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 BookIt 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...
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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...
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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 BookIt 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...
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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 BookIt 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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