Word: subcontinentals
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The bulky boxed set went to No. 1 in 1971, propelled by such hits as My Sweet Lord and What Is Life. Harrison had found a new spiritual mentor, Srila Prabhupada of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, and Hindu sentiments and sounds permeate the record, further spurring sitar sales...
However, we must remember that Pakistan herself, a country of 140 million, is quite unstable. Our actions in Central Asia must not end up in destabilizing the entire South Asian subcontinent with nuclear weapons at issue. We must recall that Afghanistan has been wracked by civil war of the most...
Dar-ul-uloom is a product of the Indian mutiny of 1857, a watershed for India's Muslims. After Britain's victory ended the Muslim dominance of the subcontinent, the school became the center of a forward-looking movement that sought to reform and unite Muslim society in a country...
Fakhra was born in the Napier Rd. red-light district. Her mother is a heroin addict, and Fakhra began work as a nautch (dancing girl) at age 11. The nautch tradition goes back centuries in certain parts of the subcontinent; sometimes the dancing girls are legitimate performers, often they're...
Born out of Britain's partition of the subcontinent in 1947, the Kashmir imbroglio continues to threaten peace in South Asia. But after two full-scale wars in 1948 and 1965, unending artillery duels, annual clashes on the world's highest glacier, a two-month battle for a row of...