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 Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central AsiaBest Price: $16.10 Great read. Keeps you thinking, and realizing how much we the people do not know. |  Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With TruthBest Price: $6.97 This is easily the most powerful book I have ever read. Gandhi does a great job of telling the... |  In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern IndiaBest Price: $8.52 I am halfway through the book as of now but I do see an overall bias in the book highlighting... |  Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our AgeBest Price: $15.73 Most people will read "Gandhi and Churchill" for the author's detailed study of how... |  Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in IndiaBest Price: $13.50 Not only does this book explain the way Hindus view the iconic (formed) and aniconic (abstract)... |
 The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and IdeasBest Price: $8.16 I have been researching Gandhi for a number of years, so I can claim some expertise in... |  City of Djinns: A Year in DelhiBest Price: $8.99 The first thing that is incredibly interesting about this book is the way it is approached. To... |  India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest DemocracyBest Price: $11.65 The international audience might gasp at the comprehensiveness of this tome, but any politically... |  Blue MauritiusBest Price: $19.77 Blue Mauritius is an adventure that begins at a ball on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean,... |  Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars WithinBest Price: $23.39 I just heard part of an interview with the author on NPR (I think) The author did research for... |
 Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an EmpireBest Price: $16.79 Overall it is a pretty good book. It provides an insight into the decades leading upto the... |  Seven Years in TibetBest Price: $3.99 An amazing true story about the escape of a German from a POW camp in India during the second... |  Gandhi: His Life and Message for the WorldBest Price: $4.00 I read this book while in college and was so impressed that the editors allow Gandhi's own words... |  Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2: Modern India and Pakistan (Introduction to Oriental Civilizations)Best Price: $15.49 Most of the time I have large problems with huge collections of primary sources such as this too... |  My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home CookingBest Price: $17.14 This book is SUCH a delight! It brought back SO many memories along with all the subtle nuances... |
 India: A HistoryBest Price: $11.00 John Keay largely succeeds in his endeavor of reviewing the key milestones in the rich history... |  Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)Best Price: $2.40 Gratuitous slaps at creation science didn't help to positively influence my opinion of this... |  Ancient Futures: Learning from LadakhBest Price: $10.04 After reading this book, I suddenly realized the root problem of Western Civilization: We have... |  Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics)Best Price: $20.00 This book is simply awesome. I call this one of the best books I've ever read. It presents... |  Indian Art (World of Art)Best Price: $8.49 This is an excellent overview of Indian art for beginners. It takes you through the major... |
 Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 1: From the Beginning to 1800 (Introduction to Oriental Civilizations)Best Price: $19.75 India has one of the richest and most intricate cultures in the world. Imagine a book that... |  Gandhi the Man: The Story of His TransformationBest Price: $7.50 This book was recommended to me by a friend who teaches English at the local college. What a... |  Island Life: Inspirational InteriorsBest Price: $22.19 You may or may not receive this book. Like another reviewer, my order was never completed. I... |  Freedom at MidnightBest Price: $11.96 Reads like a novel, with the detail required to feel the action, but with the sweep of history... |  A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories)Best Price: $8.50 As a relative newcomer to the history of India, I found this a decent introduction to the issues... |
 Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (New Press People's Histories)Best Price: $11.61 Vijay Prashad's book "The Darker Nations" is a mix between modern history, political... |  The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and IdentityBest Price: $8.36 The author brings out effectively the Indian tradition of peaceful debate on matters of social... |  Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone, The: The Emerging 21st- Century PowerBest Price: $14.15 The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone, The: The Emerging 21st- Century Power, Shashi... |  Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political EconomyBest Price: $25.00 The book does not provide nearly enough information to truly understand the complexities of the... |  The City of JoyBest Price: $3.99 An outstanding book. Highly recommended as essential reading for any thinking person and any... |
 Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized BiographyBest Price: $6.49 "During her lifetime, Mother Teresa resisted having her biography written in full...in... |  Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India (Vintage)Best Price: $7.65 Mixing together family, food, history and culture, Madhur Jaffrey gives us a fascinating glimpse... |  The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial NationalismBest Price: $19.93 During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious... |  Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)Best Price: $6.12 In the early twentieth century, British held South Asia was terroized by a number of infamous... |  Dragon Days: Time for "Unconventional" TacticsBest Price: $11.00 The author is well-known in the military and academic environments. With the last FM-100, it was... |
 IndiaBest Price: $11.95 I am reading this book now and will update this review as necessary. The author is an excellent... |  A New History of IndiaBest Price: $36.07 Stanley Wolpert delivers one of the most concise yet thorough accounts of Indian history to... |  Asian ArtBest Price: $60.00 La Plante's text is able to give you a good feel for the artistic culture of India, China, and... |  Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Best Price: $6.68 This book is difficult for me to recommend for the average person. Despite it's size, the... |  The Cost of LivingBest Price: $5.95 Compelling, and powerfully written. The author equates big dams and nuclear bombs, showing both... |
 The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $10.28 I think reading this book is an experience in itself. Its remarkable how similar we all are in... |  Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (The New Cambridge History of India)Best Price: $20.00 This book covers the historiography of how Indian developed in the British Empire up through the... |  Bhutan: Land of the Thunder DragonBest Price: $18.34 This beautifully photographed, written and published book was more than I had expected. It... |  The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)Best Price: $7.28 I first read this book just after it was first published some 50 years ago. It was, I recall, a... |  Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)Best Price: $13.50 In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers... |
 Amy Carmichael: Rescuer of Precious Gems (Christian Heroes: Then & Now) (Christian Heroes, Then & Now)Best Price: $4.18 If you are looking for books that are in-depth and complex in their evaluation of events in the... |  Curry: A Tale of Cooks and ConquerorsBest Price: $6.21 This book is fascinating! Journeying through time the author goes to the very roots of Indian... |  Global Studies: India and South Asia (Global Studies India and South Asia)Best Price: $20.00 Global Studies is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and... |  India: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene Illustrated Histories)Best Price: $8.94 Reading Prem Kishore and Anuradha Kishore Ganpati's book, India an Illustrated History, brought... |  The Complete Taj MahalBest Price: $39.00 Having visited the Taj Mahal, I wanted to have an authoritative book on the history behind its... |
 The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social RigiditiesBest Price: $16.00 Most people recognize that there is something wrong about special interest groups. While most... |  Indian Art (Oxford History of Art)Best Price: $16.00 I purchased this book for my own enjoyment and to supplement the required readings for my Asian... |  India And South Asia: A Short HistoryBest Price: $14.88 If you do not have a background in Indian history or are Indian yourself, do not buy this book.... |  Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)Best Price: $32.98 Behind the contentious politics of immigration lies the question of how well new immigrants are... |  Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945Best Price: $12.93 A comprehensive story of a less well known battlefield of World War II. Some confusion over the... |
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