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The Partition of British India
ISBN: 9781973722144 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Includes pictures
*Includes contemporary accounts of the partition *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Beyond its obvious influence in areas like trade and commerce, the East India Company also served as a point of cultural contact between Western Europeans, South Asians, and East Asians. Quintessentially British practices such as tea drinking were made possible by East India Company trade. The products and cultural practices traveling back and forth on East India Company ships from one continent to another also reconfigured the way societies... *Includes pictures
*Includes contemporary accounts of the partition *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading B... |
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42,00 |
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Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia: Sources and Boundaries
ISBN: 9783110553161 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributions to this book address a series of 'confrontations'--debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain--and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE). Rather than an agonistic term, the book uses 'confrontation' as a heuristic to examine historical moments within this pivotal period in which individuals and communities were confronted with new ideas and... The contributions to this book address a series of 'confrontations'--debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, a... |
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451,21 |
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The Case For India
ISBN: 9781973768418 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excerpt from The Case for India: The Presidential Address Delivered by Annie Besant at the Thirty-Second Indian National Congress, Held at Calcutta, 26th December, 1917
The short service system recently introduced into the British Army has increased the cost and has materially reduced the efficiency of the British troops in India. We cannot resist the feeling that, in the introduction of this system, the interest of the Indian tax-payer was entirely left out of consideration. The remark was certainly justified, for the short ser vice system gave India only five years of the recruits... Excerpt from The Case for India: The Presidential Address Delivered by Annie Besant at the Thirty-Second Indian National Congress, Held at Calcutta, 2...
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32,77 |
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Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West
ISBN: 9780226485485 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of how the West cultivated the "romance" of Tibet, and how that romance gradually came to imprison those who sought Tibetan independence from China.
Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of how the West cultivated the "romance" of Tibet, and how that romance gradually came to imprison t...
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99,35 |
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Is That Even a Country, Sir!: Journeys in Northeast India by Train, Bus and Tractor
ISBN: 9789386582331 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ‘The story of India’s most neglected region told by the narrative voice of a poor, petulant reporter… Stripped of the exotic, the Northeast in [this book] appears bare, burnt and betrayed…’ —Scroll.in When violence broke out before elections in Assam in 2000, in which Hindi-speakers from North India were massacred, two out-of-work journalists, Anil Yadav and Anhes Shashwat, decided to go there, braving violence and uncertainty, with the hope that their despatches would make them famous. At that time,... ‘The story of India’s most neglected region told by the narrative voice of a poor, petulant reporter… Stripped of ... |
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124,99 |
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Waiting for Dawn: memoirs of a journalist in Pakistan
ISBN: 9781912256303 / Angielski / Miękka / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one could be more qualified to write a memoir on Pakistan's turbulent history than a grandstand viewer - and a journalist to boot. With more than half a century of experience in journalism - 49 years at Dawn, South Asia's best paper - Muhammad Ali Siddiqi has been witness to events which have shaped today's Pakistan and Karachi.
No one could be more qualified to write a memoir on Pakistan's turbulent history than a grandstand viewer - and a journalist to boot. With more than h...
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113,27 |
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Lions and Tigers
ISBN: 9781786821843 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A politically timely play about the struggle for Indian independence, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta's most personal play yet. Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, it charts his political awakening in his fight against the British Raj.
A politically timely play about the struggle for Indian independence, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta's most personal play yet. Based on the true sto...
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54,59 |
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Naga: Awe-Inspiring Beauty
ISBN: 9780300233254 / Angielski / Twarda / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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392,18 |
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Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Asia
ISBN: 9781138102705 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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769,98 |
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
ISBN: 9780393239348 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire.
Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire.
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114,99 |
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Name Me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Writing
ISBN: 9780300222586 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century and contemporary writing from India and the Indian diaspora, curated by a distinguished scholar and poet
A wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century and contemporary writing from India and the Indian diaspora, curated by a distinguished scholar and poet
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345,35 |
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Investment in Empire: British Railway and Steam Shipping Enterprise in India, 1825-1849
ISBN: 9781512820058 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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377,54 |
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Visuality and Identity in Post-Millennial Indian Graphic Narratives
ISBN: 9783319694894 / Angielski / Twarda / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the intersection of Indian society, the encoding of post-millennial modernity and `ways of seeing' through the medium of Indian graphic narratives.
This book investigates the intersection of Indian society, the encoding of post-millennial modernity and `ways of seeing' through the medium of Indian...
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244,34 |
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Smritichitre: The Memoirs of a Spirited Wife
ISBN: 9789386582607 / Angielski / Miękka / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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156,24 |
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Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum
ISBN: 9780815734055 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rivalry between India and Pakistan has proven to be one of the world's most intractable international conflicts. Renowned South Asia expert Stephen P. Cohen explains why he expects this rivalry to continue in this first comprehensive survey of the deep historical, cultural, and strategic differences that underpin the hostility.
The rivalry between India and Pakistan has proven to be one of the world's most intractable international conflicts. Renowned South Asia expert Stephe...
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158,91 |
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Amma's Daughters: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781771991957 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,14 |
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In the Shade of the Golden Palace: Alaol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan
ISBN: 9780190860332 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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582,80 |
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Provincial Society and Empire: The Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829
ISBN: 9781783272815 / Angielski / Twarda / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shows how it was not just the London elite and City merchants who had connections to British India.
Shows how it was not just the London elite and City merchants who had connections to British India.
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471,92 |
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Historical Sociology in India
ISBN: 9780815376521 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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253,29 |
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Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast
ISBN: 9781108424387 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reveals a distinct trajectory of Islamic history that developed among Muslim merchant communities across the medieval Indian Ocean.
Reveals a distinct trajectory of Islamic history that developed among Muslim merchant communities across the medieval Indian Ocean.
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523,97 |
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