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  • Where is God

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    From centuries, humanity has searched for the Divine—sometimes in sacred texts, sometimes in silence, nature, or the quiet stirrings of the heart. This book joins that timeless search. Rather than presenting a single doctrine or a fixed belief system, it invites you to explore a question that has fascinated seekers for ages: Where is God? Read with an open mind and a receptive heart. Pause where ... Read more

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  • Lal Bahadur Sasthri

    by H.S.K ...
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    Small of stature, simple and soft-spoken, Lal Bahadur proved to be one of the heroes of the history of India. A great general in Gandhij’s army of peaceful soldiers of freedom. He became the symbol of India's valor and self-respect. ... Read more

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    Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or ... Read more

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  • The Indian Naval Revolt of 1946

    Here is an authentic account of a brief, momentous event that preceded Indias Independence fifty years ago. This is a personal account by the author, a junior naval officer at the time, caught by chance at the centre of the disturbances in Bombay, and it indicates their far reaching implicationsthe historic trials in New Delhi, when Nehru was one of the defence lawyers of the Indian National Army, ... Read more

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  • Princely India and the British

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    In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and ... Read more

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  • Elite Forces of India and Pakistan

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    Influenced by the German use of paratroopers early in World War Two, General Sir Robert Cassels, the Commander-in-Chief India, ordered the formation of an airborne cadre in October 1940.Thus marked the origins of India's first élite units. Pakistan can trace the origins of its own army airborne to the common parentage of British-raised forces. Following the partition from India in August 1947, it ... Read more

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  • Fluent Bodies

    Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance

    Series series Body, commodity, text
    Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as Ayurveda evolved from an eclectic set of healing practices into a sign of Indian national culture, it was reimagined as a healing force not simply ... Read more

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  • Tribal Invasion and Kashmir

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    The Tribal Invasion was a contentious and significant action, because of its serious consequences; and because it clearly violated the Standstill Agreement concluded between Pakistan and the Ruler of Jammu and Kashmir. Furthermore, it resulted in death and destruction of thousands of innocent people; and it forced the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir to seek help from India, which was only made ... Read more

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  • Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade

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  • The Indo-Aryan Controversy

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  • Locked in Place

    State-Building and Late Industrialization in India

    by Vivek Chibber ...
    Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of ... Read more

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  • A Restatement of Religion

    Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism

    In this third installment of his comprehensive history of “India’s religion” and reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna. Sharma’s work focuses on Vivekananda’s reinterpretation and formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as ... Read more

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