the 22nd state of the Indian union, is a small mountain state in eastern Himalayas. Sikkim is a land of rich and varied scenic beauty, magnificent mountains, eternal snows, dark forests, gre……続きを見る

Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen, clerks, lawyers, and journalists, Indians formed the economic and administrative middle class in colonial Kenya. In general, they were wealthier than African……続きを見る

Over the past two decades secular polities across the globe have witnessed an increasing turn to religion-based political movements, such as the rise of political Islam and Hindu nationalism, which ……続きを見る

In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subconti……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "Kim (Adventure Classic) - Illustrated Edition" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the orphaned son……続きを見る

Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the worldーIndia. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a tru……続きを見る

Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). ……続きを見る

Uma das obras-primas da poesia épica indiana, a composição mais popular da Índia e a obra hindu mais lida em todo o mundo! A Bhagavad Gītā é um verdadeiro tratado de yoga, tão valioso quanto os Yoga……続きを見る

Did you know that Kolkata has the country’s largest library? The city gave India its first printing press. The first foreign-recognised educational institution was also in Kolkata. The first lift (a……続きを見る

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonia……続きを見る

The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europ……続きを見る