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  • Over the Edge of the World

    Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe during the Age of Discovery was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World Updated Edition, prize-winning biographer ... Read more

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  • Capitalism

    A Ghost Story

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    The "courageous and clarion" Booker Prize–winner "continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism" ( Booklist).From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, ... Read more

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  • China

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of India: Volume 1, Ancient India

    by E.J. Rapson ...
    The Cambridge History of India, Ancient India is an authoritative history of India from the beginning of history until the time after Alexander the Greats conquest. 26 chapters and over 500 full-length pages discuss topics such as the geography of India, the ethnic origins of its people, the history of the Aryans and the Jains, and Indias interactions with Greece, Persia, Scythia, and Parthia. ... Read more

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  • Unruly Cinema

    History, Politics, and Bollywood

    by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta ...
    Between 1931 and 2000, India's popular cinema steadily overcame Hollywood domination. Bollywood, the film industry centered in Mumbai, became nothing less than a global cultural juggernaut. But Bollywood is merely one part of the country's prolific, multilingual cinema. Unruly Cinema looks at the complex series of events that allowed the entire Indian film industry to defy attempts to control, ... Read more

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  • Greek and Roman Accounts of India

    by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder & Strabo ...
    Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced is a record of his investigation of the origins ... Read more

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  • House of Shivaji

    Studies and Documents on Maratha History: Royal Period

    by Jadunath Sarkar ...
    This volume contains writings on the 'Royal Period' (1626-1700), as distinguished from the 'Peshwa Period' of Maratha history, and added a long life of Malik Ambar (from original Persian sources) and biographies of four eminent Marathi historical research-pioneers, Rajwade, Sane, Khare and Parasnis. The materials have come from Persian manuscripts (patiently gathered during a life-time), newly ... Read more

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  • Sita

    A Tale of Ancient Love

    by Bhanumathi Narasimhan ...
    The vibration of the sacred sound of her beloved's name, 'Ram', filled her mind as it emanated from the tiny Vanara. 'His being is filled with Rama,' she pondered, 'but does he know me?' Sita, the beloved princess of Mithila, is one of the most revered women in Indian history; so well known, yet probably the least understood. At every crossroad of her life, she chose acceptance and grace over ... Read more

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  • Great Soul

    by Joseph Lelyveld ...
    **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 social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor.“A ... Read more

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  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

    by Katherine Boo ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate ... Read more

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  • THE EMPIRE OF APOSTLES

    Religion, Accommodatio, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India

    by Ananya Chakravarti ...
    The Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia and Brazil set foundational precedents for European imperialism. Jesuit missionaries were key participants in both regions. As they sought to reconcile three commitments—to local missionary spaces, to a universal Church, and to the global Portuguese empire—the Jesuits forged a religious vision of empire. Ananya Chakravarti explores both ... Read more

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  • Gautamastakam

    The greatest master…the greatest prayer

    by Acharya Kalyanbodhi Suriji, Manish Modi ...
    The greatest master...the greatest prayer...stop going here and there, just pray to Guru Gautam Swami and see all your dreams fulfilled. This composition contains eight stanzas that extol Guru Gautam Swami, the first gandhara of Lord Mahavira who was the 24th Tirthankar of the jains. This composition has been extracted from the texts of Jainism. It has been attractively illustrated and lucidly ... Read more

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  • The Cultures of History in Early Modern India

    Persianization and Mughal Culture in Bengal

    by Kumkum Chatterjee ...
    This book examines the nature and function of history-writing in India by focusing on early modern traditions of historiography with particular reference to Bengal. Situating distinctive cultures of history vis-à-vis their relevant political and cultural contexts, it highlights the richness, variety and politically sensitive character of a range of oral and textual narratives. Kumkum Chatterjee ... Read more

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  • When Crime Pays

    Money and Muscle in Indian Politics

    by Milan Vaishnav ...
    **The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics  **In India, the world’s largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why ... Read more

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  • The Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM) in Pakistan

    by Qamar Jafri ...
    What factors drive people to choose nonviolent civil resistance to achieve human rights, peace, and justice? This Special Report offers ground-breaking knowledge about the link of colonialism, the Cold War, and the War on Terror with Talibanization, oppression, and human rights violations in the northwestern tribal areas of Pakistan. This knowledge is drawn from three years of in-depth field work ... Read more

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  • Banda Singh Bahadur

    by Gurjinder Singh ...
    This book is about the life and history of Banda Singh Bahadur. This book contains information about the various battlesfought by Banda Singh Bahadur during and after the reign of Guru Gobind Singh Ji (tenth guru of sikhs).Suitable for kids and adults to know about their Sikh Warriors Because modern people only know about Batman , Supermanand nothing about their Sikh warriors. ... Read more

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  • Punjab Reconsidered

    History, Culture, and Practice

    Edited by Anshu Malhotra, Farina Mir ...
    What is Punjabiyat? What are the different notions of Punjab? This volume analyses these ideas and explores the different aspects that constitute Punjab as a region conceptually in history, culture, and practice. Each essay examines a different Punjabi culture—language-based and literary; religious and those that define a 'community'; rural, urban, and middle class; and historical, contemporary, ... Read more

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  • Rise and Fall of The Maratha Empire 1750-1818

    by Sanish Nandakumar ...
    The book Rise and Fall of Maratha Empire deals with the events related to the Maratha Empire from 1758 during the reign of Peshwa Balaji Bajirao, when it was at its zenith, till 1818 when it was declined and overpowered by the British Empire.The book deals with major events like the Battle of Panipat, Resurrection of Maratha in the North, the Anglo-Maratha war and many more. It describes the ... Read more

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  • Nordic Aliens and the Forbidden Islands of the Gods

    Flying Cities, the Giants of India, Human Creation, and Armageddon

    by Lars Bergen, Sharon Delarose ...
    Series Book 10 - Through the Wormhole
    Explore mysterious islands in the Arabian Sea populated with giant Greek gods until an aerial war between flying cities sank them. Was this related to missing biblical passages of flying towers, or the blue-eyed giants with red and flaxen hair?Hindu holy books hold the numerical key to human Creation in which the gods added their DNA to proto-Humans to create Homo sapiens. The biblical Watchers ... Read more

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  • वेडात दौडले वीर मराठे सात

    by नरेंद्र नाईक ...
    छत्रपती शिवाजी राजे भोसले महाराज साहेब ! त्यांचे राज्य विस्तारीत होते. पण... डोंगरदऱ्यात. प्रजेचं सुख दुःख जाणणारा पृथ्वी तलावरील ऐकमेव राजा असल्यामुळे प्रजा सुखात व आनंदात नांदत होती. राज्यकारभार चालवण्यासाठी अष्टप्रधान मंत्रीमंडळ स्थापन करून आपला देश आणि देशबांधव बहूसंख्य शेतकरी असल्याने कृषीसाठी कृषीसंजीवनी योजना तयार करून शेततळे व पाणी आडवा पाणी जिरवा हा महामंत्र देऊन प्रजेला सुखात ठेवण्याचा न ... Read more

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  • Gandhi

    A Spiritual Biography

    by Arvind Sharma ...
    In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve—what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years—is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end." While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869–1948), nearly all ... Read more

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  • A Visit to Shatrunjaya

    Journey to the holiest pilgrimage of Jainism

    by Acharya Gunaratna Suriji, Acharya Rashmiratna Suriji ...
    Siddhagiri Shatrunjaya is called the eternal tirth. This is the place where innumerable lofty souls have reached the Siddha state. This Tirth is the holiest spot on the earth and is thousand times holier than all other holy places. This book through words and photographs helps us undertake a spiritual journey of Shri Shatrunjaya. Features ✓ Contains over 100+ photographs of Shatrunjay (Palitana) ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Church

    Remembering Armenians of Saidabad

    by Debabrata Maulik ...
    Just as the Portuguese settled in Goa, the Jews in Cochin and the Parsis in Bombay, the Armenians had rendered a special fragrance in Calcutta. Being the best of commercial minds, the Armenians came to India as merchants and prevailed on Eastern India’s commerce long before the British. Their commercial acumen won them great dividends in the Bengali trade, which they linked with the world trade ... Read more

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  • Memorable Mysoreans

    A Collection of Biographical Sketches

    by Dr. Bhagirath. S. Naganath ...
    In the earlier part of the last century, the princely state of Mysore and the University of Mysore bore witness to some truly remarkable personalities. These stalwarts and their lasting contributions left behind a lasting legacy on the intellectual landscape of Mysore and India on the whole. While there were many in their ilk, the author of this work began focusing on those who were primarily ... Read more

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