The Discovery of India
10 best books like The Discovery of India (Jawaharlal Nehru): In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, Freedom at Midnight, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, India: A History, Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi, The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims, A History of India, Vol. 1: From Origins to 1300, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age, Makers of Modern India, Nehru: The Invention of India
| 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...
| Author | Larry Collins |
| ISBN | 8125904808 |
Oh goody, yet another book written through colonial tinted glasses.
It's a well written, easy reading book so I can see why it's so popular, and if it was labelled fictional, I'd give it four stars, for fictional it is, speaking of a world where the British Raj and it's leaders brought civilization...
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...
| Author | John Keay |
| ISBN | 0802137970 |
John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South Asian history, from the first Harrapan settlements on the banks of the Indus River to the recent nuclear-arms race. In a tour de force of narrative history, Keay blends together insights from a variety...
On the morning of October 31, 1984, as she walked through her garden, smiling, with hands raised and palms pressed together in the traditional Indian namaste greeting, Indira Nehru Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards. She died as she had lived, surrounded by men, yet isolated. It was a violent...
| 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 | Romila Thapar |
| ISBN | 0140138358 |
A full account of Indian history from the establishment of Aryan culture to the coming of the Mughals in 1526 A.D. This work brings to life thousands of years of history, tracing India's evolution before contact with modern Europe was established: its prehistoric beginnings; the great cities 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 | Shashi Tharoor |
| ISBN | 1559707372 |
A very very biased biography trying to paint the character of Nehru with the whitest and brightest colours. From the very first chapter, you can see the author's support to the centre-left Indian national Congress. And at certain stages it's hypocritic as well. For example, motilal is shown to be...
| Author | Nandan Nilekani |
| ISBN | 1594202044 |
A visionary look at the evolution and future of India by a preeminent business leader
India's recent economic boom—similar in scope to that of the United States during the early 1990s or Europe's during the 1970s—has triggered tremendous social, political, and cultural change. The...
Sunil Khilnani’s exciting book addresses the paradoxes and ironies that have surrounded the project of inventing India—a project that has brought Indians considerable political freedom and carried their enormous democracy to the verge of being Asia’s greatest free state but that has also...
| Author | P. Sainath |
| ISBN | 0140259848 |
The human face of poverty
The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer...
A definitive, analytical and meticulous account of the present state of the nation – from a constitutional perspective – by one of India’s most respected legal luminaries.
An ardent defender of the Constitution of India, Fali Nariman has today attained the status of an outstanding...
| 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 | Yasmin Khan |
| ISBN | 0300120788 |
The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom—through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Instead, the geographical divide brought displacement and death, and it benefited the few at the expense...
| Author | Granville Austin |
| ISBN | 0195648889 |
A mammoth effort it must have taken to write this. Austin’s book is a must read for anyone who would like the question answered- how is India still on track? How did we not disintegrate as a nation into tiny bits in the face of challenges every decade since independence? What keeps the country going, keeping...
| 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...
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| Author | Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni |
أهم وأوسع كتاب وصلنا في وصف عقائد الهندوسيين، وشرائعهم وعاداتهم في أنكحتهم وأطعمتهم وأعيادهم، ونظم حياتهم، وخصائص لغتهم. ورأى فيه بروكلمان (أهم ما أنتجه...
