azw3 |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Sam van Schaik

WHOSE GAME? By the close of the nineteenth century, British India was very different from what it had been in the days of Warren Hastings and George Bogle. The gentleman ...

azw3 |eng | 2009-09-03 | Author:French, Patrick [French, Patrick]

You could see the history of Tibet through a family, by looking at the way its influence unfolded and retracted over two hundred years. Reincarnation has long been intertwined with ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Gordon White

It is in the scriptures of Mahāyāna and tantric Buddhism, however, that rays become the prime media for the transmission of teachings and the transformative process of initiation and yoga.145 ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

The next evening at ten o’clock I again made my way along the dusty, pilgrim-clogged streets of Madurai, and through the labyrinth of horn-hooting, rickshaw-squealing lanes leading up to the ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Prakash, Gyan [Prakash, Gyan]

DREAMING RED A collective identity forged from the neighborhood ties of village, caste, and kin did not automatically translate into a proletarian mobilization against capital. It was one thing to ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Prakash, Gyan [Prakash, Gyan]

DREAMING RED A collective identity forged from the neighborhood ties of village, caste, and kin did not automatically translate into a proletarian mobilization against capital. It was one thing to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Samanth Subramanian

I had come to Mangalore expecting to fall completely in love with its fish curry, but I lusted instead, for much of my time there, after another dish, before I ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:Christopher Hale

Chapter Ten WEIRD BARBARITY ‘The veil has been torn aside and the naked city [of Lhasa] has been revealed in all its weird barbarity.’ – Colonel Sir Thomas H. Holdich, ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Rohini Mohan

IT WAS MARAN who discovered that grandfather was dead. He had gone inside their tent to look for the steel cup he liked to play with. The old man lay ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Amit Chaudhuri [Chaudhuri, Amit]

Someone I know, also a well-to-do victim of polio and frequenter of the Bengal Club, but one who continues to walk with crutches with a staccato, oppositional ferocity, once told ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

3 JULY Yesterday I returned from a hectic four-day visit to Kathmandu; it’s difficult to decide which was the more exhausting part of it – the refugee business that took ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

CHAPTER XX The Literature of India I. THE LANGUAGES OF INDIA Sanskrit—The vernaculars—Grammar JUST as the philosophy and much of the literature of medieval Europe were composed in a dead ...

mobi |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Basham, A. [Basham, A.]

The Evolution of the Great Vehicle It is never claimed in the Pali scriptures that the Buddha was in any way supernatural. His supreme insight was gained by his own ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shashi Tharoor

8 “Commanding Heights”: 1947–1957 One man did not join the celebrations that midnight. Mahatma Gandhi stayed in Calcutta, fasting, striving to keep the peace in a city that just a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Mike Dash [Dash, Mike]

My wife was still sleeping over the grave of the water carriers unconscious of what was doing or to be done. (She has often since declared that she never had ...