Index
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Abdullah, Muhammad 101
Adivasis 78
Advani, L K 41, 43, 44
Ahmed, Zubair 163, 170
AIADMK 60–1
Akali Dal 40, 60
All India Forward Bloc 60
Ambani, Anil 154
Ambani, Mukesh 139, 140, 144, 153–5
Ambedkar, Dr Bimrao 63, 75, 77, 79, 91, 124
Amritsar 90
Anand, Vishwanath 115
Andhra Pradesh 48
Anwar, Tariq 57
Aptech 167–8
Arcelor 22
Art of Living Foundation 68, 69
Asia Development Bank 54
Asoka 93, 245
Assam 84
Awami League 99
Ayodhya 41, 43, 44, 45, 49, 59, 84
Babri Masjid mosque, Ayodhya 41, 43, 44, 45, 49, 59, 84
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 33, 40, 60
Bajaj 21
Bangalore 3, 27, 158, 176, 182–3, 186, 191
Bangladesh 99–100, 126
Being Indian (Varma) 8, 86, 184
Bengal 99–100
East 98, 99, 100
West 48, 84, 100, 131
Bhakti 74
Bharat Forge 22
Bharatiya Janata Party see BJP Bhatia, Sabeer 177
Bhindranwale, Sant Jarnail Singh 90
Bhotmange family 76–7
Bhudevi 67
Bhutto, Ali 100
Bihar 80–2, 92, 98, 168
Birla 142
BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) 35–6, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 129, 190
BMW 23, 28
Bollywood 141, 143, 144, 145–8
Borlung, Norman 130
Boston Consulting Group 22
Brahman 65, 66
Brahmins 32, 71, 83
Branson, Richard 11
Buddhism 90–3
Bush, George W. 2, 111, 113
Cavin Kare 24
Chandra, Subhash 24
Chavez, Hugo 114
Chennai 23, 27, 117, 131, 133, 155, 158
China 13, 15, 122, 132, 191
Churchill, Winston 6
Communism 57, 61
Communist Party of India (CPI) 60
Corus 19, 21
dabbawallahs 149
Dalai Lama 91, 180
Dalit Panthers 75
Dalits 31, 32, 40, 53, 60, 75–6, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 86, 91, 124
Delhi, New 27, 34, 102, 104, 105, 155, 156–8, 160, 191, 193
Devi, Rabri 81
Dham, Vinod 177
Dharma 63–4, 65, 66, 69, 89
Dikshit, Sheila 30, 156
DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) 58, 59
Durga 67
Essar 160
Fernandes, George 49
Ford 28
Gandhi, Indira 2, 39–40, 42, 90, 213, 214–16
Gandhi, Mahatma 7, 8, 37, 42, 75, 97, 120–1, 141, 165, 180, 210–12, 213
Gandhi, Rajiv 33, 37
Gandhi, Sonia 46, 52–3, 58, 77
Ganesh 67
Ganga River 7–8, 70
Garewal, Simi 139
Garuda 67
General Election
1954 99
1996 45
1998 46
2004 47, 52, 56, 59, 129
General Electric 27
Goyal, Naresh 24–5
Gujarat 45, 48, 51–2, 84–5, 86, 103, 159
Gulf War 1991 13
Gupta 71
Harappan culture 49–50, 195–7
Harijan 75
Hedgewar, K B 42
Hindalco 22
Hinduism
caste and see caste – no references to ‘caste’ dharma 63–4, 65, 66, 69, 89
gods 66–7
history of 63–7, 50–4
Islam and 85–6, 96–9
Kumbh Mela 72–3
leaders 68–9
nationalism and politics 9, 37, 40, 42–53, 61
temples 70–1
Varnas and Jatis 71–2, 73
Vedas 65–6
Hotmail 171
Human Development Index (HDI) 127, 132, 192
Hyderabad 27, 30, 99, 158, 159, 176
Hyundai 23, 28
India
architecture 235–7
art 233–5
average income 123, 124
background of 195–249
birth rate 123
caste system 34, 69–72, 73–9, 172, 178
cities 139–61
climate and natural disasters 48, 218–21
corruption 29–30, 33–6, 48–9, 156
cutting edge 175–87
dance 231–3
death rate 123
diaspora 3
economy 3, 11–30, 123–31, 175–87
environment 23, 30, 114–15, 221–3
farming see India: village life film 143, 144, 145–8, 231
future of 189–93
government and politics 9, 31–61
holidays in 252
independence (see also India: partition) 85, 97, 212–14, 240–1
infant mortality 123
infrastructure 12, 25–7, 156–7
landscape 216–18
languages 226–7
life expectancy 123
literacy rates 123, 127, 128 literature 237–41
manufacturing 21–4
maps of vii, 119, 127, 128, 142 music 7–8, 228–31
nuclear programme 2, 5, 106, 112–13, 189
outsourcing and 3, 185–7
partition (see also India: independence) 85, 97, 212–14, 240–1
philosophy 6
population 3, 41, 119, 120, 132, 142, 191–2
poverty 5, 126–7, 129, 192–3
religion and family 63–93, 247–8
space race 5
Standard Time 251–2
technology sector 16–17, 75, 142, 149, 150, 167–8, 175–87 ‘unorganised sector’ 18
U.S. attitude towards 1–2, 111–15
village life 117–37
visiting 246–51
websites, useful 253
wildlife 223–6
youth 163–74
Indian National Congress Party 36–7, 39, 45–6, 53, 56, 58–59, 96–7, 113
IndoPak Wars 100, 101, 103
Infosys 167, 168, 175–6, 185, 186–7
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 13, 54
In Spite of the Gods (Luce) 35, 68, 156
Islam 71, 83–9, 95–101
Islamiya Relief Committee 52
Information Technology 16–17, 75, 142, 149, 150, 167–8 175–87
Jammu 84
Jatis 71–2, 73
Jayalalitha 59–60
Jinnah, Mohammad Ali 44, 97
Joshi, Murli Manohar 50
Jugaad 22–3
Junagadh 99
Kalam, A P J Abdul 56
Kali 67
Kama Sutra 70
Kanakia, Hemant 176
Kanpur 118, 159
Kashmir 52, 84, 96, 100–1, 102, 103, 104–5
Kerala 33, 84
Khalistan 90
Khan, General Ayub 100, 103
Khan, General Yahya 100
Khosla, Vinod 176
Kissinger, Henry 2
Kolkata 117, 155, 158
Koshika 168
Krishna 66
Kshatriyas 71
Kumar, Nitish 81
Kumbh Mela 72–3
Lakshmi 67
Lehtela, Jukka 24 ‘Licence Raj’ 13, 15, 18, 45–6, 53
Lok Dal 41
Lok Sabha 52, 57, 86, 105
Lucknow 86
Macaulay, Thomas 6
Mahabharata 45, 50, 239
Maharashtra 59, 76–7
Mahindra & Mahindra 23
Mahmud of Ghazni 88
Malraux, André 6
Mayawati 32, 53
Microsoft 183
Mirza, Sania 166–7
Mittal, Lakshi 22
Modi, Narendra 51
Moser Baer 22
Mountbatten, Lord Louis 98
Mujibur, Sheikh 99
Mumbai 3, 26, 30, 45, 59, 77, 107, 117, 120, 139–55, 156, 176, 193
Murthy, Narayana 168, 176, 179–80
Musharraf, General 106, 107, 108
Muslims 71, 83–9, 95–101
Muslim League 97, 99
Nagpur 160
Naidu, Chandrababu 30, 59
Nanak, Guru 89
Narayanan, K R 78
Nashik 159
National Congress Party (NCP) 57–8
National Democratic Alliance (NDA) 56, 58
National Institute of Information Technology 167–8
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme 57, 129–30
Nehru, Jawaharlal 9, 15–16, 36–7, 38, 45, 48, 75, 84, 98, 101, 103
Nilekani, Nandan 175, 185 9/11 112
Nissan 23, 28
Nixon, Richard 2
Nokia 23, 171
Novelis 22
Orissa 23, 48, 70, 118
Pakistan 9, 44, 46, 47, 52, 96, 97–8, 99, 100–1, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106–10, 111, 112
Panjab 98
Parvati 67
Pawar, Sharad 57–8
Pentium chip 177
Posco 23
Prenji, Azim 176–7
Pune 159
Rajasthan 46, 103
Rama 67
Ramayana 45, 50, 67, 238–9
Ranganathan, C.K. 24
Rao, Narasimha 45, 54–5
Rashtriya Janata Dal 58–59, 60
Rawat, Shankar Lal 124
Reliance 22, 139, 154, 160
Renault 23, 28
Reservation System 76, 78–9, 82
Reserve Bank of India 11, 54, 180
Rice, Condoleezza 1
Rig Veda 69–70
Roy, Arundhati 46
RSS 42–3, 44, 69, 84
Rushdie, Salman 37
Sahakari Bhandar 155
Samajwadi 60
Sangma, P A 57
Sarasvati 67
Sarkar, Sir Jadunath 88
Sen, Amartya 6–7, 130, 131–3
Sena, Shiv 59
Shankar, Sri Sri Ravi 68–9
Sharif, Nawaz 107–8
Shiv Sena 84
Shiva 66, 67
Sikhs 89–90, 98
Singh, Gobind 89
Singh, Jaswant 124
Singh, Manmohan 2, 15, 27, 37, 38, 53, 54–5, 79, 82, 90, 95, 107, 109, 112, 113–14
Singh, Rajnath 44
Singh, V.P. 41, 59, 60
Sita 67
Sri Lanka 68
Sudras 71
Sufism 88
Sun Microsystems 176
Surat 117, 118, 159, 160–1
Suzuki 26
swadeshi 15
Tagore, Rabindranath 7, 117, 121
Tamil Nadu 58, 59, 82
Tata 19–20, 21, 142
Tata, Ratan 19–20
TCS 186
Tehelka.com 48–9
Telugu Desam 59
Tesco 156
Tetley 19
Thackeray, Bal 59
Thatcher, Margaret 57
Torrent Networks 176
tsunami 2004 82
Twain, Mark 6
United Nations (UN) 101, 114, 127
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) 56, 57
Upanishads 65
Uttar Pradesh 32, 33, 37, 48, 57, 60, 77, 84, 85–6, 98, 168
Vaishyas 71
Vajpayee, Atal 46, 59, 85, 105–6, 181
Varanasi 86
Varnas 71–2
Vedas 50, 65–6, 69–70, 71–2, 73
Vedic period 50, 197–9
Verma, Shatrunjay 181
Videocon 22
Vishnu 66, 67, 72, 93
Vishwa Hindu Parishad 43
Waldman, Amy 124
Wal-Mart 155, 156
Wipro 177, 186, 187
Witzel, Michael 50
Yadav, Lalu Prasad 41, 58, 79, 80–2