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The Age of Kali

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The chapter is guided by an interview with Mir Moazam Husain, grandson of Fakrool Mulk, who was Deputy Prime Minister of the Nizam's last government in Hyderabad and a building enthusiast. Mir Husain recounts
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and this chapter discusses the history of the politics of the region and how in modern times educated people became more respectful of the faith. The chapter also discusses a 300BCE document called
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The theme of this chapter is the intervention of globalization into the lives of poor people in India. It starts with an anecdote about 200 farmers from rural Bangalore ransacking a
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The book gives an overview of many of the top controversies in the region at the time of publication, including interviews with players in those events.
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in her area, and who was gang raped in retaliation. It also includes interviews with politically motivated people who say that she was not raped.
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includes discussions of the 13 February 1992 massacre of high caste people by low caste people in Barra, Bihar; the arrest and political style of
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as he interviews an elderly Goan aristocratic woman named Donna Georgina. Donna Georgina discusses two invasions of Goa - the
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as the voice of India and this book collects 19 essays on places and people located on or near the Indian subcontinent."
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and the people's local belief in the spiritual power associated with his grave. The author writes on the Frenchness of
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and also talks about present-day local black magic practices. The author compares the old State of Hyderabad to
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restaurant in the city on account of it being non-Indian and for serving meat. Other topics discussed include
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discusses the lives of widows who retire there and corruption in the systems for providing aid to widows.
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at her separate homes. He gives a description of their homes and recounts parts of their biographies.
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The book is a collection of essays collected through almost a decade of travel around the
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The second part discusses sexuality in the Indian media and contains an interview of
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This chapter includes a description of the 1997 murder of an instructor in Lucknow's
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and surveys the opium trade there. He gives the history of the Greek ruins in
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said that "Dalrymple has become a kind of Uberjournalist who has superseded
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and gives an overview of the 19th century history of the practice of sati.
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There are two parts in this chapter and each one contains an interview of
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This chapter has two parts. The first part discusses the work of Indian
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on her dead husband's funeral pyre. The author interviews people in
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refers to a series of romance novels which Benazir Bhutto enjoyed.
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This chapter includes a discussion of the culture of 19th-century
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The author visits the Northwest Frontier, known today as the
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Benazir Bhutto - Mills & Boon in Karachi: Karachi, 1994
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to tribesmen but previously supplied participants in the
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and the second is when Khan founds the political party
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where they discuss the motives of people's worship of
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Bangalore and the Fast-Food Invaders: Bangalore, 1997
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when many problems will come to exist in the world.
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At the Court of the Fish-eyed Goddess: Madurai 1998
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The sad tale of Bahveri Devi: Batteri, Jaipur, 1994
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Index


William Dalrymple
ISBN
978-0307948908
From the Holy Mountain
White Mughals
William Dalrymple
Indian subcontinent
Kali Yuga
ISBN
8172233329
Meenakshi
Madurai
Indian subcontinent
Sati
caste
Patna
Anand Mohan Singh
Laloo Prasad Yadav
Lucknow
Mir Taqi Mir
Dilkusha
Tawaif
Vrindavan
Gwalior
Vijayaraje Scindia
Jai Vilas Mahal
Babri Mosque
La Martiniere College
University of Lucknow

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