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 The
Complete Taj Mahal: The
greatest monument to love, and the lost world of the Agra
gardens and their characterful owners, re-created through
superb scholarship and evocative illustrations. The book
features hundreds of new photographs plus drawings by the
Indian architect Richard Barraud that include plans and
reconstructions of Agra and the Taj complex as they looked
in Shah Jahan's time. |
 India:
A History :The history of what is now India
stretches back thousands of years, further than that of
nearly any other region on earth. Yet, observes historian
John Keay, most historical work on India concentrates on
the period after the arrival of Europeans, with
predictable biases, distortions, and misapprehensions.
One, for example, is the tendency to locate the source of
social conflict in India's many religions--to which Keay
retorts, "Historically, it was Europe, not India,
which consistently made religion grounds for war."
Taking the longest possible view, Keay surveys what is
both provable and invented in the historical record. His
narrative begins in 3000 B.C., with the complex, and
little-understood, Harappan period, a time of state
formation and the development of agriculture and trade
networks. This period coincides with the arrival of
Indo-European invaders, the so-called Aryans, whose name,
of course, has been put to bad use at many points since.
Keay traces the growth of subsequent states and kingdoms
throughout antiquity and the medieval period, suggesting
that the lack of unified government made the job of the
European conquerors somewhat easier--but by no means
inevitable. He continues to the modern day, his narrative
ending with Indian-Pakistani conflicts in 1998. Fluently
told and well documented, Keay's narrative history is of
much value to students and general readers with an
interest in India's past and present. Amazon.com--Gregory
McNamee |
 Proof of Vedic Culture's Global Existence
: Through this book you will see: * How Vedic knowledge was given to humanity by the Supreme. * The history and traditional source of the Vedas and Vedic Aryan society. * Who were the original Vedic Aryans. How Vedic society was a global influence and what shattered this world-wide society. * Many scientific discoveries over the past several centuries are only rediscoveries of what was already known in the Vedic literature. You will see the advanced nature of Vedic knowledge that long superceded other noted cultures. * The origins of world language and literature are found in India and Sanskrit. How Sanskrit faded from being a global language. * The Vedic influence and proof of its ancient existence found in such countries as Britain, France, Russia,
Greece, China, Japan, Egypt, and in areas of Scandinavia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. * The links between the Vedic and other ancient cultures, such as the Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, etc. |
 A New History of India
: After more than 20 years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India available. Wolpert has managed to condense over 4,000 years of continuity and development into a graceful and engaging 544 pages of text. The book discusses modern India's rapidly growing population and even more rapidly expanding industry and economy withing the context of the country's past, as well as considering the prospects for India's future. Throughout, Wolpert strives to record history fairly and truthfully, portraying with clarity and intensity both the brightest achievements of Indian civilization, and the darkest depths of its persistent
socio-secual inequities, and economic and political corruption. |
Made
for Maharajas: A Design Diary of Princely India The
Indian princes of the British Raj lived lives of
unparalleled opulence and luxury. Made for Maharajas
returns readers to that resplendent era, presenting a
selection of one-of-a-kind objects crafted to order by the
outstanding European luxury goods manufacturers, fashion
houses, and decorators of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. Here are the custom-designed cars, jewelry, and
extraordinary objéts d’art commissioned by maharajas,
nawabs, nizams, and sultans from Cartier, Van Cleef &
Arpels, Boucheron, Harry Winston, and others, accompanied
by anecdotes that illuminate this sumptuous way of life.
Many of the illustrations in this book have never been
previously reproduced outside of India, making this not
only the first volume of its kind, but a remarkable
keepsake that may never be duplicated in our lifetime.
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| Recommended List |
 The
True History and the Religion of India: A Concise
Encyclopedia of Authentic Hinduism Contains an
unimaginably enormous amount of authentic information
with scientific evidences that brings the total Hinduism
in one single volume. Dr. David Campos, Professor
Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
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Princely
Rajasthan: Rajput Palaces and Mansions (Hardcover) by
Dr. Amin Jaffer
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New History of India by Stanley A. Wolpert (Hardcover) |
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India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independenceto the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das (Paperback) |
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Raj; The Making And Unmaking Of British India by Lawrence James (Hardcover) |
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Honourable Company by John Keay (Paperback) |
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters by William Dalrymple (Paperback) |
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A Concise History of India by Barbara D. Metcalf (Author), Thomas R. Metcalf (Author) |
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A Brief History of India by Alain
Danielou, et al |
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India by Stephen Philip Cohen, et al |
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White Mughals by William Dalrymple |
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Sources of Indian Tradition by Ainslie Thomas Embree (Photographer), et al |
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A Concise History of India by Barbara D. Metcalf (Author), Thomas R. Metcalf (Author)
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The Hindu Tradition by Ainslie Thomas Embree (Compiler), William Theodore de Bary (Editor) |
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The
Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India) by
John F. Richards
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The Wonder That Was India by A. L. Basham
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Cultural History of India by A. L. Basham
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A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy: Sanskrit Terms Defined in English by John A. Grimes
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Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 by Romila Thapar
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Ramayana by William Buck
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 Virtue, Success, Pleasure, & Liberation: The Four Aims of Life in the Tradition of Ancient India: This small
book is brief and clear, an accessible introduction for someone not familiar with Hinduism or traditional Indian society.
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The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism by A.L. Basham, Kenneth G. Zysk
Best work on the subject. Simple and scholarly."
--S. N. Desai, St. John's University
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