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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
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Alex von Tunzelmann · 440 pages
"The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike Davis · 467 pages
India's Struggle for Independence
Bipan Chandra · 600 pages
The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru · 582 pages
Walk into the world of India and its civilization as seen by Pandit jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of Independent India
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Shashi Tharoor · 360 pages
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
William Dalrymple, Anita Anand · 335 pages
"The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world....Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
Lawrence James · 722 pages
"This is the story of one of the wonders of the modern world. In less than a hundred years, the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and Pakistan." "None of this, however, was planned. A series of emergencies in the eighteenth century transformed the East India Company into the most formidable
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Arthur Herman · 736 pages
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain's most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
William Dalrymple · 560 pages
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and
Freedom at Midnight
Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre · 572 pages
The end of an empire. The birth of two nations. Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen—but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war. Freedom at M
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
John Ehle · 424 pages
Recounts the many broken U.S. treaties with the Cherokees, describes how they were forced to leave their lands in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina, and looks at the hardships they faced on the trail west.
The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj
Anne de Courcy · 352 pages
"The fascinating and entertaining true stories of the young Victorian women on the hunt for husbands among the colonial businessmen and bureaucrats in the Raj"--
The Idea of India
Sunil Khilnani · 263 pages
"Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of current events in Asia and after the revelations about India's nuclear capabilities. This study addresses the paradoxes and ironies of this the world's largest democracy. Do the old ideas, or idea, of India still hold true - especially now that the country is in the hands of a very different kind of leadership? Can the orig
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown · 512 pages
American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World
David E. Stannard · 358 pages
For four hundred years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as one hundred million people. I
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · 320 pages
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Jason Stearns · 416 pages
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome de las Casas · 167 pages
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Maya Jasanoff · 460 pages
On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation. What would happen to them in the new United States? Would they and their families be safe? Facing g
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America
James Wilson · 466 pages
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Jill Lepore · 337 pages
Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."It all began when Philip (ca
Stolen Continents: 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
Ronald Wright · 424 pages