Author: K.C.Agrawal
Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com
ISBN: 9390266173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book is an ambitious attempt to explore ways to strengthen India economically, politically and spiritually and make it one of the most powerful and flourishing nations in the world in the coming decades Authored by a committed and inquiring researcher, it analyses the factors responsible for the ramshackle state of affairs in the country as a result of many a malaise – mis-governance, corruption, industrial failure and dwindling economy, to name a few. Taking up various areas for focused study, like India's resources, political administration, economic growth, development programmes at various levels and impact of globalisation, it examines the mistakes made in the past partly because of Ignorance and partly because of selfish motives in approach, strategies adopted, execution of plans and programmes and evaluation. Giving vital facts and figures garnered through intense research, the work points out how and why India lags behind in rural development, population control, reform of education, water management, disaster management, power generation, tourism, environmental issues, reform of police and judiciary and of defence services, and presents insightful and thought-provoking suggestions on how the situation can be remedied. It has also attempted to provide solutions to addressing problems in the NE states and the Kashmir issue. Owing to the nature of the subject here discussed and the authors unique holistic approach and original perspectives in addressing Issues, the book will interest a largo range of readers keen to watch India progress. They will feel as if the author is talking about them and is concerned for their well-being. Its fluent style of writing makes the approach all the more realistic and interesting.
Crusade India
Author: K.C.Agrawal
Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com
ISBN: 9390266173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book is an ambitious attempt to explore ways to strengthen India economically, politically and spiritually and make it one of the most powerful and flourishing nations in the world in the coming decades Authored by a committed and inquiring researcher, it analyses the factors responsible for the ramshackle state of affairs in the country as a result of many a malaise – mis-governance, corruption, industrial failure and dwindling economy, to name a few. Taking up various areas for focused study, like India's resources, political administration, economic growth, development programmes at various levels and impact of globalisation, it examines the mistakes made in the past partly because of Ignorance and partly because of selfish motives in approach, strategies adopted, execution of plans and programmes and evaluation. Giving vital facts and figures garnered through intense research, the work points out how and why India lags behind in rural development, population control, reform of education, water management, disaster management, power generation, tourism, environmental issues, reform of police and judiciary and of defence services, and presents insightful and thought-provoking suggestions on how the situation can be remedied. It has also attempted to provide solutions to addressing problems in the NE states and the Kashmir issue. Owing to the nature of the subject here discussed and the authors unique holistic approach and original perspectives in addressing Issues, the book will interest a largo range of readers keen to watch India progress. They will feel as if the author is talking about them and is concerned for their well-being. Its fluent style of writing makes the approach all the more realistic and interesting.
Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com
ISBN: 9390266173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book is an ambitious attempt to explore ways to strengthen India economically, politically and spiritually and make it one of the most powerful and flourishing nations in the world in the coming decades Authored by a committed and inquiring researcher, it analyses the factors responsible for the ramshackle state of affairs in the country as a result of many a malaise – mis-governance, corruption, industrial failure and dwindling economy, to name a few. Taking up various areas for focused study, like India's resources, political administration, economic growth, development programmes at various levels and impact of globalisation, it examines the mistakes made in the past partly because of Ignorance and partly because of selfish motives in approach, strategies adopted, execution of plans and programmes and evaluation. Giving vital facts and figures garnered through intense research, the work points out how and why India lags behind in rural development, population control, reform of education, water management, disaster management, power generation, tourism, environmental issues, reform of police and judiciary and of defence services, and presents insightful and thought-provoking suggestions on how the situation can be remedied. It has also attempted to provide solutions to addressing problems in the NE states and the Kashmir issue. Owing to the nature of the subject here discussed and the authors unique holistic approach and original perspectives in addressing Issues, the book will interest a largo range of readers keen to watch India progress. They will feel as if the author is talking about them and is concerned for their well-being. Its fluent style of writing makes the approach all the more realistic and interesting.
Crusade and Jihad
Author: William Roe Polk
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300222904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
Encompasses the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North--China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America--and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa, explaining the deep hostilities between them and how they grew over the centuries. --Adapted from publisher description.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300222904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
Encompasses the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North--China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America--and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa, explaining the deep hostilities between them and how they grew over the centuries. --Adapted from publisher description.
India
Author: Indian National Congress. British Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Making of India
Author: Ranbir Vohra
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 0765629852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in Indian civilization and history, this text provides a sweeping look at the long and varied history of India and how this complex legacy has shaped, and is shaping, the nation's modern polity. It offers unique political-historical coverage of India from pre-history into the 21st century. Part I offers an overview of Pre-modern India from pre-history to 1857. Part II covers India under the British from 1859 to 1947. Part III, the major portion of the text, looks at Independent India after 1947. An Epilogue brings the book full circle, with a portrait of modern India contrasted to modern China, mirroring the comparison of traditional India with traditional China in the opening chapters.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 0765629852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in Indian civilization and history, this text provides a sweeping look at the long and varied history of India and how this complex legacy has shaped, and is shaping, the nation's modern polity. It offers unique political-historical coverage of India from pre-history into the 21st century. Part I offers an overview of Pre-modern India from pre-history to 1857. Part II covers India under the British from 1859 to 1947. Part III, the major portion of the text, looks at Independent India after 1947. An Epilogue brings the book full circle, with a portrait of modern India contrasted to modern China, mirroring the comparison of traditional India with traditional China in the opening chapters.
Crusade
Author: James Carroll
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1466855088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A devastating indictment of the Bush administration's war policies from the bestselling author and respected moral authority. With the words "this Crusade, this war on terror," George W. Bush defined the purpose of his presidency. And just as promptly, James Carroll-Boston Globe columnist, son of a general, former antiwar chaplain and activist, and recognized voice of ethical authority-began a week-by-week argument with the administration over its actions. In powerful, passionate bulletins, Carroll dissected the President's exploitation of the nation's fears, invocations of a Christian mission, and efforts to overturn America's traditional relations-with other nations and its own citizens. Crusade, the collection of Carroll's searing columns, offers a comprehensive and tough-minded critique of the war on terror. From Carroll's first rejection of "war" as the proper response to Osama bin Laden, to his prescient verdict of failure in Iraq, to his never-before-published analysis of the faith-based roots of current U.S. policies, this volume displays his rare insight and scope. Combining clear moral consciousness, an acute sense of history, and a real-world grasp of the unforgiving demands of politics, Crusade is a compelling call for the rescue of America's noblest traditions. A cry from the heart, a record of protest, and a permanently relevant analysis, Carroll's work confronts the Bush era and measures it against what America was meant to be.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1466855088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A devastating indictment of the Bush administration's war policies from the bestselling author and respected moral authority. With the words "this Crusade, this war on terror," George W. Bush defined the purpose of his presidency. And just as promptly, James Carroll-Boston Globe columnist, son of a general, former antiwar chaplain and activist, and recognized voice of ethical authority-began a week-by-week argument with the administration over its actions. In powerful, passionate bulletins, Carroll dissected the President's exploitation of the nation's fears, invocations of a Christian mission, and efforts to overturn America's traditional relations-with other nations and its own citizens. Crusade, the collection of Carroll's searing columns, offers a comprehensive and tough-minded critique of the war on terror. From Carroll's first rejection of "war" as the proper response to Osama bin Laden, to his prescient verdict of failure in Iraq, to his never-before-published analysis of the faith-based roots of current U.S. policies, this volume displays his rare insight and scope. Combining clear moral consciousness, an acute sense of history, and a real-world grasp of the unforgiving demands of politics, Crusade is a compelling call for the rescue of America's noblest traditions. A cry from the heart, a record of protest, and a permanently relevant analysis, Carroll's work confronts the Bush era and measures it against what America was meant to be.
White Crusade
Author: Ben Goodridge
Publisher: Bad Dog Books
ISBN: 9079082023
Category : Anthropomorphism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Five hundred years after Man's downfall, the ascetic Animal-People have rebuilt the world in their image. Tay of the Wolf-Clan is a healer and leader whose only ambition is to spend his life in service to his people, but now he must launch a hasty expedition across the changing landscape of tomorrow's America, to recover the secret of a manmade artifact that threatens the future of his world.
Publisher: Bad Dog Books
ISBN: 9079082023
Category : Anthropomorphism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Five hundred years after Man's downfall, the ascetic Animal-People have rebuilt the world in their image. Tay of the Wolf-Clan is a healer and leader whose only ambition is to spend his life in service to his people, but now he must launch a hasty expedition across the changing landscape of tomorrow's America, to recover the secret of a manmade artifact that threatens the future of his world.
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
Author: Raghu Karnad
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
“I have not lately read a finer book than this—on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece.” —Simon Winchester, New Statesman The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. Manek, dashing and confident, was a pilot with India’s fledgling air force; gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby’s pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq and the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939–45 might be the most revered, deplored, and replayed in modern history. Yet India’s extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself and from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family—a story of love, rebellion, loyalty, and uncertainty—and with it, the greater revelation that is India’s Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India’s war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma—unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and swept up in its violence.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
“I have not lately read a finer book than this—on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece.” —Simon Winchester, New Statesman The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. Manek, dashing and confident, was a pilot with India’s fledgling air force; gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby’s pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq and the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939–45 might be the most revered, deplored, and replayed in modern history. Yet India’s extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself and from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family—a story of love, rebellion, loyalty, and uncertainty—and with it, the greater revelation that is India’s Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India’s war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma—unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and swept up in its violence.
Journal of the United Service Institution of India
Crusade Against the Grail
Author: Otto Rahn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594777217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montségur to be the repository of the Holy Grail • Presents the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours • Provides new insights into the life and death of this gifted and controversial author Crusade Against the Grail is the daring book that popularized the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail. The first edition appeared in Germany in 1933 and drew upon Rahn’s account of his explorations of the Pyrenean caves where the heretical Cathar sect sought refuge during the 13th century. Over the years the book has been translated into many languages and exerted a large influence on such authors as Trevor Ravenscroft and Jean-Michel Angebert, but it has never appeared in English until now. Much as German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann used Homer’s Iliad to locate ancient Troy, Rahn believed that Wolfram von Eschenbach’s medieval epic Parzival held the keys to the mysteries of the Cathars and the secret location of the Holy Grail. Rahn saw Parzival not as a work of fiction, but as a historical account of the Cathars and the Knights Templar and their guardianship of the Grail, a “stone from the stars.” The Crusade that the Vatican led against the Cathars became a war pitting Roma (Rome) against Amor (love), in which the Church triumphed with flame and sword over the pure faith of the Cathars.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594777217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montségur to be the repository of the Holy Grail • Presents the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours • Provides new insights into the life and death of this gifted and controversial author Crusade Against the Grail is the daring book that popularized the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail. The first edition appeared in Germany in 1933 and drew upon Rahn’s account of his explorations of the Pyrenean caves where the heretical Cathar sect sought refuge during the 13th century. Over the years the book has been translated into many languages and exerted a large influence on such authors as Trevor Ravenscroft and Jean-Michel Angebert, but it has never appeared in English until now. Much as German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann used Homer’s Iliad to locate ancient Troy, Rahn believed that Wolfram von Eschenbach’s medieval epic Parzival held the keys to the mysteries of the Cathars and the secret location of the Holy Grail. Rahn saw Parzival not as a work of fiction, but as a historical account of the Cathars and the Knights Templar and their guardianship of the Grail, a “stone from the stars.” The Crusade that the Vatican led against the Cathars became a war pitting Roma (Rome) against Amor (love), in which the Church triumphed with flame and sword over the pure faith of the Cathars.
GENERAL STUDIES 1- APSC (REVISED SYLLABUS) & UPSC MAINS
Author: MANIRAM SHARMA
Publisher: Maniram Sharma
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The book has been prepared taking into consideration the specific needs of the aspirants of APSC Civil services examination. Assam Public service commission has recently revised its syllabus on the lines of UPSC Civil services. The book is further useful for the aspirants of UPSC Main as well as for the aspirants of other states civil services examination. Every care has been taken to provide elaborate study materials covering three topics of General studies paper 1 viz.Post-independence Consolidation and Reorganization within the country; Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India and Effects of Globalization on Indian society. At the end of every chapter ten solved questions have been appended which would prove handy to the aspirants to attempt the questions in exams. Every chapter has been covered in much detail to meet the need of the candidates which would equip them to tackle every sort of questions reading this material. Though every care has been taken to provide as impeccable and error free material as possible. yet, some errors cannot be ruled out. The readers are welcomed to suggest improvements. Contents: 1. Post-independence Consolidation and Reorganization within the country. 2. Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India 3. Effects of Globalization on Indian society
Publisher: Maniram Sharma
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The book has been prepared taking into consideration the specific needs of the aspirants of APSC Civil services examination. Assam Public service commission has recently revised its syllabus on the lines of UPSC Civil services. The book is further useful for the aspirants of UPSC Main as well as for the aspirants of other states civil services examination. Every care has been taken to provide elaborate study materials covering three topics of General studies paper 1 viz.Post-independence Consolidation and Reorganization within the country; Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India and Effects of Globalization on Indian society. At the end of every chapter ten solved questions have been appended which would prove handy to the aspirants to attempt the questions in exams. Every chapter has been covered in much detail to meet the need of the candidates which would equip them to tackle every sort of questions reading this material. Though every care has been taken to provide as impeccable and error free material as possible. yet, some errors cannot be ruled out. The readers are welcomed to suggest improvements. Contents: 1. Post-independence Consolidation and Reorganization within the country. 2. Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India 3. Effects of Globalization on Indian society