{"id":34226,"date":"2022-10-15T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/?post_type=product&#038;p=34226"},"modified":"2022-10-15T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:14:04","slug":"land-of-the-gods-the-story-of-haryana","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/product\/land-of-the-gods-the-story-of-haryana\/","title":{"rendered":"LAND OF THE GODS: THE STORY OF HARYANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sc-AxhCb gypRuO\">\n<div class=\"ui bulleted list\" role=\"list\">\n<div class=\"item\" role=\"listitem\">\n<div class=\"sc-Axmtr ProductDetailBlock__OfferText-sc-1hd6nki-1 jwIKIh\">Arjun Singh Kadian is an academic and policy professional based out of offices in Haryana and Delhi. A geologist by training, he graduated from Hansraj College, University of Delhi, and is a gold medalist in his master\u2019s degree. In addition to teaching, Arjun has worked at the chief minister\u2019s office, Haryana and travelled widely across the region to understand the nuances of the state. Arjun is an alumnus of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and ZEIT-Stiftung. He is also a fellow at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Arjun is also involved with projects like Indic Academy and Rath Foundation and has initiated the Haryana Thinkers Forum. He has presented Haryana\u2019s views on multiple platforms, both in print and digital.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ambitious book that engages with a region and people who have defined the subcontinent for over five millennia.<br \/>\nThe great war of right versus wrong was fought here. It was from this land that Lord Krishna\u2019s wisdom\u2014the universal truth\u2014spread across the globe. It is the cradle of the ancient Indus-Saraswati civilization, with the sacred river Saraswati, glorified in the Rig Veda, flowing in its full might across the plains and onward.<br \/>\nKings and emperors used this place to expand and consolidate their empires. The East India Company, and later the British Crown, played their games here, manipulating and managing their colonial affairs. The much-ridiculed \u2018Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram\u2019 political epithet originated here. This land gave the nation a number of stalwarts of the Independence movement. And, it became the address for a cocktail of regional and national political manoeuvrings, impacting national politics in major ways.<br \/>\nIn his debut book, Land of the Gods: The Story of Haryana, Arjun Singh Kadian takes the readers through a fascinating journey of Haryana which offers new insights and delightful nuggets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[1121,1046,345],"product_tag":[1488,411,336,1047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/34226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=34226"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=34226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}