Download or read book Great Women Of India written by Nimeran Sahukar and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presented here are some intriguing life stories of outstanding women who have brought about commendable changes by their determination and their will power. In this series, you will find people as different as politicians, reformers, revolutionaries and artists – women whose lives have left an indelible imprint on our world. Table of Content.. 01. The Formative Years 02. A New Home for Annie 03. Finding her Soulmate 04. Loosing Faith in God 05. Changing Priorities 06. Summons from the Court 07. Setting Sail for India 08. Fighting for a Cause 09. Reaching out to People 10. Social Activities 11. The Retreat"
Download or read book Great Women of Modern India Vija ya Lakshmi Pandit written by Verinder Grover and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scope of Happiness written by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scope of Happiness is the autobiography of an outstanding world figure who was the sister, confidante, and lifelong political associate of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and the aunt of Indira Gandhi. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit participated in the Indian national struggle for freedom from its inception and was imprisoned three times. In this very personal view of the struggle for independence, she gives an evocative picture of the cultured and protected world in which she grew up in Anand Bhavan in Allahabad, conveying even the textures, aromas and sounds of her childhood home. She offers an unprecedented picture of life in India under British rule, with its rigorous restrictions and racial bigotry. A compelling strength of this book is the intimate picture the author draws of many great figures: the searching and affectionate view of her brother, the insight into her niece Indira, a personal record of Mahatma Gandhi that no one else could give--and penetrating and entertaining anecdotes of world figures such as Krishna Menon, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Chester Bowles, Dag Hammarskjold, Eleanor Roosevelt, President Tito and Prince Charles. No other living individual could draw the sweeping historical picture that Mrs Pandit has given us in her memoir, making it a book of rare significance that will speak lastingly for generations to come.
Download or read book Great Women of Modern India Sarojini Naidu written by Verinder Grover and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prison Days written by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The author of this absorbing book was, where India is concerned, truly present at the Creation...I urge her book on everyone who lived in those great years and on all those who want to know more about them.' --John Kenneth Galbraith When Mahatma Gandhi gave the call for the nation to join in the freedom struggle, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit threw herself wholeheartedly into the Movement, along with her father, Motilal Nehru, brother Jawaharlal, and husband, Ranjit Sitaram Pandit. Prison Days is an account of her third and final term in Naini Central Jail in Allahabad. She was arrested on 12 August 1942. World War II was on, the country was under military rule and arrest and imprisonment took place without trial. Several lorries filled with armed policemen arrived that night at Anand Bhawan to arrest one lone, unarmed woman. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was soon joined in jail by her 25-year-old niece, Indira Gandhi. In this diary, Pandit recounts her experiences in jail and the hardships she endured along with others who had joined the fight for freedom: rations mixed with dirt and stones, a lack of water and sanitary facilities, surviving on an allowance of 9 annas a day, and only the hard ground to sleep on. Though it is more the personal, day-to-day details of her life that fill Pandit's jail diary, it is the politics of the day--the overarching desire to throw off the shackles of British rule and Mahatma Gandhi's unique approach of non-violence and non-cooperation to achieve this, that define the book. It is this that gives Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her fellow prisoners the courage to carry on the fight with unbroken spirits--and at the stroke of the midnight hour on 15 August 1947, victory was theirs. India was reborn as an independent nation.
Download or read book Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India written by Mytheli Sreenivas and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.
Download or read book Indian Women and Nationalism the U P Story written by Visalakshi Menon and published by Har-Anand Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Traces The Engagement Of Women With Nationalism In A Relatively Lesser Known Region The United Provinces Or Uttar Pradesh As It Is Known Today.
Download or read book India s Founding Moment written by Madhav Khosla and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Economist Best Book of the Year How India’s Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule. Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge. Madhav Khosla explores the means India’s founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the British insisted. Rather, it rested on the creation of a self-sustaining politics. The makers of the Indian Constitution instituted universal suffrage amid poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. They crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian Constitution—the longest in the world—came into effect. More than half of the world’s constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Unlike the constitutional revolutions of the late eighteenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries characterized by low levels of economic growth and education, where voting populations are deeply divided by race, religion, and ethnicity. And these countries have democratized at once, not gradually. The events and ideas of India’s Founding Moment offer a natural reference point for these nations where democracy and constitutionalism have arrived simultaneously, and they remind us of the promise and challenge of self-rule today.
Download or read book Women in Modern India written by Geraldine Forbes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed women's lives enabling them to take part in public life. Through their own accounts of their lives and activities, she documents the formation of their organisations, their participation in the struggle for freedom, their role in the colonial economy and the development of the women's movement in India since 1947.
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Download or read book Caricaturing Culture in India written by Ritu Gairola Khanduri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original study of newspaper cartoons throughout India's history and culture, and their significance for the world today.
Download or read book My Daughters Mum Part 1 written by Natasha Badhwar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Daughters’ Mum—a first in a series of two essay collections—covers a range of essential subjects, from parenting and marriage, to faith and selfhood. Knitting together a popular column in Mint Lounge, new writing and priceless handcrafted dialogues, the author describes her journey as the mother of three young daughters; as the wife of a man from a religious background unlike her own; and as an individual with dreams detached from the roles of wife and mother—here’s a wanderer, a feminist, a workplace goer. Yet beyond the searingly personal, this is a memoir that tells us about an India that is fast transforming and where questions of identity and personal freedom are in dialogue with ideas of nationality. The candidness of the author’s voice, the gentle humour of fleeting narrative and the fragility of diary entries, photographs, collages and sketches will make My Daughters’ Mum resonate with every reader.
Download or read book India and the Cold War written by Manu Bhagavan and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors draw on a wide array of new material, from recently opened archival sources to literature and film, and meld approaches from diplomatic history to development studies to explain the choices India made and to frame the decisions by its policymakers. Together, the essays demonstrate how India became a powerful symbol of decolonization and an advocate of non-alignment, disarmament and global governance as it stood between the United States and the Soviet Union, actively fostering dialogue and attempting to forge friendships without entering into formal alliances. Sweeping in its scope yet nuanced in its analysis, this is the authoritative account of India and the Cold War.
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Download or read book Citizens of Everywhere written by Rosalind Parr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizens of Everywhere traces the international careers of a cohort of extraordinary Indian women leaders during the final decades of colonial rule. Working in pursuit of the dual goals of Indian independence and women's rights, the women featured in this book established productive transnational connections to gain influence on the world stage, all against the backdrop of momentous events in India and beyond. In doing so, they contributed a distinct set of ideas to global conversations about rights and citizenship. By bringing this transnational activism to light, the author offers new perspectives on Indian nationalism. More broadly the book establishes Indian women as actors in the global histories of women's rights and international movements during the era of decolonisation.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in Today s World written by Mary Zeiss Stange and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 2017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.
Download or read book Speeches of Mother Teresa Other Women Leaders written by Ritu Chauhan and published by Mind Melodies. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speeches, if presented properly and supported with strength and conviction, still hold the sway as they did when they were delivered. It is all the more important if they were given by some great persons. They not only provide deep insight into their life and personality, but also shed substantial light on the contemporary socio-political and economic conditions. This book compiles together speeches of 20 prominent women leaders of the world. They include Mother Teresa, Annie Besant, Sarojini Naidu, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth-I, Sister Nivedita, Vijay Lakshmi Pandit, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Maria Montessori, Marie Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Pearl S. Buck, Helen Keller, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth and Eleanor Roosevelt.
