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Thanks to its commercial complexion and the power invested in a board of directors, British rule in India was characterized by economic monopolies, aggressive trade practices, punitive taxation, and the impoverishment of vast regions of India. Much of the company's industry was based on a policy of producing and exporting raw materials from India, and importing manufactured goods to satisfy an almost unlimited local market.

ഒരു പിടി ചരിത്ര പുസ്തകങ്ങള്‍ കൊണ്ട് വായനക്കാരെ അത്ഭുതപ്പെടുത്തുകയും അവരില്‍ ചിലരെയെങ്കിലും...

ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯಪೂರ್ವ ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಲೆಸಿರುವ 'ನಮ್ಮ ಊರಿನ ರಸಿಕರು' ಒಂದು ಅದ್ಭುತ ಪುಸ್ತಕ. ಇದು ರಾಜಕೀಯ, ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳು, ಶೋಷಣೆ...

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption.

India has been the location of many different empires throughout its long history. The Indus Valley Civilization was home to one of the world’s first civilizations more than 5,000 years ago, which was followed by the Aryan-Vedic culture and then a host of other kingdoms that flourished across the subcontinent. India has also been the birthplace of many religions. The Vedic religion of the Aryans evolved into the Hindu religion, and Buddhism and Jainism were also born in India. By the Middle Ages, India was home to many different religions and ethnic groups.

Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals.

This is the story of three terrible famines. The first is an Gorta Mór, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846. The second is the deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in lethal form in the 1970s under Emperor Haile Selassie and then reappeared under the brutal dictator Mengistu in the 1980s.

Dr Kalam, who was India's 11th president and has been a scientist and a teacher, has written more than 20 books. Ranging from inspirational and spiritual thoughts, to autobiographical reflections, to his vision statements for a developed India, these works bear the imprint of a mind that is deeply reflective. For the first time, some of the most thoughtful, inspiring and educative of these writings have been compiled in one place in The Righteous Life.

13 months post independence, after a lot of struggle, Hyderabad became a part of India. The Indian army had to intervene and there was a lot of unrest under the Nizam's rule. The Indian Government had stopped essential goods delivery into the state which led to a famine. This Sahitya Academy...

This book brings to light some of the lost stories of Indian aviators who built the very foundations of human and physical infrastructure for what is now the world's fourth largest air force. It benefits from several first-person interviews with some of the last Indian survivors of World War II, enabling a level of fidelity that is quite rare among Indian histories.

Operation Searchlight was the code name for a planned military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan....

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 CROSSWORD JURY AWARD FOR NON FICTION* More than half of India is under the age of twenty-five and the country is set to have the youngest population in the world by 2021. But India's millennials are nothing like their counterparts in the West. In a world that's marked...

On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past. With fundamental rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the state, the new constitution was universally acclaimed as the ‘world’s greatest experiment in liberal government’. This idealistic birth of a new republic meant a clean break with a repressive past. And yet, barely twelve months later, the very makers of the constitution were denouncing their own creation. Passed in June 1951, the First Amendment to the Constitution was a pivotal moment in Indian constitutional history.

Something extraordinary happened between roughly 800 and 200 BCE. Across the ancient world—often without direct contact—human beings began thinking in radically new ways about right and wrong, truth and illusion, suffering and meaning, and the inner life. That moment changed everything. A Simple Introduction to the Axial Age takes you inside the quiet revolution that reshaped how humanity understands morality, philosophy, and spirituality—and still shapes how you think today, whether you realize it or not. This is the era that produced the Hebrew prophets, the Buddha, Confucius, Laozi...

India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal democracy to...

മഹദ്‌വ്യക്തികളുടെ സംഭവഹുലമായ ജീവിതഗാഥകളാണ് ചരിത്രത്തിന്റെ താളുകളില്‍ നിറഞ്ഞുനില്‍ക്കുന്നത്...

The Rise Asia is a compelling investigation of one of the dramatic changes in the world economy that is occurring today - the rise to global economic dominance of the nations of Asia. Taking a long term historical perspective Dr Matt Buttsworth begins by considering the Meiji Restoration in Japan before considering the rise of the Dragon States of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore and the reawakening of the two giants of Asia - China and India. It is a well composed consideration of the profound change in economic power that is occurring in Asia today and of the implications it ...

22 December 1949: A conspiracy that began with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi culminated in the execution of the Ayodhya strategy. Late that night, a little-known sadhu, Abhiram Das, and his followers entered the Babri Masjid and planted an idol of Rama inside it. While it is known that the...

From lockdowns to lockups, viruses to vaccination, the movement of people to the movement of bowels, from rats to cats, and more, The Age of Pandemics chronicles the many facets of the cholera, plague and influenza pandemics, which claimed over 70 million lives between 1817 and 1920, with India...

An insider's story of his association with Benazir Bhutto, the world's first Muslim woman Prime Minister and one of Pakistan's most enigmatic politicians. "..a memoir that is part confessional, part creative non-fiction which is as engrossing as history can be.." - Navid Shahzad, Author of "Azlan's Roar" "...a most enjoyable and informative read" - Owen Bennet Jones, author of "The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power"