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Tinderbox
The Past and Future of Pakistan
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2012
100 kr
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“Among many recent books on Pakistan, Mr. Akbar’s stands out….A fine and detailed history of Indian Muslim anger and insecurity.” — The Economist In Tinderbox , India’s leading journalist delivers a fascinating narrative history of Pakistan, chronicling the conflict between Muslim and Hindu …
Shade of Swords
Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity
Av M.J Akbar
Inbunden, 2002
2285 kr
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The Shade of Swords is the first cohesive history of Jihad, written by one of India's leading journalists and writers. In this paperback edition, updated to show how and why Saddam Hussein repositioned himself as a Jihadi against America, M.J. Akbar explains the struggle between Islam and …
Shade of Swords
Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity
Av M.J Akbar
Häftad, 2003
646 kr
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The Shade of Swords is the first cohesive history of Jihad, written by one of India's leading journalists and writers. In this paperback edition, updated to show how and why Saddam Hussein repositioned himself as a Jihadi against America, M.J. Akbar explains the struggle between Islam and …
Shade of Swords
Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity
Av M.J Akbar
E-bok, 2002
762 kr
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The Shade of Swords is the first cohesive history of Jihad, written by one of India's leading journalists and writers. In this paperback edition, updated to show how and why Saddam Hussein repositioned himself as a Jihadi against America, M.J. Akbar explains the struggle between Islam and …
Shade of Swords
Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity
Av M.J Akbar
E-bok, 2002
746 kr
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The Shade of Swords is the first cohesive history of Jihad, written by one of India's leading journalists and writers. In this paperback edition, updated to show how and why Saddam Hussein repositioned himself as a Jihadi against America, M.J. Akbar explains the struggle between Islam and …
Blood Brothers
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2012
114 kr
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Blood Brothers is M.J. Akbar's amazing story of three generations of a Muslim family - based on his own - and how they deal with the fluctuating contours of Hindu-Muslim relations. Telinipara, a small jute mill town some 30 miles north of Kolkata along the Hooghly, is a complex Rubik's Cube of …
Have Pen, Will Travel
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2010
116 kr
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Have Pen, Will Travel is a highly engaging collection of reportage and travel pieces that appeared originally in leading journalist and author M.J. Akbar's column, Byline. The intrepid author ambles - or sometimes jogs - through Africa, America, Asia and of course the innumerable corners of India …
Kashmir: Behind the Vale
Av MJ Akbar
E-bok, 2018
110 kr
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Kashmir lies at the edge of India's borders and at the heart of India's consciousness. It is not geography that is the issue; Kashmir also guards the frontiers of ideology. If there was a glow of hope in the deepening shadows of a bitter Partition, then it was Kashmir, whose people consciously …
India: The Seige Within
Av MJ Akbar
E-bok, 2018
110 kr
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ndia: The Siege Within is a non-fiction work by M J Akbar, who is the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and an influential journalist. He has authored many political non-fiction works like Kashmir Behind The Vale, Riot After Riot and Nehru: The Making Of India. M J Akbar …
Byline
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2004
111 kr
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Byline anthologises M.J. Akbar's finest writings over the last decade, bringing together essays that reflect the author's versatility and range. The book is divided into five seamless sections, each with its own identity, woven together by M.J. Akbar's delectably informal prose.'Travel' is the …
Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2003
108 kr
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The Shade of Swords: M.J. Akbar writes the first cohesive history of jihad. From the Prophet Muhammed to the presence of British and American troops in Afghanistan, and more recently in Iraq, Akbar shows how jihad's origins lie in the earliest consciousness of Muslims, how it thrives on complex …
Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar
Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2022
242 kr
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In July 1765 Robert Clive, in a letter to Sir Francis Sykes, compared Gomorrah favourably to Calcutta, then capital of British India. He wrote: ''I will pronounce Calcutta to be one of the most wicked places in the Universe.'' Drawing upon the letters, memoirs and journals of traders, travellers, …
Gandhi
A Life in Three Campaigns
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2023
298 kr
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, justly venerated as a Mahatma, dismantled the mightiest empire in world history through the inspirational power of three pivotal mass campaigns across two decades. In 1920 Gandhi liberated Indians from fear through the unprecedented mass mobilization of the …
After Me, Chaos
Astrology in the Mughal Empire
Av M.J. Akbar
Inbunden, 2025
271 kr
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This belief went back to pre-Islamic cultural roots and the bloodlines of Chengiz Khan, descendant of the mother goddess Alanqoa. Akbar created the formal position of Jotik Rai, or royal astrologer, a post held for a century by Brahmin pundits from Benares who were gifted their weight in gold and …
After Me, Chaos
Astrology in the Mughal Empire
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2025
326 kr
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The deep faith of Mughal kings in astrology has been hidden in plain sight, ignored by those who failed to understand its relevance. The evidence lies in original sources: commissioned biographies like Humayunnama and Akbarnama, autobiographies such as Baburnama and Tuzuk-i-Jahangir, records of …
Nehru
The Making of India
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2026
87 kr
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Jawaharlal Nehru's extraordinary life was divided into three phases. For nearly thirty years, he was a wealthy Anglophile from a privileged Kashmiri Brahmin family, before Mahatma Gandhi drew him into the dream of freedom, and made him a pillar of the struggle for independence from British rule. …
Gandhi's Hinduism the Struggle against Jinnah's Islam
Av M.J. Akbar
E-bok, 2020
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142 kr
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Gandhi, a devout Hindu, believed faith could nurture the civilizational harmony of India, a land where every religion had flourished. Jinnah, a political Muslim rather than a practicing believer, was determined to carve up a syncretic subcontinent in the name of Islam. His confidence came from a …
Gandhi
A Life in Three Campaigns
Av M.J. Akbar
Inbunden, 2023
314 kr
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, justly venerated as a Mahatma, dismantled the mightiest empire in world history through the inspirational power of three pivotal mass campaigns across two decades. In 1920 Gandhi liberated Indians from fear through the unprecedented mass mobilization of the …
