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Gazing Eastwards Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957
ISBN: HB: 9780857428165, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 12 halftones
In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The fi...
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Past as Present Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
ISBN: HB: 9780857426444, Seagull Books, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between...
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Village with My Name A Family History of China's Opening to the World
ISBN: PB: 9780226636955, ISBN: HB: 9780226338866, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for "Marketplace", the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became...
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Inglorious Empire What the British Did to India
ISBN: HB: 9781849048088, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Inglorious Empire" tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India. India was Bri...
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Colonial Lahore A History of the City and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9781849046534, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A number of studies of colonial Lahore in recent years have explored such themes as the city's modernity, its cosmopolitanism and the rise of communalism which culminated in the bloodletting of 1947. This first synoptic history...
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£25,00
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Colonel Who Would Not Repent The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy
ISBN: HB: 9780300218183, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, the Muslim nation carved out of the Indian Subcontinent when it gained independence from Britain in 1947. As religion alone could not keep East Pakistan and West Pakistan together, Bengali-speaking East Pakistan fou...
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China and Tibet The Perils of Insecurity
ISBN: PB: 9781849044714, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Over sixty years of violence and dialogue have brought China and the Tibetans no closer to a resolution of their conflict. Tsering Topgyal argues that it is China's sense of insecurity, its perception of itself as a socio-polit...
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History of Modern South Asia Politics, States, Diasporas
ISBN: PB: 9780300196948, Yale University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history...
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£25,00
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Into the Kazakh Steppe John Castle's Mission to Khan Abulkhayir (1736)
ISBN: PB: 9781909930087, Signal Books, December 2014
208 pp., 21.8x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! The adventurer and artist John Castle, of mixed British and Prussian descent, was one of several foreigners commissioned by the Russian Empire to take part in the Orenburg Expedition which started in 1734. Its aims were to secu...
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Remapping India New States and their Political Origins
ISBN: PB: 9781849042291, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! There is a widespread consensus today that the constitutional flexibility to alter state boundaries has bolstered the stability of India's democracy. Yet debates persist about whether the creation of more states is desirable. P...
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