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Product: Insights from Rebel Sultans by Manu S Pillai in 15 mins Don’t have the time to read the complete book? Read the key insights and takeaways from this bestseller - Rebel Sultans by Manu S Pillai - in 15 mins or less.

Product: Bagi Sultan: Khilji Se Shivaji Tak Ka Deccan (Hindi Edition)

सन् 1707 में जब बादशाह औरंगज़ेब की मौत हुई, तो मुग़ल साम्राज्य में दरार आनी शुरू हो गई। ये दक्कन पर जीत का लालच था जिसने इस बादशाह की ताक़त सोख ली थी, और उसे उसके सबसे ख़तरनाक दुश्मनों के साथ टकराव के रास्ते पर डाल दिया था। आखिरकार, दक्कन ऐसी ज़मीन थी जो लोगों को चौंकाती थी। इसके ख़ज़ाने मशहूर थे, और इसके शासक आलीशान। ये रोमांच पैदा करने वाली ज़मीन थी जहाँ समुद्र पार करके हुनरमंद लोग आते थे। यहाँ आने वाले सैलानियों की मुलाकात यूरोपीय निशानेबाज़ों के दस्ते से हो सकती थी, जो सेना में भर्ती होने के लिए तैयार रहते थे,और उन्हें ऐसे डरावने किले दिख सकते थे जहाँ अफ्रीकी जागीरदारों ने सत्ता की ऊँचाई छूई थी। दक्कन के बाज़ारों में हीरे और मोतियों के ढेर पड़े रहते थे, जबकि इसके दरबारों में फ़ारसी और ë

Product: Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji In Rebel Sultans, Manu S. Pillai narrates the story of the Deccan from the close of the thirteenth century to the dawn of the eighteenth. Packed with riveting tales and compelling characters, this book takes us from the age of Alauddin Khilji to the ascent of Shivaji. We witness the dramatic rise and fall of
the Vijayanagar empire, even as we negotiate intrigues at the courts of the Bahmani kings and the Rebel Sultans who overthrew them. From Chand Bibi, a valorous queen stabbed to death, and Ibrahim II of Bijapur, a Muslim prince who venerated Hindu gods, to Malik Ambar, the Ethiopian warlord, and Krishnadeva Raya on Vijayanagar’s Diamond Throne – they all appear in these pages as we journey through one of the most arresting sweeps of Indian history.

Product: Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spiritualists, set up the Gita Press and Kalyan magazine. As of early 2014, Gita Press had sold close to 72 million copies of the Gita, 70 million copies of Tulsidas's works and 19 million copies of scriptures like the Puranas and Upanishads. And while most other journals of the period, whether religious, literary or political, survive only in press archives, Kalyan now has a circulation of over 200,000, and its English counterpart, Kalyana-Kalpataru, of over 100,000. Gita Press created an empire that spoke in a militant Hindu nationalist voice and imagined a quantifiable, reward-based piety. Almost every notable leader and prominent voice, including Mahatma Gandhi, was roped in to speak for the cause. Cow slaughter, Hindi as national language and the rejection of Hindustani, the Hindu Code Bill, the creation of Pakistan, India's secular Constitution: Kalyan and Kalyana-Kalpataru were the spokespersons of the Hindu position on these and other matters. Featuring an extraordinary cast of characters - buccaneering entrepreneurs and hustling editors, nationalist ideologues and religious fanatics - this is essential (and exciting) reading for our times.