The Prophet-Martyr
In this landmark biography, Harbans Singh presents the extraordinary life and supreme sacrifice of Guru Tegh Bahadur, Ninth Guru of the Sikhs.
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The Dream Narrative
Dreams. Illusions. Reincarnation. Karma. Dreams are a serious matter in Indian myth and religions, especially Hinduism.
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$ 10The Prophet-Martyr
In this landmark biography, Harbans Singh presents the extraordinary life and supreme sacrifice of Guru Tegh Bahadur, Ninth Guru of the Sikhs.
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$ 17The Dream Narrative
Dreams. Illusions. Reincarnation. Karma. Dreams are a serious matter in Indian myth and religions, especially Hinduism.
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The Prophet-Martyr
In this landmark biography, Harbans Singh presents the extraordinary life and supreme sacrifice of Guru Tegh Bahadur, Ninth Guru of the Sikhs.
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That’s a Fire Ant Right There!
‘Here is a writer with the courage to look into the well of truth and to proclaim fearlessly what he finds there: inherited ideas, prejudices and superstitions and eye-wateringly realistic characters [that] stride across the page.
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$ 16The Dream Narrative
Dreams. Illusions. Reincarnation. Karma. Dreams are a serious matter in Indian myth and religions, especially Hinduism.
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A Dark Tale from Cottonwood Grove
‘A pacy whyhedunnit/ifhedunnit! It makes for rich delight when a top-class writer like Ikhwan turns his hand to homicide.’—Tarun J.
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Kuknalim
This first-of-its-kind book tells the story of the Naga national movement from the inside.
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Tibetan Caravans
Born into an eminent merchant family in Ladakh in 1918, Khwaja Abdul Wahid Radhu, often described as ‘the last caravaneer of Tibet and Central Asia’, led an unusual life of adventure, inspiration and enlightenment.
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I Want a Poem and Other Poems
I want a poem like thick tropical rain. Dense green spatter of syllables, Drumbeat consonants, fertile with meaning. Sudden. Short. Unforgettable.
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Video Mariamman and Other Stories
In his pathbreaking fiction, the acclaimed Tamil writer Imayam has written about the brutal complexities of the caste system and patriarchy in unadorned, powerful prose.
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The Adivasi Will Not Dance
In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich hinterland and the ever-expanding, squalid towns of Jharkhand, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar breathes life into a set of characters who are as robustly flesh and blood as the soil from which they spring, where they live, and into which they must sometimes bleed.
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Son of the Thundercloud
After losing all his family in a terrible famine, a man leaves his village with just the clothes on his back, never once looking back.
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Policing and Violence in India
Why does India’s police force, created under British rule, still echo the priorities of a bygone empire? And what is it about this institution, tasked with maintaining the law and order, that has led to a normalization of daily violence? These are the key questions that inform the analyses in this volume by lawyers, academics and activists.
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Shabnam
[Mujtaba Ali’s] Shabnam was a love novel of rare quality. It was simply poetry in prose like Tagore’s Shesher Kobita.
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Rain Incarnations
A book of memorable poems about rain—in image, metaphor, symbols—that speak truths about the natural world, and the world of the human heart and mind.
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In that mill, I too was forged
Abandoned soon after birth, Narayan Gangaram Surve (1926-2010) was brought up by mill workers, but left to fend for himself once again at the age of twelve in the chawls of Mumbai.
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Infinite Variety
‘The history of desire in India,’ writes Madhavi Menon in this splendid book, ‘reveals not purity but impurity as a way of life.
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Dalithan
The life and work of K.K.
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Ways of Being Indian
Identity formation in non-western societies involves paradox, as doctrines are frequently overridden by actual practices.
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The Emperor’s Mirror
‘Dr Bhaskara Rao has been India’s pre-eminent public opinion analyst and a pioneer in social audit and countrywide surveys…[His] deep analysis will lead to new solutions that can improve the quality of research at all stages.
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The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal
‘I became a liberal because I believed in the virtues of openness, mutual respect, and a concern for others.
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The Dismantling of India’s Democracy
India’s democracy, once celebrated as an unprecedented experiment in pluralism and participatory nation building, now faces a grave crisis.
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