Rediscovering India
Author: Archæological Survey of India
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 316
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Author: Archæological Survey of India
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M.G. Vassanji
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2009-03-18
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0307371778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Globe and Mail Best Book The inimitable M.G. Vassanji turns his eye to India, the homeland of his ancestors, in this powerfully moving tale of family and country. Part travelogue, part history, A Place Within is M.G. Vassanji’s intelligent and beautifully written journey to explore where he belongs. It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet I recall an anxiety as I travelled the length and breadth of the country, senses raw to every new experience, that even in the distraction of a blink I might miss something profoundly significant. I was not born in India, nor were my parents; that might explain much in my expectation of that visit. Yet how many people go to the homeland of their grandparents with such a heartload of expectation and momentousness; such a desire to find themselves in everything they see? Is it only India that clings thus, to those who’ve forsaken it; is this why Indians in a foreign land seem always so desperate to seek each other out? What was India to me?
Author: Vinayak Bharne
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-09-18
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1443867349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...
Author: Bawa Singh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-18
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1000600491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the emerging power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region and locates India and its interests within the overarching geostrategic framework. With US and China emerging as leading players within the region, the book analyses the challenges to India’s foreign policy in the face of new alliances, counter-alliances, and great power equations that have formed after the Cold War. It discusses important issues such as China’s strategic forays in the Indian Ocean, the balance of power between countries, India’s Act East opportunities, Russia’s re-engagement in the region, the South China Sea dispute, India’s maritime strategy, and the conundrum of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue facing India. A comprehensive study of the changing geopolitical and geostrategic environment of the Indo-Pacific region, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of international relations, global politics, foreign policy, maritime studies, Chinese studies, South Asian studies, geopolitics, and strategic studies.
Author: Dharampal
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9788187827016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Desai
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0143417355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kalpana Sharma
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2000-10-14
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9351181030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book that challenges the conventional notion of a slum. Spread over 175 hectares and swarming with one million people, Dharavi is often called 'Asia's largest slum'. But Dharavi is much more than cold statistic. What makes it special are the extraordinary people who live there, many of whom have defied fate and an unhelpful State to prosper through a mix of backbreaking work, some luck and a great deal of ingenuity. It is these men and women whom journalist Kalpana Sharma brings to life through a series of spellbinding stories. While recounting their tales, she also traces the history of Dharavi from the days when it was one of the six great koliwadas or fishing villages to the present times when it, along with other slums, is home to almost half of Mumbai. Among the colourful characters she presents are Haji Shamsuddin who came to Mumbai and began life as a rice smuggler but made his fortune by launching his own brand of peanut brittle; the stoic Ramjibhai Patel, a potter, who represents six generations from Saurashtra who have lived and worked in Mumbai; and doughty women like Khatija and Amina who helped check communal passions during the 1992-93 riots and continue to ensure that the rich social fabric of Dharavi is not frayed. It is countless, often anonymous, individuals like these who have helped Dharavi grow from a mere swamp to a virtual gold mine with its many industrial units churning out quality leather goods, garments and food products. Written with rare sensitivity and empathy, Rediscovering Dharavi is a riveting account of the triumph of the human spirit over poverty and want.
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2011-08-02
Total Pages: 764
ISBN-13: 818475566X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting, narratives together for more than sixty years? What has allowed India to sustain its commitment to the democratic process, given its location in a region that is largely undemocratic? In this magisterial analysis of the last five hundred years of Indian history, Meghnad Desai looks at India’s colonial past, its struggle for independence and its many contemporary conundrums, to discover answers to the questions that have confronted India-watchers for decades. Rejecting much received wisdom, including narratives fashioned by India’s ruling establishment, Meghnad Desai goes back to the beginnings of the East–West encounter at the end of the fifteenth century and tracks its impact on the cultures and politics of the present day. Through a series of ‘Counterfactual Boxes’ Meghnad Desai analyses the accepted defining moments of India’s past and suggests alternative courses that history could so easily have taken. Meghnad Desai draws on a wealth of sources to illuminate India’s journey to the twenty-first century. Whether it is an examination of British parliamentary debates on the question of India’s independence, or the liberalization of the economy after decades of licence-permit raj, or the state’s complicity in the Gujarat riots, Meghnad Desai’s original, occasionally iconoclastic, approach to seemingly settled arguments makes The Rediscovery of India a path-breaking and comprehensive account of India’s past and present.
Author: Prakash Nanda
Publisher: Lancer Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9788170622970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrary To The Commonly Held View That India`S Look-East Policy, Aimed At Establishing Itself As An Important Asia Pacific Power, Started In The 1990S Under The Regime Narasimha Rao, This Book Explains How India`S Engagement In The Region Really Began Centuries Ago. After Independence, India Surrendered Its Influence In The Region To China, Since Its Policy Of Non-Alignment Came In The Way Of Realistic Projection Of Power. In Fact, For India The Period Between 1950 And 1992 Was A Period Of Lost Opportunities.
Author: Gita Dharampal
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Published: 2017-11-03
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 8123025610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essential writings of Dharampal compiled and edited by his daughter Gita Dharampal