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A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There

Author : Krishna Sobti
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9353054761
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There written by Krishna Sobti and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delhi, 1947. The city surges with Partition refugees. Eager to escape the welter of pain and confusion that surrounds her, young Krishna applies on a whim to a position at a preschool in the princely state of Sirohi, itself on the cusp of transitioning into the republic of India. She is greeted on arrival with condescension for her refugee status, and treated with sexist disdain by Zutshi Sahib, the man charged with hiring for the position. Undaunted, Krishna fights back. But when an opportunity to become governess to the child maharaja Tej Singh Bahadur presents itself-and with it a chance to make Sirohi her new home once and for all-there is no telling how long this idyll will last. Part novel, part memoir, part feminist anthem, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There is not only a powerful tale of Partition loss and dislocation but also charts the odyssey of a spirited young woman determined to build a new identity for herself on her own terms.

Gujarat, the Making of a Tragedy

Author : Siddharth Varadarajan
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143029014
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Gujarat, the Making of a Tragedy written by Siddharth Varadarajan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2002 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to be a permanent public archive of the communal violence in Gujarat in early 2002. Drawing upon eyewitness reports from the English, Hindi and regional media, citizens and official articles by leading public figures and intellectuals, it provides an account of how and why the state was allowed to burn.

Eighteenth-Century Gujarat

Author : Ghulam A. Nadri
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004172025
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Gujarat by : Ghulam A. Nadri

Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Gujarat written by Ghulam A. Nadri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century in South Asian history is a period of great dynamism and a critical phase in the historical trajectory of the subcontinent. This book focuses on the merchants and manufacturers of Gujarat, who amidst complex political developments succeeded in preserving their autonomy and freedom in the market place. By spotting economic growth in the late eighteenth century, this study rejects the constructed dualism between a seventeenth century of great progress and an eighteenth century of chaos and decline.

India Guide Gujarat

Author : Anjali H. Desai
Publisher : India Guide Publications
ISBN 13 : 0978951700
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book India Guide Gujarat written by Anjali H. Desai and published by India Guide Publications. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guidebook to Gujarat state, arranged by region.

Gujarat Files

Author : Rana Ayyub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533341525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Gujarat Files written by Rana Ayyub and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gujarat Files is the account of an eight-month long undercover investigation by journalist Rana Ayyub into the Gujarat riots, fake encounters and the murder of state Home Minister Haren Pandya that brings to the fore startling revelations. Posing as Maithili Tyagi, a filmmaker from the American Film Institute Conservatory, Rana met bureaucrats and top cops in Gujarat who held pivotal positions in the state between 2001 and 2010. The transcripts of the sting operation reveal the complicity of the state and its officials in crimes against humanity. With sensational disclosures about cases that run parallel to Narendra Modi and Amit Shah's ascent to power and their journey from Gujarat to New Delhi, the book tells you the hushed truth of the state in the words of those who developed amnesia while speaking before commissions of enquiry, but held nothing back in the secretly taped videos which form the basis of this remarkable read.

Flavorful India

Author : Priti Chitnis Gress
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 : 9780781812078
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Flavorful India written by Priti Chitnis Gress and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cuisine of Gujarat, a state in western India, is famed for its delicately flavoured vegetarian dishes. This collection of over 80 family recipes introduces readers to some of India's often overlooked culinary offerings. Also included are an introduction to Gujarati culture and cuisine, a section on spices, ingredients and utensils, and a chapter on non-vegetarian specialities. Each recipes is presented in an easy-to-follow format and adapted for the western kitchen. Enchanted drawings throughout the book the flavours of India alive.

Textiles and Dress of Gujarat

Author : Eiluned Edwards
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781851776450
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Textiles and Dress of Gujarat written by Eiluned Edwards and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The textiles and dress of Gujarat in northwestern India are acclaimed for their design and craftsmanship. The sophisticated weaves, dyeing techniques, intricate embroideries, vibrant motifs and embellished garments, and the communities to which many of these are unique, have all been the subjects of extensive documentation. Textiles and dress play a central role in the construction of a visual identity of Gujarat and its people. This book examines the 'social life' of Gujarat's textiles, tracing the historical journey of cloth and dress up to the present day. It looks closely at dyed and painted textiles, and embroidery, and locates their place in culture, trade and commerce, and the role of entrepreneurship in the survival of these handmade textiles.

Narrative Pasts

Author : Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190991968
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Pasts written by Jyoti Gulati Balachandran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the narrative power of texts in creating communities. Through an investigation of genealogical, historical, and biographical texts, it retrieves the social history of the Muslim community in Gujarat, a region with one of the earliest records of Muslim presence in the Indian subcontinent. By reconstructing the literary, social, and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, Jyoti Gulati Balachandran highlights the role of learned Muslim men in imparting a prominent regional and historical identity to Gujarat. The book reveals how distinct forms of community and association were created and shaped over time through architecture, shrine veneration, and most importantly, textual redefinition. Narrative Pasts demonstrates that Gujarat was not only an important hub of maritime Indian Ocean trade, but also an integral part of the historical and narrative processes that shaped medieval and early modern South Asia. Employing new and rarely used literary materials in Persian and Arabic, this book brings new life and vitality to the history of the region by integrating Gujarat’s sultanate and Mughal past with the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.

Em and the Big Hoom

Author : Jerry Pinto
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101637854
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Em and the Big Hoom written by Jerry Pinto and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devastatingly original debut novel from a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. “Profoundly moving . . . I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this.” —Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pinto’s debut novel has already taken the literary world by storm. Suffused with compassion, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and its American publication is certain to be one of the major literary events of the season. Meet Imelda and Augustine, or—as our young narrator calls his unusual parents—Em and the Big Hoom. Most of the time, Em smokes endless beedis and sings her way through life. She is the sun around which everyone else orbits. But as enchanting and high-spirited as she can be, when Em’s bipolar disorder seizes her she becomes monstrous, sometimes with calamitous consequences for herself and others. This accomplished debut is graceful and urgent, with a one-of-a-kind voice that will stay with readers long after the last page.

No One Had a Tongue to Speak

Author : Utpal Sandesara
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616144327
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book No One Had a Tongue to Speak written by Utpal Sandesara and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Indian state of Gujarat, the two mile-long Machhu Dam-II disintegrated. The waters released from the dam’s massive reservoir rushed through the heavily populated downstream area, devastating the industrial city of Morbi and its surrounding agricultural villages. As the torrent’s thirty-foot-tall leading edge cut its way through the Machhu River valley, massive bridges gave way, factories crumbled, and thousands of houses collapsed. While no firm figure has ever been set on the disaster’s final death count, estimates in the flood’s wake ran as high as 25,000. Despite the enormous scale of the devastation, few people today have ever heard of this terrible event. This book tells, for the first time, the suspenseful and multifaceted story of the Machhu dam disaster. Based on over 130 interviews and extensive archival research, the authors recount the disaster and its aftermath in vivid firsthand detail. The book presents important findings culled from formerly classified government documents that reveal the long-hidden failures that culminated in one of the deadliest floods in history. The authors follow characters whose lives were interrupted and forever altered by the flood; provide vivid first-hand descriptions of the disaster and its aftermath; and shed light on the never-completed judicial investigation into the dam’s collapse.

Hats and Doctors

Author : Upendranath Ashk
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759363
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Hats and Doctors written by Upendranath Ashk and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hats and Doctors offers English readers the opportunity to savour, for the first time, the work of Upendranath Ashk, one of Hindi literature’s best-known authors. The stories in this collection often display a wry sense of humour, such as ‘The Dal Eaters’ in which a family of cheapskates journeys to Kashmir. While Ashk’s satirical eye is employed to great effect in ‘The Cartoon Hero’, where a hapless traveller encounters a petty politician on a train, his talent for capturing human frailties is amply evident in ‘Furlough’ and ‘In the Insane Asylum’. Exhibiting a lightness of touch and a deep engagement with the human condition, these stories come alive in Daisy Rockwell’s delightful translation.

Engineering a Life

Author : Krishan K. Bedi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1943006423
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Engineering a Life written by Krishan K. Bedi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included on BookBub’s "The Most Exciting Memoirs Coming Out in 2018” list Krishan Bedi came to the United States in December of 1961 at the tender age of twenty. He had only $300 in his pocket, and he had made it out of his small village in India on sheer faith, determined to get education in the US. For him, there was no option but to succeed—so he began his new life in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he had to adapt to the culture shock not only of being in the US but a Punjabi man in the South in the 1960s. Engineering a Life is an examination of Bedi’s life, and how he has handled the plethora of curve balls thrown his way with determination, humor, and an unwavering faith that everything would work out. This is a book about values and faith and the importance of friendship, family, and hard work. It’s a story about achieving the American Dream, proving that no matter how thoroughly you map out your life’s journey, no matter how many blueprints you draw up, when you veer off the course you’ve plotted—as we all do, somehow, in the end—you end up where you’re supposed to be.

Sunflowers Of The Dark

Author : Krishna Sobti
Publisher : Katha
ISBN 13 : 9788187649489
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Sunflowers Of The Dark written by Krishna Sobti and published by Katha. This book was released on 2008 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ત્રીસ દિવાસમાં ગુજરાતી શીખો

Author : Krishna Gopal Vikal
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788128810336
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book ત્રીસ દિવાસમાં ગુજરાતી શીખો written by Krishna Gopal Vikal and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Gujarati In 30 Days Through English (Learn The National Language) is a book that shows you how you can make use of the English language to learn an Indian language, namely Gujarati. Not only can you learn this language in an easy way but you can also learn it within a short span of thirty days. The book has been split up into five sections, each of which include a number of chapters. The first unit, entitled Alphabet, includes introductory chapters such as Alphabet, Consonants, How to Write Alphabet, Conjuncts, Vowels and their Abbreviated Forms, The Parts of Speech, Gender, Number and Case and Declension of Nouns. The second unit is entitled Word and is all about grammatical concepts that include Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Tense, Voice, The Kinds of secondary Verbs, Cardinal Numerals and Errors in spellings. The third section, is titled classified sentences and includes concepts such as Useful Expressions, Imperative Sentences, Future Tense, Present Tense, Past Tense, Interrogative Sentences and Negative Sentences. The fourth section is all about situational sentences and shows you how you can test your language skills in different settings. The chapters in this section are at Home, Foods and Drinks, Shopping, Hotel and Restaurant, Craftsmen, Post office/Telephone/Bank, Health and Hygiene, While Travelling, Weather and Time. The final section of this book is called Conversations. Its chapters show you how you can make use of the Gujarati you have learnt, to strike up a conversation in different places and among different groups of people. Helping you learn a new language within a span of 30 days, the bilingual edition of Learn Gujarati In 30 Days Through English (Learn The National Language) was published by Diamond Books in 2005 and is available in paperback. Key Features: The book includes situational questions and conversation topics.

Pogrom in Gujarat

Author : Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691151776
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Pogrom in Gujarat written by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. The ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party blamed Gujarat's entire Muslim minority for the tragedy and incited fellow Hindus to exact revenge. The resulting violence left more than one thousand people dead--most of them Muslims--and tens of thousands more displaced from their homes. Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi witnessed the bloodshed up close. In Pogrom in Gujarat, he provides a riveting ethnographic account of collective violence in which the doctrine of ahimsa--or nonviolence--and the closely associated practices of vegetarianism became implicated by legitimating what they formally disavow. Ghassem-Fachandi looks at how newspapers, movies, and other media helped to fuel the pogrom. He shows how the vegetarian sensibilities of Hindus and the language of sacrifice were manipulated to provoke disgust against Muslims and mobilize the aspiring middle classes across caste and class differences in the name of Hindu nationalism. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of Gujarat's culture and politics and the close ties he shared with some of the pogrom's sympathizers, Ghassem-Fachandi offers a strikingly original interpretation of the different ways in which Hindu proponents of ahimsa became complicit in the very violence they claimed to renounce.

Keeping the Peace

Author : Raheel Dhattiwala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108497594
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Keeping the Peace written by Raheel Dhattiwala and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002 critically examining the logic of political violence.

Falling Walls

Author : Upendranath Ashk
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9352141202
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Falling Walls written by Upendranath Ashk and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man from Jalandhar longs to become a writer but fails at every turn. Upendranath Ashk's 1947 novel explores in great detail the trials and tribulations of Chetan. From the back galis of Lahore and Jalandhar to Shimla's Scandal Point, Falling Walls offers a rich and intimate portrait of lower-middle-class life in the 1930s and the hurdles an aspiring writer must overcome to fulfil his ambitions.