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  • Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

    Contributions to Current Research in Indology, Volume 1

    Series Libro 1 - PUSPIKA
    It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since the inception of Western Indology. And yet, what this monumental scholarship has achieved is still outweighed by the huge tracts ... Leer más

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  • The Hungry Empire

    How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

    'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader… Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit… Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry…In ... Leer más

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  • Battles of the New Republic

    A Contemporary History of Nepal

    de Prashant Jha ...
    Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history, part-analysis, part-memoir, and part-biography of the key characters, the book breaks new ground in political writing from the region. With access to ... Leer más

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  • Exodus Burma

    The British Escape through the Jungles of Death 1942

    Until a few weeks before the fall of Rangoon, the British had not dreamt the Japanese would invade Burma. So in early 1942, British soldiers trained for desert warfare fought a Japanese Army trained and equipped for the jungle. Those who survived this fierce fighting faced malaria, air attack, and lack of food and water, on the long walk out through the Valley of Death. Ragged groups of soldiers ... Leer más

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  • Midnight's Descendants

    A History of South Asia since Partition

    de John Keay ...
    Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants-the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India-are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous influence over global economics and geopolitics, yet their impact is too often simplified by accounts that focus solely on one nation ... Leer más

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  • The Sikhs of the Punjab

    de J. S. Grewal ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of India
    In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis ... Leer más

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  • House of Shivaji

    Studies and Documents on Maratha History: Royal Period

    This volume contains writings on the 'Royal Period' (1626-1700), as distinguished from the 'Peshwa Period' of Maratha history, and added a long life of Malik Ambar (from original Persian sources) and biographies of four eminent Marathi historical research-pioneers, Rajwade, Sane, Khare and Parasnis. The materials have come from Persian manuscripts (patiently gathered during a life-time), newly ... Leer más

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  • Nepal and the Geo-Strategic Rivalry between China and India

    Series series Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
    The importance of the Himalayan state of Nepal has been obscured by the international campaign to free Tibet and the vicissitudes of the Sino-Indian rivalry. This book presents the history of Nepal’s domestic politics and foreign relations from ancient to modern times.Analysing newly declassified reports from the United States and Britain, published memoirs, oral recollections and interviews, the ... Leer más

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  • The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War

    Edición de Rotem Kowner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specifically for control of Korea, was watched at the time very closely by observers from many other countries keen to draw lessons about the conduct of war in the modern industrial age. The defeat of a traditional European power by a non-white, non-western ... Leer más

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  • Women in God’s Army

    Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army

    Series Libro 7 - Studies in Women and Religion
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  • The Household

    Informal Order around the Hearth

    Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Legal underpinnings, social considerations, and economic constraints all influence how household participants select their homemates and govern their interactions around the hearth. ... Leer más

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