Cultural Region/Indian
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 4: A Division of Spoils Volume 4
$23.00 Add to cartAfter exploiting India’s divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #4
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743446
- Language: English
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Pancatantra: The Book of India’s Folk Wisdom
$12.95 Add to cartThe Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other work of Indian literature has had a greater … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Olivelle, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555753
- Language: English
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The Twentieth Wife
$18.99 Add to cartAn enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India’s most controversial empresses — a woman whose brilliance and determination … [more below]
- Author: Sundaresan, Indu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0743428188
- Language: English
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Siddhartha (Dual-Language)
$12.95 Add to cartNobel prize-winning author Hermann Hesse imagined life in India during the lifetime of the Buddha to create this memorable tale about a restless seeker of enlightenment. First published in 1922, Siddh… [more below]
- Series: Dual-Language Book
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0486404374
- Language: English
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Needle at the Bottom of the Sea: Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides
$24.95 Add to cart“Brave and vivid.”–New York Review of Books
These enchanting stories from early modern Bengal reveal how Hindu and Muslim traditions converged on timeless themes of human morality, social culture, an… [more below]- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Stewart, Tony K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0520388933
- Language: English
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Untouchable
$16.00 Add to cartMulk Raj Anand’s extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India’s caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi
Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet n- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anand, Mulk Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0141393602
- Language: English
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Everybody’s Son
$18.99 Add to cart“Everybody’s Son probes directly into the tender spots of race and privilege in America. . . . With assured prose and deep insight into the human heart, Umrigar explores the moral gray zone of what pa
- Author: Umrigar, Thrity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0062912933
- Language: English
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Collected English Writings
$17.95 Read moreC. Subramania Bharati (1882-1921) was one of the builders of modern India. An early nationalist thinker from South India, Bharati’s literary genius ignited a Renaissance in the literature of his nativ
- Author: Bharati, C. Subramania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 11, 2021
- ISBN10: 0143453408
- Language: English
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The Hamilton Case
$21.99 Add to cartA flamboyant beauty who once partied with the Prince of Wales and who now, in her seventh decade, has “gone native” in a Ceylonese jungle. A proud, Oxford-educated lawyer who unwittingly seals his own… [more below]
- Author: de Kretser, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0316010812
- Language: English
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Run and Hide
$23.99 Add to cart“Pankaj Mishra transforms a visceral, intimate story of one man’s humble origins into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society bedazzled by power and wealth–what it means on a human level, and what it c
- Author: Mishra, Pankaj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863120
- Language: English
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The Shehnai Virtuoso: And Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cart“Dhumketu is a wonderfully gripping storyteller, and translator Jenny Bhatt has certainly done him justice in this excellent selection.” -Jennifer Croft, translator of The Books of Jacob
The tragic lov
- Author: Dhumketu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1646051688
- Language: English
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A Thousand Yearnings: A Book of Urdu Poetry and Prose
$35.00 Add to cartFor many people, Urdu is indelibly associated with a bygone era: the cultural renaissance of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the face of colonial oppression, heady mushairas and romantic po
- Author: Russell, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 05 2017
- ISBN10: 9386702169
- Language: English
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Sister of My Heart
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apa… [more below]
- Author: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 18 2000
- ISBN10: 038548951X
- Language: English
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Prudence
$15.99 Read moreFrom NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a witty adventure about a young woman with rare supernatural abilities travels to India for a spot of tea and adventure and finds she’s bitten off more … [more below]
- Series: Custard Protocol #1
- Author: Carriger, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0316212253
- Language: English
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
$38.99 Add to cartFrom the world renowned author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses comes Salman Rushdie’s brilliant novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, featuring an epic, exuberant love story with a rock ‘n’
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 16 2000
- ISBN10: 0312254997
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence Volume 3
$23.00 Add to cartIndia, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel fa軋de of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #3
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743438
- Language: English
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Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
$20.99 Add to cartWhy should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings–splashed across today’s headlines–that have not only destroyed individual lives b… [more below]
- Author: Das, Gurcharan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199754411
- Language: English
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The World We Found
$19.99 Add to cart“Stunning . . . . This is a novel that rewards reading, and even re-reading. The World We Found is a powerful meditation.” —Boston Globe
Thrity Umrigar, acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and Th
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Umrigar, Thrity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0061938351
- Language: English
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Siddhartha
$26.95 Add to cartIn the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves… [more below]
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: May 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0811202925
- Language: English
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Bengal Hound
$19.00 Add to cart“A story full of gravity and urgency.” -Ha Jin, author of A Song Everlasting
A love story unravels in the tumultuous years leading up to the war for Bangladeshi Independence, revealing the irreconcilab
- Author: Abir, Rahad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1958652024
- Language: English
