India category: 2353 books
Malcolm – Soldier, Diplomat, Ideologue of British India
The Life of Sir John Malcolm (1769 - 1833)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Highly regarded in India and Persia to this day, Sir John Malcolm is remarkably little known in his native Scotland. This book describes his extraordinary journey from modest origins to become a leading player in the transformation of the East India Company from a largely commercial enterprise into...
by Lonely Planet, Michael Benanav, Abigail Blasi
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Lonely Planet India is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Immerse yourself in the sacred city of Varanasi, wonder at the Taj Mahal in Agra, or cruise the tropical waterways of Kerala; all with your trusted travel companion....
Traveler's Paradise - Southern Asia (India)
Travel Guide for Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, Mumbai & Goa
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Have you always wanted to explore the mysteries of India? Are the bustling cities, stunning countryside and ancient landmarks calling you to visit?
If you, like millions of others, want to explore the crowded markets, ancient temples, fortresses and fading glory of India’s greatest cities,...
The Educational Heritage of Ancient India
How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth, where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced education. This illustrated book describes how these multi-disciplinary centers of learning existed in several forms such as forest universities,...
A Winter in India
Light Impressions of its Cities, Peoples and Customs
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
A charming travelogue set in the British Raj, A Winter in India presents a fascinating journey across people, customs, languages, cities, monuments, and landscapes. Spens’ thrilling and amusing anecdotes and multifarious experiences — of the rugged Khyber Pass and its tribes, the military history...
India in the Shadows of Empire
A Legal and Political History (1774–1950)
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
This book explains the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence. It pursues this narrative along two major trajectories. On the one hand, it focuses on the role of imperial judicial institutions...
Travelers' Tales India
True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
India is among the most difficult-and most rewarding-of places to travel. Some have said India stands for "I’ll Never Do It Again." Many more are drawn back time after time because India is the best show on earth, the best bazaar of human experiences that can be visited in a lifetime. India dissolves...
Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
The Realignment of India–China Relations, 600–1400
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Relations between China and India underwent a dramatic transformation from Buddhist-dominated to commerce-centered exchanges in the seventh to fifteenth centuries. The unfolding of this transformation, its causes, and wider ramifications are examined in this masterful analysis of the changing patterns...
Defeat is an Orphan
How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet in the years that followed Pakistan...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This paper proposes a response to the dangerous proliferation of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan. This paper highlights the threat in "The Nuclear Catastrophe," a gripping projection of the worst-case...
A Memoir of India and Afghanistan.
With Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of Those Countries.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1842 edition by J. Dobson, Philadelphia.
Josiah Harlan. A Memoir of India and Afghanistan. With Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of Those Countries. Comprising Remarks on the Massacre of the British Army in Cabul, British...
by A.V. Williams Jackson, Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
*Includes Table of ContentsA.V. Williams Jacksons History of India Volume 9: Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers Classic, Oriental, and Occidental is a fascinating collection of accounts of India by travelers, from antiquity to the modern era. Greek, Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English sources are cited. A table of contents is included.
India: The Ancient Past
A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book...
Railways and The Raj
How the Age of Steam Transformed India
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. There were vast riches to be exploited and vast numbers of people to be subjugated. How better to achieve these aims than by building a rail network that facilitated the export of raw material and made it easier for troops to travel around the...