The new edition updated to the present recounts the return of the community to the mainstream of national life. Written in Khushwant Singh's trademark style to be accessible to a general, non-scholarly audience, the book is based on scholarly archival research.

    An analysis of Ram Gopal Misra's Indian resistance to early Muslim invaders, up to 1206 A.D.

    The interrogation, which was done by the army and police, included torture of the worst kind imaginable. Many of his comrades went insane or ended their own lives. Large portions of his stories describe the methods used in gory and spine-chilling detail but there were also lighter moments with dacoits, prostitutes, pimps and dope smugglers in the same jails....’ He witnessed history unfolding from Mianwali jail: ‘... when Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was brought there, and had his grave dug and then refilled when Bhutto released him to return in truimph to Bangladesh. From his cell he watched Indian bombers and fighters knock out Pakistan’s airforce from the skies...’

    Ranajit Guha—intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Group—describes from the peasants’ viewpoint the relations of dominance and subordination in rural India from 1783 to 1900. Challenging the idea that peasants were powerless agents who rebelled blindly against British imperialist oppression and local landlord exploitation, Guha emphasizes their awareness and will to effect political change. He suggests that the rebellions represented the birth of a theoretical consciousness and asserts that India’s long subaltern tradition lent power to the landmark insurgence led by Mahatma Gandhi. Yet as long as landlord authority remains dominant in a ruling culture, Guha claims, all mass struggles will tend to model themselves after the unfinished projects documented in this book. Students and scholars will welcome this paperback edition of Guha’s 1983 original, which was distributed on a limited scale in the United States. It will influence new generations studying colonialism, postcolonialism, subaltern studies, historiography, anthropology, and Indian, Asian, and Latin American history.

    

    

    Essential teachings on nature and meaning of life, exploring the soul's experience from manifestation, through life on earth, and its return to the source of life.

    But after four people told me this book was a must in as many weeks, I took a copy home. Now I'm telling others, You have to read this! Part thriller, part biography, part history, Badshah Khan's life story is remarkable by any measure: dubbed the Frontier Gandhi, he raised a nonviolent army of followers from one of India's most violent minorities, the islamic Pathans of the Khyber Pass.Khan's message offers a weapon of hope for deadlocked conflicts around the globe -- in the Middle East, India, Central America, the Balkans -- wherever people have forgotten that peace and forgiveness are possible.

    This book is the first comprehensive study of the Indian experience with policies of systematic preferential treatment. Galanter includes a discussion of the relation of the courts to public policy in his analysis of the choices and tensions in the Indian policies of compensatory preference.

    This work is the first and most complete exposition of the religion iconography of India. An indispensable source and reference work, it is comparatively free of Western influence and was written in the spirit of East Indian myths, legends, fables and the intricate symbolism which distinguished the Eastern mind. Beautifully illustrated.