Gyan Prakash: 3 books
by Gyan Prakash
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires...
Emergency Chronicles
Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India
On the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one...
by Gyan Prakash
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A long-lost Sexton Blake mystery, 1920s detective fiction at its best Historian Gyan Prakash of Princeton University stumbled upon part of the unpublished manuscript of Tower of Silence by Phiroshaw Jamsetjee Chevalier (or Chaiwala, as he called himself) in the British Library. After scouring several...