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Mirrorlands Russia, China, and Journeys in Between

Pulford Ed

ISBN: PB: 9781787381384, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Mirrorlands" is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russ...

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Hinduism

Asia

Malevolent Republic India Under Modi

Komireddi K. S.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380059, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After decades of imperfect secularism, New Delhi radiates the ideological convictions of its new master, Narendra Modi, as he seeks irreversibly to transform India. The "invisible threads" holding together Nehru's diverse count...

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Islam

Asia

Many Rivers, One Sea Bangladesh and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy

Allchin Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9781849048743, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A perennial frontier for Islamic orthodoxy, Bangladesh is witnessing an alarming rise in Islamist-inspired assassinations and terrorist attacks. In July 2016, the world's attention fell upon a cafe in a leafy Dhaka neighbourhoo...

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Messengers of Hindu Nationalism How the RSS Reshaped India

Andersen Walter, Damle Shridhar D.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380257, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. It is also the parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Prime Minister Modi was himself a career RSS office-holder, or pracharak. This...

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Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia Pioneer of British Colonial Rule

Hanifi Mahmoud Shah

ISBN: HB: 9781849048361, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views,...

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Hinduism

Asia

Majoritarian State How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India

Chatterji Angana P., Blom Hansen Thomas, Jaffrelot Christophe

ISBN: HB: 9781787381476, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
472 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Majoritarian State" traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its ag...

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History of Art

Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

Foxwell Chelsea

ISBN: HB: 9780226110806, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
296 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 34 colour plates, 70 halftones

The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a pe...

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History of Art

Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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History

Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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