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A Place Within
A Place Within
Written by M.G. Vassanji
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385661799
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A Place Within
Rediscovering India
Written by M.G. Vassanji


Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $16.95

A Globe and Mail Best Book

It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.
Gandhi & Churchill
Gandhi & Churchill
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780553383768
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Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman


Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $20.00



In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.

They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous... Read more >
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A Place Within
A Place Within
Written by M.G. Vassanji
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307371775
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A Place Within
Rediscovering India
Written by M.G. Vassanji


Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2009
Price: $

A Globe and Mail Best Book

It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
A Place Within
A Place Within
Written by M.G. Vassanji
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385661782
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A Place Within
Rediscovering India
Written by M.G. Vassanji


Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $31.00

A Globe and Mail Best Book

It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
Gandhi & Churchill
Gandhi & Churchill
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780553804638
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Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman


Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $30.00

In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.

They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
Gandhi & Churchill
Gandhi & Churchill
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780553905045
Our Price: $20.00
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Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $20.00

In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.

They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
The Last Mughal
The Last Mughal
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400078332
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The Last Mughal
The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Written by William Dalrymple


Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $16.95

In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history.

The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in... Read more >
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The Last Mughal
The Last Mughal
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400043101
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The Last Mughal
The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Written by William Dalrymple


Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $30.00

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests.”

Bahadur Shah... Read more >
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The Last Mughal
The Last Mughal
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307267399
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The Last Mughal

Written by William Dalrymple


Format: eBook
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $16.95

In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history.

The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
Textures of Time
Textures of Time
Written by Velcheru N Rao
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781590510445
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Textures of Time
Writing History in South India 1600-1800
Written by Velcheru N Rao


Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2003
Price: $30.00

Along with the clock and the railroad, did the British colonists bring the questionable gift of history to India? Is it true that historical consciousness did not exist in India before its conquest by the British at the end of the nineteenth century, and that the more pristine South India in... Read more >
India
India
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400030750
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India
A Wounded Civilization
Written by V.S. Naipaul


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $12.95

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in... Read more >
The Baburnama
The Baburnama
Written by W.M. Thackston, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375761379
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The Baburnama
Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
Written by W.M. Thackston, Jr.


Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $17.95

Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a... Read more >
India Unbound
India Unbound
Written by Gurcharan Das
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385720748
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India Unbound
The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
Written by Gurcharan Das


Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $15.95


India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from... Read more >
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