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  • The Man Who Remade India

    A Biography of P.V. Narasimha Rao

    by Vinay Sitapati ...
    Series series Modern South Asia
    When P.V. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited economic catastrophe, violent insurgencies and a nation adrift. Yet because he was unloved by his people and mistrusted by his own party-a minority in Parliament and ruling under the shadow of Sonia Gandhi-Rao lacked the mandate to combat these crises. Yet, Rao was not just able to last a full five years as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • India Before Modi

    How the BJP Came to Power

    by Vinay Sitapati ...
    Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making, and this book provides the backstory. It begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism, moves on to the 1980 formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and ends with its first national administration, from 1998 to 2004. By revisiting these events, we can trace the Modi government's current dominance of Indian politics all the way back to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Win

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    ‘War Room stands out as an example of real field work and rigorous research… Anyone who wants to understand how decisions are made in India should read this brilliant study of the BJP.’—Dr. Walter K. Andersen, Author of The Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism‘Ullekh NP has crafted a well-researched and gripping narrative of how the BJP seized the moment in ... Read more

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  • Prime Ministers India

    Past, Present & Future...

    by Naman Munshi ...
    Prime Minister is the person who is responsible for entire country’s activities during his/her tenure. He is a person who can change, build or ruin fate of the country as well as people of the country. By his/her vision, attitude and ability he will make or break the country. He/she is a person who will represent the country in the world. In short Prime Minister should be capable to fulfil people ... Read more

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  • 24 Akbar Road [Revised and Updated]

    A Short History of the People behind the Fall and Rise of the Congress

    by Rasheed Kidwai ...
    Now updated with a new chapter on Rahul GandhiThe Congress party has always stayed one step ahead of the opposition by constantly reinventing and re-aligning itself to stay in sync with the political realities of the day. Its president, Sonia Gandhi, pulled off a master-coup in 2004 by declining the prime-ministership, while the incumbent Congress Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is the first ... Read more

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  • Rise of Saffron Power

    Reflections on Indian Politics

    Edited by Mujibur Rehman ...
    This volume looks at the impact of the landmark 2014 elections and the consequent Assembly elections which have transformed the ideological discourse of India. It discusses a variety of topical issues in contemporary Indian politics, including the Modi wave, Aam Aadmi Party and the challenges it is confronting today, Hindutva and minorities, the decline of the Congress party, changes in foreign ... Read more

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  • Nehru

    The Invention of India

    by Shashi Tharoor ...
    Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist who-alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi-led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become India’s first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • India Booms

    The Breathtaking Development and Influence of Modern India

    by John Farndon ...
    The ancient birthplace of some of the world's major religions and now a modern nuclear power, India is experiencing spectacular economic growth. In twenty-five years its population will overtake that of China, making it one of the most populous and rapidly-developing countries in the world. We all need to know more about this intriguing country.John Farndon explores the changing face of modern-day ... Read more

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  • Turning Points

    A Journey Through Challenges

    by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ...
    It was like any other day on the Anna University campus in Chennai. As I was returning to my room in the evening, the vice-chancellor, Prof. A. Kalanidhi, fell in step with me.Someone had been frantically trying to get in touch with me through the day, he said. Indeed, the phone was ringing when I entered the room.When I answered, a voice at the other end said, 'The prime minister wants to talk ... Read more

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  • Why Growth Matters

    How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries

    by Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya ...
    In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty?Bhagwati and Panagariya ... Read more

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  • In Spite of the Gods

    The Rise of Modern India

    by Edward Luce ...
    As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues. Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South Asia bureau chief Edward Luce travels throughout India's many regions, ... Read more

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  • Modi's India

    Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

    by Christophe Jaffrelot ...
    Translated by Cynthia Schoch ...
    A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. Modi managed to seduce a substantial number of citizens by ... Read more

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