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Awakening Bharat Mata
''Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right'' is a literary collection by Swapan Dasgupta, published by Penguin Random House in 2019. The book is about the rise and beliefs of right-wing politics in India. Background Hindu nationalism is one of the predominant political beliefs prevalent in India. According to the author, the book is not about Hindu nationalism as a power, but as a social and political movement. Publication ''Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right'' is a 2019 literary collection by a Bharatiya Janata Party politician Rajya Sabha and Padma Bhushan award recipient Swapan Dasgupta. The book was published by Penguin Random House and contains 440 pages. Summary Dasgupta wrote the first three chapters of the book, which are: ''The Political context; Motherland, Religion and Community; Politics and the Hindu Narrative.'' The book then provides a collection of essays which are divided into three categories: ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awakening Bharat Mata
''Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right'' is a literary collection by Swapan Dasgupta, published by Penguin Random House in 2019. The book is about the rise and beliefs of right-wing politics in India. Background Hindu nationalism is one of the predominant political beliefs prevalent in India. According to the author, the book is not about Hindu nationalism as a power, but as a social and political movement. Publication ''Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right'' is a 2019 literary collection by a Bharatiya Janata Party politician Rajya Sabha and Padma Bhushan award recipient Swapan Dasgupta. The book was published by Penguin Random House and contains 440 pages. Summary Dasgupta wrote the first three chapters of the book, which are: ''The Political context; Motherland, Religion and Community; Politics and the Hindu Narrative.'' The book then provides a collection of essays which are divided into three categories: ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy ( ta, ஆனந்த குமாரசுவாமி, ''Ānanda Kentiś Muthū Kumāraswāmī''; si, ආනන්ද කුමාරස්වාමි ''Ānanda Kumārasvāmī''; 22 August 1877 − 9 September 1947) was a Ceylonese metaphysician, historian and a philosopher of Indian art who was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. In particular, he is described as "the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West". Life Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was born in Colombo, British Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, to the Ceylon Tamil legislator and philosopher Sir Muthu Coomaraswamy of the Ponnambalam–Coomaraswamy family and his English wife Elizabeth Beeby. His father died when Ananda was two years old, and Ananda spent much of his childhood and education abroad. Coomaraswamy moved to England in 1879 and attended Wycliffe College, a preparatory school in Stroud, Gloucestershire, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Non-fiction Books
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Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest serving prime minister from outside the Indian National Congress. Modi was born and raised in Vadnagar in northeastern Gujarat, where he completed his secondary education. He was introduced to the RSS at age eight. He has reminisced about helping out after school at his father's tea stall at the Vadnagar railway station. At age 18, Modi was married to Jashodaben Chimanlal Modi, whom he abandoned soon after. He first publicly acknowledged her as his wife more than four decades later when required to do so by Indian law, but has made no contact with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservatism In India
Conservatism in India refers to the political philosophy which seeks to promote preservation of certain traditional values that are cherished and have developed in the subcontinent of India. Pre-independence A number of political parties with conservative ideologies existed in India prior to independence. These included the Congress Nationalist Party, the Unionist Party (Punjab), Punjab Unionist Party the Hindu Mahasabha and the Shiromani Akali Dal, Akali Dal. In addition, a number of figures within the Indian National Congress, such as Sardar Vallabhai Patel were conservative. In contrast to secular parties, such as the Punjab Unionist Party, Islamic conservatism was used by the All India Muslim League to pursue their objective of a separate Islamic state. (see Conservatism in Pakistan#Idea of Pakistan, conception, and conservatism, Conservatism in Pakistan) Post Independence The first conservative party to espouse liberal economic ideals in India since independence was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Week (Indian Magazine)
''The Week'' is an Indian news magazine founded in the year 1982 and published by The Malayala Manorama Co. Pvt. Ltd. The magazine is published from Kochi and is currently printed in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kottayam. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it is the largest circulated English news magazine in India. The magazine covers politics, entertainment, social issues, trends, technology and lifestyle. History Chief editors ''The Week'' was launched by The Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd in December, 1982, and has had two chief editors, before the designation was discontinued. * K. M. Mathew (Padma Bhushan, 1998), the founder chief editor, remained in office until 25 December 1988. Popularly known as Mathukuttychayan, he was chairman of the Press Trust of India, president of the Indian Newspaper Society and chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. He died on 1 August 2010. The obit which appeared in ''The Times of India'' said, "The highly acclaimed Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name ''The New Indian Express'', while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original ''Indian Express'' name with ''"The"'' prefixed to the title. History In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his "Tamil Nadu" press. Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of ''The Free Press Journal'', a national news agency. In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in Madurai, launching the Tamil edition, '' Dinamani''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price of the newspaper. Faced with financial difficultie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics. He is an important authority on the history of modern India. For the years 2011–12, he held a visiting position at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), occupying the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs. Guha was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha. He is the third Indian historian to be recognised by the association, joining the ranks of Romila Thapar and Jadunath Sarkar, who received the honour in 2009 and 1952, respectively. Covering a wide range of subjects, Guha has produced three major books of modern India's socio-political hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindutva
Hindutva () is the predominant form of Hindu nationalism in India. The term was formulated as a political ideology by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1923. It is used by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)The Hindutva Road Frontline, 4 December 2004 and other organisations, collectively called the . The Hindutva movement has been described as a variant of and as "almost [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Liberal
Social liberalism (german: Sozialliberalismus, es, socioliberalismo, nl, Sociaalliberalisme), also known as new liberalism in the United Kingdom, modern liberalism, or simply liberalism in the contemporary United States, left-liberalism (german: Linksliberalismus) in Germany, and progressive liberalism ( es, Liberalismo progresista) in Spanish-speaking countries, is a political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses a social market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights. Social liberalism views the common good as harmonious with the individual's freedom. Social liberals overlap with social democrats in accepting economic intervention more than other liberals, although its importance is considered auxiliary compared to social democrats. Ideologies that emphasize only the economic policy of social liberalism include welfare liberalism, New Deal liberalism in the United States, and Keynesian liberalism. Cultural liberalism is an ideology that hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Express (India)
''The Financial Express'' is an Indian English-language business newspaper owned by The Indian Express Group. It has been published by the Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split betw ... group since 1961. The ''Financial Express'' specialises in Indian and international business and financial news. Its editor is Shyamal Majumdar. The paper publishes 11 editions from a number of Indian cities. It also gives out two noteworthy awards - FE India's Best Bank Awards and FE-EVI Green Business Leadership Awards. References External links * ''Financial Express'' ePaper(E-Paper – Digital Replica of the newspaper) ''Financial Express Hindi'' website Business newspapers published in India Indian Express Limited Newspapers published in Kolkata English-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girilal Jain
Girilal Jain (1924 – 19 July 1993), was an Indian journalist. He served as the editor of ''The Times of India'' from 1978 until 1988. He advocated establishing old glory and re establishing the great tenants of Hinduism aligned with nationalism and authored books on the subject, the best known of which, ''The Hindu Phenomenon'', was published posthumously. The government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1989. Personal life Girilal Jain was born in a rural village some south-east of Delhi. He received a bachelor's degree from Delhi University. He married Sudarshan Jain in 1951. They had a son and three daughters, among whom include the historian Meenakshi Jain and the columnist Sandhya Jain. Sunil Jain, his son, was a journalist, who was the managing-editor of the Financial Express. At the age of 69, Girilal Jain died on 19 July 1993. His views Khushwant Singh wrote that, towards the end of his career, Girilal Jain's writings showed a "dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
