In this book Nanda analyzes Gandhi's aims and methods during the period 1915-1925, his emergence as the dominant figure on the Indian political stage, his confrontation with the British, and...
The battles whose sites are here depicted include some of the greatest military commanders of all time, including Alexander the Great, Genghiz Khan, Mahmud Ghaznavi, Ranjit Singh, and Sir Charles...
The Forgotten Monuments of Orissa
This is the first full-length study of the current state of television in India. It views the whole history of the medium within the larger perspective of India's post-Independence encounters...
While building a modern economy and a democratic, secular society, India has inherited a rich civilization with an unparalleled diversity of ethnic, linguistic and religious groups going back many thousands...
Sail with the British to India and follow their progress from traders to rulers of the vast subcontinent. Examines the lives of British pirates, soldiers, diplomats, adventurers, and missionaries as...
This volume provides a cross-disciplinary analysis by leading Indian social scientists of the transformations unleashed by the introduction of egalitarian and liberal principles of government within the context of the...
"The capital market in India has experienced a steady stream of episodes of market irregularities in the decade of the 1990s. Although the stock markets have undergone a number of...
In his monumental work Bloody Shambles, Volume Two, Christopher Shores described in detail the British retreat out of Burma, culminating at the end of May 1942. The monsoon then brought...
Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in whihc U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the...