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Bombay: The Statesman and Times of India Book Dept. , Circa 1940. Very Good. Hard Cover. Text in English and what I believe is Sanskrit. 509, [2] pages, circa 1000 illustrations, cloth, very good. From the introduction: "This book is an attempt to tell in pictures the story of Wonderful India, an attempt to show the greatest and loveliest of her buildings, to show the magnificence of her scenery, from the desolate loneliness of the Khyber Pass to the luxuriant coconut groves of the Malabar Coast. The glories of the past stand side by side with the wonders of modern science and engineering." . more information

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Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice Hall,. 1967. Hard Cover. [10],406p., 12 pls., cloth, dj. ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. . more information

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New York: Albert & Charles Boni,. 1928. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Harry Brown. 273 pages, 8 plates, many text sketches, map endpapers, cloth, very good. 2nd printing. . more information

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New York: Random House. 1990. Hard Cover. 0394563913 . 306 pages, 4 plates, cloth, dj, very good. 1st edition. From the dj, 'In this remarkable debut, journalist Elisabeth Bumiller captures the fascinating, complex and often tragic lives of the four hundred million women of India. In the tradition of Andrea Lee's Russian Journal and Mark Salzman's Iron and Silk, May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons is a unique, incisive portrait of a teeming, exotic nation. . . sensitively reveals the lives of India's women: villagers, movie stars, intellectuals, policewomen. In elegant, intelligent prose, Bumiller writes of the Indian women's movement, population control and other issues affecting women's lives.' . more information

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New York: G. P. Putnam S Sons,. 1903. Hard Cover. 332 pages, well illustrated, rebound in cloth, ex-library with usual library markings, somewhat shaken otherwise very good. . more information

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Garden City: Doubleday & Co.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Line drawings by Ellen Raskin. 164 pages, cloth, dj, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. 1st edition. From the publisher: Emily Hahn has a large, devoted following among readers of The New Yorker and among the many people who have read such books as China to Me, The Soong Sisters, and Kissing Cousins. She will continue to delight them - and almost certainly you - in The Tiger House Party, the diverting and witty recounting of the days when she was chosen to join the elaborate party of an Indian maharaja in the tiger country. . more information

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London: Macmillan and Co.. Good. 1884. Hardcover. Two volumes (332 and 350 pages) , eight plates (four in color) , ex-library with usual library markings, new cloth back-strips, endpapers frayed, text and plates very good. From the introduction: "If I have succeeded in making Englishmen and Parsis better acquainted with each other I shall have realized to the fullest extent my purpose. The English Government in India has no more faithful subjects than the Parsis; and it is a proud privilege to feel that one has had something to do with the extension of a mutual knowledge. The Parsis will no doubt be glad to see a history of themselves written by a member of their own race, but they will be still more rejoiced if they can think that it will spread among the English a more general and a more correct knowledge of their position in the Indian community. "; Ex-Library . more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0151153698 . Xvi, 376 pages, 12 plates, map, cloth, DJ, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the dust jacket: "This book tells the story of Calcutta. It is also the story of India and the story of the Third World in miniature. Strangely, not since 1918 has there been a full-length profile of Calcutta. In filling this need Geoffrey Moorhouse gives us an informative, graceful, and urgent book, a book that will last. " BR3044A; Ex-Library; 376 pages . more information

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London: John Murray,. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover. By Lieut.-Colonel Sir Frederick O'Connor. Xiv,244 pages, 12 plates, map, cloth, very good. Quite scarce, no copy at Harvard. From the preface: "It has been my fate, during almost the whole of my thirty years' service under the Government of India, to be stationed on or beyond the Indian frontiers. In fact, during that period I have never, except perhaps for a few weeks at a time, served at an ordinary 'plains station'; and for twenty-three out of the thirty years my duties lay in countries actually beyond the frontiers. I began at Darjeeling, decidedly an outpost of the Indian Empire, then, after serving in the North-West Frontier Campaigns of 1897-8, I lived for a year at a trans-Indus station in what is now the North-West Frontier Province. Thence I was sent to the Gilgit District in the State of Kashmir, where I sometimes lived for months at a time without seeing or speaking to a white man. And this (except for a year at the headquarters of the Government of India in 1920) finished my service in India proper or its dependencies. The remaining twenty-three years, until I retired in 1925, were spent in Tibet, Persia, and Nepal, with brief interludes of leave home and a few months in Siberia during the war." . more information

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Harpercollins. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0002720663 . Xxiv, 254 pages, 8 plates, map, cloth, DJ, very good. From the Wikipedia website: Phoolan Devi (1963-2001) popularly known as "The Bandit Queen", was an Indian dacoit and later a politician. She was notorious across India during her time as a bandit. From the dust jacket: "Basing her account on Phoolan Devi's prison diaries and letters, on interviews with her and her family, police records and eye-witness accounts, Mala Sen tells the story of Phoolan Devi's life from first defence of her father's land rights as a child, through arranged marriage at 11 to a man 20 years her senior . . . " SR1961A ; 254 pages . more information

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Calcutta: Prachi Prakashan (Circa 1954). Very Good in Good dust jacket. Hard Cover. [6],194 pages, tables, cloth, dj, very good. From Wikipedia: "Ram Swarup (1920 - December 26, 1998) was perhaps the most influential Hindu thinker in the second half of the 20th century. He authored many essays and books including The Word as Revelation: Names of God. He books also include critiques of communism, Christianity, and Islam." Arun Shourie wrote about Ram Swarup's struggle against Communism: "Ram Swarup, now in his seventies, is a scholar of the first rank. In the 1950s when our intellectuals were singing paeans to Marxism, and to Mao in particular, he wrote critiques of communism and of the actual -- that is, dismal -performance of communist governments. He showed that the 'sacrifices' which the people were being compelled to make had nothing to do with building a new society in which at some future date they would be heirs to milk and honey. (...) He showed that the claims to efficiency and productivity, to equitable distribution and to high morale which were being made by these governments, and even more so by their apologists in countries such as India, were wholly sustainable, that in fact they were fabrications. Today, any one reading those critiques would characterise them as prophetic. But thirty years ago, so noxious was the intellectual climate in India that all he got was abuse, and ostracism." ["Fomenting reaction", in A. Shourie: Indian Controversies, p.293.] . more information

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New York: Macmillan Co.. 1914. Hard Cover. 85 pages, decorated cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. A lyrical drama based on a story from the Mahabharata. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 'Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian author and guru, b. Calcutta. Tagore came from a wealthy Bengali family. He went abroad in 1877 to study law in England but soon returned to India. For a time he managed his father’s estates and became involved with the Indian nationalist movement, writing propaganda. His characteristic later style combines natural descriptions with religious and philosophical speculation. Tagore drew on the classical literature of India, especially the ancient Sanskrit scriptures and the writings of Kalidasa. His prodigious output includes approximately 50 dramas, 100 books of verse (much of which he set to music), 40 volumes of novels and shorter fiction, and books of essays and philosophy. . more information

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Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co. ,. Very Good. 1930. Hard Cover. Illustrated with photographs taken by H. A. Chase, F.R.G.S. and by the author. 350 pages, 8 plates, map endpapers, cloth, very good. Chapter I: Before the Curtain Rises. "After everyone else had held forth, the general spoke: Yes, gentleman, you have been to strange places. But have you ever heard of the Black Pagoda. We were with Allenby's army, camped at Deir el Belah on the edge of the Sinai Desert, Just south of the old Philistine capital of Gaza." . more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Hard Cover. 0521441536 . 214 pages, cloth, dj. Few very small and neat notes in margins, otherwise fine. . more information

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New York: Oxford University Press,. 1977. Soft Cover. 471 pages, pictorial wraps, some shelf-wear otherwise very good. 1978 reprint. . more information

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Berkeley,: University of California Press. 1991. Hard Cover. 0520072170 . 273 pages, 8 plates, cloth, very good. . more information

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