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Allen, Charles [Edited by] Plain Tales from the Raj. Images of British India in the Twentieth Century
London Andre Deutsch 1978 0233967109 / 9780233967103 Reprint Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine lightly faded. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Previous owner's details to half-title page. 240 pages The voices of some seventy British men and women whose lives followed the course of Anglo-India during its last 50 years are here transcribed to give a picture of the last days of the Raj. ID271009
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Ballhatchet, Kenneth Social Policy and Social Change in Western India 1817-1830
London Oxford University Press 1961 Reprint Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Maps to rear (one is fold-out). 335 pages London Oriental Series, Volume 5. Case study of the social consequences of the British conquest of the Peshwa's territories in 1818 and their subsequent integration into other British possessions in western India ID234467
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Banno, Junji The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System.
London Routledge 1992 0415004977 / 9780415004978 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine condition in a Very Good Dustjacket - DJ now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Excellent condition 250 pages Authorative account of the establishment of constitutional government in Japan during the turbulant decades of the 1890s. Based largely on contemporary documents, diaries and letters, this book provides an invaluable background to understanding the nature of relations between parliament, bureaucrats and leaders of political cliques in Japan. ID234482
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Blunt, Wilfrid The Golden Road to Samarkand
London Viking 1973 0670344389 / 9780670344383 1st Edition Hardback
Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Colour and black & white illustrations. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. 280 pages ID143603
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Buruma, Ian A Japanese Mirror. Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture
London Jonathan Cape 1984 0224020498 / 9780224020497 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good+ in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. xii, 242 pages A book that examines the popular, collective imagaination of the Japanese as reflected in films, comics, plays and books. ID270821
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Clayre, Alasdair The Heart of the Dragon
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1985 039535336X / 9780395353363 1st U.S. Ed Hardback
Quarto Size. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD Dustjacket. DJ protected in Mylar cover. Colour and black & white illustrations. 281 pages The most comprehensive and revealing portrait of the Chinese ever made. ID217337
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Duncanson, Dennis J. Government and Revolution in Vietnam
London Oxford University Press 1968 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Fold-out map to rear. 442 pages This study examines the interacting Vietnamese traditions of government and revolution largely inherited from China. It analyses the impact on them of French colonial rule and takes a hard look at Vietnamese nationalism as the supposed driving force in Vietnamese history. ID263661
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Edwardes, Michael High Noon of Empire India under Curzon
London Eyre & Spottiswoode 1965 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good [price-clipped] Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. 266 pages This book is a view of British India when it reached its Zenith at the turn of the 19th century. The author looks at the vice-royalty of Lord Curzon and his attempt to revive and re-state the crusading purpose that the British had abandoned after the Mutiny of 1857. ID251638
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Edwardes, Michael The Last Years of British India
London Cassell 1963 1st Edition Hardback
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm].Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white maps. Previous owner's details in red ink to front free end paper. Corners and covers are lightly rubbed. xi, 250 pages An accurate and unbiased account of the ending of British rule in India. ID251977
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Eraly, Abraham The Mughal World India's Tainted Paradise
London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2007 0297852094 / 9780297852094 1st UK Edition Hardback
Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. A lovely book in excellent condition. Illustrated with colour plates. 420 pages The story of the Mughal Empire which was an imperial power in the Indian subcontinent from the 16th to 19th centuries. The Mughal emperors were Muslims and direct descendants of Genghis Khan. At the height of their power in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, they controlled most of the subcontinent. ID251924
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