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Only two months to freedom. A jigsaw of around 565* princely states.At the stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947, India could emerge as a united nation. Or disintegrate into several pieces.On 3 June 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, makes a historic...
Pradeep Sebastian has been an avid bibliophile and book collector for over a decade. In this collection of essays, he paints in full splendour the picture of a life devoted to the romance of books, blending personal experience, revelatory conversations and bewitching...
Few themes in history have had as strong a hold on people's imagination. Fewer still have managed to alter the course of civilization.This is Charles Allen's definitive account of the Aryans, offering a grand sweep of language, mythology, contested histories and...
"Did You know? The urban population during Akbar's rule had exceeded the urban population of the entire Europe of that time!By 1500 CE, the city of Hampi was the world's second-largest medieval-era city after Beijing. Dholavira, the Harappan desert city, adopted highly...
With a curation of objects from the prehistoric ages through twenty-first century India, Sudeshna Guha provides a panoramic view of the rich histories of the subcontinent. The incisive essays in this collection detail not just the objects but the histories of their...
Apart from the fifteen years that Sher Shah Suri snatched upon defeating Humayun, the flag of the grand Mughal Empire flew over Delhi undefeated for over 300 years. But then, 1857 arrived and the mighty sword fell helpless in the face of a mightier British force. After...
A signboard from the most advancedcivilization in the ancient world.The lost notebooks of a mathematical genius.A line on a map that divided a country into two.Read about these and 97 other amazing documents - from stone inscriptions, palm-leaf and papyrus manuscripts,...
A history of the rediscovery of India's history...Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Western world had very little knowledge - or an extremely distorted view - of the glorious and fascinating history of the Indian subcontinent. In fact, with little of...
THE NEVER-BEFORE-TOLD STORY OF HOWTHE TROUT CAME TO CALL INDIAN RIVERS ITS HOME. When the East India Company's business venture with India turned into a full-fledged occupation of the country, the British in India, apart from establishing their governance, were...
'There are many missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is ancient India, but those we have yield a rich tapestry.'The oldest surviving love graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that...
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