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Essential in these times of narrowing national horizons. - The Bookseller
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Pushpesh Pant
The bible of Indian home cooking, with over 1,000 recipes
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Nandini Das
WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of…
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William Dalrymple
Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India
K. S. Komireddi
Hailed as the world's largest democracy and feted by the Trump administration in events like "Howdy Modi" in Houston, India is fast slipping into autocracy under the bigoted rule of…
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DK India
Roti is perhaps one of India's most versatile, yet unassuming, dishes. Bake it on a griddle, stuff it with mashed potatoes, lather it in ghee or butter, pair it with…
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Over 90 recipes featuring the humble roti and its many accompaniments
Roti is perhaps one of India's most versatile, yet unassuming, dishes. Bake it on a griddle, stuff it with…
India Hayford
Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, an unconventional young woman returns to her childhood home in rural 1967 Arkansas in this hauntingly visceral…
India Holton
Geography professors in a failed marriage of convenience inconveniently reconnect for an emergency mission in this swoony yet cosy historical-fantasy rom-com
Professor Elodie Tarrant is an expert in magic disasters…
This handbook presents information on Culicidae (Mosquitoes) and insecticide-based mechanisms of resistance development. A crucial reference source for mosquito-borne disease control and prevention, this book is meant for researchers, university…
Sonal Ved
India Local is a cross-country culinary adventure complemented by mouth-watering photographs - an invaluable source for chefs and home cooks who wish to recreate the flavours Indian streets in their…
The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take. The world today has universalized a Eurocentric history of…
Dr Amit K. Suman
The book delves into the educational challenges that indigenous groups faced during the late 18th and 19th centuries and examines how they responded to these challenges and threats. It centres…
E M Forster
A stunning edition of Forster's final novel celebrating 100 years since first publication with a new introduction by Kamila Shamsie
Andrea Major
This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in…
Richard H. Davis
The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand years
From its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity…
This book is an attempt to find new ways of inter-disciplinary theorisation about this moment when both the unitary idea of the Indian nation and the bureaucratic dream of a…
Viney C. Bhutani
This book looks at the historical and political dynamics of the Sino-Indian border dispute in India's Himalayan Frontiers.
MK Raghavendra
This is the first ever effort to bring such a wide range of socio-cultural issues and establish interdisciplinary links between them by studying India's past, ancient and modern. The issues…
Pradip Ninan Thomas
The Gig Economy in India explores the topic of gig work in India's digital political economy, and the relationship between key factors such as start-ups, state government, and platform providers.
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"This volume is the first to present a comprehensive, up-to-date view of the history and practitioners of Mithila painting. Among its contributors are anthropologists, scholars of art history and visual…
This book examines the development and significance of sport in contemporary India, one of the fastest growing sports markets worldwide.
C. Rangarajan, D.K. Srivastava
This new edition of Federalism and Fiscal Transfers in India traces the methodology used by successive Finance Commissions to resolve both vertical and horizontal imbalances. It also compares the design…
The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within the definitive boundaries of Indianness. This has been done through an…
Pragya Dhital
This book offers a groundbreaking account of the role of media technologies in Indian nationalism and democracy. From the Brexit referendum in 2016 to the phenomenon of 'Trumpism', there has…
Murty Classical Library of India
Ten Indian Classics showcases translations from a vast array of India's literary traditions, Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu, with a foreword by the award-winning poet and…
Rakesh Ankit
This archival history of an interim government revisits the time from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is an episodic narrative of…
Parthajit Baruah
A History of India's North-East Cinema: Deconstructing the Stereotypes, the first book on the history of cinema in this region, depicts the journey from the first Assamese film, Joymoti (1935)…
Vappala Balachandran
A high-level insider's account of how China and India are locked in an ongoing struggle for supremacy in Asia.
Isaac Portilla
This book is a research inquiry in interfaith studies that uses hermeneutical phenomenology to address vexing issues arising in the study of mysticism and enlightened sages. It will interest religious…
Biswaranjan Tripura
This book examines the everyday state from the perspective of the lived experiences of peripheralized Indigenous tribal people in contemporary Tripura, Northeast India. It will be useful for tribal/adivasi/indigenous studies…
This book presents multidimensional aspects of the Special Strategic Relationship between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and India, ranging from security, diplomacy, trade and FDI, and people-to-people exchanges. It will…
Jeevan Kang
The original adventures of Pavitr Prabhakar, the Spider-Man of India that made waves as a breakout star of ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE!
Everybody knows the story of Spider-Man...but what if things…
Reena Marwah
This book outlines 75 years of diplomatic relations between India and the Philippines. The subject matter takes the reader beyond historical, civilisational, political and economic synergies to locate the partnership…
Nabanita Sharma
This book studies the commercial activities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in and around Assam.
Neil MacGillivray
Through an examination of the life and remarkable achievements of Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, this book reveals a great deal about both medical and scientific innovation in the nineteenth century…
Baijayanti Roy
The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism examines four organisations in Nazi Germany which used different kinds of knowledge of India to conduct pro-German and as the Second World…
Vamsi Vakulabharanam
By meticulously analyzing India and China's inequality stories between 1950 and 2010 through a class lens, this book locates inequality in these countries within the larger contexts of Asian and…
Bimal Jalan
Bimal Jalan brings his remarkable expertise in policy and economic affairs to bear on a range of topics of critical importance to India’s future. Written in an incisive yet lucid…
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Armin Rosencranz, Raghuveer Nath
Prem Poddar, Lisa Lindkvist Zhang
Provides original research on imperial history, post-war politics and culture by utilising rarely used archival material-British, Chinese, and Indian and sheds new light on our understandings of the 'Tibet Question'…
In-depth resource exploring soil health issues in Indian regions such as the Indian Himalayas and Indo-Gangetic Plains
Soil Health and Sustainability in India delivers a comprehensive overview of the problems…
Uma Purushothaman
This book explores the intricate web of global development assistance to study the country's evolving role in International Development. The subject matter traces India's trajectory from its early years as…
Gavin Puckett
From the master of rhyme comes a sweet tale of an alpaca who turns into a unicorn!
Julien Chaisse,Debashis Chakraborty
This book provides an authoritative and timely analysis of the transformation and current state of India’s foreign economic policy. The work presents a comprehensive, informed and critical overview of negotiating…
Shivshankar Menon
The pace of change in Asian geopolitics is accelerating. Will India take on the role of rising power in a rebalanced Asian system?
Asian geopolitics has changed rapidly in the…
Rahul Bhatia
From renowned journalist Rahul Bhatia, the truth about the 'world's largest democracy' through the eyes of its people
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