Search Results: India from KALAMOS BOOKS

New Delhi: Habitat Arts, 2002 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Composer. First Edition.. "The world of Music would not be complete without Ghazals. The world of Ghazals would not be complete without Jagjit Singh. . But then Jagjit Singh arrived on the scene and has kept the ghazal flying high till today. His contribution becomes all the more significant because at a time when melody was doing away from our film music, his compositions and singing style gave us renewed hope. Even more so, the sway of Hindi cinema and its situational songs was so strong that the new arena of non-film music created by him brought a complete freshness to the music scene. There is absolutely no doubt that Jagjit Singh with his unique composing and singing style is the torchbearer of the survival of ghazals in India." Boldly signed on ffep by the composer. 164p. illus. discography (NOTE: this copy does NOT include the CDs] Laid in is a ticket from a concert he gave in Toronto in 2004.

New Delhi: Habitat Arts, 2002 Book. As New. Book + CD. Signed by Composer. First Edition.. "The world of Music would not be complete without Ghazals. The world of Ghazals would not be complete without Jagjit Singh. . But then Jagjit Singh arrived on the scene and has kept the ghazal flying high till today. His contribution becomes all the more significant because at a time when melody was doing away from our film music, his compositions and singing style gave us renewed hope. Even more so, the sway of Hindi cinema and its situational songs was so strong that the new arena of non-film music created by him brought a complete freshness to the music scene. There is absolutely no doubt that Jagjit Singh with his unique composing and singing style is the torchbearer of the survival of ghazals in India." Boldly signed on ffep by the composer. bOYTH cdA 164p. illus. discography.

Bangalore, India: T.P. Issar, 1994 Book. Near Fine. Laminated HC. First Thus.. A delightful large format book that displays the dramatic and colourful flowering trees and shrubs to be seen in Bangalore parks, gardens and public spaces. As well as recent colour photographs it includes paintings by many artists and includes a list of the dates when the most significant displays of blossom can be seen.195p. bibliography. illustrated endpapers. Donor inscription on ffep, else fine. [ 7 copies found in Worldcat].

[Boulogne]: Editions Delroisse / Roli Books International Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Short introductory text in English and French, some sepia tinted reproductions of old prints, and 76 colour photographs of Delhi. List of illustrations. Unpaginated, undated [c 1980?] Photographs on endpapers. Previous owner's name on ffep. [Worldcat lists only 3 copies].

Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1982 Book. Near Fine. Original Wraps. Reprint. A survey of a monuments and relics in the region of the city of Delhi. dating from both the Hindu and the Islamic periods. 161 pages plates, bibliography, index, fold-out maps.

Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1998 Book. New Book from Publisher. Soft cover. 1st Canadian Edition.. An Exhibition Held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 19 January -21 March, 1998 The variety of European encounters with the Indian subcontinent, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, was the theme of this exhibition. Two things developed in the fifteenth century that frame the start of the historical period. One was printing from movable type, introduced in Europe by Johann Gutenberg in the 1450s. The other was navigation, permitting the Portuguese Bartolomeu Diaz to sail into the Indian Ocean, around the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, and another Portuguese navigator, Vasco da Gama, to reach the shores of India in 1498, exactly five hundred years ago. The ensuing record of discovery and travel, as it unfolded, was published in early European printed books that have come to be highly prized by collectors and libraries. The… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1980 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. Emily Annie Theophila Metcalfe, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Metcalfe, was born at Meerut in the North West Provinces, India, in 1830. Her earliest recollections were of the family home in Delhi, where she spent most of her childhood until the age of five, when she was sent home to England; she was not to return to India until early in 1848, when she was seventeen. Just over two years later, at the age of nineteen, she married Sir Edward Clive Bayley in Delhi. Her reminiscences, skilfully edited by M.M. Kaye, provide a sparkling account of a young lady growing to maturity amid the flamboyant finery of the dying Moghul Empire. Through her eyes we see a world fascinatingly remote from our own in terms of both space and time. But an extra dimension is added by the inclusion of over 110 facsimile pages of the "Delhie Book" compiled by her father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, who commissioned illustrations from some of the finest… Read More

London: Viking, 1988 Book. Illus. by Photographs by Mikki Ansin. As New. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Ismail Merchant is today one of the most distinguished film producers in contemporary cinema; his films were the first to use the abundant material of the Indian sub-continent as a subject aimed at an international audience. At the end of 1987 Merchant realized two long-cherished wishes: to film the John Masters novel 'The Deceivers' and to work with new collaborators. He had to face conflicts with his new collaborators, internal feuding, the complexities of the Indian legal system, local politics and, finally, arrest. 156p. illus..

Melbourne, Australia: Lonely Planet, 1997 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Australian Ed. Discussing folk music, architecture, feudal traditions and regional cuisine, Royina Grewal seeks to take the reader behind the exotic facade of this Indian state. She focuses primarily upon people; from the maharajahs to camel trainers and from a female Marxist leader to itinerant snake charmers. This guide does not dwell upon the historical past of Rajasthan, but rather explores the future of a region in transition..

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. The author was an American woman doctor who worked in India and travelled the country in search of places and people connected to the stories of Rudyard Kipling. Her descriptions are enriched with many vintage photographs and with pertinent quotations. xii.204p. frontis. 44 plates index. Pages untrimmed, very sight shelf fwear, else fine. [This is an original copy of the book and is NOT a POD reproduction that you must wait to get printed.].

London : Century Publishing / Taj Hotel Group, 1984 Book. Illus. by Adityar Patankar. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. This lavishly illustrated book on the picturesque lifestyle of the erstwhile Indian princes and Maharajas is now available in a revised Indian edition. The Princes may have become mere citizens but the enchantment remains.Illustrated witj . with specially commissioned photographs by Aditya Patankar. 252p. glossary. index. Dj now in protective sleeve. Large format heavy volume.

London: Headline, 1985 Book. Very Good. Pbk.. First Pbk.Ed.. Isabella fane, only daughter of gerneral Sir Henry Fane accomapnied her father to India on his appointment os Commander-in-Chief in 1835 and spent three years as his hostess. Her letters home and her journal ....are a fascinating record... containing a wealth of domestic and social detail, complete with intimate revelations about mosquito bites and boils, and entertainingly acid comments about some of her distinguished contemporaries..

Penguin UK, 1984 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. New Edition. For generation after generation those doughty Victorians and Edwardians were sent out to the great teeming subcontinent of India: to the heat, the smells, the sickness and to a lifestyle that made few concessions to India or to the changing times. it was a world of pukka sahibs and tough burra mems, of Cold Weather Tours, rigidly defined orders of social precedence, dak bungalows, Roorkee chairs, bedding rolls, punkah-wallahs, cholera belts and solar-topees.142p. illus.

Karachi, Pakistan: BBCL Publications, 2016 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. "Sawdust Castles has its roots in the forced migration of the author's parents when India and Pakistan were partitioned in 1947. It is a story abiout the experiences of a family who abandoned the place Bareilly, India, where their cultural identity had flourished for centuries. It is a narrative of the many miseries inflicted upon them by migration, and the pain of their crippled hopes and fractured dreams, the undignified circumstances they endured and the sufferings they braved ass they struggled to survive in Pakistan. Edited by S.M.Shahid. 330p. plates Author inscription on dedication paege lse new[The author became an actor, playwright, TV producer as well as a respected international banker who now lives in Toronto].

Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Can Ed. Since reading a biography of him more than 25 years ago, Christopher Ondaatje has been fascinated with the still-enigmatic Sir Richard Francis Burton, 19th-century explorer, scholar, poet and British secret agent. With his dashing dark and sensual looks, towering physical presence and razor-sharp tongue, Richard Burton could have been invented by a Victorian novelist -- but he was very real, accomplishing an amazing range of intellectual and physical exploits. From his discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra, to his exploration of the source of the Nile, to his pilgrimage to Mecca, and his widely known beliefs on female sexuality, Burton was the star -- and scandal -- of the Victorian age. Despite the presence of several biographies on Burton, Ondaatje believed there were large gaps in the startling drama that was the explorer's life. Sindh Revisited is the author's account of his personal and physical quest to uncover the… Read More

Bombay: Orient Longman, 1972 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Edited by Bal Ram Nanda & Vijaya Chandra Joshi. this volume contains a collection of papers based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library .214p. index.

Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2005 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. "Part biography, part memoir, part meditation on our times, this is the true tale of two remarkable lives... the heartrending true story of a friendship, a marriage, and a century. Weaving together the strands of two extraordinary lives - Shanti Behari Seth, an immigrant from India who came to Berlin to study in the 1930s, and Helga Gerda Caro, the young German Jewish woman he befriended and later married. Both a history of a violent era seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of a complex, abiding love" 503p. .

U.S.A.: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd [Nonesuch], 1976 Book. Illus. by Bill Smith. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Of all the hundreds of books about the British in India none offers a more original. view of history than this. [It] reviews 350 years of European influence in India in terms of the epitaphs and monuments left behind in Indian cemetaries - an urgent piece of research since the cemetaries themselves are fast crumbling into total delapidation. 240p. illus bibliography index..

Mississauga: Spirit Born Foundation, 2013 Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Translator. Re-issue. Hindi poems in Roman script with English translation. "Kumar's translations of Kabir are sensitive , remarkably close to the original in spiirit and music" [First publiished 1984 by Alpha & Omega Books] The translator is Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo. 244p bibliography.index. Editor inscription on ffep.