The House Of Scindias A Saga Of Power Politics And Intrigue

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8195124801

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The House of Scindias by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rasheed Kidwai
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788195124886

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The House of Scindias: A Saga of Power, Politics and Intrigue by Rasheed Kidwai Pdf

RASHEED KIDWAI is a journalist, author, columnist and political analyst. He is Visiting Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation, Delhi. Formerly Associate Editor at The Telegraph, Kidwai is a keen observer of government, politics, community affairs and Hindi cinema.

Author : Vijaya R. Scindia,Manohar Malgonkar
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0887066593

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The Last Maharani of Gwalior by Vijaya R. Scindia,Manohar Malgonkar Pdf

This is a description of contemporary India and some of its recent history in the form of an autobiography. Rajmata Scindia is a member of the Indian Parliament. As a maharani she had thousands of servants and several enormous palaces. Since Independence, which marked the end of the supremacy of the Maharajas, she has emerged as one of India’s most popular political leaders, first with the Congress party and now with the opposition. Her appeal to the masses, who see her as an image of Mother India, amazes both her admirers and her critics.

Author : Rasheed Kidwai
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789391028244

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Leaders, Politicians, Citizens by Rasheed Kidwai Pdf

BALASAHEB THACKERAY. SHEILA DIKSHIT. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM. NAMDEO DHASAL. S. JAIPAL REDDY. These are just some of the 50 dynamos whose lives and times are captured in this collection of profiles of some of the most prominent actors in independent India's political theatre. Game-changers Pranab Mukherjee, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Jyoti Basu; crowd-pulling swashbucklers Sheikh Abdullah and Laldenga; crusaders such as Kanshi Ram and Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madani; mavericks Chandraswami, Amar Singh and Ajit Kumar Jogi; charismatic leaders like Madhavrao Scindia and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed; possessors of star power, including Jayalalithaa, Vinod Khanna and M. Karunanidhi; and skilful navigators like Ahmed Patel and V.C. Shukla - all find place in this incontestable list. Traversing ideologies and bringing into focus the human facet of governments, Leaders, Politicians, Citizens presents a compelling history of Indian democracy and provides riveting insights into the evolution of its political culture.

Author : Rashmi Sadana
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789392130106

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Metronama: Scenes from the Delhi Metro by Rashmi Sadana Pdf

Rashmi Sadana is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University and author of English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India.

Author : Dinesh C. Sharma
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789392130083

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Indian Innovation, Not Jugaad - 100 Ideas that Transformed India by Dinesh C. Sharma Pdf

Dinesh C. Sharma is a New Delhi-based award-winning journalist and author with over thirty-five years’ of professional experience. He has written extensively on science and technology, climate change, health, environment and innovation for national and international media, including The Lancet and Wired. He has been Science Editor at Mail Today, and Managing Editor at India Science Wire and is currently the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow (2020-2021). His book The Outsourcer: The Story of India’s IT Revolution was awarded the Computer History Museum Book Prize in 2016. He has also been a visiting faculty at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Ateneo de Manila University, Manila. Dinesh Sharma tweets at @dineshcsharma

Author : Rasheed Kidwai
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789351952275

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Ballot by Rasheed Kidwai Pdf

543 Lok Sabha seats. More than 4,000 state constituencies. Over 800 million voters. The world's largest democracy . . . From the time of its inception, democracy in India has been dubbed 'miraculous' by the world's media, and its elections as a spectacular exercise in human management. In Ballot, Rasheed Kidwai takes us through his pick of seminal elections that have shaped Indian democracy both at the centre and in select states. Highlighting the unique challenges faced by a country that adopted universal adult franchise at the very outset, profiling personalities who have triggered ground-shifts, and analysing the causes and consequences of key electoral episodes, he traces the very evolution of India's democratic process. Combining insightful commentary and colourful anecdotes, Ballot provides a brief, incisive examination of India's most momentous elections.

Author : Rasheed Kidwai
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789350093733

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24 Akbar Road [Revised and Updated] by Rasheed Kidwai Pdf

Now updated with a new chapter on Rahul Gandhi The Congress party has always stayed one step ahead of the opposition by constantly reinventing and re-aligning itself to stay in sync with the political realities of the day. Its president, Sonia Gandhi, pulled off a master-coup in 2004 by declining the prime-ministership, while the incumbent Congress Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is the first prime minister since Nehru to lead the party into two Union government terms. In 2013, Rahul Gandhi was elevated to the post of Congress vice-president amid much fanfare and optimism. Tasked with reviving the grand old party, the young politician remains, in the minds of many, the best hope to lead the Congress into the next century, marking a new moment in the Congress’s concept of ‘continuity with change’. In his bestselling book 24 Akbar Road, seasoned journalist and veteran Congress watcher Rasheed Kidwai puts together an incisive and engaging account of the Congress’s shape-shifting nature and its tenuous hold at the Centre, providing a dispassionate observer’s glance at affairs within the Congress. Kidwai brilliantly tracks the story of the contemporary Congress in the years after the Emergency, using the Congress seat of power at 24 Akbar Road as his vantage to draw a compelling account of the Congress leadership from Indira, Sanjay and Rajiv Gandhi to Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesri, to the present- day trinity of Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi. In this revised and updated edition, Kidwai analyses Rahul Gandhi’s appointment to assess what the Congress needs to do to remain India’s nerve of power in the coming years, and whether the new vice- president can rally the party to a third consecutive victory at the Centre.'

Author : J. Dey
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788184954289

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Zero Dial by J. Dey Pdf

Three informers. Murky bylanes that hold the key to deadly terror plots. The chase for India’s most wanted terrorist. The lives of three of Mumbai Police’s best informers collide in this shady underworld. It’s a bad, bad world. A world of crime, sex, drugs, murder and betrayal. He who lies, lives to see the light of another day... a day replete with even greater risks. From shady underworld dealings to switching gang loyalties, the men graduate to selling information on terrorism. Then begins the chase… to catch India’s most wanted terrorist: Riyaz Bhatkal, the man with an ominous track record of masterminding twentytwo blasts across the country since 2005. The search takes them to the most unassuming yet dangerous terror hubs across India. With trust in short supply, time ticking away and the sword of Damocles over their heads, the men can only hope that they are not on a wild goose chase.

Author : Pervez Tahir
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031109058

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Joan Robinson in Princely India by Pervez Tahir Pdf

This book explores the early work and activities of Joan Robinson that focused on economic development within underdeveloped countries, in particular India before independence. By analysing the style of Robinson’s thinking and economic analysis, and based on the works of Indian contemporaries, parts of The British Crown and the Indian States previously unattributed to her are seen to exhibit her preoccupation with poverty, backwardness, unemployment, the population problem, international trade, and the role of the state. Through keeping in mind Robinson’s later work, the development of her ideas can be reflected upon, alongside critical perspectives. It also reveals the beginnings of her role as a public intellectual. This book aims to shed new light on Joan Robinson’s work on development and to provide insight to an overlooked part of her research. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought, development economics and economic history.

Author : Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia with Mridula Sinha
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351868286

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Royal to Public Life by Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia with Mridula Sinha Pdf

I felt that to remain in politics and keep fighting for the principles was my calling. So, I thought that working with the people of similar ideology might be more fruitful. I felt affinity with those parties which were neither corrupt nor power-drunkÉ. Ideologically, I found myself close to Jana Sangh and Swatantra Party. I was in a dilemma to choose between the two. So, I decided to contest the election on the ticket of both these parties. I became candidate of Jana Sangh from Karera constituency of Madhya Pradesh Assembly. Tihar is not a jail, it is hell on earth. And those people were pushed in this hell whose penance threatened to dethrone Indiraji. There were piles of filth at different places in Tihar jail. It would make the inside air polluted which was stifling. While eating one had to constantly drive away the flies with oneÕs hands. The ears would be abuzz with the sounds of insects. In the darkness the brooch would glow and crickets would speak. Life was difficult. But despite that we would have sound sleep. Ayodhya is not a city made of bricks and mortars. It is a symbol of IndiaÕs soul and national identity. ThatÕs why when the Rath Yatra was taken out, Hindus and Muslims participated in it alike. This national integration caused heart burns to those vested interests that were in the habit of taking the advantage of social division.

Author : Vinay Sitapati
Publisher : Penguin/Viking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : India
ISBN : 0670091073

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Jugalbandi by Vinay Sitapati Pdf

Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making. Vinay Sitapati's Jugalbandi provides this backstory to his current dominance in Indian politics. It begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism as a response to British-induced elections in the 1920s, moves on to the formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980, and ends with its first national government, from 1998 to 2004. And it follows this journey through the entangled lives of its founding jugalbandi: Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani. Over their six-decade-long relationship, Vajpayee and Advani worked as a team despite differences in personality and beliefs. What kept them together was fraternal love and professional synergy, of course, but also, above all, an ideology that stressed on unity. Their partnership explains what the BJP before Modi was, and why it won. In supporting roles are a cast of characters-from the warden's wife who made room for Vajpayee in her family to the billionaire grandson of Pakistan's founder who happened to be a major early funder of the BJP. Based on private papers, party documents, newspapers and over two hundred interviews, this is a must-read for those interested in the ideology that now rules India.

Author : Vijayaraje Scindia,Manohar Malgonkar
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047699593

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Princess by Vijayaraje Scindia,Manohar Malgonkar Pdf

Autobiografie van de adellijke Indiase politica.

Author : Rasheed Kidwai
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789351952275

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Ballot by Rasheed Kidwai Pdf

543 Lok Sabha seats. More than 4,000 state constituencies. Over 800 million voters. The world's largest democracy . . . From the time of its inception, democracy in India has been dubbed 'miraculous' by the world's media, and its elections as a spectacular exercise in human management. In Ballot, Rasheed Kidwai takes us through his pick of seminal elections that have shaped Indian democracy both at the centre and in select states. Highlighting the unique challenges faced by a country that adopted universal adult franchise at the very outset, profiling personalities who have triggered ground-shifts, and analysing the causes and consequences of key electoral episodes, he traces the very evolution of India's democratic process. Combining insightful commentary and colourful anecdotes, Ballot provides a brief, incisive examination of India's most momentous elections.

Author : Sheila Dikshit
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789386826480

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Citizen Delhi by Sheila Dikshit Pdf

The girl who loved cycling along the tree-lined avenues of a brand new Lutyens' Delhi could never have dreamt that five decades later she would govern, and transform, Delhi as its chief minister – not once, but thrice consecutively. When a politician like Sheila Dikshit, with a career spanning over three decades, chooses to let the reader get a glimpse of her life's journey, the opportunity brings along an element of surprise. In a fascinating account of her life, contoured along the life of the nation and her political party at critical junctures, she creates a richly patterned universe with deft touches, seamlessly moving between the home and the world, the past and the present. Be it encounters with politics, which she terms 'life at its barest' or the ups and downs of a household, what shines through is the portrait of a modern woman determined to face any eventuality with fortitude, and a deep sense of duty. Interestingly, she never wanted to be in politics, but destiny willed otherwise – a destiny shaped by her liberal upbringing in a Punjabi household. Brought up to be independent, she chose her life partner from another part of India. And that started it all. As the wife of an IAS officer and daughter-in-law of well-known freedom fighter and politician, Uma Shankar Dikshit, with his long association with the Nehru–Gandhi family, she saw governance from both ends. When she began assisting her father-in-law from 1969, her up-close view of politics eventually became a springboard for her own entry into the arena in December 1984, inaugurating a 30-year-long career in politics. The narrative foregrounds a question that the author considers crucial for democracy – how does one deal with the constant tussle between the dictates of governance and the here-and-now preoccupations of party politics?