India category: 2353 books
Planes, Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws
A Journey through Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
A travel essay of a recent visit to India, which reveals, with humor and insight, the tensions and contradictions facing the emerging world power. In particular, the book explores the roles of women and children in India today and includes discussions with experts on this topic, providing insight into this important and often neglected issue.
Great Kings of India
Part I
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
The title covers the five great kings of India. This is the first of three part series
Bhageeratha
Hakka-Bukka
Kharavela
Yudhishtra
The Cult of Horn
Honking Through India
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
As the hair thins and the body sags, the old adage about travel 'broadening the mind' gets flipped on its head, the excitements of a quarter century ago transitioning to frustrations and groin pulls. Which brings me to India, a litmus test for travelers both seasoned and green. I have met many who...
Sikkim
Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire only to be annexed by India in 1975.It tells the remarkable tale of Thondup Namgyal, the last King of Sikkim, and his American wife, Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly into the spotlight...
The Doctor and the Saint
Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Roy is working on her new novel, the release of which will generate attention for her non-fiction writing.
Arundhati Roy is among the best-known writers and social justice activists in the world today, with a committed global audience.
Her best-selling 1997 novel "The God of Small...
Forbidden Land
The Quest for Nagalim
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Forbidden Land tells the story of three attempts by Frans Welman and his companions to enter Nagaland, the land of more than forty Naga tribes. Although all three efforts ended in failure, the attempts demonstrate how India and the lesser-known Burma, now known as Myanmar, have been succcessful in...
Shanti Bloody Shanti
An Indian Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Journalist Aaron Smith never planned to go to India before he had a contract put on his life by a drug dealer, when suddenly India seemed like the perfect place to get lost. In the process, he ended up finding himself, as well as encountering a dead body or two, witnessing the tragic death of a friend,...
Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects
Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This is a remarkable work of scholarship which shows how Kashmirs modern Muslim identity came into existence. In doing this, it demonstrates the complex manner in which politics can enforce the creation of religious identity. Kashmir is a hotbed of religious politics. Disputed between India and Pakistan,...
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab
Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863–1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab is a richly annotated autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863–1948)—social reformer, scientist, science educator, and, later, active participant in political affairs. A riveting account of life in nineteenth-century colonial Punjab, it covers Sahni’s growing up...
The Rays before Satyajit
Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In the history of Indian cinema, the name of Satyajit Ray needs no introduction. However, what remains unvoiced is the contribution of his forebears and their tryst with Indian modernity. Be it in art, advertising, and printing technology or in nationalism, feminism, and cultural reform, the earlier...
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 Captain Leopold Von Orlich, Hannibal Evans Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Travels in India including Sinde And Punjab Vol II by Captain Leopold Von Orlich Translated from German by Hannibal Evans Lloyd ON a lovely morning, the 5th of February, we rode to Delhi, the ancient Indraprast’ha, the capital of the Great Moguls: we were all mounted on elephants, because,...
by Kingshuk Nag
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose die in an air crash in Taihoku (Taipei, Taiwan) on 18 August 1945? Was he sent off to Siberia by Joseph Stalin? Did he die there? Or did he escape? Or was he let off, eventually to make his way back to India? Was he the mysterious Gumnami Baba of Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh?...
India Marching
Reflections from a Nationalistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Depending on the text one is reading, an account of history may or may not depict the truth.
History is dictated or narrated by the victors of wars or the rulers of any particular landor else by their sycophantic followersand it does not necessarily refl ect actual events.
In India Marching, author...