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This book recreates the defining moments of twentieth-century Indian history that includes the Partition, the Independence, and the final days of the British Raj. It is an accurate account of how a handful of people changed the lives of millions. These include Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the couple appointed to end the British Raj in India at the earliest, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister to be, and Gandhi, a mystical leader who enchanted the entire nation.
বিষয় হিসেবে ইতিহাস সবসময় চ্যালেঞ্জিং এবং বিস্মৃতিপ্রবণও বটে, কারণ একটা সময় আসে যখন ঘটনা ও কল্পনা এবং সারবস্তু ও ছায়াকে আলাদা করা মুশকিল হয়ে পড়ে। পাশাপাশি, এ দেশে ইতিহাস রচনার বিষয়টি অনেক সময় দলের প্রতি অনুগত থাকার কারণে পক্ষপাতদুষ্ট হয়ে থাকে। বাংলাদেশ : ছয় দশক এ জাতীয় ত্রুটিগুলো কাটিয়ে ওঠার এক প্রচেষ্টা, তবে এখানে কেবল ঘটনাবহুল ছয়টি দশকের স্বতন্ত্র ইতিহাস তুলে ধরার চেষ্টা করা হয়নি, বরং সমগ্র জাতির গন্তব্য নির্ধারণকারী ঘটনাগুলোর বস্তুনিষ্ঠ ইতিহাস যথাসম্ভব নির্ভুলভাবে উপস্থাপন করা করেছে। ১৯৪৭ সালে দেশ বিভাগের পর থেকে যে বিষয়গুলো প্রত্যেক বাঙালিকে আলোড়িত করেছিল সেগুলোর ন্যায়সঙ্গত অনুসন্ধান উদ্যোগের ফলাফল হচ্ছে এই গ্রন্থটি।
“Babur Nama” Book Contents:
* Babur’s family Tree
* Maps
* Main Characters
* Islamic Calendar
* Preface
* Introduction
Part 1 : Fergana And Samarkand (Uzbekistan) Ah 899 – Ah 909
14 February Ad 1483-7 July Ad 1502
* Chapter 1 : Ah 899
* Chapter 2 : Ah 900 – Ah 903
* Chapter 3 : Ah 904
* Chapter 4 : Ah 905 – Ah 906
* Chapter 5 : Ah 907 – Ah 909
Part 2 : The Domain Of Kabul (Afghanistan) Ah 910 – Ah 931
14 June Ad 1504 – 12 December Ad 1520
* Chapter 6 : Ah 910
* Chapter 7 : Ah 911
* Chapter 8 : Ah 912
* Chapter 9 : Ah 913
* Chapter 10 : Ah 914 – Ah 924
* Chapter 11 : Ah 925
* Chapter 12 : Ah 926 – Ah 931
Part 3: Hindustan (India And Pakistan) Ah 932 – 5 Jumada Awal Ah 937
18 October Ad 1525 – 12 August Ad 1530
* Chapter 13 : Ad 932
* Chapter 14 : Ah 933
* Chapter 15 : Ah 934
* Chapter 16 : Ah 935
* Chapter 17 : Ah 936 – 5 Jumada Awal Ah 937
Notes
* Appendix 1 : Titles, Religious And Secular
* Appendix 2 : Glossary Of Foreign Words
* Appendix 3 : Babur’s Daily Prayers
* Appendix 4 : Babur’s Wives And Children
In a narrative beginning almost 1.5 million years ago with the emergence of Homo erectus, Frank Welsh takes the reader from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the age of terrorism. Using his masterly storytelling skills, he recounts the epic story of human growth, survival and achievement across all continents and ages. Providing insight into the lives of ordinary people in every corner of the globe, this comprehensive book is the perfect introduction to the human history of our planet. Shows History From The Perspective Of Those Areas And Peoples Outside Of The Familiar Western Historical Narrative
I am grateful to Margaret Hall, Julie Gordon and Dorothy Macintosh formerly of the South Asian History Section of the RSPacS at ANU. For institutional support for this project, I am grateful to the authorities of the Australian National University and the University of Dhaka.
The world is awakened to a series of events and phenomena of far-reaching consequences. While global recession and efforts at overcoming its consequences remain at the centre of contemporary international relations, international community is also preoccupied with a series of other challenges emanating from factors as diverse as intra- and inter-state conflicts, climate change and environmental degradation, trade and investment, terrorism and crime, cross-border migration and a host of others.
The volume represents a range of themes covering a myriad of issues and problems facing South Asian Nations. The essay address issues from clash of ideologies focusing on secularism and non-secular nationalism, to rationale for regional cooperation with an ideological thrust, to developing a sustainable framework for making policies of a new nation, to civil society’s proactive role in searching a common ground for consensus building, to threat perceptions emanating from ideological, socio-political and historical causes adversely affecting intra-regional relations, to efforts having a positive outcome to globalism with different implications for sovereignty and citizenship.
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Archer Blood, the United States’ consul general in Dacca, was a gentlemanly diplomat raised in Virginia, a World War II navy veteran in the upswing of a promising Foreign Service career after several tours overseas. He was earnest and precise, known to some of his more unruly subordinates at the U.S. consulate as a good, conventional man. He had come to like his posting to this impoverished, green, and swampy land. But outside of the consulate's grimy offices, in the steamy heat, the city was dying. Night after night, Blood heard the gunshots. On the night of March 25, 1971, the Pakistan army had begun a relentless crackdown on Bengalis, all across what was then East Pakistan and is today an independent Bangladesh. Untold thousands of people were shot, bombed, or burned to death in Dacca alone. Blood had spent that grim night on the roof of his official residence, watching as tracer bullets lit up the sky, listening to clattering machine guns and thumping tank guns. There were fires across the ramshackle city. He knew the people in the deathly darkness below. He liked them. Many of the civilians facing the bullets were professional colleagues; some were his friends.
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Manufacturing Consent is geared towards enlightening the readers on the practices in news media. The authors explain that editorial distortion is worsened due to the reliance of news media on governmental sources of news. They also tell the readers that a magazine or any form of media may be prevented from gaining information if they publish any information that attracts negative reactions from the government. This results in the news media organization losing their grip over their viewers or readers, which in turn decreases their advertisers. Keeping these dire consequences in mind, the editorial boards of news media businesses twist their reports to favor the government, with the sole objective of sustaining themselves in the market. Through the course of this book, the readers are provided with insights into five editorially distorting filers that are utilized in news reporting these days.
The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century. No political change has been more fundamental than its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere. In this hugely acclaimed book Archie Brown provides an indispensable history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different countries, its collapse in many states following the Soviet perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe.\n\nThe Rise and Fall of Communism explains how and why Communists came to power; how they were able, in a variety of countries on different continents to hold on to power for so long; and what brought about the downfall of so many Communist systems. A groundbreaking work from an internationally renowned specialist, this is the definitive study of the most remarkable political and human story of our times.
Natwar Singh joined the Indian Foreign Service and served as a bureaucrat for 31 years. He joined the Congress Party in 1984, and became a Minister of State in the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s council with the portfolios of steel, agriculture, and coal and mines in 1985. In this much-awaited autobiography, the former cabinet minister talks justly about his experiences and services in various ministries. Singh has played a significant role in Indian politics for more than twenty years and has been a part of some of the most epochal events of independent India, including Indo-China talks and the formation of Bangladesh. In 2002, when the Congress party came back to power, Natwar Singh was appointed as the Minister for External Affairs. But his eventful career saw its end with the Volcker Report in the year 2005. His name appearing in the Iraqi food-for-oil scam forced him to resign from the cabinet and eventually from the Congress party. Singh talks about all these events and the ups and downs of the Congress party in One Life Is Not Enough, an account of an insider. His association with the party allowed him to observe some of the historical events closely, and he talks about Pakistan in the 1980s, under the rule of President Zia-ul-Haq, Indo-Chinese and Indo-USSR relations among other sensitive developments.
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