भारतीय इतिहास की भंकायर भूले - पी एन ओक

भारतीय इसिहास की भयंकर भूले - श्री पी. एन. ओक द्वारा लिखी गई यह पुस्तक हर भारतीय को पढ़नी चाहिए, हमारा दावा है कि इस पुस्तक को पढ़ने के बाद आपकी आखें खुल जायेगी और आज तक जो भी आपने स्कूल या कॉलेज में पढ़ा होगा, वो सब झूठ लगने लगेगा, आपको मालुम होगा कि जो भी आप आजतक जानते थे वो सब तो झूठ था ..

The Indian Way

Writing this book has been simultaneously a way of expressing my gratitude for what I have received from the Indian tradition and a way of exploring this tradition further. The voices of India's great thinkers, speaking through her rich philosophical and religious traditions, have revealed many wonderful secrets of the human heart and mind, enriching my personal existence and illuminating my own culture. this book is a way of sharing what I have received and inviting you to join in the exploration of the Indian way and the process of self-discovery. throughout, I have attempted to let the Indian way speak for itself, to be its voice, rather than to express my own opinions.

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Think India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American

With 1.1 billion residents, the world’s largest democracy is poised to dominate the world stage. One of India’s wealthiest men gives an insider’s view into his country’s dynamic transformation, revealing the forces and unique characteristics behind India’s meteoric rise.

The buzzword of the twenty-first century is India—and it’s not just a story of software, outsourcing, and faraway call centers. With the economy soaring at 8 percent a year, India is a medical and pharmaceutical frontrunner, an R&D powerhouse, a rising manufacturing hub, and an up-and-coming cultural trendsetter in areas from fashion to film. And the world is taking note: Western companies from Lockheed Martin to McDonald’s are moving in, Ford is setting up factories, Coca Cola is heading to the countryside in rickshaws, and research centers for Fortune 500 companies are popping up everywhere. Meanwhile, the U.S. military is forging close ties, as India has become a key strategic partner.

Steel tycoon turned educator Vinay Rai, who now runs one of India’s two private universities— with fifteen campuses nationwide—couples with geopolitical writer Melissa Rossi to map out the rising new India. This colorful, lively, forward-looking account of India’s stunning world debut is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand India’s new muscle on the global stage.

• One out of every six people in the world lives in India.

• India’s top trading partner is the United States. 

• India is:

The fastest-growing free market economy

The world’s top destination for retailers

The world’s youngest workforce (over 500 millionunder age twenty-five)

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India Today - 08 April 2013

India Today - 08 April 2013

English | 106 pages | True PDF | 18.00 Mb

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भारत में इस्लामीकरण के चार चरण - पुरुषोतम

भारत में इस्लामीकरण के चार चरण - पुरुषोतम 

( Bharat Me Islamikaran Ke Chaar Charan by Purushottam)

मुझे लोगो से उस समय तक लड़ने का ( अल्लाह से ) आदेश हुआ है कि जब तक वह यह सत्यापित न करने लगे के अल्लाह के अतिरिक्त कोई दूसरा उपास्य नहीं है, मुझे अल्लाह का पैगम्बर न मानने लगे और उस सब में भी विश्वास न करने लगे जो मेरे द्वारा प्रकट किया गया है. (मौहम्मद  प्र. 45)

वही है (अल्लाह) जिसने अपने सन्देश वाहक (मौहम्मद) को सत्य मत ( इस्लाम) देकर पथ प्रदर्शन के लिए भेजा है जिससे वह उसे सभी दूसरे मतों पर विजय बनाये भले ही मूर्ति पूजक उसका कितना ही विरोध क्यों न करें. ( कुरआन 9:33)

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The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry

During the twentieth century, a certain type of Indian painting began to fascinate the West. Unlike Mughal art, it was a product of Hindu courts in Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills and unlike Mughal painting, its chief concern was with the varied phases of romance. Ladies would be shown brooding in their chambers as storm clouds mounted in the sky. 

A girl might be portrayed desperately fondling a plantain tree, gripping a pet falcon, the symbol of her lover, or hurrying through the rainy darkness intent only on reaching a longed-for tryst. A prince would appear lying on a terrace, his outstretched arms striving vainly to detain a calm beauty or welcoming with delight a bashful girl as she slowly advanced. In all these pictures, romantic love was treated as the highest good and physical passion was interpreted with a freshness and innocence unequalled in the world's art.

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Unheard Voices

The Bhopal gas tragedy, the communal carnage of 1984 and 1989 in Delhi and Bhagalpur, the Orissa supercyclone, among others, are part of collective memory. But, often forgotten are those who actually were affected by these happenings, and others like them, street children, sex workers, dalits, HIV and leprosy patients, the homeless and the famine-stricken. These are people who in many ways are pushed to the outermost, most hopeless margins of society in the name of development and progress. In this book, civil servant and social activist Harsh Mander draws on his own and his colleagues' experiences to explore the lives of twenty such people who have survived and coped despite all odds.

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India's Nuclear Policy

This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security. This concept, Karnad demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout, even as the qualifier minimum suggests an overarching concern for moderation and economical use of resources, and strengthens India's claims to be a responsible nuclear weapon state.

Based on interviews with Indian political leaders, nuclear scientists, and military and civilian nuclear policy planners, it provides unique insights into the workings of India's nuclear decision-making and deterrence system. Moreover, by juxtaposing the Indian nuclear policy and thinking against the theories of nuclear war and strategic deterrence, nuclear escalation, and nuclear coercion, offers a strong theoretical grounding for the Indian approach to nuclear war and peace, nuclear deterrence and escalation, nonproliferation and disarmament, and to limited war in a nuclearized environment. It refutes the alarmist notions about a nuclear flashpoint in South Asia, etc. which derive from stereotyped analysis of India-Pakistan wars, and examines India's likely conflict scenarios involving China and, minorly, Pakistan.

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Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of contemporary political problems such as the rise of radical Islam, communalism, and the failure of secular-liberal democracy? This book offers the first comparative study of two highly significant anti-colonial nationalisms. Its close analysis of nationalist discourse in India and Egypt is situated within a new theoretical framework for studying nationalism, based on a trenchant critique of theorists such as Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, Eric Hobsbawm and Anthony Smith.

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Shri Guruji And Indian Muslims

The cultural nationalism has been a central theme in Indian social and political discourse since late 19th century. A galaxy of thinkers, spiritual personalities and philosophers, which included people like Rajaram Mohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Maharshi Aurovindo, B. C. Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, B. G. Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi, Bankim Chnadra Chatterjee, Ravindra Nath Tagore, Dr K. B. Hedgewar, V. D. Savarkar, Swami Dayananda, M. S. Golwalkar (Guruji), K. M. Munshi , Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, made enormous contributions to the evolution of idea and debate on it in the modern historiography. They differed with each other on many accounts and on their approaches to outline and define the contours of Indian nationalism but all of them largely concur that the cultural foundation gives shape to Indian nationalism. 

All of them perceived patriotism as a spiritual and cultural rather than a material concept. It is obvious from elevation of the country as ‘Mother’ and ‘Goddess’ by them. Moreover, the acceptance of Bankim’s Vande Mataram as a patriotic and inspiring song in the collective conscience of the people itself tells that nation has been given higher status than religions and community’s identity. Mother India becomes the most inspiring and living deity irrespective of sects, philosophies, religions and regions. 

However, there has been a notable absence of Muslims from such debate. Their hostility to this concept is very remarkable in the trajectory of Indian nationalism. Yet it is also not untrue that there are scattered instances of Muslim thinkers and literary figures who reinforced the idea of cultural nationalism. However, the Islamic religious discourses precluded such thinkers to sustain their ideology or lead to synthesis between indigenous ancestral culture and Islamic faith. Consequently, this could not turn it into an ideology of Muslim masses and remained confined to their personal conviction. The Muslim discourse has not only been predominantly based on pan Islam but also on the hostility to indigenous culture as a rival ideology and tradition.

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Flavours of India Delicious Slow Cook Recipes Made Simple

Flavours of India

A Culinary journey through India’s best known regions...

India is home to one of the most exciting and diverse cuisines in the world. From rich, indulgent and spicy to light, delicate and fragrant, the choice is immense. At Patak’s, we are passionate about Indian food and about inspiring you to discover and enjoy the vast array of flavours that the cuisine has to offer. The best way to experience real Indian food is to cook it yourself and cooking Indian food at home needn’t be difficult. That’s why I’ve developed these simple, easy-tofollow recipes that celebrate the diversity of India’s regional cuisine.

Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects

Made In India explores the making of "queer" and "heterosexual" consciousness and identities in light of economic privatization, global condom enterprises, sexuality-focused NGOs, the Bollywood-ization of beauty contests, and trans/national activism. In examining seemingly disparate and high profile events in post/neo colonial India, since the 1990s, Made In India demonstrates the relationships between identity formation and the political economy of trans/national sexualities. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization. Bhaskaran's unique analysis makes Made in India an important addition to postcolonial studies, gender studies, and diaspora studies courses.

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An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.

Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.

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भारतीय मुसलामानों के हिंदू पूर्वज मुसलमान कैसे बने

इस्लाम में धर्मांतरण के मुख्य साधन थे म्रत्यु भय या परिवार को गुलाम बनाये जाने का भय, आर्थिक लोभ   ( पारितोषिक, पेन्शन, लूट का माल ) धर्मान्तरित होने वालों के मूल धर्म में प्रचलित अंध विश्वास और अंत में इस्लाम के प्रचारको द्वारा किया गया प्रभावशाली प्रचार....

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