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People Next Door The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9781787380196, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book traces the seven decades of the India-Pakistan relationship since the bloody partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nati...
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£20,00
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Costliest Pearl China's Struggle for India's Ocean
ISBN: HB: 9781849049962, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Yet, until now, China has been absent from the region since Admiral Zheng He...
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£25,00
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Chinese Spies From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
ISBN: HB: 9781787380967, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
568 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Are the Chinese secret services now the most powerful in the world? After a long investigation into Beijing's intelligence services and the backrooms of international politics, journalist Roger Faligot may have found the answer...
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£30,00
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Mirrorlands Russia, China, and Journeys in Between
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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£20,00
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Bombay Before Mumbai Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos
ISBN: HB: 9781787381483, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "City of Gold", "Urbs Prima in Indis", "Maximum City": no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing on the city that was once Bombay....
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£40,00
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Under Red Skies The Life and Times of a Chinese Millennial
ISBN: HB: 9781787381759, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understa...
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£20,00
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Malevolent Republic India Under Modi
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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£20,00
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Many Rivers, One Sea Bangladesh and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy
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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£17,99
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Messengers of Hindu Nationalism How the RSS Reshaped India
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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£25,00
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Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia Pioneer of British Colonial Rule
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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£45,00
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