Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, ...
Katherine BooIn this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift...
Why Growth Matters: How Economic Grow...
Jagdish BhagwatiIn its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best ...
The Great Partition: The Making of In...
Yasmin KhanA reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflec...
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Li...
Larry BermanDuring the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lans...
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Throug...
James CrabtreeA colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s...
India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in...
Akash KapurA New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012 A Newsweek "Must Read on Modern India""For people who savored Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers."-Evan Osnos, newy...
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of th...
Raghu Karnad"I have not lately read a finer book than this―on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece." ―Simon Winchester, New StatesmanThe photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could ...
The East India Company, 1600-1858: A ...
Ian BarrowIn existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for...
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in...
Anne de CourcyBy the late nineteenth century, Britain's colonial reign seemed to know no limit—and India was the sparkling jewel in the Imperial crown. Many of Her Majesty's best and brightest young men departed for the Raj to make their careers,...
The Statues that Walked: Unraveling t...
Terry HuntThe monumental statues of Easter Island, so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island's barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sun...
Modern India: A Very Short Introducti...
Craig JeffreyIndia is widely recognized as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and c...
Three Famines: Starvation and Politic...
Thomas KeneallyThrough the lens of three of the most devastating food crises in modern history—the Górta Mor of British-ruled Ireland, the great famine of British-ruled Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines that plagued Ethiopia during the 19...
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the...
Rohini MohanFor three decades, Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000...
From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day,...
The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race...
Arundhati Roy"Democracy hasn't eradicated caste," writes Arundhati Roy. "It has entrenched and modernized it."To best understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ul...
Exhaustive Notes On The Meghaduta Of ...
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Invasions of India from Central Asia
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The Imperial Guide To India, Includin...
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