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Medieval Indian Armies (2): Indo-Islamic Forces, 7th–Early 16th Centuries
ISBN: 9781472853349 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. From 1206, much of what is now India as well as parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal were ruled by a succession of Islamic dynasties that had their origins in the Ghurid forces that conquered parts of northern India in the 12th century. Although it was never complete, the Islamic domination of this huge region also had a profound impact upon Islamic civilization as a whole, not least in military terms, being felt as far west as Africa. Within...
This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. F...
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65,37 |
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How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners
ISBN: 9780745347981 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A powerful look at authoritarian India through the experiences of political prisoners
A powerful look at authoritarian India through the experiences of political prisoners
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87,59 |
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The Major: The Raj\'s Last Man Standing in Search of Geoffrey Langlands
ISBN: 9781680534603 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Hull in 1917, Geoffrey Langlands narrowly survived the Spanish Flu epidemic and Zeppelin bombings of World War I. Coming of age in time for World War II, he joined the elite No. 4 Commando unit in 1940. After successes in Europe, he was selected for officer training and posted to the Indian Army. He never left the subcontinent, serving with distinction and later saving many lives during the Partition of India in 1947. He survived three wars between India and Pakistan, a kidnapping in Waziristan, and the Taliban threat. Realizing the futility of war, Langlands envisaged a more...
Born in Hull in 1917, Geoffrey Langlands narrowly survived the Spanish Flu epidemic and Zeppelin bombings of World War I. Coming of age in time for Wo...
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406,51 |
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The Life of Music in South India
ISBN: 9780819500731 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture. This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including All India Radio (AIR) and the Tamil Isai Sangam (Tamil Music Academy). Sankaran examines the cultural and social matrix in which Carnatic music was cultivated and consumed in mid-twentieth century India, including the ways that musicians negotiated caste politics and the double...
An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture. This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawi...
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308,31 |
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The Life of Music in South India
ISBN: 9780819500748 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture. This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including All India Radio (AIR) and the Tamil Isai Sangam (Tamil Music Academy). Sankaran examines the cultural and social matrix in which Carnatic music was cultivated and consumed in mid-twentieth century India, including the ways that musicians negotiated caste politics and the double...
An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture. This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawi...
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97,71 |
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The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India
ISBN: 9781512824841 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the largest incident of anti-Christian violence in India’s history. Through vivid ethnographic storytelling, Pinky Hota explores the roots of ethnonationalist conflict between two historically marginalized groups—the Kandha, who are Adivasi (tribal people considered indigenous in India), and the Pana, a community of Christian Dalits (previously referred to as “untouchables”). Hota documents how Hindutva mobilization led to large-scale violence,...
The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the largest i...
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489,77 |
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The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India
ISBN: 9781512824858 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the largest incident of anti-Christian violence in India’s history. Through vivid ethnographic storytelling, Pinky Hota explores the roots of ethnonationalist conflict between two historically marginalized groups—the Kandha, who are Adivasi (tribal people considered indigenous in India), and the Pana, a community of Christian Dalits (previously referred to as “untouchables”). Hota documents how Hindutva mobilization led to large-scale violence,...
The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the largest i...
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127,29 |
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A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands Volume 10
ISBN: 9780520395725 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the making and management of threat in relation to mobility. Rather than focusing solely on border fences and border crossings, she demonstrates that bordering reorders relations of value. The cost of militarization across this ostensibly "friendly" border is devaluation—of agrarian land and crops, of borderland youth undesirable as brides and...
A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern ...
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412,44 |
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A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands Volume 10
ISBN: 9780520395732 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the making and management of threat in relation to mobility. Rather than focusing solely on border fences and border crossings, she demonstrates that bordering reorders relations of value. The cost of militarization across this ostensibly "friendly" border is devaluation—of agrarian land and crops, of borderland youth undesirable as brides and...
A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern ...
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122,44 |
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Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City
ISBN: 9781478020578 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai’s Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of public charitable trusts. In Trust Matters Leilah Vevaina explores the dynamics and consequences of this conjunction of religion and capital as well as the activities of giving, disputing, living, and dying it enables. As she shows, communal trusts are the legal infrastructure behind formal religious giving and ritual in urban India that influence communal life. Vevaina proposes the trusts as a horoscope of the...
Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai’s Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in ...
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421,21 |
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Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City
ISBN: 9781478025399 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai’s Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of public charitable trusts. In Trust Matters Leilah Vevaina explores the dynamics and consequences of this conjunction of religion and capital as well as the activities of giving, disputing, living, and dying it enables. As she shows, communal trusts are the legal infrastructure behind formal religious giving and ritual in urban India that influence communal life. Vevaina proposes the trusts as a horoscope of the...
Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai’s Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in ...
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102,81 |
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Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States
ISBN: 9781805260530 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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125,80 |
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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror
ISBN: 9780520392274 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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464,87 |
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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror
ISBN: 9780520392281 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,89 |
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Sultanate Ahmadabad and its Monuments: The City of the Muzaffarids (Ahmad Shahis): The City of the Muzaffarids (Ahmad Shahis)
ISBN: 9789355724519 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,27 |
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Revisiting Diaspora Spaces in India: A Contemporary Overview
ISBN: 9781648896880 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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386,87 |
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Wives and Widows at Work: Women's Labour in Agrarian Bengal, Then and Now
ISBN: 9789354424458 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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284,96 |
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The Alternative Leadership: Speeches, Articles, Statements and Letters JUNE 1939–JANUARY 1941
ISBN: 9789354424427 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,30 |
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Broken Timelines - Book 3: The Indo-Europeans
ISBN: 9781990289965 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,69 |
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Kabir Poems in Transformation: A Fountain of Creativity
ISBN: 9789355727282 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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280,32 |
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