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RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi
ADITYA MUKHERJEE
RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi undertakes the novel experiment of juxtaposing three apparently quite different issues
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Splendour in the Grass: Innovations in Administration
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Stories of outstanding success that illustrate breakthrough innovations in public administration....
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A View from the Outside: Why Good Economics Works for Everyone
P.Chidambaram
Economics is the science of the possible made to look like the art of the impossible’ is a definition that ....
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The Red Letters: My Father's Enchanted Period
Ved Mehta
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Goa: A Daughter's Story
Maria Aurora Couto
In December 1961, Indian troops marched into Goa putting an end to over 450 years of Portuguese rule, the longest spell of colonialism on the .......
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silicon Valley Greats
S S Kshatriya
The prologue is the story of the history of Silicon Valley - William Shockley, the inventor of the transistor - the device that started the computing revolution; and his band....
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An Autobiography: Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru's life was closely intertwined with the history and destiny of modern India...
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The Discovery of India: Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Written over five months when Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned in the Ahmadnagar Fort......
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Glimpses of World History: Being Further Letters to His Daughter
Jawaharlal Nehru
On New Year's Day, 1931, Jawaharlal Nehru began a remarkable series of letters on the history of the world to his daughter, Indira.......
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The Golden Temple
Singh, Mohinder, Shanker, Sondeep
Harimandir Sahib, popularly known as the Golden Temple, is the most important Sikh shrine and has emerged as the spiritual capital of the Sikh faith........
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Delhi Is Not Far: A Novel
Ruskin Bond
Momentous things happen elsewhere, in the big cities of Nehru’s India. In dull and dusty Pipalnagar, each day is like another, and ‘there is not exactly despair, but....
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
William Dalrymple
James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company....
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Innovative India: Insights for the Thinking Manager
Parmit Chadha, Radhika Chadha
Innovation is key to competitive advantage, as most Indian managers will agree....
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Buffalo Nationalism: A Critique of Spiritual Fascism
Kancha Ilaiah
‘O Mother Lachumamma, your blouse is torn, Your hair is soiled, your sari in rags, You have no money to buy new ones.....
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Behind Closed Doors
Rinki Bhattacharya
To be assaulted, abused and raped by someone as intimate as a husband, or lover, is the most degrading experience...
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Being Indian: The Truth about Why the 21st Century Will Be India's
Pavan K Varma
This book is a new and dramatically different inquiry into what India and being Indian mean......
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Violence, Law & Women's Rights in South Asia
Savitri Goonesekere
Violence against women is a manifest and incontrovertible fact in South Asia. Deep-rooted biases against women......
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On Balance: An Autobiography
Leila Seth
The first woman Chief Justice of a High Court in India, the first woman Judge of the Delhi High Court, the first woman to top the Bar examinations in London: seventy-three-year-old
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The IITians
Sandipan Deb
IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) is India’s biggest and most powerful brand, and arguably the toughest and most influential engineering school in the....
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Brahmins and Bungalows: Travels Through South Indian History
Kavita Watsa
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The Scientific Edge: The Indian Scientist from Vedic to Modern
Jayant V Narlikar
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India's Tryst With The Atom
O. P. Sabherwal
India's Tryst With The Atom is the first comprehensive book on India's nuclear programme - peaceful.......
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Kashmir: The Untold Story
Humra Quraishi
Since 1989, Kashmir has rarely been out of the headlines, as local militants, foreign terrorists and Indian security..
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Intellectuals and Society: A Study of Teachers in India
Kameshwar Choudhary
There are sharply divided opinion on intellectuals/ intelligentsia in both academics and in common parlance.....
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Journeys Through Babudom and Netaland Governance In India
TSR Subramanian
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The Insider
P V Narasimha Rao
The Insider is a book that emerges from the hidden heart of Indian politics. Through a deft interweaving of fact and fiction, it tells the compelling,
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Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families and Their Passage from India
S. Mitra Kalita
Most Indians know that thousands of their compatriots live in New Jersey, USA, but the realities of these .......
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The Heart of India
Mark Tully
For more than twenty years Mark Tully was the BBC Chief of Bureau in Delhi and his name and his voice became synonymous with the country he had made his home. For years....
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Mr And Mrs Dutt: Memories of Our Parents
Namrata Dutt Kumar & Priya Dutt
Nargis and Sunil Dutt were married in 1958. Their marriage gave them much happiness and three children: Sanjay, Namrata and Priya.....
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Eminent Historians
Arun Shourie
The noted controversial writer investigates the ways of so-called eminent historians. He argues that such people have captured institutions......
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Court and their Judgments
Arun Shourie
In this Powerful and thought-provoking book Arun Shourie examines the premises, prerequisites and consequences related to Courts in India and their judgments.
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Bearing Witness- Partition,independence, end of raj
Sukeshi Kamra
August 14/15, 1947, means more than the ‘Independence’ of India. It marks the birth of two nation states..
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Despatches from Kargil
Srinjoy Chowdhury
The Kargil war in the summer of 1999 was a tale of brutality and courage. Here was war in its essence: barren, icy peaks held by a strongly entrenched enemy, and the only....
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Beyond the Courtyard: A Sequel to Unveiling India
Anees Jung
Nineteen years ago, Anees Jung embarked on a journey that resulted in the best-selling book Unveiling India, a poignant and revealing look at the women of India.....
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Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter's Elegy
Sara Suleri Goodyear
Sara Suleri Goodyear’s Meatless Days, recognized now as a classic of postcolonial literature, is a finely wrought memoir of her girlhood in
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Gem in the Lotus: The Seeding of Indian Civilizati
Abraham Eraly
‘In the beginning there was no India’—thus begins this engrossing and detailed study of the formative centuries of the Indian civilization. In Gem in the Lotus, Abraham....
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Under a Cloud
Binoo K. John
It is rain that has made Cherra famous, and Binoo’s mission is to unravel the mystery behind the curious phenomenon which brings this area as much rain in.......
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The Narmada Dammed: An Inquiry into the Politics o
Dilip D Souza
Are dams political symbols?
With its 18 October 2000 judgment, the Supreme Court allowed construction to resume on the Sardar Sarovar dam. But controversy still
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May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons
Elisabeth Bumiller
A Journey Among the Women of India
In this travelogue, Washington Post reporter in India Elisabeth Bumiller, goes to most parts of India examining the realities of the....
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Riot after Riot
M. J. Akbar
visited numerous riot-torn cities, towns and villages- Jamshedpur, Moradabad, Sarhupur, Meerut-to discover what lay behind the outbreaks of communal and caste violence that....
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Indian Realities in bits and pieces
Sham Lal
Even if is necessarily fragmented, the collection presents a live commentary on the shaping of India, a kaleidoscope of reflections on events, ideas and trends...
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Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism
Jyotirmaya Sharma
The upsurge of militant Hindu nationalism in the past decade has brought to the fore questions of who is a Hindu, what is Hinduism, and what does Hindutva and Hinduism....
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Big Book Of Malice
Khuswant Singh
Malice. The word is synonymous with Khushwant Singh; his pen has spared no one... ....
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The End of India
Khuswant Singh
I thought the nation was coming to an end,' wrote Khushwant Singh, looking back on the violence of Partition...
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A Touch of Greatness: Encounters with the Eminent
R M Lala
A Touch of Greatness is an engaging account of R.M. Lala’s meetings with luminaries he has known........
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Faith: Filling the God-sized Hole
Renuka Narayanan
This volume contains a selection of writings in ‘Faithline’, the popular column begun in April 2000, which... ....
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Childhood Days
Satyajit Ray
Who was Satyajit Ray, writer, director, music composer and artist? Where did he make his beginnings? Who were the people he grew up with
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Flight into Fear: The Captain's Story
Captain Devi Saran, Srinjoy Chowdhury
The Captain’s account brings to vivid life the horror of seven days inside the hijacked IC 814, on its way from Kathmandu to Delhi........
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Bapi - The love of my Life
Anoushka Shankar
Bapi - The Love of my life is a story told straight from the heart. Anoushka Shankar, inheritor of her father's musical legacy, unfolds the pages of the maestro's eventful....
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The Corrupt Society
Chandan Mitra
India is currently ranked among the ten most corrupt nations in the world. From the much-discussed nexus between the political class, the bureaucracy, businessmen and syndicates
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Women & Men In My Life
Khuswant Singh
What can you expect when Khushwant Singh-irrepressible as ever, cuttingly candid and provocatively truthful-decides to write about some of the women and men in his life?....
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Nature watch
Khuswant Singh
This is the diary of a nature lover patterned after the traditional Baramasi of Indian poets. It tells you of trees, flowers, fruits, birds. snakes, insects and animals....
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Umrao Jan Ada
Khuswant Singh
Old lucknow is now but a dream, but this work preserves for posterity the full flavour of that golden age in the history of the city, which comes to life in the pages
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More Malicious Gossip
Khuswant Singh
This selection of Khushwant Singh's prose is like the man himself: blunt, perceptive, incorrigibly provocative, often amusing but always bubbling with life. The book includes....
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Malicious Gossip
Khuswant Singh
This book is the a selection from 'Gossip: Sweet and Sour' and Malice', in which Khushwant Singh gives you 'the low-down' on people he has known and places he has visited.....
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Children Of Kali
Kevin Rushby
Through India in Search of Bandits, the Thug Cult and the British Raj
They murdered more than a million Indian travellers without spilling a drop of blood. They
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The Realm of Supraphysics
Rishi Kumar Mishra
While modern science has recognized the interplay of energy and matter, it has not realized the intrinsic relationship between these two and mind. This is the boundary....
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Return of the Aryans
Bhagwan S. Gidwani
Return of the Aryans tells the epic story of the Aryans—a gripping tale of kings and poets, seers and gods, battles and romance .......
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A Time Of Coalition
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
This topical and absorbing book, written by two eminent journalists, convincingly argues against two commonly held beliefs concerning Indian politics.
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Dancing in the Family: An Unconventional Memoir of
Sukanya Rahman
Dancing In The Family is the story of how Sukanya’s grandmother, born Esther Sherman, in Petoskey, Michigan... ....
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The Future of Competition: Co-creating Unique Value with Customers
C. K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy
Consumers have greater product variety today than ever, yet they are less satisfied. Top management has more strategic options, yet they deliver less value.......
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Taj: A Story of Mughal India
Timeri N. Murari
When his queen Arjumand Banu—Mumtaz-i-Mahal, the Chosen One of the Palace—died, Shah Jahan wanted to build a monument that..
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Language as an Ethic
Vijay Nambisan
Global communication has created new possibilities as well as dilemmas for language, its meaning and uses. But as battles, riots and rock concerts from far and near come....
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The Doha Development Agenda: A Global View
T K Bhaumick
The fourth WTO Ministerial in Doha (Qatar) had an ambitious negotiating mandate in a Work Programme that was launched on 14 September 2001, to be completed by 2005.....
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Living Faith: The Many Faces of Sacred India
Dinesh Khanna
‘The ultimate sacred text in India,’ writes Pico Iyer in his introduction to Living Faith, ‘is nothing but its daily life: Religion is not something tucked
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The Legends of The Panjab (Vol.1)
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The legends of The panjab (Vol.1) is a book about the folktales and folkfore, the heroes and the heroines of the Panjab in the times gone by.....
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Communal Rage In Secular India
Rafiq Zakaria
Why did the torching of 58 kar sevaks in the Sabarmati Express at Godhra take place? It was undoubtedly .......
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Outcaste: A Memoir
Narendra Jadhav (Dr.)
But Outcaste is much more than a personal recounting of the downside of the caste divide in India. It also examines Dalit issues in the context of the Dalits’ awakening
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The Burden of Democracy
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
After nearly six decades of its existence, there is a pervasive feeling that India’s democracy is in crisis. But what is the nature of this threat? In this essay....
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In Search of a Future: The Story of Kashmir
David Devadas
1931. The year Kashmir’s majority community revolted against their maharaja and sharply expressed a Kashmiri Muslim identity........
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Her Story So Far: Tales of the Girl Child in India
Edited by - Monica Das
‘A girl should walk so softly that there shouldn’t be any noise of her footfall. She should be so humble as to fit into a ring without disharmony.’
Her Story
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Evolution of Calcutta Customs A Study in History
A K Raha & Swadesh Basu
Beginning with the dyas of Kautilya and his Asthasastra, the authors delve deep in the history of Indian customs with special refernce to the customs of Calcutta,....
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Vijitatma: Pioneer-Founder Ardeshir Godrej
B.K. Karanjia
The story of Ardeshir Burjorji Godrej, founder-pioneer of the Godrej enterprise, is rich and varied. Deeply influenced by the nationalist Dadabhai......
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The Concerned Indian’s Guide to Communalism
K N Panickar
Thought provoking and incisive, The Concerned Indian’s Guide to Communalism urges us to question...
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If You Are Afraid of Heights
Raj Kamal Jha
At ground level in our dying cities, it seems there is no hope at all; little beauty, and no space. If you believe in the claims of a street magician, you can climb onto....
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Secular Commonsense
Mukul Keshvan
Interrogating India is a new series that looks critically at the common sense prevailing on some of the most pressing issues of our times.......
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South Asia 9/11 Searching for Stability
Observer Research Foundation
This volume is the outcome of an international conference organised jointly by the Observer Resarch Foundation of India and Luxemberg Foundation of Germany on February
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Of Some Consequence: A Soldier Remembers
General Sundarji
This is collection is the hitherto unwritten story of a soldier’s life in the 1940s and 50s........
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Kunjamma….Ode to a Nightingale – M.S. Subbulakshmi
Lakshmi Vishwanathan
In Kunjamma—Ode to a Nightingale, Lakshmi Vishwanathan explains why she believes knowing M.S. Subbulakshmi has been the greatest blessing of her life.......
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Winter, 1975: Afghanistan a country hidden in the corner of Asia, ruled over by a fading monarchy on the verge of an internal coup. But in Kabul
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Navies Of South Asia
K R Singh
K. R. Singh's book analyses the evolution of the navies of South Asian states. Though all of... ....
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The Cosmic Matrix
Rishi Kumar Mishra
The Cosmic Matrix is an expression of the author’s life-long quest and mission to unearth.... ....
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