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It is only recently that awareness has developed about the widespread prevalence of learning disabilities (LD) in India, both in urban and rural settings. As a consequence of this late realisation, there is a gross inadequacy of both rehabilitation services and special education programmes. What is ... More

The first single-volume history of India since the 1950s, combining narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. Five millennia of the sub-continent's history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East. Older, richer and more distinctive than almo... More

It is literally the last word on India today, witness within witness, a chain of voices that illustrates every phase of Indian life ... with a truthfulness and a subtlety that are a joy to read. Something like love enters the narrative - a real feeling for the land and its people' Paul Theroux, Lite... More

The concept of the millennium encompasses a sense of progress and the hope for a better future. Pursuing this notion, the present collection of essays edited by Romila Thapar, and accompanied by her introduction, explores the challenges before twenty-first-century India in its quest for a democratic... More

‘Well-balanced, informative and highly readable’—Amartya SenIndia: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond is an eloquent argument for the importance of India to the future of the industrialized world. Shashi Tharoor shows compellingly that India stands at the intersection of the most signi... More

Originally written in French, Pierre Loti’s India is an attempt to discover the real beauty and culture of the land. Loti has given a vivid description of India, her races, rivers, temples, palaces and scriptures, intermixed with moments from his eventful journey through India.Pierre Loti is the ... More

'At a time when historians around the world are increasingly recognizing global stories of Olympism as crucial to understanding the working of societies, there has been no detailed history of India's Olympic experience. This is a glaring anomaly for a country that became the first colonized nation t... More