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Karbala: A Historical Play by Premchand
Tomb of Sand
Basti (Revised)
The Shehnai Virtuoso: And Other Stories
Iqbal: Poet of the East
The Greatest Kashmiri Stories Ever Told
Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India
Pyre
Ghazals: Translations of Classic Urdu Poetry
Timeless Tales from Marwar
Six and a Third Acres: A Novel (Pb)
Tales of India: Folktales from Bengal, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu
Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
The Greatest Gujarati Stories Ever Told Demy (Hb) Aleph
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India's Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry: Awakening
The Country Without a Post Office: Poems
The Half-Inch Himalayas
Brown Girl Chromatography
summonings
Dialect of Distant Harbors
How to Hold a Pebble
Killing It
They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets
Fairoz
The Golden Thread
Iqbal: Poet of the East
Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air
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Acrobat
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Basti (Revised)
Moth
A Fine Balance
River of Fire
Midnight's Children (Anniversary)
The Enchantress of Florence
The English Patient
Coming Through Slaughter
In the Skin of a Lion
Warlight
The Garland Keepers
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Baumgartner's Bombay
The Book of Saladin
The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance
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Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870-1940
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
From Cairo to Beirut: In the Footsteps of an 1839 Expedition Through the Holy Land
Around India in 80 Trains
Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India
Wanderland: Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
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Our Santiniketan
In Sensorium: Notes for My People
The Immortal King Rao
The Shehnai Virtuoso: And Other Stories
India's Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry: Awakening
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Parsi: From Persia to Bombay: Recipes & Tales from the Ancient Culture
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
Barricade
Sojourn
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir
Isolated Incident
The Book of Everlasting Things
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Indian Cultures as Heritage: Contemporary Pasts
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
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The City of Good Death
Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
The Dog of Tithwal: Stories
Dark Tourist: Essays
The Other Man
Serena Singh Flips the Script
One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
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Exquisite Cadavers
The Voice of Sheila Chandra
Homeland Elegies
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Generation Zero: Reclaiming My Parents' American Dream
Rising Heat
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
Other Side of the Divide
What He Did in Solitary: Poems
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
My Mother's Scribe: Poems and Tales
How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency: Fifteen tales from Assam
India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy
Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War
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