Basil Gray, Editor; ISBN: 0801414253 - Pages: 224; Publisher: Cornell Univ. Press - © 1981; Condition: Hardback, excellent condition. Price: $15.00 + $6 S/H

"This book surveys, in a luxurious format, Indian art through the ages: Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain art, Islamic art, and modern art. Written for a general audience by 11 well-known specialists, it discusses painting, sculpture, architecture, the garden, and decorative arts." — from the jacket copy. Richly illustrated, mostly in b&w.

Ved Mehta; ISBN: 0670507350 - Pages: 174; Publisher: The Viking Press - © 1971. Condition: Hardcover, excellent. Price: $5.00 + $4 S/H

This review of political India in the late 1970s could only have been made by a scholar with the knowledge and skills of Ved Mehta. India was in transition during this period and conditions were right for the larger population to question the national leadership.

John W. Meller, editor; ISBN: 0891582983 - Pages: 374; Publisher: Westview - © 1979; Condition: Hardback, no dust jacket, cover slightly scuffed, inscriptions on first and last pages, otherwise as-new condition. Price: $5.00 + $4 S/H

This book describes the processes by which India moved out of the third world to become a major global power. It fills the gap between 1947 and the mid-1960s.

Barbara D. Miller; ISBN: 0801413710 - Pages: 201; Publisher: Cornell University Press - © 1981; Condition: Hardback, small creases on dust jacket, inscriptions on first and last pages, otherwise as-new condition. Price: $5.00 + $4 S/H

This book is an attempt to help solve a serious demographic puzzle in northwest India. At the time of publication, boys greatly outnumbered girls, especially among the upper classes. What factors were then, and possibly still are today, responsible for the noticeably higher mortality rate among girls?

David M. Miller and Dorothy C. Wertz; ISBN: 0773502475 - Pages: 228; Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press - Copyright © 1976; Condition: Paperback, cover slightly scuffed, inscriptions on first and last pages, otherwise as-new condition. Price: $5.00 + $4 S/H

This study of Hindu monastic life was part of the Harvard-Bhubaneswar Project directed by Cora du Bois of Harvard's Dept. of Anthropology. The work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Contains excellent b&w diagrams and photos.

D. B. Mokashi; ISBN: 0887064620 - Pages: 291; Publisher: State University of New York Press - © 1987; Condition: Paperback, excellent condition, half-title page inscribed by author of introduction. Price: $10.00 + $4 S/H

"This book gives a wonderfully concrete and lively picture of what it is like to take part in the pilgrimage and of what kinds of people the pilgrimage includes. It brings an immensely important cultural event to life in human terms." — from the back cover

T. A. Raman; No ISBN: - Pages: 160; Publisher: Fideler - © 1962; Condition: Hardback, very clean, excellent condition. Price: $5.00 + $4 S/H

This book is designed to arouse interest and help K-12 students consider another important part of the world. It is loaded with excellent b&w photographs and illustrations. It can best be described as a page turner.