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1911 to 1949: How China Buried an Empire and Built a Revolution

China ended imperial rule in 1911, then spent four decades in warlordism, united fronts and civil war. How the communists moved from the cities to the countryside, survived the Long March, and proclaimed the People's Republic in 1949.

Nehru's Blueprint: How a Newborn Republic Built Itself, 1947-64

In 1947 experts expected India to collapse. By 1964 it was the world's largest democracy with steel plants, atomic research and a global voice. How the Nehru years built the Indian state - and what they got wrong.

The Longest Law That Solved Nothing, and Built Everything

321 sections, 10 schedules, zero sovereignty: the 1935 Act sketched a federation that never existed, and still donated half its machinery to the Indian Constitution.