Vishnu's Crowded Temple India since the Great Rebellion by MariaMisra Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 2009 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15142-8, ISBN: 0-300-15142-X
"As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world’s most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its internationally competitive high-tech and software industries, India also contends with extremes of poverty, inequality, and political and religious violence. This accessible and vividly written ..."
"This is a study of the political and economic activities of an important group of British businessmen in India between 1850 and 1960. Though denounced by Indian nationalists as the economic arm of the British Raj, the firms of these `Managing Agents' seemed unassailable before the First World War. However, during the inter-war period they rapidly lost their commanding position to both Indian and other foreign competitors. Dr Misra argu ..."
Vishnu's Crowded Temple(1st Edition) India since the Great Rebellion by MariaMisra Hardcover, 592 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-13721-7, ISBN: 0-300-13721-4
"As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world’s most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its internationally competitive high-tech and software industries, India also contends with extremes of poverty, inequality, and political and religious violence. This accessible and vividly writt ..."
Vishnu's Crowded Temple(1st Edition) India Since The Great Rebellion by MariaMisra Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2007 by Allen Lane ISBN-13: 978-0-7139-9367-7, ISBN: 0-7139-9367-7
"There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. In recent years it has shed its popular image as a poor, tradition-bound backwater to stand poised on the threshold of super-power status, rivalled only by China as the greatest winner in the post-Cold War world order. In "Vishnu's Crowded Temple" Maria Misra has written the essential history to allow us to understand the fascinating historical trajectory of this e ..."
Vishnu's Crowded Temple India since the Great Rebellion by MariaMisra 535 Pages, Published 2007 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-14523-6, ISBN: 0-300-14523-3
"The massive East India Railway was put at the disposal of the military, its
workshops now devoted to fashioning tanks and guns. ... The 95,000-strong
Japanese forces were joined by 8000 INA men, but the combined army was ill-
supplied and ... The advance depended on an animal force of 12,000 horses,
3000 oxen and 1000 elephants, of which only the elephants survived. This beast-
borne army faced a British force overwhelmingly superior ..."
"The Bombay Chamber . . . therefore found it impossible to put forward a 63
unanimous view. Labour ... Rethinking Working Class History, 72—3; R.
Chandavarkar, The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies
and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 (Cambridge, 1994), 354-5. was
considered in official circles that the militancy of labour Business, the State, and
Development 157."
"With over a billion people, 21st-century India stands on the verge of being one of the world’s newest superpowers. In the sixty years since its independence, it has transformed into a modern nation with limitless resourcesyet it is also a nation of extremes. India embodies 15 official languages, over 166millionmobile phone users, and an economy that spans from traditional village farming to the cutting edge of new technology. From the ..."
The Britannica Guide to India A Comprehensive Introduction to the World’s Fastest Growing Country: A Comprehensive Introduction to the World's Fastest Growing Country (Britannica Guides) by Britannica Guides Staff, MariaMisra Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Robinson ISBN-13: 978-1-84529-820-3, ISBN: 1-84529-820-9
Vishnu's Crowded Temple India since the Great Rebellion by MariaMisra Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-282-35344-2, ISBN: 1-282-35344-6
Oxford Historical Monographs Business, Race, and Politics in British India, C. 1850-1960. Oxford Historical Monographs by MariaMisra Published 1999 ISBN-13: 978-1-280-53859-9, ISBN: 1-280-53859-7
Vishnu's Crowded Temple India Since the Great Rebellion. MariaMisra by MariaMisra Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2008 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028531-4, ISBN: 0-14-028531-8
"There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. From being a seemingly closed off, economically stagnant part of Asia, with intractable problems of poverty and population, India has in a short space of time reached an astonishing level of growth, taking with China the lion's share of the benefits from post-Cold War globalization. In VISHNU'S CROWDED TEMPLE, Maria Misra has written the essential history to allow ..."
Vishnu's Crowded Temple India Since the Great Rebellion by MariaMisra Ebook, 576 Pages, Published 2008 by Penguin Uk ISBN-13: 978-0-14-104091-2, ISBN: 0-14-104091-2
"In VISHNU'S CROWDED TEMPLE, Maria Misra has written the essential history to allow us to understand this extraordinary transformation."