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  • Old Stacks, New Leaves

    The Arts of the Book in South Asia

    Edited by Sonal Khullar ...
    A deep dive into the visual forms, material contexts, social lives, and global circulations of booksIn the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital technologies, and the contemporary art world has witnessed an explosion of interest in the book form. Amid this artistic and intellectual activity, there has been little scrutiny ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • The Educational Heritage of Ancient India

    How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste

    by Sahana Singh ...
    Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth, where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced education. This illustrated book describes how these multi-disciplinary centers of learning existed in several forms such as forest universities, brick-and-mortar universities and temple universities.It examines the funding for these ... Read more

    $1.47 CAD

  • Incarnations

    India in 50 Lives

    by Sunil Khilnani ...
    One of the world's most ancient cultures, India can be understood and explained in as many ways as humans can possibly devise. To make sense of this astonishing turmoil of ideas, Sunil Khilnani has created a remarkably simple and attractive solution. In this book (which accompanies a major Radio 4 series which he is narrating) he takes the lives of 50 Indians, starting with the Buddha, some very ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Vedic People: Their History and Geography

    by Rajesh Kochhar ...
    In The Vedic People, well-known astro-physicist Rajesh Kochhar provides answers to some quintessential questions of ancient Indian history. Drawing upon and synthesizing data from a wide variety of fields linguistics and literature, natural history, archaeology, history of technology, geomorphology and astronomy Kochhar presents a bold hypotheses by which he seeks to resolve several paradoxes ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • India

    A Short History

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Indus

    Lost Civilizations

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series Book 1 - Lost Civilizations
    The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and Indian archaeologists. Today, after almost a century of excavation, it is regarded as the beginning of Indian civilization and possibly the origin ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Camera Indica

    The Social Life of Indian Photographs

    by Christopher Pinney ...
    Series series Envisioning Asia
    Camera Indica is an exploration of the changing role of photographic portraiture in India over the last 150 years. It is the first anthropological study of photographic practice in the everyday lived reality of Indian society and combines historical and ethnographic perspectives.Christopher Pinney looks at key ‘moments’ in Indian photography and considers the ways in which photographic portraiture ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • None but India (Bharat) the Cradle of Aryans, Sanskrit, Vedas, & Swastika

    Aryan Invasion of India’ and ‘Ie Family of Languages’Re-Examined and Rebutted

    by Jagat K. Motwani Ph.D ...
    The divide between the North Indians and the South Indian Dravidians was created by the two British-initiated theories of the Aryan invasion of India (AII) and the Indo-European family of languages (IE). Both the theories AII and IE were mischievously engineered by the British, with their colonial and missionary agenda, guided by their world-known notorious policy, Divide and Rule.According to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Print and Pleasure

    Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in Colonial North India

    by Francesca Orsini ...
    Print and Pleasure tells the story behind the boom in commercial publishing in nineteenth-century North India.How did the new technology of printing and the enterprise of Indian publishers make the book a familiar object and a necessary part of people’s leisure in a largely illiterate society? What genres became popular in print? Who read them and how were they read?Our perception of North Indian ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

  • The Language of History

    Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule

    by Audrey Truschke ...
    For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • India: The Ancient Past

    A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200

    by Burjor Avari ...
    India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book engages with methodological and controversial issues by examining key themes such as the Indus ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • The People of the Indus

    by Nikhil Gulati ...
    Who were the people of the Indus? Why didn't they build pyramids like the Egyptians? And ultimately what happened to them? Supported by extensive research from a leading Indus archaeologist, this graphic novel seeks answers to precisely these questions. It is not history in the form of a dull record of dates and events but a beautifully illustrated glimpse into the lives of the people of the Indus ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD