Historical India & South Asia Biographies
epub |eng | | Author:Benazir Bhutto [Bhutto, Benazir]

10 TWO MORE YEARS ALONE IN SUB-JAIL Familiarity. Comfort. Home. Leaving aside the fact that the paramilitary Frontier Forces were once more posted inside the compound walls and a prison ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anand Giridharadas

HYDERABAD ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING CYBERABAD A proactive government, efficient bureaucracy, enthusiastic entrepreneurs, bourgeoning training facilities, a huge talent pool, and an information technology culture are providing a potent ...
( Category: Human Geography March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-16 | Author:Jac Weller

IX The Mahratta War Begins Wellesley’s orders were issued for the morning of 7 August 1803: at sunrise the army was to march the seven miles to Ahmednuggur. The monsoon ...
( Category: Military March 11,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:Rodney Atwood

Chapter 7 Backs to the Wall The invader of Afghanistan may count as inevitable a national rising against him ... tribesmen and disbanded soldiers sprang to arms, the banner of ...
( Category: Afghan War March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 1905-06-16 | Author:Inge Sargent [Sargent, Inge]

Family portrait of the Prince and Princess of Hsipaw with their daughters, Mayari (left) and Kennari (right). Ten The wicker chair next to Thusandi on the terrace was empty, not ...
epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:A.K. Bhagwat & G.P. Pradhan [Bhagwat, A.K. & Pradhan, G.P.]

epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Michael Lowry

We were to learn that Geoffrey Tattershall’s party broke into the Admin Box and became attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment. In the course of the encirclement, Geoffrey was killed ...
( Category: World War II March 4,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-05-10 | Author:Nirad C. Chaudhuri [Chaudhuri, Nirad C.]

Chapter I CALCUTTA Calcutta Grew enormously during the thirty-two years I lived in it, and became amorphous. Since 1942 it has received hundreds of thousands of additional immigrants and, according ...
( Category: Historical India & South Asia Biographies February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Rodney Atwood [Atwood, Rodney]

Chapter 7 Backs to the Wall The invader of Afghanistan may count as inevitable a national rising against him ... tribesmen and disbanded soldiers sprang to arms, the banner of ...
( Category: Afghan War January 20,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-02 | Author:Guha, Ramachandra [Guha, Ramachandra]

The letter was posted from Natal, where Gandhi had come again to spend time with his wife. Dr Nanji had diagnosed her as suffering from pernicious anaemia, for which the ...
( Category: Gandhi April 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-11 | Author:M.G. Vassanji [Vassanji, M.G.]

In Amritsar the temperature has been over a hundred degrees. In Shimla, when we get back, hail has fallen, the ground is white. It is night and desolately silent. We ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Joseph Lelyveld

He may have meant to offer Ambedkar “the gentlest treatment,” may not have been thinking of Ambedkar at all, when he led off with a political barb, noting in the ...
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Dennis Dalton

By the end of 1946 India was drifting rapidly to chaos. The real power had passed from British hands; senior officials, anxious about their future, were conscious that they were ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Joseph Lelyveld [Lelyveld, Joseph]

He may have meant to offer Ambedkar “the gentlest treatment,” may not have been thinking of Ambedkar at all, when he led off with a political barb, noting in the ...