This book is a fascinating and wholly absorbing contribution to the history of the twentieth century. This fast-moving, lively and independent account of politics and international affairs is enriched by intimate, perceptive and far from uncritical sketches of great leaders such as Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Desai and Patel. Perhaps no other book reminds the reader so firmly that politics, even at its most exalted and dramatic, is about people. Certainly no one who ...
The book has marked a particular cultural phase of India and has associated it with the well known ceramic type, the Northern Black Polished Ware, signifying the period. This also involves a broad cultural area at the sub-continent at the advent of 2 urbanism. The extension of this cultural trait is seen in the extreme North/West in the Peshawar region, near Charsada and Udegram in the Swat. The pottery has extended in several places in the south and even beyond ...