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  • No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight

    Memories of a Hill Town

    de Parimal Bhattacharya ...
    For a few years in the early 1990s—at a time when the embers of a violent agitation for Gorkhaland were slowly dying down—Parimal Bhattacharya taught at the Government College in Darjeeling. No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight is a memory of his time in the iconic town, and one of the finest works of Indian non-fiction in recent years.Parimal evocatively describes his arrival, through drizzle and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Field Notes from a Waterborne Land

    Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok

    de Parimal Bhattacharya ...
    In the late 2000s, when the three-decade-long Left Front rule in West Bengal was crumbling, Parimal Bhattacharya began to travel outside the well-trodden urban centres to different parts of the region - from the Sundarbans to tribal Jangalmahal, from the outskirts of Kolkata to villages on the Bangladesh border, from the floodplains of the Hooghly to the forests of Simlipal in neighbouring Odisha ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Journey to Lhasa

    The Diary of a Spy

    de Sarat Chandra Das ...
    In 1874, the brilliant civil engineer Sarat Chandra Das was recruited by the British as a spy in Darjeeling. The Empire wanted to train local agents to gather in-depth intelligence about Tibet—a mysterious kingdom closed off to all outsiders for years—in order to consolidate their position in South Asia and outplay Russia in the Great Game.Equipped with hidden compasses, hundred-bead rosaries (to ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Bells of Shangri-La

    Scholars, Spies, Invaders in Tibet

    de Parimal Bhattacharya ...
    Almost all of the Himalayas had been mapped by the time the Great Game - in which the British and Russian empires fought for control of Central and Southern Asia - reached its zenith in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Only Tibet remained unknown and unexplored, zealously guarded and closed off to everyone.Britain sent a number of spies into this forbidden land, disguised as pilgrims and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight

    Memories of a Hill Town

    de Parimal Bhattacharya ...
    For a few years in the early 1990s - when the embers of a violent agitation for Gorkhaland were slowly dying down - Parimal Bhattacharya taught at the Government College in Darjeeling. No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight is a memoir of his time in the iconic town, and one of the finest works of Indian non-fiction in recent years.As Parimal tramped its roads and winding footpaths, Darjeeling slowly ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Field Notes from a Waterborne Land

    Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok

    de Parimal Bhattacharya ...
    Narrado por Anindya Chakravorty ...

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    10 hora 19 minutos

    In the late 2000s, when the three-decade-long Left Front rule in West Bengal was crumbling, Parimal Bhattacharya began to travel outside the well-trodden urban centres to different parts of the region - from the Sundarbans to tribal Jangalmahal, from the outskirts of Kolkata to villages on the Bangladesh border, from the floodplains of the Hooghly to the forests of Simlipal in neighbouring Odisha ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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