Word: subcontinental
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INDIAN HISTORY is much more the story of those who invaded the subcontinent than of the people native to its tropical and cultural climate. The record stands as a more than 3300-year struggle among a string of marauders, each Imperialist group seizing control over the nation's highly disjointed...
WITH FAST, INTUITIVE brush strokes Carlos Diegues" Bye Bye Brazil captures the spirit of an entire subcontinent in the flux of modernization. Rambling from the dusty old town of Pirhanhas in the Northeast where the facades of buildings look like pastel stagesets, to the parched hopelessness of the plains, down...
The Administration's other argument was that rejecting the sale might cause India to turn further toward the Soviets-perhaps by buying from them uranium it could not get from the U.S. One of the goals of U.S. diplomacy in the region is to start re-establishing friendly relations...
> Cataracts, the clouding of the eye's lens, have blinded millions of people in Asia and the Indian subcontinent. In these areas, surgery costing as little as $5 per patient can remove the occluded lens and restore some vision. Wilson reaches the cataract victims by setting up temporary eye...
For centuries Pakistan's North-West Frontier province capital of Peshawar has served as a trading and hitching post between the rising Himalayas to the north and the flat Asian subcontinent to the south. Camel caravans, Scythians, Alexander the Great's Macedonian legions, Mogul hordes, Britain's...