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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास
1971 1999 WAR STORIES
1971. 1999. War Stories documents the ‘oral history’ of the war veterans of the Liberation and Kargil War. Culled from personal interviews, this compilation of anecdotes gives you a glimpse into the minds of those who made decisions that saved thousands of lives and possibly changed the course of history. From getting caught by the Pakistanis as a Prisoner of War, to dangerous landings on muddy grounds, healing bullet-ridden aircraft to clandestine missions carried out by our helicopter and transport stalwarts, each story brings out aspects of leadership, motivation, management and most importantly, the resilience of our soldiers in uniform. Unfiltered and unbiased, these are personal war accounts straight from the soldiers who participated in these conflicts.
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
75 Amazing Indians Who Made A Difference
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)75 Amazing Indians Who Made A Difference
’75 Amazing Indians Who Made a Difference’ invites readers into the captivating lives of 75 diverse Indians, each distinguished with the prestigious Padma awards. Organised into concise biographical chapters, book provides concise yet compelling stories, offering readers insights into the trajectories, challenges, and successes of these inspiring personalities who broke set stereotypes. As India commemorates seven-and-a-half decades of independence, this book offers a timely celebration of the nation’s achievers, presenting role models from diverse walks of life. The book fills the void of role models for young Indians by providing readers a glimpse into the lives of Indians who have significantly shaped their fields and society. A must-read for those seeking inspiration and a deeper understanding of the diverse tapestry of Indian excellence. -Tarun Kumar Bansal, President Sagacious IP, Times 40Under40, BW 40Under40, CNBC, Young Turk
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
A History of Hinduism
IS THE HISTORY OF HINDUISM, THE HISTORY OF BRAHMANAS FROM RIGVEDIC TIMES TO THE PRESENT? Or, does the story of Hinduism begin with the descriptions of the ancient roots as revealed by archaeological findings and the evidence from present day tribal, village and regional cultures? This book looks at both. The history of Brahmanas, tracing their lineage to the fifty-odd Rigvedic poets, is dealt with through the chronological ordering of the Sanskrit texts which were first handed down to us as oral narratives from Gurus to shishyas. The circumstances and purposes for which these texts were written is examined, along with events of a true historical nature. This is followed by a sequential treatment of Hinduism as a ‘Rigvedic religion’, the two Mimamsas, Buddhism, Jainism, Dharmasastras, the Epics and the Puranas. The growth of Hindu temples, the role of Adi Sankaracharya and the Bhakti movement is delved into, and the influences of Muslim and British rule of the subcontinent on Hinduism is analysed. The author explores one major reason for the survival of Hinduism—the support of prehistoric tribal and village cultures which were not modified or destroyed by the later-day Brahmanas. Much of tribal and village deities and practices were co-opted into concurrent Hinduism, so-much-so that today these cannot be separated from mainstream Hindu practices and traditions. They exist in all their colourful glory to this date and make Hinduism vibrant. It is these ancient folk religions that provide a stable foundation for the survival of Hinduism, argues author R Ramachandran, presenting in this book an all-encompassing landscape view of Hinduism as it has been for the last five thousand years. Finally, the present status of Hinduism is discussed along with its survival in the future.
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास
ASSASSINATION OF RAJIV GANDHI AN INSIDE JOB?
For twenty-three years a myth has been perpetuated that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the LTTE because it feared his triumphant return to power at the conclusion of the 1991 general elections, underway, when Rajiv, out of power was assassinated on 21 May 1991. But if this basic premise is knocked off and the alternate scenario is shown that the Congress which returned to power in 1991 even after Rajiv’s assassination considerably short of a simple majority, had no chance of returning to power, had Rajiv not been sacrificed thus, then the entire bottom of this myth is knocked off and the whole theory falls flat on its nose. This is the premise on which everyone starting from CBI-SIT to the Supreme Court and numerous analysts and theorists have built their castles of conspiracy. This book is also about conspiracies and intrigue, but it has attempted to explode this myth and seeks to find why Rajiv was killed if he was not likely to return to power in the 1991 mid-term elections?
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Hindi Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास
AZADI KE DIWANO KI DASTAN
एक बेहतर दुनिया के लिए यह बेहद जरूरी है कि हम अपने इतिहास के सबसे प्रेरणादायक पक्षों से जरूरी प्रेरणा ओर सीख लेते रहे ! यह मानना हैं इस पुस्तक के वरिष्ठ लेखक भारत डोगरा हैं ! आजादी के दीवानो की दास्तान पुस्तक को चार लेखकों: प्रोफेसर जगमोहन, रेशमा भारती, मधु डोगरा, ओर भारत डोगरा ने मिलकर लिखा है ! इस में महान स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों शहीद भगत सिंह , खान अब्दुल गफ्फर खान , गणेश शंकर विद्यार्थी , श्रीदेव सुमन , बिरसा मुंडा , सुभद्रा कुमारी चौहान, आजादी की लड़ाई में शहीद हुई महिलाएं जरा याद करो कुर्बानी के तहत उनके जीवन और विचारो को प्रस्तुत किया है ! आजादी की लड़ाई के घटनाक्रमों को सिलसिलेवार, बेहद ही सटीक और सुरुचिपूर्ण तरिके से पाठको तक पहुंचाने का प्रयास किया है ! पुस्तक के संयोजक भारत डोगरा का मानना है कि इस को लिखने का उददेश्य मौजूदा समय में नई पीढ़ी के प्रेरणा स्तोत्र के रूप में इन स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों के जीवन और विचारो को प्रतिष्ठित किया जा सके! पुस्तक की प्रस्तुति में प्रत्येक सेनानी के जीवन परिचय से लेकर स्वतंत्रता संग्राम के संघर्ष और शहादतका विस्तार और गहनता से अध्ययन कर के बेहद ही सार्थक जानकारी ओर सामग्री पाठको तक पहुंचाई गयी है! क्रन्तिकारी महिलाओं में कई नाम तो परिचय के मोहताज नहीं है पर कई ऐसी महिलाएँ भी रही जो गुप्त तौर पर काम कर के आजादी के संघर्ष में शहीद हुई उनके बारे में जानना भी दिलचस्प है ! इस में दो राय नहीं है कि यह पुस्तक आजादी की लड़ाई के संघर्ष ओर उससे जुडी शहीदो की कहानी को संपूर्णता से पाठको तक पहुंचाती है ! सहज सरल भाषा से सुपाठ्य यह पुस्तक सभी के लिए प्रेरणा दायक साबित होगी!
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Backfire in Nepal how India Lost The Plot to China
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)Backfire in Nepal how India Lost The Plot to China
Backfire in Nepal explores how China has become the ultimate beneficiary of India’s democracy-promotion agenda in Nepal. New Delhi had made a bold bet in 2005, but one that contained two mutually fortifying flaws: the abolition of the monarchy and the empowerment of the former Maoist rebels. The world’s only Hindu monarch and kingdom were bound to India in a special relationship that neither country needed to define or assert. True, Indians had been put off by successive Nepalese monarchs playing New Delhi off against Beijing. In retrospect, a little more compassion for Nepal’s compulsions might have put things into sharper relief. Nepalese Maoists, being communists first, were trained to denounce Indian ‘expansionism’ before American ‘imperialism’. Experience may have impelled the senior leadership to make practical compromises. It was a leap of faith for New Delhi to trust the leadership to rein in their cadres’ radicalism. More broadly, since India had also enlisted Western democracies, it needed to address their often-contradictory concerns throughout Nepal’s turbulent transition. The Chinese could act purely on their national interests. India continues to misread how Beijing sees Nepal – both in terms of China’s visions of the past and the future. This complicates the core trilateral challenge: ensuring that Nepal is not sucked deeper into the Sino-Indian vortex, only to be scorned for aggravating the Asian giants’ rivalry.
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BASU RAI FROM THE STREETS OF KATHMANDU
A little boy climbs down the stairs and runs out of his house. Most little ones do that. But this little boy has no one to stop him. He does not have a name. He only has the memory of a story his father has told him over and over again, from the time he was just six months old until his dying day, when the child was about four years old. It is the story of his father’s love affair with his mother and betrayal.
From the streets of Kathmandu, this is the story of a child who names himself Basu Rai, and who travels the corridors of the world, takes part in the Global March against child labour and arrives finally in the country he identifies as his own—India. Though Basu has found his country, his quest for a family is not over. His search for identity begins with his book which maps the step by step progress of a reticent toddler from a well-to-do family through being a violent street child and a child labourer returning from the jaws of death several times, to his fights to go to school, being school captain and finally at 26, with the telling of his story in a book.
This is an inspirational story which tells about nurturing by a father. It is also a story that tells us here was a case for nurturing by the state, which was completely missing. It, instead, points to the loopholes in the systems in place, the social welfare systems, the education systems and the family systems that the subcontinent so boasts about, but in reality, does not exist. It directs us to the vacuum children are often forced to grow up in. To get an enlightened and educated young citizen from nothing is nothing short of a miracle.
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BATTLEFIELD JAFFNA: ABANDONED, THEY FOUGHt
On the night of 12 October 1987, in a Special Heliborne Operation, 150 soldiers of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) were trapped inside Jaffna University, Sri Lanka, surrounded by fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). As the rest of the IPKF force desperately tried to break through the well-entrenched LTTE defences, the soldiers found themselves slowly bleeding to death. Miserably behind schedule, outnumbered and outgunned with ammunition and supplies fast dwindling and no reinforcements in sight—the rescuers fought with their backs, literally, to the wall. With the politicians playing their own games and the Indian spy agencies supporting the LTTE against them, the IPKF fought to determine who was friend and foe. Battlefield Jaffna takes you into the heart of the struggle, right in the middle of the most brutal, intense and dirty battle fought in Sri Lanka. It is a story of men without bullets—of men with only their courage left to defend themselves as the battle wore on.
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Bhagva Aatank ek shadyantra
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Vitasta Publishing, जीवनी/आत्मकथा/संस्मरण, राजनीति, पत्रकारिता और समाजशास्त्र, सही आख्यान (True narrative)Bhagva Aatank ek shadyantra
What role did ministers like shivraj Patil, br Chidambaram, to arouse antulay, digvijay Singh and officials like chitkala zutshi, Dharmendra Sharma, Hemant karkare, RV Raju play in the Hindu terror narrative. Here is a version of a man who almost was taken captive and was to be traded for release of ajax kasab, but saved by sheer Providence. In his insider account, author rvs Mani discloses how the country internal security establishment functioned in the period of 2004-2014 when India faced some of the bloodiest terrorist carnage. This former home Ministry official posted in the internal security division between 2006-2010 poses several questions which the nation should seek answers to.
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Hindi Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास
Bharat Ki Shaikshik Dharohar
यूरोपीय विश्वविद्यालयों की स्थापना से बहुत पहले भारत में ज्ञानार्जन के बहु-विषयक केंद्र थे जिन्होंने विश्व भर में ज्ञान क्रांति को बढ़ावा दिया। यह पुस्तक भारत की महान शैक्षिक विरासत को कालक्रमानुसार दर्शाने की आवश्यकता को पूरा करती है। यह पुस्तक उस अद्वितीय पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र का वर्णन करती है, जिसने यह सुनिश्चित किया कि गुरुओं और आचार्यों द्वारा पीढ़ियों तक छात्रों को ज्ञानार्जन का सौभाग्य मिलता रहे। जैसा लेखिका कहती हैं, “जब तलवारों ने रक्त से अपनी प्यास बुझाई और अकाल ने भूमि को तबाह कर दिया, तब भी भारतीय अपनी प्रज्ञा पर टिके रहे कि ज्ञान से अधिक पवित्र कुछ भी नहीं है।” लेखिका ने वाचिक इतिहास, स्थानीय विद्या, यात्रा वृतांत, उत्तरजीवी साहित्य, शिलालेख, संरक्षित पांडुलिपियों और विद्वानों व जनसाधारण के जीवन वृत्तान्त से जानकारी एकत्र की है। ऐतिहासिक रूप से, यह पुस्तक प्राचीन भारत की परंपराओं से लेकर इसकी विरासत के जानबूझकर विनाश करने तक के एक वृहत् काल को अंकित करती है। यह विद्यालय और विश्वविद्यालय शिक्षा की वर्तमान संरचना में प्राचीन शिक्षण प्रणालियों के सबसे प्रासंगिक पहलुओं को सम्मिलित करने के लिए आज उठाए जा सकने वाले कदमों की रूपरेखा से भी अवगत कराती है।
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Bharata Before the British and Other Essays
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)Bharata Before the British and Other Essays
Bharata Before the British and Other Essays explores a number of fundamental questions regarding the history of early India: Did the British bring India into existence or is she an ancient nation? Was Kashmir ‘unique’ and isolated or thoroughly connected with the rest of India? Is myth the antithesis of history or the self-expression of historical communities? Was there an Indic vision of history and time as different from modern Western notions? Was Sanskrit an elitist language or one with public reach and relevance? Did it also speak for the weak and powerless, including animals? Could Indic architecture be an instrument of liberation (moksha)? What was the ancient idea of erotics (kama) and how did it relate to society? How did it feel—smell, sound, touch, appear—to live in our earliest cities? What is the state of Indian history today and where do we go from here? Filling gaps in our knowledge about India and its regions, correcting misplaced perspectives, and offering culture-sensitive methods with which to work through our texts and traditions, this outstanding collection of 17 fascinating essays invites us to rethink our understanding of India and Indology. Written in a lucid and engaging style, it brings exciting new insights from the world of scholarship to the general reader who is curious to learn authentically about our past.
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Bharatiya Rajvyavastha
यह पुस्तक लेखक-द्वय के लगभग अठारह वर्षों के अध्ययन अनुभवों के साथ-साथ उनकी प्रशासनिक सक्रियता से प्राप्त अकादमिक व व्यवहारिक ज्ञान से उपजी है, जिसका सबसे बड़ा लाभ यह है कि इसमें छात्रों की न केवल शिक्षण संबंधी कठिनाइयों को भली-भाँति समझा गया है, बल्कि उन्हें विषय संबंधी व्यवहारगत उचित मार्गदर्शन भी प्रदान किया गया है। यही कारण है कि विशेष रूप से सिविल सेवा और प्रांतीय लोक सेवा की तैयारी कर रहे अभ्यार्थियों के लिए लिखी गई यह पुस्तक अन्य स्नातक विद्यार्थियों के लिए भी अत्यंत उपयोगी सिद्ध होगी। समसामयिक घटनाओं, जैसे कि-जम्मू-कश्मीर के संदर्भ में धारा 370 के उपखंड-1 को छोड़कर अन्य उपखंडों का निरसन, विशेष राज्य के दर्जे को वित्त आयोग की अनुशंसा के द्वारा समाप्त किया जाना, नदी जल विवाद (कावेरी के विशेष संदर्भ में), उच्चतम न्यायालय एवं उच्च न्यायालय के न्यायाधीशों की नियुक्ति के लिए पुनः पुरानी कॉलेजियम पद्यति की पुनर्बहाली, लोकपाल एवं लोकायुक्त जैसे पदों का सृजन इत्यादि विषयों को समाविष्ट करना इस पुस्तक की उपयोगिता को कई गुना बढ़ा देते हैं।
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Brahmacharya Gandhi & His Women Associates (PB)
Rajmohan Gandhi’s book on Mahatma Gandhi has created a controversy mainly because one of the chapters is devoted to Gandhiji’s relations with Saraladevi Choudharani whom he called his spiritual wife. Girja Kumar gives a more vivid characterisation of this relationship in his book which was released last year. This book, in fact, gives an authentic account of the Mahatma’s relations with various other women associates and the repercussions these romantic liaisons produced on those close to him, including ‘Ba’ (Kasturba Gandhi). The book is ready to go into reprint and the paperback edition will shortly hit the stands. A Hindi edition is also coming up.
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British Raj to Amrit Kaal
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)British Raj to Amrit Kaal
Through a meticulously researched and nuanced exploration of India’s 75-year journey after Independence, British Raj to Amrit Kaal reveals a profound insight—that the quantum leap in the nation’s progress has not been driven through incremental policy and legislative acts, but primarily by the eight ‘pivotal initiatives’ that went far beyond policy in their scope and vision. From the creation of the IITs to the more recent initiatives like the Aadhar card and the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, this book explores these initiatives to extract the key lessons for the Amrit Kaal period that lies directly ahead. At the core of this narrative are the Sherpas—those extraordinary visionaries who shattered traditional constraints of politics and bureaucracy. Confronting deeply entrenched systemic barriers, these heroes engineered remarkable breakthroughs bringing in transformative change through their unwavering determination and deep commitment to India’s growth. This book is India’s bold manifesto for the next twenty-five years. It outlines five visionary and comprehensive roadmaps for transforming India into Viksit Bharat, transcending not just economic metrics but serving also as a holistic model for sustainable and inclusive development for Bharat’s approaching Amrit Kaal.
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Chatuh Shloki Manusmriti: An English Commentary
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)Chatuh Shloki Manusmriti: An English Commentary
Manusmriti occupies a prominent place in Indian textual tradition as one of the authentic sources of dharma. However, contemporary engagement with the text has been wrought with prejudice and discomfort left in the wake of colonialism. The present work aims to address the gap in contemporary approach and facilitate a better understanding through a philosophical analysis of the first four verses of Manusmriti, shedding light on the object, purpose and relevance of dharma texts. Rather than reducing Manusmriti to a mere relic of the past through a historical study, the book locates the text within the larger Hindu epistemological, ontological, and theological worldview and extracts the eternal teachings embedded within it. The book addresses common misconceptions on topics such as the definition of dharma, the integrity and importance of Manusmriti, the notion of ritual competency, and the Hindu conception of varna. The book draws from the entire Hindu textual tradition spanning the Vedas, Upanishads, Smritis, Itihasa-Puranas, and the Gita. It references the works of renowned acharyas including Adi Shankaracharya, Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya, Vallabhacharya, Sayanacharya, Kumarila Bhatta, and Sri Aurobindo.
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Confessions of an Unknown Congressman
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)Confessions of an Unknown Congressman
Mahesh Manzar did not quite make it as a politician, but did make a name for himself as a poet and as a Congress Party organiser. Interestingly, a chance encounter with Sanjay Gandhi in the early 1970s, when he was a student at Delhi University, led him to join the Congress Party. Blessed with the gift of the gab and the ability to churn out some witty and thoughtful couplets, he quickly moved up the ranks of Congress activists till he was walking in and out of the party’s offices and in the Prime Minister’s house as a resourceful, talented party worker and a key campaigner of several big-ticket Congress wins such as of Rajesh Khanna and Sheila Dikshit. Rajiv Gandhi made him a member of the Campaign Committee in his first election. Later, Mani Shankar Aiyar sought his help in preparing speeches for Sonia Gandhi with poetic phrases in Hindustani that the masses would love. In his autobiography, Confessions of an Unknown Congressman, Manzar chronicles his life from his childhood in Old Delhi to his seventieth birth anniversary in Delhi’s elite Defence Colony, spinning a riotous tale of both his personal and official brushes—with princesses, intellectuals, top Congress Party bosses, Prime Ministers and Presidents. He virtually spills the beans on several political shenanigans and brings alive the many human stories and foibles behind the big names of Indian politics from the 1970s to the present times.
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Vitasta Publishing, जीवनी/आत्मकथा/संस्मरण, राजनीति, पत्रकारिता और समाजशास्त्र
CONUNDRUM
India’s biggest political mystery resolved. Sitting in a dilapidated house in a remote part of India, a 74-year-old man started narrating in his deep baritone the layout of Jessore cantonment in East Pakistan to his handful of followers. They got the import only a few weeks later when Jessore fell to the advancing Indian Army. This was in December 1971, and Subhas Chandra Bose was officially dead for 25 years. Ever since Netaji was pronounced dead following a plane crash in August 1945, Indians across the world have wondered whether the claim was true. The Government, however, decided to accept the story based on circumstantial evidence. For the first time, it is now conclusively shown that Netaji lived on. Having spent over 15 years in procuring and scouring through thousands of records from across the world, interacting with eyewitnesses and consulting experts, the authors come to a history-bending conclusion that a mostly unseen, unnamed man who lived in various parts of UP from the 1950s to 1985 was indeed Subhas Chandra Bose. From a “living” Netaji’s throwbacks about his contemporaries, his views on Constitutional issues and India’s foreign policy, to his forays into the world of paranormal and top-secret covert missions across the borders to first-ever sensational disclosure why he could not emerge in public — no other book is as bold and vast in its scope and implications. National award-winning director Srijit Mukherji’s upcoming movie “Gumnaami” is based on Conundrum.
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास
Demystifying Madrasah And Deobandi Islam: Legacy and History of Darul Uloom Deoband
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहासDemystifying Madrasah And Deobandi Islam: Legacy and History of Darul Uloom Deoband
Demystifying Madrasah and Deobandi Islam traces the origin, evolution and growth of the Deobandi movement and madrasahs and outlines how Darul Uloom inspired and nurtured scores of such institutions across the globe, guiding millions of Muslims to embrace advancements in education while retaining the pristine form of Islam. Deobandi thought has remained steeped in Indian ethos and culture, embracing its diversity, plurality and universalism and thus differs significantly from the madrasahs in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan. The book’s in-depth study of Deobandi Islam examines how its leaders contributed to the Indian polity and their role in the Indian freedom struggle. The author reconstructs the history of Deobandism and madrasahs through authoritative information from interviews with prominent Muslim scholars, academicians and religious clerics.
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
Devadasi
Devadasi’s colourful characters teeter on fault lines of race, sex, gender, religion and history. Devaki’s passionate personal story underpins wider concerns. Against the backdrop of the community’s historical role in preserving Bharatanatyam, does Devaki – a dancer who performs sexual services besides temple duties – find emotional outlet, individual expression or empowerment? Set in the Madras Presidency towards the end of the Victorian era, the narrative’s social arc contrasts Raj life and desi existence. An English civil servant, on official duty in a muffasil town near Devaki’s village, finds her a convenient time-pass. Love and relationships take many forms: Devaki’s adoration of Albert and her revulsion for her patron; the unusual emotional bond with her sexually indeterminate brother; devotion to the deity and her battle with herself weave a chiaroscuro of joys and sorrows that make up this ‘dedicated’ young woman’s life. The storyteller’s Gen Z audience raises perennial societal issues – sex, religion, caste, rural conditions – which frame how ‘choice’ governed and continues to govern lives in India.
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास
FROM EAST PAKISTAN TO BANGLADESH: RECOLLECTIONS OF 1971 LIBERATION WAR
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहासFROM EAST PAKISTAN TO BANGLADESH: RECOLLECTIONS OF 1971 LIBERATION WAR
Whereas India and West Pakistan won their freedom from the British in 1947, East Pakistan got new colonial masters. So the story has to begin, as has been done in this book for the first time, from the personalities who created Pakistan, the military coups and assassinations that led to political instability, the ruling cliques that jostled for power and pelf, and the misdeeds which created fault-lines between the two wings of Pakistan. This was the backdrop to the genocide carried out by Pakistan’s army, which initially led to the resistance of East Pakistani troops and eventually necessitated India’s training and equipping of Mukti Bahini and joint operations with India’s armed forces. At the same time, dramatic events were also taking place on the world stage, in New York at the UN, in Washington, Dhaka and Islamabad which make for riveting reading. These developments had repercussions on international relations that were felt for decades, such as the unnatural axis between Washington, Beijing and Islamabad and the enduring ties between India and Bangladesh. Brig R P Singh, who was then a Captain in the Indian Army, was associated with the Bangladesh liberation struggle from start to the end. The book is a valuable addition to the literature on geopolitics as well as the subcontinent’s military history. The author provides an insightful, first-hand account of the challenges faced by the war-torn newly independent nation.
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Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
GOVERNMENT DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS
From fraudulent forensic reports to dodgy Parliament replies, our Government has resorted to an array of dark maneuvers to block the truth about SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE’s fate. Now, powered by years of unrelenting research, CHANDRACHUR GHOSE and ANUJ DHAR bring you the cold truth. The man who freed India was alive long after his reported death, a victim of cruel circumstances. Here are the heartbreaking facts Government would not like you to know.
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Hindi Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास
HAMARA SAMVIDHAN EK PARICHAY
भारत का संविधान प्रत्येक भारतीय नागरिक के लिए संविधान का पालन करने और उसके आदर्शों, संस्थाओं और राष्ट्रीय ध्वज तथा राष्ट्रीय गान का सम्मान करने को प्रत्येक नागरिक का पहला और सर्वोच्च मौलिक कर्तव्य बनाता है। ऐसा करने के लिए सबसे पहले हमें अपने संविधान से यह जानना ज़रूरी है कि हम किस प्रकार शासित होते हैं, एक नागरिक के रूप में हमारे लोकतांत्रिक अधिकार व कर्तव्य क्या हैं, आदि। हमारे विद्यालयों तथा विश्वविद्यालयों में शिक्षकों व विद्यार्थियों के बीच एक लक्ष्य होना चाहिए कि अंतर्गत वे अपने संविधान में रुचि लेते हुए उसके बारे में अधिक से अधिक जानें। यह पुस्तिका बहुत ही सरल और सहज भाषा में, विश्व के सबसे बड़े संविधान और उसकी कार्यप्रणाली को बहुत ही संक्षिप्त रूप में समझाने का प्रयास है। साथ ही, यह संविधान से जुड़ी बहुत सी प्रचलित भ्रांतियों को दूर करने का प्रयास भी करती है। .
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