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2015.
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English
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"India, 1837. William Avery is a young soldier with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the whole ethos of British rule, but who cannot resist the challenge of an unresolved mystery. What starts as a wild goose chase for this unlikely pair--trying to track down a missing writer who lifts the lid on Calcutta society--becomes...
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Perveen Mistry novels volume 2
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English
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"India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja's widow. The royal...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource
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English
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But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.I would strongly advise all the students to read the original text once again even if you...
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English
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"An adventure novel with an unexpected hero, Captain Blood follows the unintended journey of chivalrous and well-educated gentleman Peter Blood, who without much choice was plunged into the world of piracy forcing him to leave his tranquil lifestyle behind. Sabatini first introduced his protagonist in a series of eight short stories published in magazine installments, until later weaving them together in 1922 as a novel.Set in the late 17th century,...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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"A big room in a big mansion, well furnished and well decorated, but gloomy and forlorn. Curtains are drawn, a dim light makes things visible, and morning light seems to be trying to penetrate the curtains. Shashtriji is in his bed, Vasundhara is slowly walking towards him, she carries a cup of tea in her both hands. Vasundhara: Life begins again! Shashtriji: Hum...Vasundhara: Earth has completed its circle.Shashtriji (opening his eyes): Just like...
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Detective Joe Sandilands mystery volume 3
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Joe Sandilands becomes caught up in a murder plot with reverberations in the past when a Pathan prince is killed, hostages are seized, and Joe is given one week to identify the killer before the frontier is engulfed in violence.
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Sam Wyndham novels volume 3
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English
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Recognizing ritualistic injuries on a murder victim from a memory compromised by his opium addiction, Captain Sam Wyndham, aided by sidekick Surrender-Not Banerjee, struggles to solve two mysteries while hiding his personal demons from the Calcutta police force.
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2013
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English
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Examines the mid-19th-century Afghan war as a tragic result of neocolonial ambition, cultural collision and hubris, drawing on previously untapped primary sources to explore such topics as the reestablishment of a puppet-leader Shah, the conflict's brutal human toll and the similarities between the war and present-day challenges.
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Hunter Publishing, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (some color), maps.
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English
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Here is the best guide to these sparsely populated islands. Largely untouched by tourism, they have few high-rise hotels, no time-share condos and no casinos. What they do have is unparalleled beauty, with small picturesque hotels set on beachfronts, in ancient fortresses, in the ruins of sugar mills and on lush mountainsides. Among the other islands are Tortola, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke and Beef. The sailing here cannot be beaten and boats gather in...
11) A rising man
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Sam Wyndham novels volume 1
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English
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In the days of the British Raj in 1919, Captain Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland Yard detective newly arrived in Calcutta, is confronted with the murder of a British official who was found with a note in his mouth warning the British to leave India.
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Inspired by, but independent of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, the author tells the story of the childhood and marriage of the first Mrs. Rochester, the West Indian Creole heiress who went insane in a haunting, intense, and tragic tropical world.
14) British Columbia
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c1987
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128 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
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English
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
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1 DVD (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatchers from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. Shot entirely on location in India.
16) Heat and dust
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1976
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
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181 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Set in India, HEAT AND DUST is the story of Olivia, a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in the 1920s who is drawn inexorably into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in plots and intrigues. Olivia outrages the tiny, suffocating town where her husband is a civil servant by eloping with the captivating Nawab. It is also the story of Olivia's step-granddaughter who, fifty years later, is drawn to India by her fascination...
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"Lucy Honeychurch, 'on tour' with her spinster cousin Charlotte, discovers more than frescoes and cathedrals in Florence. In their pesione they meet the Emersons, a father and son with decidedly 'free thinking' values that startle the other upper middle class lodgers. The Emersons fascinate Lucy, who realizes for the first time how claustrophobic her life has become. What begins as simply a desire for 'a room with a view,' ends with Lucy breaking...
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"Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed, and Churchill was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape--but then had to traverse hundreds of miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad...
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