Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020 by Arjun SubramaniamRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 543.11 MBOverview: In his first book, India’s Wars, Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam sought to give independent India’s military exploits up to 1971 their rightful place in history. At the same time, it was also a tribute to the valour of the men and women […]
The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy—A Retelling for Our Times by John ZubrzyckiRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 224 MBOverview: 5,000 years of history—from the Bhagavad Gita to Bollywood—fill this masterful portrait of the world’s most populous nation and a rising global power. India—a cradle of civilization with five millennia […]
1984: India’s Guilty Secret by Pav SinghRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 369 MBOverview: This shocking exposé of a true-life Orwellian plot of nightmarish proportions reveals the chilling events of November 1984 following Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the cover-up by the Indian government. For more than three days, armed mobs systematically butchered, torched and raped members of the […]
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das / Narrated by Anu AnandRequirements: .M4B player, 1,12 GbOverview: A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. *A Financial Times Book to […]
The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America by Walter R. BornemanRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 362 MBOverview: In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that […]