Blood Red River

Author : Rohit Prasad
Publisher : Hachette India
ISBN 13 : 9351950344
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Red River written by Rohit Prasad and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2016-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive exploration of the Maoist insurgency in the heart of the country questions what India?s `growth story? really means today. An innocent adivasi cut down in his prime by the unholy nexus of ruthless Maoist rebels and corrupt bureaucrats; a highly educated Maoist ideologue who had to die because he sought an end to bloody conflict; a contractor bitter at having been left in the lurch by his corporate paymaster; and a young adivasi woman, recently in the news, who dared to challenge the status quo to emerge as an authentic voice of her people... It is their compelling stories, among several others, that Rohit Prasad felt driven to explore while travelling in Chhattisgarh for over two years. The result is Blood Red River, an impassioned weaving together of narrated history and hard fact, first-person accounts of those who have witnessed terrible violence and encounters with keepers of the law, both in the Indian government as well as Maoist ranks. It offers, too, a startling glimpse of the so-far-unrevealed role that corporate rivalry has played in thwarting vital industrial projects in the name of insurgency. Using Chhattisgarh as a microcosm, this multi-layered narrative is an immersive inquiry into the roles of different stakeholders in the no-holds-barred war over natural resources that has continued to ravage some of India?s mineral-rich states for more than three decades. Bold and unafraid to take sides, it leads the reader deep into a world where corruption and greed underlie ideological posturing and reveals the false dichotomies of India?s development paradigm.

Author : Walter Lucas
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786011650
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Red River written by Walter Lucas and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The buffalo brought them west: frontiersmen like Billy Dixon, who made his living with a long-barreled rifle, and businessmen like George Eddy, who balanced the books for a frontier trading company.

Author : Jean-Christophe Grangé
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099449027
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Red Rivers written by Jean-Christophe Grangé and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of knife-edge glaciers, a hideous crime leads two maverick detectives to confront the limits of human evil. A corpse is discovered wedged in an isolated crevice. It has been horribly mutilated. The brilliant but violent ex-commando Pierre Niémans is sent from Paris to the French Alps to lead the investigation. Meanwhile, in a town in south-west France, Karim Abdouf, a young Arab policeman, is trying to find out why the tomb of a young child has been desecrated. When a second baby is found, high up in a glacier, the paths of the two policemen are joined in the search for their killers, a trail that embroils them in the mysterious cult of the Blood-Red Rivers.

Author : Rhoda R. Gilman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873511339
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red River Trails written by Rhoda R. Gilman and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 1979 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many difficulties and occasional rewards of early travel and transportation in Minnesota are highlighted in this book, along with the state's relations with what became western Canada and insights into the development of business in Minnesota. The meeting of Indian and European cultures is vividly manifested by the mixed-blood Mtis who became the mainstay of the Red River trade.

Author : Jean-Christophe Grangé
Publisher : Harvill Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood-red Rivers written by Jean-Christophe Grangé and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niemans is the ex golden-boy of the commando squad. Abdouf is a young ruffian turned police inspector. Both are experienced cops who believe they have seen everything. Until one has a case of a mutilated corpse and the other discovers a desecrated tomb."

Author : . Nasdijj
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547904827
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams written by . Nasdijj and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS transports readers to the majestic landscapes and hard Native American lives of the desert Southwest and into the embrace of a way of looking at the world that seems almost like revelation. Born to a storytelling Native mother and a roughneck, song-singing cowboy father, Nasdijj has lived on the jagged-edged margins of American society, yet hardship and isolation have only brought him greater clarity--and a gift for language that is nothing short of breathtaking. Nasdijj tells of his adopted son, Tommy Nothing Fancy, of the young boy's struggle with fetal alcohol syndrome, and of their last fishing trip together. It is a heartbreaking story, written with great power and a diamondlike poetry. But whether Nasdijj is telling us about his son, about the chaotic, alternately harrowing and comical life he led with his own parents, or about the vitality and beauty of Native American culture, his voice is always one of searching honesty, wry humor, and a nearly cosmic compassion. While Nasdijj struggles with his impossible status as someone of two separate cultures, he also remains a contradiction in a larger sense: he cares for those who often shun him, he teaches hope though he often has none for himself, and he comes home to the land he then must leave. THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS is the memoir of a man who has survived a hard life with grace, who has taken the past experience of pain and transformed it into a determination to care for the most vulnerable among us, and who has found an almost unspeakable beauty where others would find only sadness. This is a book that will touch your soul.

Author : Walter Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781402566370
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Red River / written by Walter Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786047402
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red River Vengeance written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. VENGEANCE IS HERE. A good man like Perley Gates knows that when you race with the devil, you’d better cross the finish line first—or you won’t finish at all . . . They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that local waitress Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, he rides alone to get her back. Problem is, the outlaws are heading toward the Red River—straight into Indian Territory. That’s where the ranch hands draw the line. But Perley won’t give up. He manages to rescue the girl, but not before killing the gang’s leader. Now he’s incurred the wrath of the other three . . . The race is on. Come hell or high water, Perley has to get Becky across the Red River—before three vengeful devils make it flow with their blood . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Author : J. M. Schoffeleers
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299133245
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River of Blood written by J. M. Schoffeleers and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of years of fieldwork in southern Malawi, River of Blood reconstructs the beginnings of the Mbona martyr cult, follows its history to the present day, and reveals the fascinating intersections of an indigenous belief system with European Christianity. In the cult of Mbona, the central African mythology of the snake that is beheaded to make the rains come has been combined with a more spiritual interpretation: the snake has been transformed into a human martyr and redeemer. According to the cult, the rainmaker Mbona was tracked down by his enemies; they cut off his head, and his blood formed the River of Blood. Mbona returned as a storm wind and asked that a shrine be dedicated in his name. J. Matthew Schoffeleers recounts how the Portuguese presence in Zambezia in the period 1590-1622 led to more than three decades of internecine warfare and caused the people of southern Malawi tremendous suffering. In response to this political oppression and social upheaval, Schoffeleers shows, the people looked to Mbona, their "black Jesus," for redemption. Beyond reconstructing the cult's genesis, Schoffeleers traces its recent history, particularly in political context. He provides texts of seven cult myths from different historical periods in both Chimang'anja and English. His analysis presents the Mbona myth as a continuous social construction and deconstruction. Emphasizing the impact of political and spiritual oppression on the cult, he distinguishes between the differing versions of the myth preserved by the aristocracy and by the commonalty and demonstrates how these disparate views unite to preserve historical information. In so doing, he shows that cults serve as valuable repositories for historical information.

Author : Lionel Fenn
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812537857
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood River Down written by Lionel Fenn and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Sunday, an unemployed ex-football player, enters a strange fantasy world where he must help the Lady Glorian, her brother, Tag, and the telepathic lorra, Red, defeat the evil Tide of Blood