India Books

This children's version of a classic Indian story contains plenty of action and interesting characters to keep younger children interested. They will particularly like the lovely, colourful illustrations thoughout the book.

This book is one of the few around that gives a general account on the many Indian filmographies.
Informative without being too much for experts, has information for even the less popular Indian cinema as the one of Assam, it has a good section on South Indian cinema.
It has been very helpful for my study and one of the few valid resources in English.

Well researched and written. I came across this gem of a book in India and I have read it couple times. I found to my surprise that not even the locals of Hyderabad know as much as what this book tells. This book tells history behind the popular commercial spots in Hyderabad like 'King Koti', 'Abids' which none of the locals are aware of. Unfortunately many of the historical tombs and buildings of immense architectural beauty mentioned in this book are in ruin and some lost. If you are from Hyderabad (which I am not) and feel passionate about your city (which I do) this is your book. The most interesting part of the book is at the end when the police action was in progress. The chief of the much hated Razakars was running after his get-away plane in which he has stashed his fortunes with the Indian police hot in pursuit (sounds like Hollywood movie ending). Read the book to know what happens to him.

India has among its more than 1200 species some of the most beautiful birds in the world, and they have long attracted artists in the portrayal of their "splendid plumage." For the Mughal court, Indian painters provided brilliant natural history drawings and miniatures, and in the late 18th and early 19th century, British officials, as they extended their presence in India, recruited Indian artists in scientific investigation and depiction of Indian fauna--and none more richly than birds. Many of the British civil servants were themselves amateur artists of considerable ability and a good number were passionate ornithologists. The result was a phenomenal collection of paintings and drawings of Indian birds and a large number of often sumptuous volumes of prints portraying the birds of India and the subcontinent. Jagmohan Mahajan opens Splendid Plumage: Indian Birds by British Artists with an illuminating essay on the history of British ornithology in India and on the collections of paintings and prints that came out of the British encounter with avian life in India. The greater portion of the book is devoted to 60 full-page color plates reproducing watercolors and prints from some of the finest of these collections. These include previously unpublished watercolors by Christopher Webb Smith, c. 1830, and representative prints from James Forbes's Oriental Memoirs (1813), John Edward Gray's Illustrations of Indian Zoology (1830-35), John Gould's A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1830-33), and Allan Octavian Hume and C. H. T. Marshall's The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon (1879-81), among others. Splendid Plumage is handsomely produced and will be richly rewarding to anyone interested in the birds of India and, more generally, in artists' portrayal of birds.

This is one of the most comprehensive book on therapeutic nutrition and it gives an elaborate coverage of all diet-critical diseases, their etiology, symptoms and dietetic principles involved in their effective treatment. It is also a very handy book for references regarding life-cycle nutrition and simple modification diets for children and adoloscents.In short it is a gospel for both students and those in the healthcare stream.

As a comprehensive catalog of the coins of the various Indian sultanates, this work not only supersedes the separate museum catalogs and other specialized works on Delhi, Gujarat, Bengal and so on, it also far surpasses the earlier "comprehensive" catalog by Dilip Rajgor. The end of the book includes a Rajgor conversion table in case your collection is catalogued using his numbers. Inscriptions are given in Romanized transliteration, but are not translated. Almost every type is photographed. This will be the standard reference for quite some time.

Nissim Ezekiel is often described as a founder of modern English verse in India, or as the leading writer to come out of the "Bene Israel" a long-isolated Jewish community in Western India. This is not really fair to a highly readable modern poet with affinities to Yeats, W.C. Williams, and others, although Ezekiel also wrote poems in an Indo-English dialect that anticipate the prose works of Salman Rushdie.

Dilip Chakrabarti is one of India's pre-eminent archaeologists. Currently a professor at Cambridge University, he has tirelessly exposed the colonial and racist prejudices that plague Indian historiopraphy. This book presents a masterly overview of the politics of India's past and how it has been held hostage by Marxists in India and colonialist/racist scholars outside India.

Excellent book that showcases postcolonial India. Great for Reference about such issues.

It reads like a novel, yet there is more truth in this tale than in virtually any other book I've ever read. These two people are real heroes, the kind one usually only reads about in books, but they are very much alive. One is tempted to say they are like Mother Teresa, only instead of caring for the dying, they care for the living!

It is also a tale of agribusiness interests run amok, "free trade" ruining the lives of millions at the bottom of the multinational food chain, and two people who do not even own a pillow, less a bed, who have decided to take on the World Bank and all their minions.

I feel blessed to know that such people even today walk the earth. You will learn so much from this book, and be inspired in the process!

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Editorial Reviews

"The Color of Freedom is TERRIFIC! I read it with breathless attention and shouts of joy! This is exactly the kind of book we need: a real-life story with real-life heroes whose travails and triumphs enrich our own experience, seeding new possibilities. In this dark time, this book is both spiritually satisfying and strategically invigorating. These people are moral giants, in comparison with whom we are like pygmies. After the strong review of multinational shrimp farming, I think that I have eaten my last prawn!"

-- Joanna Rogers Macy, author, "Widening Circles" and "Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World"

"Be forewarned: this is a provocative and dangerous book. "The Color of Freedom" is seemingly an account of the marvelous passion of a man and a woman, but make no mistake: it is really about you and the hidden strength which you have yet to draw upon."

-- John Taylor Gatto, former New York State Teacher of the Year, and author, "The Underground History of American Education"