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The Ruling Caste : Imperial Lives In The Victorian Raj

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David GilmourPublication Details
Book1st American edFarrar, Straus and Giroux2006Links
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A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria’s reign Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. The Ruling Caste principally concerns the officers of the legendary India Civil Service–each of whom to perform as magistrate, settlement officer, sanitation inspector, public-health officer, and more for the million or so people in his charge. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DS475 .G55 2006 AVAILABLE
Migrant Races : Empire, Identity, And K.S. Ranjitsinhji

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Satadru SenPublication Details
BookManchester University Press2004Links
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Migrant Races is a study of image, identity and mobility in colonial India and imperial Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DS479 .S465 2004 AVAILABLE
Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier : The Struggle For Modernity In Postcolonial India

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Vikramaditya PrakashPublication Details
BookUniversity of Washington Press2002Links
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Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the city, where he grew up as the son of one of the nine Indian architects who assisted in designing Chandigarh, Prakash brings to light stories of town planners, bureaucrats, and architects vying over the colonial past and the symbolic future of India. Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier is the story of the making of an Indian modern architecture as both an aspect and an engine of postcolonial culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA1508.C44 P73 2002 AVAILABLE
Buddhist Goddesses Of India

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Miranda ShawPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2006Links
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The Indian Buddhist world abounds with goddesses–voluptuous tree spirits, maternal nurturers, potent healers and protectors, transcendent wisdom figures, cosmic mothers of liberation, and dancing female Buddhas. Buddhist Goddesses of India is the essential and definitive guide to divinities that, as Miranda Shaw writes, “operate from transcendent planes of bliss and awareness for as long as their presence may benefit living beings.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BQ4630 .S43 2006 AVAILABLE
In Amma’s Healing Room : Gender And Vernacular Islam In South India

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Joyce Burkhalter FlueckigerPublication Details
BookIndiana University Press2006Description
“[I]t is extremely salubrious to see the ways Islam works in the lives of ordinary people who are not politicized in their religious lives. In the “healing room,” Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men and women, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian, of varied social backgrounds, who bring a wide range of physical, social, and psychological afflictions. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ1744.M93 F58 2006 AVAILABLE
Pilgrimage To India : A Woman Revisits Her Homeland

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Pramila JayapalPublication Details
Book1st pbk. edSeal Press2001Description
In Pilgrimage to India, Pramila Jayapal, an Indian-born, Western-educated woman, returns to her country of birth and gives readers an inside look at a culture that is both fascinating and largely inaccessible. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DS480.853 .J39 2001 AVAILABLE
Sources Of Indian Tradition

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Book2nd edColumbia University Press1988Description
Since 1958 Sources of Indian Tradition has been one of the most important and widely used texts on civilization in South Asia (now the nation-sates of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DS423 .S64 1988 v.1 AVAILABLE (LOWER LEVEL) DS423 .S64 1988 v.2 AVAILABLE
When Women Come First : Gender And Class In Transnational Migration

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Sheba Mariam GeorgePublication Details
BookUniversity of California Press2005Links
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With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. George’s absorbing story of how these women and men negotiate this complicated network provides a groundbreaking perspective on the shifting interactions of two nations and two cultures. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E184.E2 G46 2005 AVAILABLE
River Of Gods

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Ian McDonaldPublication Details
BookPyr2006Links
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As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business?a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR6063.C38 R58 2006 AVAILABLE
The Space Between Us

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Thrity UmrigarPublication Details
Book1st edWilliam Morrow2005Description
Cursed by fate, she sacrifices all for her beautiful, headstrong granddaughter, Maya, a university student whose education — paid for by Sera — will enable them to escape the slums. But when an unwed Maya becomes pregnant by a man whose identity she refuses to reveal, Bhima’s dreams of a better life for her granddaughter, as well as for herself, may be shattered forever. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3621.M75 S67 2005 AVAILABLE
The Vintage Book Of Modern Indian Literature
R¯akshasa’s Ring
Shalimar The Clown : A Novel

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Salman RushdiePublication Details
Book1st edRandom House2005Description
Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story. A powerful love story, intensely political and historically informed, Shalimar the Clownis also profoundly human, an involving story of people?s lives, desires and crises ? He knew the intimate connection between his own scandalous past and this grave unscandalous man who never laughed in spite of the creased eyes that hinted at a happier past, this man with a gymnast?s body and a tragedian?s face who had slowly become more of a valet than a mere driver, a silent yet utterly solicitous body servant who understood what Max needed before he knew it himself, the lighted cigar that materialized just as he was reaching for the humidor, the right cuff-links that were laid out on his bed each morning with the perfect shirt, the ideal temperature for his bathwater, the right times to be absent as well as the correct moments to appear. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR6068.U757 S47 2005 AVAILABLE
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