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Book Synopsis The House of Scindias: A Saga of Power, Politics and Intrigue by : Rasheed Kidwai
Download or read book The House of Scindias: A Saga of Power, Politics and Intrigue written by Rasheed Kidwai and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RASHEED KIDWAI is a journalist, author, columnist and political analyst. He is Visiting Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation, Delhi. Formerly Associate Editor at The Telegraph, Kidwai is a keen observer of government, politics, community affairs and Hindi cinema.
Book Synopsis The Last Maharani of Gwalior by : Vijaya R. Scindia
Download or read book The Last Maharani of Gwalior written by Vijaya R. Scindia and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-09-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a description of contemporary India and some of its recent history in the form of an autobiography. Rajmata Scindia is a member of the Indian Parliament. As a maharani she had thousands of servants and several enormous palaces. Since Independence, which marked the end of the supremacy of the Maharajas, she has emerged as one of Indias most popular political leaders, first with the Congress party and now with the opposition. Her appeal to the masses, who see her as an image of Mother India, amazes both her admirers and her critics.
Download or read book Ballot written by Rasheed Kidwai and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 543 Lok Sabha seats. More than 4,000 state constituencies. Over 800 million voters. The world's largest democracy . . . From the time of its inception, democracy in India has been dubbed 'miraculous' by the world's media, and its elections as a spectacular exercise in human management. In Ballot, Rasheed Kidwai takes us through his pick of seminal elections that have shaped Indian democracy both at the centre and in select states. Highlighting the unique challenges faced by a country that adopted universal adult franchise at the very outset, profiling personalities who have triggered ground-shifts, and analysing the causes and consequences of key electoral episodes, he traces the very evolution of India's democratic process. Combining insightful commentary and colourful anecdotes, Ballot provides a brief, incisive examination of India's most momentous elections.
Download or read book Zero Dial written by J. Dey and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three informers. Murky bylanes that hold the key to deadly terror plots. The chase for India’s most wanted terrorist. The lives of three of Mumbai Police’s best informers collide in this shady underworld. It’s a bad, bad world. A world of crime, sex, drugs, murder and betrayal. He who lies, lives to see the light of another day... a day replete with even greater risks. From shady underworld dealings to switching gang loyalties, the men graduate to selling information on terrorism. Then begins the chase… to catch India’s most wanted terrorist: Riyaz Bhatkal, the man with an ominous track record of masterminding twentytwo blasts across the country since 2005. The search takes them to the most unassuming yet dangerous terror hubs across India. With trust in short supply, time ticking away and the sword of Damocles over their heads, the men can only hope that they are not on a wild goose chase.
Download or read book Princess written by Vijayaraje Scindia and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1985 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiografie van de adellijke Indiase politica.
Book Synopsis The House that Zee Built by : Surbhi Dahiya
Download or read book The House that Zee Built written by Surbhi Dahiya and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jugalbandi written by Vinay Sitapati and published by Penguin/Viking. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making. Vinay Sitapati's Jugalbandi provides this backstory to his current dominance in Indian politics. It begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism as a response to British-induced elections in the 1920s, moves on to the formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980, and ends with its first national government, from 1998 to 2004. And it follows this journey through the entangled lives of its founding jugalbandi: Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani. Over their six-decade-long relationship, Vajpayee and Advani worked as a team despite differences in personality and beliefs. What kept them together was fraternal love and professional synergy, of course, but also, above all, an ideology that stressed on unity. Their partnership explains what the BJP before Modi was, and why it won. In supporting roles are a cast of characters-from the warden's wife who made room for Vajpayee in her family to the billionaire grandson of Pakistan's founder who happened to be a major early funder of the BJP. Based on private papers, party documents, newspapers and over two hundred interviews, this is a must-read for those interested in the ideology that now rules India.
Download or read book Citizen Delhi written by Sheila Dikshit and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girl who loved cycling along the tree-lined avenues of a brand new Lutyens' Delhi could never have dreamt that five decades later she would govern, and transform, Delhi as its chief minister – not once, but thrice consecutively. When a politician like Sheila Dikshit, with a career spanning over three decades, chooses to let the reader get a glimpse of her life's journey, the opportunity brings along an element of surprise. In a fascinating account of her life, contoured along the life of the nation and her political party at critical junctures, she creates a richly patterned universe with deft touches, seamlessly moving between the home and the world, the past and the present. Be it encounters with politics, which she terms 'life at its barest' or the ups and downs of a household, what shines through is the portrait of a modern woman determined to face any eventuality with fortitude, and a deep sense of duty. Interestingly, she never wanted to be in politics, but destiny willed otherwise – a destiny shaped by her liberal upbringing in a Punjabi household. Brought up to be independent, she chose her life partner from another part of India. And that started it all. As the wife of an IAS officer and daughter-in-law of well-known freedom fighter and politician, Uma Shankar Dikshit, with his long association with the Nehru–Gandhi family, she saw governance from both ends. When she began assisting her father-in-law from 1969, her up-close view of politics eventually became a springboard for her own entry into the arena in December 1984, inaugurating a 30-year-long career in politics. The narrative foregrounds a question that the author considers crucial for democracy – how does one deal with the constant tussle between the dictates of governance and the here-and-now preoccupations of party politics?
Book Synopsis Colonial Institutions and Civil War by : Shivaji Mukherjee
Download or read book Colonial Institutions and Civil War written by Shivaji Mukherjee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how colonial indirect rule and land tenure institutions create state weakness, ethnic inequality and insurgency in India, and around the world.
Book Synopsis Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings by : Werner Stark
Download or read book Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings written by Werner Stark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains all the writings that are grouped around Bentham's boldest idea - the proposal of a 'circulating currency': a government sponsored currency which would be both a kind of savings certificate and a kind of paper money. The roots of this proposal are illustrated in two pamphlets from 1794-96, along with subsequent pamphlets and discussions which show Bentham's unsuccessful negotiations with the trasury on this matter.
Book Synopsis 24 Akbar Road [Revised and Updated] by : Rasheed Kidwai
Download or read book 24 Akbar Road [Revised and Updated] written by Rasheed Kidwai and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated with a new chapter on Rahul Gandhi The 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 prime minister since Nehru to lead the party into two Union government terms. In 2013, Rahul Gandhi was elevated to the post of Congress vice-president amid much fanfare and optimism. Tasked with reviving the grand old party, the young politician remains, in the minds of many, the best hope to lead the Congress into the next century, marking a new moment in the Congress’s concept of ‘continuity with change’. In his bestselling book 24 Akbar Road, seasoned journalist and veteran Congress watcher Rasheed Kidwai puts together an incisive and engaging account of the Congress’s shape-shifting nature and its tenuous hold at the Centre, providing a dispassionate observer’s glance at affairs within the Congress. Kidwai brilliantly tracks the story of the contemporary Congress in the years after the Emergency, using the Congress seat of power at 24 Akbar Road as his vantage to draw a compelling account of the Congress leadership from Indira, Sanjay and Rajiv Gandhi to Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesri, to the present- day trinity of Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi. In this revised and updated edition, Kidwai analyses Rahul Gandhi’s appointment to assess what the Congress needs to do to remain India’s nerve of power in the coming years, and whether the new vice- president can rally the party to a third consecutive victory at the Centre.'
Book Synopsis The Promise of Beauty and Why It Matters by : Shakti Maira
Download or read book The Promise of Beauty and Why It Matters written by Shakti Maira and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A concern for beauty would certainly make us better shapers of the world.' - Roger ScrutonThe idea of beauty is highly conflicted terrain. Does it only have to do with how things look? Is it merely prettiness? Is it entirely subjective? Does it serve a function?Historically, beauty has been held in high esteem: 'beauty is truth, truth beauty,' the poet Keats wrote. Why then do the high priests of the arts and the arguably progressive socio-political thinkers of the day shun it? Shakti Maira explains how the problem lies with the confused understanding of beauty and with beauty becoming superficially located: quite literally, on the skin. What would happen, he asks, if beauty were to become central to every aspect of our lives: environment, education, economics and governance? Maira engages eighteen eminent thinkers in a series of conversations around the difficult, enthralling notion of beauty.Scientists explore whether there is an evolutionary purpose to it. Philosophers examine its relationship to truth and goodness. Artists speak of beauty and its rejection. Brain-mind experts consider whether the experience of it strengthens certain neural pathways connected with the qualities of balance, harmony, rhythm and proportion. Activists probe how beauty works in the context of social systems. What emerges is a deeper understanding of beauty and how it is a key to our world: a radical new way of evaluating problems and finding solutions, from the personal to the political, the individual to the universal.
Book Synopsis Democratic Dynasties by : Kanchan Chandra
Download or read book Democratic Dynasties written by Kanchan Chandra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynastic politics, usually presumed to be the antithesis of democracy, is a routine aspect of politics in many modern democracies. This book introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies, using original data on twenty-first-century Indian parliaments. It argues that the roots of dynastic politics lie at least in part in modern democratic institutions - states and parties - which give political families a leg-up in the electoral process. It also proposes a rethinking of the view that dynastic politics is a violation of democracy, showing that it can also reinforce some aspects of democracy while violating others. Finally, this book suggests that both reinforcement and violation are the products, not of some property intrinsic to political dynasties, but of the institutional environment from which those dynasties emerge.
Author :Neha Dwivedi Publisher :Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN 13 :9354921418 Total Pages :152 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (549 download)
Download or read book The Lone Wolf written by Neha Dwivedi and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bangladesh Liberation War was nearing its bloody end when Colonel Ashok Tara, then a twenty-nine-year-old major, was assigned the task of rescuing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's family which was being held hostage by the Pakistani Army. Ashok Tara, unarmed, entered the lion's den, and negotiated with the hostile soldiers for the release of Bangladesh's Father of the Nation and his family that included a young Sheikh Hasina. The Lone Wolf is Ashok Tara's story, charting the course of his celebrated yet quiet life as a member of the armed forces. Neha Dwivedi's writing expertly captures our hero's humble beginnings, his life-altering experiences, and offers a blow-by-blow account of a seminal event in South-east Asian history. As much as it is the story of Colonel Ashok Tara's bravery, it is also the story of a bleak-yet-victorious period of Bangladesh's quest for freedom.
Download or read book Sri Lanka written by Padma Rao Sundarji and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty-year-long civil war in Sri Lanka which ended in 2009 shook the island-nation. Now there is peace, rapid development - and a new government. But questions remain. What do Tamils and Sinhalese feel about their new country? What are their dreams for the future?Sri Lanka: The New Country is insightful and unusual reportage from the dispassionate eye of a foreign correspondent who covered the bloody conflict for two decades. It is anecdotal narrative at its best: about ordinary Sri Lankans, former Tamil Tigers, meeting LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran, princes, 'secular clergymen', army generals, Tamil Buddhists, Sinhalese Tamils, politicians and sailors wary of ghosts. As the writer traverses Sri Lanka's formerly embattled north and east, internationally stereotypes about the nation are challenged. The book is a tribute to a wonderful people, as they pick up the pieces of their fragmented national identity and get on with building a new country.
Download or read book Madhavrao Scindia written by Sanghvi Vir and published by Penguin Enterprise. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suave, secular and known for his unwavering honesty, Madhavrao Scindia was no conventional politician. Born to the last king of Gwalior and conscious of his heritage, he espoused liberal and democratic values throughout his life. A nine-term member of the Lok Sabha and hugely successful minister, he remained a family man at heart. Scindia was a beguiling figure because of the way he chose to live: His was a path that proved neither predictable nor easy. Perhaps that's why his life reads like the plot of a grand novel, dotted with intriguing courtiers and wily politicians-in a bitter falling out with his mother, a powerful force of the Jana Sangh, in battles with at least two Congress governments, in his own tragic death. His captivating story emerges as the portrait of a fascinating life as much as a chronicle of contemporary Indian politics.
Download or read book Madhavrao Scindia written by Vir Sanghvi and published by Viking Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suave, Educated, Secular And With A Reputation For Unwavering Honesty, Madhavrao Scindia Did Not Conform To The Conventional Image Of The Indian Politician. Despite His Liberal Outlook And His Whole-Hearted Espousal Of Democratic Values, Madhavrao, Son Of The Last Ruling King Of Gwalior, Did Not Forget His Heritage: He Was Inextricably Linked With The People Of Gwalior And Guna, Who Unfailingly Voted For Him In All The Nine Elections He Contested. To The World At Large He Was A Successful Minister And A Leading Light Of The Congress Party, But At Heart He Remained A Simple Family Man, Who Did Not Allow Either His Ancestry Or His Political Status To Define Him. What Made Madhavrao Scindia One Of The Most Fascinating Figures In Contemporary Indian Politics? The Answer Lies, Perhaps, In The Way Madhavrao Chose To Live. Born With Life&Rsquo;S Plan Neatly Laid Out For Him&Mdash;The Title To A 21-Gun Salute State; A Political Career Chosen For Him By His Mother; And Vast Estates In Several Cities&Mdash;He Sought Instead To Tread A Path That Was Neither Predictable Nor Easy. Madhavrao Scindia&Rsquo;S Life Reads Very Much Like The Plot Of A Grand Novel. There Is The Bitter Falling Out With His Mother, The Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia, A Powerful Force Of The Jana Sangh; A Host Of Minor And Major Characters Ranging From Intriguing Courtiers To Wily Politicians; A Battle With At Least Two Congress Governments (The First During The Emergency And The Second During Narasimha Rao&Rsquo;S Regime) And, Finally, Madhavrao&Rsquo;S Tragic And Untimely Death. This Is The Story Of A Man Who Was Born A Maharaja But Chose To Live As A Democratic Citizen Of India. Vir Sanghvi And Namita Bhandare Bring Alive His Tale In This Riveting Biography That Is As Much A Chronicle Of Modern Indian Politics As It Is A Portrait Of A Fascinating Life. &Nbsp;
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