... -Sikh War broke out as a result of the Sikh Empire of the Punjab falling into disorder after the death of the Maharajah Ranjit Singh in 1839, and British desire to secure the Punjab. The Sikh army, the Khalsa, was goaded by some of the contenders for power in the Punjab and its own ambitions for plunder and glory into crossing the Sutlej River into British territory. But still the Jehad went on in full swing. Mohammed ... in Lucknow but also in Panjab, Jhansi, Cawnpore, Delhi took place, killing women and children, and british soldiers too. The rebels' murder of women, childre...

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... many years after he returned to England for good, he was still looking back to India and reexamining the Imperial experience (Bauer xii). In 1907, Rudyard Kipling became the first English author to win a Nobel Prize for literature. Kipling's brilliant works, although mostly children's books, forced even his harshest critics to acknowledge his genius. In his later years his fame declined but ... , he has always had an attentive audience of readers, and has never been out of print. Brilliant, prolific, and still controversial, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely popular authors ...

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... Marabar Caves, located in the hills some twenty miles away, the Indian city of Chandrapore is unremarkable; it stretches shabbily along the Ganges River, and only the upper rise of the city, where the English live, is beautiful. One evening in Chandrapore Dr. Aziz rides his bicycle to the home of his friend Hamidullah. There, Aziz smokes a hookah while Hamidullah and Mahmoud Ali debate whether it is possible to be friends ... into another cave, and Mrs. Moore sits outside trying to write a letter to two of her children. She feels increasingly upset and threatened by the memory of the ec...

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... immersion) • Energy, Carbon Footprint • Climate change:Adaptation and mitigation measures 'When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.' John May The Greenpeace Story The CLEAN-India Programme India has a population of over one billion, of which almost 300 million live in around 600 towns and cities. Unfortunately, as a result ... students. Harnessing Youth Power - Way Ahead Young people constitute a large part of the world's population. India has the largest youth population in the world. Nearly 40 per...

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... the institution of a national anthem which expressed anti-Muslim sentiments, in the schools of India where Muslim children were forced to sing it. The Muslim League gained power also due to the Congress. The Congress banned any support for the British during the Second World War. However the Muslim League pledged its full support, which found favor for them from the British, who also needed the help of the largely Muslim army. The withdrawal of the ... but fuel an already raging fire of hatred. While partition divided British India into the separate countries of Pakistan and India it also...

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... fashions. Country houses complete with tidy gardens began to spring up along the Hooghly River in Calcutta. Places like the Bread and Cheese Bungalow, the Jockey Club and Eden Gardens began to crop up around the City of Palaces. The city of Calcutta came to resemble a sweet-and-sour Bath. Each morning before the heat of midday, in this imported version of England intensified and exaggerated by its distance from home ... child they could lay hands on. While a few pockets of the country got caught up in the bedlam of the mutiny, most parts remained fairly calm. Nobody, however, could igno...

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