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  Briefe 1915-1939, 2 Bde.

  Zeugnisse aus einer bewegten Zeit: Tollers Briefe in einer großartig kommentierten Edition.Das Briefwerk Ernst Tollers, das erstmals aus hunderten Archiven in aller Welt zusammengetragen wurde, dokumentiert die Entwicklung des Schriftstellers, die Gedanken des Verfolgten und den unermüdlichen Einsatz des Politikers Toller.Von der Feldpostkarte aus dem Frankreich des Ersten Weltkriegs bis zu den letzten Briefen vor seinem Suizid im New Yorker Exil zeigt sich Tollers Korrespondenz zugleich als Zeitzeugnis, Tagebuch, Reisebericht und wissenschaftliches Arbeitsinstrument sowie als wichtiges Dokument des deutschen Exils und des Kampfs gegen den Nationalsozialismus.Mit einem Umfang von über 1600 Briefen, Postkarten und Telegrammen an einige der wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten des 20. Jahrhunderts erscheint nun die lang erwartete kommentierte Ausgabe von Tollers Briefen. Die Bände enthalten sowohl Korrespondenzen mit SchriftstellerInnen wie Hermann Hesse, Else Lasker-Schüler, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke und Romain Rolland als auch mit namhaften Personen des politischen und öffentlichen Lebens wie Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jawaharlal Nehru und Albert Einstein.

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  The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi (eBook, ePUB)

  A fascinating biography of Freda Bedi, an English woman who broke all the rules of gender, race, and religious background to become both a revolutionary in the fight for Indian independence and then a Buddhist icon. She was the first Western woman to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun-but that pioneering ordination was really just one in a life full of revolutionary acts. Freda Bedi (1911-1977) broke the rules of gender, race, and religion-in many cases before it was thought that the rules were ready to be challenged. She was at various times a force in the struggle for Indian independence, spiritual seeker, scholar, professor, journalist, author, social worker, wife, and mother of four children. She counted among her friends, colleagues, and teachers Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and many others. She was a woman of spiritual focus and compassion who was also not without contradictions. Vicki Mackenzie gives a nuanced view of Bedi and of the forces that shaped and motivated this complex and compelling figure.

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  Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Man for All Seasons , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 418min

  From being one of the earliest members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Vajpayee blossomed into a leading opposition MP by the late 1960s and went on to become External Affairs Minister in the short-lived Janata government and, finally in 1999, to head the first non-Congress government to complete a full term in office. That it was a coalition government made the feat all the more remarkable and testifies to the fact that though wedded to a right-wing political ideology, Vajpayee did not believe in the politics of exclusion. A protégé of Jana Sangh stalwarts like Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Vajpayee won the admiration of Jawaharlal Nehru, was consulted by his daughter Indira Gandhi - whom he never lacked the courage to criticize - and was befriended by fiery trade unionist George Fernandes even before they became political allies. He thus displayed an unusual ability to carry along all shades of political opinion - an ability that came to the fore when he headed the National Democratic Alliance government between 1999 and 2004. And behind this public persona was an unusual personal life, conducted with such dignity as to remain free of innuendo. In this book journalist Kingshuk Nag traces the political journey of this tall parliamentarian of over four decades, who was conferred the Bharat Ratna in December 2014. Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Man for All Seasons is a definitive account of the life and times of one of India's most illustrious non-Congress leaders. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Manish Dongardive. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028590/bk_adbl_028590_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Old Harrovians

  Old Harrovians ab 88.49 € als Taschenbuch: Winston Churchill Arthur Evans John William Strutt 3rd Baron Rayleigh Jawaharlal Nehru Robert Peel Joseph Banks Ronald Fisher Hussein of Jordan Stanley Baldwin Anthony Trollope Cary Elwes Harold Alexander. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,

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  The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 702min

  In December 2010 residents of Kalimpong, a town on the Indian border with Tibet, turned out en masse to welcome the Dalai Lama. It was only then they realized for the first time that the neighbor they knew as the noodle maker of Kalimpong was also the Dalai Lama's older brother. The Tibetan spiritual leader had come to visit the Gaden Tharpa Choling monastery and join his brother for lunch in the family compound. Gyalo Thondup has long lived out of the spotlight and hidden from view, but his whole life has been dedicated to the cause of his younger brother and Tibet. He served for decades as the Dalai Lama's special envoy, the trusted interlocutor between Tibet and foreign leaders from Chiang Kai-shek to Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai to Deng Xiaoping. Traveling the globe and meeting behind closed doors, Thondup has been an important witness to some of the epochal events of the 20th century. No one has a better grasp of the ongoing great game as the divergent interests of China, India, Russia, and the United States continue to play themselves out over the Tibetan plateau. Only the Dalai Lama himself has played a more important role in the political history of modern, tragedy-ridden Tibet. Indeed, the Dalai Lama's dramatic escape from Lhasa to exile in India would not have been possible without his brother's behind-the-scenes help. Now, together with Anne F. Thurston, who cowrote the international best seller The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Gyalo Thondup is finally telling his story. The settings are exotic - the Tibetan province of Amdo, where the two brothers spent their early childhood; Tibet's legendary capital of Lhasa; Nanjing, where Thondup received a Chinese education; Taiwan, where he fled when he could not return to Tibet; Calcutta, Delhi, and the Himalayan hill towns of India, where he finally made his home.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lane Nishikawa, Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007529/bk_blak_007529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Being the Other: The Muslim in India , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min

  'The clouds are moving ecstatically from Kashi to Mathura and the sky will remain covered with dense clouds as long as there is Krishna in Braj.' These lines were composed by Mohsin Kakorvi, an Urdu poet, to celebrate not Lord Krishna's birthday but that of the Prophet Muhammad. Awadh, the author's birthplace, was steeped in this exquisite confluence of cultures. Sadly, this glorious tradition has been systematically destroyed over the past century. In many ways, Awadh stood for everything that independent India could have become, a land in which people of different faiths co-existed peacefully and created a culture that drew upon the best that each community had to offer. Instead, what we have today is a pale shadow of the harmony that once existed. Everywhere there are incidents of sectarian murder, communal propaganda and divisive politics. And there seems to be no stopping the forces that are destroying the country. In this remarkable book, which is partly a memoir and partly an exploration of the various deliberate and inadvertent acts that have contributed to the othering of the 180 million Muslims in India, Saeed Naqvi looks at how the divisions between Muslims and Hindus began in the modern era. The British were the first to exploit these divisions between the communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the run-up to Independence, and its immediate aftermath, some of India's greatest leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and others, only served to drive the communities further apart. Successive governments, whether formed by the Congress or BJP, compounded the problem by failing to prevent (if not actively supporting) tragic events like communal riots in Gujarat (1969 and 2002), Bombay (1992, 1993), Muzaffarnagar (2013), the breaking of the Babri Masjid (1992) and so on. As a reporter, and editor, Naqvi covered all these events (with the exception of Partition), and in the book ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sundip Ved. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030103/bk_adbl_030103_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  India: A Portrait , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1032min

  A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul. Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India’s political, economic and social complexities. He reveals how a nation identified with some of the most wretched poverty on earth has simultaneously developed an envied culture of entrepreneurship (here are stories like that of C. K. Ranganathan, who trudged the streets of Cuddalore in the 1980s selling sample packets of shampoo and now employs more than one thousand people). And even more remarkably, French shows how, despite the ancient and persistent traditions of caste, as well as a mind-boggling number of ethnicities and languages, India has nevertheless managed to cohere, evolving into the world’s largest democracy, largely fulfilling Jawaharlal Nehru’s dream of a secular liberal order. French’s inquiry goes to the heart of all the puzzlements that modern India presents: Is this country actually rich or poor? Why has its Muslim population, the second largest on earth, resisted radicalization to such a considerable extent? Why do so many children of Indians who have succeeded in the West want to return “home,” despite never having lived in India? Will India become a natural ally of the West, a geostrategic counterweight to the illiberal rising powers China and Russia? To find the answers, French seeks out an astonishing range of characters: from Maoist revolutionaries to Mafia dons, from chained quarry laborers to self-made b ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Walter Dixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000601/bk_gdan_000601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Indian atheists

  Indian atheists ab 26.99 € als Taschenbuch: Jawaharlal Nehru Amartya Sen Arundhati Roy Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Baichung Bhutia Bhagat Singh Vinayak Damodar Savarkar M. Karunanidhi Jyoti Basu Ram Gopal Varma Sahir Ludhianvi Vijay Tendulkar Manabendra Nath Roy. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,

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  Kashmiri people

  Kashmiri people ab 40.49 € als Taschenbuch: Indira Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru Salman Rushdie Rajiv Gandhi Gita Sahgal Faisal Shahzad Muhammad Iqbal Fazal Mahmood Sheikh Abdullah Nawaz Sharif Raja Habib ur Rahman Khan Saadat Hasan Manto Abhinavagupta Hashim Qureshi. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,

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  Members of Constituent Assembly of India

  Members of Constituent Assembly of India ab 27.49 € als Taschenbuch: Jawaharlal Nehru Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Vallabhbhai Patel B. R. Ambedkar C. Rajagopalachari Ravishankar Shukla Abul Kalam Azad Sheikh Abdullah P. Subbarayan Jagjivan Ram Anugrah Narayan Sinha Krishna Sinha R. Venkataraman. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,

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