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“sangeeta ray”

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  • En-Gendering India

    Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

    by Sangeeta Ray ...
    En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts—primarily novels—produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeeta Ray examines representations of "native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to advance notions of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    by Kiran Desai ...
    **A BEAUTIFUL TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING MASTERPIECE WITH A NEW PREFACE FROM THE AUTHOR“Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class, in ways both moving and revelatory.” —The New Yorker**In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered judge wants only to retire ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Temple of Ill Omens

    by James Baehler ...
    Historical fiction at its best! A page-turner that transports the reader into India at the time of the Sepoy Mutiny with fidelity to the historical record and a vivid portrayal of the people involved. The reader follows the Logsdon family as they live through the tumultuous times of the Mutiny with penetrating insights into life In India as seen by native Indians and their British rulers. The ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Akbar: Emperor of India

    by Dr. Richard Von Garbe ...
    The student of India who would at the same time be an historian, discovers to his sorrow that the land of his researches is lamentably poor in historical sources. And if within the realm of historical investigation, a more seductive charm lies for him in the analysis of great personalities than in ascertaining the course of historical development, then verily may he look about in vain for such ... Read more

    $4.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Longest August

    The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan

    by Dilip Hiro ...
    The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million fled their homes -- primarily in caravans of bullock-carts -- to seek refuge across the new border: it was the largest exodus in history. Sixty-seven ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Gandhi

    His Life and Message for the World

    by Louis Fischer ...
    This is the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph over tyranny. This is the story of Mahatma Gandhi, a man who owned nothing-and gained everything. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Thin Places

    A Pilgrimage Home

    by Ann Armbrecht ...
    Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lacks deep ties to the natural world. During the 1990s, Ann Armbrecht, an American anthropologist, made several trips to northeastern Nepal to research how the Yamphu Rai acquired, farmed, and held onto their land; how they perceived their area ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Japan's Last Bid for Victory

    The Invasion of India, 1944

    by Robert Lyman ...
    "This is an excellent account of a series of very hard fought battles that helped prepare the way for the British re-conquest of Burma." —History of WarRobert Lyman's deep knowledge and understanding of the war in Burma, and the great battles at Kohima and Imphal in 1944, are well known. In this book he uses original documents, published works and personal accounts to weave together an enthralling ... Read more

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  • Languages of Belonging

    Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir

    by Chitralekha Zutshi ...
    Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, Kashmir has met with rather perfunctory treatment from historians of South Asia. The few works of history and politics that have appeared on this region, moreover, insist on defining Kashmiri culture, history and identity in terms of the ahistorical concept of Kashmiriyat, or a uniquely Kashmiri cultural identity. This book, in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • History Of The Indian Mutiny Of 1857-8 – Vol. IV [Illustrated Edition]

    by Colonel George Bruce Malleson ...
    Series series History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8
    [Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny]By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. This inherent weakness would be exposed during the events of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858, as the Sepoy soldiers ... Read more

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  • Gender and Violence in British India

    The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919

    by R. McLain ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka

    A Short History of Internal Displacement and Resettlement

    by Robert Muggah ...
    Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing. Humanitarian and development specialists continue to struggle with designing and executing effective protection strategies and durable solutions.Relocation Failures explains how internal displacement and efforts to ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD