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Cawnpore & Lucknow by Donald Richards
epub |eng | 2007-01-19 | Author:Donald Richards

After ten days of being drenched to the skin and floundering ankle deep through mud, sickness and exhaustion had reduced the 1,200 British contingent – already weakened by drink – ...
( Category: Asia January 20,2020 )
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Tuttle Classics) by Laurence Broderick Charles Dunn
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-12-23 | Author:Laurence Broderick Charles Dunn [Charles Dunn, Laurence Broderick]

(56) Moneychanger’s. The clerks are busy weighing (using balance and steel-yard), calculating on the soroban, counting and transporting strings of cash. Customers enjoy a pipe while waiting. A samurai and ...
( Category: Japanese January 20,2020 )
G. rhastha by Olivelle Patrick;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Olivelle, Patrick;

* * * 1. These five great sacrifices are enumerated by Manu (MDh 3.70): “The sacrifice to the Veda is teaching; the sacrifice to ancestors is the quenching libation; the ...
( Category: Asia January 19,2020 )
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: The War Nobody Knew by Michael M. Walker
epub |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:Michael M. Walker

8 | Renewed Talks, Fighting, and Frustration That Chinese military reinforcements were needed in the Northeast revealed how the events of July and August had ended in a crisis that ...
( Category: Asia January 19,2020 )
Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order by Roger T. Ames Peter D. Hershock
epub |eng | 2018-04-28 | Author:Roger T. Ames,Peter D. Hershock [Неизв.]

humanity Humanity (ren) is the first virtue to be interpreted, and its interpretation also paves the way for the representation of the remaining virtues. The handbook explains: The virtue of ...
( Category: Confucianism January 19,2020 )
Viet Nam by Kiernan Ben;
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Kiernan, Ben;

French rule also brought to Cochinchina a massive expansion of the cultivation and export of rice and, to a lesser extent, of its import of manufactured goods. The colony’s economy ...
( Category: Asia January 19,2020 )
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Yasmin Khan [Khan, Yasmin]

Revealing the borderline Still, few, if any, were contemplating a mass migration of any description. Some leaders mooted the idea of moving people long before 1947. ‘Quite a number of ...
( Category: Asian January 19,2020 )
Against Dharma by Wendy Doniger
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Wendy Doniger [Doniger, Wendy]

6 Skepticism and Materialism in Ancient India Who Were the Lokayatikas and the Charvakas? I have argued that the Kamasutra and the Arthashastra often deviated significantly from dharma in ways ...
( Category: Karma January 19,2020 )
Hidden Atrocities: Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial by Jeanne Guillemin
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Jeanne Guillemin

Sutton Assists at IPS Committed to the IPS, Sutton took on a new assignment, to assist Prosecutor Pedro “Pete” Lopez of the Philippines, a former resistance fighter and, in 1945, ...
( Category: Asia January 19,2020 )
The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the Ancient Indian Dynasties by Dilip K. Chakrabarty
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Dilip K. Chakrabarty

The North Indian Dynasties, c. Eighth–Tenth Centuries: The Chandellas, Kalachuris, Paramaras, Hindu Shahis, and Others The Chandella or Chandatreya kings of Bundelkhand were originally vassals of the Pratiharas and based ...
( Category: Asia January 19,2020 )
Cyrus the Great by Harold Lamb
epub |eng | 1959-12-31 | Author:Harold Lamb [Lamb, Harold]

c y r u s f o l l o w s t h e t r a c k o f z a r a t h u s ...
( Category: Asia January 18,2020 )
The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
epub |eng | | Author:Thant Myint-U

ON NEW YEAR’S DAY, Nay Win Maung died from a heart attack. He was forty-nine years old. He had been a crucial catalyst in the reform process so far. He ...
( Category: Asian January 18,2020 )
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War by Michael M Walker
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Michael M Walker

8 | Renewed Talks, Fighting, and Frustration That Chinese military reinforcements were needed in the Northeast revealed how the events of July and August had ended in a crisis that ...
( Category: Asia January 18,2020 )
Lao-Tzu: Te-Tao Ching by Robert G. Henricks
epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Robert G. Henricks [Henricks, Robert G.]

In Text A, lines 7 and 8 are reversed. Also, the “whole” or “everyone” (chieh) in line 9 is omitted in Text A (as it is in the standard text): ...
( Category: Tao Te Ching January 18,2020 )
The China Station (The Earl’s Other Son Series, Book 1) by Wareham Andrew
epub |eng | 2018-02-17 | Author:Wareham, Andrew [Wareham, Andrew]

( Category: War January 17,2020 )

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