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HAMLAWAR - The Invaders of India

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.

భారతీయ చరిత్రను శాస్త్రీయ దృక్పథంతో జీవం పోసిన ప్రఖ్యాత చరిత్రకారుడు డి.డి.కోశాంబిని పరిచయం చేస్తూ...

The Intersection narrates stories that meld culture, science and history in India. Through interviews, anecdotes and original research, Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian bring alive the rich breadth of human imagination and knowledge, making for a riveting listening experience. The incessant punning - well, that's just a bonus.

Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established. British history from the Hundred Years War onwards gives an impression of how the British were seen. It is a misconception or, more kindly, a British view. Until the 19th century the British did not have an identity readily recognised throughout the world. Even the Elizabethans were never established other than as great individuals. From 1815, an image of Britain as the first superpower was built that would make do until even the 21st century.

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकातील 'शिवजन्म' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती...

14-ാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിന്റെ പൂര്‍വ്വാര്‍ദ്ധത്തില്‍ കേരളം സന്ദര്‍ശിച്ച ലോകപ്രശസ്ത സഞ്ചാരി ഇബ്‌നു ബത്തൂത്തയുടെ...

November 26, 2008. Ten terrorists, armed with guns, grenades, and improvised explosive devices, slip past coastal security cordons on India's western seacoast in a fishing trawler. Over the next three agonizing days, India's "Maximum City" is brought to its knees as the fidayeen wreak unprecedented havoc at pre-selected landmarks. The response to this attack was the first instance of all three wings of the Indian armed forces coming together to fight terror. Black Tornado, as the operation was called by the NSG, is the story of these men called into action.

കേരളത്തിലെ സാമൂഹികചരിത്രത്തിലെ സുപ്രധാന ഏടാണ് വിമോചനസമരം. അത് ദേശീയതലത്തിലും പ്രാദേശികതലത്തിലും നിരവധി...

"Sisters of Mokama is proof that faith and courage does move mountains."—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone The never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be...

1775: British East India Company had won the battles of Plassey and Buxar. Their devastating tax measures and government machinery led to the Great Bengal Famine. Even as the masses struggled for survival, the Company was on a steady path towards maximizing profits and becoming the undisputed rulers of Bengal. Maharaja Nanda Kumar was an influential landowner in Bengal, who had been put in charge for revenue collection by the Company. He stumbled upon the elaborate game of money laundering and corruption with one man behind it all–Warren Hastings.

13 months post independence, after a lot of struggle, Hyderabad became a part of India. The Indian army had to intervene and there was a lot of unrest under the Nizam's rule. The Indian Government had stopped essential goods delivery into the state which led to a famine. This Sahitya Academy...

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable...

ಕಾರ್ಗಿಲ್ ಯುದ್ಧ ನಡೆದು ಇಂದಿಗೆ ಸುಮಾರು 21 ವರ್ಷ ವಾಯಿತು.ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಿಂದ ದೂರದ ಕಾರ್ಗಿಲ್ ಗೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಯುದ್ದದ ಸ್ಥಳ, ಸೈನಿಕರ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ ಎಲ್ಲವನ್ನು ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಕಟ್ಟುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಿದ ರವಿ ಬೆಳೆಗೆರೆ ಅವರ ಯುದ್ಧದ ನೇರ ವರದಿ ಕಾರ್ಗಿಲ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಆ ಹದಿನೇಳು ದಿನಗಳು

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest. He led the Indian National Congress party in three major campaigns against British rule, each culminating in his arrest. 

In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining knowledge of the enemy were crucial to the interests of both sides.

Today, mobile connections are so readily accessible that it is perhaps easy to forget the time when only the elite had access to a phone provided by the sole operator: the Government of India. It all changed in the early 1990s as liberalisation stirred the Indian economy out of its decades of...

This Very Short Introduction looks at Pakistan as one of the two nation-states of the Indian subcontinent that emerged in 1947. Pippa Virdee reaches into the ancient past to demonstrate the influence of trajectories of human settlement and civilization on Pakistan's contemporary political arena, and shows how the longer continuities between the land and its peoples are as important as the short-term changes in the political landscape. She considers Pakistan's religion and society, the state and the military, everyday life, popular culture, languages and literature.

The oldest surviving graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that provide evidence of a peoples' food obsessions; sculptures that reveal facets of the human-animal relationship. In Time Pieces, award-winning historian Nayanjot Lahiri sifts through clues left behind by the early inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent - in plaques and inscriptions, fragments of jewellery, bones and tools, poetry, art and pottery - to reveal to us our ancient land in all its variety, splendour and contradictions.

The sheer volume of commentaries on the Mahabharata is awe-inspiring. So, what is it in the Mahabharata that gives it its timeless magic? Is it the mythical characters with which it is replete that makes the epic so enchanting? Or is it the great wealth of philosophical and metaphysical ideas in it that dazzles its audiences? Or could it be a combination of all these that makes it ever-fascinating to scholars and audiences around the world? And, most of all, what accounts for its incredible effect on the subconscious of millions of Indians through several generations?