It gives us immense pleasure to present this book, though small in size yet large enough in terms of contents. The book seeks to provide the readers a fresh, relevant and up-to-date mirror of an ever-evolving world. General Knowledge is of immense importance to the students growing up in today’s fast-paced media savvy generation where a million stories cross our paths daily. This book presents a concise and precise summary of significant topics for the readers to learn and relish.Th...

This encyclopedia is the best source of information and reference in a single volume, particularly for students of classes III to VIII. It provides the best of GK to its readers. Every piece of information is authentic - culled together from several areas of knowledge ranging from encyclopedias, fact books, year books, official government releases, internet and other reliable sources - and verified for accuracy.Salient Features:• The best reference book for students, teache...

India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices and textiles, paid for in gold—hence the enormous numbers of Roman g...

India is a vast country in Southern Asia and is the land of great natural diversity. A proud country that has been home to many civilizations, religions and peoples over the centuries. The earliest civilization in the Indian subcontinent grew around Harappa and Indus Valley.

This is the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph over tyranny. This is the story of Mahatma Gandhi, a man who owned nothing-and gained everything.

The reason behind Sardar Patel’s success in his advocacy was that of his remarkable reasoning and argument power and his sharp wit. He would present any matter in a very simple manner and then suddenly would draw such conclusions that the entire scenario would take a turn. It was a rule of the Britishers, for whom it was very normal to trap people in wrong cases and thereby punish them for it. They used to normally entangle those people whom they would doubt them of being secret agents, bu...

The story goes, apocryphal perhaps, that one day the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, told his foreign minister that the country's name must be changed to Idi, and he should inform the UN and all other international bodies. A week passed. President Amin then summoned the minister and asked, 'Did you carry out my orders?' He replied saying that there was a problem. 'What problem?' the president inquired. 'Your Excellency, there is a country called Cyprus. The people are called Cypriots. If Ugand...

 About Indiastat Top 10 Yearbook – 2012 This book is a source of interesting and amazing key statistical facts about India and the world. It touches almost all socio-economic aspects of the country. A wide range of fascinating facts and figures about India and the world have been compiled in a unique fashion to answer the many questions nowhere answered before. The comparative facts of India and the world and India’s position in the world would serve as an ey...

Biographies Through Postage Stamps is a Collector's Edition series that show cases great men from history who appeared in postage stamps of different countries. Current Edition "290 Indian Personalities" depicts short biographies of Indian Faces who appeared on Indian postage stamps during different phases of history. It covers 290 figures from Indian history covering domains like art, science, politics, social reform and sports.

Journey of Survivors is one book that sums up the entire 70,000-year journey of India and her people. The book contains not just history, but also some interesting legends like how the Asuras were once our god, the legendary kingdom of women in the Himalayas, Alexanders search for somras, the bloody coins of Jesus that made its way into India and how Genghis Khan helped cool the earth. It discusses interesting facts like Chanakyas cunning policies, science in ancient India, the myth of Ind...

Since the end of British rule in 1947, India has declined into the largest failed state in the history of nations. Starting from the first page - The Truth is that India’s leadership is the world’s most DEGENERATE, DUPLICITOUS and DEBAUCHED ruling class to have ever existed – carnage is happening today in India the likes of which has not been seen in thousands of years. All this exists under an Illusion of harmony and accord while WE in Western societies go about our daily lives.

When the state of Andhra Pradesh was formed in 1956, the people of Telangana (the region ruled by the Nizams at the time of independence) did not want to be a part of it, fearing that they would be displaced by the more enterprising and better educated migrants from the Andhra region. In 1969, massive agitations for a separate Telangana left 400 people dead but the movement petered out. With the creation of new states like Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Uttaranchal in 2000, the battle for Tela...