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अविनाश धर्माधिकारी यांनी आपल्या रसाळ शैलीत सांगितलेला आधुनिक भारताचा...

अविनाश धर्माधिकारी यांनी आपल्या रसाळ शैलीत सांगितलेला आधुनिक भारताचा इतिहास

अविनाश धर्माधिकारी यांनी आपल्या रसाळ शैलीत सांगितलेला आधुनिक भारताचा...

Sara Archer's future as the dutiful wife of a British official in India seems assured, until a chance meeting with the gorgeous and powerful Ravi Sabran changes everything. Under the heat of the Indian sun, the veneer of polite society wears off quickly and soon Sara realises that nothing is as it appears to be, especially her husband, Charles. But in the beautiful jasmine gardens of the Maharajah's palace, Sara follows a forbidden path away from her bullying husband, towards Ravi and the long-buried secrets of her own birth.

‘A tour de force of luminous writing.’ Mark Cocker, Spectator ‘In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The Frozen River is his extraordinary account of the time he spent there...

Hicky's Bengal Gazette is the story of India's first newspaper and its pivotal role in exposing the corruption of the British imperialist project. The story opens in late-eighteenth century Calcutta. The British are well-ensconced in Bengal, but the Raj has yet to emerge. Irishman, James August Hicky, arrives in Calcutta as a surgeon's mate, seeking his fame and fortune. He soon finds himself in debtors' prison, however, and it's while in jail that he first acquires the printing press that sets him on a collision course with the British East India Company.

تعد الحضارة الهندية من أقدم الحضارات الأصيلة الحية في آسيا والتي أثبتت قدرة فائقة على الاستمرار وتجديد نفسها في مواجهة التحديات. وللحضارة الهندية سمة مميزة شأنها...

സാമ്രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ ഉയരും, തളരും, വീഴും. റോമന്‍, ഓട്ടോമാന്‍, ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് എന്നിങ്ങനെ ചരിത്രം ഈ ക്രമത്തിന് സാക്ഷ്യം വഹിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആ സാമ്രാജ്യങ്ങളെല്ലാം തലകീഴായി മറിച്ചിടപ്പെട്ടു, നമ്മള്‍ ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചില്ലെങ്കില്‍ അടുത്തത് അമേരിക്കയായിരിക്കും! ഇന്നത്തെ മിക്ക എന്‍റര്‍പ്രൈസുകളും ഒരു പറ്റം ഫൈനാന്‍ഷ്യല്‍ എന്‍ജിനീയറിംഗ് തവളകളാണ്, അവയാകട്ടെ സദാ കടത്തില്‍ മുങ്ങി ചൂടേറിയ പാമ്പെണ്ണയില്‍ നീന്തിത്തുടിക്കാന്‍ വെമ്പുന്നവയും. നിര്‍ഭാഗ്യവശാല്‍, അവയില്‍ പലതും ഐപി (ബൗദ്ധികസ്വത്ത്) കഴുകന്മാരുടെ പിടിയിലകപ്പെട്ട് ചാകും.

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The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth. Over the course of just a...

WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021 ‘Helps re-centre how we look at the world’ PETER FRANKOPAN ‘Global history at its finest’ SUNIL AMRITH ‘A master...

From 1931 to 1953, there was a race like no other. It was a race to the top of the world - a race primarily between Great Britain, Nazi Germany and the United States. Carried on across nearly the entire sweep of the Himalayas, it involved not only the greatest mountain climbers of the era, but statesmen and millionaires, world-class athletes and bona fide eccentrics, scientists and generals, obscure villagers and national heroes.

On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated. With millions of others, Marina Wheeler's mother Dip Singh and her Sikh family were forced to flee their home in the Punjab, never to return...

Autumn 1928. The Kaiser-i-Hind is en route to Bombay. In Cabin D38, Viva Holloway, an inexperienced chaperone, is beginning to feel as though she's made a mistake. Her advert in The Lady has resulted in three unsettling young charges to be escorted to India. Rose, a beautiful, dangerously naive English girl, is about to be married to the cavalry officer she has met a handful of times. Victoria, her bridesmaid, is determined to lose her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own.