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£12.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913083342 | ISBN 10: 1913083349
From the tantalising traces of ancient Harappan civilisation to today’s emerging superpower, here is India’s story, expertly condensed and brimming with colour.
John Zubrzycki transforms five millennia of gods and kings, conquerors and col ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781785789069 | ISBN 10: 1785789066
'Staggeringly good... Much like Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, it reads more like a novel than a piece of non-fiction... it does what all great writing should – it puts us into the world of someone else, so completely that days later I find myself miss ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784744106 | ISBN 10: 1784744107
On an island at the eastern edge of India, rural, remote and dense with jungle, is a Muslim village. In an ever-shifting landscape of mangroves and rivers, the women here dwell among contradictions, constrictions and change in a place where one's nei ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788165372 | ISBN 10: 1788165373
A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.
'If you read one book about India, read this one.' Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780144000593 | ISBN 10: 0144000598
A CHRONICLE OF LOVE’S TRIUMPH OVER ALL OBSTACLES
Long before the debate on marriage equality began, young, non-English speaking, low-income female couples all over India got married by religious rites or committed joint suicide, which they ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780300250718 | ISBN 10: 0300250711
A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire — the Amritsar Massacre — to mark its 100th anniversary
The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, y ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783526901 | ISBN 10: 1783526904
When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn't want to write a straightforward travel book. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. Mind is the Ride takes the reader on a physical and intellectual adventure from West to ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911547204 | ISBN 10: 1911547208
‘My stories, my family’s stories, were not stories in India. They were just life.
When I left and made new friends in a new country, only then did the things that happened to my family, the things we had done, become stories. Stories wor ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141987149 | ISBN 10: 0141987146
In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786072085 | ISBN 10: 1786072084
The story begins in a public square in New Delhi. On a cold December evening a young European woman of noble descent appears before an Indian street artist known locally as PK and asks him to paint her portrait - it is an encounter that will change t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781908446602 | ISBN 10: 1908446609
A fascinating web of honey-coloured threads linking Indian migrant workers, who first left the Sub-Continent more than a hundred and fifty years ago, and their descendants now living in contemporary Britain.
Sugar Sugar: Bitter-sweet Tales ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099542278 | ISBN 10: 0099542277
The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between w ... more
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£8.95 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780500518212 | ISBN 10: 0500518211
Moments of Mindfulness: Ancestral aphorisms and reflections that open windows on a world of wisdom.
Danielle and Olivier Föllmi travelled far and wide to witness the celebrations, landscapes, rituals and traditions of cultures all over the w ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335995 | ISBN 10: 0745335993
The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers’ self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780944 | ISBN 10: 1784780944
An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world
In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy—a nation of 1.2 ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993014123 | ISBN 10: 0993014127
A book-length investigative poem from the author of ‘Whale Nation’ about the amazing life and legacy of Badshah Khan, Islamic Peace Warrior and friend of Mahatma Gandhi. As the violent excesses of Islamic extremist groups dominate the media, here is ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408849798 | ISBN 10: 1408849798
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, India stood on the brink of an exciting new era. Yet only a decade later, a series of corruption scandals and acts of violence against women had tarnished the nation's image and slowed her economic growth ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780744063 | ISBN 10: 1780744064
A Radio 4 Book of the Week.
When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician in the notoriously crooked region of Uttar Pradesh, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she had alleged ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781857885897 | ISBN 10: 1857885899
Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a 'sexploration' through modern India, travelling by train, plane and auto-rickshaw.
From the heat of anti-rape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the coo ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780320922 | ISBN 10: 1780320922
In this groundbreaking work, Gurpreet Mahajan tackles the predisposition of political theory to be limited by the Western canon. Bringing into focus how concepts central to the modern democratic political imaginary are interpreted in India, this book ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9789380741093 | ISBN 10: 938074109x
"In an ancient age, when gods and mortals walked the earth together..."
...A mysterious prophecy resounds for all to hear, and the bewitchingly beautiful princess Draupadi arises from a sacred fire. Draupadi is in love with Arjuna, the Panda ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571259267 | ISBN 10: 057125926x
India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software and service companies abound. Millionaire e ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780718197254 | ISBN 10: 0718197259
This is one of the key books on modern India, acclaimed as the definitive account, and now republished with a new introduction.
The Idea of India was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since est ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571221493 | ISBN 10: 0571221491
Landlocked, almost inaccessible to foreigners, Nagaland has been fighting a secret, often brutal war for independence for more than half a century. Portrayed either as a land of ruthless guerrillas or exotic natives, Nagaland is in fact a complex and ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141033341 | ISBN 10: 0141033347
India is a country where you take a nap and someone has stolen your job, where you buy a BMW but still have to idle for cows crossing your path.
In his dazzling new book Siddhartha Deb leads us into the new India through the lives of a ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141041575 | ISBN 10: 0141041579
One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. What is the real nature of this rapid change, and where are its roots?
India takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, geographically from ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780340962091 | ISBN 10: 0340962097
When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised to take her there so she could meet her half-sister, Bachanu, who had stayed behind. But at the age of s ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677351 | ISBN 10: 1844677354
Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation.
Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world — and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million stron ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846041891 | ISBN 10: 1846041899
Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India. They wear flowing, multicoloured robes and play frenetic rhythms on strange instruments made of wood and clay, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141044095 | ISBN 10: 0141044098
This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's la ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846270994 | ISBN 10: 1846270995
Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and distinguished by the color of their skin, the Black Jews and the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries. Only now, when their combined number has diminished to less than 5 ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719560057 | ISBN 10: 0719560055
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007247394 | ISBN 10: 0007247397
As a young British Asian growing up in 1960s west London, writer and actor Sanjeev Bhaskar was fed stories of exotic old India - of cobras and leopards, trapping fireflies and riding in rickshaws. But his childhood visits to the old country revealed ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843543749 | ISBN 10: 1843543745
The Kamasutra was written in northern India in the third century AD, when erotic culture lay at the heart of an exquisite civilization. The Book of Love is a unique portrait of this sensuous era, evoking the world of the pleasure-seeking men - and wo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091908935 | ISBN 10: 0091908930
'I was born in a sprawling house by the Yamuna River in Delhi. When I was a few minutes old, Grandmother welcomed me into the world by writing "Om", which means "I am" in Sanskrit, on my tongue with a little finger dipped in honey. When the family pr ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099486824 | ISBN 10: 0099486822
In the twenty-first century every sixth human being will be Indian. India is very close to becoming the second-largest consumer market in the world, with a buying middle class numbering over half a billion. It is in the top ten in overall GNP. Yet at ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091899233 | ISBN 10: 0091899230
After over a decade spent working and drinking too much in the world of advertising, Lucy decided she'd had enough of debating what song sunflowers should sing and went in search of a more meaningful way of life. She'd find a guru and strip away the ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780349117546 | ISBN 10: 0349117543
In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence. After two years, he escaped from a maximum-s ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571224043 | ISBN 10: 0571224040
Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's attempts to be a writer. The wellspring of ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780862103644 | ISBN 10: 0862103649
More than 7,000 people died within a matter of days when toxic gases leaked from a chemical plant in Bhopal, India in December 1984. Since then, exposure to the toxins has resulted in the deaths of a further 15,000 people as well as chronic and debil ... more
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