Author: Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Times of India Handbook of Hindustan
Author: Truck de India!
Author: Rajat UbhaykarPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9386797658
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"The share auto I squeeze into next seems unusually vulnerable after a night in the truck - too compact, too low down. Perhaps, these are the usual side effects of prolonged riding with the king of the road, I think to myself. But it is only when I fill in ‘truck’ as my mode of transportation in the hotel ledger at Udaipur does the utter ludicrousness of my endeavour truly hit home" Think truck drivers, and movie scenes of them drunkenly crushing inconvenient people to their gravelly deaths come to mind. But what are their lives on the road actually like? In Truck De India!, journalist Rajat Ubhaykar embarks on a 10,000 km-long, 100% unplanned trip, hitchhiking with truckers all across India. On the way, he makes unexpected friendships; listens to highway ghost stories; discovers the near-fatal consequences of overloading trucks; documents the fascinating tradition of truck art in Punjab; travels alongside nomadic shepherds in Kashmir; encounters endemic corruption repeatedly; survives NH39, the insurgent-ridden highway through Nagaland and Manipur; and is unfailingly greeted by the unconditional kindness of perfect strangers. Imbued with humour, empathy, and a keen sense of history, Truck De India! is a travelogue like no other you've read. It is the story of India, and Indians, on the road.
Area Handbook for India
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies DivisionPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The purpose of this Area Handbook for India is to describe briefly and in general terms the political, economic and social basis of Indian society, to outline its domestic and foreign policies and to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. The present study represents a thorough revision of the Human Relations Area Files Area Handbook for India, which was issued in 1958, to consider the fundamental changes which have taken place and to utilize the many source materials which have become available since the earlier study was published. It supersedes the Interim Revision to the Area Handbook for India, published in March 1963 to fill the immediate need for an updated edition of the original Handbook pending the completion of the full revision. (Author)
U.S. Army Area Handbook for India
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Special Operations Research OfficePublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: India Office LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office: pt. 1 . Classed catalogue. 1888. pt. 2 . Index. 1888. Supplement. 1895. Supplement 2. 1895-1909
Author: India Office LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office ...: Supplement 2: 1895-1909. 1909
Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office: [pt. 1] Classed catalogue. 1888
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Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The History of Hindostan
Author: Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Hindū Shāh Astarābādī FirishtahPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Loss of Hindustan
Author: Manan Ahmed AsifPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067498790X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize “Remarkable and pathbreaking...A radical rethink of colonial historiography and a compelling argument for the reassessment of the historical traditions of Hindustan.” —Mahmood Mamdani “The brilliance of Asif’s book rests in the way he makes readers think about the name ‘Hindustan’...Asif’s focus is Indian history but it is, at the same time, a lens to look at questions far bigger.” —Soni Wadhwa, Asian Review of Books “Remarkable...Asif’s analysis and conclusions are powerful and poignant.” —Rudrangshu Mukherjee, The Wire “A tremendous contribution...This is not only a book that you must read, but also one that you must chew over and debate.” —Audrey Truschke, Current History Did India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? Manan Ahmed Asif tackles this contentious question by inviting us to reconsider the work and legacy of the influential historian Muhammad Qasim Firishta, a contemporary of the Mughal emperors Akbar and Jahangir. Inspired by his reading of Firishta and other historians, Asif seeks to rescue our understanding of the region from colonial narratives that emphasize difference and division. Asif argues that a European understanding of India as Hindu has replaced an earlier, native understanding of India as Hindustan, a home for all faiths. Turning to the subcontinent’s medieval past, he uncovers a rich network of historians of Hindustan who imagined, studied, and shaped their kings, cities, and societies. The Loss of Hindustan reveals how multicultural Hindustan was deliberately eclipsed in favor of the religiously partitioned world of today. A magisterial work with far reaching implications, it offers a radical reinterpretation of how India came to its contemporary political identity.