Federalism
At a time when the Indian Constitution is under sustained strain, this incisive monograph turns to one of its most foundational ideas: federalism.
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Languages of Freedom
Languages of Freedom asks a simple but urgent question: what does it mean to be free—and why does freedom so often slip through our hands? In these wide-ranging and incisive essays, political scientist Neera Chandhoke moves between political theory, mid-20th-century Hindi cinema and Urdu poetry of the Progressive Writers’ Movement to trace how freedom has been imagined, claimed and constrained in modern India.
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$25Federalism
At a time when the Indian Constitution is under sustained strain, this incisive monograph turns to one of its most foundational ideas: federalism.
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$20Languages of Freedom
Languages of Freedom asks a simple but urgent question: what does it mean to be free—and why does freedom so often slip through our hands? In these wide-ranging and incisive essays, political scientist Neera Chandhoke moves between political theory, mid-20th-century Hindi cinema and Urdu poetry of the Progressive Writers’ Movement to trace how freedom has been imagined, claimed and constrained in modern India.
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Morning Twilight
‘We do not always require the services of a time machine to travel in dramatic ways across diverse periods.
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The Forest of Snow
In 1898, the wandering saint Swami Ramananda Bharati set out from the Garhwal Himalayas towards one of the most remote and revered destinations in the world: Mount Kailash and Manas Sarovar in Tibet.
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I in the Sky: A Chandigarh Chronicle
Bubbly is dead.
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The Maker of Eternity
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a boy growing up in Bengal could not have imagined the world he would live through: empire and revolution, war and displacement, independence and Partition.
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My Father’s Garden
Spanning half a life, My Father’s Garden tells the story of a young doctor—the unnamed narrator—as he negotiates love and sexuality, his need for companionship, and the burdens of memory and familial expectation.
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Homecoming
From the author of the internationally acclaimed The Storyteller’s Tale and Jimmy the Terrorist, this is a spare, nostalgic and moving novel about love, family, home and belonging.
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When I Hid My Caste
‘The Dalit writer’s magnum opus [that] shifted the imagination of what literature could achieve.’—Yogesh Maitreya, Scroll.
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Old Lhasa
A sweeping, magnificent biography—which combines historical research, travel-writing and discussion of religion and everyday culture—Old Lhasa is the most comprehensive account of the fabled city ever written in English.
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The Flavours of Nationalism
In this extraordinary memoir, Nandita Haksar uses memories and ideas of food to ask fundamental questions about what we eat, who we eat with, who starves and who feasts, which foods are forbidden or denigrated—and what all this says about our country.
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The Education of Yuri
‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.
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The Story of Eve
Among the first women to gain recognition and fame in the almost entirely male-dominated field of Urdu poetry, Zehra Nigah (born in 1935) is today taller than any Urdu-language poet writing in South Asia or beyond.
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$20Federalism
At a time when the Indian Constitution is under sustained strain, this incisive monograph turns to one of its most foundational ideas: federalism.
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$20Languages of Freedom
Languages of Freedom asks a simple but urgent question: what does it mean to be free—and why does freedom so often slip through our hands? In these wide-ranging and incisive essays, political scientist Neera Chandhoke moves between political theory, mid-20th-century Hindi cinema and Urdu poetry of the Progressive Writers’ Movement to trace how freedom has been imagined, claimed and constrained in modern India.
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Days of Recovery
When cancer brought Nomita Kapur’s ‘active days to a halt’, her universe shifted, without warning.
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She and I
Kamala, a beautiful, self-possessed and fiercely independent widow, comes to a village, where she has been given a job on compassionate grounds, with her two daughters.
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Snowed Under
‘With [Snowed Under] our expat writer Nirmala has gifted the Malayalam language with one of the most original creations in the field of the modern Malayalam novel.
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The Origins of a Dispute: Kashmir 1947
‘A learned, carefully researched, intelligently argued version of history.
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The Gods Are Leaving
When a family decides to remove its ancestral gods from a deserted village home, it marks more than a physical relocation.
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First Bite - BREAKFAST STORIES from Urban India
What do India’s cities eat when they wake up, and what do those first bites reveal about how we live? In First Bite, journalist and food–culture writer Priyadarshini Chatterjee travels through ten Indian cities—Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Amritsar, Varanasi, Shillong, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad—to explore breakfast as history, habit, and everyday necessity.
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The River of Grey Flowers
Real Lives Saved, then remembered. John Easow is a Dalit fisherman’s son from the Tamil coast who believes work might deliver him into dignity.
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