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Music and Empire in Britain and India: Identity, Internationalism, and Cross-Cultural Communication (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)
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Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748 – 1858 (South Asia Edition)
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My Autobiography
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My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria
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My Indian Friends: Alud Lang Syne (Series-II)
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