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...that they may be survivors of the Dards, an obscure tribe mentioned in ancient Greek chronicles. Others suspect that they are descendants of troops left behind by Alexander the Great on his invasion of India. The most intriguing theory is that their ancestors were the original Aryans, the prehistoric Indo-European people whose language and light skin linger on in the speech and appearance of modern Europeans. Fascinated by this possibility, Adolf Hitler in 1938 reportedly dispatched one of the Third Reich's racial experts on a personal survey of the Minaro region. It is said that Hitler even...
...sheer inventiveness seem equally true and equally preposterous. On the eve of India's independence, the owner of a moviehouse in Delhi tries to appease both Hindus and Muslims by showing a double feature. One is a vegetarian epic "about a lone, masked hero who roamed the Indo-Gangetic plain liberating herds of beef cattle from their keepers," the other a Randolph Scott western of the genre "in which cows got massacred and the good guys feasted on steaks." Nobody comes, and then the theater is bombed; the blast kills the owner and blows all the clothes...
...tiny island of Phu Quoc off the Delta coast some 500 miles to the south. No target was too big or too impossible, including Saigon itself and General William Westmoreland's MACV headquarters. South Viet Nam's capital, which even in the worst days of the Indo-China war had never been hit so hard, was turned into a city besieged and sundered by house-to-house fighting...
...victory made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma-all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
Schimmel, who teaches several graduate courses in Indo-Muslim literature and religion, has traveled to Pakistan at least once every year for 25 years...