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| Author: | William Dalrymple |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 156239 |
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Dalrymple’s "The Last Mughal" tells the dramatic tale of India’s last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II. Directly descended from Genghis Khan and Timur of Akbar and Shah Jahan, his Mughal ancestors...
| Author: | William Dalrymple |
| Publisher: | Flamingo |
| Catalogue number: | 114654 |
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William Dalrymple’s fifth book, White Mughals, does not follow his usual technique of travelling and discovering and storytelling. Rather this work is a social history, an account of the much unknown...
| Author: | John Keay |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 95708 |
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| Author: | Ramachandra Guha |
| Publisher: | Macmillan |
| Catalogue number: | 170920 |
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“India after Gandhi” is the history of the world’s largest democracy, by Ramachandra Guha.
Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion...
The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below
| Author: | Daniel Allen |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 167995 |
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The wellspring of “The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below” is the remarkable 17th century figure, Thomas Coryate, unofficial jester to the court of King James I, associate of John Donne, Ben Johnson and Inigo...
| Author: | Martin Buckley |
| Publisher: | Hutchinson |
| Catalogue number: | 167718 |
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From journalist, broadcaster and writer Martin Buckley, a regular contributor to the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent, comes “An Indian Odyssey” - a beautiful, engaging and romantic history of the Indian...
Empires of the Indus - The Story of a River
| Author: | Alice Albinia |
| Publisher: | John Murray |
| Catalogue number: | 166086 |
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“Empires of Indus” is a thought-provoking history of the Indus River’s civilizations, emperors and explorers.
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows...
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