India: A Million Mutinies Now

A brand new York occasions remarkable Book

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his trips via his ancestral native land, with a brand new preface via the author.
 
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and keenness for a rustic that's right away his and absolutely alien, India: 1000000 Mutinies Now relates the tales of some of the humans he met touring there greater than fifty years in the past. He explores how they've been recommended by means of the innumerable frictions found in Indian society—the contradictions and compromises of non secular religion, the whim and chaos of random political forces. This booklet 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 by way of a preeminent enterprise leader

India's contemporary monetary boom—similar in scope to that of the USA through the early Nineties or Europe's through the 1970s—has prompted super social, political, and cultural switch. the result's a rustic that, whereas handling fabulous financial development, has additionally all started to totally inhabit its position at the global political level. during this far-ranging examine the important principles that experience formed this younger state, 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 progress; it additionally will depend on reform and innovation in all sectors of public lifestyles. Imagining India lines the efforts of the country's prior and current leaders as they paintings to boost new frameworks that go well with India's particular features and demanding situations. Imagining India charts the guidelines which are the most important to India's present infrastructure revolution and quest for common literacy, urbanization, and unification; maps the ideological battlegrounds of caste, greater schooling, and hard work reform; and argues that just a security web of rules from social safety to public wellbeing and fitness to the surroundings can go beyond political agendas and shield India's financial future.

As a cofounder of Infosys, an international chief in details expertise, 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 position as an international citizen and rising financial giant.

a desirable window into the way forward for India, Imagining India engages with the crucial 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 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 enormous ten-volume sequence, the 1st quantity of which used to be released in 1996, is the main finished 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 historical past info, debts of habit, ecology, and distribution and migration files.

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

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