Research area ii of vi
History & Civilisation
The rise and fall of civilisations, a thousand years of invasion and conquest, and the road from 1921 to Partition and 1948.
- Chapters
- 5
- Plates
- 2
- Essays
- 0
- Terms
- 0
Chapters in this area
Drawn from every book in the library
Volume I · Topic 10
ReligionA priest and a politician: the author says there is little difference. Decide for yourself.
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Volume I · Topic 19
Pillage & RavagesWhy, in the author’s account, do lakhs gather at Sagar Island every year?
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Volume I · Topic 20
The Horror-SpellThe chapter the Foreword describes as the book’s account of the roots of terrorism.
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Volume I · Topic 21
The RedeemerKalki: the role the author says the public cast Gandhi in, and why he believes it ended as it did.
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Volume I · Topic 22
The AftermathThe author coins eleven new words for modern India. This chapter needs most of them.
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Volume IIChapters from Volume II (title to come) take their place here when it is added.
Plates
All plates in the Atlas
Essays
Essays for this area are being written. The first will draw on the chapters above.