This dictionary packs in a wealth of information regarding major terrorist groups around the world, significant terrorist events and the weapons of terror. A special section on terrorism in South Asia makes available for easy reference the long-running phenomenon of terrorism in the region highlighting its main protagonists, important events, including assassination of two Indian prime ministers, and cross-border terrorism. The horrific events of 11 September ...
This book explores the political and personal life of Mahatma Gandhi through the traumatic period, 1946-48, which saw the partition and independence of India, and the worst-ever communal holocaust in the subcontinent. The book unfolds how partition came about even as Gandhi’s strongest convictions were against such a division. The author traces Gandhi’s role within and outside the Congress and describes how the Mahatma was politically sidelined from the very ...