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026339
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Gurugram, Penguin Random House India, 2022.
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xxiii, 271pBrown spine
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At the time of Independence, few believed that a country made up of British provinces and over 500 princely states could survive as a nation, even for a few years. That a land stripped of its riches, wracked by disease and famine, and divided along tense communal lines could thrive in its aspirations. Yet, in the 75 years since Independence, India has grown beyond anyone’s expectation.
How did India get this far? What were the sweeping social, political, scientific, technological, military, environmental and economic developments it witnessed along the way? Interspersed with personal anecdotes, illustrations, infographics, informative timelines and quotes, After Midnight revels in the diverse ideas that have come to shape India and offers a multifaceted context to the present. In many ways, this is one of the greatest underdog-beating-the-odds stories in world history, full of blood, sweat, tragedy and triumph.
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9780143458760 Pb.
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007762
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Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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421pYellow Spine
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The New Cambridge History of India
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Explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to so-called 'caste society' over a period of 350 years, from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century.
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Map 1: The break-up of the Mughal empire, c.1766
Map 2: British India, 1858-1947
Map 3: India after Independence, 1956-1987
Historical origins of a 'caste society'
The 'Brahman Raj': kings and service people c.1700-1830
Western 'orientalists' and the colonial perception of caste
Caste and the modern nation: incubus or essence?
The everyday experience of caste in colonial India
Caste debate and the emergence of Gandhian nationalism
State policy and 'reservation': the politicisation of caste-based social welfare schemes
Caste in the everyday life of independent India
'Caste wars' and the mandate of violence
Conclusion
Glossary
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0521678617 Pb.
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| 008155 | 305.5122/BAY | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016769
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Chennai, Tranquebar Press, 2010.
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xxxvi, 352pGreen Spine
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Winston Churchill's dislike of India and Indians has been known to scholars. But now, in Churchill's Secret War, we have, for the first time, definitive evidence of how a great man's prejudices contributed to one of the most deadly famines in modern history. In her book, Madhusree Mukerjee writes evocatively of how hunger and rebellion in rural Bengal was a product of cynicism and callousness in imperial London.
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9789380658476 Pb.
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007761
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2006 (Second)
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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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337pYellow Spine
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Cambridge concise histories
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Explores India's modern history afresh and updates the events of the last decade.Highlights questions of caste and religious identity, and the very nature of the Indian nation.
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Sultan, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society
Mughal twilight: the emergence of regional states and the East India Company
The East India Company Raj, 1772-1850
Revolt, the modern state, and the colonized subjects, 1848-1885
Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885-1919
The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939
The 1940s: triumph and tragedy
Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-1989
Democratic India in the nineties: coalitions, class, community, consumers, and conflict
Epilogue: a new century begins
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9780521733106 Pb.
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026516
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New Delhi, HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.
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xx, 300pRed spine
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A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family. A young man from the sleepy south Indian coast, sensing adventure and opportunity, follows his brothers-in-law into the army--and onto the front lines of India's Second World War. His army fights for the British empire, even as his countrymen fight for freedom from it, and Indian soldiers end up on both sides of the vast conflict. The narrative travels from Madras to Eritrea, Iraq, and Burma, unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and devastated by its violence. The Farthest Field reveals how the war transformed India, its army, and the British empire that had ruled the country for so long and would, barely two years after the end of the war, abandon it to the horrors of partition. In penetrating nonfiction prose, Raghu Karnad retrieves from obscurity the epic of India's Second World War--a war the world reveres, but India would choose to forget. - Provided by publisher.
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Map
Prologue
Part one. Home
Everybody's friend, Calicut, 1936/39 3
Hukm Hai, Madras, 1939/40
Savages of the Stone Age, Miranshah, November 1941
The centre of the world, Madras, February 1942
Madras must not burn, April/June 1942
Things sacred between us, Mhow, August 1942 67
Do or die, Thal, August/October 1942
The King's Own, Roorkee, August/December 1942
Part two. West
Second field, Baghdad, March/April 1943
The Jemadars' story, Eritrea and Libya, 1940/41
The lieutenant's story, El Alamein, 1942
Part three. East
Enter the hurricane, Imphal, north-east frontier, May 1943
No heroes, Madras, May/June 1943
Fascines and Gabions, Calcutta, October 1943
The jungle book, Arakan, December 1943/March 1944
Fight with your ghost, Kohima and Jotsoma, April 1944
The cremation ground, Kohima, April 1944
The elephant, Tiddim Road, June/October 1944
The road ahead, Madras, November 1945
Epilogue
Afterword
Appendices
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9789351772033 Hb.
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ID:
007388
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New Delhi, Penguin Books India, 2008.
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182pYellow Spine
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Autobiographical reminiscences by the author about her childhood spent as a member of the Nehru family in pre-Independent India.
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9780143330608 Pb.
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004670
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London, Phaidon Press Limited, 2004.
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310pOcre Spine
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Presents an insight into the life of one of the 20th century great figures, Mahatma Gandhi who struggled to live up to ideals despite the contradictions that dogged him in his personal and political life.
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Introduction
Early years 1869-1893
Awakening in South Africa 1893-1915
The dawn of Nonviolent resistance in India 1915-1930
Salt march and its consequences 1930-1939
Quit India Movement 1939-1944
A tragic freedom 1944-1948
Farewell 1948
Index
Chronology
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0714844594 Pb.
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| 004870 | 921/GAN | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | Reference |
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011407
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New Delhi, National Book Trust, 1973.
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34pPink Spine
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Nehru bal pustakalaya
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Story potraying how people of India lost their freedom to Britain and how they fought for many years, and in various ways to win back their freedom.
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8123711050 Pb.
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ID:
019492
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Gurgaon, Puffin Books, 2015.
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256pYellow and Blue Spine
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Maps and mountains, lions and tigers, rivers and oceans-all sorts of things you didn't know about India's geography Full of quirky and crazy trivia, this book takes you on a fantastic journey through the incredible history of Inida's geography.
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978014333661 Pb.
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ID:
015678
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Revised and updated
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New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2007.
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xvi, 771pYellow spine
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This book describes how the Constitution was framed, how Nehruvian political and economic agenda and basics of foreign policy evolved and developed.
This revised edition offers a scathing analysis of the growth of communalism in India ad the use of state power in furthuring its cause. It documents the fall of the National Democratic Alliance in the 2004 General Elections, the United Progressive Alliance's subsequent rise to power and the Indo-US Nuclear Deal that served to unravel the political consensus at the Centre.
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978014310494 Pb.
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ID:
016702
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New Delhi, Lotus Collection, 2011.
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325pCream Spine
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This title succeeds in explaining the resilient achievements of India's secular democracy as well as its vulnerability and failures.
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I. The birth of Pakistan and the survival of India
II. Punjab
III. Kashmir
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9788174362681 Pb.
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| I00857 | 954.04/AKB | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
026522
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Noida, HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.
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562pMauve spine
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Provides a thoroughly researched, people-centric account of the wars India fought between 1947 and 1971. Subramaniam provides a brief overview of the evolution of India's uniformed services before assessing how each service participated during the time this book covers.
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9789351777496 Pb.
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004979
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Mumbai, Marg Publications, 2008.
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136pMaroon Spine
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Examines the rulers at war, at play, in the durbar, visiting shrines, temples and mosques, and receiving ambassadors.
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8185026866 Hb.
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ID:
015483
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New Delhi, Red Turtle, 2013.
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199pWhite Spine
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Describes the twists and turns that led to the freedom movement, the lives of the leaders, revolutionaries and masses, the horrors of oppression, and the triumph of the Indians as they finally made their tryst with destiny.
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The idea of freedom
The British come to India
The Revolt of 1857
The stir of ideas
The Indian masses
A national movement takes shape
The war years and after
The coming of Gandhi
The 1920s
A force mightier than violence
World War II, fascism and further divisions
A moral protest
Quit India
A new era begins
The transfer of power
Freedom needs guardians
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9788129121165 Pb.
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ID:
003668
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Bath, Robert Frederick Ltd., 2005.
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40pMaroon Spine
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An illustrated chronological chart of the history of India from the Paleolithic Age to present times.
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0755451627 Hb.
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ID:
026515
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Gurugram, Penguin Random House India, 2021.
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48pBlack spine
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Join Vikram Sarabhai and his scientists as they try to launch a sounding rocket in Kerala, with a little help from young Mary!
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9780143451839 Pb.
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