History

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Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] – Details) [ad_1] The language controversies that accompanied the first years of Indian independence had pushed the country to the brink of instability. That language problems are no longer perceived as forces of national disequilibrium is due in large part, according to this book, to the role played by India’s first … Read more

Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] – Details) [ad_1] Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat asserts the existence of a much larger politics of violence, and tells the story of a disaster in Hindutva’s laboratory which etched deep faults in Gujarat’s social landscape. While capturing the predicament of the Sabarmati Express survivors, Scarred is an intense, moving … Read more

Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] – Details) [ad_1] This bustling port on the Gulf of Mannar is a haven for smugglers and bootleggers. The locals all carry aruvals – the lethal local machete. In between smuggling, bootlegging and loansharking, they entertain themselves with caste wars and blood feuds. Tuticorin, in short, is like R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi, … Read more

Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] – Details) [ad_1] Kindle की फ्री स्मार्टफोन ऐप्लिकेशन पर अब कहीं भी पढ़िए, कभी भी पढ़िए। मेरा पैंफलेट संयोगवश किसी लाइओंस नामक सर्जन के हाथों पड़ गया। वे एक लेखक भी थे। उन्होंने ‘इनफैलिबिलिटी ऑफ ह‍्यूमन जजमेंट’ नामक शीर्षक से पुस्तक भी लिखी थी। इससे हमें आपस में परिचित होने का … Read more

Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] – Details) [ad_1] “Though I am nothing to look at, it is women who have sought my company more than I have sought theirs.” ‘Khushwant Singh’ In Khushwant Singh’s Book of Unforgettable Women, India’s most widely-read and irreverent author and columnist profiles some of many women in his life. From Ghayoorunnisa … Read more

Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] – Details) [ad_1] Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the … Read more

Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] – Details) [ad_1] This volume discusses a range of issues affecting the socio-economic and cultural life of adivasis in India and explores the long term continuities and discontinuities between different political regimes. It also reflects some of the concerns relating to methodology and resources, historiography and colonialism, the impact of missionaries, … Read more

Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] – Details) [ad_1] Created specifically for fans of Japanese cool culture, A Geek in Japan is one of the most iconic, hip, and concise cultural guides available. Reinvented for the internet age, it is packed with personal essays and hundreds of photographs and presents all the touchstones of traditional and contemporary … Read more

Price: [price_with_discount](as of [price_update_date] – Details) [ad_1] Christians have lived in India since the early centuries of this era. In South India they believe their ancestors received the Gospel from the apostle Thomas. After that, the arrival of Christianity was sporadic, helped first by merchants and priests from the Middle East and from the fifteenth … Read more