Cultural Region/Indian
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In Light of India
$18.00 Add to cart“One of the most brilliant and original essayists in any language” (Washington Post Book World) reflects on the six years he spent in India as Mexican ambassador-and reveals how the people and culture
- Author: Paz, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0156005786
- Language: English
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How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners
$22.95 Read more‘Those who want to understand the nature of today’s political regime in India need to read this book’ Christophe Jaffrelot, Professor, King’s College London
‘A telling account of repression and resist
- Author: Vijayan, Suchitra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745347983
- Language: English
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Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition
$21.99 Add to cartAn NPR Book of the Year
“A beautifully written, deeply intelligent book about [a] crucial moment.” — Fareed Zakaria, CNN Nobody expecte
A Seattle Times Book of the Year
William E. Colby Award Winner- Author: Hajari, Nisid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 0544705394
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Curry
$16.95 Read moreThere are curries on almost every continent, with a stunning diversity of flavors and textures across India alone, and many more interpretations the world over, including in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japa- Series: British Library Philosophy of
- Author: Sukhadwala, Sejal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0712354506
- Language: English
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Bhagavad Gita and Its Message
$15.95 Read moreThis translation and commentary also analyzes the causes of problems individual and collective, and how to achieve peace, unity and bliss.
- Author: Aurobindo, Sri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: June 14 1996
- ISBN10: 0941524787
- Language: English
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Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the European Essay Prize 2023
The chant of “Azadi!”–Urdu for “Freedom!”–is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1642597066
- Language: English
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
$20.00 Add to cartIn this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 1400078334
- Language: English
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Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: Gateway to Enlightenment Book Two
$28.00 Add to cartThis is Rama’s second of four books in the series. Book II covers the yoga postures, asana, as well as the yamas and niyamas. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, which are said to be over 5,000 years old, are a
- Series: 1 #2
- Author: Vernon, Rama Jyoti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0692089268
- Language: English
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Recipes from My Indian Kitchen: Traditional & Modern Recipes for Delicious Home-Cooked Food
$24.99 Add to cartA collection of inviting Indian recipes to cook at home, including street food and snacks, curries and rice, and the all-important chutneys and raitas, as well as lightly spiced desserts.
Magical spi- Author: Patel, Nitisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1788795164
- Language: English
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Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana
$22.95 Add to cartSecret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and … [more below]
- Author: Crowley, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0907791743
- Language: English
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Alberuni’s India (Abridged)
$26.99 Add to cartIn 1017 A.D., Sultan Mahmud, ruler of a great empire in what is now Afghanistan and Iran, brought to his court at Ghazna many of the most brilliant scholars of the Islamic world. Among them was Alberu
- Series: Norton Library (Paperback) #N568
- Author: Biruni, Muhammad Ibn Ahmad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0393005682
- Language: English
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Touching My Father’s Soul: A Sherpa’s Journey to the Top of Everest
$17.99 Add to cartIn a story of Everest unlike any told before, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider’s view of the Sherpa world. As Climbing Leader of the famed 1996 Everest IMAX expedition led by David Breashear… [more below]
- Author: Norgay, Jamling T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0062516884
- Language: English
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Indian Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Add to cartBeautiful edition with a new introduction to the history of the land and the people, highlighting the origins of myth and folklore.
The story of Ancient India, the vast land that stretches from the Hi- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Dalal, Roshen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1804176176
- Language: English
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India in Mind
$19.00 Add to cartEver since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, no… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Mishra, Pankaj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0375727450
- Language: English
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Indian Summer
$34.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, lib- Author: Von Tunzelmann, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0312428111
- Language: English
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Easy Indian Cooking: 101 Fresh & Feisty Indian Recipes
$7.99 Add to cartEasy Indian Cooking is an excellent collection of authentic and straightforward Indian recipes anyone can make at home
The 100 plus recipes found in Easy Indian Cooking have been modified to suit a- Author: Nayak, Hari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0804853010
- Language: English
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India – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Add to cartDon’t just see the sights–get to know the people.
India’s huge population of 1.2 billion is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each region, caste, and community has its own cu- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Culture Smart!
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 04 2021
- ISBN10: 178702900X
- Language: English
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The Star-Touched Queen
$16.00 Read moreA lush and vivid story steeped in Indian folklore and mythology, Roshani Chokshi’s The Star-touched Queen is a novel that no reader will soon forget. An instant New York Times Bestseller
Fate and fo- Series: Star-Touched #1
- Author: Chokshi, Roshani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1250100208
- Language: English
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The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom
$16.99 Read moreSo who really spearheaded India’s Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people-farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others-stood up to the British. People who never
- Author: Sainath, P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 067009692X
- Language: English
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My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking
$49.93 Add to cartChef Samin Nosrat’s Top Ten Favorite Books for Vulture
The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never
Winner, 2008 James Beard Foundation Book Award in Asian Cooking- Author: King, Niloufer Ichaporia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0520249607
- Language: English
