India: A Million Mutinies Now

A brand new York instances striking Book

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his trips via his ancestral place of origin, with a brand new preface by means of the author.
 
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and fervour for a rustic that's right away his and absolutely alien, India: 1000000 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 advised via the innumerable frictions found in Indian society—the contradictions and compromises of non secular religion, the whim and chaos of random political forces. This e-book represents Naipaul’s final notice on his place of origin, 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. throughout the early Nineties or Europe's through the 1970s—has caused super social, political, and cultural switch. the result's a rustic that, whereas dealing with significant fiscal development, has additionally all started to completely inhabit its position at the international political degree. during this far-ranging examine the vital principles that experience formed this younger country, Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani bargains a definitive and unique interpretation of the country's earlier, current, and future.

India's destiny rests on greater than easily fiscal development; it additionally is determined by reform and innovation in all sectors of public lifestyles. Imagining India strains the efforts of the country's previous and current leaders as they paintings to increase new frameworks that swimsuit India's particular features and demanding situations. Imagining India charts the tips which are an important to India's present infrastructure revolution and quest for common literacy, urbanization, and unification; maps the ideological battlegrounds of caste, greater schooling, and exertions reform; and argues that just a safeguard web of principles from social safeguard to public health and wellbeing to the surroundings can go beyond political agendas and shield India's fiscal future.

As a cofounder of Infosys, an international chief in details know-how, Nandan Nilekani has actively participated within the company's upward thrust within the final fifteen years. In Imagining India, he makes use of the worldwide adventure and figuring out 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 significant principles and demanding situations that face the rustic from inside of and as part of the worldwide economic system and charts a brand new future of a country that has proved itself to be younger, impatient, and vitally wakeful.

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

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

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

The 1st digital communique community remodeled language, distance, and time. This e-book researches the telegraph process of the British Indian Empire, c. 1850 to 1920, exploring the most major transnational phenomena of the imperial global, and the hyperlink among communique, Empire, and social switch.