Product DescriptionThe Day The Chicken Cackled: Reflections on a Life in Pakistan provides a fascinating account of small town Pakistan through the eyes of Bettie Rose Addleton, a young missionary who grew…
Category: Books about Pakistan
A Georgian Saga: From the Caucasus to the Indus
Product DescriptionThe book provides an insight into the lives of Khusro Mirza Beg, a scion of a princely family of Georgia, who was adopted by Mir Karam Ali Khan Talpur, and Fareedun,…
Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan
Product DescriptionEmerging from the partition of India in 1947, Pakistan was a product of the first and perhaps the most successful of those twentieth-century movements which sought to bring about an Islamic…
Indian Nights’ Entertainment, or, Folk-Tales From the Upper Indus: With Numerous Illustrations by Native Hands
Product DescriptionOriginally published in 1892. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned…
ADVAN INDUS ERGON & SAFETY V3
Product DescriptionEach year the realization of the importance of ergonomics for improving working conditions and providing for human comfort at work and at home increases, as the application of ergonomics brings more…
Black Candle, Revised Edition: Poems About Women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Product Description Poems include: All In My Head The Arranged Marriage At Muktinath At The Sati Temple, Bikaner Bengal Night Boychild The Brides Come To Yuba City Burning Bride: 1 Burning Bride:…
Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, the Countries Adjoining the Mountain-Course of the Indus, and the Himalaya, North of the Panjab, Volume 2
Product DescriptionThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
Campaign Of The Indus: In A Series Of Letters From An Officer Of The Bombay Division
Product DescriptionThis scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we…
Pakistan and the Afghan Conflict 1979-1985
Product DescriptionTo the superficial observer, Pakistan’s involvement in the Afghan conflict with the USSR was the outcome of an ideological alliance. This study seeks to establish that the roots of this involvement…
Indian Nights’ Entertainment or Folktales from the Upper Indus
Product Description1892. These stories are translations from the Panjabi of the Upper Indus, they are as literal as idiom and freedom of expression would permit. As folktales, they claim the highest possible…
Five Years in India: Comprising a Narrative of Travels in the Presidency of Bengal, a Visit to the Court of Runjeet Sing, Residence in the Himalayah Mountains, … Voyage Down the Indus, and Journey
Product DescriptionThis is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional…
Embroidery from India and Pakistan
Product DescriptionFocusing on over 20 textiles from the British Museum’s fabulous collection, this book explores the wonderful folk embroidery of Indian and Pakistan–in particular the domestic work made by women for their…