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കേരളചരിത്രത്തെ ഇരുണ്ട കാലത്തു നിന്ന് പുതുവെളിച്ചത്തിലേക്ക് നയിച്ച മഹാ സംഭവങ്ങളെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു. അജ്ഞതയുടെയും അന്ധവിശ്വാസങ്ങളുടെയും അനാചാരങ്ങളുടെയും വിവേചനങ്ങളുടെയും കൂരിരുട്ടില്‍നിന്ന് നാടിനെ മാറ്റിമറിച്ച നവോത്ഥാനത്തിന്റെയും സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യ പ്പോരാട്ടങ്ങളുടെയും പ്രകാശനാളങ്ങളെ ലളിതമായും വസ്തുനിഷ്ഠമായും അവ തരിപ്പിക്കുന്നു.

कलकत्ता के पास बैरकपुर की सैनिक छावनी में 34वीं बंगाल नेटिव इन्फैंट्री की पैदल सेना के सिपाही नंबर 1446 का नाम मंगल पांडे। भारत के पहले स्वातंत्र्य समर की ज्वाला सन् 1857 में उन्हीं के प्रयासों से धधकी। दरअसल 20 मार्च, 1857 को सैनिकों को नए प्रकार के कारतूस दिए गए। उन कारतूसों को मुझेहाँह में दाँतों से दबाकर खोला जाता था। वे गाय और सूअर की चरबी से चिकने किए गए थे, ताकि हिंदू और मुसलिम सैनिक धर्म के प्रति अनुराग छोड़कर धर्मविमुख हों।

An Indien scheiden sich die Geister. Obwohl oder gerade weil kaum jemand im Westen dieses widersprüchliche Land versteht. Zwischen Slums und Prunk, zwischen Yoga und Hightech, zwischen Bollywoodkultur und Kastenwesen ist uns das Land, dessen Bedeutung für die Weltgemeinschaft immer größer wird, ein Rätsel geblieben.

Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into Catrine Jarman's temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings' route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain.

How do Enslaved People Today Win (and Sometimes Lose) their Freedom? A community of rock quarry miners in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India gave their tiny cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. But it hasn't always been identified by that auspicious moniker. The...

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION “Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…This is an important book: an emotional and intellectual tour de force.” —Jane Urquhart An experimental memoir about Partition...

In the last months of the Korean war the US Marines had transitioned into a near stationary force manning the main battle line in a serious of forward outposts. In this position they were under near constant bombardment and engaging in ongoing patrol battles. This book is a study of the outpost war concept through official documents and anecdote.

¿Sabías que en la India hay muchas niñas que no pueden acceder a la educación? ¿O que el 40 % de los matrimonios infantiles se producen en este país? Incluso, con frecuencia, las familias con pocos recursos sienten desilusión y rechazo cuando nace una hija. Durante los más de trece años que Jaume Sanllorente ha dedicado a la lucha pacífica contra la pobreza en Bombay, ha sido testigo de la discriminación que sufren las mujeres en la India.

¿Sabías que en la India hay muchas niñas que no pueden acceder a la educación? ¿O que el 40 % de los matrimonios infantiles se producen en este país? Incluso, con frecuencia, las familias con pocos recursos sienten desilusión y rechazo cuando nace una hija. Durante los más de trece años que Jaume Sanllorente ha dedicado a la lucha pacífica contra la pobreza en Bombay, ha sido testigo de la discriminación que sufren las mujeres en la India.

The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Conceived by Lord Curzon as a strategic move in the Great Game - that colossal struggle between imperial Britain and Tsarist Russia for influence in Central Asia - the incursion was in fact ill-conceived and inspired by only the weakest of motivations.

Legendario hogar de la cultura del valle del Indo y una región histórica por sus rutas comerciales y grandes imperios, el subcontinente indio, uno de los más poblados de la Tierra, es apreciado por su flora y fauna diversa, sus progresos en la economía, y la magia de sus atractivos turísticos.

Shahan Mufti’s family history, which he can trace back 1,400 years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened perspective on the mystifying history of Pakistan. Mufti uses the stories of his ancestors, many of whom served as judges and jurists in Muslim sharia courts of South Asia for many centuries, to reveal the deepest roots - real and imagined - of Islamic civilization in Pakistan.

A chronicle of life on the resplendent island. Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an 18-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island: its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island's southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back.

Il paese che comunemente conosciamo come Birmania ha ripreso il suo antico nome, Myanmar, nel 1990, in corrispondenza con la decisione dei militari al potere di chiudere il paese a ogni influenza straniera. Questo paese magnifico era sembrato uscire in punta di piedi dalla storia mondiale, deciso a custodire la ricchezza e i misteri ancestrali di un intero continente. Fu allora che il Myanmar si trasformò involontariamente in uno dei segreti meglio custoditi del sudest asiatico.

El 28 enero de 1908, una española de 17 años, sentada a lomos de un elefante lujosamente enjaezado, hace su entrada en una pequeña ciudad del norte de la India. El pueblo entero está en la calle rindiendo un cálido homenaje a la nueva princesa de tez tan blanca como las nieves del Himalaya. Podría parecer un cuento de hadas, pero así fue la boda de la andaluza Anita Delgado con el riquísimo maharajá de Kapurthala. Y así empezó una gran historia de amor - y traición - que se desgranó durante casi dos décadas en el corazón de una India a punto de extinguirse.

Having been left for another, Trisha decides that the best way to nurse her broken heart is to escape to India, armed with a copy of the Kama Sutra with its promise to teach her how to seduce a new lover, train a hawk (to carry love letters, of course!), furnish a house seductively, and seduce other women's husbands (well, maybe not that one).

Eelato de un país exótico, insondable y legendario que atrae a viajeros de todas partes del mundo. Para entenderla mejor, nos remontamos a sus primeros pobladores, a la invasión aria, el comienzo del culto a Buda, la entrada de Alejandro Magno y la aparición de los diversos reinos que desde el siglo III a.C dominaron los valles regados por el río Indo, Ganges y Yamuna.

In 1857 in India the "Sepoy" battalions took the opportunity to rise up against British rule. The sepoys were soldiers that were raised and paid for by the British East India Company and used to help maintain control of India for the British Empire. This book relates the events of the mutiny with detailed descriptions of the various battles and sieges of the rebellion.

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'सईबाईसोबत लग्न' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती देणारा लेख. हा लेख ऐकता ऐकता तुम्ही मावळा गेम खेळू शकता.

स्वतंत्रता आंदोलनात संघाचा सहभाग होता परंतु संघानी त्याचे श्रेय घेतले नाही. संघसंस्थापक डॉ. हेडगेवार यांनी स्वातंत्र्य संग्रामात भाग घेण्यासाठी आपल्या डाँक्टरी पेशाचा स्वेच्छेने त्याग केला. डॉ. हेडगेवार यांचा जन्म १ एप्रिल,१८८९ साली नागपूर मध्ये झाला. नागपूर मध्ये १९०४-१९०५ मध्ये स्वातंत्र्य चळवळीचे वारे वाहू लागले. त्या आधी इथे पोषक वातावरण नव्हते. तरी १८९७ साली राणी व्हिक्टोरिया यांच्या राज्यारोहणाच्या हिरक जयंती निमित्त शाळांमध्ये मिठाई वाटप करण्यात आली. आठ वर्षाच्या केशवनी (डॉ हेडगेवार) ती मिठाई न खाता कचऱ्यात फेकून दिली.