A New History of India

by StanleyWolpert (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $5.37

  After more than twenty-five years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India available. This seventh edition has been entirely redesigned and includes new illustrations, bibliographic material, and an updated final chapter reflecting the significant social, political, and economic issues that have arisen since the year 2000. Wolpert condenses 4,000 years of India's history into a graceful and engaging book.

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.29

  The most accurate and readable one-volume history of India is now brought fully up to date, with new chapters covering the current Punjab crisis, the Hindu-Sikh conflicts that followed Operation Bluestar and Indira Gandhi's assassination, and the strengths and weaknesses of Rajiv Gandhi's government. Wolpert places recent developments such as the Bhopal disaster, the war in Sri Lanka, rampant growth and pollution in Delhi, dowry deaths and the alarming rebirth of Sati-widow burnings within the context of India's 4,000 years of continental continuity and communal complexity. No other history records as brilliantly, nor as truthfully, the brightest achievements of Indian civilization and the dark depths of its socio-sexual inequities and economic-political corruptions.