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This outstanding quiz book contains 2000 questions at various levels of difficulty, which are not available on any current quiz circuit. Divided into crossword grids, and multiple-choice, rapid fire and core questions, all exclusively on India, this book is guaranteed to provide hours of intellectual entertainment.
The most comprehensive and accessible single-volume reference guide available to the events and personalities that shaped India over the thousand years from AD 1000 to 2000.
Starting with Mahmud of Ghazni’s first expedition into India, The Indian Millennium: AD 1000-2001 covers the eventful years of the last millennium during which the subcontinent saw the rise and fall of two of the greatest empires in the world (the Mughal and the British); the birth and flourishing of at least one major religion (Sikhism); the setting up of the world’s largest railway network; and the launching of sophisticated satellites into space. Arranged ...
Belgaum, in India’s southern state of Karnataka, is a city that has consistently found itself in the news since the 1950s. This media interest is due to issues arising from its ethnic character. The city is home to multiple linguistic groups with Kannada and marathi both contending for linguistic, and consequently, social and political prominence. This fractious backdrop forms the basis of the present book. Ethnicity and Class interrogates issues of ethnic ...
This definitive guide to independent India takes us through the events and personalities that have shaped India in the sixty years since 1947. Starting with Independence Day, it covers the decades in which the subcontinent saw the rise of democracy, its metamorphosis from an economy driven by self-sufficiency to one propelled by the economic reforms of the 1990s, and the concurrent liberalization, privatization and globalization that boosted India's growth rate. ...
The most comprehensive compendium on post-1947 India. This definitive guide to independent India takes us through the events and personalities that have shaped India in the sixty years since 1947. Starting with Independence Day, it covers the decades in which the subcontinent saw the rise of democracy, its metamorphosis from an economy driven by self-sufficiency to one propelled by the economic reforms of the 1990s, and the concurrent liberalization, ...