{"product_id":"the-rediscovery-of-india-a-new-subcontinent","title":"The Rediscovery of India - A New Subcontinent","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Ansar Hussain Khan\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Orient Longman\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1999\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 351\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8125015957\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work considers the partition of India in 1947 to have been the most disastrous of political solutions for the subcontinent.  Tracing past history, the author shows how the Indian leaders were manipulated by the British into seeing it as the only solution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The harsh experience of the last fifty years must be used to put away the political weakness, which has brought India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to the brink of disintegration. A fresh solution has to be sought in the form of a confederation. A provocative book on the historical problems, which have acquired new dimensions in the contemporary political scene. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMEDIA COMMENTS: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rediscovery of India is a highly personal history that explores the origins of communalism and argues for a confederal reconstruction of the subcontinent. The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo book in recent times has been published on the subject of India with more insight, understanding, clear-headedness and is more intellectually honest than Ansar Hussain's The Rediscovery of India.  It is a book of the century.- The Round Table (London) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKhan makes an eloquent plea to all three states of the subcontinent to put in place appropriate confederal arrangements for the greater good of their billion-plus people.  No Muslim from the subcontinent after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad has pleaded his case so much elegance.- Seminar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFootfalls of Doubt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndian Ancestries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Baggage Train: Memories to Lay to Rest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Monkey Man (and his making)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Raj Gymkhana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoom Posts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMirror to 1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDragon's Teeth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoftly Spoken by Way of Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX I: Correspondence with Shri Jayaprakash Narayan\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX II: The Torment of India: Secularism\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX III: The Pursuit of Indianness\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX IV: Minute by Mr Macaulay\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX V: The System of Capitulations and Extra-territoriality\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX VI: The Truth of the Partition of the Punjab in August 1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Ansar Hussain Khan \/ Orient Longman \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153704448368,"sku":"8068","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/8068.jpg?v=1793912918","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-rediscovery-of-india-a-new-subcontinent","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}