epub |eng | 2019-08-14 | Author:Jacob, Wilson Chacko; [Jacob, Wilson Chacko]

The shrine of Sayyid Alawi in Mampuram, Kerala, India. It was erected and renovated multiple times after his death in 1844. Photo by author. The latter is a big question ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-15 | Author:Vinay Sitapati

A year into Rao’s premiership, the opposition parties were coming to the same conclusion as Arjun Singh: the prime minister was not going to fall on his own; he needed ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:William Slim

VII IT PAYS TO BE BOLD By the evening of the 1st July the foremost troops were under shell fire from Deir-ez-zor. General Slim insisted on two combined attacks—one frontal, ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Charles Allen [ALLEN, CHARLES]

A Snider squibbed in the jungle, Somebody laughed and fled, And the men of the First Shikaris Picked up their Subaltern dead, With a big blue mark in his forehead ...

epub |eng | 2017-02-16 | Author:John Keay [Keay, John]

Jodha Ram gave offence to the new minister [Jowahir Singh] and was given over to one of those cruel sentences which Runjit Singh was accustomed to call mercy. But Jodha ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Flavia Arzeni [Arzeni, Flavia]

THE ART OF LOOKING HESSE, IN FACT, does not deny that on the way to love and joy, along with little things, there are also greater things—among them, art. The ...

epub |eng | 2007-06-14 | Author:Mahatma Gandhi

For me non-violence is a creed. I must act up to it whether I am alone or have companions. Since propaganda of non-violence is the mission of my life, I ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Supriya Gandhi

Dara fuses a quatrain of his own composition with his report of Kabir’s words.100 These Persian lines of verse in no way resemble the Hindavi poetry commonly associated with Kabir. ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Steven James Hantzis [Hantzis, Steven James]

The driving was relatively smooth for the next week. The convoy was in Chinese-controlled territory now, and the road was well maintained. The lush green countryside of Burma gave way ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Robert Harvey [Harvey, Robert]

CHAPTER 16 Plassey In this dismal encampment, far removed from the decadent baroque palace of Chandernagore, Clive had to make the most agonising decision of his life. Before him lay ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Audrey Truschke [Truschke, Audrey]

CHAPTER 6 Overseer of Hindu Religious Communities Protector of Temples [Ellora] is one of the finely crafted marvels of the real, transcendent Artisan [i.e., God]. —Aurangzeb describing the Hindu, Jain, ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:Jad Adams [Adams, Jad]

8 The Salt March TO YERAVDA JAIL in Poona Gandhi took a few books such as the Bhagavad Gita, a dictionary, a translation of the Koran and a Bible. He ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Susan Murphy

KC had a habit of never packing adequate clothing so after a day or so he would be mostly clad in Tibetan garb borrowed from their hosts. The other guests ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Jalal, Ayesha

18 Shyam. Courtesy Sahira Kazimi The two friends had a rapturous reunion when Shyam visited Lahore briefly after partition for the release of his film. It was the same Shyam, ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-19 | Author:William Dalrymple

As far as the rebels were concerned, the 9 July attack on the British was certainly the most successful yet. But expectations in both the Palace and the city had ...