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...icated with political figureheads of that time to make them realize of British intrusion. He also worked for social reformation of Muslim communities in far-off places in subcontinent. Sayyid Ahmad traveled throughout the Subcontinent, into Afghanistan and North West region of Subcontinent to create awareness for the cause. He eventually lost his life in a battle agains...

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...We see from the life of Sayyid Ahmed that he disrupted the status quo of society at various levels. He was not a passive preacher or a Sufi living in isolation. He not only challenged the oppressors but also the oppressed. For this he faced opposition from both. When Sayyid Ahmed stepped out to reform socio-religious thought in India, that included matters related to ge...

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...List of illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 Early Life of Sayyid Ahmed and Political Chapter 2 Colonization of India during life of Sayyid Ahmed Chapter 3 Anti-Colonial Struggle of Sayyid Ahmed and Reformation Efforts Conclusion Bibliography ...

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...This 2019 fourth revised edition of The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple is a complete study of the St. Thomas in India legend—its origin, history in India, and communal ramifications. The book is named after the main, 24-chapter essay by Ishwar Sharan and includes more than 18 authoritative, independent articles by senior journalists...

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...ly Wrong - K.P. Sunil ... 140 ▫ Archbishop Arulappa’s Document Forger Goes To Jail - Ganesh Iyer & K.P. Sunil ... 148 ▫ Indian Historian Makes A Mockery Of Indian History - Veda Prakash ... 155 ▫ The Pre-Thinking Debate - Sita Ram Goel & Khushwant Singh ... 159 Part Three ▫ Pope Doubts St. Thomas Evangelised ...

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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the ho...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This book ... ... E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblan... ...02 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means... ... ritual murders and primeval sexuality, had long evaded the law, because the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or so... ...itual murders and primeval sexuality, had long evaded the law, because the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some ... ...y wiped out. This was one of the most difficult, but necessary operations undertaken by the EAST INDIA COMPANY and is considered, along with the abo... ...ng Elizabethans envisage that their enterprise would one day, with an army more powerful than any in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a reve...

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...sit Kerala every year on thiruvonam days of Chiga masam (August) to confirm his people's well being. This was how ONAM celebration came into practice in Kerala, India....

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...One very striking point in the book is the usage of ‘honourable company’ with regard to the East India Company. This adjective of ‘honourable’ is a necessary item in the feudal vernaculars of the Indian peninsula. Without this adjective, (mentioned ...

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... of the District Manuals of Madras. This instruction I have faithfully carried out and I am happy to report now that the book is completed and issued in three large volumes. Although I have allowed myself some latitude in forming my own conception of the design and scope of the work and devoted my best attention and energies to their exposition and elucidation, I still fee...

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...There are many insights in this book. The writer of the main part of this book is V. NAGAM AIYA. I think that many Indian academic historians, who have endeavoured to write the history of ‘Modern’ India, should take lessons from this most unassuming...

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... this period extended from Attungal to Nagercoil. The dynasty of Jayasimha still continued to rule the country between Azhikkal (Karunagapalli Taluq) in the north and Paravur in the south, and, as noted above, there was an alliance in 1727 A.D., between the chiefs of Chinganad and other States to crush the power of Travancore. Nanjanad which once formed part of Travancore ...

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...Commentary PART 1 Creation of a digital version CANTANKEROUS REASONS AN UNASSUMING TALENTED HISTORIAN OBSERVATIONS SLAVERY in the South-Asian PENINSULA THE PEOPLES OF KERALA NO MENTION of MAHABALI CLASSICAL CASE of CULTURAL HISTORY MANIPULATION23 HOW MUCH TRADE CONTRIBUTES TO CULTURAL ENHANCEMENT MARTHANDA VARMA; an ANGLOPHILE ...

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...ft) തുടങ്ങിയവയും, അതോടൊപ്പം തന്നെ, ദക്ഷിണേഷ്യൻ ചരിത്രം (History of South-Asia), ഇങ്ഗ്ളിഷ് കൊളോണിയലിസം (English Colonialism), ബൃട്ടിഷ് ഇന്ത്യ (British India), ലോക ചരിത്രം (World History), ഈ പ്രാദേശിക ഉപദ്വീപിന്റെ ചരിത്രം എന്നിവയും മറ്റും ഈ എഴുതാൻ പോകുന്ന വിഷയത്തിൽ ചെറുതായോ, അതുമല്ലെങ്കിൽ കാര്യമായിത്തന്നെയോ പരാമർശിക്കപ്പെടുന്നതോ, അതുമല്ലെങ്കിൽ സൂചിപ്പിക്കപ്പെടുന്നതോ ആയിരിക്ക...

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...rst paths, first attempts to expand the borders of their habitat. The chronicles of road connections should be considered as the history of humankind in the spatial domain at the crossroads of which the fates of nations and cultures converged and intertwined. The appearance of roads is directly related to the invention of the wheel thousands of years ago. These were the f...

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...In those distant times, traveling was always an unsafe business, so every merchant had to consider the risks of it. The road was rarely even, not to mention picturesque. It typically ran through a desert, often stony, with ca...

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...ef of Staff of the US Air Force on encouraging professional reading through making historical accounts available to personnel of the finest air force in the world, a success achieved in large part because of Hap Arnold....

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...script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 5 NORTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, INDIA, CHINA 9 JANUARY–17 FEBRUARY 1943 . . . . . . . . 431 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .431 The Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English influence apparently at the...

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...ench presidents, the German chancellors and the generals of the Russian Civil War (1918-1922). The strange form of some states such as Mali, Somalia, India and others is associated to inter-ethnic conflicts taking place in these countries. The astral themes of certain historical events and of their participants are also analyzed (such as the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, t...

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...h dates of its participants. Historical repetitions connected with the 60 years period of the Chinese horoscope are considered (Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, 60 years after the peninsula was given to Ukraine by order of Khrushchev). The half-period of 30 years is connected with couples of events combining analogy with contrast (e.g. the Sepoy uprising of 1857 and India's ...

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...inition. Suppose that two words contain respectively m and n letters, where n is greater than or equal to m. Suppose that they have exactly p letters in common counted with the possible repetitions. Then the correlation between the two words is equal to p/m. For instance, the correlation between the words « Italy » and « Sicily » is 3/5 (one has m=5, n=6 and p=3). The...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...t.” JAMES PURDY, novelist: “An important writer... I find great pleasure in his work. Really beautiful and distinguished.” ALICE S. MORRIS in Harpe... ...azaar: “He tells a haunting and beautiful story and manages to telescope, in a brilliantly leisurely way, a lifetime, a full and eventful lifetime.”... ...s Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of Sappho is a m... ...hought of mapping rivers. I told this to Francesco; he smiled and nodded. India? China? Tibet? For him they are words. He thinks only of his Italy, ... ...r collection of silver, gold, and ivory fans, fans from Egypt, Greece and India, arranged on her walls, some open, some in cases, flabellum with bon... ... smoked on the long watches. It settles the blood and calms the mind. The Indians...” “We know about the Indians,” Jonson said. “Just remember, we’r...

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...ngs on the realities of history, I increasingly found it difficult to find his greatness. As I grew up, I started seeing a lot of ‘Gandhis’ all round India; in fact, in every village, every small town, in every social group, there seemed to be at least one ‘Gandhi’; a person who was the focus of respect and the symbol of simplicity; yet a man who kept everyone else in lowe...

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...m by the simple imbibing of English (England) systems, and pull them to the creepy levels of some feudal hierarchy, on the top of which Gandhi exists in a most heinous manner....

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...Includes an opening summary page in all major regional languages (English, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Burmese, Filipino, Khmer, Lao, Thai Vietnamese and Chinese. Beginning with the common origins of Southeast Asia’s peoples and languages, their sh...

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...Summary Overview: in English v in Bahasa Indonesia vi in Bahasa Malaysia vii in Burmese viii in Filipino x in Khmer xi in Lao xii in Thai xiv in Vietnamese xvi in Chinese ...

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...This book is an alternative representation of my thoughts, which have been more comprehensively presented in another of my books Writings @ Ankur Mutreja. I felt the need to publish this book separately to cater to the needs of those readers who don’t have much time to read books. This book is indeed a light reading. The book...

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...In Preventing Catastrophe: US Policy Options for Management of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia, Lt Col Martin J. “Marty” Wojtysiak, USAF, proposes a response to the dangerous proliferation of nuclear weapons in India and Pakist...

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...The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream world he discovers and frequents. (Summary by Liam Neely)...

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... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ...an affair with Guy Marcus Trundle, a car salesman. So reveal documents released in January 2003 by the Public Record Office in the United Kingdo... ...ery good looking, well bred and an excellent dancer". He lived at 18 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London (a prestigious address). Simpson's first... ...r later, the first Strowger exchange was installed with great fanfare at La Porte, Indiana. It had less than 80 subscribers. Strowger died in 1902... ...r homeland and has won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Her mother was ambassador to India in the 1960s. She is cherished by all her countrymen. ... ...ete world census was carried out in 1801. The results - China (295 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 million), France (27 million), ... ... USA (c. 5 million each). Data for these countries today: China (1,302,505,000), India (1,047,074,000), Russia (142,881,000), France (59,107,500)...