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Yoga School Drop Out Yoga School Drop Out Ref: BK-EDGEYSCH
Lucy Edge
Lucy Edge
A sharply-funny travelogue from a fantastic new writer. The story of a personal quest for serenity and yogic flexibility through the ashrams and gurus of India. After over a decade spent working and drinking too much in the world of advertising, Lucy decided she to leave town for an altogether more spiritual and, well, meaningful way of life- And whilst she was at it, she could acquire a newly lithe and supple body. However, what she found in India wasn't at all what she had expected. The relentless obsession with self-perfection and an alluring market in self-enlightenment appeared rather shallower than expected. What began to truly seduce her was India itself.

Would she come home looking like Christy Turlington and pick up some Buddhist serenity on the way? Or did something much funnier, interesting and complicated happen? Did she fall in love - with a place and its people? A divine comedy of the Western obsession with life's deeper meaning, a yogic experiment and a love letter to India.

 

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Price: £10.99 / €16.16

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Ashtanga City: The Westener's Guide To Mysore Ashtanga City: The Westener's Guide To Mysore Ref: BK-VARGASHT
Rosemary Vargas
Detailed guide to Ashtanga city, Mysore. Advance preparations, how to get there, accomodation, food, services, shopping, yoga teachers, local attrractions - up to date info from Ashtanga enthusiasts. 

Price: £11.99 / €17.63

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India in Mind India in Mind Ref: BK-MISHINDI
Pankaj Mishra
From Mark Twain’s puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs, to Allen Ginsberg’s awe at the country’s spiritual and natural splendors, or from J. R. Ackerley’s delightful recollections of his visits with an eccentric gay Maharajah, to Gore Vidal’s unforgettable scene in his novel Creation, in which his character finally meets the Buddha and is bewildered, all twenty-five selections in India in Mind reveal a place that evokes, in the traveller, reactions ranging from fear and perplexity to astonishment and wonder. Edited and with an introduction and chapter notes by the award-winning novelist Pankaj Mishra, India in Mind is a marvel of sympathy, sensitivity, and perception, not to mention outstanding writing. 

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Yoga In Modern India Yoga In Modern India Ref: BK-ALTEYMOD
The Body between Science and Philosophy
Joseph S. Alter
Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. Based on extensive ethnographic research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts, Yoga in Modern India challenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century. The first serious ethnographic history of modern yoga in India, this fluently written book is must reading not only for students and scholars but also practitioners who seek a deeper understanding of how yoga developed over time into the exceedingly popular phenomenon it is today.

 

Price: £14.99 / €22.04

The Age of Kali The Age of Kali Ref: BK-DALRAGE
William Dalrymple
According to the ancient Hindu scriptures, history is divided into four epochs. As William Dalrymple was told again and again on his travels around the Indian subcontinent, the region is now in the throes of the 'Kali Yug', the Age of Kali, an epoch of darkness and disintegration. In such an age normal conventions fall apart: anything is possible.

'The Age of Kali' is the distillation of ten years’ relentless travelling around the length and breadth of the subcontinent, from the fortresses of the drug barons of the North-West Frontier to the jungle lairs of the Tamil Tigers, from the decaying palaces of Hyderabad to the Keralan exorcist temple of the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti - She Who is Seated on a Throne of Five Corpses. Everywhere Dalrymple finds an ancient landscape overwhelmed by change, where the old certainties have been swept away, but where a new order has yet to fully establish itself. In some places the disintegration typical of the Age of Kali has reached almost apocalyptic proportions. In Lucknow Dalrymple finds a war being fought between rival wings of the student union, each side being armed with grenades and assault rifles; in neighbouring Bihar he finds the state has totally succumbed to a tidal wave of violence, corruption and endemic caste warfare.

Courageous, compassionat, erudite and beautifully written, laced with a thread of William Dalrymple’s characteristic black humour, 'The Age of Kali' is a 'tour de force' of intellectual curiosity, direct observation and unprejudiced enquiry. Essential reading for anyone who wants to come to terms with India, it will further enhance Dalrymple’s reputation as the most formidable travel writer of his generation. 

Price: £8.99 / €13.22

India, A History India, A History Ref: BK-KEAYINDI1
John Keay
"In an environment where every fact is infinitely malleable, every interpretation politicised, the need for clear, accessible and unbiased popular history is all the greater. It is hard to imagine anyone succeeding more gracefully in producing a balanced overview than John Keay has done in 'India: A History', a book that is as fluent and readable as it is up to date and impartial. Hardly a page passes without some fascinating nugget or surprising fact, one can only hope that John Keay's 'India' will be widely read, and its lessons taken to heart" - William Dalryumple, 'Guardian' 

Price: £9.99 / €14.69

India Discovered India Discovered Ref: BK-KEAYINDI2
John Keay
Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture. Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in both character and continuity. How this extraordinary change in perception came about is the subject of this fascinating book by the author of the highly praised 'India: A History' and 'The Great Arc: The dramatic Tale of How India was mapped and Everest was named.'

The story, here reconstructed for the first time, is one of painstaking scholarship primed by a succession of sensational discoveries. The excitement of unearthing a city twice as old as Rome, the realisation that the Buddha was not a god but a historical figure, the glories of a literature as rich as anything known in Europe, the drama of encountering a veritable Sistine chapel deep in the jungle, and the sheer delight of categorising 'the most glorious galaxy of monuments in the world' fell, for the most part, to men who were officials of the British Raj. Their response to the unfamiliar - the explicitly sexual statuary, the incomprehensible scripts, the enigmatic architecture - and the revelations which resulted, revolutionised ideas not just about India but about civilisation as a white man's prerogative. 

Price: £8.99 / €13.22

The Heart Of India The Heart Of India Ref: BK-TULLHEAR
Mark Tully
Imbued with his love for India, and informed by his experience of India (where he worked for the BBC for over 20 years), Mark Tully has woven together a series of stories set in Uttar Pradesh, which tell of very different lives.  

Price: £7.99 / €11.75

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