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Basti
Written by Intizar Husain
Translated by Frances W. Pritchett
Introduction by Asif Farrukhi
Format: Trade Paperback, 258 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $15.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to... Read more >
Written by Intizar Husain
Translated by Frances W. Pritchett
Introduction by Asif Farrukhi
Format: Trade Paperback, 258 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $15.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Basti
Written by Intizar Husain
Translated by Frances W. Pritchett
Introduction by Asif Farrukhi
Format: eBook, 258 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $15.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to... Read more >
Written by Intizar Husain
Translated by Frances W. Pritchett
Introduction by Asif Farrukhi
Format: eBook, 258 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $15.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Age of Kali
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.00
From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives: the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness&rdquo... Read more >
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.00
From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives: the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness&rdquo... Read more >
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The Age of Kali
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives: the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness&rdquo... Read more >
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives: the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness&rdquo... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Indian Castles 1206-1526
The Rise and Fall of the Delhi Sultanate
Written by Konstantin Nossov
Illustrated by Brian Delf
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $13.95
From the beginning of the 11th century onwards, the constant sate of war amongst the various Indian kingdoms left them open to outside attack, and Muslim Turkic tribesmen began to pour over the north-west border from modern-day Afghanistan. These raiders consolidated their successes and by 1206 a Muslim state, the Sultanate... Read more >
The Rise and Fall of the Delhi Sultanate
Written by Konstantin Nossov
Illustrated by Brian Delf
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $13.95
From the beginning of the 11th century onwards, the constant sate of war amongst the various Indian kingdoms left them open to outside attack, and Muslim Turkic tribesmen began to pour over the north-west border from modern-day Afghanistan. These raiders consolidated their successes and by 1206 a Muslim state, the Sultanate... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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India
A Portrait
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95
A Portrait
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95
A monumental biography of the Indian subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.
Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing...
Also available as an
eBook.
Elite Forces of India and Pakistan
Written by Kenneth Conboy
Illustrated by Paul Hannon
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $14.95
Influenced by the German use of paratroopers early in World War II (1939-1945), General Sir Robert Cassels, the Commander-in-Chief India, ordered the formation of an airborne cadre in October 1940. Thus marked the origins of India's first élite units. Pakistan can trace the origins of its own army airborne to the... Read more >
Written by Kenneth Conboy
Illustrated by Paul Hannon
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $14.95
Influenced by the German use of paratroopers early in World War II (1939-1945), General Sir Robert Cassels, the Commander-in-Chief India, ordered the formation of an airborne cadre in October 1940. Thus marked the origins of India's first élite units. Pakistan can trace the origins of its own army airborne to the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Great Soul
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Written by Joseph Lelyveld
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of... Read more >
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Written by Joseph Lelyveld
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of... Read more >
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $13.99
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $13.99
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Read by Sunil Malhotra
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $35.00
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Read by Sunil Malhotra
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $35.00
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Read by Sunil Malhotra
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $17.50
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Read by Sunil Malhotra
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $17.50
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $27.00
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $27.00
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >
India
A Portrait
Written by Patrick French
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $12.99
A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.
Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one... Read more >
A Portrait
Written by Patrick French
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $12.99
A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.
Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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No One Had a Tongue to Speak
The Untold Story of One of History's Deadliest Floods
Written by Utpal Sandesara
Format: Hardcover, 411 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $25.00
On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Indian state of Gujarat, the two mile-long Machhu Dam-II disintegrated. The waters released from the dam’s massive reservoir rushed through the heavily populated downstream area, devastating the industrial city of Morbi and its surrounding agricultural villages. As the... Read more >
The Untold Story of One of History's Deadliest Floods
Written by Utpal Sandesara
Format: Hardcover, 411 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $25.00
On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Indian state of Gujarat, the two mile-long Machhu Dam-II disintegrated. The waters released from the dam’s massive reservoir rushed through the heavily populated downstream area, devastating the industrial city of Morbi and its surrounding agricultural villages. As the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
No One Had a Tongue to Speak
The Untold Story of One of History's Deadliest Floods
Written by Utpal Sandesara
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $11.99
On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Indian state of Gujarat, the two mile-long Machhu Dam-II disintegrated. The waters released from the dam’s massive reservoir rushed through the heavily populated downstream area, devastating the industrial city of Morbi and its surrounding agricultural villages. As the... Read more >
The Untold Story of One of History's Deadliest Floods
Written by Utpal Sandesara
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $11.99
On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Indian state of Gujarat, the two mile-long Machhu Dam-II disintegrated. The waters released from the dam’s massive reservoir rushed through the heavily populated downstream area, devastating the industrial city of Morbi and its surrounding agricultural villages. As the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Sideways on a Scooter
Life and Love in India
Written by Miranda Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $26.00
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s next to... Read more >
Life and Love in India
Written by Miranda Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $26.00
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s next to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Sideways on a Scooter
Life and Love in India
Written by Miranda Kennedy
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $15.99
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s next to... Read more >
Life and Love in India
Written by Miranda Kennedy
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $15.99
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s next to... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
India
A Wounded Civilization
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2011
Price: $9.99
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 >
A Wounded Civilization
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2011
Price: $9.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Great Soul
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Written by Joseph Lelyveld
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $28.95
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of... Read more >
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Written by Joseph Lelyveld
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $28.95
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of... Read more >
Great Soul
Written by Joseph Lelyveld
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $12.99
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of... Read more >
Written by Joseph Lelyveld
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $12.99
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of... Read more >
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Great Soul
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Written by Joseph Lelyveld
Read by Mark Bramhall
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $25.00
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of... Read more >
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Written by Joseph Lelyveld
Read by Mark Bramhall
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $25.00
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of... Read more >
India
A Million Mutinies Now
Written by V. S. Naipaul
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $13.99
A New York Times Notable Book
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author.
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of... Read more >
A Million Mutinies Now
Written by V. S. Naipaul
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $13.99
A New York Times Notable Book
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author.
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of... Read more >
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.95
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.95
A New York Times Notable Book
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author.
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now...
India Divided
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Written by Vandana Shiva
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war... Read more >
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Written by Vandana Shiva
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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To Uphold the World
A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India
Written by Bruce Rich
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $23.00
In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka's world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who... Read more >
A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India
Written by Bruce Rich
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2010
Price: $23.00
In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka's world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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