Word: subcontinental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indian navy minesweepers carefully swept Mormugão harbor, India's richest prize from the invasion and the finest natural harbor on the Indian subcontinent. Biggest economic boon of union with India for agriculturally impoverished Goa will be the availability of cheaper food. After India placed a trade embargo...
On the defensive on the northern frontier, India was on the offensive against the tiny, 456-year-old Portuguese colony of Goa, 1,300 miles to the southwest. Hopefully trying to scare the Portuguese colonial authorities into going home, Nehru had massed Indian army regulars on the Goa border. "Goa...
Urdu, which is a Turkish word for lashkar (army), developed under the influence of the Mogul kings some 400 years ago as a sort of lingua franca, originating in the northern parts of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Later during the centuries, it spread very rapidly throughout the subcontinent and became...
Throughout the Indian subcontinent, the man with a Western wife is in a kind of caste by himself. Invariably, the husband has worked or studied abroad; generally he comes from a good family and has a well-paying professional or government job. But last week his caste mark looked more...