... Akbar worked together. The First Anglo-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 ... their religious identity is at peril. This effort culminated in the partition of Bengal in 1905. West Bengal, Orissa and B...

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... 's search for his identity. Teshoo Lama, a Tibetan lama, wandered into Lahore looking for Buddhist relics in a museum. The lama is on a quest to find the holy "River of the Arrow" which supposedly sprang from an arrow shot by Buddha. Anyone who bathes in this river shall be cleansed of all sin. The location of this river is unknown and he is on a quest to find it . Kim is fascinated by ... had in his life, and Kipling uses it to show a clash of native and British mentality, with Kim and the lama showing the native side, and the members of the regiment showing aspects of British mentality...

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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 ... sending invitations to a number of prominent Indian gentlemen. The Indians are greatly stirred up by the invitations, which take on another level of significance w...

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... men, he took Fort William without much difficulty. That night, the European captives were locked up in a brig known as the Black Hole, an 18-by-14-foot room with a door on one side and, on the other, a small iron-barred window leading onto a verandah. The stifling air and crush of bodies in the room were compounded by the sweltering summer heat. When morning broke on June 21, 1756 ... and-drum corps, curries by English dishes and local clothes by the latest (or almost latest) London fashions. Country houses complete with tidy gardens began to spring up along the Hooghly River in Calcutta....

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... from each other. They had based their knowledge of the peoples of India on the basic religious texts and the intrinsic differences they found in them instead of on the way they coexisted in the present. The British were also still fearful of the potential threat from the Muslims, who were the former rulers of the subcontinent, ruling India for over 300 years under the Mughal Empire . In order to win them over to their side, the British helped ... innocents do nothing but fuel an already raging fire of hatred. While partition divided British India into the separate countries of Pakistan ...

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