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Smart money was against India in 1947. Independence celebrations were quickly marred by communal violence, fierce territorial disputes with new neighbor Pakistan over the control of Kashmir, and the death of the country's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi, in January 1948. But, as Guha points out, the fledgling state was...
“The trouble with being too detailed and too specific, is that in time one may discover that one was simply wrong about those matters, or that they turn out to be—for perfectly legitimate reasons—unfeasible,” said Rudenstine. ?...
Cline imagines that greater access to Harvard’s collections will pave the way for breakthroughs in scholarship, both from Harvard scholars using digital tools to discover materials in new disciplines and scholars from other institutions discovering Harvard’s resources for the first time, digitally.
Faced with the reality of my limitations, I decided I had to throw out my old definition of “doing well” and find another one. I busied myself with “soul-searching” activities that now seem silly—like enrolling in...
The violence has reverberations far beyond Nigeria. Oil rose above $50 a barrel for the first time when in 2004 a Nigerian Muslim militant threatened to attack the industry, while fears that the April 2007 elections would trigger renewed violence were a factor in driving the price above $66 in...