История Индии

HarperCollins, 2020. — 299 p. Seventy years since it became a republic, India has come a long way. But it is still failing on some key fronts: the provision of water, health, education, power, and law and order. Piped drinking water for all continues to be a pipe dream; homes and businesses are haunted by power outages; the lack of proper primary health care renders the poorest...

Frontline Books, 2019. — 253 p. The Indian Rebellion of 1857-58 was the most ferocious explosion of violence in the history of the British Empire. It tested Britain’s colonial resources to the limit, and nearly brought about the downfall of its rule in India. As the rebellion spread the strategic garrison at Cawnpore came under siege from rebels. The British inhabitants,...

Hourly History, 2023. — 62 p. Discover the remarkable history of the British Raj... The British Raj refers to the time from 1858 to 1947 when the British Crown directly ruled the Indian subcontinent. During those 90 years, India saw enormous social, political, and cultural upheaval. New systems of education were introduced, and increasing industrialization brought societal...

Rev. and upd. ed. — Penguin Books, 2008. — 788 p. A thorough and incisive introduction to contemporary India The story of the forging of India, the world's largest democracy, is a rich and inspiring one. This volume, a sequel to the best-selling India's Struggle for Independence, analyses the challenges India has faced and the successes it has achieved, in the light of its...

Routledge, 2024. — 244 p. Tagore’s Solutions for Colonial Degeneration - Indic Societalism, Nation, Identities, and Communities focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a social and political thinker revolving around Tagore’s ideas on the seeds of civil society, nation, identities, and communities in the Indic tradition. The author deconstructs Tagore’s concepts against the...

Thames & Hudson, 2019. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0500295168. Throughout its long history, India has signified many things. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha. To Alexander the Great, it was a land of philosophers and armies mounted on elephants. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries. At the height of the Mughal Empire in 1700, India meant...

Routledge, 2018. — 309 p. Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts – of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a critical transformative...

Sage, 2010. — 315 p. Stateless in South Asia - The Chakmas between Bangladesh and India is a comprehensive study that explores issues pertaining to the ′stateless′ status of the ethnic Buddhist Chakma refugees in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, who originally belonged to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs). What sets it apart is its holistic overview of the social history...

Oxford University Press, 2023. — 401 p. Concerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in modern South Asia has often been associated with religious nationalism and the creation of Pakistan. The Muslim Secular complicates that story by reconstructing the ideas of three prominent thinker-actors of the Indian freedom struggle: the...

Sage Publications, 2021. — 423 p. This edited book offers insights into the social inequalities that plague India and are often hidden behind terms like ‘law and order’ and ‘constitutional democracy’. Though the market-driven economy was once expected to radically transform the heavily hierarchical Indian society into a more egalitarian order, the society remains unequal...