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The Whispering Chinar
In Charbagh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a short detour from the Grand Trunk Road that leads towards Afghanistan, stands a chinar tree in the garden of Khan Mohammad Usman Khan. Legend has it that it was planted by a saint known to the grandfather of the Khan, who had told him that the family would prosper till this tree survived. The tree has stood for generations, a silent witness to the many stories of Charbagh, its grounds held sacred until the day a bullet fired by the oldest son of the Khan hit one of its branches. In this debut collection of interlinked stories, the banker author recounts the stories as seen by the chinar tree. In Charbagh, a village where modernity slowly creeps in, there ar...
Sirhind
Sirhind, a town located 270 km distance from Delhi in Punjab. A small town nowadays famous for a Gurdwara "Fatehgarh Sahib", once was a strategic center between Delhi and Lahore. It was one of the most flourishing towns of the Mughal empire for more than a century but only till the beginning of the 18th century when two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh were martyred here. This tragic incident put the town on negligence and decay. Once upon a time, the city had around 360 mosques, gardens, tombs, caravan sarais, and wells. Sadly, only about three dozen of these remain today. Sirhind: A Monumental Example of Oblivion is a historical trivia about the town of Sirhind. The book is an account of the brief history of the incidents took place in the town, its historical monuments and architecture with photographs. It is an attempt that can create awareness and activism amongst history and heritage lovers and will help them to visit these lesser-known monuments of Sirhind.
Later Medieval India
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Public Spheres and Collective Identities
Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view modernity as something other than a single condition with a preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are emerging throughout the world, calliing for a far-reaching appraisal of the older visions of modernization. Following Eisenstadt's and Schluchter's introduction, Bjorn Wittrock explores the varieties and transitions of early modern societies, noting th...
Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800
A study of Persian travel accounts, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between 1400 and 1800.
