The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
10 best books like The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Yasmin Khan): The Discovery of India, Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, India: A History, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, 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, Pakistan: A Hard Country, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle
| 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....
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
| Author | Alex von Tunzelmann |
| ISBN | 0743285883 |
Tunzelmann has concocted a very readable and balanced history of the last days of Empire. Tunzelmann avoids demonizing any sect, individual or nation and shows the circuitous routes through which every decision was squeezed out, many tragedies averted and many more inadvertently precipitated....
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...
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost...
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 | Anatol Lieven |
| ISBN | 1610390210 |
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their...
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...
Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle
| Author | Mark Tully |
| ISBN | 0836428269 |
Mark Tully and Satish Jacob , who ran the BBC's bureau in Delhi, here trace the long build-up to the storming the Sikh stronghold, the shifts of power within the Sikh community and effort of central government both to utilize and control them. The book captures rise of Bhindranwale whose extremism played...
