The world in our time :a memoir (Record no. 62646)
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| fixed length control field | 01954cam a2200205 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789350291320 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 928.54 |
| Item number | TAP/W |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Tapan Raychaudhuri |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The world in our time :a memoir |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Noida |
| Name of publisher | HarperCollins |
| Year of publication | 2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x,364p. 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Autobiography of a professor, and social scientist from India, now resident of the United Kingdom.<br/>] wonderful account, by one of the leading historians of India, of the story of his life and of the class of landlords of Bengal to which his family belonged ... This is a superb book' - Amartya Sen The World in Our Time is not an autobiography in the simple sense of the term - the bildungsroman of a single man. It is the journey of a nation, right from its inception to maturation. The wide arc of the book - the last days of the Raj with its attendant traumas, the building of a democracy and even an analysis of life in Oxford - does not preclude its detailed and compassionate human interest; a true reminder that grand and sweeping events are, after all, comprised of little people. The author takes us on a roller-coaster ride through his early years in the idyllic surroundings of Barisal (now in Bangladesh) to the tumultuous 1940s, when he was imprisoned for his involvement in the Quit India Movement, to his extraordinary achievements as historian and academician, all playing out against the momentous changes taking place in the world around him. This retrospective recounting of tempestuous times, while being passionate and intense, is also suffused with an understated and wry humour which, in the words of Amartya Sen, 'demonstrates that seriously enlightening history can also be great fun to read'. |
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| Topical Term | College teachers |
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| Topical Term | Social reformers |
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| Topical Term | Intellectuals |
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| Topical Term | Biography-historian |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 17326790 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2012354233 |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 22/09/2021 | 399.00 | 928.54 TAP/W | 53542 | BK |