Download or read book A Brief History of India written by Alain Daniélou and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniélou's powerful rebuttal to the conventional view of India's history, which calls for a massive reevaluation of the history of humanity • Explores historical occurrences from each major time period starting with the first appearance of man 30,000 years ago • Couples the clarity and perspective of an outsider with the unique and specific knowledge of an insider • By the internationally recognized Hindu scholar and translator of The Complete Kama Sutra (200,000 copies sold) Alain Daniélou approaches the history of India from a new perspective--as a sympathetic outsider, yet one who understands the deepest workings of the culture. Because the history of India covers such a long span of time, rather than try to create an exhaustive chronology of dates and events, Daniélou instead focuses on enduring institutions that remain constant despite the ephemeral historical events that occur. His selections, synthesis, and narration create a thoroughly engaging and readable journey through time, with a level of detail and comprehensiveness that is truly a marvel. Because of the continuity of its civilization, its unique social system, and the tremendous diversity of cultures, races, languages, and religions that exist in its vast territory, India is like a history museum. Its diverse groups maintained their separate identities and never fully supplanted the culture and knowledge of their predecessors. Even today one may encounter in India primitive Stone Age people whose technology has remained at what is considered prehistoric levels. Thus Daniélou's examination of India reveals not only the diversity and historical events and trends of that country, but also the history of all mankind. Through Daniélou's history of India we learn from whence we came, what we have discovered over the years in the fields of science, arts, technology, social structures, religions, and philosophical concepts, and what the future may hold for us.
Download or read book India A Short History written by Andrew Robinson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day India has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices and textiles, paid for in gold—hence the enormous numbers of Roman gold coins excavated in India. At the height of the Mughal empire in 1700, India boasted 24 percent of the world economy—a share virtually equal to Europe’s 25 percent. But then its economy declined. Colonial India was known for its extremes of wealth and poverty, epitomized by the Taj Mahal and famines, maharajas and untouchables, and also for its spirituality: many-armed Hindu gods and Buddhist philosophy, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. India: A Short History places as much emphasis on individuals, ideas and cultures as on the rise and fall of kingdoms, political parties and economies. Anyone curious about a great civilization, and its future, will find this an ideal introduction, at times controversial, written by an author who has been strongly engaged with India for more than three decades.
Download or read book A Short History of India written by Hara Prasad Shastri and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Malevolent Republic written by K.S. (Kapil Satish) Komireddi and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru’s diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism. India, the first major democracy to fall to demagogic populism in the twenty-first century, is racing to a point of no return. Since 2014, the ruling BJP has unleashed forces that are irreversibly transforming the country. Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism. Bigotry has been ennobled as a healthy form of self-assertion. Anti Muslim vitriol has deluged the mainstream. Religious minorities live in terror of a vengeful majority. Congress now mimics Modi; other parties pray for a miracle. In this highly acclaimed critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Narendra Modi, revised and expanded with a new chapter, K.S. Komireddi charts the dismaying course of the world’s largest democracy. He argues that the missteps of the nation’s founders, the mistakes of Nehru, the betrayals of his daughter and her sons, the anti-democratic fetish for technocracy carried to extremes by Manmohan Singh—all of them prepared the way for Modi’s march to absolute power. If secularists fail to wrest the republic from Hindu supremacists, Komireddi argues, India may go the way of Yugoslavia and collapse under the burden of sinister ethno-religious nationalism. A gripping short history of modern India, Malevolent Republic is also a passionate plea for India’s reclamation.
Download or read book A Brief History of India written by Judith E. Walsh and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly 1 billion citizens, India is the second most populous nation in the world. Its conflict with Pakistan over Kashmir and tensions between the many ethnic groups that populate India today find frequent mention in Weste.
Download or read book A Short History of India from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Ernest Binfield Havell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of India and Pakistan written by Thomas Walter Wallbank and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1951 under title: India in the new era.
Download or read book A Concise History of Modern India written by Barbara D. Metcalf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals, through the British Empire, and into Independence, the country has been transformed by its institutional structures. It is these institutions which have helped bring about the social, cultural and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century and paved the way for the modern success story. Despite these advances, poverty, social inequality and religious division still fester. In response to these dilemmas, the book grapples with questions of caste and religious identity, and the nature of the Indian nation.
Download or read book A Short History of India written by William Harrison Moreland and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of India written by W. H. Moreland and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of the Indian People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Tara Chand and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Short History of the East India Company written by Francis Russell and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Republic of India written by Alan Gledhill and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of India written by Abdullah Yusuf Ali and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SHORT HIST OF INDIA CLASSIC R written by Hara Prasad Sastri and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of India India is inhabited by various races, who entered the country at different periods Of time and from different directions. The black Dravidians, inhabiting the Deccan and Southern India, came from the east at some early period long before the begin ning of history. The Mongolians, inhabiting the north-eastern corners Of India, came from Mongolia and China through Tibet and the south-eastern provinces of the Chinese empire. Aryans - The Aryans, who form the vast majority Of the in uential classes, entered India from the west, at a time esti mated at from 4000 b.c. To 1500 The Shemitic races came in the train Of Muhammadan conquest from the west. From beyond the north-western corner Of India, at various periods of Indian history, there came men Of various races. None of these was very numerous. Those who came first have merged into the Aryan population, but those who came later can still be traced as distinct. And, last of all, within the last four hundred years, came the Aryan races from Europe by sea. In the beginning, commerce was their great Object but they all strove for supremacy by sea and by land. None, however, achieved so marked a success as the British. Dravidians. - Oi the history Of the Dravidian races we know almost nothing. Scholars think that they were the earliest settlers in India. The vast majority have adopted Aryan civilization, and the rest are still to be found everywhere in hills and jungles in Central and Southern India. But they seem to have had their last kingdoms in the extreme south of India, in the Pandya and Kerala countries, where property descends not to the son but to the daughter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book A Short History of India written by Hara Prasad Shastri and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
