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  • The Untold Story of the Indian Freedom Struggle

    The players behind India's freedom, #1

    by Edwin de Shawn ...
    Series Book 1 - The players behind India's freedom
    The first book on history where the reader is the judge and decides the historical narrative. You can can see all the evidence and make your own call.This book is a sweeping historical analysis of the protagonists of the Indian freedom struggle - Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Ambedkar, Patel, the Congress, the Muslim League and the British Raj. It talks about the transformation of Jinnah from a secular ... Read more

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  • Mahatma - The Greatest Demagogue in History

    by Edwin de Shawn ...
    The third book on history where the reader is the judge and decides the historical narrative. You can can see all the evidence and make your own call. It is time to question the legacy of a person who has escaped any scrutiny of his actions. Never before has all the sources been available at your fingertips. You decide personally by looking at the evidence.Gandhi's shenanigans in propping Nehru, ... Read more

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  • The Catastrophic Blunders of Nehru

    by Edwin de Shawn ...
    The second book on history where the reader is the judge and decides the historical narrative. You can can see all the evidence and make your own call.This book is a sweeping historical analysis of Nehru and his actions. The interplay of the other protagonists of the Indian freedom struggle - Gandhi, Jinnah, Ambedkar, Patel, the Congress, the Muslim League and the British Raj is also discussed. It ... Read more

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  • Modi's Yatra to Power

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  • Midnight's Furies

    The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

    by Nisid Hajari ...
    A "fast-moving and highly readable account" of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and its lasting legacy in today's geopolitical tensions ( The New York Times).An NPR and Seattle Times Best Book of the YearNobody expected the events of 1947 in Southeast Asia to be so bloody. The liberation of India and the birth of Pakistan were supposed to realize the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled ... 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

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  • Great Soul

    by Joseph Lelyveld ...
    **A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor.“A ... Read more

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  • The Great Partition

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  • The Great Partition

    The Making of India and Pakistan, New Edition

    by Yasmin Khan ...
    A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis.   ... Read more

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  • The Doctor and the Saint

    Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste: The Debate Between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    The little-known story of Gandhi's reluctance to challenge the caste system, and the man who fought fiercely for India's downtrodden.Democracy hasn't eradicated caste, argues bestselling author and Booker Prize–winner Arundhati Roy—it has entrenched and modernized it. To understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ultimately became: ... Read more

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  • The Shadow of the Great Game

    The Untold Story of India's Partition

    by Raja Narendra Singh Sarila ...
    The untold story of India's Partition.The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic interests - in the oil wells of the Middle East and maintaining access to its Indian Ocean territories - ... Read more

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