India category: 2353 books
Wake up Indians Wake Up
Know How Great Your Country Is
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The book presents a bird’s eye view of the glorious heritage of India. Since time immemorial, India has proclaimed that man needs both scientific and spiritual knowledge to enjoy material prosperity and happiness. Unfortunately, this advice has been forgotten by the people of this country. They have...
by Hayden J A Bellenoit
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Contributes simultaneously to both British imperial and Indian history. This work demonstrates that missionary understandings and interactions with India, rather than being party to imperial ideologies, often diverged from metropolitan and imperial norms.
by William Eleroy Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
"Modern India" was written in 1903-04 by William Eleroy Curtis
William Eleroy Curtis (1850 - 1911) was traveling correspondent for two Chicago newspapers, the Inter-Ocean (1873-1886) and the Record Herald (1887-1911).
by Lt.-Col. R. G. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Originally published in 1908 by the Intelligence Branch of the Indian Army, this is a complete and connected account of the campaigns of the Duke of Wellington whilst in India, as written by Major R. G. Burton, 94th Russell’s Infantry, who later rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
An invaluable addition to any Indian Military History collection.
Spy System in Ancient India
From Vedic Period to Gupta Period
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
In India, the system of espionage is as old as the Rigveda. It has developed into a sophisticated political art. 'Spies are the eyes of Kings' is a proverbial saying current among the people from time immemorial. In her work, the author has emphasised on the existence of spy system from the early...
Sensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief. Through ethnographic...
Towards a Ceasefire in Kashmir
British Official Reports from South Asia, 18 September – 31 December 1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The central theme of this volume is deteriorating India-Pakistan relations. It opens in the aftermath of the Indian takeover of Hyderabad. This had been accomplished so rapidly that there was a widespread feeling in Pakistan that their country would be next to attract the attention of the Indian Army....
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
This compilation of speeches of A.B. Vajpayee encompass a large number of subjects associated with him as the Prime Minister of India. His successful years as the PM, role in parliament, views on industry, National Commission on Population, India Economy Summit, 1998, Child labour, emphasis on Indianness have been dealt with in great details.
History of Rice In India
Mythology, Culture and Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1988
The first major work on the history of a single crop in India, the book deals with rice in total historical, cultural and agricultural aspects that has tremendous economic as well as socio-cultural significance.
Vedic Voices
Intimate Narratives of a Living Andhra Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
For countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the...
The State in India after Liberalization
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and economic...
Street Corner Secrets
Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same analytic frame—brothels, streets, and public day-wage labor markets (nakas), where sexual commerce may be solicited...
by Thant Myint-U
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 19, 2015
"Myanmar. Dove la Cina incontra l'India" è un diario di viaggio che accompagna in una delle più strategiche zone di confine del mondo, quel crocevia asiatico che si sviluppa "nel nord del Myanmar (ex Birmania), verso il sud-ovest della Cina e il nord-est dell'India, [...] regioni...
Indigeneity, Landscape and History
Adivasi Self-fashioning in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected...