India category: 2353 books
The Writings of Pamela Price
State, Politics, and Cultures in Modern South India: Honour, Authority, and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Pamela Price has been a perceptive observer and analyst of the politics and cultures of southern India for more than three decades. She became interested in how the people in the region honour and respect those in public life while doing research in Madurai on Dravidian nationalism. She has also researched...
by George Malleson
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a rebellion in India against the rule of the British East India Company, that ran from May 1857 to July 1859. The rebellion began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the cantonment of the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into...
Leaving India
My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
The PEN Award–winning chronicle of the Indian diaspora told through the stories of the author’s own family.
In this “rich, entertaining and illuminating story,” Minal Hajratwala mixes history, memoir, and reportage to explore the collisions of choice and history that led her family...
Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation
The Relentless Invention of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
Subject Lessons
The Western Education of Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge “traveled” to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India’s British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation...
by Domenic Marbaniang
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Secularism in India is a historical analysis of the origin, development, and future of secularism in India. It begins with a study of how reason separated from religion in Greek Philosophy, a mood that returned during the Renaissance and reached its peak during the Enlightenment, of how the Colonial...
India in the World Economy
From Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In...
India - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
India's population of 1.2 billion is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each region, caste, and community has its own culture, reflecting unique histories shaped by conquest, creativity, and religion, expressed in distinct languages, social customs, art forms, and expectations...
Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power
Between Rising Naval Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries...
by R.S. Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
This book presents a complete and accessible description of the history of early India. It starts by discussing the origins and growth of civilizations, empires, and religions. It also deals with the geographical, ecological, and linguistic backgrounds, and looks at specific cultures of the Neolithic,...
by Thomas Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
“...the finest book on India since Kipling.”
India 1620: India is ruled by the son of the great Akbar, and is about to pass his crown to one of his sons. Brian Hawksworth, ship's captain and emissary of King James, must choose sides, but will he choose correctly? The future of England,...
Rupee Millionaires
Frank's Travel Memoirs, #5
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Want to make a million? Be careful...
Impoverished Frank and unpredictable rogue Spud have a plan - to make a million. There is only one small problem...they are trying to do it in India. Starting out on a windy market stall in London's St Martin's-in-the-Field market and progressing to the...
India
Defending the Jewel in the Crown
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
In 1931, Britain's Conservative Party proposed the India Bill--a piece of proposed legislation that made significant changes to the way India governed itself under British rule. Winston Churchill, with a distinguished history of military service and war correspondence in India behind him, took a position...
Everyday Technology
Machines and the Making of India's Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured...