Harish Kapur: 2 books

This book is a biographical and illustrated account of the life of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, a French national who traveled extensively for almost forty years of his lifetravels that took him to most of the European countries, to the Ottoman Empire, to Persia, to Southeast Asia, and to India. This...

This book explores the recent history of India -a history that focuses on the British Empire, and all that it did on the vast subcontinent during centuries of governance. While, it was neither planned nor premeditated, the slow and complex historical process of British rule resulted in the unfolding...