History : India and Subcontinent

In this beautifully crafted memoir, a young half-Muslim, half-Christian woman travels to India to connect with a tiny Jewish community and unlock her family’s secret history. Sadia Shepard grew up in a joyful, chaotic home just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where cultures intertwined, her father a white Protestant from Colorado and her mother a Muslim from Pakistan. Her childhood was spent in a house full of stories and storytellers, where the customs and religions of both of her parents were celebrated and cherished with equal enthusiasm. But Sadia’s cultural legacy grew more complex when she discovered that there was one story she had never been told. Her beloved maternal grandmother was not a Muslim like the rest of her Pakistani family, but in fact had begun her life as Rachel Jacobs, a descendant of the Bene Israel, a tiny Jewish community whose members believe that they are one of the lost tribes of Israel, shipwrecked in India two thousand years ago. This new knowledge complicated Sadia's cultural inheritance even further, intimately linking her to the faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and to the customs of India, the United States, and Pakistan. At her grandmother's deathbed, Sadia makes a promise to begin the process of filling in the missing pieces of her family's fractured mosaic. With the help of a Fulbright Scholarship and armed with a suitcase of camera equipment, she arrives in Bombay, where she finds herself struggling to document a community in transition. Her search to connect with the Bene Israel community and understand its unique traditions brings her into contact with a cast of remarkable characters, tests her sense of self, and forces her to examine what it means to lose and seek one’s place, one’s homelands, and one’s history. In the process, she unearths long-lost family secrets, confronts her fears of failure, and finds love in places that surprise her. Sadia beautifully weaves together the more...

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A revised and updated history of modern India, including the latest developments from the end of the twentieth century and a new conclusion. This richly illustrated book will be invaluable reading for all interested in India, its turbulent past and its present uncertainties. more...

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Indian Government and Politics will serve as a standard textbook for undergraduate. students of Political Science and Public Administration. It is also an incisive. manual for the candidates appearing for various UPSC and civil service examinations,. besides being invaluable for students and researchers of political science in. general, and post-colonial contemporary Indian politics in particular. The book explains the complexities of the Indian political process and its. effects on the constitutional institutions of India. Adopting a multi-disciplinary. approach, it takes a fresh look at the socio-political and economic scenario. of contemporary India and unearths new areas of inquiry by posing pertinent. questions on the nature of Indian politics. The strength of the book lies in. its focussed content, which thoroughly analyses the political happenings in. India and studies how the political institutions have emerged and changed since. the end of colonial rule in the country. The highlights of this book include discussions on:. - genesis of the Indian Constitution;. - major constitutional offices of India;. - federalism;. - the legislature, executive and judiciary;. - planning and economic development;. - party system, Panchayati Raj and Indian administration; and. - contemporary issues in Indian politics and governance. This user-friendly textbook also contains carefully selected model questions. for each chapter. more...

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Conjuring all the sweep of a great nineteenth-century novel, acclaimed author William Dalrymple unearths the fascinating story of the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, James Kirkpatrick, who in 1798 fell in love with the great-niece of the Hyderabadi prime minister. To marry her, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam and even became a double agent working against the East India Company. Shedding light on the many eccentric Westerners during this period who “turned Turk,” adopting Indian customs, dress, and religions, Darymple brings to life a compelling and largely unwritten story of Britain’s rule over India. more...

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Reproducing, or summarizing the most valuable of the missionaries' letters written prior to 1610, this volume makes available the illegible and scattered primary sources on the reign of the Emperor Akbar. more...

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