epub |eng | | Author:Richard von Garbe

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mobi |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:V. S. Naipaul

5 After the Battle In India in 1962 I took much of the British architecture for granted. After what I had known in Trinidad and England, British building in India ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:M.J. Akbar

9 Breaking Point There were five ‘swivel’ moments in Congress–Muslim relations before the formation of Pakistan. The pact negotiated by Jinnah in 1916, in which the Congress accepted separate electorates, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Padma Viswanathan

26. The Son of a Son 1932 THERE IS A BOY ON SIVAKAMI’S STEP holding out a piece of paper. She doesn’t understand. He explains that it is a telegram. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Steve Coll

Organized, state-sponsored political murder is practiced regularly and on a significant scale in South Asia today not only in Sri Lanka but in the disputed Indian states of Punjab and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Steve Inskeep

10 EMERGENCY NUMBERS This is where we last encountered Dr. Seemin Jamali, the “Incharge” of the emergency department at Jinnah hospital. On February 5, 2010, an argument was boiling at ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-30 | Author:Dominique Lapierre; Javier Moro

29 “My Beautiful Plant Was Losing Its Soul” The young engineer who had risked his life escorting the first barrels of MIC from Bombay to Bhopal could not believe it. ...

mobi |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Intizar Husain & Frances W. Pritchett & Asif Farrukhi

SIX YAR ZAKIR! I first send you the usual salutations. I’m fine, and I hope everything’s well with you too. You must be wondering at my foolishness: “What a time ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-20 | Author:Romila Thapar

Cultural Interactions Although coin hoards from the Roman maritime trade were more evident in southern India, the impact of Greco-Roman ideas and artefacts was obvious in the north. This was ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Tariq Ali

The tragedy led to the PPP’s being treated as a family heirloom, which was unhealthy for both party and country. It provided the Bhuttos with a vote bank and large ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Katherine Boo

In July, when Asha and her family stepped off the train after a thirteen-hour journey north to the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, their village relatives inspected their faces, finding evidence ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Malhotra, Rajiv [Malhotra, Rajiv]

Sanskrit and Contexts Sanskrit texts, by their very nature, require interpretation in a given context. Content cannot be separated from context or given an absolute meaning. A.K. Ramanujan explains: No ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Katherine Boo

In July, when Asha and her family stepped off the train after a thirteen-hour journey north to the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, their village relatives inspected their faces, finding evidence ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:John Keay [Keay, John]

Nevertheless the arrival at court of the son of Rana Amar Singh was proof enough of Mewar’s shame. Jahangir, content to have succeeded where Babur and Akbar had both failed, ...