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Journalist Ian Jack described this book, and its description of the "intellectual foundations" of the modern Indian state, as "indispensable" reading. [3] Abraham Verghese in The New York Times writes, "[the book] argues that politics, more than culture or religious chauvinism, shaped modern India." [4]
A. J. Arberry notes the Tabakat-i Nasiri, Tarikh-i Firoz Shahi and Zafarnama as being among those of which only parts were published (though in the last case, a chronicle of Timur, only a small part of the book concerned India). Arberry also points out that the quality of sources selected was variable and that the documents from which the ...
Marshall notes the British went into partnership with Indian bankers and raised revenue through local tax administrators and kept the old Mughal rates of taxation. Professor Ray agrees that the East India Company inherited an onerous taxation system that took one-third of the produce of Indian cultivators. [28]
[3] [4] Indian Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore's suggested to study the works of Vivekananda to understand India. He also told, in Vivekananda there was nothing negative, but everything positive. [5] In last one century, hundreds of scholarly books have been written on Vivekananda, his works and his philosophy in different languages.
The Idea of India; India (Al-Biruni) India 2020; India as a Secular State; India Becoming; The India Way; The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World; India: A Million Mutinies Now; India: A Wounded Civilization; India: The Urban Transition; Indian Journals; The Indian Metropolis; Indica (Ctesias) Inglorious Empire; The Irresistible Revolution
Book Subject Area Topic Collection Language Author Date Reign of Reign Age Geographic Region Modern Name of Geographic Region Notes Rig Veda: Hindu hymns about various gods, scientific revelations and references to historic events. Part 1 of the four part Hindu canon. Veda/Samhita: Sanskrit: No concrete information available, but attributed to ...
The Encyclopedia of India is a four-volume encyclopedia on Indian history and culture under editor-in-chief Stanley Wolpert. The series was published by Gale (Cengage) in November 2005 under ISBN 978-0-684-31349-8. [1] The Library Journal has described Wolpert's work as "outstanding" [2] [failed verification]
The book cannot be imported into India. [3] The book is a memoir of the author's time in British India as a veteran soldier. [6] 1937 The Land of the Lingam: Arthur Miles It cannot be imported into India. [3] The book is about Hinduism, caste and phallicism. [10] 1940 Mysterious India: Moki Singh The book cannot be imported into India. [3]