India category: 2353 books
Incarnations
A History of India in Fifty Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
An entertaining and provocative account of India’s past, written by one of the country’s leading thinkers
For all India’s myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, bringing to life fifty...
by Joseph Lelyveld
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service...
A Place Within
Rediscovering India
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet I recall an anxiety as I...
by Kenneth Pletcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Because of its natural wealth, India has long been a tempting prize for invaders, yet foreign forces such as the Mughal Empire and the British did not destroy India’s vibrant spirit. Rather, external influences often became absorbed into the mix of different peoples, languages, religions, and regional...
The Age of Aspiration
Power, Wealth, and Conflict in Globalizing India
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Nearly four decades ago, Dilip Hiro’s Inside India Today, banned by Indira Gandhi’s government, was acclaimed by The Guardian as simply the best book on India.” Now Hiro returns to his native country to chronicle the impact of the dramatic economic liberalization that began in 1991, which...
India At War
The Subcontinent and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
World War II was a global catastrophe. Far broader than just the critical struggle between Allies and Axis, its ramifications were felt throughout the world. It was a time of social relocation, reorienting ideas of patriotism and geographical attachment, and forcing the movement of people across oceans...
by Chanchal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Incredible India
“India: An Idea"
India as you heard is a democratic country. Where there is a unity in diversity. Every religion people lives here. The home for largest refugees. Every state has its own language and festivals. People celebrate the each other's festival together. A nation of...
India Calling
An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new
Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, "We're all...
Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.
They were born worlds...
Nehru
The Invention of India
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist who-alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi-led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule...
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by Sir John William Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny]
By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. This inherent...
Selling Empire
India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly...
The Indian Equator
Mark Twain's India Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In 1895/6 the sixty-year-old Mark Twain set off on a worldwide lecture tour to pay off his debts from a publishing company bankruptcy, notes from which a year later became his final travel book Following the Equator. Two years later he wrote, 'How I did loathe that journey around the world! except...
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by Sir John William Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny]
By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. This inherent...