Discover the Subcontinent of India

Resources Available at the SJRCC Libraries

PAL = Palatka Campus | OPC = Orange Park Campus | SAC = St. Augustine Campus

Authentic Recipes from India - Publisher's Marketing: "Learn the secrets of India's cuisine in this book of exotic, timeless recipes. Master the use of spices such as saffron and dried mango powder; find out how to make a spicy leg of lamb or a creamy shrimp curry. These dishes offer vivid colors, enticing smells, and satisfying textures--a true delight for the senses!"

Call number: SAC - TX724.5.I4 N3 2004

The Cultural History of India text and photographs by Henri Stierlin

Call number: OPC - DS423 .S78 1983

Delhi & Agra: A Travellers' Companion selected and introduced by Michael Alexander

Call number: PAL - DS486 .D352 1987

Call number: SAC - DS486 .D352 1987

From Here to Nirvana: The Yoga Journal Guide to Spiritual India - Publisher's Marketing: "For the curious beginner or the seasoned pilgrim, From Here to Nirvana is the be-all, end-all guide to yogis and gurus, ashrams and temples--the lowdown on food, facilities, and bringing your own mosquito net, as well as where to go, what to pack, and how to get there--from the foothills of the Himalayas to the Malabar coast. It's the first comprehensive book on the art of pilgrimage in the subcontinent."

Call number: PAL - BL2003 .C97 1999

Gandhi - Publisher's Marketing: "In this new photo biography, Mahatma Gandhi's life is told by means of an extraordinary collection of nearly 300 photos, many never seen before. These pictures document Gandhi's early life in India, his work in South Africa, and his struggle for Indian independence."

Call number: PAL - DS481.G3 R84 2001

Gandhi and India - Publisher's Marketing: "Interlink's new illustrated history series seeks to explore the persistent themes of our recent past in order to prepare for the new century. Each volume offers a concise yet comprehensive analysis of a particular political, cultural or social phenomenon and is lavishly illustrated with color and b&w photographs and maps."

Call number: SAC - DS481.G3 S574313 1999

Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi - Publisher's Marketing: "Mahatma Gandhi, through his indomitable will and selfless determination, transformed himself into a model of courage and integrity for India's people to emulate in their nonviolent struggle for political power. More than half a century after his death, Gandhi continues to inspire millions
throughout the world. Yet modern India seems to have abandoned much of his nonviolent vision, joining the nuclear arms race. Inspired by recent events in India, Stanley Wolpert offers this subtle and profound biography of India's "Great Soul."
Wolpert compellingly chronicles the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his early days as a child of privilege to his humble rise to power and his assassination at the hands of a man of his own faith. This trajectory, like that of Christ, was the result of Gandhi's passion: his conscious courting of suffering as the means of reaching divine truth. From his early campaigns to end discrimination in South Africa to his leadership of a people's revolution to end the British imperial domination of India, Gandhi emerges as a man of inner conflicts conquered by his political genius and moral vision.
Early influenced by nonviolent teachings in Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, and Buddhism, he came to insist on the primacy of love for one's adversary in any conflict as the invincible power for change. He fearlessly courted suffering and imprisonment in pursuit of his moral vision. The sweet reasonableness of his "Great Soul," combined with the steel of his unyielding opposition to intolerance and oppression, would inspire India like no leader since the Buddha--creating a legacy that would encourage Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and other global leadersto demand a better world through peaceful civil disobedience.
Gandhi's Passion is a remarkable tribute by a historian at the height of his narrative and analytical powers. Wolpert boldly considers Gandhi the man, rather than the living god depicted by his disciples. He thus provides an unprecedented representation of Gandhi's passionate personality and the profound complexities that compelled his actions and brought freedom to India.'

Call number: PAL - DS481.G3 W64 2001

Hindu Art and Architecture - Publisher's Marketing: "The art of Hinduism constitutes one of the world's great traditions, as alive today as when the first images of Hindu gods were fashioned out of stone more than two thousand years ago. George Michell's invaluable survey looks at the entire period, covering shrines consecrated to Hindu cults as well as works of art that portray Hindu divinities, semidivine personalities, and mythological narratives.

Michell outlines the development of Hinduism and the principal iconic forms of its pantheon (the symbolic basis for Hindu religious architecture), and explains the system of royal patronage that led to the construction of so many temples and the commissioning of their attendant works of art. Then, in a broad chronological sweep, he demonstrates artistic continuities down to the present day in the different regions of the country, confirming the vibrancy of the visual world of Hinduism. The illustrations include Mamallapuram and other great temples, profound and beautiful works of sculpture such as Shiva dancing the eternal dance of creation and destruction, and exquisite paintings of the loves of Krishna."

Call number: SAC - N8195.A4 M53 2000

In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India - Publisher's Marketing: "India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the world’ s third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by 2050. In "In Spite of the Gods," Edward Luce, a journalist who covered India for many years, makes brilliant sense of India and its rise to global power. Already a number-one bestseller in India, his book is" "sure to be acknowledged for years as the definitive introduction to modern India.
"In Spite of the Gods" illuminates a land of many contradictions. The booming tech sector we read so much about in the West, Luce points out, employs no more than one million of India’ s 1.1 billion people. Only 35 million people, in fact, have formal enough jobs to pay taxes, while three-quarters of the country lives in extreme deprivation in India’ s 600,000 villages. Yet amid all these extremes exists the world’ s largest experiment in representative democracy— and a largely successful one, despite bureaucracies riddled with horrifying corruption.
Luce shows that India is an economic rival to the U.S. in an entirely different sense than China is. There is nothing in India like the manufacturing capacity of China, despite the huge potential labor force. An inept system of public education leaves most Indians illiterate and unskilled. Yet at the other extreme, the middle class produces ten times as many engineering students a year as the United States. Notwithstanding its future as a major competitor in a globalized economy, American. leaders have been" "encouraging India’ s rise, even welcoming itinto the nuclear energy club, hoping to balance China’ s influence in Asia.
Above all, "In Spite of the Gods "is an enlightening study of the forces shaping India as it tries to balance the stubborn traditions of the past with an unevenly modernizing present. Deeply informed by scholarship and history, leavened by humor and rich in anecdote, it shows that India has huge opportunities as well as tremendous challenges that make the future “hers to lose.”"

Call number: SAC - HC435.3 .L83 2007

India: Emerging Power - Publisher's Marketing: " For years, Americans have seen India as a giant but inept state. That negative image is now obsolete. After a decade of drift and uncertainty, India is taking its expected place as one of the three major states of Asia. Its pluralist, secular democracy has allowed the rise of hitherto deprived castes and ethnic communities. Economic liberalization is gathering steam, with six percent annual growth and annual exports in excess of $30 billion. India also has a modest capacity to project military power. The country will soon have a two-carrier navy and it is developing a nuclear-armed missile capable of reaching all of Asia.

This landmark book provides the first comprehensive assessment of India as a political and strategic power since India's nuclear tests, its 1999 war with Pakistan, and its breakthrough economic achievements. Stephen P. Cohen examines the domestic and international causes of India's "emergence", he discusses the way social structure and tradition shape Delhi's perceptions of the world, and he explores India's relations with neighboring Pakistan and China, as well as the United States. Cohen argues that American policy needs to be adjusted to cope with a rising India -- and that a relationship well short of alliance but far more intimate than in the past is appropriate for both countries."

Call number: SAC - DS480.853 .C634 2001

Indian Diary & Album - Publisher's Marketing: "In 1944, in one of its more inspired moments, the British Ministry of Information dispatched Cecil Beaton-- self-dramatizing exquisite, darling of London society, chosen photographer to royalty, and later the world-famous designer of My Fair Lady and Gigi--to the Far East to take pictures of
the British Empire and its allies at war. The result was not only a superb collection of photographs but a breathtakingly vivid written portrait of India, Burma, and China at a historic turning-point in their histories. These volumes integrate both elements fully for the first time, offering the complete text of Beaton's narrative and a truly comprehensive selection of over 200 photographs.
Beaton was a great observer and, perhaps unexpectedly, a great describer. In remarkably few words, he can make you see, hear, smell, almost touch the dusty Burmese countryside, the shimmering, casual magnificence of a Bombay virtually untouched by war, or the rain-sodden, flea-bitten front lines in a China nearly destroyed by it. He was an acute observer of people, too, and these books offer revealing glimpses of representative wartime figures from Madame Sun Yat-sen and General Claire Chennault to anonymous British soldiers and Chinese peasants. There is mayhem, including an electrifying description of what it's like to live through a plane crash, and mordant social comedy that rivals (and explains much of) The Jewel in the Crown. Perhaps best of all are Beaton's accounts of the two great invariants of modern war--waiting for transport and enduring it--in all their exquisite variety.
A magnificent record of some of Beaton's most austere and disciplined photography and a welcome reminder ofhis almost forgotten literary gifts, these books offer a uniquely real picture of one of the most heroic episodes of recent history."

Call number: SAC - DS413 B3644 1991

Indian Mythology: Myths and Legends of India, Tibet and Sri Lanka - Publisher's Marketing: "An authoritative A-Z guide to the mythologies and legends of India, Tibet and Sri Lanka with over 140 entries that describe the central mythical figures of each religion or culture and their importance to the people of the ancient world."

Call number: PAL - BL1005 .S76 2000

Indian Vegetarian Cookbook by Roli Staff

Call number: PAL - TX724.5.I4 I53 2000

Kipling's India by Rudyard Kipling

Call number: PAL - PR4852 .S54 2006

The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards

Call number: OPC - DS436 .N47 1987 pt. 1. vol. 5

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization - Publisher's Marketing: "This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements."

Call number: SAC - BL2003 .Z5 1992

A New History of India - Publisher's Marketing: "Half a century of freedom has tripled India's population and more than quadrupled its gross domestic product. Its economy has been lifted to new heights, creating an India that is enjoying all the pleasures of modern Western life. For same, however, India's past remains a reality, its poverty a continuing presence, and its economic strides still, unable to create equality among the sexes."

Call number: SAC - DS436 .W66 2000

New Nukes: India, Pakistan & Global Nuclear Disarmament - Publisher's Marketing: "The recent Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests brought nuclear proliferation and the terrible threat of nuclear war back to the world's center stage. The south Asian nuclear moves have raised regional tensions, transformed Kashmir into a potentially nuclear flashpoint, increased the poverty of already devastated populations, fueled a conventional and possibly nuclear arms race far beyond the borders of the two countries, and vastly distorted definitions of international status and influence. On the global level, the newest entries into the restricted club of admitted nuclear-capable nations have rendered obsolete the post-World War II nuclear status quo."

Call number: PAL - JZ5675 .B53 2000

Queen Victoria's Maharajah: Duleep Singh 1838-93 - Publisher's Marketing: "In this delightful portrait of a unique character, the quixotic Duleep Singh, a deposed Punjabi maharajah, converted to Christianity and moved to England, where he became a favorite of Queen Victoria. But, his extravagance and the parsimony of the India Office eventually led him to declare a holy war to recover his homeland from the British Empire. The account is based on the archives at Windsor and the India Office Library."

Call number: PAL - DS479.1.D4 A43 2001

Taj Mahal - Publisher's Marketing: "Built by the seventeenth century Mogul emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahal combines Persian and Indian architectural styles. It took two decades and twenty thousand men to create the white marble monument of love, a surviving symbol of Mogul splendor and power."

Call number: SAC - NA6008 .A33 W43 2003