Everybody Loves a Good Drought
10 best books like Everybody Loves a Good Drought (P. Sainath): The Discovery of India, In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age, Makers of Modern India, India's Struggle for Independence, Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement, An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions
| Author | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| ISBN | 0143031031 |
In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of subjects....
| Author | Edward Luce |
| ISBN | 0385514743 |
I'll be frank - each part of the book is factual and correct. Yet, it misses the mark as whole. Reading Mr. Luce's biography, I had expected he is a westerner (for want of a better word) who also understands the spirit of what drives India as a nation. After reading his book, I have realized yet again, that...
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian...
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
| Author | Abhijit V. Banerjee |
| ISBN | 1586487981 |
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award
Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations...
| Author | Arthur Llewellyn Basham |
Indian civilization is among the oldest in the world, and what is unique in that respect is that the culture of the peoples still remains largely unchanged, with a strong thread of continuity through the ages.
The Wonder That was India takes a look at the country's history from the time of the...
| Author | Gurcharan Das |
| ISBN | 0385720742 |
India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation's rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history...
| Author | Ramachandra Guha |
| ISBN | 0674052463 |
Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers...
| Author | Bipan Chandra |
| ISBN | 0140107819 |
This is the first major study to examine every one of the varied strands of the epic struggle individually and collectively and present it in a new and coherent narrative and analytical framework. Basing themselves on oral and other primary sources and years of research, the authors take the reader...
| Author | Rahul Pandita |
| ISBN | 9380658346 |
With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms India's biggest internal security...
| Author | Jean Drèze |
| ISBN | 0691160791 |
From two of India's leading economists, Jean Drèze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India, despite economic development.
An...
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
| Author | Sanjeev Sanyal |
| ISBN | 0670086398 |
Did the Great Flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give his first sermon? How did the Europeans map India?
The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the...
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
| Author | Ramachandra Guha |
| ISBN | 0060198818 |
A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have...
