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Author: Sharada Dwivedi Publisher: ISBN: 9788190060288 Category : Automobiles Languages : en Pages : 324
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This Lavishly Illustrated Work Is Presented In 6 Chapters - Introduction: Before The Car - Arrival And Adventure - Tours And Ceremonies - Shoots And Shikars - Maharanis And Motorcars - Marques And Markets- Collectors And Connoisseurs- Afterwards: The Cars Now- Map- Table Of Salute States- Select Bibliography- Photo Credits- A Collection Item.
Author: Sharada Dwivedi Publisher: ISBN: 9788190060288 Category : Automobiles Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
This Lavishly Illustrated Work Is Presented In 6 Chapters - Introduction: Before The Car - Arrival And Adventure - Tours And Ceremonies - Shoots And Shikars - Maharanis And Motorcars - Marques And Markets- Collectors And Connoisseurs- Afterwards: The Cars Now- Map- Table Of Salute States- Select Bibliography- Photo Credits- A Collection Item.
Author: Gautam Sen Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK ISBN: 9780857330635 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book is a full history of the automobile in India, and gives a complete study of India's automotive elite, The Majarajas, who purchased many exotic and exclusive cars from British, European, and American car makers mainly before their independence in 1947. Packed with interest and insight, there are 592 photos both period and contemporary, including the 1912 Brooke Swan (bodywork inspired by a swan). This book has been written by a leading expert Indian author who has meticulously studied the subject.
Author: Gautam Sen Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN: 9390914272 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 368
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For thousands of people, the automobile has been, andyet remains an object of pleasure, pride, status, sports, excitement, emotion and passion. The automobile has been the most important invention of the twentieth century. Not only has it given the hoi polloi freedom, mobility and liberty, it has changed our lifestyle, the way we live and interact, the way we work, the kind of jobs that we do, and has led to an evolution of our cultures. It has changed the cities, the countryside, the way they are conceived, designed and constructed, the way our houses and apartment blocks are configured, as well as the technology involved therein. Post-independence, the automobile played a very important role in India's industrial growth, as well as a hero in many Bollywood movies. The automobile is yet transforming India, as it connects the remotest corners of our vast nation, providing mobility, freedom and jobs to millions. It has acted as an emancipator for women in many parts of the nation, allowing them to go to school and university, commute to work and to the marketplace. With the help of this book, Gautam Sen has traced the history of the automobile in India and the way it has shaped the economy and society here. He has also talked about the evolution of races and bikes in Asia. The riveting story told in the most fascinating anecdotal tone, this book is filled with well-researched facts and details for the lovers of automobiles. The pictures in the book, too, are gorgeous and rare.
Author: Gita Piramal Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 935118739X Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 521
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The inside track to India's most powerful tycoons The eight business maharajas profiled here are among Asia's most powerful industrial tycoons, Their combined turnover runs into billions of rupees, and between them they employ some 650,000 people, while indirectly affecting the lives of millions more. Sip a cup of tea, drive to work, listen to music, build a house and the chances are that in these and a myriad other ways you are using products that they manufacture or market. By any yardstick, the achievements of these men would rank among the great business stories of our time. How did these men build their enormous empires? What are their management secrets? How did they thrive and prosper even as others failed? What is their vision for the future? Top business writer and industry insider Gita Piramal draws on exhaustive interviews and in-depth research to discover the answers to these and related questions in her profiles of the men who will lead the country's push to become an industrial superpower in the 21st century.
Author: Arkady Roytman Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 048684630X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Featuring an interesting mix of historical and modern models, 30 drawings include such famous examples as France's high-speed Train à Grande Vitesse, the legendary Trans-Siberian Express, the scenic Panama Canal Railway, as well as select interior views.
Author: Francesca Cartier Brickell Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0525621636 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 673
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“A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark.”—The Economist The “astounding” (André Leon Talley) story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon—as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives “Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud.”—The Wall Street Journal The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men’s wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world’s best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry. Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the brothers, has traveled the world researching her family’s history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more. The Cartiers also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm’s most iconic jewelry—the notoriously cursed Hope Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces—and the long line of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor. Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.
Author: Amin Jaffer Publisher: ISBN: 9788174363725 Category : Affluent consumers Languages : en Pages : 0
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Based equally in the archives of firms such as Louis Vuitton, Boucheron, Chaumet and Hermès, and in palace and private collections, this book explores the role of maharajas in an age of high spending and fashion. It brings together original designs with surviving objects, exploring for the first time the creative dialogue between Indian princes and the skilled tradesmen who produced wonders for their delectation. Married to the objects themselves are the absorbing and often humourous accounts of how maharajas indulged their tastes with unparalleled extravagance and aplomb.
Author: J. Barton Scott Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022636867X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
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Spiritual Despots by historian of religion J. Barton Scott zeroes in on the quaint term "priestcraft" to track anticlerical polemics in Britain and South Asia during the colonial period. Scott's aim is to show how anticlerical rhetoric spread through the colonies alongside ideas about modern secular subjectivity. Through close readings of texts in English, Hindi, and Gujarati, he shows in compelling detail how the critique of priestly conspiracy gave rise to a new ideal of the self-disciplining subject and a vision of modern Hinduism that was based on unmediated personal experience and self-regulation rather than priestly tutelary power. Spiritual Despots offers a new perspective on what some scholars have called "Protestant Hinduism," and, more broadly, contributes to the emerging field of "post-secular" studies by shedding light on the colonial genealogy of secular subjectivity.
Author: Sharada Dwivedi
Author: Sharada Dwivedi
Author: Gautam Sen
Author: Gautam Sen
Author: W. Christie
Author: Gautam Sen
Author: Gita Piramal
Author: Arkady Roytman
Author: Francesca Cartier Brickell
Author: Amin Jaffer
Author: J. Barton Scott