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El nacimiento de una nación y la caída de un imperio chocan en esta tensa historia política sobre la partición de 1947. Ideal para quienes buscan expandir su conocimiento histórico durante su trayecto diario, este relato sumerge al oyente en las fracturas del colonialismo. A través de un...

Erlebe ein faszinierendes Stück Geschichte und ergründe den rätselhaften Niedergang einer der ältesten Zivilisationen. Dieses packende historische Sachbuch verwandelt deinen täglichen Arbeitsweg in eine atmosphärische Reise durch antike Flusstäler und längst vergessene Metropolen. Lehn...

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty? Bhagwati and Panagariya argue forcefully that only one strategy will help the poor to any significant effect: economic growth, led by markets overseen and encouraged by liberal state policies.

On 24 May 1971, based on a telephone call purportedly from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her secretary P.N. Haksar, the chief cashier at the Parliament Street branch of the State Bank of India handed over Rs 60 lakh to a stranger posing as the PM's courier. The money was supposedly meant for...

In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young Botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the East Coast of India, he is entranced by Chanda Devi's fierce nature and unusual gifts; speaking to trees and the ghosts of former colonialists. These islands, she tells her adoring husband, rest on a fault line, cracked so deep into the earth that spirits cross the boundary freely. But it is not this fracture that takes a tragic bite out of their happiness. 

The Indus rises in Tibet, flows west across India, and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion. Empires of the Indus follows the river upstream and back in time, taking the listener on a voyage through two thousand miles of geography and more than five thousand years of history redolent with contemporary importance.

India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal democracy to...

How did India, a newly independent nation in 1947, transform into one of the world’s fastest-growing economies? India’s Economic Odyssey: Post Independence Milestones takes you on a captivating journey through the pivotal moments, policies, and innovations that shaped India’s economic landscape. From the ambitious First Five-Year Plan to the sweeping liberalization of 1991, the rise of the IT and telecom revolutions, and the challenges of globalization and crises, this series explores how India navigated its path to progress.

A group of Telugu Nayakkers are forced to migrate from their ancestral village when their King wants to marry the youngest daughter of the family. After a long arduous journey south they settle down in a forest patch in south Tamil Nadu, clear it and start a living there, calling the place -...

"I thought the nation was coming to an end,’ wrote Khushwant Singh, looking back on the violence of Partition that he was witness to over half a century ago. He believed then that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. But after the violence in Gujarat in 2002, he had reason to...

Аудиокнига британского историка Роджера Кроули — это яркое повествование о непримиримой борьбе за контроль над торговлей пряностями в XVI веке. Автор увлекательно рассказывает о том, как амбиции португальских и испанских мореплавателей, в частности Васко да Гамы и Магеллана, а также местных правителей, привели к масштабным столкновениям между главными морскими державами и геополитическим сдвигам. Основная идея книги заключается в том, что именно битва за пряности, казалось бы, не самый важный товар, послужила катализатором становления современной мировой экономической и политической системы.

Dieses packende historische Sachbuch beleuchtet die Teilung Britisch-Indiens und den blutigen Weg zur neuen Nation. Ideal für die tägliche Pendelstrecke oder abendliche Weiterbildung, zieht dich diese tiefgründige Erzählung direkt in die machtpolitischen Ränkespiele und menschlichen...

Diese fesselnde historische Zeitreise durch 5.000 Jahre Kulturgeschichte offenbart die Seele des Subkontinents. Perfekt für das tägliche Pendeln, verwandelt dieses epische Sachbuch komplexe Epochen von den mysteriösen Städten der Induskultur bis zur modernen Nation in ein greifbares...

Découvrez l'histoire poignante de la partition des Indes, où stratégies géopolitiques et destins humains se percutent. Loin des fatalités millénaires, ce récit immersif retrace les véritables décisions politiques et les bouleversements sociaux qui ont fracturé l'Asie du Sud. Que vous...

Plongez dans ce mystère archéologique pour comprendre comment une civilisation urbaine millénaire a totalement disparu. Idéal pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien d'une écoute fascinante, ce récit ressuscite des ruines silencieuses. Laissez-vous transporter dans un monde antique complexe...

Dr Kalam, who was India's 11th president and has been a scientist and a teacher, has written more than 20 books. Ranging from inspirational and spiritual thoughts, to autobiographical reflections, to his vision statements for a developed India, these works bear the imprint of a mind that is deeply reflective. For the first time, some of the most thoughtful, inspiring and educative of these writings have been compiled in one place in The Righteous Life.

In 1947, the Indian subcontinent was partitioned, and Pakistan was born. A shared heritage, a composite culture and centuries-old bonds between people, all seemed to vanish overnight. Nowhere was this rupture more profound than in the Indus Basin—once a unified lifeline of the region, now...

മഹദ്‌വ്യക്തികളുടെ സംഭവഹുലമായ ജീവിതഗാഥകളാണ് ചരിത്രത്തിന്റെ താളുകളില്‍ നിറഞ്ഞുനില്‍ക്കുന്നത്...

A general perception exists that ancient Indian literature on economic matters is fatalistic and an admixture of sacred and secular thoughts. Economic Sutra provides a comprehensive perspective on the elements of Indian economic thought leading up to and after the Arthashastra. Economic Sutra is...

Through nuanced translations of four Urdu narratives spanning the period of turmoil that led to the Revolt of 1857, and culminated in the fall of the Mughal Empire, this compelling volume reveals the tragic and affecting story of a royalty in decline. Vividly documenting the twilight years of not just a historical era but also an entire way of life, these first-hand accounts - gleaned from princes and paupers alike - provide rare insight into how the royals and their subjects experienced life on either side of the cataclysm.