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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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