India category: 2353 books
Islamicate Societies
A Case Study of Egypt and Muslim India Modernization, Colonial Rule, and the Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The basic contention of this study is that the colonial rule had far more serious consequence than it has been realized. It radically transformed the nature of the Islamic societies of Egypt and Muslim India to that of an ‘Islamicate’societies. This affected the religious, cultural, social, and...
Ruskin Bond's World
Thematic Influences of Nature, Children, and Love in his Major Works
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Ruskin Bond has won the hearts of millions of readers with his countless charming short stories and introspective novels. From biographical tales about acting as a grandfather to children, to tales of unrequited love, the cross-cultural dimensions of Indian society, and the power and beauty of nature,...
Buton's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet
A Treasury of Priceless Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This fourteenth-century Tibetan classic serves as an excellent introduction to basic Buddhism as practiced throughout India and Tibet and describes the process of entering the Buddhist path through study and reflection.
It begins with setting forth the structure of Buddhist education and the...
The Courts of Pre-Colonial South India
Material Culture and Kingship
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book investigates how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space, such as public/private and male/female, and replaces them with indigenous descriptions...
by Sam Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
User-friendly guide with full background information on Indian history, culture and religions, and eating and accommodation tips. Includes the sights and monuments of Kolkata (Calcutta) and the richly varied state of West Bengal: Darjeeling, Hooghly and Plassey, the Islamic architecture of Gaur and...
by Sam Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Discerning on-site guide to the sights and monuments of Gujarat, with referenced map, full background information on Indian history, culture and religions, and eating and accommodation tips.
This is a chapter from Blue Guide India: the best guide for the independent traveller to India's...
Violence, Martyrdom and Partition
A Daughter’s Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
This book presents the oral testimony of Subhashini (1914–2003), the woman head of a well-known Arya Samaj institution devoted to women's education in rural north India. Subhashini's narrative unfolds a story, within a sea of stories, which has remained silent in the dominant historical discourse....
by Sam Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Discerning, user-friendly guide to the sights and monuments of Uttarakhand and Haryana, with referenced map, full background information on Indian history, culture and religions, and eating and accommodation tips.
This is a chapter from Blue Guide India: the best guide for the independent...
New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India
The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history.
The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting...
Contributions of India to Global Cultural Civilization
Review of the Past, Directions for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Culture is the life-force that flows through the veins of a nation and culture alone can keep a nation alive and awake. It provides the nation with vitality and energy. A nation with a rich and vibrant culture briskly moves on the path of development adopting novel plans with a value-system. Historians...
by B.R. Nanda
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The book explores the evolution of Gandhi's ideas, his attitudes toward religion, the racial problem, the caste system, his conflict with the British, his approach to Muslim separatism and the division of India, his attitude toward social and economic change, his doctrine of nonviolence, and other key issues.
Crime-Terror Nexus in South Asia
States, Security and Non-State Actors
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
This book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia, focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan’s most serious security threats.
Much research...
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by Lady Selina Inglis
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, the 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...
by Charles John Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857". According to Wikipedia: "The Siege of Delhi was one of the decisive conflicts of the Indian rebellion of 1857. The rebellion against the authority of the British East India Company was widespread through much of Northern India, but essentially it...