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Govindram Hasanand Prakashan, Hindi Books, इतिहास
Hyderabad ke Aryon ki Sadhna aur Sangharsh
आर्यसमाज का जन्म यों तो क्रान्ति की घड़ियों में ही हुआ। 1857 की क्रान्ति हो चुकी थी, अंग्रेजों का दमनचक्र भी अपनी पराकाष्ठा पर था, जुबानों पर ताले डाले दिए गए थे। लोग समझने लगे थे कि स्वाधीनता की बात करने वाला दशब्दियों तक भी कोई नहीं होगा। ऐसी विषम परिस्थितियों में स्वामी दयानन्द सरस्वती ने आर्यसमाज की नींव रखी। पर सुदूर दक्षिण में यह हवा कुछ देर से पहुँची।
हिन्दुओं पर जो जुल्म उन दिनों निजाम की हुकूमत में ढ़ाए जा रहे थे, उन्हें याद करके भी रोंगटे खड़े हो जाते हैं। आर्यसमाज ने यहाँ एक नई दिशा हिन्दू समाज को दी।
हैदराबाद में आर्यसमाज के आधे से अधिक इतिहास के तो लेखक स्वयं नायक हैं। स्वाधीनता की लहर भी हैदराबाद में आर्यसमाज के द्वारा ही पहले पहल चली। सामाजिक और राजनैतिक, दोनों तरह की क्रान्ति में आर्यसमाज ही अगुआ बना रहा। इस पुस्तक को लिखकर पंडित नरेन्द्रजी ने बहुत-सी बिखरी हुई उन स्मृतियों को इकट्ठा कर दिया है जो देर होने से विस्मृति के गर्त में दबती चली जातीं। -प्रकाशवीर शास्त्रीSKU: n/a -
Akshaya Prakashan, English Books, Literature & Fiction, इतिहास
IN SEARCH OF LIGHT
From time of cognitive revolution, man was
curious to understand the creation and its relationship to him. His primary goal was to be
happy. He wanted to know and experience how
the creation ñ its true light ñ can direct, teach,
contribute and hold him to reach that goal. This untiring search for
the true light, resulted in the blossoming of the thoughts enshrined
in the Vedas. Vedas rested mostly on intuitive ideas, power ñ
reinforced by faith. Over the centuries, the search also took an
alternative route based on analytical and experimental discoveries,
generally covered under ìScienceî. Both are in search of the common ideals yet their approaches have been sometimes parallel and
divergent on a few other occasions. The truth and basics being
same, both contributed to each other knowingly or unknowingly.
The search still continues.
There are students devoted to either of the schools ñ Science
and Vedas ñ and they can see commonalities in thought, method
and principles. This book aims to strengthen their belief both in
intuitive logic and analytics based on observation. It further
explores such commonalities with an open mind, however accepting
the intermediary divergences as is.
The approach taken in this book is to keep the granules of the
elements as a mixture (i.e., each maintaining its identity) and not as
a alloy (losing their original properties to form a new idea itself) ñ
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English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास
In The Arms Of A Soldier: For A Soldier, The Nation Is Always First (PB)
-15%English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहासIn The Arms Of A Soldier: For A Soldier, The Nation Is Always First (PB)
The love story of Pranali and Vikrant was an unlikely one. Pranali was an ordinary girl from Mumbai, while Vikrant was a Para Commando Major from the army. Their paths crossed one day at Victoria Garden in Kolkata, and they were drawn to each other immediately. Despite coming from different worlds, they fell deeply in love and decided to get married.
However, fate had other plans. Just two days before their wedding, Vikrant was called away on a mission. He had to leave Pranali behind, with their love story left incomplete. The pain of separation was immense, and Pranali struggled to cope with the loneliness and the uncertainty of not knowing when Vikrant would return.
Despite the challenges, Pranali held onto the hope that one day Vikrant would come back to her. She remained steadfast in her love for him, praying for his safe return and dreaming of the day when they could finally be united and together again. Their love story may have been interrupted, but it was far from over.
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Hindi Sahitya Sadan, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
India In The Shadow of GANDHI and NEHRU (PB)
-10%Hindi Sahitya Sadan, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)India In The Shadow of GANDHI and NEHRU (PB)
In the year 1966, Guru Dutt worte a book under the title of ‘Jawaharlal Nehru—a Critical Study’. The book was so controversial that it gave rise to the rumour that it had been proscribed by the Government of India. In 1967 certain newspapers did come out with the news that steps were in progress to proscribe the book and prosecute its author. However, nothing of the kind took place.
The present book is a deep study of the words and deeds of Nehru and Gandhi.
The author has taken great pains in critically studying the activities and philosophies of these two eminent personalities of our country and placing before the reader the other side of the picture. His thesis is based on works of Nehru himself and also on works of other eminent writers of the day. He was referred to more than 200 quotations which support and lead to his logical analysis. How far he succeeded in piercing through the many walls of prejudices which sustain the pet notions about, them it is for the reader to ponder and judge.
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Bloomsbury, Hindi Books, इतिहास
India that is Bharat (English)
About the Book: India, That is Bharat
India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European colonial consciousness (or coloniality), in particular its religious and racial roots, on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation and the origins of the Indian Constitution. It lays the foundation for its sequels by covering the period between the Age of Discovery, marked by Christopher Columbus expedition in 1492, and the reshaping of Bharat through a British-made constitution-the Government of India Act of 1919. This includes international developments leading to the founding of the League of Nations by Western powers that tangibly impacted this journey. Further, this work also traces the origins of seemingly universal constructs such as toleration, secularism and humanism to Christian political theology. Their subsequent role in subverting the indigenous Indic consciousness through a secularised and universalised Reformation, that is, constitutionalism, is examined. It also puts forth the concept of Middle Eastern coloniality, which preceded its European variant and allies with it in the context of Bharat to advance their shared antipathy towards the Indic worldview. In order to liberate Bharats distinctive indigeneity, decoloniality is presented as a civilisational imperative in the spheres of nature, religion, culture, history, education, language and, crucially, in the realm of constitutionalism.
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Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
INDIA’S BIGGEST COVER-UP
India’s Biggest Cover-up is an investigative insight into the Netaji mystery and its stranger than fiction subplots. Relying heavily on official records—bulk of them still security classified in violation of democratic norms—the book uncovers a systematic obstruction of justice by the Government of India. First for any book in India, the narrative has been augmented with the excerpts and images of still secret records. Archival material and information obtained under the freedom of information acts of India, the US and the UK has also been made use of.
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Voice of India, इतिहास, राजनीति, पत्रकारिता और समाजशास्त्र, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
India’s Secularism
Voice of India, इतिहास, राजनीति, पत्रकारिता और समाजशास्त्र, सही आख्यान (True narrative)India’s Secularism
The ideology Secularism had taken shape during the European Enlightenment (18-19 centuries). Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who had never used the term in his pre-independence writings or speeches simply picked up a prestigious world form the Western political parlance and made it mean the opposite of what it meant in the West. The outcome of this perversion proved disastrous for the newly independent nation, as it became more than obvious in due course. In pre-independent India, the ‘Muslim minority’ had exercised a veto on who was to be hailed as ‘nationalist’ and who was to be denounced as ‘Hindu communalist’. Now the same ‘minority’ reacquired the same veto on who was to be applauded as ‘secularist’ and who was to be hounded out as ‘communalist’. In short, the term ‘secularism’ in the post-independence period has been and remains no more than a euphemism for Hindu-baiting. The word ‘India’s’ instead of ‘Indian’ has been used in the title of this book because there is nothing Indian about Nahruvian Secularism. In fact, the term ‘secularism’ in its original Western sense had remained unknown to Indian political parlance because Indians had never envisaged or experienced a theocratic dispensation before the advent of Islam and its state apparatus in this country. Even today, traditional Indian scholars do not understand what theocracy means, and how Secularism in the Western sense stands opposed to it. And this ‘secularism’ has not been defined as Nahruvian because it is shared in common by all political parties including the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास
Indian Mujahideen (HB)
Indian Mujahideen
India was divded because of the obduracy of Jinnah, and in August 1947 India was partitioned and a separate country Pakistan came into existence. The demand for creation of a separate Islamic country for Muslims by dividing India was being raised since 1940. Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar believed that the partition of India into two countries on religious lines was not practically possible, and such a partition would be more harmful for humanity than the Nation, and lead to large-scale violence, which actually happened. Dr. Ambedkar believed that Hindus and Sikhs in the newly-created nation of Pakistan should come to India, and Muslims in India should go to Pakistan, an Islamic country created on religious lines. Despite so many years have passed, some terrorist organisations (state actors) such as Indian Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Jaish-e-Muhammed, Hizbul Mujahideen etc. have continu- ously waged a war against India and have gone forward to destabilise and disturb our socio-economic situations.
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Abrahamic religions (अब्राहमिक मजहब), English Books, Voice of India, इतिहास
Indian Muslims: who are they
Abrahamic religions (अब्राहमिक मजहब), English Books, Voice of India, इतिहासIndian Muslims: who are they
Several factors have contributed to the growth of Muslim population in India-invading armies with their retinues, constant recruitment of soldiers from across the borders, red-carpet welcome extended to immigrants from Muslim countries, forcible conversions, proselytization by means of pressures and temptations, large-scale polygamy with Hindu women, and the proverbial Muslim fecundity enjoined by express statements of the Prophet who wanted his flock to be more numerous than any other people. Dr. K.S. Lal has documented in some fulness how the continued wars of conquest waged by the Islamic invaders ensured a constant supply of Hindu prisoners of war who were sold and resold as slaves and who eventually ended up by feeding the Muslim population. It may sound cruel but the Theology of Islam does prescribe capture and enslavement of non-combatant men, women and children of the infidels as a part of the legitimate booty promised by Allah to those who fight for enforcing his commandments. The history of Islam is replete with this practice. On the other hand, Dr. Lal examines in some detail and refutes conclusively the oft-repeated theory that the Hindu caste system was responsible for conversions to Islam. He points out that the countries in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa had no caste system and yet they succumbed completely to the onslaught of Islam. Hindus by and large resisted conversion even when the choice was between Islam and death; the pride they took in their caste, as in their religion and culture, was one of the powerful factors which prevented the Islamization of India. Micro-studies of Muslim communities in larger India including Afganistan will reveal that very few of their ancestors converted by choice to the invader’s faith, and that an overwhelming majority of them are Hindus in their origin, stock and religion. Such studies will also reveal to the Hindus that the so-called Muslims are mostly their own brothers, the lost tribes of Hinduism, who were separated from their fraternity under very special circumstances. Professor Kishori Saran Lal (1920-2002) took his doctorate degree in Medieval Indian History from the University of Allahabad in 1945. He has published a number of articles and monographs on Medieval Indian History About his History of the Khaljis (revised, 1967), the Times Literary Supplement, London, wrote: This book is unlikely to be superseded. The statement holds good for his other works also. All his books have met a world-wide acclaim.;
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Hindi Books, Prabhat Prakashan, राजनीति, पत्रकारिता और समाजशास्त्र
Indira Files (PB)
“लेकिन इंदिरा गांधी ही क्यों?
आजाद भारत में इंदिरा गांधी वंशवाद का सबसे बड़ा और पहला उदाहरण हैं। वंशवाद का एक ऐसा उत्पाद, जिसको लौह महिला भी कहा जाता है और दूसरी तरफ आपातकाल थोपने के लिए हर साल उनकी तानाशाही को श्रद्धांजलि भी दी जाती है।एक तरफ पाकिस्तान के दो टुकड़े करके इंदिरा गांधी ने भारतीय इतिहास में अपना नाम स्वर्णिम अक्षरों में लिखवा लिया, तो दूसरी तरफ गांधारी की तरह बेटे को अंधा प्रेम कर ‘संजय की मम्मी, बड़ी निकम्मी’ जैसा नारा भी झेला।
एक तरफ सिक्किम विलय में अहम भूमिका निभाई तो दूसरी तरफ ‘ऑपरेशन ब्लू स्टार’ का दाग उनकी मौत भी नहीं मिटा पाई।
एक तरफ परमाणु परीक्षण कर भारत की ताकत और हिम्मत को पर लगा दिए तो दूसरी तरफ पहली ऐसी प्रधानमंत्री बनीं, जिनको हाई कोर्ट ने प्रधानमंत्री पद से ही हटने का आदेश जारी कर दिया।यह पुस्तक किसी भी जागरूक पाठक, शोधार्थी, पत्रकार, नेता, प्रतियोगी परीक्षाओं की तैयारी कर रहे युवाओं के लिए काफी तथ्यात्मक हो सकती है। कुछ मुद्दे जो इस पुस्तक में लिखे गए हैं, वे और ज्यादा जगह माँगते थे, लेकिन ज्यादा विषयों को लेने की रणनीति के चलते उन्हें सीमित जगह ही दी गई। शोधार्थी इसको आधार बनाकर और गहन अध्ययन कर सकते हैं।”
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, जीवनी/आत्मकथा/संस्मरण
INDIRA GANDHI – A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
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Twenty years after her death, a study on Indira Gandhi still exercises an interest. A chronicle of the years between 1966 and 1984 during which, except for two or three years, Indira Gandhi was India’s Prime Minister. The book is a historical study of the tumultuous events in which Indira Gandhi played a dominant role. The author has tried to piece together these momentous events into an integral narrative so that it reads like a story.
Father Benny Aguiar delves into his memory to write about the period when Indira Gandhi dominated the Indian politics. Indira became the Prime Minister of India in 1966 and remained so, barring the period 1977-79, till her assassination in 1984. She had a colossal presence and the history of India of this period got closely interwoven with her story.
It is in this sense that the book is important. It is not a historical record of events, which many other books have already done. Father Aguiar recounts from his experiences of the period to produce an emotional history that helps understand the situation as it existed then. It is a close brush with reality and tries to make an assessment about the various feelings that shaped Indira’s decision-making.
He does not justify the Emergency but tries to understand why Indira Gandhi, who was a democrat, imposed a system that she was going to denounce when she came to power again in 1980. She spoke about the country needing a healing touch. Not in a thousand years, she said, would the need arise for another Emergency.
Indira Gandhi was an enigma for most of her colleagues. She was politically smarter and could see through the events. This is why she upstaged most of them during her struggle for political survival. In doing so, she kept losing friends one after the other. Gradually her son Sanjay Gandhi was the only one she could rely on. The mother and son duo used to coordinate their activities for running the affairs of the country. But fate snatched away Sanjay from her and left her crestfallen. She gathered the loose strings and began the task of governance.
Indira Gandhi took tough and controversial decisions during her premiership. It is natural for people to dissect them post facto. A real understanding, however, will emerge only if the situation of that time is simulated. Father Aguiar tries to do that.
This is probably for the fist time that a book tries to highlight the role played by various Christian organisations during the numerous crises facing the nation during this period—whether it was the Emergency, riots, relief or rehabilitation. The book also talks of the meeting between Vatican Chief Pope John Paul II and Indira Gandhi.
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Hindi Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास
Indonesia Mein Hindu Punarutthan (HB)
भारत में बहुत से लोगों को हमारे पूर्वजों द्वारा दक्षिण-पूर्व एशियाई देशों इंडोनेशिया, मलेशिया, सिंगापुर, थाईलैंड, कंबोडिया, वियतनाम आदि में पहली शताब्दी ईसापूर्व से 17वीं शताब्दी तक स्थापित हिंदू साम्राज्यों के गौरवशाली इतिहास के बारे में जानकारी नहीं है। उनकी राजनीतिक विजय उनके अधीनस्थ क्षेत्रों की सीमाओं तक अवश्य उल्लेखनीय थी, लेकिन उससे भी बड़ी जीत भारतीय विचारों का प्रचार-प्रसार था। दक्षिण-पूर्व एशिया में मुख्य भूमि और द्वीप समूह, दोनों की सभ्यता पूरी तरह भारत से प्रेरित थी। श्रीलंका, बर्मा, स्याम, कंबोडिया, चंपा और जावा में धर्म, कला, वर्णमाला, साहित्य आदि के साथ-साथ जो विज्ञान और राजनीतिक संगठन अस्तित्व में थे, वे सब हिंदू धर्म की ही देन थे।
विश्व में एकमात्र हिंदू ही है, जिसने दासता, आर्थिक प्रतिबंधों, बलात्कार, लूट, आगजनी, सांस्कृतिक धरोहरों के विनाश, धार्मिक स्थलों की अपवित्रता और पवित्र प्रतीकों को नष्ट किए बिना इन सब देशों पर शासन किया; साथ ही उनकी संस्कृति और सभ्यता को भी बढ़ावा दिया।
इंडोनेशिया में हिंदू-संस्कृति के पुनरुत्थान का दिग्दर्शन करानेवाली पठनीय एवं महत्त्वपूर्ण पुस्तक।
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Hindi Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास
Indonesia Mein Hindu Punarutthan (PB)
भारत में बहुत से लोगों को हमारे पूर्वजों द्वारा दक्षिण-पूर्व एशियाई देशों इंडोनेशिया, मलेशिया, सिंगापुर, थाईलैंड, कंबोडिया, वियतनाम आदि में पहली शताब्दी ईसापूर्व से 17वीं शताब्दी तक स्थापित हिंदू साम्राज्यों के गौरवशाली इतिहास के बारे में जानकारी नहीं है। उनकी राजनीतिक विजय उनके अधीनस्थ क्षेत्रों की सीमाओं तक अवश्य उल्लेखनीय थी, लेकिन उससे भी बड़ी जीत भारतीय विचारों का प्रचार-प्रसार था। दक्षिण-पूर्व एशिया में मुख्य भूमि और द्वीप समूह, दोनों की सभ्यता पूरी तरह भारत से प्रेरित थी। श्रीलंका, बर्मा, स्याम, कंबोडिया, चंपा और जावा में धर्म, कला, वर्णमाला, साहित्य आदि के साथ-साथ जो विज्ञान और राजनीतिक संगठन अस्तित्व में थे, वे सब हिंदू धर्म की ही देन थे।
विश्व में एकमात्र हिंदू ही है, जिसने दासता, आर्थिक प्रतिबंधों, बलात्कार, लूट, आगजनी, सांस्कृतिक धरोहरों के विनाश, धार्मिक स्थलों की अपवित्रता और पवित्र प्रतीकों को नष्ट किए बिना इन सब देशों पर शासन किया; साथ ही उनकी संस्कृति और सभ्यता को भी बढ़ावा दिया।
इंडोनेशिया में हिंदू-संस्कृति के पुनरुत्थान का दिग्दर्शन करानेवाली पठनीय एवं महत्त्वपूर्ण पुस्तक।
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Hindi Books, Rajasthani Granthagar, Suggested Books, ऐतिहासिक नगर, सभ्यता और संस्कृति, वेद/उपनिषद/ब्राह्मण/पुराण/स्मृति, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
Indra Vijay
Hindi Books, Rajasthani Granthagar, Suggested Books, ऐतिहासिक नगर, सभ्यता और संस्कृति, वेद/उपनिषद/ब्राह्मण/पुराण/स्मृति, सही आख्यान (True narrative)Indra Vijay
An Old and Rare Book
पण्डित मधुसूदन ओझा ग्रन्थमाला 6 – इन्द्रविजयः – पण्डित मधुसूदन ओझा शोध प्रकोष्ठ | Pandit Madhusudan Ojha Granthamala 6 – Indravijay – Pt. Madhusudan Ojha Research CellSKU: n/a -
Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, English Books, इतिहास
Indra-Vrtra Myth and Tectonic Upheavals
We have great pleasure in publishing the book ‘Indra-Vrtra Myth and Tectonic Upheavals’ by our research student Dr. P.V. Pathak who prepared this research work for his Ph. D. Degree under the guidance of Prof. S.A.Upadhyaya, Director of Bhavan’s Mungalal Goenka Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research. The present monograph in an abridged version of his original thesis.
We hope the work will enrich the field of Indology in general and Vedic studies in particular.
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English Books, Harper Collins, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity
-10%English Books, Harper Collins, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity
Introductionbook is about the ongoing battle over Hinduism’s positioning on par with the world’s major religions. It rebuts an increasingly powerful school of thought amongst the academia, which posits that Hinduism, as such, has never existed. What is popularly considered to be Hinduism today is dismissed as a potent myth concocted by Swami Vivekananda, who supposedly appropriated and repackaged Western concepts and practices as part of a nationalist project. Moreover, it is alleged that this project has produced many of the social ills found in India today.
This battle is not merely a philosophical debate. The ramifications of a discourse that pits contemporary Hinduism against its hoary past are profound and terrifying. The claim made by my opponents that there is no such thing as Hinduism-regardless of the name we might choose to assign it-simply denies the existence of an integrated unified spiritual substratum in ancient India. This battle, therefore, is also an intellectual one, with implications for the very survival of Hinduism as a tradition with a rich past, to be understood on its own terms.
The school of thought I debunk here represents an insidious, subtle. but nevertheless powerful, form of colonialism and conversion. Indeed, no explicit act of ‘conversion’ is even necessary, one is systemically re- programmed to believe that one was never a Hindu in the first place, and that the things one cherished about Hinduism all along were simply a repackaged collection of Christian and Westem secular beliefs and values. Thus, one is made to feel that one loses nothing by abandoning Hinduism other than the term itself.
This pernicious ploy is used to create fissures in Hindu society by pitting the spiritual giants of Hinduism against one other, and to distort their subtle and deeply intricate viewpoints. The book not only disproves this dangerous line of thought, it offers a new framework in which to understand and interpret Hindu identity that is broad and yet well-defined, authentic and yet accessible, embracing both the traditional and the contemporary.
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Rajpal and Sons, प्रेरणादायी पुस्तकें (Motivational books)
Inspiring Thoughts
Rabindranath Tagore is one of the best known Indian renaissance figures. A man of many talents, he was a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, educationsist, composer of songs and above all a patriotic visionary. Despite being educated in England he was firmly rooted to the Indian way of life. He was the first Indian to be conferred the Nobel prize which he got in 1913 for his work Gitanjali. The selected quotes included in this book reveal Tagore’s wisdom, deep insight and sensitivity towards people and the world around him.
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