Partridge: 3060 books

The book delves into the lives of the Telugus in the 17th and 18th centuries. It highlights the existing social conditions in the region. At the same time it emphasises on certain changes witnessed due to the Muslim rule and the arrival of the traders from European countries. Besides their economic...

Kashur-The Kashmiri Speaking People is the out come of a dedicated research where in the author on the basis of geological, archeological, chronological and linguistic evidences has presented a truthful and unbiased account of the group she herself belongs to. She projects, and rightly so, that the...

The book seeks to analyse the faultlines and subversion in the ancient history of India in the praxis of social domination and systematic marginalization and obliteration of traditional political elites or traditional Kshatriya that social elites (Priestly class or caste) of ancient India achieved,...

This book deals with protected area-people interface in Bori Wildife Sanctuary and Melghat Tiger Reserve located in Satpura range of Central Indian Highlands. These forests are mostly inhabited by Gond, Korku, and Thatia tribes, a small population of agro-pastoral community and other backward classes,...

Mavericks Musings starts with a tender tribute to a soul-mate. The young officer (YO) who had wooed and won the heart of a girl from an alien land shares his Jab We Met (when we met!) moments of 1958. There was little in common between them except their humanity and core values of two ancient civilisations....

Life/Death Rhythms of Capitalist Regimes Debt before Dishonour explores the cyclical theory of cultural development, with particular attention paid to the introduction of democratic forms of government in the British Empire and the United States republic. The cyclical theory allows a forecast of the...

In todays mobile world, we often live at great distances from our childhood homes. Even if we still live where we grew up, the location has often changed significantly from the days of our youth. Years later, it can be difficult to find ways to share childhood memories of home with our children and...

Eunoia is a haunting collection of eclectic poems, some light and breezy, others dark and gripping, some offering solace and comfort, others setting you thinking about the meaning of life and everything we do. Yet throughout, Majethia very boldly helps the reader explore and discover, jump into danger,...

Sugar Mountain, ? ?, was a vast land walled in by a long wall built by its people who lived in it since a very long time ago who had their own language, grew rice, had legends of dragons, made paper, silk and porcelain, sought the elixir of life, and whose women bound their feet until their descendants...

Meera is a young Nepali girl with dreams bigger than her imagination. She lives with her father, sisters, and an abusive stepmother. She has a thirst for knowledge, but she is deprived of education. Her life suddenly changes when she turns eighteen. Unable to pay the debt, her father give her away...

In these impressionistic and mystical stories and sketches, identities flow into one another in the drag of timeoften unknowingly maintaining adversarial relations to each other in the general symbiotic culture. Here you find an aging escort sipping on gin-n-juice in a hotel in McLeod Ganj; a quaint...

Escape from Athabasca: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems deals with a wide range of themes taken from everyday life. The book describes life as a complex mix of the mundane and the extraordinary. Would it be a big surprise to hear about how someone who has never flown a plane before managing...

After eight long years eleven months and some countable days Srijesh sees Ritee from a little distance but circumstances have shoved them into that junction, from where they cant resume their love life, neither they can ruminate their past. She belongs to somebody elses now. She has burnt all her...

How come he had landed at this tiny town? he wondered. It appeared to him a very odd choice. Then it occurred to him. He was merely being guided by some unseen force. Like when one drops a coin and cannot find it after frantically searching for it. In desperation one drops another coin of the same...