India category: 2353 books

Absent Friends is a 5,500 word article that places the reality and impact of gender discrimination in the context of daily life in the Himalayan foothills, told through the stories of the girls and women who live there."India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl," reported...

Rising from the Dust ~ India's Hidden VoicesNew, updated edition.Quitting his job and selling his house, Mark travels to India. He lands in Delhi, belted, braced and prepared for all eventualities. Or so he thinks. Though he craves the ultimate travel adventure, a load of western...

Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and-something simply never imagined-against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India....

The student of India who would at the same time be an historian, discovers to his sorrow that the land of his researches is lamentably poor in historical sources. And if within the realm of historical investigation, a more seductive charm lies for him in the analysis of great personalities than in...

This book gives a brief account of one hundred years of Indian history mainly from mutiny to emergence of Mahatma Gandhi and finally swaraj. It highlights the differences between Hindus and Muslims rulers which gave advantage to the Europeans traders to capture Indian market. Consequently, the British...

India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people...

In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged. No...

A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012 **A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012 A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives** The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur...

Welcome to the Internationalist Business Guide series: The key to a successful business is knowing your client. MAKING MONEY IN INDIA: INDIA COUNTRY GUIDE FOR BUSINESSES offers executives, investors, and entrepreneurs the need-to-know information about doing business in India. Written...

In Service of Emergent India is an evocative insider's account of a crucial period in India's history. It provides an in-depth look at events that changed the way the world perceived India, and a unique view of Indian statecraft. As Minister of External Affairs, Defense, and Finance in the BJP-led...

India is diverse and developing country with different systems. Most of the travel hacks, best practices and travel tips of developed countries won't work here. For example, 1)Decent hotel rooms available at half the price of AirBnb rooms 2)Tollgates and petrol bunk are the best places for hitchhiking 3)Lorry...

When Sylvia Fraser set off on her 7,500-mile journey of self-discovery, she was at a critical point when she wanted some larger, deeper purpose. As a solo traveler, free of the props and distractions of ordinary life, Fraser decided to treat India as a fabulous dream, in which everything that happened...

Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India’s economic growth. But in a country like India, growth is not enough. Who...

You have decided to travel to India!  You are about to go on a trip of a lifetime.  Do you know where in India you are going?  If you are just beginning to explore the options, you have opened the perfect guide book to help you narrow down your options.  The subcontinent of India is vast with...