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Afghanistan History British Intervention, 1838-1842 Afghanistan History, Military 19th century Amir of Afghanistan Shāh Shujāʻ 1780?-1842 Bait fishing British Afghanistan History 19th century Fishing baits Great Britain India Kirkpatrick, James Achilles 1764-1805 Koh-i-noor (Diamond)Dalrymple, William
Summary: In August 1756 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army--what we would now call an act of involuntary privatization. The East India Company's founding charter authorized it to "wage war" and it had always used violence to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.03 DALDalrymple, William.
Summary: A study of the ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.092 DALDalrymple, William
Summary: "The Koh-i-noor is the world's most famous diamond, but it has always had a fog of mystery around it. Now, using previously untranslated Sanskrit, Persian and Urdu sources, and the discoveries of modern gemmologists to reconstruct its original form, William Dalrymple and Anita Ananad blow away the legends to reveal its true history--stranger, and more violent, than any fiction."--From dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 553 DALDalrymple, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954 DALDalrymple, William.
Summary: Examines the mid-19th-century Afghan war as a tragic result of neocolonial ambition, cultural collision and hubris, drawing on previously untapped primary sources to explore such topics as the reestablishment of a puppet-leader Shah, the conflict's brutal human toll and the similarities between the war and present-day challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.103 DALDalrymple, Byron W. (Byron William)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Outdoor Life : [distributed by] Funk & Wagnalls 1976