Peshawar 1919


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(In 1919, the elderly Ashok returns to Peshawar, where he had a career in the criminal underground in the '20s and '30s. Most of his old friends, like longtime partner Vijay are long gone, yet he feels his past is unresolved. Told in flashbacks, the story follows Ashok)







East India


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Volumes for 1889/90-1891/92 include: Report on sanitary measures in India, v. 30, 1896/97.
















The Coolie's Great War


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Though largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over??550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants. From the porters, stevedores and construction workers in the Coolie Corps to those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha recovers the story of this unacknowledged service. The labor regimes built on the backs of these 'coolies' sustained the military infrastructure of empire; their deployment in interregional arenas bent to the demands of global war. Viewed as racially subordinate and subject to 'non-martial' caste designations, they fought back against their status, using the warring powers' need for manpower as leverage to challenge traditional service hierarchies and wage differentials. The Coolie's Great War views that global conflict through the lens of Indian labor, constructing a distinct geography of the war--from tribal settlements and colonial jails, beyond India's frontiers, to the battlefronts of France and Mesopotamia.




Indian and Pakistan Year Book and Who's who


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Issues for 1919-47 include Who's who in India; 1948, Who's who in India and Pakistan.




Afghanistan 1900 - 1923


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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.




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