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A BRIEF HISTORY OF INDIA
₨ 1,595The “Brief History” series introduces readers to the dramatic events, notable people, and special customs and traditions that have shaped many of the world’s countries. Each engaging volume covers a specific country and offers a concise history of the struggles and triumphs of the peoples and cultures that have called that country home. Touching on factors as diverse as the development of the economy to the role of women in society to changes in the political landscape, these comprehensive volumes provide the key background information readers need to put current global events in historical perspective.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PAKISTAN
₨ 1,595Presents the major events, people, and traditions that have shaped Pakistan. This title includes coverage on the The land and its people; The Indus Valley Civilization; The Vedic Age in Pakistan; The Mogul Period; British rule; The struggle for independence; Partition; Civilian and military rule; and, Islamization of Pakistan.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GREAT MOGHULS
₨ 1,045‘Entertainingly written history . . . ravishingly beautiful photographs.’ The Times
Bamber Gascoigne’s classic book tells of the most fascinating period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the country was ruled by the extraordinarily talented dynasty of emperors known to European travellers as ‘the Great Moghuls’, for their almost limitless power and incomparable wealth.
Here is a unique picture of the way of life of India’s most flamboyant rulers, their sublime palaces, their passions in art, science and religion, and their sophisticated system of administration that stabilized the greater part of India and was later adopted by the British.
Acclaimed by travellers and scholars alike, and beautifully illustrated in colour with sixteen pages of photographs, this is a book for anyone with an interest in India’s glorious past and an engaging survey of a splendid culture and its singular achievements.
ISBN: 9781841195339
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A BYZANTINE JOURNEY
₨ 3,390A high point of civilization and artistic accomplishment, the Byzantine Empire has also been the object of great misunderstanding and prejudice. This is a portrayal of its cultural history, focusing on its surreal landscapes and fantastic monuments. The book starts in Istanbul and crosses the Sea of Marmora to travel through Anatolia, the region of Asiatic Turkey which was the source of the Empire’s wealth and manpower. John Ash finds his way through a country of anachronisms and contrasts, of bloody feuds and frescoed cave-churches, of saints and sinners, of emperoand sultans. The book introduces the reader to an exotic cast of characters, including the impassioned aesthete Theophilus, the great mystical poet Rumi, the bishop and necromancer Theodore Santabarenos and the drde4Empress Theophanous.
ISBN: 1845113071
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A COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY PROGRAMME FOR PROBLEM GAMBLING
₨ 9,252
ISBN: 9780415548168
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE -
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A COMPENDIUM OF FAMILY HEALTH
₨ 1,216With Over 1000 entries on matters of health and disease, A Compendium of Family Health is the ideal book to open when you are bewildered by a medical crisis. These are entries designed to inform and clarify. They address worrying questions like: What could be causing the illness? –What can I do immediately to relive distress? Quick aids are listed for every emergency. Understanding illness is but a small part of keeping your family healthy. With this in mind, the Compendium offers information about the structure and functions of the human body, growth and pregnancy, nutrition and psychological health. A separate section about drugs in common use, highlights the way they work and will help you understand your doctor’s prescription.
ISBN: 8129102498
Publisher: RUPA -
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A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO NEUTRON DIFFRACTION
₨ 40,359
ISBN: 9781632380005
Publisher: NY RESEARCH PRESS -
A COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
₨ 1,216
ISBN: 8182470331
Publisher: ABHISHEK PUBLICATIONS -
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A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY VASTU FOR WORKPLACE
₨ 200
ISBN: 8188385085
Publisher: ACADEMIC INDIA PUBLISHERS -
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A CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAM
₨ 910This concise reference guide is designed specifically for readers and students who wish to learn more about the world’s fastest-growing religion. Fully illustrated, the encyclopedia contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries which give succinct yet authoritative information on everything from the Qur’an and its origins to the role of Islam in the United States.
ISBN: 1851682953
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A CONCISE HISTORY OF PAKISTAN
₨ 1,195This is a comprehensive one-volume history of Pakistan, a country that lies at the centre of the world’s strategic concerns. Being published as Pakistan completes its sixtieth year as a nation state the book covers contemporary crises in the perspective of the subcontinent’s ancient and medieval history to explain how Muslim nationalism emerged and how the community interacted with the other communities in the region.
Covering the centuries from Mehergarh to Musharraf, the author breaches the confines of political history to depict the intellectual, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history of Pakistan. Topics that have become the subject of controversy such as the 1971 Poland Resolution and the 1972 Simla Agreement are highlighted in boxes. The book is thematically addressed, but it provides underpinning by interspersing personality profiles of the individuals who shaped the course of events over the centuries. This gallery includes Amir Khusro as the embodiment of a distinctive Indo-Muslim culture; Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru, whose lofty ideals nevertheless resulted in Partition; M.A. Jinnah, who is credited with almost single-handedly creating the state of Pakistan; and the volatile but tragic figure of Z.A. Bhutto. In covering economic history, the author has also treated unorthodox subjects such as the rise and fall of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International and the Kalabagh Dam controversy. In diplomatic history the author presents little known material on the 1971 War and in intellectual history he examines the circumstances that caused piety to develop into terror. Replete with striking interpretations based on neglected but authentic sources, this book breaks fresh ground.
ISBN: 9780199065127
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A CONCISE HISTORY OF SUNNIS AND SHI’IS
₨ 1,995The 1400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi is has rarely been as toxic as it is today, feeding wars and communal strife in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and many other countries, with tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran escalating. India, too, has not emerged unscathed from this schism, and has witnessed periodic violence between the two sects throughout history. In this richly layered and engrossing account, John McHugo reveals how this great divide occurred. Charting the story of Islam from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day, he describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi ism evolved as different sects during the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the empires of the Sunni Ottomans and Shi i Safavids contrived to ensure that the split would continue into modern times. Now its full, destructive force has been brought out by the struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran for the soul of the Muslim world. Definitive, insightful and accessible, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi is shows that there was nothing inevitable about the sectarian conflicts that now disfigure Islam. It is an essential guide to understanding the genesis, development and manipulation of the great schism that for far too many people has come to define Islam and the Muslim world
ISBN: 9789388326247
Publisher: SPEAKING TIGER
