India category: 2353 books
by Halidé Edib, Mushirul Hasan
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
First published in 1937, this book presents the author's personal account of India. The author, a Turkish writer and novelist, visited the region in 1935 and gained insights into the history and sociology of the country. Based on her experiences, Halidé Edib documents significant contemporary events...
India's Partition
The Story of Imperialism in Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
Based on new source material available in both England and India, India's Partition examines the partition in the context of the retreat of the British Empire. The freeing of India from British rule was the result of internal forces in both countries, while the split of the subcontinent along religious...
Speaking of India
Bridging the Communication Gap When Working with Indians
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
"Storti's cultural observations about India are spot on." - Ranjini Manian, CEO, Global Adjustments and author of Doing Business in India for Dummies
Westerners and Indians are working more closely together and in greater numbers than ever before. The opportunities are vast, but so...
Picturing India
People, Places, and the World of the East India Company
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the Company in Indian life. And they mirror significant...
Bread and the Ballot
The United States and India's Economic Development, 1947-1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Dennis Merrill examines the origins and implementation of U.S. economic assistance programs in India from independence in 1947 to the height of John F. Kennedy's "development decade" in 1963. As the Cold War spread to the Third World in the late 1940s and 1950s, American policymakers tried...
by Kumkum Roy
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
India's history and culture is ancient and dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization. Beginning with a mysterious culture along the Indus River and in farming communities in the southern lands of India, the history of India is punctuated by constant integration with migrating peoples...
by Richard Connerney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
India's future will be determined not only by economic development, but also by a dynamic traditional culture that continues to develop along its own lines sometimes in concert, and sometimes in conflict with material enrichment.India develops not, as one writer has suggested, in spite...
Archiving the British Raj
History of the Archival Policy of the Government of India, with Selected Documents, 1858–1947
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the path that led to the creation of a central archive in India, from the setting up of the Imperial Record Department, the precursor of the National...
by Sara Dickey
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in...
India and the Patent Wars
Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-income countries seize agency and exert influence over these processes. Murphy Halliburton contributes...
India and Pakistan
Neighbours at Odds
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The book is based on archival material accessed for the first time from the Nehru Papers and the archives of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. It provides readers with a new perspective on a great many significant issues of the sub-continent's India–Pakistan discourse.
The Partition...
by Rita Kothari
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Unlike most partition narratives, the narratives of the Sindhis is not marked by violence and bloodshed. The Hindus of Sindh came to India by ship, camel and train, and were unharmed most of the time. The Burden of Refuge is about Partition, and the resettlement and fragmentation of the Sindhi Hindus...
by Giorgio Manganelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Manganelli è inquieto, sull’aereo che lo porta per la prima volta verso l’India, questa «casa madre dell’Assoluto» – inquieto come tutti noi, perché l’India è stata e continua a essere lo shock per eccellenza, fisico e metafisico. Perciò chiamerà queste pagine «esperimento con l’India»:...
by Javed Majeed
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed examination of the Survey. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. By focusing on...