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Indian sub-continent

Hardback. Neeti Nair's account of the partition in the Punjab rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an inevitable solution, partition--though advocated by some powerful Hindus--was a stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region. Num Pages: 356 pages, 3 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057791
ISBN
9780674057791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.14
€ 63.03

Hardback. Animal Kingdoms reveals the far-reaching cultural, political, and environmental importance of hunting in colonial India. Julie E. Hughes explores how Indian princes relied on their prowess as hunters of prized game to advance personal status, solidify power, and establish links with the historic battlefields and legendary deeds of their ancestors. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 color illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTQ; WSXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 149 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072800
ISBN
9780674072800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.63
€ 53.20

Hardback. Tarun Chhabra offers detailed ethnographic descriptions of multiple aspects of the culture of the Todas, the oldest inhabitants of the Nilgiri Hills of South India. Chhabra s prologue details his journey to becoming a Toda insider. The text and appendices include significant new data, and the book represents a major breakthrough in Toda studies." Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 721 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 263 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
721
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088504
ISBN
9780674088504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.23
€ 57.13

Hardback. Andrea Wiley contrasts the practices of the world's leading milk producers, India and the United States. In both countries, milk is considered to have special qualities. Drawing on ethnographic and scientific studies, popular media, and government reports, she shows that the cultural significance of milk goes well beyond its nutritive value. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; JFCV; JHMC; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 248 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674729056
ISBN
9780674729056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.73
€ 47.31

Paperback. Draws on reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images. This book shows that Hindu priests and worshipers are not the only ones to enliven images. Num Pages: 352 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AGR; HRG; HRLB; HRLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691005201
ISBN
9780691005201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.24
€ 43.19

Hardback. Comparing eighteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monastic education to medieval Christian and other contexts, this book examines such issues as bilingual commentarial practice, the relationship between clerical and "popular" religious cultures, and the place of preaching in the constitution of "textual communities". Series: Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKS; 3JF; HRAX; HRE; HRLP7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691070445
ISBN
9780691070445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.36
€ 71.41

Paperback. Presents an account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk. This book shows how climbers' behavior toward the Sherpas has ranged from kindness to cruelty, from cultural sensitivity to derision. Num Pages: 392 pages, 30 halftones 3 maps 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; JHMC; JHMP; WSZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691074481
ISBN
9780691074481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.25

Paperback. Examines the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. This title shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; HRA; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691074788
ISBN
9780691074788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 34.79

Paperback. When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India's primary symbol of modernity and cultural diversity into a site of ethnic conflict and violent nationalism. This is an account of how the city's atmosphere, dominant public languages, and power structures have changed since 1960s. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJP; GTB; JFSG; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 175 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691088402
ISBN
9780691088402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.12

Paperback. When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. This work argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. It traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTB; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691088952
ISBN
9780691088952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 36.53

Paperback. In 1921, a traveling religious man appeared in Bengal, who was later, began to be identified as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. This title evaluates this case of the man claiming to be the long-lost Kumar. The story unfolds alongside decades of Indian history. Num Pages: 456 pages, 7 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691090313
ISBN
9780691090313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.78
€ 40.61

Paperback. Traces the growth of a middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new socio-cultural space in one of the world's 'least developed countries'. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 maps. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKN; GTF; JFC; JFSC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691095936
ISBN
9780691095936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.06

Paperback. Offers a contribution to theoretical debates about political - religious and nationalist - violence. This book brings together two perspectives on political violence - identification and purification. It combines these insights with a focus on urban youth culture, in which masculinity, physicality, and the performance of violence are key values. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 halftones. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFFE; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Printing
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691117096
ISBN
9780691117096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.25

Paperback. Analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; 1QDB; CFB; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691118284
ISBN
9780691118284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.36

Paperback. How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life? This work addresses this dilemma by examining the constitutional development of secularism in India within an unprecedented cross-national framework that includes Israel and the United States. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JPVH4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122533
ISBN
9780691122533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.78
€ 40.56

Hardback. What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? This book examines the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, and provides a framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries. Num Pages: 344 pages, 27 line illus. 76 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691125381
ISBN
9780691125381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.78
€ 40.56

Paperback. Presents the thought of the founding fathers and key intellectual leaders of Hindu nationalism from the time of the British Raj. This book reveals how the "Hindutuva" movement approaches key issues of Indian politics. It covers such important topics as secularism, religious conversion, relations with Muslims, education, and Hindu identity. Editor(s): Jaffrelot, Christophe. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; JFSR; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 26. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130989
ISBN
9780691130989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.25

Paperback. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India. This book offers an in-depth examination of India's Jamaat-e-Islami and SIMI, exploring political Islam's complex relationship with democracy and providing a rare window into the Islamist trajectory in a Muslim-minority context. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 halftones. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSR2; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691139203
ISBN
9780691139203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.10

Paperback. Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. This book asks how we might understand sex workers' demands that they be treated as workers. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 line illus. 1 table. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFMX; JFSJ1; LAQG; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691142517
ISBN
9780691142517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.25

Paperback. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw 'the Indian Mutiny' of 1857-59 as an epochal event. This book seeks to discover why. It offers a view of this episode - and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally - at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; HBTQ; HBTV; JWXT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143309
ISBN
9780691143309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.29

Hardback. In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JHB; JHMC; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147871
ISBN
9780691147871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.78
€ 40.56

Paperback. In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. This title provides a riveting ethnographic account of this collective violence. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; HRH; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691151779
ISBN
9780691151779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.43

Hardback. Offers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied post apartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HFMS; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152950
ISBN
9780691152950
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.27
€ 76.39

Hardback. The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. This book locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm's employ. Series: Princeton Analytical Sociology Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 line illus. 8 tables. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1FKA; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLH; KCLT; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159065
ISBN
9780691159065
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 36.40

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