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Watch The Review Recommended: Young Adult and Adult A short read a on the life of the last greatest Mughal . The greatest military tactician , hard worker , pious Aurangzeb . It reads a little into his life since he did the lions share for the empire and conquered the unconquerable deccan for a small duration. An insight into his
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Watch The Review Recommended: Young Adult and Adult A beautiful book to help children love history. A good book to study medieval history with respect to the Mughal Empire and all the battles . It deals with history from Babur to Aurangzeb the five great Mughals .It was very insightful to learn lesser known facts about them. Like how Babur meticulously
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Recommended: Family Click Here to Watch the Video These Field guides are affordable and worth having handy . A Naturalist’s Guide to the Butterflies of India by Peter Smetacek Since we have a lot of butterfly where we live we thought this would be a good addition .A Gorgeous Book to help identify butterflies. Great information and beautiful pictures .
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Recommended :Young Adults Amartya Sen is a Nobel prize winning economist.And hence I was interested to read this book ,the book consists of his essays and his exploration on India’s past and present. I grew up in a very tolerant household where we were encouraged to think, question and talk different ideas .Even though Mr Sen holds a very different world
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Recommended : Middle Schoolers and above Stories compiled for a western audience while could still be nostalgic to an Indian.This is compilation from ancient Indian texts like Jatakas , Panchatantra and other fables.A collection of 25 storiesThe stories of talking animals and supernatural adventures are very much Indian in style.The most famliar of all is the talkative tortoise . Watch the
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Recommended : High school,Young Adults, Adults Napoleon was one of the greatest military leaders of all time.And hence my curiosity was piqued.My favorite part of the book was the beginnings of Napoleon. Napoleon was born in Corsica.His rise to power began at end of the french revolution.He was ambitious leader. His tenacity ,his ability to work alongside his men ,His
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Recommended : High school,Young Adults, Adults Alexander the Great is a wonderful history read.Jacob abbot does a great job keeping the book to the point and concise.The book has maps to trace Alexander’s journey Alexander was born at 356 bc in Macedonia.crowned at 20 ,his military career spanned for 12 years.He had created one of the worlds largest empire at
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Recommended age: 8 years and up An interesting book to understand Indian art and the history behind the art.A great book for both adults and children.Contains maps and information on museums where one can find the art of particular era and dynasty. Begins with the cave paintings in Madhya Pradesh to the European style paintings during British era.It contains beautiful
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Recommended age: 8 years and up Beautiful book to explain Indian history to a young child.It contains maps, drawings , fascinating information and links to additional information on each topic. Subhadra Sen Gupta does a wonderful job of captivating a young child’s imagination ,narrating history in a manner that would be understandable for a young children.I thoroughly enjoyed the concise
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Recommended age: Upper Middle school and High school. This is valuable book for those interested into intensive and thorough reading into South Indian history. The book begins with sources that were taken into account to writing of history (coins ,rock edicts and writings by foreign travellers) Goes on to explain the Geography of the south Then moves to chronologically describe
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