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The Sari

Mukulika Banerjee, Daniel Miller - Design - 2003 - 296 pages
Drawing on experiences from villagers in Bengal to scientists in Bangalore, this book explores the beauty, adaptability and personality of India's most iconic garment. Banerjee ...
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Why India Votes?

Mukulika Banerjee - Political Science - 2017 - 326 pages
Why India Votes? offers a fascinating account of the Indian electorate through a series of comprehensive ethnographic explorations conducted across the country — Delhi, Uttar ...
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The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India

Suvir Kaul - History - 2002 - 294 pages
Echoes of the traumatic events surrounding the Partition of India in 1947 can be heard to this day in the daily life of the subcontinent, each time India and Pakistan play a ...
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Ghaffar Khan: Nonviolent Badshah of the Pakhtuns

Rajmohan Gandhi - Literary Collections - 2017 - 312 pages
Born into the Muhammadzai tribe, from the Charsadda valley in the Pakhtun heartland, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a passionate believer in the nonviolent core of Islam and ...
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Ethnicity, Islam and Nationalism: Muslim Politics in the North-West Frontier ...

Sayyid Vaqār ʻAlī Shāh - Ethnicity - 1999 - 376 pages
This book focuses on the politics of the North-West Frontier Province of India between 1937 and 1947. It was the only Muslim majority province which supported the Indian ...
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan: A Centennial Tribute

India - 1995 - 262 pages
On the life and contribution of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 1891-1988, an Indian nationalist and an active politician in Pakistan, since its birth in 1947; papers presented at a ...
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Ramparts of Empire: British Imperialism and India's Afghan Frontier, 1918-1948

B. Marsh - History - 2014 - 292 pages
This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun ...
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