India category: 2353 books

Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a sexploration through modern India by train, plane and auto-rickshaw. From the heat of anti-rape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills of Shimla, playground of the Raj; from a Gujurati retirement...

Satish Chandra’s History of Medieval India is a comprehensive overview of the history of the Indian subcontinent during the thousand-year period between the eighth and the eighteenth century. History of Medieval India studies this interesting period in Indian history when the land underwent drastic...

L’India è un pianeta a sé, un subcontinente, un angolo di mondo davvero particolare - Una guida fra i tanti aspetti geografici, climatici, paesaggistici, storici, artistici, e anche umani e sociali, perché un viaggio in India è un’esperienza di vita - Un’ampia sintesi per cogliere l’evoluzione...

Primi giorni di gennaio 1656: un veliero dell’East India Company getta l’ancora nel porto di Surat, India occidentale. Tra la folla di mercanti e avventurieri europei sbarca anche un ragazzino italiano: si chiama Nicolò Manucci, ha diciott’anni. Ne aveva solo quindici quando è partito da Venezia,...

This book described about the true life of India, the land Mr. & Mrs. W.J. Rogers used to travel.  There were some amazing angles you should know about India. The contents of this book consisted of Americans Complimented Scene at Jain and Rahm Temple A Strange Occurrence A Hindu...

A collection of Travel in south India to lesser known beautiful, historical locales. Locales where buddhism had spread thousands of years ago and refound and restiored. Short stories about Indian black magic and life in India

‘This is a battle piece of the finest kind, detailed, authentic and largely written from original documents. Mr. Leasor has a formidable gift of narrative. Never has this story of hate, violence, courage and cowardice been better told.’ Cecil Woodham-Smith in the New York Times A year...

From one of the subcontinent’s most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India’s wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting...

From the author of The Last Mughal (“A compulsively readable masterpiece” —The New York Review of Books), an exquisite, mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change—a...

"John Dwyer might be just the ticket to fill [Michael] Palin's well worn shoes" - HungryFeet.com Overland adventurer John Dwyer has less than three months to cross China, Tibet, Nepal and India and he has a to-do list: - Drink snake blood - Get smuggled into Tibet - Hike to...

Thoroughly revised and revamped with expanded coverage for its tenth edition, The Rough Guide to India is the ultimate travel guide to one of the world's great travel destinations. From the majestic landscapes of the Himalayas to the tropical backwaters of Kerala, the Rough Guide covers this endlessly...

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of...

The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The...

When it is about India, there is so much that one can look for as this is the country holding millions of those mysteries which shaped it into what it is today to everyone out there. And here you are going to learn about most of those mysteries which may untangle those knowledge bytes of yours related to India and its development till date.