Turn the Pages to be in the Past : India's Glory - History - Non Fiction
Hai,
I had liked this words of David Mccullough on History:-
History is Who We Are and Why We Are the Way We are.
In Bharatham, we don't give much importance to our History. Of course, the foreigners will not highlight our history. But now, even after so many years after Independence, we are still not taught about our history in a proper manner.
In our society, we study history only to pass in Government Exams.
When we hear about a student choosing History in college, we give a Ugh / oh expression and we look him as he is unfit to live in this society.
Invaders of India had learnt and know more about our history, prosperity, culture, science, astronomy etc., If not, why they should come to India. We may telling proudly, when we go abroad, that we are Indian.
I could see many youth, really so many, they don't feel proud to be the one.. When a kid not proud about his mother country, then how is he going to be proud about the society, inheritance, family...
Time to think.. Focus them towards knowing our history. Without knowing our past, they can't build a stronger foundation for the Future... and generations to go on... and on...
Take them to the Historical places. But before that, you know more about those places and their history.
I had listed few books, which will be an eyeopener to know about our Bharatham: Read to be Proud!!! Interestingly many are written by Foreign Authors. They know more about us and we read them as they would be not partial and register the real history.
In the three centuries that followed Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route from Europe to India, European powers made a beeline for India's fabled riches, its spices, gold and gems. Though they ostensibly came for trade and commerce and the thrill of discovering a new land, the lines between exploration and exploitation soon blurred. The Theft of India documents the intense rivalry for spoils that played out between the British, the French, the Dutch and the Portuguese and the impact this had on Indians. It details the political intrigue, the agreements and the betrayals, the oppression, swindling and greed of these foreign powers as they each tried to strengthen their grip on this vast and exotic land. Roy Moxham's work, though, is no dry study of textual materials. Through probing research, he unearths eyewitness accounts and memoirs from the era. Moxham supplements these with an exhaustive study of academic works on the subject. The result is an unflattering picture of the civilized West as it systematically strips India of its riches.
Roy Moxham is the author of Outlaw (2010), A Brief History of Tea (2009), The Great Hedge of India (2001) and many other books. He also taught and examined in the Institute of English Studies, University of London. He devotes most of his energy to writing and giving talks. He spends half his time in London and the other half travelling, principally in South and South-East Asia.
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India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone he turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion, and set upa new yardstick for government. But Ashoka's bold experiment ended in tragedy and he was forgotten for almost two thousand years. In this beautifully written, multi-layered journey Charles Allen describes how fragments of the Ashokan story were gradually discovered, pieced together by a variety of British Orientalists: antiquarians, archaeologists and epigraphists. In doing so, they did much to recover India's ancient history itself. The Lost Emperor tells the story of the man who was arguably the greatest ruler India has ever known.
Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling booksabout India and the colonial experience elsewhere. He is atraveller, historian and master storyteller.
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The book Third Battle of Panipat is an authentic account of the battle fought between the Marathas and the allied armies of principle Muslim chiefs of India and Afghan Invader Ahmad Shah Abdali. The book describes the various events that led to the clash of arms between the two races who hardly had any contact 3-4 years before the battle. The book gives the detailed description of the armed strength of the two armies, the diplomatic moves made by the two parties, the political scenario and the various causes that led to the defeat .Various reasons have been proposed by various historians from time to time as to what led to the loss at Panipat and what actually the Marathas lost in Panipat. All these points have been studied upon and presented in a lucid manner in this book. The book also describes the actual battle fought on 14th January, 1761 as seen by various eye witnesses: one being Kashi raj. The description of eyewitnesses of both sides have been taken into account to make an unbiased report.
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An ant in the ear of an elephant can cause a lot of trouble, can't it? declares a woman protesting against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu, describing the daily, peaceful, non-violent protest that she and other women from nearby villages have been carrying on in Idinthakarai since August 15, 2011. It is the proverbial fight between David and Goliath, with the villagers living in the vicinity of the KKNPP and most affected by it, pitted against the might and machinery of the Government of India. For these villages along the coastal belt of Tamil Nadus Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and Tuticorin districts--that have a nuclear plant almost in their backyard--radiation is a real fear that dominates their lives and dictates their choices; to protest, to fast, to demonstrate against the government, to face arrest and incarceration. These Project Affected People or PAP do not believe the governments assurances that the plant is totally safe because they have not been consulted in any discussions about the KKNPP. Led by the Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) and its coordinator S P Udayakumar, the women who form the backbone of the Koodankulam struggle, are fiercely courageous, well informed and steadfast in their resolve to oppose the KKNPP and nuclear power and continue to protestà Minnie Vaid spent time in June 2013 with the intrepid women leading the Koodankulam struggle to record their fears, their demands and their hopes for the future. A month later, Unit 1 of the KKNPP was commissioned. She went back to Idinthakarai in January 2014 to talk to the women about their game plan.
Minnie Vaid is a print and television journalist, having worked at prestigious organisations such as the Times of India's Illustrated Weekly, India Today's Newstrack, Business India Television's Roots and Star Plus, and Mahindra's Mumbai Mantra. She is also a part-time activist full-time procrastinator. Wrote books on Binayak Sen, Irom Sharmila and the Koodankulam people's struggle. mumbai. Writing (books and scripts) and directing films which have a strong social message is her passion. Also focussing on rural india and its positive and disturbing elements too has remained a life long commitment to her.
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The Black Tiger is a product of a lucid research into the complicated world of black money its mechanisms, its movement, and its soft spots. A meditative and well-referenced critique of corruption and its corruptible practices, the book is a study of various countries across time and geography that have fought corruption in their own systems. From the ICAC of Hong Kong to the Clean Governance of Georgia and from the fight against Foreign Parked Black Money by a US court to the truly consequential None of the Above vote of Colombia, Srijan Pal Singh, trusted advisor and a close associate of Dr. Kalam, analyses case after case, putting forth cogent arguments on the many dimensions of corruption and how it can be systematically weeded out from India. At once fascinating, absorbing, and informative, The Black Tiger is a must-read for those who wish to know how India can become a superpower in the next few years, as envisioned by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
Srijan Pal Singh is a gold medallist MBA holder from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and has worked with the Boston Consulting Group. He is a social entrepreneur who has been involved in studying and evolving sustainable development systems with a thrust on rural areas. From 2009 to 2015, he also worked as an advisor and an officer on special duty to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on promoting the concept of energy independence and Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA), and co-authored with him three books, Target 3 Billion (2011), Reignited (2015), and Advantage India (2015). He has been named as one of the Global Leaders of Tomorrow by the St. Gallen Leadership Symposium in Switzerland in 2014. He has also co-authored Smart and Human (2015) with GRK Reddy.
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