"The Imaginary Institution of India is the first major collection of Sudipta Kaviraj's essays and as such, will be received with great curiosity and attention."-Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles --
"In his new introduction, Khilnani addresses these issues in the new perspectives afforded by events of the recent year in India and in the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Steven I. Wilkinson explores how India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. He uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy.
To Commemorate The Golden Jubilee Celebration Of Our Freedom, Eminent Indians Have Taken Pains To Contribute Articles To This Book. Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, Dr. M.S. Gill, Shri S.R. Bommai, Shri C.V. Ranganathan, Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar, Shri Inder Malhotra, Air Chief Marshal S.K. Sareen, Admiral Tahiliani, Lt. Gen. M.L. Chibber, Lt. Gen. V.K. Nayar, Shri K.F. Rustamji, Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, Capt. M.S. Kohli, Shri Vijay Karan, Shri A.K. Tandon, Shri M.B. Kaushal, Sh. P.S. Krishnan, Sh. K.Srinivasan, Smt. Mohini Giri, Dr. Subhash Kashyap & Many Others Have Contributed The Informative Articles In Their Respective Fields. The Articles On The Three Defence Forces And Para-Military Forces Explain In Detail The Multi-Faceted Developments That Took Place In These Areas After Independence. To Enhance The Utility Of The Volume Further, Important Speeches Of Great Leaders Like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Smt. Indira Gandhi And Shri Rajiv Gandhi Have Been Included.
India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today. As the former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India, Das offers a unique insider’s perspective and he deftly interweaves memoir with history, creating a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite, and eminently readable, India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.
Chris Pinney demonstrates how printed images were pivotal to India's struggle for national and religious independence. He also provides a history of printing in India.
This volume explores the varied outcomes that self-determination movements around the world have achieved, and in particular seeks to understand what factors promote better outcomes and what factors promote worse ones. Rather than focusing on the metric of achieving independence, the project evaluates the quality of societies after independence, including such elements as economic strength and political resilience, and it analyzes what factors contribute to different outcomes. The study finds that the single most determinative factor in the success of any independence movement is frequently beyond the control of such a movement, often relating to the global and historical contexts in which the movement finds itself. However, a whole host of factors are within the control of such a movement, but movements do not always seek to act on many of them. Activists become so convinced in the justness of the independence cause that they do not focus on actions that would contribute to greater success after independence.
For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans—some famous, some unjustly forgotten—bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.
The issues concerning the Partition of India in 1947 have long been debated both by Indian and Pakistani historians, but now a leader directly responsible for the Defence and Foreign Affairs of India has come forward with a historical appraisal that helps both countries come to a better understanding of the contentions between them. Jaswant Singh has not written a hagiography of Jinnah, but focused on him as a key figure in the final deliberations preceding Independence.