Famous Places & Reason for Famous

Place Famous For

AUROVILLE UNESCO sponsored world's first international town near Pondichery in Tamil Nadu named after Aurobindo Ghose. The town with an area of 15sq. miles and a population
of 50,000 will be a self-supporting township having gour zones, viz., cultural, industrial, residential and international. It was inaugurated on February 28,1963.

ABU SIMBAL (U.S.A.) A monument executed by UNSCO in Egypt, the famous temple at Nybia (Egypt) was facing submergence as result of the construction of Aswan Dam. UNSCO has reconstructed it at a cost of 36 million dollars and was inaugurated on 12th Sept. 1968.

ADAM'S BRIDGE Sand and rock bridge between Sri Lanka and India. Legent has is that was constructed by Lord Rama when he was in invade Lanka of Ravana.

ALICE SPRINGS (Australia) Spring with medicinal properties.

BIG BEN Name given to the big clock of the British Parliament building.

BILLING'S GATE London fish market. As a term, it means foul language.

DODOMA This is going to be the new capital of Tanzania in place of Dar-es-Salam.

EIFFEL TOWER 985 feet high tower in Paris build by Gustav Effel in 1887-89 at a cost of 2,00,000

ELBA An isolated island in the Meduterranean Sea, where
Napoleon was exiled in 1841.

ELLORA Famous for rock-pruned Kailash Temple (Aurangabad) in Maharashtra. An exquisite piece of Dravidian art.

Ellora cave temples, 34 in number, present a blend of caves representing Buddhism and Jainism constructed in 8th century A.D.

ELYSEE PALACE Official residence of the President of France. It was the venue of Paris Peace parleys on Vietnam.

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (U.S.A) World's one of the loftiest structures. It has 103 storeys and a height of 1200 feet.

ESCURIAL One of the longest palaces in Spain.

National Parks in India

National Parks in India


Name Place State
Bandhavagarh National Park Shahdol Madhya Pradesh
Bandipur National Park Mysore Karnataka
Bannarghata National Park Bangalore Karnataka
Borivili National Park Mumbai Maharashtra
Corbett National Park Garhwal Uttar Pradesh
Dudhewa National Park Lakhimpur Uttar Pradesh
Eravikulan Rajmallay National Park Idduki Kerala
Gir National Park Junagarh Gujarat
Guindy National Park Madras Tamil Nadu
Hazaribagh National Park Hazaribagh Bihar
Kanha National Park Mzandla & Balaghat Madhya Pradesh
Kaziranga National Park Jorhat Assam
Kangchandsenda National Park Gangtok Sikkim
Nagerhole Coorg Karnataka
Nawegaon National Park Bhandara Maharashtra
Pench Nationa Park Nagpur Maharastra
Rohia Naional Park Kullu Himchal Pradesh
Shivpur Naional Park Shivpuri Madhyaradesh
Tadoba Naional Park Chandrapur Maharashtra
Valavadar Naional Park Bhavnagar Gujarat

Women First in India

First in India


Field Person
First Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi
First Chief Minister of State Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani
First Minister Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First Central Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
First Speaker of Lok Sabha Mrs. Shanno Devi
First Governor of a State Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
First President of Indian National Congress Dr. Annie Besant
First Indian President of Indian National Congress Mrs.. Sarojini Naidu
First President of UN General Assembly Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First Muslim to sit on the throne of Delhi Razia Sultan
First to swim across the English Channel Mrs. Arti Shah
First to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal
First to circumnavigate (sail round the world) Ujwala Rai
First IAS Officer Anna George Malhotra
First IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
First Advocate Cornelia Sorabji
First Judge of a High Court Anna Chandi
First Judge of Supreme Court Ms M. Fathima Beevi
First Chief Justice of a High Court Ms. Leila Seth
First Doctor Kadambini Ganguli
First editor of English newspaper Dina Vakil
First Chief Engineer Mrs. P.K. Thresia
First to receive a Sena Medal Constable Bimla Devi (88 BN of CRPF) - 1990
Youngest to Climb Mount Everest Dicky Doima (19) from Manali - 1993
First to climb Mount Everest two times Santosh Yadav (ITBF Officer) - 1993
First Magistrate Mrs. Omana Kunjamma
First to win Nobel Prize Mother Theresa
First to be crowned Miss India Reita Fariq
First to be crowned Miss Universe Sushmita Sen
First to be crowned Miss World Reita Faria
First DGP Kanchan Chowdhry Bhattacharya

Nehru Award RECIPIENTS

The Recipients of Nehru Award
SNo Name Year
1 U.Thant (former Secretary General of the UNO) 1965
2 Dr.Martin Luther King (Posthumous) 1966
3 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Frontier Gandhi) 1967
4 Yehudi Menuhin (Violinist) 1968
5 Mother Teresa (Nun) 1969
6 Kenneth Kaunda (President of Zambia) 1970
7 Marshal Tito (Ex-President of Yugoslavia) 1971
8 Andre Malraux 1972
9 Julius Nyrere (Ex-President of Tanzania) 1973
10 Paul Prebisch 1974
11 Jonal Salk 1975
12 Giuseppe Tucci 1976
13 Tulsi Mehrji Shrestha 1977
14 Nichidatsu Fuji 1978
15 Nelson R.Mandela 1979
16 Mrs.Barbara Ward 1980
17 Gunnar Myrdal and Alva Myrdal 1981
18 Dr.Leopold Sedar Senghor 1982
19 Dr.Bruno Kreisky 1983
20 Mrs.Indira Gandhi (Posthumous) 1985
21 Olaf Palme (Ex.Prime Minister of Sweden) 1986
22 Perez de Cuellar (former Secretary General of the UNO) 1987
23 Yasser Arafat (PLO Leader) 1988
24 Robert Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe) 1989
25 Helmut Kohi (Chancellor of Germany) 1990
26 Aruna Asaf All (Social Worker, India) 1991
27 Maurice F.Strong (Canada) 1992
28 Ms.Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar) 1993
29 Dr.Mahathir-bin-Mohammed (P.M.,Malaysia) 1994
30 Mr.Md.Hosini Mubarak (Egypt) 1995
31 Gok Chong Tong (P.M., Singapore) 2001

FAMOUS TOWNS in WORLD

FAMOUS TOWNS in WORLD


Name Famous For
No 10, Downing Street --Official residence of the British Prime Minister.
Abadan(Iran) --Famous for oil refinery
Alaska (U.S.A.) --In 1958 it was declared as 49th State of U.S.A. It is near Canada
Alexandria --City and sea-port of Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great. Handles about 80% of the country's exports.
Angkor Wat --Ruined temple in Cambodia. Signposts of ancient oriental civilisation.
Aswam Dam --A dam in Egypt across the River Nile.
Baku --Oilfields of Azerbaijan.
Bastille --It was a Jail in Paris. Destroyed during the French Revolution.
Beding (Australia) --Famous for gold mines.
Bethlehem --A town Palestine, the birth place of Christ.
Bikini Atoll --In Pacific Ocean, where first hydrogen bomb was tested by U.S.A.
Bikini --An atoll of the Marshall Islands. Atomb Bomb was dropped here experimentally in 1948.
Bratislava --A town in Czechoslovakia on Czech-Russian border.
Buckingham Palace --London residence of the British monarch.
Chushul In Ladakh, highest airfield in the world. Chinese troops attacked it in 1962.
Corsica --An island where Napoleon was born.
Detroit (U.S.A) --The biggest car manufacturing town in the world.
Elephanta Caves (India) --Situated in an island 15 miles from Bombay. Famous for the statues of Siva and Parvati.
Fleet Street -- Press Center in London.
Gaza Strip --In Egypt near Israeli border, was seat of United nations Emergency Force till 1957. Now under Israeli occupation.
Gibraltar ---Key to Mediterranean, fortress and novel base situated on rock in the extreme South of Spain.
Golden Temple (India) --Famous temple of the Sikhs at Amritsar, constructed by Guru Ram Dass.
Hiroshima --An industrial center of Japan which was destroyed by atom bomb in 1945.
Hollywood (California. U.S.A.)-- Famous for film industry
Hyde Park --A huge park in London.
Jerusalem --City in Israel. Jesus Christ was crucified here (now capital of Israel)
Khajuraho --It is the State of chattarpur, Bundelkhand in Madhya Pradesh. It is famous for Mahadev Temple.
Khorkov --important town of Ukraine, manufactures motor cars, tractors and agricultural machinery.
Lop Nor Palace in Sinkiang (Red China),-- site for atomic tests.
Los Angeles --A part of California (U.S.A.)
The famous film industry of Hollywood is established here. It is famous as Cinima City of the world.
Lusaka --Venue of non-aligned nations summit in September 1970. Capital of Zambia.
Manchester (U.K.) --Cotton manufacturing city. It is one of the world's biggest cloth manufacturing center.
Marseilles --City and Seaport of Southern France. Famous for silk, wine, olive soap, margarine and candles.
Mecca (Saudi Arabia) --Sacred place of the Muslims because Prophet Mohammed was born here.
Montreal ---Longest city of Canada. Famous for iron and steel works and motor car factories.
Nagasaki (Japan) ---It is noted for its iron and steel industries. Atom was dropped here during World War II.
New Castle ---An important port on the Tyne in England, famous for coal industry.
New Orleans (U.S.A.) ---It is the greatest cotton and wheat exporting center in the world.
Osaka (Japan) ----Known as the Manchester of Japan. It is sometimes called the Venice of Japan.
Pisa --In Italy, famous for Leaning Tower, one of the seven wonders of the world.
Pentagon ---Headquarters of American Defence Forces.
Phnom-Penh ---Capital of Cambodia.
Plais Des Nations ---Venue in Geneva for holding international conferences.
Potala ---Dalai Lama's palace at Lhasa (Tibet).
Sinai ---Peninsula of Egypt between the Gulfs of Suez and Aquba, at the head of Red Sea.
Seychelles ---Island in Indian Ocean, got freedom on June 28, 1976.
Sodom ---In Israel, the lowest point on earth.
Vatican Official residence of the Pope of Rome.
Versaillers (France) ---Famous for the treaty of Versailles which ended World War I in 1918.
Vienna Capital of Austria.-- The venue of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between Russia and U.S.A.
Walling Wall ----Part of the Western Wall of the Temple Court in Jerusalem. Part of the wall, probably dates from the time of Solomon, is regarded by both Jews and Moslems as one of special sanctity.
Wall Street - ---In Manhattan, New York, famous for American's stock exchange market.
White House ----The official residence of the President of U.S.A. in Washington D.C.
Zurich (Switzerland) --Famous for the manufacture of cotton and silk and for its lenses.


SOME FAMOUS PLACES IN WORLD

Place Famous For

AUROVILLE UNESCO sponsored world's first international town near Pondichery in Tamil Nadu named after Aurobindo Ghose. The town with an area of 15sq. miles and a population
of 50,000 will be a self-supporting township having gour zones, viz., cultural, industrial, residential and international. It was inaugurated on February 28,1963.

ABU SIMBAL (U.S.A.) A monument executed by UNSCO in Egypt, the famous temple at Nybia (Egypt) was facing submergence as result of the construction of Aswan Dam. UNSCO has reconstructed it at a cost of 36 million dollars and was inaugurated on 12th Sept. 1968.

ADAM'S BRIDGE Sand and rock bridge between Sri Lanka and India. Legent has is that was constructed by Lord Rama when he was in invade Lanka of Ravana.

ALICE SPRINGS (Australia) Spring with medicinal properties.

BIG BEN Name given to the big clock of the British Parliament building.

BILLING'S GATE London fish market. As a term, it means foul language.

DODOMA This is going to be the new capital of Tanzania in place of Dar-es-Salam.

EIFFEL TOWER 985 feet high tower in Paris build by Gustav Effel in 1887-89 at a cost of 2,00,000

ELBA An isolated island in the Meduterranean Sea, where
Napoleon was exiled in 1841.

ELLORA Famous for rock-pruned Kailash Temple (Aurangabad) in Maharashtra. An exquisite piece of Dravidian art.

Ellora cave temples, 34 in number, present a blend of caves representing Buddhism and Jainism constructed in 8th century A.D.

ELYSEE PALACE Official residence of the President of France. It was the venue of Paris Peace parleys on Vietnam.

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (U.S.A) World's one of the loftiest structures. It has 103 storeys and a height of 1200 feet.

ESCURIAL One of the longest palaces in Spain.

BRITISH EMPIRE (WOMENS IN WORLD HISTORY)

BRITISH EMPIRE (WOMENS IN WORLD HISTORY)


The British Empire

By the late 19th century, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had known. In addition to white settler colonies in Australia, Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand, there were colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. In 1815, Britain had become the dominant power in the world following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, with its wealth and power built on the slave trade and the growing demand for sugar, tobacco, cotton, tea, and coffee. Apart from southern Africa, the move into sub-Saharan Africa did not really begin until after 1885, when the major western European nations agreed to divide Africa into spheres of influence.

Throughout the 19th century, the British claimed that the empire maintained the Pax Britannica—or peace of Britain. However, in what has been called Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, the British Army was at war somewhere around the world every year during Queen Victoria’s reign. The British Empire was at its largest following World War I, when Britain was granted control of a number of German colonies in the Treaty of Versailles. Ironically, at that time the empire was beginning to implode because of the growth of nationalist movements in the colonies and the debt from the war. The process of decolonization accelerated after World War II, as the majority of colonies gained their independence and joined the British Commonwealth—essentially a trading organization. Although the process of decolonization is often portrayed in British textbooks as peaceful, in fact this was not the case, notably in India and Kenya.

Furthermore, during the 19th and 20th centuries, an increasing number of people from the colonies began to travel to Britain, often for educational opportunities. Following World War II, the British government invited people from the Indian subcontinent, African colonies and the Caribbean to immigrate to Britain to help rebuild the country. This changed the demographics of modern day Britain, which is now a multicultural society.

Recently, scholars have argued that empire did not just occur overseas, but that empire also shaped domestic British history and British identity. From 1850, there was an explosion of images available to the British public about the empire. We live in such a visual world today it is hard to imagine what the impact of the sudden and very dramatic growth of print culture meant to the British, and how the images that began to flood the country in illustrated magazines shaped understandings of empire at home. Nonetheless, these images functioned to instruct their readers about the far away places and people who were connected to their lives through the reach of empire. With them came lessons about indigenous cultures, racial hierarchies, and gender roles.
Women in the British Empire

While British women in the empire were always outnumbered by British men, from the beginning of empire women traveled to many sites of empire, where they established homes and found opportunities and a way of life not available to them in Britain. Beginning around 1850, the numbers of white women living in the empire increased, partly because the empire grew considerably in the later 19th century—the period historians call the Age of New Imperialism—and partly because of the rising concern in Britain over the relationships between British men and indigenous women. Encouraging white British women to travel to the colonies was seen by the British as a way to protect and maintain the social hierarchy of the colonial world, while preserving British racial purity.

In evaluating the role of British women in the empire, it is important to differentiate between colonies in Africa and India and white settler colonies where the situation of British women was substantially different. In Australia, where the number of British settlers rapidly outnumbered the indigenous population, men substantially outnumbered women, especially in the early stages of white settlement. Male convicts outnumbered female convicts four to one, and the beginning of the colony in Australia was marked by the rape of women—both white and indigenous. In Australia, the numbers of women did not equal that of men until after World War II. As the colony developed, most settlers moved to isolated rural farms where women lived hard-working lives. By contrast, in New Zealand, while men did outnumber women, it was a colony that encouraged settlement by families—a factor that shaped the lives of women. Interestingly, in 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote.

In India, British women enjoyed a way of life that would not have been possible for most of them at home. This included the luxury of a large number of servants and the prestige and sense of racial superiority that came with being a colonial power. Until late in the 19th century, Africa was thought unsuitable for white women. The only exception to this was southern Africa, where the British government had encouraged settlement by families since the 1820s, as part of the effort to increase British dominance over the Boer population.

The relationship between British women and colonized women was complicated by a number of factors. For most British women, the empire provided a place of possibility where they could experience a range of opportunities denied them in Britain. At the same time, until well into the 20th century, white women were not allowed to work outside the domestic sphere in empire, except in very specific occupations usually closed to British men, such as the education of colonized women. In most cases, white women sought to maintain a social distance between themselves and colonized women. Yet they lived in close proximity to their female servants, and in many cases entrusted the care of their small children to them.

A number of British women did seek to alleviate the situation of colonized women through missionary work, education, and medicine. They called colonized women their “sisters,” in a relationship that has been characterized by Antoinette Burton as “imperial maternalism.” Attitudes towards colonized women varied, depending on the site of empire. It was not uncommon for British women to view Indian women as needing sisterly protection from child marriage and the restrictions of purdah. On the other hand, attitudes toward African women were much less sympathetic, and they were frequently seen as primitive and highly sexualized.

Following the end of World War II, increasing numbers of women from former colonies moved to live in Britain, to work in a wide range of jobs, notably nursing. For many, Britain was seen as a place of economic possibility, although most of the jobs were low paying.
Views of the British Empire

Until recently, the British Empire was represented in popular culture and scholarly literature as a masculine preserve. The empire was seen as a place where men pursued glory, found wealth, and discovered their masculinity.

In this view of empire, indigenous women and British women were usually seen as marginal, or, in the case of indigenous women, often absent altogether. Scholarship on British women in the empire has portrayed their presence in negative ways, stressing their shallow and secluded lives and their reluctance to establish any contact with non-Europeans, except servants—whom it was implied they treated in demeaning and demanding ways. Furthermore, it was argued that the presence of white women in the colonies damaged race relations and created a great social distance between colonizers and colonized. This was because white women needed to be protected by white men from what was purported to be the unbridled passion of colonized men, and because the arrival of white women in the colonies ended sexual relationships between British men and indigenous women. Obviously, this point of view ignores the exploitative nature of most of these relationships. While these relationships could include marriage, more commonly they did not, and the children were not recognized as British. Moreover, the family was often abandoned when the man returned home. This interpretation of the impact of British women on empire, which still lingers on in the scholarship and popular understanding of empire in Britain today, gave rise to the argument that women lost Britain the empire.

More recently, the studies on both British women and indigenous women have developed more nuanced interpretations of their role in empire. Some scholarship frames British women’s contribution to empire around questions of their complicity or resistance in an effort to challenge the earlier negative stereotype. This approach portrays women either as villains deeply implicated in the running of empire, or as heroines who challenged the hegemonic processes instituted by British men.

More convincingly, other scholarship demonstrates how British women in a male-dominated system could reinforce and at times challenge the power relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. However, even those women who challenged specific aspects of empire, such as lack of educational opportunities for Indian women, did not question the framework of British empire.

Thus, regardless of whether the interactions were marked by condescending disregard for indigenous peoples or by a seemingly benign maternalism, the power hierarchies implied in the project of empire resulted in a system that privileged white womanhood and the cultural traditions of the British over those of the colonized. In the last 20 years, postcolonial feminism has demythologized the British Empire by highlighting the insidious legacy for colonized women that, in many places, still exists today.


Painting, The Secret of England's Greatness


There are many paintings that represent the British Empire, but The Secret of England’s Greatness (1863) by Thomas Jones Barker is one of the most powerful. It depicts Queen Victoria presenting a bible to a kneeling African chief in the Audience Chamber at Windsor. In the background are her husband, Albert, and members of the government. The painting was reproduced in engravings and was very popular at the time. Despite the frequent depiction of empire as a masculine world, the queen was the symbolic figurehead of the British Empire, especially after she was crowned Empress of India in 1876. As you look at the painting, try to imagine what it might suggest to someone living in Victorian Britain about the British Empire. Do you think it possible for a Victorian to imagine switching the position of the two central figures—in other words, Queen Victoria kneeling to an African chief?


Painting, The Children of Edward Holden Cruttenden

This 18th-century painting of the children of Edward Cruttenden depicted with their ayah was painted in Britain by Joshua Reynolds. The earliest immigrants from India came to Britain as the servants of employees of the East India Company. Many Indian women came to Britain employed as ayahs or nannies. British families who had spent time serving in India brought an ayah back with them to care for the children on the long journey back to Britain. If they no longer needed their services, they were expected to provide for the return voyage home—many did not. Some ayahs were able to return home to India by advertising in newspapers for a position with a family traveling to India. Some Indian women found themselves permanently stranded in Britain. It was not until 1897 that a home for ayahs was opened in London, providing them with a place to stay until they could get a return passage home.


Letter, Mary Moffat

Mary Moffat (1795-1871) was the wife of Robert Moffat, the missionary for the London Missionary Society who established a mission center at Kuruman in southern Africa. Their daughter married David Livingstone. In 1816, Robert Moffat was ordained and accepted as a missionary by the London Missionary Society (LMS). The previous year, while working as a gardener, Moffat had proposed to Mary Smith, the daughter of his employer. Both young people were 20. Like Robert, Mary had attended a missionary meeting earlier in her life, and she shared his interest in missionary work. Initially, her parents objected to the match because they feared they would never see her again if she went overseas as a missionary wife. For a number of years, Robert Moffat worked as an itinerant preacher in the Cape Colony. On December 27, 1819, after waiting two years for her parents to agree to the match, Moffat married Mary Smith in Cape Town. In 1820, he was appointed to evangelize among the Twsana at the Kuruman mission station. Taking his new wife with him, Moffat moved to take up his new position, arriving after a long and exhausting journey of several months. Kuruman, the most northerly LMS mission station, was situated on the edge of the Kalahari desert, so the soil was sandy and the area was frequently short of water. Although Kuruman would eventually become a major center of missionary activity, when the Moffats arrived the mission had barely begun. In order to survive, Robert Moffat needed to be a hunter, farmer, builder, and carpenter in an unstable frontier area, where struggles over land, labor, cattle, and water between competing groups were endemic. Mary Moffat struggled alongside him, raising her growing family. On December 18, 1828, pregnant with her fourth child and feeling unwell and fearful that she might die in childbirth, Mary wrote to a friend (Mrs. Wrigley) expressing her concern that she would leave “a beloved partner with 3 or 4 small children in the midst of barbarians without a civilized female . . .to keep up a civilized establishment in the midst of barbarians is attended with much care and labour on our parts.” Like other missionary wives, Mary Moffat was expected to create a domestic space, in keeping with evangelical values of domestic femininity. Robert Moffat retired from missionary service in 1870 and the couple returned to England. Mary Moffat died the following year in January.


Painting, Scotland Forever

Painted by Elizabeth Butler, Scotland Forever (1881), depicts the charge of the Heavy Cavalry at the battle of Waterloo fought in 1815. The British victory at Waterloo ended the Napoleonic Wars, and ensured Britain’s position as the worlds most dominant imperial power. Elizabeth Thompson, later Lady Butler, was a leading artist of military scenes in the late nineteenth century, and she continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until 1920. Her pictures depicting soldiers in battle led John Ruskin to admit that he’d been wrong in asserting that women could not paint military scenes. Married to Lieut. Gen. Sir William Butler, Elizabeth Butler took care to draw soldiers as accurately as possible. Although she never observed soldiers fighting in battle, she did watch soldiers training on maneuvers and took great care to correctly represent military uniforms. The enormous popularity of military paintings in the late 19th century, especially those depicting the Napoleonic period, suggests that there was a nostalgic desire to return to a past imagined as glorious and unchallenged.


Diary, Lady Florentia Sale

Lady Florentia Sale (1790-1853), wife of Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale, wrote a journal of her experiences during the First Afghan War. In January 1842, in what is usually seen as a humiliating defeat for the British army, 4,500 British and Indian troops with around 12,000 camp followers retreated 116 miles from Kabul back to the British garrison at Jalalabad. Within a month, the majority were dead from exposure due to the appalling winter conditions, starvation or bullet wounds. A few were captured, including Florentia Sale. She was held in captivity for nine months before being rescued by British forces dispatched from India. The British then withdrew from Afghanistan. Florentia Sale wrote her journal during her captivity, probably with the hope that one day she would publish it. In 1843, after her rescue, her journal was published rapidly becoming a bestseller in Britain. A sketch of her was included in the work. Notice that she is wearing a turban in the sketch.


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“We commenced our march at mid-day, the 5th N.I. in front. The troops were in the greatest state of disorganization: the baggage was mixed in with the advanced guard; and the camp followers all pushed ahead in their precipitate flight towards Hindostan . . .The pony Mrs. Stuart rode was wounded in the ear and neck. I had fortunately, only one ball in my arm; three others passed through my poshteen near the shoulder without doing me any injury. The party that fired on us were not above fifty yards from us, and we owed our escape to urging our horses on as fast as they could go over a road where, at any other time, we should have walked our horses very slowly . . .The ladies were mostly traveling in kajavas, and were mixed up with the baggage and column in the pass: here they were heavily fired on; many camels were killed. On one camel, in one kajava, Mrs. Boyd and her youngest boy Hugh; and in the other Mrs. Mainwaring and her infant, scarcely three months old, and Mrs. Anderson’s eldest child. This camel was shot. Mrs. Boyd got a horse to ride; and her child was put on another behind a man, who shortly after unfortunately killed, the child was carried off by the Affghans. Mrs. Mainwaring, less fortunate, took her own baby in her arms. Mary Anderson was carried off in the confusion. Meeting with a pony laden with treasure, Mrs. M. endeavoured to mount and sit on the boxes but they upset and in the hurry pony and treasure were left behind; and the unfortunate lady pursued her way on foot, until after a time an Affghan asked if she was wounded, and told her to mount behind him. This apparently kind offer she declined, being fearful of treachery; alleging an excuse that she could not sit behind him on account of the difficulty of holding her child when so mounted. This man shortly after snatched her shawl off her shoulders, and left her to her fate. Mrs. M’s sufferings were very great; and she deserves much credit for having preserved her child through these dreadful scenes. She had not only to walk a considerable distance with her child in her arms through the deep snow, but had also to pick her way over the bodies of the dead, dying and wounded, both men and cattle, and certainly to cross the streams of water, wet up to the knees, pushed and shoved about by man and animals, the enemy keeping up a sharp fire, and several persons being killed close to her.”


Painting, In Memoriam

In 1857, British rule in India was challenged when Indian sepoy troops of the British Indian Army began a year-long insurrection against the British. To the British, the most shocking aspect of the events in India was the massacre of white women and children by Indian men. There was extensive coverage in the press and illustrated journals, which stimulated calls for revenge. Paton’s famous painting In Memoriam was dedicated by the artist to the Christian heroism of “British Ladies in India during the Mutiny of 1857.” In 1858, the first version of the painting, which depicted Indian sepoy troops bursting through the door, was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London. The painting aroused immediate debate, as it was thought to suggest that British women were about to be raped by Indian soldiers. The review in The Illustrated London News on May, 15, 1858 stated: “The subject is too revolting . . .The picture is one which ought not to have been hung.” Although British women and children were known to have died during the insurrection, there was no evidence of rape. The artist painted out the Indian soldiers in the original painting, and substituted Scottish highlanders. It was this version that was engraved and sold, leaving intact the myth of the British woman as sexually inviolable by colonial men.




Autobiography, Mary Seacole

In 1857, only 24 years after the British had abolished slavery in the empire, Mary Seacole (1805-1881) published her autobiography entitled the Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands. Written in Britain, following Seacole’s experiences working among sick and wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War, the book became an immediate bestseller. Seacole, who had grown up in Jamaica, was the daughter of a Scottish solder and a free woman of African descent who had taught her daughter the art of healing. Seacole traveled to the Crimea at her own expense and in the face of considerable opposition from the British War office, who refused to support sending “a motherly yellow woman” to the Crimea so she could “nurse her sons.” When she arrived in the Crimea, she set up the British Hotel where she sold goods, supplied hot food, and gave medical help to officers and soldiers. Although Mary Seacole is less well known than her contemporary Florence Nightingale, her work earned her the love and respect of the soldiers who served in the Crimean War. This brief excerpt from her book highlights Seacole’s representation of herself as a professional relied upon by soldiers for medical treatment, her attitude towards British soldiers and the war, and the opportunities available during a 19th-century war for a determined woman. Seacole’s book also complicates our understanding of colonial identities, and raises interesting questions about how a woman from a British colony could create a role for herself at the heart of an imperial war.


Travel Narrative, Mary Kingsley

Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) is one of the best known British women to have visited West Africa during the period historians call the Age of New Imperialism. Her early life gave no indication of her future renown. She spent the early part of her life confined to her home taking care of an invalid father. In possession of a small income following the death of her parents, she made two trips to Africa, one in 1893, and then another two years later. While in West Africa, she stayed with missionaries whose work she admired. She also traveled up rivers in a canoe collecting fish specimens for the British Museum and making ethnological observations on the people she met. On her return to Britain, she found people were fascinated by her experiences. She published a book Travels in West Africa (1897), and became a very popular speaker on the lecture circuit, talking about her experiences in Africa. She died of typhoid during the South African War (1899-1902), having traveled to Africa to nurse British soldiers. Despite the fact that she made choices in her own life that challenged the accepted gender norms for middle-class Victorian women, she was not in favor of giving women the vote. She argued that women were not well educated and well informed enough to vote responsibly. This excerpt from a lecture Kingsley gave highlights her attitude to Africa and Africans. Imagine if you were in the audience what you might understand about racial difference and the importance of the role of the British Empire in Africa.


Fiction, Indian Tales of the Great Ones

Born in 1870 into a Parsee family in India, Cornelia Sorabji (1870–1954) became a writer and a lawyer. By the end of the Victorian period, many elite Indian men had traveled to Britain to study. Cornelia Sorabji became the first female law student at Oxford University, where she studied from 1889 to 1894. Since women were barred from practicing as lawyers in Britain until 1919, after graduating she returned to India. There she used her legal skills to work for the interests of women property holders who lived in purdah. In 1923 she was called to the English bar, but continued to practice in India. She was in favor of continued British rule, and in later years lived in London. Apart from Indian Tales of the Great Ones, written for children, she published a number of other works including Love Life Behind the Purdah (1901), India Recalled (1936), and her memoir India Calling (1934).

Indian Tales of the Great Ones is a book of children’s stories that was published in Bombay, India, and London. The central elements of the story are based on Indian history. In 1236, following the death of her father, Raziya came to the throne after a succession struggle with her half-brothers. She only ruled for four years, before she was defeated in battle by opponents. However, she is remembered in Indian history as a wise and capable ruler, even though her gender handicapped her ability to rule in a Muslim world.


Fiction, Nervous Conditions

In 1959, Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in Africa in the British colony known as Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe. From the age of two, she spent four years living in Britain. On her return to Rhodesia, she attended a missionary school in Mutare. In 1977, she went back to Britain to attend Cambridge University, but became disillusioned with life and politics in Britain, returning home without completing her medical degree. She continued her education in University of Harare in psychology. In 1988, Dangarembga achieved success as a novelist with the publication of Nervous Conditions, the first novel to be published in English by a black Zimbabwean woman. In 1989, Nervous Condition won the African section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Dangarembga took the title of her book from Jean-Paul Sartre's introduction to Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: “The condition of native is a nervous condition.”

From around 1850, British explorers, settlers, and missionaries moved north from southern Africa, eventually leading to the creation of the colony of Rhodesia, named after Cecil Rhodes of the British South Africa Company. During the 1960s, demands by black Rhodesians to be included in the political process led a conservative white-minority government to declare independence from Britain. Under Ian Smith, white Rhodesians withstood British pressure, economic sanctions, and guerrilla attacks until 1980, in an attempt to cling to white supremacy. In 1980, the white minority finally consented to hold multiracial elections, and Robert Mugabe won a landslide victory. The country achieved independence on April 17, 1980, under the name Zimbabwe.

Nervous Conditions is set in Rhodesia in the 1960s. The central character is Tambudzai, a young Shona girl who lives on an impoverished farm. After the death of her brother, Tambu has the opportunity to live with her Western-educated uncle and to receive a missionary Western education. The book depicts a picture of colonial domination from the perspective of a young girl.

In this excerpt, Tambudzai is on her way to attend the Young Ladies College of the Sacred Heart after receiving a scholarship.


Autobiography, Head Above Water

Buchi Emecheta was born in Nigeria in 1944 to Igbo parents. She was orphaned at a young age, and subsequently educated at a missionary school in Nigeria. She was married at the age of 16 to Sylvester Onwordi, a student she had been engaged to since childhood. In 1960, she moved to Britain with her husband and children, where she worked as a librarian. Despite the difficulties she encountered living in Britain and raising her five children on her own, she not only received her doctorate in sociology, but she became a best-selling writer. Today she is an internationally renowned novelist who has published many books mostly set in Africa. She also published an autobiography about her life in Britain called Head Above Water, which documents her experiences as an immigrant in Britain in the 1960s.

Immigrants have moved to live in the British Isles from Africa and the Asian subcontinent for at least 500 years. However, the demographics of Britain only really began to shift after World War II, when the British government encouraged immigration from Commonwealth countries to help resuscitate a war-devastated Britain. In 1951, the population in Britain of people of African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian descent was estimated to be 74,500; by 1962 it was 500,000. This rapid rise in immigration created a climate of anxiety, and what came to be perceived in Britain as a “social problem.” In 1958, the first race riots in Britain occurred in West London and Nottingham as white reaction to immigration began to escalate. Today Britain is a multiracial society. The 1991 General Census showed that 2.5 million or 4.5% of the population were part of minority groups. Ten years later in the 2001 census, the figures were higher, with one in twelve Britons coming from an ethnic minority.

In this excerpt, Buchi Emecheta describes her expectations before she arrived in Britain, and the very different reality she experienced.

Discussion Questions:

* What do the sources suggest about the way the lives of women, both colonized and colonizers, varied across different sites of empire?
* What can we learn from these sources about the ways that the British Empire shaped the lives of colonized and colonizing women? How did women shape the empire?
* What do the sources suggest about the relationship between different women in the empire?
* What kind of connections did women help to establish between Britain proper and the rest of the British Empire?

Body Facts

Human Body Facts

Amazing and interesting facts about human body. Interesting eyes facts, amazing body facts, hair facts, bones facts, blood facts, and many other human body facts. Interesting and strange things about human body.





Body Facts

*In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.
*Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.
*Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid.
*Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.
*Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
*The world record for the number of body piercing on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.
*The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long.
*The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.
*The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries.
*The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose.
*The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
*It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat.
*An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.
*The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
*41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.
*A human's small intestine is 6 meters long.
*There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don't see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.
*Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
*Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
*By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
*The human body is 75% water.




Heart Facts

* Women hearts beat faster than men.
* Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before.
* The human heart weighs less than a pound.
* The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
* The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.
* Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack.
* The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
* The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
* Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of heart complications.
* In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
* In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa.
* People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
* Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM.
* The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
* At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions.


Brain Facts

* Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States.
* The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.
* From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
* People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
* Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
* It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
* A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.
* In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.
* Your brain is 80% water.
* Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.

Bones Facts

* The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.
* There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.
* The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
* The human face is made up of 14 bones.
* The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.
* If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing.
* Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
* Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
* Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
* Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.
* Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.
* In 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
* Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
* Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
* The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!


Blood Facts

* Two million red blood cells die every second.
* There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
* Seven percent of a humans body weight is made up of blood.
* In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.
* Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through the kidneys.
* By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.
* Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.
* The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.
* The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days.
* Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight.
* A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters.
* Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.
* Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.
* If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.


Eyes Facts

* We should never put anything in or near our eyes, unless we have a reason to use eye drops. We would only do that if our doctor or parent told us to use them.
* Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.
* Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes. Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running into our eyes.
* Our eyes are very important to us, and we must protect them. We don't want dirt, sand, splinters or even fingers to get in our eyes. We don't want our eyes to get scratched or poked. That could damage our sight!
* The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.
* The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.
* The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
* The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
* The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
* The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
* The conjunctiva is a membrane that covers the human eye.
* Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
* Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight cam increase the risk of glaucoma in men.
* People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
* Men are able to read fine print better than women can.
* In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person becoming totally blind.
* All babies are colour blind when they are born.
* A human eyeball weighs an ounce.
* If the lens in our eye doesn't work quite right, we can get glasses to help us see. Glasses have lenses in them that work with our eye's own lens to help us see better.
* Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
* The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.
* The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
* Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye.
* The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.
* It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
* Inside our eye, at the back, is a part called the "retina." On the retina are cells called "rods" and "cones." These rods and cones help us to see colors and light.
* Just behind the pupil is a lens. It is round and flat. It is thicker toward the middle.
* Over the front of our eye is a clear covering called the "conjunctiva."
* The white part of our eye is called the "sclera." At the front, the sclera becomes clear and is called the "cornea."
* Around the pupil is a colored muscle called the "iris." Our eyes may be BLUE, BROWN, GREEN, GRAY OR BLACK, because that is the color of the iris.
* Our eyes have many parts. The black part on the front of our eye is called the "pupil." It is really a little hole that opens into the back part of our eyes.
* Your eyes blinks over 10,000,000 times a year!


Mouth Facts

* In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch.
* People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose.
* While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.
* It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.



Tongue Facts

* Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue.
* There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue.
* Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
* 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.


Hair Facts

* On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.
* On average, a hair strand's life span is five and a half years.
* On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs.
* Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body.
* In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times.
* Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a chimpanzee has.
* Hair will fall out faster on a person that is on a crash diet.
* The average human head weighs about eight pounds.
* The reason why some people get a cowlick is because the growth of their hair is in a spiral pattern, which causes the hair to either stand straight up, or goes to a certain angle.
* The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour.
* The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head.
* The loss of eyelashes is referred to as madarosis.
* The longest human beard on record is 17.5 feet, held by Hans N. Langseth who was born in Norway in 1846.
* The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair.
* The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
* Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin.
* Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
* Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds.
* The first hair dryer was a vacuum cleaner that was used for drying hair.
* A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
* Everyday approximately 35 meters of hair fiber is produced on the scalp of an adult.
* Brylcreem, which was created in 1929, was the first man's hair product.
* Ancient Egyptians used to think having facial hair was an indication of personal neglect.
* A survey done by Clairol 10 years ago came up with 46% of men stating that it was okay to color their hair. Now 66% of men admit to coloring their hair.
* A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days.



Diseases Facts

* People that use mobile phones are 2.5 time more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain that are adjacent to the ear they use to talk on the mobile phone.
* Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
* Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf war.
* On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.
* Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight.
* Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.
* Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excessive use of alcohol.
* A popular superstition is that if you put a piece of bread in a baby's crib, it will keep away diseases.
* A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurons disease.
* Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer.
* Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
* Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen.
* Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer.
* Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes.
* The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy.
* The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats.
* Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound — over a thousand feet per second!
* A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
* The incidents of immune system diseases has increased over 200% in the last five years.
* The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people.
* Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
* Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining.
* The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer.
* Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
* Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks.
* A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
* A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
* A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
* Lady Peseshet is known to be the world's first known female physician. She practiced during the time of the pyramids, which was the fourth dynasty.
* The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.
* Teenage suicide is the second cause of death in the state of Wisconsin.
* Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998.
* Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights.
* Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion.
* Studies indicate that epileptic patients that listen to Mozart's Piano Sonata can dramatically decrease their chance of a seizure.
* Lack of sleep can affect your immune system and reduce your ability to fight infections.
* It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach.
* Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath.
* Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
* Fourteen people die each day from asthma in the United States.
* Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid.
* Nearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnout.In humans, the epidermal layer of skin, which consists of many layers of skin regenerates every 27 days.
* Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine.
* In ancient Egypt, doctors used jolts from the electric catfish to reduce the pain of arthritis.
* The lining of the a person's stomach is replaced every 36 hours.
* The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in.
* In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.
* The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore.
* The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material.
* The stomach can break down goat's milk faster than the milk of a cow.
* The smoke that is produced by a fire kills more people than a burn does because of carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases.
* It has been medically been proven that laughter is an effective pain killer.
* Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918.
* In a year, there are 60,000 trampoline injuries that occur in the U.S.
* Even if you eat food standing on your head, the food will still end up in your stomach.
* A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
* 3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria.



Pregnancy Facts

* The world's first test tube twins are Stephen and Amanda Mays born June 5, 1981.
* Some people drink the urine of pregnant women to build up their immune system.
* The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
* Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA.
* During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size.
* Changing a cat's litter box can be dangerous to pregnant women, as cat feces sometimes carry a parasite that can cause harm to the developing baby.
* A pregnant woman's dental health can affect her unborn child.
* May babies are on avearge 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.
* When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened.
* Studies show that couples that smoke during the time of conception have a higher chance of having a girl compared to couples that do not smoke.


Sex Facts

* There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
* The sperm count of an average American male compared to thirty years ago is down thirty percent.
An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter.
* Men sweat more than women. This is because women can better regulate the amount of water they lose.
* The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes.
* The average adult has approximately six pounds of skin.
* Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
* In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 liters of air.
* The condom made originally of linen was invented in the early 1500's. Casanova, the womanizer, used linen condoms.
* Sex burns about 70-120 calories for a 130 pound woman, and 77 to 155 calories for a 170 pound man every hour.
* Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states.
* There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.
* Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean.
* During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.
* During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore.
*According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot are the most common sources of sexual fetishism in Western society.
* A kiss for one minute can burn 26.

Sports Terms & Measurements

Sports Terms

Atheletics–Relay, Photofinish, Track, Lane, Hurdles, Shotput, Discuss Throw, Hammar Throw, Triple Jump, High Jump, Cross Country, etc.

Badminton–Shuttle cock, Service court, Fore hand, Back Hand, Smash, Hit, Drop, Net, Love, Double fault, etc.

Baseball–Pinching, Home run, Base runner, Throw, Perfect game, Strike, Put out, etc.

Basketball–Free throw, Technical foul, Common foul, Under head, Over head, etc.

Bridge–Master point, Perfect deals, Gland slam, Dummy, Trump, etc.

Billiards & Snooker–Pull, Cue, Hit, Object ball, Break shot, Scoring, Cushion billiards, etc.

Boxing–Knock. out, Round, Ring Stoppage, Punch, Upper-cut, Kidney punch, Timing, Foot work, etc.

Chess–E. L. O. rating, international master, Grand master, Gambit, Kings Indian Defence,
etc.

Cycling–Sprint, Time trial, Point race, Trackrace, etc.

Cricket–Toss, Run, Wicket, Pitch, Stump, Bails, Crease, Pavalion, Gloves, Wicket Keeper,
Over, Maiden over, Followon, Rubber, Ashes, Catch, Bowled, Stump out, Run out, L. B. W; Hit Wicket, Not out, No ball, Wide ball, Dead ball, Over Throw, Bye, Leg by, Cover drive, Late cut, Hook, Glance, Stroke, Spot, Pull, Sixer, Followthrough, Turn, Googley, Spin, Yorker, Bouncer, Hat trick, Round the wicket, Over the wicket, Seamer, Boundry line, Slip,
Square leg, Runner. Cover, Gully, Long on, Silly point, Midwicket, Mid on, Forward short leg, Deep/mid-wicket, etc.

Horseriding–Three day Event, Show jumping, Presses, Faults, etc.

Football–Goal, Kick, Head, Penalty kick, Dribble, Off side, Hat trick, Foul, Left out, Right out, Stopper, Defender, Move, Sideback, Pass, Baseline, Rebound, Comer bick, etc.

Gymnastics–Parellel bar, Horizontal bar, Floor exercise, Uneven bar, Push up, Sit up. etc.

Judo–Cocoa, Blue, white, Green belt, etc.

Hockey–Bully Sudden death, Short corner, Hat trick, Goal, Penalty Corner, Penalty stroke,
Pushin, Cut, Dribble, Scoop, Centre forward, Half back, Astroturf, Left in, Left out, Off-side, Tie breaker, Carried, Stick, Striking circle, Under cutting, etc.

Swimming–Freestyle, Breast stroke, Back stroke, Butterfly, Lane, Pool, Crawl, etc.

Polo–Polo-Bunker, Chukker, Mallet, etc.

Tennis–Service, Grandslam, Advantage, Deuce, Game Point, Breakpoint; Smash, Shot, Grass Court. Break, Drop shot, Netplay, Baseline, etc.

Shooting–Rapidfire Pistol, Standard rifle, Air rifle, Free pistol, Range, Bull's eye, etc.

Table Tennis–Volley, Late service, Half volley, Back hand, Drive spin, Chop, etc.

Weight Lifting–Snatch, Jerk, etc.

Volleyball–Deuce, Spikers, Booster, Smash, Sidearm, Panetration, etc.

Wrestling–Free style, Hal Nelson, Point, Heave, etc.



Standard Measurements in Sports

BASEBALL

Home plate to pitcher's box 60 feet 6 inches.
Plate to second base 127 feet 3 3/8 inches.
Distance from base to base (home plate included) 90 feet.
Size of bases 15 inches by 15 inches.
Pitcher's plate 24 inches by 6 inches.
Batter's box 4 feet by 6 feet.
Home plate Five-sided, 17 inches by 8 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches by 12 inches by 12 inches, cut to a point at rear.
Home plate to backstop Not less than 60 feet (recommended).
Weight of ball Not less than 5 ounces nor more than 5 1/4 ounces.
Circumference of ball Not less than 9 inches nor more than 9 1/4 inches.
Bat Must be one piece of solid wood, round, not over 2 3/4 inches in diameter at thickest part, nor more than 42 inches in length.



BASKETBALL

(National Collegiate A.A. Men's Rules)
Playing court College: 94 feet long by 50 feet wide (ideal dimensions). High School: 84 feet long by 50 feet wide (ideal dimensions).
Baskets Rings 18 inches in inside diameter, with white cord 12-mesh nets, 15 to 18 inches in length. Each ring is made of metal, is not more than 5/8 of an inch in diameter, and is bright orange in color.
Height of basket 10 feet (upper edge).
Weight of ball Not less than 20 ounces nor more than 22.
Circumference of ball Not greater than 30 inches and not less than 29 1/2.
Free-throw line 15 feet from the face of the backboard, 2 inches wide.
Three-point field goal line 19 feet, 9 inches from the center of the basket. In the National Basketball Association, the distance is 22 feet.

SOCCER

Playing field Minimum 100 yards long by 50 yards wide; maximum: 130 yards long by 100 yards wide. International matches: Minimum 110 yards long by 70 yards wide; Maximum: 120 yards long by 80 yards wide. Longer boundary lines are called touchlines or sidelines, and shorter boundary lines are called goal lines.
Goal area Two lines drawn at right angles to a goal line, 6 yards from the inside of each goalpost. Lines extend into playing field for 6 yards, and are joined by a line drawn parallel with the goal line.
Goals Distance between posts is 8 yards. Distance from crossbar to the ground is 8 feet. Width and depth of bars not to exceed 5 inches.
Weight of ball Not more than 16 ounces nor less than 14.
Circumference of ball Not greater than 28 inches nor less than 27.
Penalty area Two lines drawn at right angles to the goal line, 18 yards from the inside of each goalpost. Lines extend into playing field for 18 yards and are joined by a line drawn parallel with the goal line.
Center circle Radius of 10 yards. Center at midpoint of halfway line.
Flagposts Not less than 5 feet high, and not less than 1 yard outside the touchline.
Corner arc Quarter circle with a radius of 1 yard from each corner flagpost drawn inside playing field.


BOWLING

Lane dimensions Overall length 62 feet 10 3/16 inches, measuring from foul line to pit (not including tail plank), with ± 1/2 inch tolerance permitted. Foul line to center of No. 1 pinspot 60 feet, with ± 1/2 inches with a tolerance of ± 1/2 inch permitted. Approach, not less than 15 feet. Gutters, 9 5/16 inches wide with plus 3/16 inch or minus 5/16 inch tolerances permitted.
Ball Circumference, not more than 27.002 inches. Weight, 16 pounds maximum.


BOXING

Ring Professional matches take place in an area not less than 18 nor more than 24 feet square including apron. It is enclosed by four covered ropes, each not less than one inch in diameter. The floor has a 2-inch padding of Ensolite (or equivalent) underneath ring cover that extends at least 6 inches beyond the roped area in the case of elevated rings. For USA Boxing or Olympic-style boxing, not less than 16 nor more than 20 feet square within the ropes. The floor must extend beyond the ring ropes not less than 2 feet. The ring posts shall be connected to the four ring ropes with the extension not shorter than 18 inches and must be properly padded.
Gloves In professional fights, not less than 8-ounce gloves generally are used. USA Boxing, 10 ounces for boxers 106 pounds through 156 pounds; 12-ounce for boxers 165 pounds through 201+ pounds; for international competition, 8 ounces for lighter classes, 10 ounces for heavier divisions.
Headguards Mandatory in Olympic-style boxing.

FOOTBALL

Length of field 120 yards (including 10 yards of end zone at each end).
Width of field 53 1/3 yards (160 feet).
Height of goal posts At least 30 feet.
Height of crossbar 10 feet.
Width of goal posts
(above crossbar) 18 feet 6 inches, inside to inside.
Length of ball 10 7/8 to 11 7/16 inches (long axis).
Circumference of ball 20 3/4 to 21 1/4 inches (middle); 27 3/4 to 28 1/2 inches (long axis).


GOLF

Specifications of ball Broadened to require that the ball be designed to perform as if it were spherically symmetrical. The weight of the ball shall not be greater than 1.620 ounces avoirdupois, and the size shall not be less than 1.680 inches in diameter.
Velocity of ball Not greater than 250 feet per second when tested on USGA apparatus, with 2 percent tolerance.
Hole 4 1/4 inches in diameter and at least 4 inches deep.
Clubs 14 is the maximum number permitted.
Overall distance standard A brand of ball shall not exceed a distance of 280 yards plus 6% when tested on USGA apparatus under specified conditions, on an outdoor range at USGA Headquarters.


HOCKEY

Size of rink 200 feet long by 85 feet wide surrounded by a wooden wall not less than 40 inches and not more than 48 inches above level of ice.
Size of goal 6 feet wide by 4 feet in height.
Puck 1 inch thick and 3 inches in diameter, made of vulcanized rubber; weight 5 1/2 to 6 ounces.
Length of stick Not more than 60 inches from heel to end of shaft nor more than 12 1/2 inches from heel to end of blade. Blade should not be more than 3 inches in width but not less than 2 inches—except goal keeper's stick, which shall not exceed 3 1/2 inches in width except at the heel, where it must not exceed 4 1/2 inches, nor shall the goalkeeper's stick exceed 15 1/2 inches from the heel to the end of the blade.


TENNIS

Size of court 120 feet long by 60 feet wide, with rectangle marked off at 78 feet long by 27 feet wide (singles) and 78 feet long by 36 feet wide (doubles).
Height of net 3 feet in center, gradually rising to reach 3-foot 6-inch posts at a point 3 feet outside each side of court.
Ball Shall be more than 2 1/2 inches and less than 2 5/8 inches in diameter and weigh more than 2 ounces and less than 2 1/6 ounces.
Service line 21 feet from net.

Important Days in Our History

Important Days

January 9 NRI Day
January 10 World Laughter Day
January 12 National Youth Day
January 15 Army Day
January 26 India's Republic Day, International Customs Day
January 30 Martyrs' Day; World Leprosy Eradication Day
2nd Sunday of February World Marriage Day
February 24 Central Excise Day
February 28 National Science Day
Second Monday March Commonwealth Day
March 8 International Women's Day; Intl. literacy Day
March 15 World Disabled Day; World Consumer Rights Day
March 18 Ordnance Factories Day (India)
March 21 World Forestry Day; International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 22 World Day for Water
March 23 World Meteorological Day
March 24 World TB Day
April 5 International Day for Mine Awareness; National Maritime Day
April 7 World Health Day
April 17 World Haemophilia Day
April 18 World Heritage Day
April 21 Secretaries' Day
April 22 Earth Day
April 23 World Book and Copyright Day
May 1 Workers' Day (International Labour Day)
May 3 Press Freedom Day; World Asthma Day
May 2nd Sunday Mother's Day
May 4 Coal Miners' Day
May 8 World Red Cross Day
May 9 World Thalassaemia Day
May 11 National Technology Day
May 12 World Hypertension Day; International Nurses Day
May 15 International Day of the Family
May 17 World Telecommunication Day
May 24 Commonwealth Day
May 31 Anti-tobacco Day
June 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 World Environment Day
June 3rd Sunday Father's Day
June 14 World Blood Donor Day
June 26 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
July 1 Doctor's Day
July 6 World Zoonoses Day
July 11 World Population Day
August 3 Internatioal Friendship Day
August 6 Hiroshima Day
August 8 World Senior Citizen's Day
August 9 Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day
August 15 Indian Independence Day
August 18 IntI. Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
August 19 Photography Day
August 29 National Sports Day
September 2 Coconut Day
September 5 Teachers' Day; Sanskrit Day
September 8 World Literacy Day (UNESCO)
September 15 Engineers' Day
September 16 World Ozone Day
September 21 Alzheimer's Day; Day for Peace & Non-violence (UN)
September 22 Rose Day (Welfare of cancer patients)
September 26 Day of the Deaf
September 27 World Tourism Day
October 1 International Day for the Elderly
October 2 Gandhi Jayanthi
October 3 World Habitat Day
October 4 World Animal Welfare Day
October 8 Indian Air Force Day
October 9 World Post Office Day
October 10 National Post Day
October 2nd Thursday World Sight Day
October 13 UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
October 14 World Standards Day
October 15 World White Cane Day (guiding the blind)
October 16 World Food Day
October 24 UN Day; World Development Information Day
October 30 World Thrift Day
November 9 Legal Services Day
November 14 Children's Day; Diabetes Day
November 17 National Epilepsy Day
November 20 Africa Industrialisation Day
November 29 International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
December 1 World AIDS Day
December 3 World Day of the Handicapped
December 4 Indian Navy Day
December 7 Indian Armed Forces Flag Day
December 10 Human Rights Day; IntI. Children's Day of Broadcasting
December 18 Minorities Rights Day (India)
December 23 Kisan Divas (Farmer's Day) (India)

Books and Authors

Books and Authors

A

A Backward Place : Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
A Bend in the Ganges : Manohar Malgonkar
A Bend in the River : V. S. Naipaul
A Billion is Enough : Ashok Gupta
A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories : Khushwant Singh
A Brief History of Time : Stephen Hawking
A Brush with Life : Satish Gujral
A Bunch of Old Letters : Jawaharlal Nehru
A Cabinet Secretary Looks Back : B. G. Deshmukh .
A Call To Honour-In Service of Emergent India : Jaswant Singh
A Captain's Diary : Alec Stewart
A China Passage : John Kenneth Galbraith
A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Gtanth Sahib : S. S. Kohli
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy : Karl Marx
A Critique of Pure Reason : Immanuel Kant
A Dangerous Place : Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A Doctor's Story of Life and Death : Dr. Kakkana Subbarao & Arun K. Tiwari
A Doll's House : Henrik Ibsen
A Dream in Hawaii : Bhabani Bhattacharya
A Farewell to Arms : Ernest Hemingway
A Fine Balance : Rohinton Mistry
A Foreign Policy for India : I. K. Gujral
A Gift of Wings : Shanthi Gopalan
A Handful of Dust : Evelyn Waugh
A Himalayan Love Story : Namita Gokhale
A House Divided : Pearl S. .Buck
A Judge's Miscellany : M. Hidayatullah
A Last Leap South : Vladimir Zhirinovsky
A Long Way : P. V. Narasimha Rao
A Man for All Seasons : Robert Bolt
A Midsummer Night's Dream : William Shakespeare
A Million Mutinies Now : V. S. Naipaul
A New World : Amit Chaudhuri
A Pair of Blue Eyes : Thomas Hardy
A Passage to England : Nirad C. Chaudhuri
A Passage to India : E. M. Forster
A Peep into the Past : Vasant Navrekar
A Personal Adventure : Theodore H. White
A Possible India : Partha Chatterjee
A Prisoner's Scrapbook : L. K. Advani
A Revolutionary Life : Laxmi Sehgal
A Ridge Too Far : Captain Amarinder Singh
A River Sutra : Gita Mehta
A Royal Duty : Paul Burrel
A Search for Home : Sasthi Brata
A Secular Agenda : Arun Shourie
A Sense of Time : S. H. Vatsyayan
A Simple Path : Lucinda Vardey
A Sin of Colour : Sunetra Gupta
A Spaniard in the Works : John Lennon
A Speaker's Diary : Manohar Joshi
A Stream of Windows–Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Imigration and Democracy : Jagdish Bhagwati
A. Study of History : Arnold Toynbee
A. Sudden Change of Hearts : Barbara Taylor
A Suitable Boy : Vikram Seth
A Tale of a Tub : Jonathan Swift
A Tale of Two Cities : Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Gardens : Octavio Paz
A Thousand Days : Arthur M. Schlesinger
A Thousand Suns : Dominique Lapierre
A Time of Coalitions : Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Shankar Raghuraman
A Tribute to People's Princess–Diana : Peter Donelli
A Tryst With Destiny : Stanley Wolfer
A TunnelofTime-AnAutobiography : R. K. Laxman
A View from Delhi : Chester Bowles
A View from Outside : Why Good Economics Works for Everybody : P. Chidambaram
A Village by the Sea : Anita Desai
A Voice of Freedom : Nayantara Sehgal
A Week with Gandhi : Louis Fischer
A Woman's Life : Guy de Maupassant
Aasman Aur Bhi Hain : Mridula Halan
Abhigyana Shakuntalam : Kalidasa
Adam Bede : George Eliot
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Mark Twain
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adversary in the House : Irving Stone
Advice and Consent : Allen Drury
Afghanistan & Asian Stability : V D. Chopra
After All These Years : Susan Issacs
After the Dark Night : S. M. Ali
Against the Grain : Boris Yeltsin
Age of Reason : Jean Paul Sartre
Ageless Body; Timeless Mind : Deepak Chopra
Agni Pariksha : Acharya Tulsi
Agni Veena : Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ain-i-Akbari : Abul Fazal
Airport : Arthur Hailey
Ajatshatru : Jai Shankar Prasad
Akbarnama : Abul Fazal
Alexander the Great : John Gunther
Algebra of Infinite Justice : Arundhati Roy
Alice in Wonderland : Lewis Carroll
All for Love : John Dryden
All Is Well That Ends Well : William Shakespeare
All Quiet on the Western Front : Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men : Robert Penn Warren
All the President's Men : Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
All the Prime Minister's Men : Janardhan Thakur
All Things Bright and Beautiful : James HerrQit
All Under Heaven : Pearl S. Buck
Along the Road : Aldous Huxley
Ambassador's Journal : J. K. Galbraith
Ambassador's Report : Chester Bowles
Amelia : Henry Fielding
American Capitalism : J. K. Galbraith
An Admiral's Fall : Wilson John
An American Dilemma : Gunnar Myrdal
An American in Khadi : Asha Sharma
An American Tragedy : Theodore Dreiser
An Area of Darkness : V. S. Naipaul
An Autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : David Hume
An Equal Music : Vikram Seth
An Eye to China : David Selbourne
An Idealist View of Life : Dr. S.Radhakrishnan
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations : Adam Smith
An Unfinished Dream : Dr. Verghese Kurien
Anandmath : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
And Quiet Flows the Don : Mikbail A. Sholokhov
And Through the Looking Glass : Lewis Carroll
Angry Letters : Willem Doevenduin
Anguish of Deprived : Lakshmidhar Mishra
Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy
Another Life : Derek Walcott
Answer to History : Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Antic Hay : Aldous Huxley
Antony and Cleopatra : William Shakespeare
Ape and Essence : Aldous Huxley
Apple Cart : George Bernard Shaw
Arabian Nights : Sir Richard Burton
Arion and the Dolphin : Vikram Seth
Arms and the Man : George Bernard Shaw
Around the World in Eighty Days : Jules Verne
Arrival and Departure : Arthur Koestler
Arrow in the Blue : Arthur Koestler
Arrow of Gold : Joseph Conrad
Arthashastra : Kautilya
As I See : Kiran Bedi
As You Like It : William Shakespeare
Ascent of the Everest : Sir John Hunt
Ashtadhyayi : Panini
Asia and Western Dominance : K. M. Panikkar
Asian Drama : Gunnar Myrdal
Aspects of the Novel : E. M. Forster
Assassination of a Prime Minister : S. Anandram
Assignment Colombo : J. N. Dixit
Athenian Constitution : Aristotle
Atoms of Hope : Mohan Sundara Rajan
August 1914 : .Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Author's Farce : Henry Fielding
Autumn Leaves : O. Pulla Reddi
Ayodhya–6 December 1992 : P.V. Narasimha Rao

B

Back to Methuselah : George Bernard Shaw
Bandicoot Run : Manohar Malgonkar
Bang-i-Dara : Mohammad Iqbal
Beach Boy : Ardesher Vakil
Bearders–My Life in Cricket : Bill Frindall
Beast and Man : Murry NIidgley
Beginning of the Beginning : Acharya Rajneesh
Being Digital : Nicholas Negroponte
Being Freddie : Andrew Flintoff
Being Indian : Pawan Varma
Believe–Achieve : Paul Hanna
Beloved : Toni Morrison
Ben Hur : Lewis Wallace
Bermuda Triangle : Charles Berlitz
Betrayal of Pearl Harbour : James Rusbridger and Eric Nave
Between Hope and History : Bill Clinton
Between the Lines : Kuldip Nayar
Bewilderedlndia–Identity, Pluralism, Discord : Rasheeduddin Khan
Beyond Autonomy-Roots of India's Foreign Policy : A. K. Damodaran
Beyond Belief : V. S. Naipaul
Beyond Boundaries-A Memoire : Swraj Paul
Beyond Good and Evil : Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self : Sisir Kumar Ghose
Beyond Peace : Richard Nixon
Beyond the Horizons : Eugene O'Neill
Beyond the Veil, Indian Women in the Raj : Pran Nevile
Beyond the Walls of Silence : Lalini Rajasuriya
Bhagvad Gita : S. Radhakrishnan
Bharat Aur Europe : Nirmal Verma
Bharat Bharati : Maithili Sharan Gupta
Bharatiya Parampara Ke Mool Swar : Govind Chandra Pande
Big Money : P. G. Wodehouse
Bin Laden–The Man Who Declared War on America : Yossef Bodansky
Birds and Beasts : Mark Twain
Birth and Death of the Sun : George Gamow
Birth and Evolution of the Soul : Annie Besant
Bisarjan : Rabindranath Tagore
Black Holes and Baby Universes : Stephen Hawking
Black Sheep : Honore de Balzac
Bleak House : Charles Dickens
Blind Ambitions : John Dean
Blind Beauty : Boris Pasternak
Blind Men of Hindoostan–Indo–Pak Nuclear War : Gen. Krishnaswamy Sundarji
Bliss was it in that Dawn : Minoo Masani
Blood Brothers : M. J. Akbar
Blood Sport : James Stewart
Blue Bird : Maurice Macterlink
Bofors The Ambassador's Evidence : B. M. Oza
Book of the Sword : Sir Richard Burton
Borders & Boundaries; Women in India's Partition : Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Born Free : Joy Adamson
Branded by Law : Dilip D'Souza
Bread, Beauty and Revolution : Khwaja Ahmed Abbas
Breaking the Silence : Anees Jung
Breakthrough : Gen. Moshe Dayan
Brick Lane : Monica Ali
Brideless in Wembley : Sanjay Suri
Bishbriksha : Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Britain's True History :Prem Bhatia
Broken Wings : Sarojini Naidu
Buddha Charitam : Ashvaghosha
Buddha's Warriors : Mikel Dunham
Bureaucrazy : M. K. Kaw
Burial At Sea : Khushwant Singh
Business at the Speed of Thought : Bill Gates
Business Legends : Gita Piramal
By God's Decree : Kapil Dev

C

Caesar and Cleopatra: George Bernard Shaw
Can India Grow Without Bharat : Shankar Acharya
Cancer Ward: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Candida: George Bernard Shaw
Candide: Voltaire
Candle in the Wind: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Canvas of Life : Sheila Gujral
Caravans: James A. Michener
Carnage By Angels: Y P. Singh
CBK : Graeme Wilson
Cell: Stephen King
Centennial: James lvIichener
Chaitali : R. N. Tagore
Chakori : Chandrasekhar Kamba
Chance: Joseph Conrad
Chandalika : Rabindranath Tagore
Charisma & Cannon–Essays on the Religious History of Subcontinent: Vasudha Dalmia, Angelika Malinar and Marcin Christ
Chemmeen : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Chikaveera Rajendra : Masci Venkatesh Iyengar
Child and Law in India: K. Chandru, Geeta Ramaseshan and Chandra Thanikachalam
Child Who Never Grew: Pearl S. Buck
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: George Byron
Childhood: Maxim Gorky
Children and Human Rights: S. K. Pachuri
Children in Globalising India– Challenging Our Conscience: Enkashi Ganguly Thukral
Children of Gebelawi : Naquib Mahfouz
Children of the Sun: Maxim Gorky
China, the World and India: Mira Sinha Bhattacharjee
China's Watergate: Leo Goodstadt
China–Past and Present: Pearl S. Buck
Chinese Betrayal: B. N. Mullick
Chithirappaavai : P. V. Akilandam
Chithrangada: R. N. Tagore
Chitra: Rabindranath Tagore
Choma's Drum: K. Shivaram Karanth
Christabel : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christmas Tales: Charles Dickens
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Circle of Reason: Amitav Ghosh
City of Joy: Dominique Lapierre
City of Saints: Sir Richard Burton
City of the Yellow Devil: Maxim Gorky
Clear Light of Day: Anita Desai
Climate of Treason: Andrew Boyle
Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess
Cold Street: Paul Carson
Colonel Sun: Kingsley Amis
Comedy of Errors: William Shakespeare
Common Sense: Thomas Paine
Communalism-Handled with a Difference: Daniel Steel
Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx
Comus : John Milton
Confessions: J. J. Rousseau
Confessions of a Lover: Mulk Raj Anand
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer–My Years as Finance Minister :Yashwant Sinha
Confrontation with Pakistan: Gen. B. M. Kaul
Conquest of Happiness: Bertrand Russell
Conquest of Self: M. K. Gandhi
Considerations on Representative Government: John Stuart Mill
Continent of Circe: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms & Development: Darryl Reed and Sanjoy Mukherjee
Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch: Arindam Chaudhuri
Court Dancer: Rabindranath Tagore
Courts and Their Judgements: Arun Shourie
Coverly Papers: Joseph Addison
Creation: Gore Vidal
Crescent Moon: Rabindranath Tagore
Crescent Over Kashmir: Anil Maheshwari
Cricket on the Hearth: Charles Dickens
Crime & Money Laundering: Jyoti Trehan
Crime and Punishment: Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Crisis into Chaos :E.M.S. Narnboodiripad
Critical Mass: William E. Burrows
Crossing the River: Caryl Phillips
Crossing the Rubicon : C. Raja Mohan
Crossing the Threshold of Hope: Pope John Paul II
Cry, My Beloved Country: Alan Paton
Cuckold: Kiran Nagar Kar
Culture and Anarchy: Matthew Arnold
Culture in the Vanity Bag: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Curtain Raisers: K. Natwar Singh

D

Damsel in Distress: P G. Wodehouse
Dancing with the Devil: Rod Barker
Dangling Man: Saul Bellow
Daniel Deronda : George Eliot
Dark Debts: Karen Hall
Dark Home Coming: Eric Lustbader
Dark Side of Camelot: Seymour Hersh
Darkness at Noon: Arthur Koestler
Das Kapital : Karl Marx
Dashkumar Charitam : Dandi
Dateline Kargil : Gaurav C. Samant
Daughter of the East: Benazir Bhutto
David Copperfield: Charles Dickens
Days of Grace: Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad
Days of His Grace: Eyvind Johnson
Days of My Years: H. P. Nanda
De Profundis : Oscar Wilde
Dean's December: Saul Bellow
Death and Mter : Annie Besant
Death Be Not Proud: John Gunther
Death in the Casde : Pearl S. Buck
Death in Venice: Thomas Maim
Death of a City: Amrita Pritam
Death of a Patriot: R. E. Harrington
Death of a President: William Manchester
Death on the Nile: Agatha Christie
Death Under Sail: C. P. Snow
Death–The Supreme Friend: Kakasaheb Kalelkar
Debacle : Emile Zola
Decameron : Giovanni Boccaccio
Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi : D. R. Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon
Decline of the West: O' Spengler
Democracy Means Bread and Freedom: Piloo Mody
Democracy Redeemed: V. K. Narsimhan
Democratic Governance in India–Challenges of Poverty, Development & Identity: Nirja Gopal Jayal & Sudha Pai
Descent of Man: Charks Darwin
Deserted Village: Oliver Goldsmith
Detective: Arthur Hailey
Devdas : Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Development and Nationhood–Essays in the Political Economy of South Asia: Meghnad Desai
Development As Freedom: Amartya Sen
Development Banks-Infrastructure and Industrial Output: Prakash Salvi
Development with Dignity-A Case for Full Employment: Amit Bhaduri
Devi–The Great Goddess: Vidya Dahejia
Dharamashastra : Manu
Dialogue With Death: Arthur Koestler
Dialogue With Pakistan: S. G. Kashika
Diana Versus Charles: James Whitaker
Diana–Her Time Story in Her Own Words: Andrew Martin
Diana–Princess of Wales: A Tribute: Tim Graham
Diana–The Story So Far: Julia Donelli
Diana–The True Story: Andrew Morton
Die Blendung : Elias Canetti
Differentiate or Die: Jack Trout & Steve Rivkin .
Difficult Daughters: Manju Kapoor
Dilemma of Our Time: Harold Joseph La ski
Diplomacy: Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy and Disillusion: George Urbans
Diplomacy for the Next Century: Abba Eban
Diplomacy in Peace and War: J. N. Kaul
Disappearing Acts: Terry McMillan
Discovery of India : Jawahadal Nehru
Disgrace: J. M. Coetzee
Distant Drums: Manohar Malgonkar
Distant Neighbours : Kuldip Nayar
Divine Comedy: A. Dante
Divine Life: Swami Sivananda
Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe
Doctor's Dilemma: George Bernard Shaw
Dolly–The Birth of a Clone: Jina Kolata
Don Juan: George Byrqn
Don Quixote: Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes
Don't Laugh–We are Police: Bishan Lal Vohra
Double Betrayal: Paula R. Newburg
Double Tongue: William Golding
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Zhivago : Boris Pasternak
Dragon's Teeth: U. B. Sinclair
Dream of Fair to Middling Women: Samuel Beckett
Dreams,Roses and Fire :Eyvind Johnson
Drogon's Seed: Pearl S. Buck
Drunkard: Emile Zola
Dude, Where's My Country? : Michael Moore
Durgesh Nandini : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Dust to Dust: Tami Hoag
Dynamics of Social Change: Chandra Shekhar
Dynasties of India and Beyond–Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh: lnder Malhotra

E

Earth: Emile Zola
Earth in the Balance–Forging a New Common Purpose: Al Gore
East West: Salman Rushdie
East Wind: Pearl S. Buck
Echoes from Old Calcutta: H. E. Busteed
Economic Planning of India: Ashok Mehta
Economics of Peace and Laughter : John K. Galbraith
Economics of Public Purpose: John K. Galbraith
Economics of the Third World: S. K. Ray
Educational Reforms in India–For the 21st Century:J. C. Aggarwal
Edwina and Nehru: Catherine Clement
Egmont :J. W. Von Goethe
Eight Lives: Rajmohan Gandhi
Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard: Thomas Gray
Emile: J. J. Rousseau
Eminent Churchillians : Andrew Roberts
Eminent Victorians: Lytton Strachey
Emma: Jane Austen
Empire of the Soul–Some Journeys in India : Paul William Roberts
End of an Era: C. S. Pandit
End of the Chapter: John Forsyte
End of the Line: Neelesh IvIishra
Ends and Means: Aldous Huxley
Enemies: Maxim Gorky
Engaging India–Diplomacy, Democracy & the Bomb: Strobe Talbott
Environmental Economics–An Indian Perspective: Rabindra N. Bhattacharya
Envoy to Nehru: Escott Reid
Erewhon : Samuel Butler
Escape: John Forsyte
Escape the Night: Richard North Patterson
Essay on Life: Samuel Butler
Essays for Poor to the Rich: John Kenneth Galbraith
Essays in Criticism: Matthew Arnold
Essays of Elia : Charles Lamb
Essays on Gita : Aurobindo Ghosh
Estranged Democracies: Dennis Kux
Eternal Himalayas: Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia
Eternity: Anwar Shaikh
Ethics: Aristotle
Ethics for New Millennium: Dalai Lama
Ethics Incorporated: Dipankar Gupta
Eugenie Grandet : Honore de Balzac
Europa: Time Parks
Everest Hotel: Allan Sealey
Every Man a Tiger : Tom Clancy
Executioner's Song: Norman Mailer
Exile and the Kingdom: Albert Camus
Expanding Universe: Arthur Stanley Eddington
Eyeless in Gaza : Aldous Huxley

F

50 Years of India's Independence: D. S. Subramaniam
Faces of Everest: Maj. H. P. S. Ahluwalia
Facing Up: Bear Grylls
Facts are Facts: Khan Abdul Wali Khan
Failing Slowly: Anita Brookner
Faith & Compassion: Navin Chawla
Faith & Fire: A Way Within: Madhu Tandon
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: Adeline Yen Man
False Witness: Dexter Dias
Family Matters: Rohinton :Mistry
Family Moskat : Issac Bashevis Singer
Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy
Farewell the Trumpets: James Morris
Farewell to a Ghost: Manoj Das
Farm House: George Orwell
Fasting, Feasting: Anita Desai
Father and Sons.: Ivan Turgenev
Faust: J. W Von Goethe
Fidelio : L. Beethoven
Fiesta: Ernest Hemingway
Fifth Column: Ernest Hemingway
Fifth Elephant: Terry Pratchett
Fifty Years of Indian Management–An Insider's View: Arabinda Roy
Fights Into Fear: Captain Devi Sharan
Final Passage: Caryl Phillips
Finding a Voice–Asian Women in Britain: Amrit Wilson
Fire in the East–The Rise in Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age : Paul Bracker
Firefly–A Fairytale : Ritu Beri
First Circle: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Flags in the Dust: William Faulkner
Flames from the Ashes: P. D. Tandon
Flash Point: Mainank Dhar
Flight into Fear: Captain Devi Sharan & Srijoy Chowdhury
Flight to Parliament: Rajesh Pilot
Follywood Flashback: Bwmy Reuben
Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India: V. K. R. V. Rao
For the Love of India: Russi M. Lala
For the President's Eyes Only: Christopher Andrew
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway
Fortynine Days: Amrita Pritam
Franklin's Tale: Geoffrey Chaucer
Fraternity: John Forsyte
Free Man's Worship: Bertrand Russell
Freedom at Midnight: Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Freedom Behind Bars: Tarsem Kumar
Freedom from Fear: Atmg San Suu Kyi
Freedom in Exile: Dalai Lama
Freedom Song: Amit Chaudhuri
French Leave: P. G. Wodehouse
French Revolution: Thomas Carlyle
Friends and Foes: Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Friends, Not Masters: Ayub Khan
From Here to Eternity: James Jones
From India to America: S. Chandrashekhar
From Raj to Rajiv : Mark Tully and Zaheer Masani
From Raj to the Republic–A Political History of India: Jean Alphonse Bernard
From Rajpath to Lokpath : Vijaya Raje Scindia
Frozen Assets: P. G. Wodehouse
Fun Moon: P. G. Wodehouse
Fury: Salman Rushdie
Future of NPT : Savita Pande

G

Ganadevata : Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gandhi and Stalin: Louis Fisher
Gandhi–A Sublime Failure : S. S. Gill
Ganganvani : Ram Karan Sharma
Gardener: Rabindranath Tagore
Garrick Year: Margaret Drabble
Gathering Storm: Winston Churchill
Geet Govinda : Jaya Dev
General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money: Keynes
Ghosts in the Machine: Arthur Koestler
Girl in Blue: P. G. Wodehouse
Girl On the Boat: P. G. Wodehouse
Gita Govinda : Jaydev
Gita Rahasya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Gitanjali : Rabindranath Tagore
Gladiators: Arthur Koestler
Glass Palace: Amitabha Ghosh
Glimpses of Indian Ocean: Z. A. Quasim
Glimpses of Some Great Indians: M. L. Ahuja
Glimpses of World History: Jawaharlal Nehru
Global Crises-Global Solutions: Bjorn Lombarg
Go Down Moses: William Faulkner
God and the Bible: Matthew Arnold
God as Political Philosopher–Buddha's Challenge to Brahminism : Dr. Kanchan Illaiah
God's Little Soldier: Kiran Nagarkar
Godaan : Munshi Prem Chand
Godrej–A Hundred Years: B. K. Karanjia
Golden Threshold: Sarojini Naidu
Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell
Good Earth: Pearl S. Buck
Goodbye, Mr. Chips : James Hilton
Gora : Rabindranath Tagore
Governance and the Sclerosis that has set in :Arun Shourie
Government@net: New Governance, New Opportunities for India : Kiran Bedi, Parminder Jeet Singh & Sandeep Srivastava
Grace Notes: Bernard Mac Lavarto
Grammar of Politics: Harold Joseph Laski
Granny Dan : Danielle Steel
Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck
Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
Great Gatsby : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Illusion: Norman Angell
Great One-Day Internationals: Gulu Ezekiel
Great Tragedy: Z. A. Bhutto
Grey Eminence: Aldous Huxley
Ground Beneath Her Feet: Salman Rushdie
Growing Old In India–Voices Reveal, Statistics Speak: Ashish Bose & Mala Kapur Shanker Dass
Growing up in Anglo-India: Eric Stracey
Grub Street: Henry Fielding
Guide for the Perplexed: E. F. Schumacher
Guiding Souls-Dialogues on the Purpose of Life. : Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Arun K. Tiwari
Gulag Archipelago: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gul-e-N aghma: Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri
Gulistan Bostan : Sheikh Saadi
Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift
Gulzari Lal Nanda : A Peep in the Service of the People: Promilla Kalhan
Guns & Yellow Roses-Essays on Kargil War: Pamela Constable
Gurusagaram : O. V. Vijayan


H

100 Best Parliamentary Speeches–1947-97 : Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap
Hacks And Headlines : Raslune Sehgal
Half a Life : V. S. Naipaul
Halfway to Freedom : Margaret Bourke-White
Hamlet : William Shakespeare
Hamsters : C. P. Snow
Hannibal : Thomas Harris
Happy Death : Albert Camus
Hard Times : Charles Dickens
Harlot High and Low : Honore de Balzac
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows : J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire : J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince : J. K. Rowling
Harsha Charita : Bana Bhatt
Harvest : Manjula Padmanabhan
Havana Bay : Martin Cruz Smith
Hayavadana : Girish Karnad
Headlong : .Michael Frayen
Heart of Darkness : Joseph Conrad
Heat and Dust : Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
Heaven Has No Favourites : Eric Maria Remarque
Heavy Weather : P G. Wodehouse
Heir Apparent : Dr. Karan Singh
Henderson the Rain King : Saul Bellow
Henry Esmond : William M. Thackeray
Heritage : Anthony West
Hero of Our Times : Richard Hough
Heroes and tIero Worship : Thomas Carlyle
Hidden Iran–Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic : Ray Takeyh
Higher than Hope : Fatima Meer
Himalayan Blunder:J. P. Dalvi
Hind Swaraj : M. K. Gandhi
Hindi Sahitya Aur Samvedna Ka Vikas : R. S. Chaturvedi
Hindu Civilisation : J. M. Barrie
Hinduism : Nirad C. Choudhuri
Hindu-Muslim Unity : Ian Bryant Wells
His Excellency : Emile Zola
Hold Back the Night : Adam Baran
Home Comings : C. P. Snow
Honest Thief and Other Stories : Pyodor Dostoevsky
Horizons–The Tata India Century : Aman Nath, Jay Vithalani, Tulsi Vatsal
Hornet's Nest : Patricia Cornwell
Hot Water : P. G. Wodehouse
House of the Dead : Fyodor Dostoevsky
How India Votes–Election Laws, Practice and Procedure : Rama Devi and S. K. Mendirata
How Late It .Was, How Late : James Kelman
How to Win Friends and Influence People : Dale Carnegie
Human Factor : Graham Greene
Human Knowledge : Bertrand Russell
Humour : Ben Johnson
Hungry Stones : Rabindranath Tagore
Husband of a Fanatic : Amitava Kumar

I

I am Not an Island : K. A. Abbas
I Dare : Parmesh Dangwal
I Follow the Mahatma : K. M. Munshi
I Muse; Therefore I Am : V. N. Narayanan
I Too Had A Dream:Dr. Verghese Kurien
I Will Lie Down in Peace : Usha Jesudasan
IC 814 Hijacked : Anil Jaggia & Saurabh Shukla
Ideology and Social Science : Andre Beteille
Identity and Violence–The Illusion of Destiny : Prof. Amartya Sen
Idols : Sunil Gavaskar
Idylls of the King : Lord Alfred Tennyson
If I Am Assassinated : Z. A. Bhutto
Imperial Woman : Pearl S. Buck
Importance of Being Earnest : Oscar Wilde
Impossible Allies : C. Raja Mohan
In Mghanistan's Shadow : Salig S. Harrison
In Confidence : Anatolyu Dobrynin
In Defence Qf Globalisation : Jagdish Bhagwaci
In Evil Hour : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In Light of India : Octavio Paz
In Memoriam : Lord Alfred Tennyson
In Retrospect–The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam : Robert S. McNamara
In Search of Gandhi : Richard Attenborough
In Search of Identity : Anwar el-Sadat
In the Mternqon of Time : Dr. Rupert Snell
In the Bluest Eye : Toni Morrison
In the City by the Sea : Kamilla Shamsie
In the Company of Women : Khushwant Singh
In the Light of the Black Sun : Rohit Manchanda
In the Shadow of Pines : Mandeep Rai
In the Stream of History–Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era : Warren Christopher
Inconceivable : Ben Elton
India Mter Gandhi–The History of World's Largest Democracy : Ram Chandra Guha
India Betrayed : The Role of Nehru : B. N. Sharma
India Changes : Taya Zinkin
India Discovered :John Keay
India Divided : Rajendra Prasad
India First : K. R. Malkani
India in Mind : Pankaj Mishra
India in Slow Motion : Sir Mark Tully
India in Transition–Freeing the Economy : Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati
India is for Sale : Chitra Subramaniam
India of Our Dreams : M. V. Kamath
India Remembered : Percival & Margaret Spear
India Remembered–A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power : Pamela Mountbatten and India Hicks
Imdia Today : Rajni Palme Dutt
India Unbound : Gurcharan Das
India We Left : Hymphry Trevelyan
India Wins Freedom : Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
India's China Perspective : Subramanian Swamy
India's China War : Neville Maxwell
India's Culture, the State, the Arts & Beyond : B. P. Singh
India's Development As Knowledge Society : K. Venkatasubramanian
India's Economic Crisis : Dr. Bimal Jalan
India's Economic Reforms and Development Essays for Manmohan Singh : I. J. Ahluwalia & I. M. D. Little
India's March to Freedom; The Nehru Epoch; The Post Nehru Era : D. P. Mishra
India's Neighbours–Problems And Prospects : Ayanjit Sen
India's Politics–A View From the Backbench : Bimal Jalan
India's Priceless Heritage : N. A. Palkhivala
India's Rise to Power in the Twentieth Century & Beyond : Sandy Gordon
India's Unending Journey-How its Future will Affect Us All : Mark Tully
India–A Million Mutinies Now : V. S. Naipaul
India–A Wounded Civilisation : V S. Naipaul
India–Facing the Twenty–First Century : Barbara Crossette
India–From Curzon to Nehru and Mter : Durga Dass
India–From Midnight to the Millennium : Shashi Tharoor
India–Independence Festival (1947­1997) ~ Raghu Rai
Indian Arms Bazaar : Maj-Gen. Pratap Narain
Indian Economy–Essay on Money and Finance : Dr. C. Rangarajan
Indian Home Rule : M. K. Gandhi
Indian Judiciary–A Tribute : Poornima Advani .
Indian Mansions : Sarah Tillotson
Indian Philosophy : Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Indian Summer–The Secret History of the end of an Empire : Alex Von
Tunzelmann Indian Summers : John Wright
India-Pakistan–History of Unsolved Conflicts : Lars Blinkenberg
India–The Critical Years : Kuldip Nayar
Indica : Megasthenes
Indira Gandhi's Emergence and Style : Nayantara Sehgal
Indira Gandhi-The "Emergency" And Indian Democracy : P. N. Dhar
Indira's India : S. Nihal Singh
Indira–The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi : Katherine Frank
Indomitable Spirit : Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Inferno : Alighieri Dante
Ink : John Preston
Inside Asia (also Inside Europe and Inside Mrica) : John Gunther
Inside the CBI : Joginder Singh
Inside the Olympics : Dick Pound
Inside the Third Reich : Albert Spencer
Insulted and the Injured : Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Intelligence Services : Dr. Bhashyam Kasturi
Internet–The Rough Guide : Angus J. Kennedy
Intimacy : Jean Paul Sartre
Intruder in the Dust : William Faulkner
Iran Awakening–A Memoir of Revolution and Hope : Shirin Ebadi
Iron Harvest : C. P. Surendran
Iron in the Soul : Jean Paul Sartre
Ironhand : J. W. Von Goethe
Is New York Burning? : Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
Is Paris Burning? : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Isabella : John Keats Islamic Bomb : Stev Weissman and Herbert Krousney
Islamic Seal on India's Independence : Abul Kalam Azad–A Fresh Look : Syede Saiyiadan Hameed
Island in Chains : Indres Naidoo
Islands in the Streams : Ernest Hemingway
It's Always Possible : Kiran Bedi
Ivanhoe : Sir Walter Scott
Ivanov : Anton Chekhov

J

J. K.-Biography of J. K. Rowling : Seen Smith
Jack and Jackie–Portrait of an American Marriage : Christopher Anderson
Jaguar Smile : Salman Rushdie
Jai Somnath : K. M. Munshi
Jane Eyre : Charlotte Bronte
Jankijeevanam : Prof. Rajendra Mishra
Japan–South Asia Security and Economic Perspectives : K. V Kesvan
Jawaharlal Nehru, Rebel and Statesman : B. R. N anda
Jawaharlal Nehru–A Communicator & Democratic Leader : A. K. Damodran
Jazz : Toni Morrison
Jean Christopher : Romain Rolland
Jewel : Danielle Steel
JFK–An Unfinished Life : Robert Dallek
Jobs for Millions : V. V. Giri
Julius Caesar : William Shakespeare
Jungle Book : Rildyard Kipling
Jungle Girl : Ginu Karnani
Jurassic Park : Michael Crichton


K

Kabeer Aur Eesaayee Chintan : M. D. Thomas
Kadambari : Bana Bhatt
Kagaz Te Kanwas : Amrita Pritam
Kailasb Mansarovar : Lt. Col. A. S. Berar (Retd.)
Kaleidoscope of India: Tomoji Muto
Kali Aandhi : Kamleshwar
Kamadhenu : Kubernath Ray
Kamasutra : S. H. Vatsyayan
Kamayani : Jai Shankar Prasad
Kanyadaan : Vijay Tendulkar
Kanya–Exploitation of Little Angels: Ms. V. Mohini Giri
Kapal Kundala : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Kargil War–Past, Present & Future: Colonel (Rtd.) Bhaskar Sarkar
Kargil–Cross Border Terrorism: M. K. Akbar
Kargil–From Surprise to Victory : Gen. V. P. Malik
Kashmir Diary–Psychology of Militancy: Gen. Arjun Ray
Kashmir in the Crossfire :Victoria Shaffield
Kashmir Underground : Sati Sahni
Kashmir, the Untold Story : Humra Qureshi
Kashmir–A Tale of Shame : Hari Jaisingh
Kashmir–A Tragedy of Errors : Tavleen Singh
Kashmir–Behind the Vale : M. J. Akbar
Kashmir–The Wounded Valley : Ajit Bhattacharjee
Kasturba–A Life : Amn Gandhi
Katghare Main : Ram Sharan Joshi
Kayakalp : Munshi Prem Chand
Kenilworth : Sir Walter Scott
Khak-i-Dil : Jan Nissar Akhtar
Khushwant Singh...In the Name of the Father : Rahul Singh
Khushwant Singh–An Icon of Our Age : Kaamna Prasad
Kidnapped : Robert Louis Stevenson
Killer Angels : :Michael Shaara
Kim : Rudyard Kipling
King Lear : Wilham Shakespeare
King of Dark Chamber : Rabindranath Tagore
Kipps : H. G. Wells
Kiran Bedi–The Kindly Baton : Meenakshi Saxena
Kiss of God : Marshall Stewart Bell
Kohima to Kashmir–On Terrorist Trail : Prakash Singh
Koraner Nari : Taslima Nasreen
Kore Kagaz : Amrita Pritam
Kshuditta Pashan (Hungry Stone) : Rabindranath Tagore
Kubla Khan : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kulliyat : Ghalib
Kumar Sambhava : Kalidas

L

L'Allegro : John Milton
La Divine Comedia : A. Dante
La Peste : Albert Camus
Lady Chatterley's Lover : D. H. Lawrence
Lady of the Lake : Sir Walter Scott
Lady with the Lapdog : Anton Chekhov
Lajja : Taslima Nasreen
Lal Bahadur Shastri : C. P. Srivastava
Last Analysis : Saru Bellow
Last Burden : Upamanyu Chatterjee
Last Days of Pompeii : Edward George Lytton
Last Orders : Graham Swift
Last Things : C. P. Snow
Law, Lawyers & Judges : H. R. Bhardwaj
Laws Versus Justice : V. R. Krishna lyer
Laws, Ideas and Ideology in Politics–Perspective of an Activist : Ashwani Kumar
Le Contract Social (The Social Contract) : J. J. Rousseau
Lead Kindly Light : Cardinal Newman
Leaders : Richard Nixon
Learning to Forget–The Anti­Memoirs of Modernity : Dipankar Gupta
Leaves of Grass : Walt Whitman
Legacy of a Divided Nation : Mushirul Hasan
Les Miserables : Victor Hugo
Lest We Forget : Amarinder Singh
Letter from Peking : Pearl S. Buck
Letters Between a Father and Son : V. S. Naipaul
Letters From the Field : Margaret Mead
Leviathan : Thomas Hobbes
Liberty & Death : Patrick French
Life and Death of Mr. Badman : John Bunyan
Life and Times of Michael K : J. M. Coetzee
Life Divine : Aurobindo Ghosh
Life is Elsewhere : Milan Kundera
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee : Meera Syal
Life of Pi : Yann Martel
Light That Failed : Rudyard Kipling
Lighting : Danielie Steel
Like Water for Chocolate : Laura Esquivel
Line of Control : Tom Clancy & Steve Pieceznik
Lines of Fate : Mark Kharitonov
Lipika : Rabindranath Tagore
Listening Now : Anjana Apachana
Little Angels : Ms. V. Mohini Giri
Living History–An Autobiography of Hillary Rodham Clinton : Simon & Schuster
Living Room : Graham Greene
Lolita : V. Nabokov
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner : Allan Sillitoe
Long Day's Journey into Night : Eugene O'Neill
Long Road Home : Danielle Steel
Long Shadow–Inside Stalin's Family : Svetlana Allilyuyeva
Long Walk to Freedom : Nelson Mandela
Look Back in Anger : John Osborne
Lord Jim : Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies : William Golding
Lost Child : Mulk Raj Anand
Lost Honour : John Dean
Lost Illusion : Honore de Balzac
Lotus Eaters : A. Tennvson
Love and Longing in Bombay : Vikram Chandra
Love in a Blue Time : Hanif Khureshi
Love in a Dead Language : Lee Seigel
Love Story : Eric Segal
Love, Truth and a Little Malice : Khushwant Singh
Lycidas : John Milton

M

M.A. Jinnah : Ayesha Jalal
Macbeth : William Shakespeare
Madame Secretary–A Memoir : Madeleine Albright
Magic Mountain : Maharishi Ved Vyas
Magic Seeds : V. S. Naipaul
Mahabhashya : Patanjali
Mahatma Gandhi : Romain Rolland
Main Street : Sinclair Lewis
Main Waqt Ke Hoon Samane : Girija Kumar Mathur
Major Barbara : George Bernard Shaw
Making Peace With Pakistan : Radha Kumar
Making Sense of Chindia–Reflections on China & India : Jairam Ramesh
Malavikagnimitra : Kalidas
Malgudi Days : R, K Narayan
Malti Madhav : Bhavabhuti
Mama : Terry McMillan
Man and Superman : George Bernard Shaw
Man for Moscow : G Wynne
Man of Destiny : George Bernard
Shaw Man of Property : John Galsworthy
Man Who Changed China : Pearl S. Buck
Man, Beast and Virtue : Luigi Pirandello
Man, The Unknown : Lewis Carroll
Management and Cultural Values : Henry S. R. Kao
Managing for Results : Peter F. Drucker
Managing for the Future : Peter F. Drucker
Mandela–The Authorised Biography : Anthony Sampson
Maneaters of Kumaon : Jim Corbett
Mangal Pandey : Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero? : Rudrangashu Mukherjee
Mankind and Mother Earth : Arnold Toynbee
Mansfield Park : Jane Austen
Manviya Sanskriti Ke Rachnatmak Aayam : Prof. Raghuvansh
Many Worlds : K. P. S. Menon
Mao, the Unknown Story : Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
Marriage and Morals : Bertrand Russell
Mars & Venus–A Match In Heaven? : John Gray
Mass Media in Contemporary Society : P. B. Sawant
Mati Matal : Gopinath Mohanty
Maurice : E. M. Forster
Maximum City : Suketu Mehta
Meditations on First Philosophy : Rene Descrates
Meghdoot : Kalidas
Mein Kampf : Adolf Hitler
Memoirs of a Bystander–Life in Diplomacy : Iqbal Akhund
Memories of Hope : Charles de Gaulle
Memory and Identity–Conversations Spanning
Millenniums : Pope John Paul II
Men from Stone Age to Clone Age : Bob Beale
Men Who Kept the Secrets : Thomas Powers
Meri Rahen Meri Manzil : Krishna Puri
Metaphysics : Aristotle
Middle March : George Eliot
Midnight Diaries : Boris Yeltsin
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil : John Berendt
Miguel Street : V. S. Naipaul
Mill on the Floss : George Eliot
MirrorImage : Danielle Steel
Mirror of the Sea : Joseph Conrad
Missed Opportunities : Indo-Pak War 1965 : Major General Lakshman Singh
Mistaken Identity : Nayantara Sehgal
Moby Dick : Herman Melville
Mod Classics : Joseph Conrad
Modern Jihad : Loretta Napuleoni
Modern Painters : John Ruskin
Modern South Asia–History, Culture, Political Economy : Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
Modernity, Morality And The Mahatma : MadhuriSanthanam Sondhi
Mohandas : A True Story of a Man, His People and an Empire : Rajmohan Gandhi
Mondays on Dark Night of Moon : Kirin Narayan
Monsoon : Wilbur Smith
Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu : K. Shivram Karanth
Moon and Six Pence : W Somerset Maugham
Moonlight Sonata : L Beethoven
Moonwalk : Michael Jackson
Mortal Fea! : : Greg Iles
Mother : Maxim Gorky
Mother India : Katherine Mayo
Mountbatten and Independent India : Larry Collirs and Dominique Lapierre
Mountbatten and tne Partition of India : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Mrichchhakatikam : Shudraka
Mrinalini : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Mrityunjaya : Shivaji Sawant
Mrs. De Winter : Susan Hill
Mrs. Gandhi's Second Reign : Arun Shourie
Much Ado About Nothing : William Shakespeare
Mudrarakshasa : Vishakhadatta
Mughal Maharajas and the Mahatma : K. R. N. Swami
Murder in the Cathedral : T. S. Eliot
Murder on the Orient Express : Agatha Christie
Murky Business : Honore de Balzac
Muslim Law and the Constitution : A M.Bhattacharjea
My Days:R. K. Narayan
My Early Life : M. K. Gandhi
My Expetiments with Truth :M. K. Gandhi
My Father, Deng Xiaoping : Xiao Rong
My God Died Young : Sasthi Brata
My India : S. Nihal Singh
My Life : Bill Clinton
My Life and Times : V. V. Giri
My Music, My Love : Ravi Shankar
My Own Boswell : M. Hidayatullah
My Own Witness : Mrinal Pande
My Presidential Years : Ramaswamy Venkataraman
My Several Worlds : Pearl S. Buck
My Side : David Beckham
My Son's Father : Dom Moraes
My South Block Years : J. N. Dixit
My Struggles : E. K. Nayanar
My Truth : Indira Gandhi
Mysterious Universe : James Jeans
Myth of Sisyphus : Albert Camus

N

9-11: Noam Chomsky
Naari: Humavun Azad
Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Path or Ki Dewar: .Ali Sardar Jafri
Naivedyam (The Offering) : N. Balamai Amma
Naked Came the Stranger: Penelope Ashe
Naku Thanthi: D R. Bendre
Nana: Emile Zola
Natya Shastra: Bharat Muni
Neela Chand: Shiv Prasad Singh
Nehru and the Language Politics of India: Robert D. King
Nehru Family and Sikhs: Harbans Singh
Nehru–A Political Life: Prof. Judith Brown
Neither Here Nor There ~ Bill Bryson
Nelson Mandela–A Biography: Martin Meredith
Netaji Subhash–Ideology & Doctrine: Amlendu Guha
Netaji–Dead or Alive: Samar Guha
Never At Home: Dom Moraes
New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Nice Guys Finish Second: B.K Nehru
Nicholas Nickelby : Charles Dickens
Nile Basin: Sir Richard Burton
Nine Days' Wonder: John Mansfield
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) : George Orwell
1999–Victory Without War: Richard Nixon
Nirbashita Narir Kabita : Taslima Nasreen
NirmaJa : Prem Chand
Nisheeth : Uma Shankar Joshi
Niti-Sataka : .Bhartrihari
Nixon and Kissinger–Partners in Power: Robert Dallek
No Full Stops in India: Mark Tully
Non-Violence in Peace and War: M. K. Gandhi
North: Seamus Heaney
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen
Nostromo : Joseph Conrad
Notebook of a Foot Soldier: Randhir Khare
Notes from a Big. Country: Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island: Bill Bryson
Nothing Like The sun : Anthony Bugess
Nuclear Deterrence in Southern Asia–China, India & Pakistan: Arpit Rajan
Nuclear India: G. G. Mirchandani and P. K S. Namboodari
Numbered Account: Christopher Reich
Nursery Alice: Lewis Carroll
Nurturing Development: Ismail Serageldin

O

173 Hours in Captivity : Neelesh Mishra
O is for Outlaw : Sue Grafion
O'Jerusalem : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Occasion for Loving : Nadine Gordimer
Oddakkuzal : G. Shankara Kurup
Odyssey : Homer
Of Human Bondage : W Somerset Maugham
Of Some Consequence–A Soldier Remembers : General K. Sundarji
Old Curiosity Shop : Charles Dickens
Old Goriot : Honore de Balzac
Old Path–White Clouds : Thich Nht Hanh
Oliver Twist : Charles Dickens
Oliver's Story : Erich Segal
Omeros : Derek Walcott
On History : Eric Hobsbawm
On the Edge of a Century : Amlan Datta
One Day Cricket–The Indian Challenge : Ashis Roy
Once was Bombay : Pinki Virani One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Hundred Years of Solitude : Gabriel Marquez
One World : Wendell Wilkie
One World and India : Arnold Toynbee
One World to Share : Sridath Ramphal
One-eyed Uncle : Laxmikant Mahapatra
Open Secrets–Indian Intelligence Unveiled : M. K. Dhar
Operation Black Thunder : Sarbjit Singh
Operation Bluestar–The True Story : Lt. Gen. K. S. Brar
Operation Parakaram–The War Unfinished : Lt. Gen. V. K. Sood and Pravin Sawhney
Operation Shylock : Philip Roth
Origin of Species : Charles Darwin
Oru Desathinte Katha : S. K. Pottekkatt
Oscar and Lucinda : Peter Carey
Othello : William Shakespeare
Other People's Children : Joanna Trollope
Our Fathers : Andrew O'Hagan
Our Films, Their Films : Satyajit Ray
Out of My Comfort Zone : Steve Waugh

P

Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha : Roddy Doyle
Painted Veil : W Somerset Maugham
Painter of Signs : R. K. Narayan
Pak Proxy War : Vijay Karan
Pakistan Between Mosque and Military : Hussain Haqqani
Pakistan Crisis : David Loshak
Pakistan Cut to Size : D. R. Mankekar
Pakistan in the 20th Century–A Political History : Lawrence Ziring
Pakistan Leadership Challenge : Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Jahan Dad Khan
Pakistan Papers : ¥ani Shankar Aiyer
Pakistan's Failed Gamble : Col. (Retd.) Anil Shourie
Pakistan–The Gathering Storm : Benazir Bhutto
Panchatantra : Vishnu Sharma
Paradise : Alighieri Dante
Paradise Lost : John Milton
Paradise Regained : John Milton
Param Vir–Our Heroes in Battle : Major Gen. Ian Cardozo
Past and Present : Thomas Carlyle
Past Forward : G. R. Narayanan
Path to Power : Margaret Thatcher
Pavilion of Women : Pearl S. Buck
Pay the Devil : Jack Higgins
Peculiar Music :Emily Bronte
People Like Us : Pawan Kumar Verma
Perceptions, Emotions Sensibilities : Tapan Raychaudhuri
Perfect Hostage–A Life of Aung San
Suu Kyi : Justin Wintle
Perils of Democracy : P. C. Alexander
Personal Injuries : Scot Turow
Perspectives on Indian National Movement; Selected Corres­pondence of Lala Lajpat Rai :
Dr. Joginder Singh Dhanki
Persuasion : Jane Austen
Peter Pan : J. M. Barrie
Philosophical Investigations : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Pickwick Papers : Charles Dickens
Pillow Problems and the Tangled Tale : Lewis Carroll
Pinjar : Amrita Pritam
Plans for Departure : Nayantata Sehgal
Platform : Michael Houellebecq
Platform No. Chaar : Dr. Himanshi Shelat
Pleading Guilty : Scott Turow
PMO Diary-I, Prelude Emergency : B. N. Tandon
Point of Origin : Patricia Cornwell
Poison Belt : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Politics : Aristotle
Portrait of India : Ved Mehta
Post Office : Rabindranath Tagore
Power and Glory : Graham Greene
Power of Movement in Plants : Charles Darwin
Power That Be : David Halberstan
Prateeksha : Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Pratham Pratishruti : .Ashapurna Devi
Prelude : William Wordsworth
Prem Pachisi : Munshi Prem Chand
Premonitions : P. N. Haksar
Preparing for the Twentieth Century : Paul Kennedy
Press Freedom–The Indian Story : K. G. Joglekar
Price of Partition : Rafiq Zakaria
Price of Power–Kissingerin the Nixon White House : Seymour M. Hersh
Pride and Prejudice : Jane Austen
Princess in Love : Ann Pasternak
Principia : Isaac Newton
Prison and Chocolate Cake : Nayantara Sehgal
Prison Diary : Jayaprakash Narayan
Prithviraj Raso : Chandra Bardai
Profiles & Letters : K. Natwar Singh
Promises to Keep : Chester Bowels'
Prospects for Democracy in Asia : Tatu Vanhanen
Pulsating Presence of a Painful Past : Taisha Abraham
Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood : K. P. S. Gill
Purgatory : Alighieri Dante
Pygmalion : George Bernard Shaw
Pyramids of Sacrifice : Peter L. Berger

Q

Quarantene : Jim Crass
Quest for Conscience : Madhu Dandvate

R

Rabbit, Run : John Updika
Radharani : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Raga Mala–Autobiography of Ravi Shankar : George Harrison
Rage of Angels : Sydney Sheldon
Raghuvamsa : Kalidas
Rags to Riches : M. G. Muthu
Ragtime : E. L. Doctorow
Rahul Dravid–A Biography : Vedam Jaishankar
Rains Came : Louis Bromefieid
Raj Kapoor Speaks : Ritu Nanda
Rajtarangini : Kalhana
Raj–The Making & Unmaking of British India : Lawrence James
Ram Charita Manas : Twsidas
Ramanujar : Dr. Indira Parthasarathy
Ramayana : Maharishi Valmiki
Rangbhoomi : Munshi Prem Chand
Rang-e-Shairi : Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri
Rape of Bangladesh : Anthony Mascarenhas
Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)–An Undeniable History of Photographs : SIll Young
Ratnavali : Harsha Vardhan
Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) : Gulzar
Razor's Edge : W Somerset Maugham
Real Time : Amit Chaudhuri
Rebirth : Leonid Brezhnev
Red and Black : Stendhal
Red Star Over China : Edgar Snow
Rediscovering Asia : Prakash Nanda
Rediscovering Dharavi : Kalpana Sharma
Rediscovering Gandhi : Yogesh Chadha
Reflections on the French Revolution : Edmund Burke
Regional Security in South Asia–The Ethno-Sectarian Dimensions : Muchkund Dubey & Nancy Jetly
Remembering Babylon : David Malouf
Reminiscences : Thomas Carlyle
Reminiscences of the Nehru Age : M. O. Mathai
Remorseful Day : Colin Dexter
Rendezvous with Rama : Arthur C. Clark
Reprieve : Jean Paul Sartre
Republic : Plato
Resurrection : Leo Tolstoy
Rethinking Early Modern India : Richard B. Barnett (Ed.)
Return of the Aryans : Bhagwan S. Gidwani
Returning to the Source : Acharya Rajneesh
Revenge and Reconciliation–Understanding South Asian History : Rajmohan Gandhi
Reverse Sweep–Confessions of a Cricket Junkie : Gautam Bhimani
Revolutionary Wealth : Alvin and Heidi Toffler
Rich Like Us : Nayantara Sehgal
Riding the Nuclear Tiger : N. Ram
Riding the Storm : Harold MacMillan
Rights of Man : Thomas Paine
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers : Paul Kennedy
Ritu Ka Pehla Phool : Vijendra
Ritu Samhara : Kalidas
Road to Folly : Leslie Ford
Road to Freedom : K. K. Khullar
Romantics : Pankaj Mishra
Romeo and Juliet : William Shakespeare
Room at the Top : John Braine Roots
Routine Violence : Gyanendra Pandey
Rubaiyat : Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat-i-Omar Khayyam : Edward Fitzgerald
Rukh Te Rishi : Harbhajan Singh
Runaway Jury : John Grisham

S

Saaket : Maithili Sharan Gupt
Sacked or Sunk ? Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat : Brigadier R. P. Singh & Comdre Ranjit B. Rao
Sacred Games: Vikram Chandra
Sadar-i-Riyasat : Karan Singh
Saddam's Bomb : Shyam Bhatia and Daniel McGrory
Saket : Maithili Sharan Gupt
Sakharam Binder : Vijay Tendulkar
Samler's Planet : Saul Bellow
Sanctuary : William Faulkner
Sands of Time : Sidney Sheldon
Santa Evita : Tomas Eloymartinez
Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims : Rafiq Zakaria
Satanic Verses : Salman Rushdie
Satyartha Prakash : Swami Dayanand
Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists : Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales
Saving Faith : David Baldacci
Savitri : Aurobindo Ghosh
Scarred–Experiments with Violence in Gujarat : Dionne Bunsha
Scenes from a Writer's Life : Ruskin Bond
Sceptred Flute : Sarojini Naidu
Schindler's List : Thomas Keneally
Scholar Extraordinary : Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Second Wind : Dick Francis
Secret Agent : Joseph Conrad
Sense and Sensibility : Jane Austen
Sesame and Lilies : John Ruskin
Seshan–An Intimate Story : K. Govindan Kutty
Seven Lamps of Architecture : John Ruskin
Seven Summers : Mulk Raj Anand
Sex, Art and American Culture : Camille Paglia
Shadow from Ladakh : Bhabani Bhattacharya
Shadow Line : Joseph Conrad
Shadow of a Princess : Patrick Jephson
Shahnama : Firdausi
Shakuntala : Kalidas
Shalimar : Manohar Malgonkar
Shalimar The Clown : Salman Rushdie
Shall We Tell the President ? : Jeffrey Archer
Shame : Salman Rushdie
Shape of Things to Come : H. G. Wells
She Stoops to Conquer : Oliver Goldsmith
Sher-e-Shor Angez : Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Ship of Fools : Katherine Anne Porter
Shivaji, The Great Patriot : Lala Lajpat Rai
Shivaji–Hindu King of Islamic India : James Laine
Siddharta : Hermann Hesse
Silas Marner : George Eliot
Silent Spring : Rachel Carson
Single & Single : John Le Carre
Single in the City–The Independent Woman's Handbook : Sunny Singh
Six Characters in Search of an Author : Luigi Pirandello
Slaughter House Five : Kurt Vanuegut
Slumming India : Gita Dewan Verma
Small Island : Andrea Levy
Small Land : Leonid Brezhnev
Small Remedies : Shashi Deshpande
Smell : Radhika Jha
Snakes & Ladders–A View of Modern India : Gita Mehta
Snow Country : Yasunari Kawabata
Social Justice & the Constitution : Ajit Bhattacharjea
Socialite Evenings : Shobhaa De
Sohrab and Rustam : Matthew Arnold
Sole Survivor : Derek Hansen
Something Barely Remembered : Susan Visvanathan
Song of Solomon : Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers : D. H. Lawrence
Soul And Structure of Governance in India : Jagmohan
Soul Mountain : Gao Xingjian Mabel Lee
South Asia on a Nuclear Fuse : Praful Bidwai & Achin Vanaik
South from the Limpopo; Travels Through South Africa : Dervla Murphy
South-East Asia on a Shoestring : Hugh Finlay
Soz-i-Watan : Munshi Prem Chand
Special Tests–The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness–A Soviet Spymaster : Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov
Speed Post : Shobhaa De
Spirit of the Age : William Hazlitt
Spouse : Shobhaa De
Spy Catcher : Peter Wright
St. Cyril Road : Amit Chaudhuri
St. Joan : George Bernard Shaw
Stability in South Asia : Ashley J. Tellis
Stalin : Edvard Radzinsky
Starry Nights : Shobhaa De
Stars of New Curfew : Ben Okri
Stolen Harvest : Vandana Shiva
Stopping by Woods : Robert Frost
Storm in the Sea Wind–Ambani Vs Ambani : Alam Srinivas
Story of My Life : Moshe Dayan
Story of Real Man : Nikolayev Polevoi
Straight From Heart : Kapil Dev
Strangers and Brothers Omnibus : C. P. Snow
Street Lawyer : John Grisham
Strife : John Galsworthy
Stripped Steel : N. K. Singh
Struggles of Indian Federalism : Bonica Aleaz
Studies in the Psychology of Sex : Havelock Ellis
Subsidies–A Bottomless Bucket : K. S. Ramachandran
Sula : Toni Morrison
Sultry Days : Shobhaa De
Summa Theologica : Thomas Aquinas
Summer Sisters : Judy Bloom
Sun Stone : Octavio Paz
Sunny Days : Sunil Gavaskar
Surrender at Dacca : Lt. Gen. J. F.R. Jacob
Surviving Men : Shobhaa De
Surviving Women : Jerry Pinto
Swapnavasvadatta : Bhasa

T

2003 World Cup Cricket–Action Replay1983 : Rahul Sehgal
Tahqiq-i-Hind : Alberuni
Tales from Shakespeare : Charles Lamb
Tales of Sherlock Holmes : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Taliban-Islam-Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia : Ahmed Rashid
Talisman : Sir Walter Scott
Tar Baby : Toni Morrison
Tarkash : Javed Akhtar
Tarzan of the Apes : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tears of Renewal : Henry Kissinger
Tehriq-e-Mujahideen : Dr. Sadiq Hussain
Temple Tiger : Jim Corbett
Temptations of the West–How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond : Pankaj Mishra
Tess of D'Urbervilles : Thomas Hardy
Thank You, Jeeves : P. G. Wodehouse
The 21st Century Ambassador : Kishan S. Rana
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Mark Twain
The Affairs : C. P. Snow
The Affluent Society : J. K. Galbraith
The Afghan Turmoil–Changing Equations : Sreedhar & Mahendra Dev
The Age of Extremes : Eric Hobsbawm
The Agenda–Inside the Clinton White House : Bob Woodward
The Agony and the Ecstasy : Irving Stone
The Alchemy of Desire : Tarun J. Tejpal
The Animal Farm : George Orwell
The Argumentative Indian : Dr. Amartya Sen
The Asian Elephant-A Natural
History : J. C. Daniel
The Assassination : K. Mohandas
The August Coup : Mikhail S. Gorbachev
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian : Nirad C. Chaudhuri
The A-Z of Bradman : Alan Eason
The Banyan Tree : Hugh Tinker
The Beach Tree : Pearl S. Buck
The Beauty of These Present
Things : Avtar Singh.
The Believers : Abdul Sultan P. P.
The Betrayal of East Pakistan : Lt. General A. A. K. Niazi
The Big Fisherman : Lloyd C. Douglas
The Big Idea : Robert Jones
The Birth of Europe : Robert S. Lopez
The Black Arrow : Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Economy in India : Arun Kumar
The Black Pharaoh : Christian Jacq
The Blackwater Lightship : Colm Toibin
The Blessing : Jude Deveraux
The Blind Assasin : Margaret Atwood
The Blue Bedspread : Raj Kamal Jha
The Book I Won't Be Writing And Other Essays : H. Y. Sharda Prasad
The Book of Shadows : Namita Gokhale
The Brethren : John Grisham
The Bride's Book of Beauty : Mulk Raj Anand
The British Conquest and Dominion of India : Penderal Moon
The Bubble : Mulk Raj Anand
The Buddha & The Terrorist : Satish Kumar
The Butcher of Amritsar; Nigel Collett
The Calcutta Chromosome : Amitav Ghosh
The Canterbury Tales : Geoffery Chaucer
The Cardinal : Henry Morton Robinson
The Career & Legend of Vasco de Gama : Sanjay Submmanyam
The Castle : Franz Kafka
The Changing Global Order : World Leaders Reflect : Nathan Gardels
The Changing World of the Executive : Peter Drucker
The Cinemas of India : Yves Thoraval
The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order : Samuel Huntington
The Class : Erich Segal
The Clown : Heinrich Boll
The Cocktail Party : T. S. Eliot
The Commitments : Roddy Doyle
The Company of Women : Khushwant Singh
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater : Thomas De Quincy
The Confidential Clerk : T. S. Eliot
The Conservationist : Nadine Gordimer
The Contemporary Conservative : Dhiren Bhagat
The Corrupt Society : Chandan Mitra
The Count of Monte Cristo : Alexander Dumas
The Coup : John Updike
The Crisis in India : Ronald Segal
The Critique of Pure Reason : Immanuel Kant
The Crown and the Loincloth : Chaman Nahal
The Crown of Wild Olive : John Ruskin
The Cutting Edge : Javed Miandad
The Dangerous Summer : Ernest Hemingway
The Dark Room : R. K. Narayan
The Dark Side of Camelot : Seymore Hersh
The Day in Shadow : Nayantara Sehgal
The Day of the Jackal : Frederick Forsyth