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Author : Habibuz Zaman
Publisher : Janus Publishing Company Lim
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : 1857564057
An account of the author's experiences in the Indian sub-continent, living through a period of partition and independence, with an introduction to political developments and a socio-economic scenario.
Author : McKinsey & Company
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476735320
Reimagining India brings together leading thinkers from around the world to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by one of the most important and least understood nations on earth. India’s abundance of life—vibrant, chaotic, and tumultuous—has long been its foremost asset. The nation’s rising economy and burgeoning middle class have earned India a place alongside China as one of the world’s two indispensable emerging markets. At the same time, India’s tech-savvy entrepreneurs and rapidly globalizing firms are upending key sectors of the world economy. But what is India’s true potential? And what can be done to unlock it? McKinsey & Company has pulled in wisdom from many corners—social and cultural as well as economic and political—to launch a feisty debate about the future of Asia’s “other superpower.” Reimagining India features an all-star cast of contributors, including CNN’s Fareed Zakaria; Mukesh Ambani, CEO of India’s largest private conglomerate; Microsoft founder Bill Gates; Google chairman Eric Schmidt; Harvard Business School dean Nitin Nohria; award-winning authors Suketu Mehta (Maximum City), Edward Luce (In Spite of the Gods), and Patrick French (India: A Portrait); Nandan Nilekani, Infosys cofounder and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India; and a host of other leading executives, entrepreneurs, economists, foreign policy experts, journalists, historians, and cultural luminaries. These essays explore topics like the strengths and weaknesses of India’s political system, growth prospects for India’s economy, the competitiveness of Indian firms, India’s rising international profile, and the rapid evolution of India’s culture. Over the next decade India has the opportunity to show the rest of the developing world how open, democratic societies can achieve high growth and shared prosperity. Contributors offer creative strategies for seizing that opportunity. But they also offer a frank assessment of the risks that India’s social and political fractures will instead thwart progress, condemning hundreds of millions of people to enduring poverty. Reimagining India is a critical resource for readers seeking to understand how this vast and vital nation is changing—and how it promises to change the world around us.
Author : Manabendra Nath Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : India
ISBN : UVA:X004735292
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : UOM:39015079954106
A bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world. Also includes reviews.
Author : Gyanendra Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521807593
A compelling and harrowing examination of the violence that marked the Partition of India.
Author : Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415307872
A wide-ranging survey of the Indian sub-continent, Modern South Asia gives an enthralling account of South Asian history. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries from c.1700 to the present. Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, Modern South Asia offers a rare depth of understanding of the social, economic and political realities of this region. This comprehensive study includes detailed discussions of: the structure and ideology of the British raj; the meaning of subaltern resistance; the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste class, community and gender; and the state and economy, society and politics of post-colonial South Asia The new edition includes a rewritten, accessible introduction and a chapter by chapter revision to take into account recent research. The second edition will also bring the book completely up to date with a chapter on the period from 1991 to 2002 and adiscussion of the last millennium in sub-continental history.
Author : Shahid Javed Burki,Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury,Asad Ejaz Butt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429762109
This handbook examines Pakistan’s 70-year history from a number of different perspectives. When Pakistan was born, it did not have a capital, a functioning government or a central bank. The country lacked a skilled workforce. While the state was in the process of being established, eight million Muslim refugees arrived from India, who had to be absorbed into a population of 24 million people. However, within 15 years, Pakistan was the fastest growing and transforming economy in the developing world, although the political evolution of the country during this period was not equally successful. Pakistan has vast agricultural and human resources, and its location promises trade, investment and other opportunities. Chapters in the volume, written by experts in the field, examine government and politics, economics, foreign policy and environmental issues, as well as social aspects of Pakistan’s development, including the media, technology, gender and education. Shahid Javed Burki is an economist who has been a member of the faculty at Harvard University, USA, and Chief Economist, Planning and Development Department, Government of the Punjab. He has also served as Minister of Finance in the Government of Pakistan, and has written a number of books, and journal and newspaper articles. He joined the World Bank in 1974 as a senior economist and went on to serve in several senior positions. He was the (first) Director of the China Department (1987–94) and served as the Regional Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean during 1994–99. He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Shahid Javed Burki Institute of Public Policy at NetSol (BIPP) in Lahore. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury is a career Bangladeshi diplomat and former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Bangladesh (2007–08). He has a PhD in international relations from the Australian National University, Canberra. He began his career as a member of the civil service of Pakistan in 1969. Dr Chowdhury has held senior diplomatic positions in the course of his career, including as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York (2001–07) and in Geneva (1996–2001), and was ambassador to Qatar, Chile, Peru and the Vatican. He is currently a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Asad Ejaz Butt is the Director of the Burki Institute of Public Policy, Lahore, Pakistan.
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2142 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015062080331
Author : Dennis Kux
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : India
ISBN : 9781428981898
Author : Lāl K̲h̲ān
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : India
ISBN : 8189833103
The Author Has Produced An Enthralling Account Of The Events Leading Up To And Following The Act Of Partition. He Skilfully Uses Extracts From Great Writers Works, News Articles, Personal Accounts Of Those Involved. These Vivid Descriptions Take The Reader Into The Very Heart Of The Events. This Book Crisis In The Subcontinent - Partition... Can It Be Undone? Is Essential Reading For All Those Involved In The Struggle Against Hunger, Disease, Ignorance And Unemployment Anywhere In The World.
Author : Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134132683
Focusing on politics and society in India, this book explores new areas enmeshed in the complex social, economic and political processes in the country. Linking the structural characteristics with the broader sociological context, the book emphasizes the strong influence of sociological issues on politics, such as social milieu shaping and the articulation of the political in day-to-day events. Political events are connected with the ever-changing social, economic and political processes in order to provide an analytical framework to explain ‘peculiarities’ of Indian politics. Bidyut Chakrabarty argues that three major ideological influences of colonialism, nationalism and democracy have provided the foundational values of Indian politics. Structured thematically and chronologically, this work is a useful resource for students of political science, sociology and South Asian studies.
Author : Kavita Puri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408899069
UPDATED FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTITION 'Puri does profound and elegant work bringing forgotten narratives back to life. It's hard to convey just how important this book is' Sathnam Sanghera 'The most humane account of partition I've read ... We need a candid conversation about our past and this is an essential starting point' Nikesh Shukla, Observer ________________________ Newly revised for the seventy-fifth anniversary of partition, Kavita Puri conducts a vital reappraisal of empire, revisiting the stories of those collected in the 2017 edition and reflecting on recent developments in the lives of those affected by partition. The division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan saw millions uprooted and resulted in unspeakable violence. It happened far away, but it would shape modern Britain. Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. But their memory of partition has been shrouded in silence. In her eye-opening and timely work, Kavita Puri uncovers remarkable testimonies from former subjects of the Raj who are now British citizens – including her own father. Weaving a tapestry of human experience over seven decades, Puri reveals a secret history of ruptured families and friendships, extraordinary journeys and daring rescue missions that reverberates with compassion and loss. It is a work that breaks the silence and confronts the difficult truths at the heart of Britain's shared past with South Asia.
Author : Aanchal Malhotra
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787381209
Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. Can it be restored?
Author : Susanna Moore
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307826596
Calcutta in 1836: an uneasy mix of two worlds–the patient, implacably unchangeable India and the tableau vivant of English life created of imperialism’s desperation. This is where Lady Eleanor, her sister Harriet, and her brother, Henry–the newly appointed Governor-General of the colony–arrive after a harrowing sea journey “from Heaven, across the world, to Hell.” But none of them will find India hellish in anticipated ways, and some–including Harriet and, against her better judgment, Eleanor–will find an irresistible and endlessly confounding heaven. In Lady Eleanor–whose story is based on actual diaries–we have a keenly intelligent and observant narrator. Her descriptions of her profoundly unfamiliar world are vivid and sensual. The stultifying heat, the sensuous relief of the monsoon rains, the aromas and colors of the gardens and marketplaces, the mystifying grace and silence of the Indians themselves all come to rich life on the page. When she, Harriet, Henry, and ten thousand soldiers and servants make a three-year trek to the Punjab from Calcutta under Henry’s failing leadership, Eleanor’s impressions of the people and landscape are deepened, charged by her own revulsion and exaltation: “My life,” she says, “once a fastidious nibble, has turned into an endless disorderly feast.” Harriet, whose passivity conceals a dazed openness to the true India, and Henry, with his frightened adherence to the crumbling ideals of empire, become foils to Eleanor’s slow but inexorable seduction. Historically precise, gorgeously evocative, banked with the heat of unbidden desires, One Last Look is a mesmerizing tale of the complex lure of the exotic and the brazen failure of imperialism–both political and personal. It is a powerful confirmation of Susanna Moore’s remarkable gifts.
Author : Santanu Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107081581
This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.