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Gandhi Before India

By Ramachandra Guha

After Mandela: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa

By Russell, Alec

Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean

By Adrian Tinniswood

The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms

By Susan Stronge

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World

By Mike Davis

Contemporary Indian Dance: New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora

By K. Katrak

India Unbound

By Das, Gurcharan, Gurcharan Das

Indian Names: From Classical to Contemporary

By M. V. Kamath, Kalindi Randeri

The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama

By Nigel Cliff

A History of India

By Peter Robb (SOAS, University of London, London)

Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope

By Judith M. Brown

The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 2, The Further Islamic Lands

By P. M. Holt, A. K. S. Lambton, B. Lewis

Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century

By Philip D. Curtin

Islam and Muslim History in South Asia

By Francis Robinson (Professor of South Asian History and Vice Principal, Professor of South Asian History and Vice Principal, Royal Holloway, University of London)

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

By David Abulafia

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

By Sathnam Sanghera

England: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who Saw it Happen

By John Lewis-Stempel

Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj

By Marian Fowler

The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India

By James Astill

Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art

By Mitter, Partha

The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition & Memory in the North West Frontier (World Anthropology Series)

By Banerjee, Mukulika

The Ganges Delta and its People

By Flint, David

A River Journey: The Ganges

By Rob Bowden

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

By William Dalrymple

Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass

By Henry Jeffreys

The Country of the Sikhs, Punjab: The Punjab Under Sikh Rule 1799 AD to 1849 AD

By Henry Steinbach

Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors

By Lizzie Collingham

Contemporary India

By Katharine Adeney, Andrew Wyatt

Leftism in India 1917-1947

By Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri

The Russell/Bradley Dispute and its Significance for Twentieth Century Philosophy

By S. Candlish