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...skinned Aryans invaded the subcontinent, subjugated the dark-skinned Dravidians who inhabited it and imposed on them the caste system. But during the millenniums after Christ, plunderers from Central Asia-Turks, Persians and Afghans-brought with them the flaming sword of Mohammedanism. By the mid-17th century, when the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal, the subcontinent was firmly under Moslem rule, and its Hindus were a subjugated majority...
...18th century, the Mogul Empire was in decline, and rebellious armies under Hindu and, later, Sikh leadership had begun to pull it apart. The British finished the job, and as they began to annex great swatches of the old Mogul Empire, England's soldiers and administrators unwittingly opened the way for a dramatic Hindu renaissance. The first British conquest was the vast state of Bengal, or what is now India's West Bengal state and East Pakistan. As shrewd and energetic traders, Bengal's Hindus had close ties with the British, and they naturally found positions...
...others in the running-John Lindsay, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and Republican Representative Paul McCloskey-only Yorty has received a number of substantial individual gifts. His main supporter is his campaign manager, Sam Bretzfield, a Los Angeles garment manufacturer. Charles Luckman, the architectural mogul, is another big contributor. Lindsay, on the other hand, is running out of pocket and wooing New York moneyed liberal Republicans; he has deserted their party, but Lindsay aides are still counting on their support...
...Cornell at Dartmouth and Yale at Princeton. SCORING LEADERS Pts. Felix Adedeji, Harvard 9 Chris Papagianis, Harvard 8 Steve Baumann, Penn 7 Stan Startzell, Penn 7 Chris Wilmot, Harvard 7 Victor Huerta, Cornell 6 Phil Kydes, Harvard 5 GOALIE Avg. Jim Miller, Penn 0.60 Paul Neary, Brown 1.00 Mark Mogul, Columbia 1.00 Bruce Arena, Cornell 1.00 Ken Pasternak, Yale 1.00 Pete Dickson, Princeton 1.50 Shep Messing, Harvard...
...Gold Records. The religion stuck, and so did the singing. In 1961 Berry Gordy, the mogul behind Motown, spotted Gaye in a black club in Detroit. Within a year Gaye had the first of twelve gold records, Stubborn Kind of Fellow, and soon was married to Gordy's sister Anna, living in Gordy's former house in integrated but still fashionable North Detroit...