The Man Who Divided India
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The Man Who Divided India
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Author : Rafiq Zakaria
language : en
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Release Date : 2004
The Man Who Divided India written by Rafiq Zakaria and has been published by Popular Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with India categories.
The Man Who Divided India
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Author : Rafiq Zakaria
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Man Who Divided India written by Rafiq Zakaria and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with India categories.
India Divided
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Author : Rajendra Prasad
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2010
India Divided written by Rajendra Prasad and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
The question of the partition of India into Muslim and Hindu zones assumed importance after the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution in its favour in March 1940 in Lahore.
The Other Side Of Silence
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Author : Urvashi Butalia
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 1998
The Other Side Of Silence written by Urvashi Butalia and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with India categories.
The Partition Of India In 1947 Caused One Of The Great Human Convulsions Of History. The Statistics Are Staggering. Twelve Million People Were Displaced; A Million Died; Seventy-Five Thousand Women Are Said To Have Been Abducted And Raped; Families Were Divided; Properties Lost; Homes Destroyed. In Public Memory, However, The Violent, Disturbing Realities That Accompanied Partition Have Remained Blanketed In Silence. And Yet, In Private, The Voices Of Partition Have Never Been Stilled And Its Ramifications Have Not Yet Ended. Urvashi Butalia S Remarkable Book, The Outcome Of A Decade Of Interviews And Research, Looks At What Partition Was Intended To Achieve, And How It Worked On The Ground, And In People S Lives. Pieced Together From Oral Narratives And Testimonies, In Many Cases From Women, Children And Dalits-Marginal Voices Never Heard Before-And Supplemented By Documents, Reports, Diaries, Memoirs And Parliamentary Records, This Is A Moving, Personal Chronicle Of Partition That Places People, Instead Of Grand Politics, At The Centre. These Are The Untold Stories Of Partition, Stories That India Has Not Dared To Confront Even After Fifty Years Of Independence.
Midnight S Furies
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Author : Nisid Hajari
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2015-06-03
Midnight S Furies written by Nisid Hajari and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-03 with categories.
After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - they were supposed to be the answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's protégé and the political leader of India, believed Indians were an inherently nonviolent, peaceful people. Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was a secular lawyer, not a firebrand. But in August 1946, exactly a year before Independence, Calcutta erupted in street-gang fighting. A cycle of riots - targeting Hindus, then Muslims, then Sikhs - spiraled out of control. As the summer of 1947 approached, all three groups were heavily armed and on edge, and the British rushed to leave. Hell let loose. Trains carried Muslims west and Hindus east to their slaughter. Some of the most brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing in modern history erupted on both sides of the new border, carving a gulf between India and Pakistan that remains a root cause of many evils. From jihadi terrorism to nuclear proliferation, the searing tale told in Midnight's Furies explains all too many of the headlines we read today.
The Great Hedge Of India
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Author : Roy Moxham
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2002-02-07
The Great Hedge Of India written by Roy Moxham and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-07 with History categories.
Remarkable and "astonishing," says Jan Morris of Roy Moxham's account of his search for "one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria's India," and John Keay finds it "a compelling read, simply told, and simply wonderful." An unquestionably fascinating tale, as well as a travel book and historical detective story, The Great Hedge of India begins in a secondhand bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road. There Roy Moxham buys the memoir of a nineteenth-century British colonial administrative officer, who makes a passing reference to a giant hedge planted by the British across the Indian subcontinent. That hedge—which for fifty years had been manned and cared for by 12,000 men and had run a length of 2,500 miles—becomes what Moxham calls his "ridiculous obsession." Recounting a journey that takes him to exotic isolated villages deep in the interior of India, Moxham chronicles his efforts to confirm the existence of the extraordinary, impenetrable green wall that had virtually disappeared from two nations' memories. Not only does he discover the shameful role the hedge played in the exploitative Raj and the famines of the late nineteenth century, but he also uncovers what remains of this British grand folly and restores to history what must be counted one of the world's wonders—and a monument to one of the great injustices of Victorian imperialism. "Grandly entertaining ... close to being a perfect story of a fanciful quest."—Boston Globe
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh
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Author : Shrayana Bhattacharya
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2021-11-11
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh written by Shrayana Bhattacharya and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with Social Science categories.
In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs and rivalries--of a diverse group of women. Divided by class but united in fandom, they remain steadfast in their search for intimacy, independence and fun. Embracing Hindi film idol Shah Rukh Khan allows them a small respite from an oppressive culture, a fillip to their fantasies of a friendlier masculinity in Indian men. Most struggle to find the freedom-or income-to follow their favourite actor. Bobbing along in this stream of multiple lives for more than a decade-from Manju's boredom in 'rurban' Rampur and Gold's anger at having to compete with Western women for male attention in Delhi's nightclubs, to Zahira's break from domestic abuse in Ahmedabad-Bhattacharya gleans the details on what Indian women think about men, money, movies, beauty, helplessness, agency and love. A most unusual and compelling book on the female gaze, this is the story of how women have experienced post-liberalization India.
Remnants Of Partition
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Author : Aanchal Malhotra
language : en
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Release Date : 2019
Remnants Of Partition written by Aanchal Malhotra and has been published by Hurst & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. Can it be restored?
Resolved
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Author : Ban Ki-moon
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Resolved written by Ban Ki-moon and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his Korean village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. The six-year-old boy fled with his family, trudging for miles in mud-soaked shoes, suffering from incessant hunger, and wondering how they would survive—until the United Nations rescued them. Young Ban Ki-moon grew up determined to repay this lifesaving generosity. Resolved is Ban Ki-moon’s personal account of his decade at the helm of the organization during a period of historic turmoil and promise. Meeting challenges and resistance with a belief in the UN’s mission of peace, development, and human rights, he steered the United Nations through a volatile period that included the Arab Spring, nuclear pursuits in Iran and North Korea, the Ebola epidemic, and brutal new conflicts in Central Africa. As secretary-general, Ban also forged global agreements to fight extreme poverty and address the climate crisis. Ban performed what has been called “the most impossible job on this earth” with a genuine belief in collective action and global transformation. Freed from the diplomatic constraints of a lifetime of public service, he offers a candid assessment of the people and events that shape our era and a bracing analysis of what lies ahead.
Inglorious Empire
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Author : Shashi Tharoor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Inglorious Empire written by Shashi Tharoor and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Political Science categories.
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor 'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read' Financial Times In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift' - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry. In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.