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You cannot work with a giant and not tell people anything about him, said Dr Zakir Hussain, prompting Y.D. Gundevia to write about Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. During his 36-year career in the Indian Ci……続きを見る

The most pleasant memories of my boyhood are clustered around the old family fireplace, in our home in Brighton, England, when my father, gathering us all around him, with occasionally a few intimat……続きを見る

“The Life of a Scarlet Lancer at war “This is an essential book for all those interested in the wars in India as the British Empire finally brought the jewel of the sub-continent into the crown of i……続きを見る

A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history fro……続きを見る

[Includes 10 photos illustrations] The first 9 months of the Korean War saw U.S. Army field artillery units destroy or abandon their own guns on nearly a dozen occasions. North Korean and Chinese fo……続きを見る

The Korean War took place over a three year period from 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953. The first year experienced the major operations of the entire war, and the remaining two years of the war basica……続きを見る

Includes over 50 photos and 22 maps THIS IS THE FOURTH in a series of five volumes dealing with the operations of United States Marines in Korea during the period 2 August 1950 to 27 July 1953. Volu……続きを見る

Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built enviro……続きを見る

Based on the chance survival of a remarkable cache of documents, India and the Islamic Heartlands recaptures a vanished and forgotten world from the eighteenth century spanning much of today's Middl……続きを見る

Part - II Kapur Commission Report deals with the Conspiracy to Murder of Mahatma Gandhi who was shot dead point-blank range by Nathuram Vinayak Godse in Birla House Prayer Gardens on 30th Jan……続きを見る

Depending on the text one is reading, an account of history may or may not depict the truth. History is dictated or narrated by the victors of wars or the rulers of any particular landor else by the……続きを見る

The Deoband movementーa revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that quickly spread from colonial India to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and even the United Kingdom and South Africaーhas been po……続きを見る

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. It is also the parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Prime Minister Modi was himself a career RSS offi……続きを見る

This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782–1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818–22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural ……続きを見る

La India poseía una gran cultura y una extraordinaria civilización espiritual, pero sólo tenía dudosas y remotas tradiciones unitarias. Era una nebulosa de pequeños estados, castas, tribus, comunida……続きを見る

Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of ……続きを見る

The Taj Mahal, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666 CE) as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631 CE), is considered exceptional in the history of world architecture.This book……続きを見る

The exclusion of the destitute population from the formal financial system is a long-standing problem in India. This book examines the performance of financial inclusion policies in India to underst……続きを見る

Indian Philosophy: An Introduction helps readers discover how the many and varied schools of Indian thought can answer some of the great questions of life: Who are we? How can we live well? How do w……続きを見る

Negli ultimi tre decenni abbiamo assistito a un forte aumento dell'instabilità finanziaria. Tutti i maggiori continenti sono stati colpiti da crisi che hanno avuto effetti assai severi sull'economia……続きを見る

For more than 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India. How was it possible that a Muslim, ethnically Turkish, Persian-speaking dynasty established itself in the Indian subcont……続きを見る

A great king of Kalinga who ruled twentyone centuries ago. Coming to the throne when the state was in distress, he brought confidence and self-respect to the people. And he refused to join hands wit……続きを見る

Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the wo……続きを見る

Many military professionals regard General of the Army Douglas MacArthur as a very polarizing figure in military history, from his strategic use of maneuver to defeat the Japanese at Leyte to his pu……続きを見る

Five years after emerging victorious from World War II, the United States became embroiled in the Korean War. In August of 1950, despite the relative industrial and technological disadvantages suffe……続きを見る

In recent years, India has emerged as a major economic and political power. Yet, the country's cultural influence outside India has not been adequately analyzed in academic discourses. This book, a ……続きを見る

Hindu Gods And Heroes by Lionel D. Barnett.This book is about history of the religion of India.It is about an Aryan tribe in the Eastern Panjab, belief in gods in the past. 続きを見る

Part - I Kapur Commission Report deals with the Conspiracy to Murder of Mahatma Gandhi who was shot dead point-blank range by Nathuram Vinayak Godse in Birla House Prayer Gardens on 30th Janu……続きを見る

In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian i……続きを見る

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They w……続きを見る