The Anarchy
The Anarchy

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 1526634015

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THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.

The East India Company
The East India Company

Author: Tirthankar Roy

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 8184756135

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This groundbreaking study examines how the East India Company founded an empire in India at the same time it started losing ground in business. For over 200 years, the Company’s vast business network had spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. But in the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn, and it ended up being an empire builder. In this fascinating account, Tirthankar Roy reveals how the Company’s trade with India changed it—and how the Company changed Indian business. Fitting together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, the book explores how politics meshed so closely with the conduct of business then, and what that tells us about doing business now. ‘One of the first major attempts to tell the company’s story from an Indian business perspective’—Financial Express

Learning from Delhi
Learning from Delhi

Author: Written by Maurice Mitchell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 1351922513

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The inflexibility of modern urban planning, which seeks to determine the activities of urban inhabitants and standardise everyday city life, is challenged by the unstoppable organic growth of illegal settlements. In rapidly expanding cities, issues of continuity with local traditions, local conditions and local ways of working are juxtaposed with those of abrupt change due to emergency, reaction to modernity, environmental degradation, global market forces and global technological imperatives to make efforts to control by physical planning redundant as soon as they are enacted. In most third world cities there is little social welfare and almost no attempt at social housing.

Delhi’s Meatscapes
Delhi’s Meatscapes

Author: Zarin Ahmad

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-06-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0199095388

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Tracing the journey of meat from the farm to the meat shop and other workspaces of the butcher within the multi-sited margins in Delhi, the current volume intimately follows the lives of Qureshi butchers and other meat sector workers in this transforming mega-city. The author addresses the tensions that meat throws up in a bristling society whose stakes are now more than ever intense. She shows how meat is also a rising sector in the Indian economy, and fetches precious foreign exchange. Qureshi butchers stand at the crossroads of class, caste, stigma, religion, market, urban ecological policies, and a never-ceasing political debate around these issues. Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned from several years of immersion in the city's meatscapes and is the first of its kind for urban anthropologists, economists, political scientists, policy planners and readers who wish to take a hard look at their own (non-)meat choices.

Colossus
Colossus

Author: Sanjoy Chakravorty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-02-03

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1108832245

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Colossus unpacks the intricacies and inequalities of economic, social and political life in India's capital, Delhi.

The Black Book
The Black Book

Author: Meera Kaura Patel

Publisher: Universal Law Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9788175349933

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Delhi a Role Model of Urban India Part 2
Delhi a Role Model of Urban India Part 2

Author: Dr. K P Agrawal

Publisher: Educreation Publishing

Published: 2019-07-20

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13:

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The Part-2 of the book packed in 10 chapters provides in-depth and detailed information on important issues like civic agencies and service delivery, governance, democracy, election, legislature, bureaucracy, judiciary, reservation and taxation. The book will be of immense value to policy makers, programme planners, public and private sectors, NGOs, social workers, environmental workers, educationists, developmental practitioners and the Delhiites who dream to see Delhi, “A World Class City”.

No Dream Is Too Big : Memoirs of a Civil Servant
No Dream Is Too Big : Memoirs of a Civil Servant

Author: Dr G G Saxena

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2023-11-24

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9355626347

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A riveting journey of an IAS officer that unfolds between the pages of the book. Be it the difficult posting in Andaman and Nicobar or critical handling in Delhi Administration, the book is raw and relatable for readers everywhere. It takes you through the decision making process of a seasoned bureaucrat who formulated policies, advised political leaders, guided subordinates while serving the public at large.