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History books in english

the journal offers an introduction to the rapidly expanding nexus of fields. The authors provide an insight into the processes and events of the past and interconnect them.
Sapiens

Seventy thousand years ago, there were at least six different human species on earth. They were insignificant animals, whose ecological impact was less than that of fireflies or jellyfish. Today, there is only one human species left: Us. Homo sapiens

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सेंन्गोल - भारतीय विरासत

आज हम सभी विदेशों में घुमकर आना और अपने देश में विदेशी इमारतों और उनका बताना सही हो सकता है। बस अपने भारत को ऐतिहासिक रुप के साथ साथ बहुत कुछ देश के लिए सोचो और अपना भारत महान हम सभी ऐसे ही नहीं कहते हैं। आओ कुछ पढ़ते हैं

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25 May 2023

Freedom Struggle

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and to your loved ones. Care instructi

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The Dawn of Freedom

India attained freedom on 15 August 1947, but this great event was marred by the Partition. The people had to undergo untold miseries due to loot, arson and murder that took place at that time. The focus of this novel is on the process that turned in

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Daily topics

The problem is not that we have stopped talking to others, but the real problem is that we have stopped talking to ourselves, even though we do not talk to ourselves, even if we do, we do it one-sided.                     We do only those things w

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30 December 2022

The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel

The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities at the height of their pow

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RANI RUDRAMA DEVI

Women Pioneers is a new initiative of National Book Trust, India, that aims to bring to light as well as project the work and contribution of eminent Indian women in different walks of life like art, culture, literature, science, socio-religious refo

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Riot - A Novel

A powerful novel –set in and around a riot in India in 1989– about love, hate, cultural collision, religious fanaticism, the ownership of history, and the impossibility of knowing the truth... by the award-winning author of The Great Indian Novel.

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GANDHI-NEHRU Correspondence

Spanning a period of about 26 years, this collection brings together select correspondence between Mahatama Gandhi and Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. Together they portary a strikingly unique relationshipthat was not only personal but also political. Notwiths

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TRADITIONAL INDIAN THEATRE

The book is a pioneering study of some forms of Indian performing arts which are neither "folk" nor "classical" in the conventional sense of the terms, but belong to a twilight region combining elements of both. Though often widely divergent in chara

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A Golden Age

One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on t

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The Prisoner of Paradise

When Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle in their grand plantation house, her mind is full of the poems of Keats and tales of romance . She is nonetheless unprepared for the beauty, fecundity and otherness

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वीर अभिमन्यु वध

वीर अभिमन्यु वध काव्य रचना

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BREAKING GROUND

The Nehruvian-era' of post-Independence India roused unprecedented hopes and expectations in the country, particularly among the educated classes. Growing up during those atmospheric years and starting out professionally in the historic fifties and s

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Tipu Sultan The Tyrant of Mysore

his book is part of series of books which will 'De-Falsify our existing History', We have seen, read, and heard about a lot of phony people claiming to be freedom fighters and receiving pensions from the Government. Several of these worthies would no

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Splendours of Royal Mysore

It was the summer of AD 1399 that disaster struck a small principality of southern India. Mahisuru, which later went on to become Mysore, had lost its chieftain and was vulnerable to the machinations of a cunning upstart. At around the same time, two

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The Ocean of Churn - How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

In this ambitious book, bestselling author Sanjeev Sanyal chronicles the grand sweep of history from East Africa to Australia, conjuring the great cities of Angkor and Vijayanagar, medieval Arab empires and Chinese ‘treasure fleets’ in rich, vivid de

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Courting India

When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the Mughals, they were

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Bloodstained Throne, The

Nepal, land of Buddhism and misty mountains, is not a nation whose history one would expect to be filled with blood and yet, the struggle to gain and keep control of the mountain kingdom is one marked by a long history of violence and murder. The Blo

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Nikhat

Nikhat

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4 October 2022