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Holding Withering Love takes the childhood friendship of two boys, Kashmiri Lal and Thakur Ranbir Singh, through four decades. After Kasmiri dies in a freak flood in the Pakistani province where he lives with his family, his wife then also dies a few weeks later. Kasmiri's only child, five-year-old Rita, is adopted by his friend and goes to live with Thakur's own three children in his native princely State of Kapurthala, India, where he is a highly connected aristocrat. Rita is well educated and later marries in a royal manner. Holding Withering Love will keep readers totally engrossed because of its imaginative description of life in different Asian locales. This is a story of love and frie...
Traces the labors and fortunes of a set of progressive idealists who, mobilizing merchant capital, transoceanic networks and informal political influence, established the Orient Islamic Educational Institute in 1943 to found schools and promote a secular curriculum that could be integrated with Islamic teaching. Through the story of their Durban flagship project - the Orient Islamic School - the book provides a fascinating account of the changing politics of religious identity, education and citizenship in South Africa.
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"The book provides useful information on various aspects of customs and etiquettes obligatory in the [Indian] Services..." -- from back cover.
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के. के. बिर्ला फाऊंडेशनतर्फे दिला जाणारा अखिल भारतीय पातळीवरचा 'सरस्वती सन्मान' या नाटकाच्या निमित्ताने प्रथमच एका मराठी नाटककाराला मिळाला. हा सर्वोच्च सन्मान विजय तेंडुलकरांना मिळावा याविषयी कोणाचेही दुमत नव्हते; परंतु तो त्यांच्या 'कन्यादान' या नाटकाला मिळावा ...
How can biblical authority be a reality for those shaped by the modern world? This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between the gospel and current society by presenting an outsider's view of contemporary Western culture.