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  • The South African Gandhi

    Stretcher-Bearer of Empire

    by Ashwin Desai, Goolem Vahed ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    A biography detailing Gandhi's twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in the nation's political context.In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African ... Read more

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  • The South African Gandhi

    Stretcher-Bearer of Empire

    by Ashwin Desai, Goolem Vahed ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South African leaders, including Mandela, have consistently lauded him as being part of the epic battle to ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

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  • Coolie Woman

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  • Foy Short, A Life in Southern Africa

    by Gardner Hall ...
    Biography of Foy Short, a pioneer evangelist who lived in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe from 1922 through 1995. The book explores not only the traditional hazards he faced as a "missionary" (wild animals, primitive tribesmen and dangerous travel) but also the doctrinal and spiritual challenges that he had to battle in establishing churches of Christ and training African teachers. ... Read more

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  • Battles of the New Republic

    A Contemporary History of Nepal

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • House of Shivaji

    Studies and Documents on Maratha History: Royal Period

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Autobiography of an Archive

    A Scholar's Passage to India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
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    The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ... Read more

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  • Languages of Belonging

    Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir

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