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• A Concise History of Modern India
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Barbara D Metcalf
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In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world affairs
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• The Other Indians - A Political and Cultural History of South Asians in America
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Vinay Lal
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The Indian Diaspora today, more so than ever before, is an incontestable fact of world culture This book offers a crisp and politically engaged narrative of the social and cultural history of Indian Americans.
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• Islamic Reform and Revival in Nineteenth-century India
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Harlan O Pearson
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The political transition from rule by the Muslim Mughal dynasty to British colonial rule led to a basic religious reorientation among Indian Muslims. In proclaiming religious purification and revival as well as holy war to the Indian masses during a time of rapid historical change, the Muhammadi reformers helped to shape a new individual and communal identity and also initiated a process of Islamic reform in India.
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• Medieval India - The Study of a Civilization
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Irfan Habib
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The period spanning 600 AD to 1750 AD is perceived as the long phase of India's transition from the ancient to the immediately pre-colonial times. Drawing upon primary materials, archival records, historical narratives and accounts of travelers and European commercial records, the book is an authoritative introduction to this era.
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• Bharatatattva - A Course in Indology Volume 2
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Swami Prabhananda
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This handbook, containing the lectures delivered by the professors renowned in their respective fields in Bharatatattva, aims at giving a deeper understanding of Indology in its spiritual, social, political and economic dimensions. Papers presented in this volume deal with the sacred literature of ancient India, the exquisite literary genius that flourished in the post-Vedic period
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• Identity and Ethos - The Adaptive Indian
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S Radhakrishnan
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‘When one says that he is an Indian, whether settled abroad or in India, the matter is not one of geography but of history. What is the tradition for which an Indian stands? What are the ideals to which he adheres? If we put questions like these, we get an obvious answer…it is the great ideals of abhaya, asanga and ahimsa’.
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• Bharratatattva - A Course in Indology Volume 1
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Swami Prabhananda
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This handbook, containing the lectures delivered by the professors renowned in their respective fields in Bharatatattva, aims at giving a deeper understanding of Indology in its spiritual, social, political and economic dimensions. Papers presented in this volume deal with the sacred literature of ancient India, the exquisite literary genius that flourished in the post-Vedic period
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