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Author: Maneesha Tikekar
Publisher: Bibliophile South Asia
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9788185002347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based On The Author`S Five Months Stay In Pakistan, The Book Is About The People Of Pakistan, Their Cities And History, Their Complex Social Fabric And Their Search For Harmonised Cultural Identity Form An Indian Perspective The Text Is Under Three Main Headings-Tapestry Of Pakistan-Chessboard. Has Maps And A Number Of Beautiful Illustrations.
Author: Shankar Prasad
Publisher: Lancer Publishers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9788170622680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Faith Johnston
Publisher: Random House India
Published: 2013-12-04
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 8184005075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Flight Lieutenant Dilip Parulkar was shot down over Pakistan on 10 December 1971, he quickly turned that catastrophe into the greatest adventure of his life. On 13 August 1972, Parulkar, along with Malvinder Singh Grewal and Harish Sinhji, escaped from a POW camp in Rawalpindi. Four Miles to Freedom is their story. Based on interviews with eight Indian fighter pilots who helped prepare the escape and the two who escaped, as well as research into other sources, Four Miles is also the moving, sometimes amusing, account of how twelve fighter pilots from different ranks and backgrounds coped with deprivation, forced intimacy, and the pervasive uncertainty of a year in captivity, and how they came together to support Parulkar’s courageous escape plan.
Author: Joya Chatterji
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2023-11-21
Total Pages: 881
ISBN-13: 0300272685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan "[A] definitive new 20th-century thematic history of the Indian subcontinent that rejects hegemonic conceptions of national 'difference.'"--Financial Times This radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region's unique twentieth-century history and foregrounds the deep connections, rather than the well-publicized fissures, between the cultures of India and Pakistan. Taking the partitions of British India rather than the two world wars as the century's inflection points, Joya Chatterji examines how issues of nationalism, internal and external migration, and technological innovation contributed to South Asia's tumultuous twentieth century. Chatterji weaves together elements of her autobiography and family history; stories of such legendary figures as Tagore, Jinnah, Gandhi, and Nehru; and, in particular, the accounts of the many who were left behind and marginalized in relentless nation-building projects. Chatterji examines the countries' mirroring patterns in state building, social and cultural life, modes of leisure, consumption, and oppression, and offers a timely course correction to our understanding of the dynamics of South Asian history. It reframes the events of the twentieth century that are continuing to play out in the present day.
Author: Jacqueline H. Fewkes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-10-27
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1135973091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses the trade system in Ladakh (India), a busy entrepôt for Silk Route trade between Central and South Asia. The author's research combines anthropological, historical, and archaeological methods of investigation to present a cultural history of South/Central Asia.
Author: Disha Experts
Publisher: Disha Publications
Published: 2017-07-04
Total Pages: 1113
ISBN-13: 9386320320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →IAS is one of the most sought after career these days. For an aspirant to be successful in this exam, he must have a thorough knowledge of India - social, political, economical, geographical, international climate. Students need to start well in advance such that they not only attain the fundamental knowledge but also gain the ability to generate their opinion and ideas about a topic. The IAS Foundation Book is an attempt in the same direction. Undergraduate Students and class 11/ 12 students who aspire for this career can start with this book. The book provides 175+ articles from diverse areas like History, Geography of the World , Polity Governance, Constitution, Social Justice, International relations, Technology, Economic Development, Bio diversity, Environment, Security, Disaster Management, Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude. These articles not just provide you the complete update on the topic but will also guide you to analyse and explore the various issues associated with it. The articles are followed by exercises constituting vocabulary questions, comprehension questions, related general awareness questions and opinion creation/ analytical questions. The book provides answers to the 1st three type of questions. The opinion creation/ analytical questions are open-ended and requires a lot of thinking and analysis before answering. It is one of the most powerful book that will expose you to the most sensitive issues, ideas, events, people or places.
Author: Ilyas Chattha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-16
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 100908206X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Punjab Borderland offers a fascinating insight into how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was made, subverted, and transformed. Dispelling the established historiographical narratives of an increasingly militarised border that presents as the epitome of animosity and a classic example of inter-state tension, this book offers a corrective to these accounts by bringing out narratives of border crossings and social relations built on mutual benefit and trust. It conceptualises the making of the vast contraband as an analytical tool, not merely as borderland societies' modes for evading the state imposition of a partitioned geography on their local lifeworld, but as a catalyst for enabling social mobility and political empowerment for the population involved and a thriving market for consumption in the urban centres. It reveals a 'bottom-up' history of the Punjab border and the invention of the borderland society, narrating a story with local meanings and transnational dimensions.
Author: Ayesha Jalal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-09-16
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0674744993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her native land amid the throes of global change, Ayesha Jalal provides an insider’s assessment of how this nuclear-armed Muslim nation evolved as it did and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region. “[An] important book...Ayesha Jalal has been one of the first and most reliable [Pakistani] political historians [on Pakistan]...The Struggle for Pakistan [is] her most accessible work to date...She is especially telling when she points to the lack of serious academic or political debate in Pakistan about the role of the military.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books “[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any meaningful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its supporters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s.” —Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal
Author: Hameed Fazal Gafoor
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2020-11-18
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1647835763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Life is too short to be spent on ‘What ifs.’” That’s what Sid thought when he wrote The Knot List, a list of things to do before he tied the knot, almost 9 years ago. Now, he finds himself clueless about his past and on a quest to find true love halfway across the world. The knot list remains the key to unlocking the truth behind the four women who have shaped his life – the possessive first crush, Ramona, the platonic lover, Maliha, the charming feminist, Ash or the maverick news reporter, Jeena. Unravel the mystery behind The Knot List as you take a journey with Sid to find True Love. 16 different forms of love; one knot list.
