The Lost Legacy Of The Nilgiris

Author : Indrani Radhakrishnan
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781685867218

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The Lost Legacy of the Nilgiris by Indrani Radhakrishnan Pdf

The book has a background of more than 10 years of research. Nilgiris has a rich history and heritage as it was the summer capital of the Madras Presidency. Many of the annual tourism events, held in the district headquarters of Ootacamund or better known as Ooty, are still the remnants of the British colonisation. The idea occurred when the author found many attractive old British buildings and became interested in their history. Soon she realized that many little details are not included in history books, and therefore she decided to pen down all her investigations for the Nilgiris people. Nilgiris is in a way lucky to have been the summer capital, here the level of the English language is good, buildings have stood the test of time and people have adapted to many changes. It is sincerely hoped that this book will enhance people’s knowledge and improve their awareness of the rich local history and heritage to preserve them. As it is a favourite haunt of tourists, it also has a splash of tourism-related information. Therefore, this book will be cherished and preserved by anyone who loves the Nilgiris, which was once known as the Nila mountain where Goddess Nila Devi was presumed to have lived.

Author : Indrani Radhakrishnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 1685867200

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The Lost Legacy of the Nilgiris by Indrani Radhakrishnan Pdf

Author : Michel Danino
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351187745

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The Lost River by Michel Danino Pdf

The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as -Sarasvati' in the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, this river was rediscovered in the early nineteenth century through topographic explorations by British officials. Recently, geological and climatological studies have probed its evolution and disappearance, while satellite imagery has traced the river's buried courses and isotope analyses have dated ancient waters still stored under the Thar Desert. In the same Northwest, the subcontinent's first urban society"the Indus civilization"flourished and declined. But it was not watered by the Indus alone: since Aurel Stein's expedition in the 1940s, hundreds of Harappan sites have been identified in the now dry Sarasvati's basin. The rich Harappan legacy in technologies, arts and culture sowed the seeds of Indian civilization as we know it now. Drawing from recent research in a wide range of disciplines, this book discusses differing viewpoints and proposes a harmonious synthesis"a fascinating tale of exploration that brings to life the vital role the -lost river of the Indian desert' played before its waters gurgled to a stop.

Author : Mirza Yawar Baig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business consultants
ISBN : 817599360X

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It's My Life by Mirza Yawar Baig Pdf

Author : Pattotmogar R. Ranganatha Punja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UOM:39015058497283

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India's Legacy by Pattotmogar R. Ranganatha Punja Pdf

Author : Somerset Playne,J. W. Bond,Arnold Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : India
ISBN : UCBK:C099384189

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Southern India, Its History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources by Somerset Playne,J. W. Bond,Arnold Wright Pdf

Author : Judy Christie,Lisa Wingate
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780593130155

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Before and After by Judy Christie,Lisa Wingate Pdf

The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents—hiding the fact that many weren’t orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann’s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of fifteen adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and After includes moving and sometimes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. Often raised as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. Christie and Wingate tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art meeting life, many of the long-silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children’s Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results. Advance praise for Before and After “In Before and After, authors Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate tackle the true stories behind Wingate’s blockbuster Before We Were Yours, of the orphans who survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. With a journalist’s keen eye and a novelist’s elegant prose, Christie and Wingate weave together the stories that inspired Before We Were Yours with the lives that were changed as a result of reading the novel. Readers will be educated, enlightened, and enraptured by this important and flawlessly executed book.”—Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphan’s Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biosphere reserves
ISBN : UOM:39015038020569

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Joint Management of Protected Areas in India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jon Wilson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610392945

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The Chaos of Empire by Jon Wilson Pdf

The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects-both British and Indian-The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the 1600s to Indian Independence in 1947. The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed. But the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire. Jon Wilson's new portrait of a much-mythologized era finally and convincingly proves that the story of benign British triumph was a carefully concocted fiction, here thoroughly and totally debunked.

Author : Lawrence S. Leshnik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015066088306

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South Indian Megalithic Burials by Lawrence S. Leshnik Pdf

Author : Amir Zada Asad,Robert Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351774482

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The Politics and Economics of Drug Production on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border by Amir Zada Asad,Robert Harris Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. This important study contains a detailed socio-economic and political description of a region where opium and heroin are both produced and consumed. By carefully relating drug production, trade and consumption to a relatively inaccessible area on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the book teaches us not only about the area - itself fascinating enough, particularly since it came into global prominence following the terrorist attack of 11 September 2001 - but also about the global dimensions of the problem.

Author : Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0143429477

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White As Milk and Rice by Nidhi Dugar Kundalia Pdf

The Maria girls from Bastar practise sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules-one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day-in forests, fields, the market and at protests; the Kanjars have plundered, looted and killed generation after generation, and will show you how to roast a lizard when hungry. The original inhabitants of India, these Adivasis still live in forests and hills, with religious beliefs, traditions and rituals so far removed from the rest of the country that they represent an anthropological wealth of our heritage. This book weaves together prose, oral narratives and Adivasi history to tell the stories of six remarkable tribes of India-reckoning with radical changes over the last century-as they were pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them fathomed.

Author : Saaz Aggarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : India
ISBN : 9383465085

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The Amils of Sindh by Saaz Aggarwal Pdf

"The Amils of Sindh originated in a small group of families who migrated to Sindh through the seventeenth century, driven from neighbouring provinces by economic need, political forces and natural disasters. Through the centuries, the defining quality of the Amils was their commitment to education. They used their education to build careers for themselves, to lead comfortable lives and to create wealth for their families. As an elite layer of society, the Amils were inspiring role models and created a fervour of enthusiasm for education among the middle class in Sindh. The Partition of India and their subsequent dispersal cost them dearly, but they focussed on adapting with dignity to new lives in new places. This book honours the silent sacrifices of the generation that left so much behind. It provides the context for present and future generations to identify themselves with pride in family grids to which they belong"--Back cover.

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789391551230

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Quarterly Current Affairs 2021 Vol. 4 - October to December for Competitive Exams with Video eCourse 5th Edition by Disha Experts Pdf

The latest edition of Quarterly Current Affairs Vol. 4 - October to December 2021 for Competitive Exams now comes with a Current Affairs Video eCourse powered by Disha Educators. The Book is a unique handy magbook as it gives the complete update of the third Quarter (October to December) of 2021. # This new edition now comes with an eCourse comprising of Jhalak - Weekly & Monthly Updates, Paridrashaya, Vishleshan & Vivechana. # This edition includes Past Questions of UPPSC, RRB, CDS & NDA 2021; # Practice Questions for IAS Mains; Essays; Case Studies for General Studies etc. # The book talks of all the recent developments in the field of Polity, Economics, Science & Technology, Sports, Art & Culture etc. # Exclusive coverage of latest Topics like Omicron Varient of Coronavirus, Cryptocurrency, COP 26, Farm Bills Repeal, Green Hydrogen Mission, etc. # The book has been updated with an Exam Special Update - Banking, Railways, Agriculture, Environment, Science & Technology. # This book would prove to be an asset for all students aspiring for the different competitive exams. # The book uses unique analytical tools like Game Changers, Causes & Effects, Quote & Unquote, At a Glance, Emerging Trends, SWOT, Mind Maps, Essays, Essay Ideas etc.

Author : RV Raman
Publisher : Polis Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951709785

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A Dire Isle by RV Raman Pdf

ONE OF CRIMEREADS' TEN NOVELS YOU SHOULD READ IN DECEMBER ONE OF OPEN, THE MAGAZINE'S BEST OF 2021 BOOKS: CRIME FICTION Harith Athreya is back, this time to face a centuries old-curse in the second novel in the internationally acclaimed series! An archeological team is excavating on the banks of the Betwa River near Jahnsi. A place where, legend has it, a couple forbidden to marry had run away to be together—forever cursing anyone who dares set foot on the island. When the head of the expedition defies the myth, the fallout is swift and deadly, the body found exactly as the ancient stories describe. Is the death a result of the ancient curse, or is it a down-to-earth case of murder? Detective Harith Athreya, an investigator with a vivid imagination, begins to uncover a mystery where the lines between past and present are blurred, reaping a harvest of evidence and motives—theft, plagiarism and a host of other crimes, showing that few of the archaeologists are what or who they appear to be. Will he be able to unravel the truth from legend before the curse strikes again? The second novel in the internationally acclaimed Harith Athreya series is perfect for fans of riveting classic mysteries by Agatha Christie and films such as Knives Out.