Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, Paperback - William Dalrymple

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Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India

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Secrets of the Serpent: In Search of the Sacred Past - Special Revised Edition, Featuring Two New Appendices by Philip Gardiner. Across time and ac...

As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company offi...

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Jane Gibson, an established potter, was determined to document the lives, skills and work of the traditional potters of South Asia before their dis...

Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expres...

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This book studies the complex relationship of religion to modernity and argues that modernity should be understood as the consequence, not the caus...

An intimate portrait of a critical period of Middle Eastern history (1869-1948), seen through the eyes of a single familyPublisher: Orion Publishin...

An intimate portrait of a critical period of Middle Eastern history (1869-1948), seen through the eyes of a single familyPublisher: Orion Publishin...

Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Sanderien VerstappenIllustration(s): 11 Tables, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and whi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Velayutham (Jamia Millia Islamia, India) SaravananNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 20...

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Reducere. DescriptionA Search in Secret India is the story of Paul Brunton's journey around India, living among yogis, mystics and gurus, some of whom he fou...

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This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian ...

India is facing a river pollution crisis today. The origins of this crisis are commonly traced back to post-Independence economic development and u...

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The late Paul Brunton was one of the 20th century's greatest explorers of and writers on the spiritual traditions of the East. A Search in Secret I...

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An intimate portrait of a critical period of Middle Eastern history (1869-1948), seen through the eyes of a single family

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Reducere. Facsimile of 1949 Edition. The book recounts P. D. Ouspensky's first meeting and subsequent association with George Gurdjieff. It is widely regarde...

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Detailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yi...

Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. In this fascinating historical search, Michael Wood explores th...

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Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Sarah SandsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 174Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 23Co...

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A work of non-fiction about eleven writers, including Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Patrick Hamilton, Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bishop, and drink in t...