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“nikhil menon”

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  • Planning Democracy

    Modern India's Quest for Development

    by Nikhil Menon ...
    The Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy explores how India fused Soviet-inspired economic management and Western-style liberal democracy at a time when they were widely considered fundamentally contradictory. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning was meant to be independent India's route to prosperity. In this ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India

    How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India

    by NIKHIL MENON ...
    Narrated by Shahzad Bhiwandiwala ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 33 min

    India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal democracy to a socialist economy. Planning not only built India’s data systems, it even shaped the nature of its democracy. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia

    Edited by Professor Gyan Prakash, Nikhil Menon, Michael Laffan ...
    By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial projects in South and Southeast Asia including India, Pakistan, Burma, and Indonesia. Its chapters unearth the contingency and contention that accompanied the establishment of nation-states and their claim to be decolonized heirs.The book places key ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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    Bal Thackeray

    by Dhaval kulkarni ...
    Narrated by Vijayan Menon ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 26 min

    Hindu Hriday Samrat Bal Thackeray is a name to reckon with in the entire state of Maharashtra and beyond. Late Balasaheb founded the political party Shiv Sena with only a handful of people in the sixties and after that never looked back. The party and its graph kept climbing and dipping over the years, but Bal Thackeray's superstar status as the voice of the marathi people never took a hit. He was ... Read more

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  • India

    A Short History

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... Read more

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  • Princely India and the British

    Political Development and the Operation of Empire

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  • Gender and Violence in British India

    The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919

    by R. McLain ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919. ... Read more

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  • The Defiant Border

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