The People Who Changed The World

by R.K. Srivastava


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 01-07-2013

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 318
ISBN : 9781482800258
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 318
ISBN : 9781482800265
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 318
ISBN : 9781482800241

About the Book

This book portrays the world history in an entirely new landscape which highlights the pace of development of all the major civilizations of the world since the dawn of human history. Man’s rational behavior compelled him to search and innovate new things in order to emerge victorious in his struggle for existence, and in the process, he elevated human civilization. But different civilizations developed on different lines. Some were fast initially but later turned static, and some were static initially but later gained momentum to become world leaders, while some were in between. The author has broadly categorizes all the world civilizations into seven segments and demonstrated their behavior of development graphically. Indian civilization has been evaluated as initially glorious and highly developed, but later it turned static due to several inherent factors. Anglo-Saxon civilization has been adjudged as initially primitive and after AD 1000 it began to move slowly and later gained pace to become world leader. It has been suggested in the book that Indians should learn from the Anglo-Saxons and should follow their road to development, which has been heavily propitiated with scientific and technological innovations and rational thinking since AD 1000.


About the Author

The author is an ex-banker of a nationalized bank named Allahabad Bank, served as senior manager. He has been a keen student of history since his boyhood and took active interest in student movements during the turbulent period from 1971 to 1977. He also participated in trade union movements during his service days. He was attracted toward Marxism in his youth days and read a lot of Marxian as well as Marxist literature. He saw the collapse of the Soviet Union along with its East European Allies and drifting of Chinese polity toward market mechanism. This induced him to contemplate further about the veracity of Marxian theory and its implementation by the socialist world. This book is the outcome of his revised thinking.