Writing India

Reducere. A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop...

A blend of history and travel writing, presenting the true story of Empire in India through the lens of a moving, personal quest to uncover a famil...

A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing.

Reducere. An engaging introduction to India (and all of South Asia) for conlanger, conworlders, linguists, and anyone who'd like to learn more about the worl...

"A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive."Hobson-Jobso...

Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Caste: Yester...

Captured is the ideal balance between the marriages of image and line, resulting in the enchanting alchemy of photographs and words. - Joy Williams...

Well-established young adult fiction figure Bali Rai sets this story of an unwilling young man's participation in an arranged marriage across the U...

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING, 2019SHORT-LISTED FOR THE NEW INDIA FOUNDATION BOOK PRIZE, 2019A 2018 New Statesman Book of...

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and wides...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Writing Home: The 'New Irish' Poets, more than 50 poets from all over the world explore the many meanings and connotations of the wor...

Reducere. About the AuthorPatricia Wentworth (1878-1961) was one of the masters of classic English mystery writing. Born in India as Dora Amy Elles, she bega...

Harris' trip to India starts badly when his girlfriend soon returns home, but left to his devices, and making friends with fellow travellers, he st...

Reducere. Bikram yoga is a type of yoga which originated in India and became popular in the early 1970s. The founder of this yoga, Bikram Choudhury is also t...

Reducere. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 Guardian's Best...

To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival ...

DescriptionBirmingham is a writer's city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge ...

Reducere. Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursio...

After writing Elementary Geography for earlier grades, Ms Mason wrote this book, the second in her series of five readers, to teach students about ...

After writing Elementary Geography for earlier grades, Ms Mason wrote this book, the second in her series of five readers, to teach students about ...

Reducere. B.R. Ambedkar's 'Annihilation of Caste' is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is ...

DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling authors Kabir Sehgal and Surishtha Sehgal comes a charming and unique alphabet book celebrating the rich...

Reducere. Autobiography of a YogiParamahansa Yogananda1946 Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (January 5, 1893-March 7, 195...

Reducere. A gorgeously illustrated goodnight story that celebrates the nighttime rituals of two young children visiting their grandparents in India. As night...

Reducere. Durga, as this powerful warrior-goddess is known, Has nine special forms-each one unique, not just a clone.Shailaputri, Brahmacharini and Chandragh...

Reducere. In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Ariz...

The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-li...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vic DicaraWith: Vraja Kishor DasOver a decade of dedicated researchOver a year of writing and editingWith the blessings and...

Reducere. 'Elegant, lucid and funny, this book will appeal to as many readers as there are desires.'--Shohini Ghosh'The history of desire in India, ' writes ...

Reducere. "We sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carb...

Reducere. DescriptionAn extraordinary book that combines travel- and history-writing with brilliant storytelling to give us a portrait of Mumtaz Mahal, in wh...

Reducere. This book shows how the planet's earliest civilization lead the world in both material and spiritual progress. From the Vedic culture of ancient In...

Reducere. The Secrets of the Self is a book-length, philosophical poem rooted in metaphysical thought and ideology, as well as Islamic theology. Originally p...

Reducere. Do the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 signal the end of the road for the Left? Over the past twenty years, the Indian political climate has shifted de...

Reducere. Writing together with Timothy Wyllie, the angel Georgia details the events of Earth's ancient history from 39, 000 BC to 16, 500 BC - Chronicles th...

Reducere. DescriptionThe book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga med...

For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Cond , however, cooking implies creativity and personal i...

Reducere. DescriptionThe book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga med...

Akbarnāma, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose a...

Reducere. New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor-winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes follo...

Reducere. This is a brief primer on the philosophical underpinnings of the Islamic worldview. What is the cosmology of Islam? How do Muslims interact with th...

Reducere. Bloodshed. Confinement. Forced submission. Torture. Rape. Did these atrocities occur in a medieval prison? In a World War Two concentration camp? W...

Reducere. From the mountains of Uttrakhand in India to the Rocky Mountain in Canada, the stories in this volume represent the multitude of Asian voices that ...

Reducere. The British governess-turned-sleuth visits a small village hiding big secrets in this "timelessly charming" cozy mystery series (Charlotte MacLeod)...

Reducere. Join one little girl's search for the BEST party hair - as demonstrated by her family and friends. Will it be dreads or a twist out? Braids or a hi...

Reducere. So you want to learn to speak Pennsylvania German, also known as Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania Deitsh, PA-German. This workbook is designed to h...

Reducere. Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver takes on a murder case involving a surprise inheritance and a feuding family. Martin Brand always had a dark se...

Reducere. A remarkable collection of deeply felt writings on the experience of studying the embodied spiritual discipline of Bharata Natyam, the Classical Da...

The success of the first edition of Econometrics by Example, from best-selling author Damodar Gujarati, can be attributed to the example-led, learn...

Reducere. (With a preface by W. Y. Evans-Wentz) Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramhansa Yogananda and his encounters with spi...

DescriptionFocusing on the unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious dimension, Sex explores the intersection between sex and ethnography. Ant...

Reducere. Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, ...

DescriptionLove is a many-headed snake in Nisha Ramayya's debut poetry collection, twisting its way through devotion, sacrifice, and bliss. Seeking...

Reducere. 'A fascinating and moving portrait of love, loyalty and infidelity.' Sarah WatersA sudden death in the family delivers Julia Parry a box of love le...

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an ext...

Contributor(s): Author: Georges Didi-HubermanAuthor: Shane B. LillisAby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media as...

Reducere. DescriptionFollow the young Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu as she grows up, travels far from home, and becomes one of the most beloved figures of our time: ...

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European langu...

"Exemplary for its organization and writing, this work is likely to become the standard single-volume text on Buddhism for the student, whether wit...

Reducere. The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listenin...

This exceptional and powerful anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration, with stories by critically acclaimed and bestse...

Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing 2017 Journeying around the globe, through past and present, Emma Tarlo unravels the intr...

DescriptionA one-of-a-kind collection of work by one of India's best contemporary poets. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is one of the most celebrated Indi...

DescriptionFrom rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging ...

Reducere. Working in Mumbai is a critical reflection on thirty years of the practice of RMA Architects. Rahul Mehrotra weaves a narrative to connect his mult...

Reducere. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine is the latest installment in the Beatles Album Series by Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. The ...

"Armed with wit, insight, and truly astonishing research, Geoffrey Falk utterly demolishes the notion of the enlightened guru who can lead devotees...

Reducere. "My mommy and my grandma made a special gift for me-a crib quilt full of memories as cozy as can be." Each night, a baby elephant snuggles up for s...

Reducere. The five sections in Kim Stafford's Singer Come from Afar hold poems that summon war and peace, pandemic struggles, Earth imperatives, a seeker's s...

Reducere. Cowboys and Indian: A Doctor's First Year in Texas is an exciting and entertaining account of a doctor's first year of practice in an underserved T...