In America, we are privileged to live in such a place where our religion is not put on trial and who or what one believes in is not reason to ignite violence on such an extreme stage. ... His desire to make India proud of itself through the resources and skills of the people drips into the hearts and minds of the masses. ... Not only that, it makes it seem more of a trouble then before. ... Both sides do not want either one to gain control over the other, forcing it to go against itself. ... However it does not cease until he is near death, and the people do so to save his life. ...

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Linlithgow's sentiments were clearly not mutual as on Linlithgow's departure, Menon says that Linlithgow's 71⁄2 years' regime - longer than that of any other Viceroy - was conspicuous by its lack of positive achievement. ... When Lord Mountbatten arrived as Viceroy in 1947, Menon was not initially included in his inner team, as Mounbatten brought several senior advisers from London to reinforce the Viceroy's Private Secretariat. ... There was also a feeling that it would be difficult for an Indian Hindu to avoid being partisan during the tense negotiations for indepe...

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" But, unfortunately, his dream did not come true. The tide country was not yet ready for Hamilton's progressive ideas. ... They are Piyali Roy (Piya), a Bengali-American cytologists from Seattle who cannot even speak her mother tongue, and Kanai Dutt, a prosperous and proud owner of a translation business in New Delhi. ... He uses this notebook to another mystery, that of his uncle's death. ... Her life-long service to the destitute and dispossessed did not go unrewarded. ...

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He also was the first to address the people, not traditional leaders in his call for jihad. His evangelism-based on networks of preachers, collectors and judges-also addressed the common people and not the rulers' courts His first target was the Sikh-ruled kingdom of Ranjit Singh, which was expanding further into Muslim land towards Afghanistan. ... Only after this evangelist campaign and sharia system was had set up was jihad declared.[2] The jihad did not succeed however, due to the "treachery of the local khan".[2] In December 1826 Sayyid Ahmad and his followers clashed with Sik...

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