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Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ...

Based on the complete edition of his works, this new volume presents Gandhi’s most important political writings arranged around the two central themes of his political teachings: satyagraha (the power of non-violence) and swaraj (freedom) ...

Reprint of 1993 edition. Includes new preface, afterword, and chronology.

This new fourth edition has been substantially expanded because so much has taken place in such a short period of time.

This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century.

"Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories of north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu ...

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations. From the Trade Paperback edition.

This book provides an analysis of one of the ancient world's foremost political realists, Kautilya.

Crisp, judicious, and engaging, China is the classic single-volume history for anyone seeking to understand the present and future of this immensely powerful nation.