To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, Prisoners of Shangri-La provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Donald Lopez reveals here fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion. He examines, among much else, the politics of the term "Lamaism," a pejora...
This groundbreaking book explores China's efforts to assimilate Tibet, in the process rewriting Tibetan history to conform to its own goals. Warren W. Smith argues that Beijing fears that any genuine autonomy or dialogue with the Dalai Lama will fuel renewed nationalism in China's Tibet, as the leadership calls its possession. Highlighting China's past and current propaganda on Tibet, the book demonstrates China's sensitivity regarding the legitimacy of its rule. In the absence of any solution,...
The greatest of the Mughal emperors, Jalal ad-Din Akbar (1542-1603) was a formidable military tactician and popular demagogue. Ascending to the throne at the age of thirteen, he ruled for half a century, expanded the Mughal empire, and left behind a legacy to rival his infamous ancestors Chinggis Khan and Timur. Renowned for his attempts to integrate the diverse religious heritage of India, he was a true polymath who although illiterate was widely active in a number of intellectual pursuits....
As a young man Sydney Bolt witnessed some of the most remarkable events in recent world history. He reached India at a time when the Japanese armed forces were powering through Southeast Asia and dealing a humiliating blow to European colonial empires from which they would never recover. His memoir covers the period of the rise of nationalist revolt in India and the climax of Gandhi's civil disobedience movement. He was on the Burma front as British and Indian armies began finally to push the Ja...
R.F. Foster's The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland examines how key events in Irish history have been recast and retold to serve a multiplicity of purposes. In this provocative and extremely funny book Roy Foster demolishes the clichés that surround Ireland's past, examining how key moments have been turned into myths - and, more recently, airbrushed and repackaged for Hollywood and popular culture. Whether discussing the 'misery tourism' of Famine theme parks, ideas of...
Letters to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
by Mahatma 1869-1948 Gandhi and Vallabhbhai 1875-1950 Patel
The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India 1 to 10
by Anonymous
Himalayan Passages (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, #17)
by Benjamin Bogin and Andrew Quintman
Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh (Dynamics of Politics in Bangladesh)
by Nagendra Kumar Singh
Above the Heron's Pool
by Heather Lovatt, Peter DeJong, and Peter de Jong
An in-depth study of the interrelationship of economics, sociology, and politics in Pakistan.
Initially published on hardback in two separate volumes, Dr Karan Singh's widely acclaimed autobiography is now made available as a single volume, illustrated paperback with a new, lengthy preface specially written for this edition.
Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875 1914 (Perspectives in Economic and Social History, #14)
by Stuart Sweeney
The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience.
The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains.
by Augustus Henry Irby
Ram Mohan Ray is called the 'Father of Modern India' in recognition of his epoch-making social, educational and political reforms. Robertson argues that Ray set the agenda for modern India in his vision of a self-determining, modern, pluralistic society founded upon the Upanishadic principles of freedom of sadhana and one rule of law for all.
Disciplined Natives Race, Freedom and Confinement in Colonial India
by Satadru Sen