When Guru Ramdas Chose His Youngest Son, Arjanmal, To Succeed Him As The Fifth Guru Of The Sikhs, It Created A Lot Of Ill-Will In His Eldest Son, Prithichand. But The Choice Was Not Wrong. Guru Arjan Was The Very Embodiment Of Love, Humility And Courage. His Greatest Contribution To Sikhism Was The Compilation Of The Guru Granth Sahib And The Construction Of The Har Mandir Sahib In Amritsar. He Was The First Sikh Martyr And By His Death Inspired His Followers To Uphold The Truth Under Any Pressure./A
This title offers a cultural and social analysis of contemporary Bollywood films over the past decade, exploring the ideas of nation, race, religion, gender and sexuality, cinema and public spaces, diaspora and globalization.
This book is an autobiographical account of an officer of the Indian Army. The narrative starts from his boyhood, when he became the youngest wrestling disciple of a ‘Rustam-e-Hind’. It goes through his youth, his selection into the Indian Military Academy (IMA) – and experiences therein. It continues into his experiences as an army officer and also covers the battle experiences of the two Indo-Pak wars of 1965 and 1971. It terminates with his experiences as an advocate at Judge Adjutant General (JAG) branch.
Bidhi Chand was a skilled robber but a meeting with the Sikh Guru, Arjan Dev, changed him. He promised to turn honest, he would tell no lies and never steal again. But then the Mughal Emperor's soldiers forcibly took away two horses belonging to Guru Hargobind, the son of Guru Arjan. The Sikhs did not have the numbers to attack the vast Mughal army. They had to resort to trickery to get the horses back and Bidhi Chand found that he had to go back on his word, just this one time and steal the Guru's horses back from the Mughal fort. Bidhi Chand's plot combined wit, courage and great audacity, tricking the Mughals not once but twice, until they learnt not to underestimate the resourcefulness of the Sikhs.
The unusual story of a woman compelled to marry one whom she brought up as her own son. Rajinder Singh Bedi (1915-1984) short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenplay writer is acknowledged as one of the finest Urdu writers of recent times and is placed alongside such greats as Premchand, Manto, Krishna Chander and Ismat Chugtai. His literary career of fifty years was marked with versatility and some of the finest creative writing seen in Urdu literature. His Urdu novel, Ek Chadar Maili Si translated into English as I Take This Woman, received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965.
Provides a road map of the scholarship on modern Hindi cinema in India, with an emphasis on understanding the interplay between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This book attends to issues of capitalism, nationalism, orientalism, and modernity through understandings of race, gender and sexuality, religion, and politics.
The Nobel Prize, according to the will of its founder Alfred Nobel, are awarded to persons for their services in the field of chemistry, physics, medicine and physiology, literature and peace. The Economic Sciences Prize was introduced by the Swedish Bank and first awarded in 1969. Till 1964, fourteen Indians – Aga Khan III, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, Hari Mohan Banerjee, Sanjib Kumar Chaudhuri, Benegal Narsing Rau, Rajah Bhushanman Manikam, Mahesh Prasad Varma alias His Holiness Bal Brahmachari, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Mehar Chand Davar, Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Mahatma Gandhi – were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. An apostle of non-violent struggle and a crusader against colonialism and inequality Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi) was a much revered world figure. Between 1924 and 1948, in nearly 100 nominations (individual or joint) he was proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize. And yet despite international support, Gandhi was never a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Why was it so? Was it the fault of the Nobel Committee? Perhaps his associates made mistakes? In order to answer such questions, the nomination letters, newspaper cuttings, reports of the experts’ of the Nobel Committee, confidential record of the Committee, and other unpublished documents were consulted from the Archives of the Peace Prize Institute. The results are discussed and analysed in this volume. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
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