After more than 20 years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India available. Wolpert has managed to condense over 4,000 years of continuity and development into a graceful and engaging 544 pages of text. The book discussesmodern India's rapidly growing population and even more rapidly expanding industry and economy withing the context of the country's past, as well as considering the prospects for India's future. 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 and political corruption.This edition has been revised and updated with a new preface and a new final chapter reflecting the significant social, political, and economic issues which have occurred since 1997.
This book charts the fascinating life of Mahatma Gandhi, president of the Indian National Congress and peaceloving protestor for independence.
Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India
James McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India.
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Heinemann Advanced History titles focus on periods of great change in countries that are once again taking centre stage in world politics.
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A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.
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