India category: 2353 books
Troubled Pilgrimage
Passage to Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Born in Lahore in present-day Pakistan, Balwant Bhaneja grew up in the exiled Sindhi Hindu community of Delhi, before emigrating to Canada. Troubled Pilgrimage is his account of a journey to his ancestral Sindh in Pakistan. Struggling against the preconceptions nurtured in post-1947 India,...
The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam
A comparative study of the late medieval and early modern periods
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
The Ghazi Sultans were frontier holy-warrior kings of late medieval and early modern Islamic history. This book is a comparative study of three particular Ghazis in the Muslim world at that time, demonstrating the extent to which these men were influenced by the actions and writings of their predecessors...
by Arundhati Roy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The End of Imagination brings together five of Arundhati Roy's acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time and features a new introduction by the author.
This new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost of Living-published soon after she won the...
by Hermann Hesse
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical, style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse...
by Brenda Beck, Cassandra Cornall
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
"The Legend of Ponnivala" is a vast, ancient epic from the Kongu region of South India, where it is known as the "Annanmar Kathai" or "Elder Brothers' Story." It is the story of three generations of a farming family who through their exploits and the intercession of...
Emperor of the Five Rivers
The Life and Times of Maharajah Ranjit Singh
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
In 1801, at the age of just 20 years old, Ranjit Singh became the Maharaja of the Punjab Empire and subsequently became one of the greatest figures in the history of India. He was a fiercely brave leader, capturing the city of Lahore before becoming Maharaja and overcoming a variety of challenges...
Kashmir Dispute
A Kashmiri Perspective - Kashmiri Struggle Transformed in to Jihad, Terrorism and a Proxy War
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Kashmir dispute has to be seen as human issue, and not as a territorial gain, or a strategic advantage. Like anyone else, I have no solution to this dispute that could be acceptable to all concerned, but I know what is not workable and what will not provide much desired peace and stability in the...
Decolonizing Anarchism
An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Decolonizing Anarchism looks at the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. This approach reveals an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which achieving a nation-state is not the objective. Maia...
The Politics of the Governed
Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups....
Islanded
Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram...
A History of Modern South Asia
Politics, States, Diasporas
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically...
by Parag Khanna
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized.
The “Asian Century” is even bigger than you think. Far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multi-civilizational...
Battles of the New Republic
A Contemporary History of Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history, part-analysis, part-memoir, and part-biography...
by Ravi Soni
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Kamasutra 2.0 condenses the expertise of the core parts of Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra, the famous two thousand year old Sanskrit treatise which has dominated the erotic love traditions of India, into a simple, essential guide book.
This book describes all the sexual postures and methods -- embraces,...