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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...

For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism. “Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken...

The Bharatiya Janata Party is an idea that was seeded into the minds of nationalist Jana Sangh leaders when they began to envision India after Independence. Much like the very core the freedom struggle was built on, they saw India as a demographically, culturally and historically cohesive and...

Historian Sunil Khilnani, Professor of History and Politics at Ashoka University, takes listeners on an immersive, whirlwind journey from ancient India to the 21st century through the life stories of 50 remarkable individuals, exploring their surprising legacies and illuminating both the wonders and the urgent conflicts of India today.

This podcast offers detailed information about widely celebrated festivals in India. Time to celebrate India, knowing the facts about the festivals of India.

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...

My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions is the life story of India's 11th President, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, who started off as an insignificant little boy Rameswaram, but ended up becoming the president of the country, besides being a brilliant scientist as well. The book portrays the struggle that Dr. Kalam had to endure, as he climbed the ladder of success in life.

"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...

Bharat ki Aanshik ghulami ko yun to 900 baras ho chuke the lekin ye 90 barson tak saat samandar paar se aaye Angrezon ke khilaaf lagatar chali Azaadi Ki Jung ne sab kuch badalkar rakh diya.

21 riveting stories from the battlefield about how India's highest military honour was won The Brave takes you to the hearts and minds of India's bravest soldiers, all of whom won the Param Vir Chakra, India's greatest military honour. With access to the Army, families and comrades-in-arms of...

For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on US society “A moving personal story and a useful educational examination of persistent discrimination”—Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Sahitya Akademi...

भारताच्या इतिहासात महात्मा गांधीची हत्या ही एक जगाला हादरवून टाकणारी घटना होती. या घटनेचा संपूर्ण लेखाजोखा मांडणारी प्रशांत दळवी लिखित मी नथूराम गोडसे बोलतोय ही अंतर्मूख करणारी नाट्यकृती ...

સરદાર, સિર્ફ નામ હી કાફી હૈ..... સરદાર વલ્લભભાઈ પટેલનું નામ અને કામ ગુજરાત માટે અજાણ્યું નથી, અને ભારત રાષ્ટ્ર તો આજીવન એમનું ઋણી છે. એમણે રજવાડાનું એકીકરણ કરવાનો ભગીરથ પડકાર ઉપાડ્યો. એમણે દેશને એક સંવિધાન મળે એ માટે પ્રયોસો શરૂ કર્યા અને વહીવટીતંત્રની કરોડરજ્જૂ જેવી સ્વદેશી સિવિલ સર્વિસ બનાવી. આશિષ્ઠ, દ્રઢિષ્ઠ, બલિષ્ઠ ના યુવા લક્ષણો સરદારસાહેબમાં હતા. Hopefull, Firm, Strong ત્વરિત નિર્ણયશક્તિ અને કડવો પણ ગુણકારી લીમડાં જેવો સ્પષ્ટ વાસ્તવવાદ. સરદારસાહેબ તો ગયા, પણ આપણે નવા સરદાર પેદા કેવી રીતે કરીશું ? કેમ ઘડાય સરદાર જેવું અસરદાર અને જોરદાર વ્યક્તિત્વ ?

On 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India was adopted formally and came into effect. Its preamble set out in brief the enlightened values it enshrined and hoped to engender. In a radical shift from mainstream constitutional history, this book establishes Dr B.R. Ambedkar's irrefutable...

In a rare attempt to understand the Indianness of Indians-among the most intelligent people in the world, but also, to a dispassionate eye, perhaps the most baffling-V. Raghunathan uses the props of game theory and behavioral economics to provide an insight into the difficult conundrum...

గతం మరచిన జాతికి భవిష్యత్తు చీకటి. మనం ఎవరమో , ఎప్పుడు ఎక్కడ బయలుదేరామో..బతుకుదారిలో ఎలాంటి కష్టాలు పడ్డామో.. ఏ గొప్పలు చూశామో, ఏ తప్పులు చేశామో తెలిస్తే తప్ప గత కాలం గురించి సరైన అవగాహన కలగదు. గతం తెలియనిదే వర్తమానం అర్దం కాదు. భవిష్యత్తుకు దారీ దొరకదు. దారిదీపం కావలసిన భారత చరిత్ర విదేశీయుల చేతుల్లో అష్తావక్రంగా ఎలా తయారైందో..

സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യത്തിനുവേണ്ടിയുള്ള ചെറുത്തു നില്പുകളില്‍ ഏറ്റവും പഴക്കമവകാശപ്പെടുവാനാവുന്ന കേരളം ദേശീയ നേതാക്കന്മാരുടെ കീഴില്‍ ദേശീയപ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങളോട് അണിചേര്‍ന്നു പ്രവര്‍ത്തിച്ചതിന്റെ കഥ. ആദ്യകാല ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് ആധിപത്യംമുതല്‍ വൈക്കം സത്യ ഗ്രഹം, കേരളത്തിലെ ഉപ്പുസത്യഗ്രഹം, നിഹകരണപ്രസ്ഥാനം എന്നിങ്ങനെ കേരളസംസ്ഥാനം രൂപംകൊണ്ടതുവരെയുള്ള രാഷ്ട്രീയ വിമോചനചരിത്രം. സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യത്തെ കേന്ദ്രമാക്കി ഇന്ത്യാചരിത്രം പ്രതിപാദിക്കുന്ന പുസ്തകപരമ്പരയില്‍ മലയാളികള്‍ക്ക് വിസ്മരിക്കാനാകാത്ത ചരിത്രം.

ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯಪೂರ್ವ ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಲೆಸಿರುವ 'ನಮ್ಮ ಊರಿನ ರಸಿಕರು' ಒಂದು ಅದ್ಭುತ ಪುಸ್ತಕ. ಇದು ರಾಜಕೀಯ, ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳು, ಶೋಷಣೆ, ಜಾತೀಯತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನದನ್ನು ಪರಿಶೋಧಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.

Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's protégé and the political leader of India, believed that Indians were an inherently nonviolent, peaceful people. Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was a secular lawyer, not a firebrand.

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.