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Sovereignty and Social Reform in India: British Colonialism and the Campaign Against Sati, 1830-60
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)
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Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony (Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series)
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Space: The Frontiers of Modern Defence
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Spaces and Places in Western India
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Spain, Europe and the Atlantic World: Essays in Honour of John H. Elliott
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Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality
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Speaking Nation C/bajpai, Anandita
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Spirals of Contention: Why India was Partitioned in 1947
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Sport in South Asian Society: Past and Present
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Sport, War and the British: 1850 to the Present
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