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Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires

William R. Pinch - History - 2006 - 13 pages
This 2006 book is an innovative study of warrior asceticism in India from the 1500s to the present.
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Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction

Kim Knott - Religion - 2000 - 160 pages
Hinduism is practised by eighty per cent of India's population, and by thirty million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott combines a succinct and ...
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Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in ...

David Ludden - History - 1996 - 372 pages
Animated by a sense of urgency that was heightened by the massive violence following the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, Contesting the Nation ...
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Crusader Castles

Hugh Kennedy - Architecture - 1994 - 246 pages
A general illustrated account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles.
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The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan

Donald Richie - Fads - 2003 - 186 pages
Just as a person contrives a style, the purpose of which is integration and the effect of which is presentation, so a nation collectively projects an appearance, a "national ...
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Red Star Over China

Edgar Snow - History - 1968 - 554 pages
The iconic history of the Chinese Communist leaders who forever changed the course of China The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936 ...
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