India category: 2353 books
The South African Gandhi
Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary...
Delirious Delhi
Inside India's Incredible Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Two New Yorkers take on an even bigger metropolis. “Fullest, most vivid portrait of a city in years” (The New York Times Magazine).
When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave Prager and his wife moved to a city of sixteen million people—with seemingly twice as many honking horns....
The Modi Effect
Inside Narendra Modi's campaign to transform India
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India?
On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before.
Political parties in Britain, Australia...
A Blue Hand
The Tragicomic, Mind-Altering Odyssey of Allen Ginsberg, a Holy Fool, a Lost Mus e, a Dharma Bum, and His Prickly Bride in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he hoped to meet poets Gary...
by Alex Ivanov
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
More than seventy years ago, one great nation, Great Britain, granted independence to another, India. The transfer of power, while civil, was not entirely peaceful. Hindus and Muslims turned against each other in spasms of sectarian violence. Refugees trekked across the subcontinent - Hindus toward...
The Ruling Caste
Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign
Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this...
by Mountstuart Elphinstone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“Appointed through family influence to the East India Company, Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) arrived on the subcontinent in 1796, quickly learning Persian and developing an interest in Indian civilisation. After postings in Benares, Afghanistan and Poona, he became governor in 1819 of the...
by Patwant Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Five hundred years ago, Guru Nanak founded the Sikh faith in India. The Sikhs defied the caste system; rejected the authority of Hindu priests; forbade magic and idolatry; and promoted the equality of men and women -- beliefs that incurred the wrath of both Hindus and Muslims. In the centuries that...
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone
Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An overview of the nation’s politics, economics, culture, society, and sports by an author whose work “has been an illuminating introduction to India” (Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22).
In recent years, the country of India has evolved from a poverty-stricken sleeping giant into a world...
Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence
The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 1860–1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
The epicentre of the Muslim universe, Mecca attracts hundreds of thousands of believers every year. Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence studies the organization and meanings of the Haj from India during colonial times and analyses it from political, commercial, and medical perspectives between 1860,...
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by William Henry Fitchett
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny.
William Henry Fitchett was a prodigious author writing many books on British History, perhaps his most famous is his one volume history of the Indian Mutiny. Variously...
Joothan
An Untouchable's Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word...
Aurangzeb
The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently oppress Hindus, he is even blamed by some for setting into motion conflicts that would result in the creation of a separate Muslim state in South Asia....
Shameful Flight
The Last Years of the British Empire in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has...