Asia Audiobooks | History

Indian History: Facts and Opinions about the Punjab and the Kashmir Region

"This is a compilation of 2 different titles, which are about the following topics: 1: Punjab could be mainly in Pakistan at this moment, but the Punjabi people live and have resided in India also. As disputes emerged between the Indians and Pakistani, the border has moved from one area to another. Still, the Punjabi society is probably a vital aspect of India's history. Punjab is a geopolitical, cultural, and historic area in South Asia, situated in the northern area of the Indian subcontinent and incorporating parts of Pakistan and India. The area's limitations are ill-defined and based upon historic accounts. With time, the geographical definition of the name 'Punjab' has moved. It described a really minimal terrain between the Indus and the Sutlej rivers at the time of the Mughal Empire's 16th century reign. 2: Kashmir is the Indian subcontinent's northern most geographical area. It is quite different from the rest of India. And till the mid-nineteenth century, 'Kashmir' only described the Kashmir Valley, which lies between the Great Mountain Ranges and the Pir Panjal Variety. Today, the word describes the Indian-controlled parts of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, and also the Pakistani-controlled terrain of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the Chinese-controlled areas of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram System. The Kashmir area ended up being a crucial center of Hinduism and later Buddhism in the first centuries, while Kashmir Shaivism developed later, in the ninth century. This is why so many people attribute significant spiritual meaning to the area. It is no wonder, therefore, that some travelers go to this specific area for spiritual purposes. In this book, we will explore the history of Kashmir, its significance, and the current circumstances."

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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Huns and Mongols: Historical Facts about Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun

"This is a compilation of 2 different titles, which are about the following topics: 1: You may have heard about him: Attila the Hun. Let's discover who this individual actually was and why he has such a bad track record of being a callous, aggressive conqueror in the first millennium after Christ. Attila the Hun was the ruler of the Huns from the year 434 till his death in the month of March in the year 453. Also, he was the leader of a tribal realm which consisted mainly of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans and Bulgars, to name a few, in Central Europe and in Eastern Europe. In this guide, you will learn more about the wars, his enemies, the battles around Rome, his life, his death, and his legacy. Some of the information about his has been falsely attributed to certain details because of how much has been lost in historical records, but we can still get a slightly accurate image of who he was, what he did, and why he has become such an infamous figure. 2: Genghis Khan was the Mongol emperor who has expanded his region to the biggest empire on the face of the earth ever. His empire stretched from East Asia all the way to various European countries, the Middle East, and beyond. What made Genghis Khan so successful? Was he a brute, rapist, and pillaging dictator, or did he have a tolerant side as well? How do the people in Mongolia see him, or the people in China? All o these questions and more will be answered in this comprehensive overview of the history of Genghis Khan. You will learn more about his early life, his relationships, marriage, families and children, his attacks, his unification of the Mongolian Federations, his death, succession, and the continuing of the Mongolian Empire after his death."

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

"‘An important contribution … Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic – and which remain deeply relevant and contentious today’ Shashi Tharoor, author of Inglorious Empire A history of Nehru that dives deep into the debates of his era to understand his ideology – and that of his contemporaries and opponents, asking what India would look like had another bold young mind with fiercely held views led during the country’s formative years of independence. Sixty years after the death of Jawaharal Nehru, the independence activist and first prime minister of India continues to be deified and vilified in equal measure. And still in contemporary political debate, the ideological spectrum remains defined by the degree of divergence from Nehru’s ideas. With the Nehruvian ideals increasingly juxtaposed against the positions of Nehru’s erstwhile contemporaries and questions asked about what might have happened on the Indian subcontinent had another hero of that era taken leadership, this book explores his encounters with key contemporaries to excavate and evaluate the views that were in circulation. It examines the founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah and his cause of Hindu-Muslim unity, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu Mahasabha and his fierce defence of the constitution, the Congress leader Sardar Patel, with whom Nehru often disagreed about the threat of China, and Mohammad Iqbal, the poet and politician whose letters on Muslim solidarity were often issued from a prison cell. The correspondence and interactions that Nehru had with these key personalities captures the essence of how post-independent India was projected as a nation, and the early directions it took towards self-definition."

Adeel Hussain, Tripurdaman Singh (Author), Shubhankar (Narrator)

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The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century

"Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone—it pairs this with surprising responsiveness to the public. The Party and the People explores how this paradox has helped the CCP endure for decades, and how this balance has shifted increasingly toward repression under the rule of President Xi Jinping. Delving into the tenuous binary of repression and responsivity, Bruce Dickson illuminates numerous questions surrounding the CCP's rule: How does it choose leaders and create policies? When does it allow protests? Will China become democratic? Dickson shows that the party's dual approach lies at the core of its practices—repression when dealing with existential, political threats or challenges to its authority, and responsiveness when confronting localized economic or social unrest. With the CCP's greater reliance on suppression since Xi Jinping’s rise to power in 2012, Dickson considers the ways that this tipping of the scales will influence China's future."

Bruce Dickson (Author), Eric Jason Martin (Narrator)

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Samurai: A Very Short Introduction

"The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in countless renditions of samurai history in anime, manga, and video games. Acknowledging these common depictions, this book gives listeners access to the real samurai as they lived, fought, and served. Much as they capture the modern imagination, the samurai commanded influence over the politics, arts, philosophy, and religion of their own time, and ultimately controlled Japan from the fourteenth century until their demise in the mid-nineteenth century. On and off the battlefield, their story is one of adventures and intrigues, heroics and misdeeds, unlikely victories and devastating defeats. This book traces the samurai throughout this history, exploring their roles in watershed events such as Japan's invasions of Korea at the close of the sixteenth century and the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877. Coming alive in these accounts are the samurai, both famed and ordinary, who shaped Japanese history."

Michael Wert (Author), Eric Jason Martin (Narrator)

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Decoding Hindu Chronology: Exploring the Eras, Calendars and other Reckonings

"The Hindus have had from very ancient times the system of lunisolar cycles, made by the combination of solar years, regulated by the course of the sun, and lunar years, regulated by the course of the moon but treated in such a manner as to keep the beginning of the lunar year near the beginning of the solar year. The exact way they arranged the details of their earliest Calendar is still a subject of research. We deal here with their Calendar as it now stands, in a form developed from about A.D. 400 under the influence of the Greek astronomy introduced into India at no long time previously."

Henry Romano (Author), Demitra (Narrator)

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Samurai of Ancient Japan: Swords, Warriors, Masks, and Honor from Japanese History

"What did the samurai in Japan do? How did they begin? And what was so typical or different about them? These and many other questions will be answered in this quick guide that will cover all the basics of the famous samurai warriors in ancient Japan. You will learn about shoguns, bushido, the Meiji time period, ronin warriors, the Genpei war in 1180, the Kamakura period, the infamous suicide methods for honor (hara-kiri), and much, much more."

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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Ninjas of Ancient Japan: Japanese History about the Ninjas in the Shadows

"The ancient Ninjas in Japan have fueled stories, movies, books and other media to go on and on about the sneaky assassins that terrorized their country. Today, you and I will go in-depth into this topic and find out more about the truth. Some of the stories sound accurate, others have more to it, or are completely false. In a nutshell, this brief book will cover the following topics and more: The most important facts about the Japanese ninjas. Shaolin monks and Japanese pirates. Feudalism compared with European knights. The 7 most famous ninjas. The biggest ninja fight ever in history that took place in 1581. False concepts about ninjas. Daimyo lords in Japan. Ninja training, schools, weapons, and disguises. Educate yourself and figure out where the stories came from, and then connect the dots. This guide will help you along the way."

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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Ancient Japan: Shinto, Ninjas, Samurai, and History

"This is a combo of 3 topics: Topic 1: The ancient Ninjas in Japan have fueled stories, movies, books and other media to go on and on about the sneaky assassins that terrorized their country. Today, you and I will go in-depth into this topic and find out more about the truth. Some of the stories sound accurate, others have more to it, or are completely false. In a nutshell, this brief book will cover the following topics and more: The most important facts about the Japanese ninjas. Shaolin monks and Japanese pirates. Feudalism compared with European knights. The 7 most famous ninjas. The biggest ninja fight ever in history that took place in 1581. False concepts about ninjas. Daimyo lords in Japan. Ninja training, schools, weapons, and disguises. Educate yourself and figure out where the stories came from, and then connect the dots. This guide will help you along the way. Topic 2: What did the samurai in Japan do? How did they begin? And what was so typical or different about them? These and many other questions will be answered in this quick guide that will cover all the basics of the famous samurai warriors in ancient Japan. You will learn about shoguns, bushido, the Meiji time period, ronin warriors, the Genpei war in 1180, the Kamakura period, the infamous suicide methods for honor (hara-kiri), and much, much more. Topic 3: The Shinto religion is a mystery to many. There is no real founder, there are many gods and deities that are worshipped, and something about spiritualism and spirits in nature that most people can't quite put their finger on. Today, many of those confusions will be cleared up, as you will explore the Shinto faith and all its most important rituals, gods and goddesses, symbolism, etc."

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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Mysteries of the Rigveda: Lost Technology of the Gods Encoded in the Epics

"Before we attempt to describe the world of thought revealed in the hymns of the Rigveda, the question may be asked, to what extent is there lost knowledge, lost technology, and advanced philosophy encoded within it? Is it possible to understand the true meaning of a book occupying so isolated in the remotest age of Indian literature? The answer to this question depends on recognizing the suitable method of interpretation applicable to that ancient body of poetry. Simply, yes, there is ancient lost technology in all ancient Indian Texts; take the concept of the Vimana, for example. When the Rigveda first became known, scholars, as yet only acquainted with the language and literature of classical Sanskrit, found that the Vedic hymns were composed in a mysterious ancient dialect and embodied a world of ideas far removed from that with which they had made themselves familiar."

Henry Romano (Author), Alastair Cameron (Narrator)

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Ancient Japan: Shinto, Ninjas, Samurai, and History

"This is a combo of 3 topics: Topic 1: The ancient Ninjas in Japan have fueled stories, movies, books and other media to go on and on about the sneaky assassins that terrorized their country. Today, you and I will go in-depth into this topic and find out more about the truth. Some of the stories sound accurate, others have more to it, or are completely false. In a nutshell, this brief book will cover the following topics and more: The most important facts about the Japanese ninjas. Shaolin monks and Japanese pirates. Feudalism compared with European knights. The 7 most famous ninjas. The biggest ninja fight ever in history that took place in 1581. False concepts about ninjas. Daimyo lords in Japan. Ninja training, schools, weapons, and disguises. Educate yourself and figure out where the stories came from, and then connect the dots. This guide will help you along the way. Topic 2: What did the samurai in Japan do? How did they begin? And what was so typical or different about them? These and many other questions will be answered in this quick guide that will cover all the basics of the famous samurai warriors in ancient Japan. You will learn about shoguns, bushido, the Meiji time period, ronin warriors, the Genpei war in 1180, the Kamakura period, the infamous suicide methods for honor (hara-kiri), and much, much more. Topic 3: The Shinto religion is a mystery to many. There is no real founder, there are many gods and deities that are worshipped, and something about spiritualism and spirits in nature that most people can’t quite put their finger on. Today, many of those confusions will be cleared up, as you will explore the Shinto faith and all its most important rituals, gods and goddesses, symbolism, etc."

Kelly Mass (Author), Doug Greene (Narrator)

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A Daughter of the Samurai

"“I came to realize the tragic truth that the Japanese woman – like the plum blossom, modest, gentle, and bearing unjust hardship without complaint – is often little else than a useless sacrifice; while the American woman – self-respecting, untrammelled, changing with quick adaptability to new conditions – carries inspiration to every heart.” In the late 19th century, after Japan was restored to imperial rule, the samurais were no longer the seat of power. As Western ideas and precepts were adopted across the world, the power and wealth the families of samurais had once known was no longer. The families who were impacted by this shift lost wealth and power. Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto was the daughter of one such samurai, and had begun her life on a track to become a Buddhist priestess. But as the family lost their position in society, her path changed, and she was eventually sent to the United States to be in an arranged marriage to an American man. A Daughter of the Samurai is her personal memoir of her life and perspective on the differences between Japanese and American lifestyles, the value of women in each society, and the influence that evolving cultures had on different classes of society. A Daughter of the Samurai is a fascinating read for those wanting to gain a first-hand perspective on the shifting power dynamics through the Meiji Restoration and Edo period in Japan, as well as the treatment of women in both Japan and America."

Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto (Author), Siho Ellsmore (Narrator)

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