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India: A Million Mutinies Now

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Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his trips via his ancestral native land, with a brand new preface by way of the author.
 
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and fervour for a rustic that's straight away his and absolutely alien, India: one million Mutinies Now relates the tales of the various humans he met touring there greater than fifty years in the past. He explores how they've been prompt via the innumerable frictions found in Indian society—the contradictions and compromises of spiritual religion, the whim and chaos of random political forces. This booklet represents Naipaul’s final observe on his fatherland, complementing his different India travelogues, a space of Darkness and India: A Wounded Civilization.

Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation

A visionary examine the evolution and way forward for India through a preeminent enterprise leader

India's fresh financial boom—similar in scope to that of the U.S. in the course of the early Nineteen Nineties or Europe's through the 1970s—has caused super social, political, and cultural swap. the result's a rustic that, whereas dealing with marvelous fiscal progress, has additionally started to totally inhabit its function at the international political level. during this far-ranging examine the primary rules that experience formed this younger state, Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani bargains a definitive and unique interpretation of the country's prior, current, and future.

India's destiny rests on greater than easily financial development; it additionally is determined by reform and innovation in all sectors of public lifestyles. Imagining India lines the efforts of the country's previous and current leaders as they paintings to strengthen new frameworks that go well with India's particular features and demanding situations. Imagining India charts the information which are an important to India's present infrastructure revolution and quest for common literacy, urbanization, and unification; maps the ideological battlegrounds of caste, better schooling, and exertions reform; and argues that just a security web of rules from social safeguard to public well-being to the surroundings can go beyond political agendas and protect India's financial future.

As a cofounder of Infosys, an international chief in info know-how, Nandan Nilekani has actively participated within the company's upward push within the final fifteen years. In Imagining India, he makes use of the worldwide adventure and realizing he has won at Infosys as a springboard from which to debate the way forward for India and its function as a world citizen and rising monetary giant.

a desirable window into the way forward for India, Imagining India engages with the relevant rules and demanding situations that face the rustic from inside and as part of the worldwide economic climate and charts a brand new future of a kingdom that has proved itself to be younger, impatient, and vitally wakeful.

Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan: Stone Curlews to Owls

This enormous ten-volume sequence, the 1st quantity of which was once released in 1996, is the main entire and trustworthy reference paintings at the birds of the Indian subcontinent. A completely revised moment version with new plates, textual content revisions, and the addition of latest subspecies, it contains information regarding long-range migration and taxonomic adjustments, besides lifestyles heritage info, debts of habit, ecology, and distribution and migration documents.

Telegraphic Imperialism: Crisis and Panic in the Indian Empire, c. 1830

The 1st digital conversation community remodeled language, distance, and time. This ebook researches the telegraph method of the British Indian Empire, c. 1850 to 1920, exploring the most major transnational phenomena of the imperial global, and the hyperlink among conversation, Empire, and social swap.

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Vhoever, great or small, argues in that way, you arc not to ac t accordingly. ' (above) The stone pillar in L hasa which bears a bilingual inscription recording the treaty made in 821/822 between China and Tibet (below) A group of eighth - to ni nth-century chapels at gNos-gsa;' between Gyantse and Shigatse (above) Tomb of rNgog Blo-ldtm shes-Tah (eleventh century). An early example of a tiled pagoda-style roof combined with normal Tibetan building (see pages 141 and 160) (helow) The monastery of R va-sgreng, founded in 1056 by 'Brom-ston, who lived there until his death in 106...

The simplest and most common type is diamond-shaped, consisting simply of crossed sticks with threads connecting the arms, but far more complex ones, wheel-shaped or box-shaped or a combination of several different shapes, may be employed. The god or demon is caught in this device like a bird in a cage. He is given his ransom-offerin gs, a~d then dismissed by being hurled away. These contraptions are still used by the T ibetans, usually nowadays as part of Buddhist ceremonies, but their use goes presumably back to pre-Buddhist times.

Their military prowess is duly and sincerely admired; the size of their armies is frequently recorded, and probably inflated; their persistent and skilful methods in securing what they want are remarked on, and we have seen from a quotation (page 31) that some Chinese ministers warned against letting the Tibetans have copies of Chinese literary works in case they learned too much ; we may fairly presume that at this early period there were a few Tibetan scholars of literary Chinese at the Tibetan court.

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