Notes from an Indian Conservative

Notes from an Indian Conservative

Author: Jaithirth Rao

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788129115751

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Notes from an Indian Conservative is a compilation of Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao's electric writings which regularly appear in The Indian Express. The book has been written for the 'Indians of today, both in India an in voluntary or involuntary exile who have a love for their fractured land and who have a sensibility derived from our adoption and embrace of the English language.


India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Author: Ramachandra Guha

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2017-07-13

Total Pages: 871

ISBN-13: 1509883282

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Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections; the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi; a major anti-corruption movement; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.


Notes of a Mediocre Man

Notes of a Mediocre Man

Author: Bipin Aurora

Publisher: Guernica Editions Incorporated

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781771831413

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Two brothers come to school and do nothing but tell stories. A young woman works at the Indian Consulate in a major American city. A man goes to a singles dance. An unnamed narrator offers his "notes" on modern-day America. An old Jewish man in a nursing home tells the tale of his daughter. A retired man in India tries to collect his pension. A woman tells the story of her husband's death in partition India. A man goes from interview to interview, hoping for employment. Some stories are fable-like, others more realistic. However, all stories deal, in one way or another, with small, "mediocre" people -- people trying to fit into a world of bigness, applause, success.


Mapping an Empire

Mapping an Empire

Author: Matthew H. Edney

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-02-15

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0226184862

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In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly


India Notes

India Notes

Author: Raghu Rai

Publisher: Editions Intervalles

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782916355115

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Raghu Rai is one of the greatest Indian photographers. Impressed by an exhibition of his work, Cartier-Bresson nominated him to join Magnum in 1977. In India Notes, Rai shares his vision of India, documenting its excesses and contrasts. These striking images are supported by Terzani's text - lyrical odes to a beloved country, which he has learnt to know intimately. Terzani was the Asia correspondent for Der Spiegel for 30 years. He is also the author of numerous books, including A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound travels in the Far East, published by Flamingo in the UK.


The Idea of India

The Idea of India

Author: Sunil Khilnani

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1999-06-04

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780374525910

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"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.


Encyclopedia of India

Encyclopedia of India

Author: Stanley A. Wolpert

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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A four-volume survey of the history, cultures, geography and religions of India from ancient times to the present day. Includes more than 600 entries, arranged alphabetically. For students and general readers.


Producing India

Producing India

Author: Manu Goswami

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-01-26

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0226305104

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When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.