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  • Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns

    Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822

    by Isaac Titsingh ...
    Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous, but he left disappointed in the ability of the country to embrace change. After many years in Java, India and China, he came to London, and then ... Read more

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  • The Ivory Throne

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    by Manu S. Pillai ...
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  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of Japan

    by Richard Tames ...
    <I>A Traveller’s History of Japan</I> not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation’s development but also provides an invaluable introduction to its language, literature and arts, from kabuki to karaoke. This clearly written history explains how a country embedded in the traditions of Shinto, Shoguns and Samurai has achieved stupendous economic growth ... Read more

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  • The Secret Lives Of The Dalai Lama

    Holder of the White Lotus

    by Alexander Norman ...
    His Holiness the Dalai Lama is renowned the world over for his unswerving dedication to non-violence in his efforts to achieve justice for Tibet, yet the Chinese call him 'a wolf in monk's robes'.He is fourteenth in a lineage whose history is every bit as bloody and intrigue-laden as that of the Papacy. The sixth Dalai Lama was a notorious womaniser, four successive ones were almost certainly ... Read more

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  • The Buddha and the Sahibs

    by Charles Allen ...
    Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th century, when Sir William Oriental Jones, a British judge in India, broke through the Brahmin's prohibition on learning their sacred language. Sanskrit, that clues about the origins of a religion quite distinct from Hinduism began to be deciphered from ... Read more

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  • Shintoism: The Indigenous Religion of Japan

    by A. C. Underwood ...
    Originally published in 1934, this book contains a wealth of information on Shintoism, the indigenous religion of Japan, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any with an interest in Japanese culture and religion. ... Read more

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  • Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

    by Mohandas Gandhi ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics
    Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. It is a key to understanding not only his life and thought but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. For the first time this volume presents the 1910 text of Hind Swaraj and includes Gandhi's own Preface and Foreword (not found in other editions) and annotations by the editor. In his Introduction, Anthony Parel ... Read more

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  • Studies in Indian History and Culture

    by U N Ghoshal ...
    This book, first published in 1944, then revised and enlarged in 1957, has been in the archives for a long time and has now taken a new avatar in the electronic version.It does a thorough examination of Indian History and Culture, the beginnings of the historiography in the vedas, the early lives or legends of the Buddha, the historical traditions of the Puranas, and the two leading royal and ... Read more

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  • The Shinto Cult

    by Milton Spenser Terry ...
    The following pages are the substance of a course of lectures on the old Shinto cult which the author has been giving for a number of years to his classes in Comparative Religion. They are here condensed and adapted to the purpose of a little manual which, it is believed, may interest many readers, and bring together within a small space information gathered from many sources not easily accessible ... Read more

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  • The Company and the Shogun

    The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan

    by Adam Clulow ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process.This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch ... Read more

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  • The Untouchables Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables

    by B.R.Ambedkar ...
    The Untouchables Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables ? by B.R.AmbedkarThis book is a sequel to my treatise called The Shudras—Who they were and How they came to be the Fourth Varna of the Indo-Aryan Society which was published in 1946. Besides the Shudras, the Hindu Civilisation has produced three social classes whose existence has not received the attention it deserves. ... Read more

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