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Pearl of China

Pearl of China by Anchee Min (Paperback 2009)

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n the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family. Pearl is the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries. She will grow up to become Pearl S. Buck, read more...
 
Homeboy

Homeboy by H.M.Naqvi (Paperback 2010)

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They are renaissance men. They are bons vivants. They are three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn of the millennium: AC, a gangsta-rap-spouting academic; Jimbo, a hulking Pushtun DJ from the streets of Jersey City; and Chuck, a wideeyed kid, fresh off the boat from the homeland, just read more...
 
Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir

Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir by Fatima Bhutto (Hardcover 2010)

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In September 1996 a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father, Murtaza, was murdered along with six of his associates. In December 2007 read more...
 
The Other Side Of Terror

The Other Side Of Terror by Nivedita Majumdar (Hardcover 2008)

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South Asia offers an instructive instance for studying the phenomenon of terrorism. The Other Side of Terror offers insights from the literatures of India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The Nepali writings concern the Maoist insurgency; those from Sri Lanka, the Tamil militancy. The Indian selections read more...
 
The Elephant And The Dragon

The Elephant And The Dragon by Robyn Meredith (Paperback 2008)

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The Elephant and the Dragon is the essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping the world.This New York Times bestseller describes the tidal wave of change headed for American shores as we enter an era defined by labor unbound from geographic borders and startling shifts in read more...
 
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World

Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi (Paperback 2005)

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Tamerlane, aka Temur-the Mongol successor to Genghis Khan-ranks with Alexander the Great as one of the world's great conquerors, yet the details of his life are scarcely known in the West. Born in obscurity and poverty, he rose to become a fierce tribal leader, and with that his dominion and power read more...
 
Swimming In The Monsoon Sea

Swimming In The Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selavadurai (Paperback 2006)

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It is 1980 and the monsoon season in Sri Lanka. Fourteen-year-old Amrith faces an uneventful summer in the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Aunty Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life “before,” when his loving mother was still read more...
 
Samurai Leaders

Samurai Leaders by Michael Sharpe (Hardcover 2008)

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Samurai Leaders
 
Muslims Of India

Muslims Of India by A. G. Noorani (Paperback 2004)

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This book provides an interesting mix of documents highlighting the history of Muslim participation in Indian politics from pre- independence era to the recent times, discussing how they have adjusted to the new order after partition and independence.
 
Modern South Asia 2E

Modern South Asia 2E by Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal (Paperback 2005)

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In this comprehensive study, the authors debate and challenge the striking developments in contemporary South Asian history and history writing, and cover the entire spectrum of modern South Asian history--social, economic and political. This second edition has been thoroughly updated taking into read more...
 

 


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