SOUTH ASIA – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Insight Guides, Stuart Butler
Insight Guides Nepal: Travel Guide with eBook

This Nepal guidebook, perfect for travellers planning longer trips, is written by Insight Guides' destination experts. It blends detailed coverage of local history, culture and places to visit with the vi…

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David Hatcher Childress
Empire of Shiva

In Empire of Shiva, David Childress, popular author and star of the History Channel's show Ancient Aliens, brings us the evidence for a global civilization that worshipped the Hindu god Shiva--a civilizat…

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Tanzil Shafique
City of Desire

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlem…

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Madhushree Ghosh
Safar

Blends memoir and history to explore the role of Punjabi food in fostering community and identity among South Asian refugees and immigrants.Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food i…

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Humera Malik,
Farah's Nose

A heartwarming tale about a girl whose disdain for her strong nose turns to love and pride when she discovers the long line of South Asian immigrant women on whose shoulders she stands today.

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Arne Harms
Enduring Erosions

"Talking to people as we make our way around the village, we learn about the consequences of coastal erosion. We hear about, and see, the progress made by the sea and the rather futile efforts to sub…

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Audrey Truschke
India

A dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context-from antiquity to todayMuch of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontine…

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Andrew C Willford
Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic

Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic is a richly detailed ethnographic study of clinical care at NIMHANS, India's leading mental health institution, offering rich observations of patient-ph…

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Ramachandra Guha
The Cooking of Books

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring.The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friend…

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Sohail Hashmi
The Music of Stones

An essay that deftly deconstructs the history of 'Islamic architecture', challenging colonial narratives and promoting an inclusive understanding of Islam.In The Music of Stones , Sohail Hashmi delves int…

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William Dalrymple
The Anarchy

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-F…

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Ramachandra Guha
The Cooking of Books

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring.

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Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World

A comparative history of aromatics, cosmetics and adornment and how they shaped civilisation across the Ancient Near East, Central, East and South Asia, from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity.

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Palagummi Sainath
Everybody Loves a Good Drought

A LANDMARK OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AND SOCIAL INQUIRY, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

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Disruptive Frequencies in Experimental Sound

This volume presents the voices of diverse and often marginalized practitioners, celebrating Black and South Asian experimental sound musicians and their underrepresented music practices.Black and South A…

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Sam Dalrymple
Shattered Lands

As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the "Indian Empire.&q…

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Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages

This edited volume explores how caste has been theorized and critiqued in multiple philosophical, religious and narrative traditions in India across ancient, medieval and modern times.

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William Dalrymple
The Golden Road

For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence from other civilisations. But this isn't the complete story. A full millennium earlier, India's major cultu…

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Andrea Major,
Reimagining Empire in India

This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in Delhi in the late 1830s an…

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Aryendra Chakravartty,
Bihar in Colonial India

This book points to the indispensability of the province in shaping and strengthening ideas of the nation in 20th century India. Focusing on the region of Bihar, it shows how its distinctively regional id…

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