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  • Grit and Gold

    by Gayatri Chandrashekar ...
    India is estimated to have 9% of the global gold reserves spread over 100 places across its land mass. Southern Indias Deccan region has indeed been identified as one of the areas with the richest deposits and this has been proved by the documented history of past mining here. Mining activities can contribute greatly to the growth of the industrial sector, but India is yet to realise the mining ... Read more

    ₹199.42

  • My Experiments with Truth

    An Autobiography

    by M.K. Gandhi ...
    Series series POPULAR LIFE STORIES
    "It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography."The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, is a very popular and influential book. It covers the period from his ... Read more

    ₹263.36

  • The High-Caste Hindu Woman

    by Pandita Ramabai, Mint Editions ...
    Series series Mint Editions (Voices From API)
    The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1887) is a work of political nonfiction by Pandita Ramabai. Written for an American audience, The High-Caste Hindu Woman was published in Philadelphia while Ramabai was living in the United States as a lecturer for the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Born and raised in India, Ramabai converted to Christianity and dedicated her life to advocating on behalf of ... Read more

    ₹521.08 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • India: An Archaeological History

    Palaeolithic Beginnings to Early Historic Foundations

    by Dilip K. Chakrabarty ...
    This book charts the flow of India's grass-roots archaeological history in all its continuities and diversities from its Palaeolithic beginnings to AD 300. The second edition includes a new afterword which discusses all new ideas and discoveries in Indian archaeology in the past one decade. ... Read more

    ₹656.08

  • My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills

    by James Johnstone ...
    The author describes his experiences residing in India, during British colonial rule, training native soldiers to defend the British Empire in India during various military conflicts along the northern border. ... Read more

    ₹432.73 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 565

    The Dramatic Story of Unifying India

    by Mallika Ravikumar ...
    Only two months to freedom.A jigsaw of around 565* princely states.At the stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947, India could emerge as a united nation.Or disintegrate into several pieces.On 3 June 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, makes a historic announcement. After two centuries of being a colony, India would finally become an independent nation on 15 August 1947.Yet there is no ... Read more

    ₹551.64

  • The Anarchy

    The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

    by William Dalrymple ...
    THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF ... ... Read more

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  • Modern India (1904)

    by William Eleroy Curtis ...
    Account of travel experiences, first published in 1904. "The book begins: "A voyage to India nowadays is a continuous social event. The passengers compose a house party, being guests of the Steamship company for the time. The decks of the steamer are like broad verandas and are covered with comfortable chairs, in which the owners lounge about all day. Some of the more industrious women knit and ... Read more

    ₹101.30 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana (Mobi Classics)

    by Vatsyayana ...
    The Kama Sutra (alternative spellings: Kamasutram or simply Kamasutra), is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sex. Kama means sensual or sexual pleasure, and sutra are the guidlines of yoga, the word itself means thread in ... Read more

    ₹101.30 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • India: A History

    by John Keay ...
    The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.India’s history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral ... Read more

    ₹313.16

  • The Argumentative Indian

    Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

    by Amartya Sen ...
    India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition.The ... Read more

    ₹425.26

  • The Catastrophic Blunders of Nehru

    by Edwin de Shawn ...
    The second book on history where the reader is the judge and decides the historical narrative. You can can see all the evidence and make your own call.This book is a sweeping historical analysis of Nehru and his actions. The interplay of the other protagonists of the Indian freedom struggle - Gandhi, Jinnah, Ambedkar, Patel, the Congress, the Muslim League and the British Raj is also discussed. It ... Read more

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  • Hindu Pluralism

    Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India

    by Elaine M. Fisher ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the ... Read more

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  • The History of Doing

    An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990

    by Radha Kumar ...
    A thematic history of the women’s movement in India both before and after independence, this book covers the period from the nineteenth century to the present day. It looks at how women’ s issues were raised, initially by men and as part of the movements for social reform, and then with the involvement of women in the nationalist movement, by women themselves. Using photographs, old and new ... Read more

    ₹396.23

  • Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory

    Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court

    by Valerie Stoker ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.How did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the ... Read more

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  • The India Pakistan War of 1965

    by S N Prasad, U P Thapliyal ...
    For the first time, the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, has made public the official records of the 1965 war with Pakistan. This book provides the detailed military history as per military records maintained by the History Division of the MoD. ... Read more

    ₹869.79

  • Paradise on Fire

    Syed Ali Geelani and the Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir

    by Abdul Hakeem ...
    Paradise on Fire is the story of the struggle for national liberation of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, spearheaded by Syed Ali Shah Geelani. This political biography of Kashmir’s leading freedom fighter reveals the true horror of the Kashmir dispute, the dynamics of this historical struggle for self-determination, and Geelani’s huge contribution in leading this search for liberation. ... Read more

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  • In Xanadu: A Quest (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the ... Read more

    ₹337.47

  • Greek and Roman Accounts of India

    by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder & Strabo ...
    Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced is a record of his investigation of the origins ... Read more

    ₹101.30

  • My Experiments with Truth

    by Digital Fire, MK Gandhi ...
    My Experiments with Truth' recounts Gandhiji's journey from being Mohandas to becoming the Mahatma and also recollects the various incidents that lead him to develop the ideology of Ahimsa. Starting with his days as a boy, Gandhi takes one through his trials and turmoils and situations that moulded his philosophy of life; going through child marriage, his studies in England, practicing Law in ... Read more

    ₹99.00

  • The Srimad Devi Bhagavatam

    by Swami Vijñanananda ...
    The Sri Mad Devi Bhagavatamtr. by Swami Vijñanananda"The S'rimad Devi Bhagawatam translated by Swami Vijnanananda (Hari Prasanna Chatterji). This is one of the Upapuranas, devoted to the Devi (Goddess)."What the Srimad Bhagavat is to the Vaisnavas, the Devi Bhagavatam is to the Sakatas. The question of the priority of the two Bhagavatas has been often discussed more in the spirit of partisans ... Read more

    ₹305.96

  • The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in ‘City of Djinns’, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India’s first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and ... Read more

    ₹371.45

  • The Educational Heritage of Ancient India

    How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste

    by Sahana Singh ...
    Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth, where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced education. This illustrated book describes how these multi-disciplinary centers of learning existed in several forms such as forest universities, brick-and-mortar universities and temple universities.It examines the funding for these ... Read more

    ₹118.00

  • Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

    by Katherine Frank ...
    The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)Indira Gandhi’s life, from her birth in 1917, through partition and up to her assassination in 1984, was dominated by the politics of her country. Always directly involved in India’s turbulent twentieth-century history, once she ... Read more

    ₹313.16