Meghnad Desai Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

The Great War at Kurukshetra is over.Eighteen lakh men have died. But the winners are not happy. Yudhishthira andhis brothers are gripped with sorrow over what they have done. Who will bearthe child to continue the Kuru clan? Uttara? Will Asvatthama also destroy thechild that she is carrying? Hastinapuris barren of men of any age. It is the King's dharma to help every virgin inthe kingdom, cross into womanhood. But Yudhishthira fails. There is now adharmic crisis. The young woman, who will bear the child, must be found anotherking for the task before sunrise. Else, the kingdom will suffer even more. Whocan solve the problem? Krishna, who else! Or rather he knows such a king who can. It is Maya. But Maya declines to follow the king'sdharma. His refusal plunges the Kuru kingdom, and even Krishna himself, intoanother crisis. Whois Maya? Can Krishna eventually win him over? Mayabharata is a fascinating narration of the post-Mahabharata story, aided bythe deployment of the author's imaginative and creative powers.

In the face of Covid-19, how do we reinvent the way that economic policies are formed? This is a remarkable thesis by one of the foremost political economists of our time. Desai argues his point persuasively, with great erudition, insisting that in the twenty-first century, humanity must return to economics.

Set in the tumultuous eighteenth century India, the story unfolds during the decline of the Mughal Empire amidst civil unrest. Savitri, the Chief Minister's daughter, marries into a wealthy merchant family, adopting the name Anamika. Her life appears secure as she is expected to bear children and uphold her husband's legacy. However, the backdrop of political chaos and the struggle for power complicates her future, revealing the harsh realities of survival and ambition in a fractured society.

What makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting, narratives together for more than sixty years? What has allowed India to sustain its commitment to the democratic process, given its location in a region that is largely undemocratic? In this magisterial analysis of the last five hundred years of Indian history, Meghnad Desai looks at India's colonial past, its struggle for independence and its many contemporary conundrums, to discover answers to the questions that have confronted India-watchers for decades. Meghnad Desai draws on a wealth of sources to illuminate India's journey to the twenty-first century. Whether it is an examination of British parliamentary debates on the question of India's independence, or the liberalization of the economy after decades of licence-permit raj, or the state's complicity in the Gujarat riots, Meghnad Desai's original, occasionally iconoclastic, approach to seemingly settled arguments makes The Rediscovery of India a path-breaking and comprehensive account of India's past and present.