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A Shipwreck in Fiji
A young Indian police sergeant investigates a bizarre chain of events when a purported sighting of Germans in 1915 Fiji turns deadly in this charming follow-up to A Disappearance in Fiji. Sergeant Akal Singh, an unwilling transplant to Fiji, is just starting to settle into his life in the capital city of Suva when he is sent to the neighboring island of Ovalau on a series of fool’s errands. First: investigate strange reports of Germans, thousands of miles from the front of World War I. Second: chaperone two strong-willed European ladies, Mary and Katherine, on a sight-seeing tour. And third: supervise the only police officer currently on Ovalau, an eighteen-year-old constable with a pencha...
A Disappearance in Fiji
1914, Fiji: Akal Singh, 25, would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise - or, as he calls it, 'this godforsaken island'. After a promising start to his police career in Hong Kong, Akal has been sent to the farflung colony of Fiji as punishment for a humiliating professional mistake. Lonely and grumpy, Akal plods through his work and dreams of a return to Hong Kong, or even his native India. An indentured Indian woman goes missing from a sugarcane plantation and Fiji's newspapers scream 'kidnapping', just as the Indian indentured servitude program is being scrutinised for alleged abuses. Fiji's inspector-general reluctantly assigns Akal the case, as the senior Indian police officer av...
A Man of the Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century India
Among All The Colourful Figures Of Eighteenth Century India, Claude Martin (1735-1800) Stands Out As One Of The Most Extraodinary. To Read His Letters, Collected Here For The First Time, Is To Enter The Mind Of A Man Of The Enlightenment, French By Birth, But Who Served The British For Most Of His Adult Life.
The Serbian Project and Its Adversaries
The Yugoslav War has received great attention, been a subject of major contention and has been the epitome of confusion. This book fills an obvious gap in literature on the subject and argues that the Serbian strategy at the core of the war was in its essence criminal. It was a strategy of war crimes. Despite this, the book argues for a strategic understanding that, controversially, may mitigate some of the charges against Serbian military-political leaders.
Recovering Subversion
This Book Is About The Relation Between Law And Feminist Politics. The Area It Traverses Ranges From Feminist Initiatives On Sexual Harassment To The Parity Movement In France.
The Languages of Political Islam
"This book shows the ways in which political Islam, from its establishment in medieval north India, adapted itself to a variety of indigenous contexts and became deeply Indianized." --book jacket.
Social & Economic Profile of India
Social and Economic Profile of India contains 100 to 200 maps, figures, tables and written text illustrating a wide range of demographic, social and economic features characterizing India s population and socio-economy. Apart from describing the most current state of affairs regarding a broad spectrum of important demographic and socioeconomic features - based on the 2001 census, various NSSO surveys, as well as other published data from public sources - this atlas also illustrates some composite ratings of states and districts. Each map is accompanied by a brief commentary highlighting the key features.
Unsettling Memories
Tarlo provides and account of India's Emergency of 1975-97, when Indian democracy was temporarily suspended in favor of authoritarian rule, from the perspective of ordinary people.
Civil Lines
"Indian fiction, collection of short stories and poems."
