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 | 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, 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 | 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 | | 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 ...

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 | 1953-03-04 | Author:E. M. Forster

GOKUL ASHTAMI The following letters on the Gokul Ashtami Festival are the most important of my letters home, for they describe (if too facetiously) rites in which a European can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...