Books written by Stanley A. Wolpert

  • A New History of India

    A New History of India, now in its fifth edition, explores today's affluent India. This edition remains the most readable and illuminating one-volume history of India and brings students up-to-date on current developments.

  • Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
    Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

    ... Dr. B. S., 132 Morarji, Narottam, 116 Morley,John,21, 57,62, 73 Moscow, 127, 128 Mountbatten, Lady Edwina Ashley, ... Madras, 44, 84, 128,216 Maguire, Mairead, 266 Mahabharata, 23 Maharashtra, 43, 72, 106, 218 Ma/w^w ("Great Soul"), ...

  • A New History of India
    A New History of India

    A New History of India, now in its fifth edition, explores today's affluent India. This edition remains the most readable and illuminating one-volume history of India and brings students up-to-date...

  • Encyclopedia of India
    Encyclopedia of India

    Contains 580 alphabetized articles on topics and people related to India's history, culture, religion, and politics, and features maps, charts, sidebars, and more than four hundred black-and-white illustrations.

  • A New History of India
    A New History of India

    Throughout, Wolpert strives to record history fairly and truthfully, portraying with clarity andintensity both the brightest achievements of Indian civilization, and the darkest depths of its persistent socio-secual inequities, and economic ...

  • India
    India

    "--Library Journal PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION: "Wolpert understands India. . . . Fluent, wide-ranging and often wise, this volume is a useful addition to a shelf of books on India.

  • Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India
    Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India

    Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, this text provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britain's decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire.

  • India
    India

    Wolpert understands India. His summary of Hindu philosophy is a triumph of concision; his insight into the family as the core Indian social institution helps explain other things, including the importance of consensus in Indian politics.

  • An Error of Judgement

    An Error of Judgement

  • Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh

    Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh