Discovering India’s history
This is a selection of resources on discovering India’s history available from the NLB catalogue or the Internet and is not meant to be an exhaustive list.
NLB print and digital resources
India 3.0: The rise of a billion people
Professor Arun Tiwari analyses the three watersheds in Indian history – Independence (India 1.0), Liberalization (India 2.0), and Demonetization (India 3.0). Tracing the path and trajectory of India’s destiny, get a deeper understanding of India’s aspirations.
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This book delves into India’s history, culture and famous personalities. It also shows how Indian ideas and inventions have shaped world history, and how ancient Indian conclusions about the nature of civilisations are still relevant today.
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This book takes the reader through India’s history, from the time of the early Indus Valley civilisation from 2600 to1900 BCE to becoming the world’s largest democracy in contemporary times.
All rights reserved, London: Thames & Hudson, 2019.
India after Ghandi: The history of the world’s largest democracy
Dealing with politics, economics, religion, language, caste and gender, this book gives a definitive history of post-partition India, providing insights into the lives of India’s citizens. Get a historical understanding of the nation up to the rise of Narendra Modi with this deeply informative title.
All rights reserved, New York: HarperCollins, 2019.
Incarnations: A history of India in fifty lives
Indian scholar Sunil Khilnani briefly examines fifty historical personalities, elucidating India’s historical narrative through their lives and their stories. Engaging and educational, this book informs us, while provoking contemporary questions today.
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India, China, and the world: A connected history
Examining India-China relations in the broader context of Asian and world history, this book provides a completely new perspective to view India’s history from the third century BCE, up to recent developments in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Tansen Sen’s study on India-China relations sheds light on the transnational politics of the two nations today.
All rights reserved, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica gives a comprehensive, factual history of India, from its prehistoric period up to recent years, covering the history of India’s governance and major events.
History of India in 14 minutes
This video outlines the history of India from the Indus Valley civilisation up to India’s age of space exploration. It also traces the rise and fall of the various empires that have ruled India over the years.
Source: VC3 Productions
India rising
After independence, India adopted a socialist economic model. In the 1990s, however, India reformed its economy; after some initial difficulties, its economy is now growing, turning India into a major economic power.
Source: Foreign Policy Association