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India and Pakistan

Continued Conflict Or Cooperation?

By: Stanley A. Wolpert,Stanley Wolpert

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India and Pakistan

Continued Conflict Or Cooperation?

By: Stanley A. Wolpert,Stanley Wolpert

Beginning with 1947, when "India and Pakistan were born to conflict," renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible overview of what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis. He concisely distills sixy-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between these two antagonists, explaining the many attempts to resolve their disputes, and assessing the dominant political leaders. In addition to providing a comprehensive perspective on the origin and nature of this conflict, Wolpert examines all the proposed solutions and concludes with a road map for a brighter future for South Asia.

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Univ of California Press

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0520271408

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9780520271401

Shameful Flight

The Last Years of the British Empire in India

By: Stanley A. Wolpert,Stanley Wolpert

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Shameful Flight

The Last Years of the British Empire in India

By: Stanley A. Wolpert,Stanley Wolpert

Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, this text provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britain's decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire. Wolpert, a leading authority on Indian history, paints memorable portraits of all the key participants.

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Oxford University Press

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0195393945

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9780195393941

India

By: Stanley A. Wolpert,Stanley Wolpert

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India

By: Stanley A. Wolpert,Stanley Wolpert

To all of us who delightedly and sometimes repetitively call ourselves Old India hands, Stanley Wolpert is the acknowledged authority. This book tells why. Indian history, art, culture, and contemporary politics are here in accurate, wide-ranging, and lucid prose."--John Kenneth Galbraith PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION: "Wolpert understands India.... Fluent, wide-ranging and often wise, this volume is a useful addition to a shelf of books on India."--Shashi Tharoor, Washington Post Book World "A superb distillation of a lifetime's learning by UCLA's great historian of India. Refreshingly concrete and detailed, [and] vibrantly written, Wolpert's overview repeatedly succeeds at explaining a culture that gave us little things like the decimal system, chess, cotton cloth, meditation, and two religions called Buddhism and Hinduism."--Philadelphia Inquirer "If one were to read a single book about India in a lifetime, this should be it."--Library Journal

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0520246969

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9780520246966

Gandhi's Passion

The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

By: Stanley Wolpert

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Gandhi's Passion

The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

By: Stanley Wolpert

More than half a century after his death, Mahatma Gandhi continues to inspire millions throughout the world. Yet modern India, most strikingly in its decision to join the nuclear arms race, seems to have abandoned much of his nonviolent vision. Inspired by recent events in India, Stanley Wolpert offers this subtle and profound biography of India's "Great Soul." Wolpert compellingly chronicles the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his early days as a child of privilege to his humble rise to power and his assassination at the hands of a man of his own faith. This trajectory, like that of Christ, was the result of Gandhi's passion: his conscious courting of suffering as the means to reach divine truth. From his early campaigns to stop discrimination in South Africa to his leadership of a people's revolution to end the British imperial domination of India, Gandhi emerges as a man of inner conflicts obscured by his political genius and moral vision. Influenced early on by nonviolent teachings in Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, and Buddhism, he came to insist on the primacy of love for one's adversary in any conflict as the invincible power for change. His unyielding opposition to intolerance and oppression would inspire India like no leader since the Buddha--creating a legacy that would encourage Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and other global leaders to demand a better world through peaceful civil disobedience. By boldly considering Gandhi the man, rather than the living god depicted by his disciples, Wolpert provides an unprecedented representation of Gandhi's personality and the profound complexities that compelled his actions and brought freedom to India.

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337

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Oxford University Press

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0199923922

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9780199923922

India, 4th Edition

By: Stanley Wolpert

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India, 4th Edition

By: Stanley Wolpert

This new edition brings Stanley Wolpert's brilliantly succinct and accessible introduction to India completely up to date for a new generation of readers, travelers, and students. In crisp detail, Wolpert gives a panoramic overview of the continent on which the world's most fascinating ancient civilization gave birth to one of its most complex modern democratic nations. India now includes new sections on the country's current global economic development, the recent national elections, and on its international relations, including those with Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, and the United States, India's new strategic global partner.

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535

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0520343166

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9780520343160

Jinnah of Pakistan

By: Stanley A. Wolpert

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Jinnah of Pakistan

By: Stanley A. Wolpert

This Is The First Scholarly Biography Of One Of The Most Important Political Figure Of The Modern World.

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0195678591

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9780195678598

Shameful Flight:The Last Years of the British Empire in India

The Last Years of the British Empire in India

By: Stanley Wolpert

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Shameful Flight:The Last Years of the British Empire in India

The Last Years of the British Empire in India

By: Stanley Wolpert

Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century.Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, Shameful Flight provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britain's decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire. Stanley Wolpert, a leading authority on Indian history, paints memorable portraits of all the key participants, including Gandhi, Churchill, Attlee, Nehru, and Jinnah, with special focus on British viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten. Wolpert places the blame for the catastrophe largely on Mountbatten, the flamboyant cousin of the king, who rushed the process of nationhood along at an absurd pace. The viceroy's worst blunder was the impetuous drawing of new border lines through the middle of Punjab and Bengal. Virtually everyone involved advised Mountbatten that to partition those provinces was a calamitous mistake that would unleash uncontrollable violence. Indeed, as Wolpert shows, civil unrest among Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs escalated as Independence Day approached, and when the new boundary lines were announced, arson, murder, and mayhem erupted. Partition uprooted over ten million people, 500,000 to a million of whom died in the ensuing inferno.Here then is the dramatic story of a truly pivotal moment in the history of India, Pakistan, and Britain, an event that ignited fires of continuing political unrest that still burn in South Asia.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195393945

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ADDRESSES & CHARGES OF EDWARD

By: Edward 1779-1849 Stanley,Arthur Penrhyn 1815-1881 Stanley

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ADDRESSES & CHARGES OF EDWARD

By: Edward 1779-1849 Stanley,Arthur Penrhyn 1815-1881 Stanley

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