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...Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence—which led India to independence and inspired m...

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..., Miss Glory. FABRY Well, she's not far wrong. We live here just like red Indians. HELENA Worse than red Indians. May I, oh, may I call you brothers?... ...o? DOMIN They got possession of all firearms, telegraphs, radio stations, railways, and ships. HALLEMEIER And don't forget that these rascals outnumb... ...d you to kill all mankind. Spare no men. Spare no women. Save factories, railways, machinery, mines, and raw materials. Destroy the rest. Then retu...

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...ze 22 Benin 23 Bermuda 25 Bhutan 26 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34... ...c tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million me... ...rgentine(s); adjec- tive Argentine Ethnic divisions: 85% white, 15% mestizo, Indian, or other nonwhite groups Religion: 90% nominally Roman Catholic (... ...an(s); adjective Aruban Ethnic divisions: 85% mixed African; remainder Carib Indian, European, Latin, and Oriental Religion: 82% Roman Catholic, 8% Pr... ...ast systems with 6 AM, 693 FM, 910 TV stations; 1 INTELSAT (for Atlantic and Indian regions); 3.72 million telephones (45.9 per 100 popl.) Defense For... ...nes (23.2 per 100 popl.); 2 AM, 1 FM, and 2 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean, 1 Indian Ocean, and 1 ARABSAT satellite stations; tropo- spheric scatter an... ... 1987) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: Belgian National Railways (SNCB) operates 3,741 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, government ... ...r: calendar year Communications Railroads: 14,925 km total; Cuban Na- tional Railways operates 5,295 km of 1.435-meter gauge track; 199 km electri- fi... ... Communications Railroads: 2,770 km 1.435-meter standard gauge; Danish State Railways (DSB) oper- ate 2,120 km (1,999 km rail line and 121 km rail fer...

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...ilized standards.” Ex-President of India, the late K. R. Narayanan The New Indian Express, Saturday, 12 Nov. 2005 K.R.Narayanan was a lauded he... ...or six decades, he powerfully influenced the course of politics in the South- Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His ideology and struggle to attain ration... ...ts is dominant even today in the public and private spheres of life. Prior to Indian independence, Dalits where not even allowed into temples. Ev... ...12.1973) was a social revolutionary who influenced the politics of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu for half a century. Periyar, literally mean... ...riends P.Varadharajulu Naidu and C. Rajagopalachari persuaded him to join the Indian National Congress led by Mohandas Gandhi. In 1919, he joined th... ...rgo is innumerable. Officers from Brahmin community in the fields of police, railways, law and establishment trouble and torture us limitlessly. [... ...nized. Only machines do even the work of transferring sacks to vehicles. Here railways, income tax and other profitable enterprises are given to nor... ... benefit of education that was the monopoly of Brahmins. The introduction of railways, steam engine, telegraph and other scientific methods made th...

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... to control Central Asian energy resources and to extend its influence towards the Indian Ocean. Two Saudi Arabian oil companies were also involved... ... wished to construct roads accessible for tanks to cross through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean. This might also explain his characteristic opportu... ...ies (Iran, India and Afghanistan). His peace initiatives in Kashmir were stalled by Indian arrogance, and the West turned a cold shoulder to its old... ... bumper cotton and wheat crops in 2000. Pakistani citizens had as many durables as Indians. Definitely not an HIPC, Pakistan is an emerging middle-... ...PI) Also Read The EU and NATO - The Competing Alliances The Skoda Model The Czechs' Indian Gambit Europe's Four Speeds Switching Empires Eastern Adva... ...ussian firms made inroads into the construction of Chinese hydroelectric plants and railways. The two countries have "plans for the construction of ... ...or instance, is intermittent and unpredictable. The roads are potholed and few, the railways derelict. Fixed line penetration is low, though mobile ...

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...gaps opening up among workers following botched privatizations (e.g., the railways, the post office). Bellicose, fogeyish, trade unions leverage the... ...SA. Desperate German politicians cried "Kinder, not Inder" (children, not Indians) when chancellor Schroeder allowed a miserly 20,000 foreigners to ... ...dical doctors), multinationals - are all part of this growing trend. Many Indian programmers are employed by American firms without ever having cros...

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... Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, native... ...nes Decrees. But ethnic cleansing can be economic (ask the Chinese in Asia and the Indians in Africa). It can be physical (Croatia, Kosovo). It has... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...gh most of them are. The "noble savage" and the "wild savage" are both stereotypes. Indians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work ti... ...ndians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work titled "The Only Good Indian - The Hollywood Gospel" (1972) are overwhelmingly drunken... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...

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... Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, native... ...nes Decrees. But ethnic cleansing can be economic (ask the Chinese in Asia and the Indians in Africa). It can be physical (Croatia, Kosovo). It has... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...gh most of them are. The "noble savage" and the "wild savage" are both stereotypes. Indians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work ti... ...ndians in movies, note Ralph and Natasha Friar in their work titled "The Only Good Indian - The Hollywood Gospel" (1972) are overwhelmingly drunken... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...

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...rom the Black Sea left tongue-prints in Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and T... ...entific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab...

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...rom the Black Sea left tongue-prints in Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and T... ...cientific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab...

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...tinal de- bate: "Kesolveil, that a policy of municipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities." The camiidates are to speak in tlie f... ... the question: ''Resolved, That a policy of ninnicipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities,'' which was evi- dently not thoroughly... ...ation is bettor than a policy of private ownership and operation of street railways in cities of the United States." The debate will be held on Thursd... ...ation is better than a policy of private ownership and operation of street railways in cities of the United States, "is distinctly two-sided, and shou... ...s, sink holes and glacial boulders found in this vicinity. The fain- ons ''Indian Ladder" was also visited. The party returned Sat- urday night. LastM... ..." Salsollona "Sptlne Chlcktn" Solacllona 'Take Me Bacii to New York Town" "Indian Medley" "Tha Cttorus Lady" "Blue Danube" f "Cupid la Captain of the ... ... this clever bit of acting v.ent otT very smoothly. Pierce, in his yellow 'Indian" costume, was through- out well appreciated as the corn- median, and... ...ies at the Sorboiiiie, and in Decern her VMh ho became floo- retary of the Indian Prince Mn- hommed Shah Agn Khan, with whom ho made a tour around the... ... of the Utah house of rep- resentatives, and has been con- nected with the Indian Reserves. Hopkins '0!) and Zoller '04 graduated from the Harvard Law...

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...wer of London are called “beefeaters”; the origin of the term is obscure.) Indians, Zulus, for whom there are special rules. We find we can buy lead d... ...o can take an undying interest in uniforms and reviews. And lastly, of our railways, let me merely remark here that 7 H. G . Wells we have always ins... ...left. This also is wild and rocky, inhabited not by negroid blacks, but by Indians, whose tents, made by F . R. W. out of ordi- nary brown paper and a... ...land of exceptional interest to the geologist and scientific explorer. The Indians, you observe, have domesticated one leaden and one wooden cow. This... ...reedom and happiness to arrange it so; but when steam rail- ways or street railways are involved we have our rails in com- mon, and we have an excelle... ...remove these disabilities. Zulus and foreign-looking persons, such as East Indian cavalry and American Indians, are also disfranchised. So are riderle... ...d up in the High Street and there was talk of fortifications. Suppose wild Indians were to turn up across the plains to the left and at- tack the town...

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...ghty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the... ...gg, continuing to play despite the discussion. “But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails,” replied Stuart; “suppose they stop the trains, ... ...und the World in 80 Days showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways. He took the carpet-bag, opened it, and slipped into it a goodly r... ...he come directly from Brindisi?” “Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience,... ...am upon the waters of the Red Sea. Chapter IX IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG The distance b... ...y way of Bombay, the nearest route thither, now that a railway crosses the Indian peninsula. Among the passengers was a number of officials and milita... ...now! Earth and sea had seemed to be at his master’ s service; steamers and railways obeyed him; wind and steam united to speed his journey. Had the ho... ...ty days. T o do this he had em- ployed every means of conveyance—steamers, railways, car- riages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, elephants. The ecc...

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...ng country stretched away upon all sides. Locust trees and a single field of Indian corn gave it a foreign grace and interest; but the contours of the... ...n, in the horror and isolation of a plague. Old, red Manhattan lies, like an Indian arrowhead under a steam factory, below anglified New York. The nam... ...hemselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; th... ...as read aloud to me by my nurse. It narrated the doings of one Custaloga, an Indian brave, who, in the last chapter, very obligingly washed the paint ... ... trick I never forgave him. 10 Across the Plains The idea of a man being an Indian brave, and then giving that up to be a baronet, was one which my m... ...away up there, which was at that time far beyond the northernmost extreme of railways, hard upon the shore of that ill-omened strait of whirlpools, in...

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...hile I was getting ashore, demanding of all things in the world news about Indian journalism. It is an awful thing to enter a new land with a new lie ... ...rests us,” he said. “Have you got reporters anything like our reporters on Indian newspapers?” “We have not,” I said, and suppressed the “thank God” r... ...certain of it, why, then—I waited developments. “And what did you think of Indiana when you came through?” was the next question. It revealed the myst... ... eye had looked up the name of his victim in the hotel register, and read “Indiana” for India. The provincialism with which I had cursed his people ex... ...re as brethren, and I did homage to the owl and listened to their talk. An Indian club about Christmas-time will yield, if properly worked, an abundan... ...ts of the English syn- dicates who have invested their money in breweries, railways, and the like, and in the third, it’s not to be done. Everybody kn...

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...a WILLOW SHAW, the little fenced wood where the hop-poles are stacked like Indian wigwams, had been given to Dan and Una for their very own kingdom wh... ...een particular friends, for Mr Springett was so old he could remember when railways were being made in the southern counties of England, and people we... ...air and a red blanket trailing behind him. A man told me he was a real Red Indian called Red Jacket, and I followed him into an alley-way off Race Str... ...Second Street, where there was a fiddle playing. I’m fond o’ fiddling. The Indian stopped at a baker’s shop—Conrad Gerhard’s it was—and bought some su... ...ry cakes. Hearing what the price was I was going to have some too, but the Indian asked me in English if I was hungry. “Oh yes!” I says. I must have l... ...d spinet covered with pill-boxes and the pills rolled about the floor. The Indian never moved an eyelid. ‘“Pick up the pills! Pick up the pills!” the ...

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...d—as they should have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary l... ...rous undertaking for Germany. She may open mines she may never work, build railways that others will enjoy, sow harvests for alien reaping. The people... ...struction, any increase in public officials, any “conscription” of land or railways or what not for the urgent civil needs of the State. They will hav... ...oth in social and military efficiency, and she is so suffering because her railways, instead of being planned as one great and simple national distrib... ...exities arising out of those British dependencies of non- British race—the Indian states, for example, whose interests are sometimes in conflict with ... ...ciple, for example. South Africa again takes a line with regard to British Indian subjects which is highly em- barrassing to Great Britain. There is a... ...Latin black culture should not extend across equatorial Africa to meet the Indian influence at the coast, and reach out to join hands with Madagascar.... ... prevail. The new population of Mesopotamia will be neither Euro- pean nor Indian; it will be Arabic; and with its concentra- tion Arabic will lay hol... ...ays going to be an Egypt, a Poland, 135 H G Wells an Armenia. There is no Indian nation, there never has been, but there are manifestly a Bengal and ...

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...on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the Spaniards were robbing, slaughtering, enslaving... ...anoe, and startled him; and reasonably enough, for he had been warned by the Indians that he was on a foolhardy journey, and even a fatal one, for the... ...t yet, when one stumbles on it in print. They had been warned that the river Indians were as ferocious and pitiless as the river demon, and destroyed ... ...nd by, and were hospitably received and well treated—if to be received by an Indian chief who has taken off his last rag in order to appear at his lev... ...og, and have these things forked into one’s mouth by the ungloved fingers of Indians is to be well treated. In the morn ing the chief and six hundred... ...es—in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. She has two railways, Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 179 and is the commerci... ...nces; it commands the commerce of the Yazoo and Sunflower Rivers; is pushing railways in several directions, through rich agricultural regions, and ha... ...seen, that one doubts them when he does see them. The custom ary half dozen railways center in Hannibal now, and there is a new depot which cost a hu...

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...of the several organized Territories is gener- ally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. The m... ...rsements there were for the civil service $23,253,922.08, for pensions and Indians $4,216,520.79, for interest on public debt $24,729,846.51, for the ... ... you, for useful and varied infor- mation in relation to the public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pert... ...tes. The measures provided at your last session for the removal of certain Indian tribes have been carried into effect. Sundry treaties have been neg... ...h. I suggested in my last annual message the propriety of remod- eling our Indian system. Subsequent events have satisfied me of its necessity. The d... ...e great enterprise of connecting the Atlantic with the Pa- cific States by railways and telegraph lines has been entered upon with a vigor that gives ...

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...es to appoint their representatives. I suppose there would be at least one Indian representative elected, perhaps by some special electoral con- feren... ... representative elected, perhaps by some special electoral con- ference of Indian princes and leading men. The chief defect of the American Presidenti... ...Georgia, or the Indi- ans in the T ransvaal make such an appeal? Could any Indian population in India appeal? Personally I should like to see the powe... ...e middle African Customs, the regulation of inter-State trade, inter-State railways and wa- terways, quarantine and health generally, and the establis... ...er, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all be represented in proportion to their inter... ...nd but the greatest devotion to the sovereign, and still truer was this of Indians, Egyptians, and the like. It might be easy to press this theory of ... ...rban district was beyond the scope of the Greek imagination. There were no railways, telegraphs, telephones, books or newspapers, there was no need fo... ...bedience is not without its price. These are matters vitally affecting our railways and ships and com- munications generally, the food and health of t...