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Being Hindu

Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World

By: Hindol Sengupta

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Being Hindu

Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World

By: Hindol Sengupta

Winner of the 2018 Wilbur Award There are more than one billion Hindus in the world, but for those who don’t practice the faith, very little seems to be understood about it. Followers have not only built and sustained the world’s largest democracy but have also sustained one of the greatest philosophical streams in the world for more than three thousand years. So, what makes a Hindu? Why is so little heard from the real practitioners of the everyday faith? Why does information never go beyond clichés? Being Hindu is a practitioner’s guide that takes the reader on a journey to very simply understand what the Hindu message is, where it stands in the clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, and why the Hindu way could yet be the path for plurality and progress in the twenty-first century.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442267461

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Soul and Sword

The Endless Battle over Political Hinduism

By: Hindol Sengupta

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Soul and Sword

The Endless Battle over Political Hinduism

By: Hindol Sengupta

Sengupta has written an in-depth study of the development of political Hinduism in India.... Readers of history, religion, and politics and with interest in India and its role in the world will find this detailed work appealing." - Booklist This is the first intellectual history of political Hinduism from its medieval origins to current-day India. It provides the ideological context of India’s rise economically and politically in the world in the last decade, illustrating not only where political Hinduism comes from, but more importantly, where it seeks to go. It provides an intellectual framework not only to understand the rise of Narendra Modi and his politics in the world’s largest democracy, but also India’s political, economic, and diplomatic choices as it negotiates its space as a rapidly rising, billion-strong democracy in a fluid and precarious world order.

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1538126842

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Recasting India

How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World's Largest Democracy

By: Hindol Sengupta

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Recasting India

How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World's Largest Democracy

By: Hindol Sengupta

The senior editor for Fortune India explains how the world's largest democracy is at risk of falling apart and what's holding it together

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Macmillan

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1137279613

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9781137279613

Rampup

The Business of Indian Fashion

By: Hindol Sengupta

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Rampup

The Business of Indian Fashion

By: Hindol Sengupta

Ramp Up is a comprehensive study of the business of Indian fashion. With well-researched details on volume, revenues, growth, and manufacturing strength, this book takes a close look at one of Indiaâ€™s fastest growing and most glamorous industriesâ€”fashion. As Indian fashion faces the challenge of building brands and creating a range of products that reflect our heritage in textile, tradition, and history in the present age of rapid change and development, Ramp Up provides invaluable insights into the business models of the biggest business labels in the country. It charts out the investment opportunities in each business and also deals with back-end processes that support the main body of fashion. In addition, the book also talks about how word of mouth can be used as a powerful marketing tool in countries like India and Pakistan, which have a strong oral tradition .

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Pearson Education India

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813171974X

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9788131719749

Soul and Sword

The History of Political Hinduism

By: Hindol Sengupta

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Soul and Sword

The History of Political Hinduism

By: Hindol Sengupta

Political Hinduism was once considered a sort of fringe ideology, shadowy and even misunderstood. Its ideas and narratives seemed, in popular discourse, to lack analytical rigour and were easily dismissed. But history shows that political Hinduism as an intellectual idea was a pioneering theme in India’s nationhood. In fact, it precedes the Indian republic and has been one of the most resilient political theories of India, which survived many bans, boycotts and decades out of power to become, in the twenty-first century, the predominant political force of India. The adherents of political Hinduism are as determined as its detractors—one complains about facing relentless prejudice; the other throws accusations of promoting continuous religious strife. One believes that India cannot be saved without decimating political Hinduism; the other is sanguine that only political Hinduism can save the future of India. Soul and Sword traces the journey of political Hinduism from events that are critical to its self-narration, that is, early Indian resistance to invasions, to intellectual definitions by nineteenth-century littérateurs and more contemporary electoral politics. It tries to understand the context and historical sources used to construct and promote political Hinduism’s world view. From award-winning writer Hindol Sengupta, Soul and Sword is absolutely critical reading to understand India’s present and future.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357083693

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9789357083690

100 Things To Know and Before You Vote

By: Hindol Sengupta

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100 Things To Know and Before You Vote

By: Hindol Sengupta

A primer on what you should know and take into account before your vote Why are we restless? What is it that makes us dissatisfied? Why is General Election 2014 part of every conversation? What is it with the state of India that makes us so uneasy today? Why are thousands dying without healthcare in India? Why is our air unbreathable, our water poisoned? What do our MPs see when they drive to work and what does that say about our democracy? Why is our diplomacy so weak? Ever thought about why 'family problems' caused more than 30,000 Indians to commit suicide last year? What is slower - our Internet or our bureaucracy? Here are 100 things to think about before you press that button in the critical election of 2014. This is the ultimate state-of-the-nation guide to make us think beyond the fourletter acronyms that we have turned our national debate into. This is a call to action, a warning, an urging, a prodding, an appeal to give real issues a think before we vote.

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Harpercollins

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9351362213

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9789351362210

The Sacred Sword

The Legend of Guru Gobind Singh

By: Hindol Sengupta

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The Sacred Sword

The Legend of Guru Gobind Singh

By: Hindol Sengupta

‘We are warriors, Painda. The Khalsa does not think of war as entertainment; death is not a joke, killing men is no festival,’ said Gobind. A boy grows up, suddenly, into adulthood when he is brought the severed head of his father. He is born to rule but never acts like a monarch. Invincible as a warrior, he has the soul of a mystic. Poetry fills his heart. Few men before or after him have used a bow as he does, few men mastered their sword like him. Guru Gobind Singh turned villagers into warriors, sent shivers up the spine of the army of Aurangzeb and set the foundation stone of the great Sikh empire. The Sacred Sword is a historical fiction based on his life and legend.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9386651629

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9789386651624

The Man Who Saved India

By: Hindol Sengupta

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The Man Who Saved India

By: Hindol Sengupta

There is perhaps no political figure in modern history who did more to secure and protect the Indian nation than Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. But, ironically, seventy years after Patel brought together piece by piece the map of India by fusing the princely states with British India to create a new democratic, independent nation, little is understood or appreciated about Patel's enormous contribution to the making of India. Caricatured in political debate, all the nuances of Patel's difficult life and the daring choices he made are often lost, or worse, used as mere polemic. If Mahatma Gandhi was the spiritual core of India's freedom struggle and Jawaharlal Nehru its romantic idealism, it was Sardar Patel who brought in the vital pragmatism which held together the national movement and the first ideas of independent India. A naturally stoic man, Patel, unlike Gandhi or Nehru, wrote no personal history. He famously argued that its was better to create history than write it. This is why even his deepest misgivings and quarrels have been easily buried. But every warning that Patel left for India - from the dangers of allowing groups to create private militias to his thoughtful criticism on India's approach to Kashmir, Pakistan and China - are all dangerously relevant today. It is impossible to read about Patel, who died in 1950, and not feel that had he lived on, India might have been a different country. It is also impossible to ignore Patel and understand not only what the idea of India is but also what it could have been, and might be in the future. The Man Who Saved India is a sweeping, magisterial retelling of Sardar Patel's story. With fiercely detailed and pugnacious anecdotes, multiple award-winning, best-selling writer Hindol Sengupta brings alive Patel's determined life of struggle and his furious commitment to keep India safe. This book brings alive all the arguments, quarrels and clashes between some of the most determined people in Indian history and their battle to carve out an independent nation. Through ravages of a failing body broken by decades of abuse in and outside prison, Patel stands out in this book as the man who, even on his death bed, worked to save India. Hindol Sengupta's The Man Who Saved India is destined to define Patel's legacy for future generations.

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9353052009

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9789353052003

Recasting India

How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World's Largest Democracy

By: Hindol Sengupta

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Recasting India

How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World's Largest Democracy

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Twenty years after India opened its economy, it faces severe economic problems, including staggering income inequality. A third of its citizens still lack adequate food, education, and basic medical services, while Mumbai businessman Mukesh Ambani lives in the most expensive home in the world, which cost over a billion dollars to build. Despite the fact that India now has a Mars mission, there are still more mobile phones than toilets in the country. In most places, such a disparity would have the locals pounding at the gates. So why no Arab Spring for India? Hindol Sengupta, senior editor of Fortune India, argues that the only thing holding it back is the explosion of local entrepreneurship across the country. While these operations are a far cry from the giant companies owned by India's ruling billionaires, they are drastically changing its politics, upending the old caste system, and creating a "middle India" full of unprecedented opportunity. Like Gazalla Amin whose flourishing horticulture business in the heart of Kashmir has given her the title 'lavender queen.' Or Sunil Zode, who stole the first shoes he ever wore and now drives a Mercedes, thanks to his thriving pesticide business. Sengupta shows that the true potential of India is even larger than the world perceives, since the economic miracle unfolding in its small towns and villages is not reflected in its stock markets. Recasting India reveals an India rarely seen by the larger world—the millions of ordinary, enterprising people who are redefining the world's largest democracy.

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St. Martin's Press

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1137474785

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9781137474780

The Liberals

By: Hindol Sengupta

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The Liberals

By: Hindol Sengupta

The Liberals tells us the story of an India in transition from a very personal vantage point, one that is full of cheeky intelligence and delicious insight. Hindol Sengupta has given us lots to think about and even more to chuckle about'- Santosh Desai 'Here is an account of Manmohan's children, the Gen Next who have the world as their oyster ... Hindol Sengupta's droll memoirs at such a young age will echo in many a young person's mind. Hindol speaks for India's future and a funky future it is too!' - Meghnad Desai 'An engaging personal tale of the post-reform generation told with spirit by one of its children' - Gurcharan Das 1991. The year the Indian economy opened up to the world and unleashed a billion desires and dreams. But who are these restless dreamers? This is a very private story of a very public middle-class consumption revolution. From proselytizing American schools in Calcutta to Page-3 parties in Delhi and television studios in Bombay, The Liberals brings to life unforgettable characters spawned by the needs of the world's largest democracy. Communist Bob Dylans jam with murderous villagers, girlfriends give lessons in capitalism, TV stylists snarl over white shirts, Amar Singh talks about love and Akshay Kumar about what it takes to be the boy next door. Through it all, Hindol Sengupta lives to tell the tale of GDP rising. This is the autobiography of liberalization, entertaining and immensely relatable, and an insider's account of finding one's place in a newly liberalized India.

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Harper Collins

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9350299585

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9789350299586

Soul and Sword

The Endless Battle over Political Hinduism

By: Hindol Sengupta

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The Endless Battle over Political Hinduism

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538126842

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The Modern Monk

By: Hindol Sengupta

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The Modern Monk

By: Hindol Sengupta

He loved French cookbooks, invented a new way of making khichdi, was interested in the engineering behind ship-building and the technology that makes ammunition. More than 100 years after his death, do we really know or understand the bewildering, fascinating, complex man Swami Vivekananda was? Vivekananda is one of the most important figures in the modern imagination of India. He is also an utterly modern man, consistently challenging his own views, and embracing diverse, even conflicting arguments. It is his modernity that appeals to us today. He is unlike any monk we have known. He is confined neither by history nor by ritual, and is constantly questioning everything around him, including himself. It is in Vivekananda’s contradictions, his doubts, his fears and his failings that he recognise his profoundly compelling divinity—he teaches us that to try and understand God, first one must truly comprehend one’s own self. This book is an argument that it is not just because he is close to God but also because he is so tantalisingly immersed in being human that keeps us returning to Vivekananda and his immortal wisdom.

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Penguin UK

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9385990349

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9789385990342

Indian Fashion

By: Hindol Sengupta

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Indian Fashion

By: Hindol Sengupta

With reference to Indian fashion designers.

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8129709228

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9788129709226

Rampup

The Business of Indian Fashion

By: Hindol Sengupta

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The Business of Indian Fashion

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The Man who Saved India

Sardar Patel and His Idea of India

By: Hindol Sengupta

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Sardar Patel and His Idea of India

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Sardar Vallabhai Patel saved India. He illuminated Indian politics with pragmatic and sensible ideas of nation-building at a time when his contemporaries were unable or unwilling to shed the romantic lens. The very shape of India that we recognize today was stitched together by Patel, the Iron Man of India. The Man Who Saved India unravels the personality of one of the greatest men in Indian contemporary history.

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0670089907

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Akhand Bharat Ke Shilpakar Sardar Patel

Akhand Bharat ke Shilpakar Sardar Patel: Hindol Sengupta's Tribute

By: Hindol Sengupta

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Akhand Bharat Ke Shilpakar Sardar Patel

Akhand Bharat ke Shilpakar Sardar Patel: Hindol Sengupta's Tribute

By: Hindol Sengupta

आधुनिक भारतीय इतिहास में शायद ही ऐसा कोई राजनेता है; जिसने भारतवर्ष को एकजुट और सुरक्षित करने में सरदार पटेल जितनी बड़ी भूमिका अदा की है; लेकिन दुर्भाग्य है कि पटेल की ओर से ब्रिटिश भारत की छोटी-छोटी रियासतों के टुकड़ों को जोड़कर नक्शे पर एक नए लोकतांत्रिक; स्वतंत्र भारत का निर्माण करने के सत्तर वर्ष बाद भी; हमारे देश को एकजुट करने में पटेल के महान् योगदान के विषय में न तो लोग ज्यादा जानते हैं; न ही मानते हैं। पटेल के संघर्षमय जीवन के सभी पहलुओं और उनके साहसिक निर्णयों को अकसर या तो राजनीतिक बहस का हिस्सा बना दिया जाता है या उससे भी बुरा यह कि महज वाद-विवाद का विषय बनाकर भुला दिया जाता है। अनेक पुरस्कारों के विजेता और प्रसिद्ध लेखक; हिंडोल सेनगुप्ता की लिखी यह पुस्तक सरदार पटेल की कहानी को नए सिरे से सुनाती है। साहसिक ब्योरे और संघर्ष की कहानियों के साथ; सेनगुप्ता संघर्ष के प्रति समर्पित पटेल की कहानी में जान फूँक देते हैं। साथ ही उन विवादों; झगड़ों और टकरावों पर रोशनी डालते हैं; जो एक स्वतंत्र देश के निर्माण के क्रम में भारतीय इतिहास के कुछ सबसे अधिक दृढसंकल्प वाले लोगों के बीच हुए। जेल के भीतर और बाहर अनेक यातनाओं से चूर हुए शरीर के बावजूद; पटेल इस पुस्तक में एक ऐसे व्यक्ति के रूप में उभरते हैं; जो अपनी मृत्युशय्या पर भी देश को बचाने के लिए काम करते रहे। अखंड भारत के शिल्पकार सरदार पटेल पर हिंडोल सेनगुप्ता की यह कृति आनेवाली पीढि़यों के लिए पटेल की विरासत को निश्चित रूप से पुनर्परिभाषित करेगी। Akhand Bharat ke Shilpakar Sardar Patel by Hindol Sengupta: This book is a biography of the visionary leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who played a pivotal role in the unification of India after gaining independence from British rule. Authored by Hindol Sengupta, the book offers a detailed account of Patel's life, his contributions to the nation, and his enduring legacy. Key Aspects of the Book "Akhand Bharat ke Shilpakar Sardar Patel by Hindol Sengupta": Biographical Exploration: Hindol Sengupta provides an in-depth look at Sardar Patel's life, upbringing, and the challenges he faced in uniting India's princely states into a single nation. Historical Significance: The book highlights the historical importance of Sardar Patel's role in the integration of India, making it a valuable read for history enthusiasts and those interested in the country's post-independence era. Nation-Building: Patel's contributions to nation-building and his dedication to a united India are central themes in this biography, showcasing his commitment to the country's unity and integrity. Hindol Sengupta is an author and historian known for his works that delve into the lives of prominent figures in Indian history. "Akhand Bharat ke Shilpakar Sardar Patel" is a testament to his dedication to preserving and sharing the stories of influential leaders who shaped the nation.

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Prabhat Prakashan

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Being Hindu

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Soul and Sword

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Recasting India

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100 Things To Know and Before You Vote

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The Sacred Sword

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