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From Tryst to Tendulkar by Balaji Viswanathan
mobi |eng | 2014-12-24 | Author:Balaji Viswanathan

* * * Chapter 9: The First Female Dictator The President has proclaimed a state of emergency. This is nothing to panic about. -- Indira Gandhi on All India Radio ...
( Category: India November 26,2015 )
India's Unending Journey: Finding balance in a time of change by Mark Tully
mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mark Tully

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...
( Category: India & South Asia November 26,2015 )
The Complete Life of Krishna by Vanamali
mobi |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Vanamali

While the Lord was thus engaged with Salva, momentous happenings were taking place at Hastinapura. At the emergency council meeting held by Duryodhana after his ignominious departure from the Maya ...
( Category: Theology November 26,2015 )
India - A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul
mobi |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:V.S. Naipaul

PART THREE Not Ideas, but Obsessions 5. A Defect of Vision 1 IN 1888, WHEN he was nineteen, and already married for six years, Gandhi went to England to study ...
( Category: General November 26,2015 )
The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Yasmin Khan

7 Blood on the Tracks By August 1947 all the ingredients were in place for ethnic cleansing in Punjab: a feeble and polarised police force, the steady withdrawal of British ...
( Category: Asian November 26,2015 )
The Indian Mutiny by Saul David
epub |eng | 2003-09-03 | Author:Saul David [David, Saul]

* Notably the Greenways, the leading mercantile family of Cawnpore, headed by the formidable matriarch Rose Greenway. She, her son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren were kept alive in Savada House ...
( Category: India November 24,2015 )
A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim
epub |eng | | Author:Eunsun Kim

12 Through the windows, I watched as the Chinese countryside passed before my eyes. On the seat of the taxi, Mom was worrying herself sick. We didn’t have even one ...
( Category: North November 23,2015 )
India At War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War by Khan Yasmin
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-08-21 | Author:Khan, Yasmin

15 Scorched Earth Ironically, 1943 was a year that saw little fighting for Indian and Allied soldiers in South Asia. Divisions fought in Sicily and in Naples but in India ...
( Category: India November 18,2015 )
The Company and the Shogun by Adam Clulow
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Adam Clulow

CHAPTER FIVE POWER AND PETITION If we called pirates all those who maintain their rights with weapons, then we would find few princes and kings in the world but only ...
( Category: Asian November 16,2015 )
China's Wings by Gregory Crouch
epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Gregory Crouch [Crouch, Gregory]

The U.S. government listening post in Ventura, California, received a radiogram for Katharine Dunlop Bond on Saturday, December 13, 1941, the first she’d heard from her husband since Pearl Harbor. ...
( Category: History November 16,2015 )
Target: Rabaul by Bruce Gamble
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Bruce Gamble [Gamble, Bruce]

Hours before the carrier strikes commenced, “Tip” Merrill’s Task Force 39 had bombarded both Buka and Bonis with 2,700 six-inch and five-inch shells. Leaving the two airdromes in shambles, the ...
( Category: Japan November 12,2015 )
In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
epub |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Yeonmi Park

Thirteen A Deal with the Devil My mother had been gone for only three days when Zhifang tried to rape me. His apartment was laid out with two bedrooms separated ...
( Category: North November 12,2015 )
The Village by Bing West
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-11-11 | Author:Bing West

“I felt good about that,” White said later. “It had taken us a long time to work back and we had lost Lummis along the way. But we kept hanging ...
( Category: Vietnam War November 12,2015 )
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 by Keene Donald
epub |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Keene, Donald

( Category: Japan November 12,2015 )
A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower by Henshall Kenneth
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:Henshall, Kenneth [Henshall, Kenneth]

•sovereignty vested in the people; •war renounced along with maintenance of armed forces; •equality of the sexes; •guarantee of human rights in general, notably the ‘right to life, liberty, and ...
( Category: Japan November 12,2015 )

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