{"product_id":"uttarkand-volume-i-indias-long-night-and-the-breaking-of-the-dawn-by-swapnil-shivhare","title":"Uttarkand Volume I - India's Long Night and The Breaking of The Dawn by Swapnil Shivhare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book :\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUttarkand Volume I – India’s Long Night and the Breaking of Dawn\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis volume traces India’s journey through colonization and its enduring aftermath. It investigates how systems of control were designed, institutionalized, and embedded into governance structures that outlived empire. Moving beyond events, the book focuses on the architecture - legal, administrative, and economic - that shaped decision-making and constrained autonomy. It also examines how external influences continued to interact with domestic systems in the post-independence period. Through documents, patterns, and structural analysis, the book attempts to understand continuity beneath change. It is not merely a retelling of history, but an inquiry into how power persists, adapts, and reshapes itself across generations. The book is part of the series \"Uttarkand\", about a civilization, and its story and its consciousness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"im\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author :\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eSwapnil Shivhare did not come to history as a historian. He came to it as someone trying to understand why systems outlive the events that create them - and why, in India’s case, they seem to survive even the end of empires. Thirteen years across finance, trading, manufacturing, and retail exposed him to how institutions operate in practice - how rules are written, how decisions are shaped, and how structures continue long after their original purpose is forgotten. That experience did not stay confined to markets. It raised a deeper question: if systems persist in economics, why not in governance, in law, in the very design of the state? What followed was not a search for stories, but for continuity. Shivhare approaches history the same way he approaches markets - not as a sequence of events, but as an architecture. One that is built, reinforced, and rarely dismantled. Uttarkand emerges from that line of inquiry - an attempt to trace not just what happened, but what remained, what adapted, and what continues to shape India long after the visible structures of power changed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bluerose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49251583328500,"sku":null,"price":1599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4589\/3620\/files\/UttarkandVolumeI-India_sLongNightandTheBreakingofTheDawnbySwapnilShivhare.jpg?v=1787548226","url":"https:\/\/a2z-essentials.com\/products\/uttarkand-volume-i-indias-long-night-and-the-breaking-of-the-dawn-by-swapnil-shivhare","provider":"A2Z Essentials ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}