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India is the world`s largest democracy and its seventh biggest country with one-sixth of the global population, comprising an unparallelled diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups. India is also the world`s fourth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity and even as it gains recognition as an emerging modern power, India`s rich civilization goes back many thousands of years.
The scope of this concise encyclopedia encompasses important people, places, and events in India`s past and present (till 2004), as well as entries on the country`s different schools of philosophy, culture, religious leaders, important branches of government, and the economy. The author`s masterly introduction provides a rich overview with many an insight and is supplemented by a chronology, maps, and an extensive bibliography.
With more than two hundred new entries — most pertaining to the recent years — the second edition captures the rapidly evolving situation without neglecting the country`s ancient past.
ISBN - 9788170947479 / 8170947472
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Pages : 904
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