India category: 2353 books
The Germans in India
Elite European migrants in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. Rather than focusing upon the mass transatlantic migration or the movement of Britons...
Identity, Rights, and Awareness
Anticaste Activism in India and the Awakening of Justice through Discursive Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
For over a decade, Jeremy Rinker, Ph.D. has interacted, observed, and studied Dalit anti-caste social movements in India. In this critical comparative approach to India’s modern anti-caste resistance, Dr. Rinker emphasizes the complex interdependence between narrative practices and social transformation...
Northeast India
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterized by endemic violence and conflicts. One of the first of its kind, this reader on Northeast India examines myriad aspects of the region – its people and its linguistic...
by Barbara Athanassiadis
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 22, 2016
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by Ramachandra Guha
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in world history.
This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival...
Empress
Queen Victoria and India
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
An entirely original account of Victoria’s relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837
In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen...
The Billionaire Raj
A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society
India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly...
The Beautiful and the Damned
A Portrait of the New India
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercover reporter for The Guardian, working at...
Desert Places
A Woman's Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desert
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
From the bestselling author of Tracks: A travel writer’s memoir of her year with the nomadic Rabari tribe on the border between Pakistan and India.
India’s Thar Desert has been the home of the Rabari herders for thousands of years. In 1990, Australian Robyn Davidson, “as natural a travel...
Holy Cow
An Indian Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the...
by Monisha Rajesh
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
"Crackles and sparks with life like an exploding box of Diwali fireworks." -- William Dalrymple
In 1991, Monisha Rajesh's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. Two years later, fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads and the creepy...
by Mariellen Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
“Follow your bliss!” Joseph Campbell famously said, so she did. After several harrowing years of losses, author Mariellen Ward set out to recover from grief, understand the essence of yoga and rediscover the joy of living by traveling, studying yoga and volunteering in India.
The stories...
Light of India
A Conflagration of Indian Matchbox Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
With all the zany vibrancy of a Bollywood musical, the colorful matchbox labels of LIGHT OF INDIA present a fascinating confluence of popular culture and a sophisticated graphic arts tradition that stretches back for centuries.
Populated with pouncing Bengal tigers, regal jungle elephants,...
A Business History of India
Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
In recent decades, private investment has led to an economic resurgence in India. But this is not the first time the region has witnessed impressive business growth. There have been many similar stories over the past 300 years. India's economic history shows that capital was relatively expensive....