Kaushal, I have a potential question which I have been thinking for sometine.
Did Nehru know about the great game and did he figure out what would be India's role after 1947?
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- 29 Oct 2002 06:17
- Forum: Military History Archive
- Topic: Remembering a War: The 1962 Indo-China War
- Replies: 224
- Views: 141781
- 29 Oct 2002 06:11
- Forum: Military History Archive
- Topic: Remembering a War: The 1962 Indo-China War
- Replies: 224
- Views: 141781
Re: Remembering a War: The 1962 Indo-China War
" China was not sure “if the Indian political establishment had arrived at a democratic consensus that would be required to sustain the difficult negotiations… I am not sure of the conditions concerning ‘mutual understanding and mutual accommodation’ is agreed to by Indian friends”. Sunil, THi...
- 25 Oct 2002 03:16
- Forum: Military Exercises Archive
- Topic: Cope India 2002
- Replies: 65
- Views: 37425
- 09 Oct 2002 12:31
- Forum: News Folders Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force -- News Folder -- October 2002
- Replies: 71
- Views: 14346
- 18 Sep 2002 04:17
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: India and the Social Sciences
- Replies: 94
- Views: 69884
Re: India and the Social Sciences
I have been reading a book 'A History of Pagan Europe' by Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick Some of the things said by Balu can be read in this book. Why this topic is important is that; there is seeds of intellectual renaissance in India which will be a major force in changing the Indian perception ...
- 25 Aug 2002 07:40
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Genealogy of Castes and Tribes
- Replies: 22
- Views: 24962
Re: Genealogy of Castes and Tribes
Peopling of India - IISC research This is a good site for migration of people in the eurasian continent. this was discussed in the original AIT thread by Kaushal. Table of contents Abstract Introduction Role of innovations Genetic affinities Gene analysis reveals people radiating out of the Middle ...
- 25 Jul 2002 01:27
- Forum: Military History Archive
- Topic: Books that cover IAF and its History
- Replies: 69
- Views: 52999
Re: Books that cover IAF and its History
Wednesday July 24, 7:56 PM Panel submits report on Indian war history By Indo-Asian News Service http://in.news.yahoo.com/020724/43/1slof.html New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) A panel set up by the government to examine whether official records of wars fought by India should be made public submitted its re...
- 05 Jul 2002 12:04
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Seismology for Dummies: Guesstimating nuke test yields
- Replies: 150
- Views: 49005
Re: Seismology for Dummies: Guesstimating nuke test yields
Can somebody explain to me where the anomaly is here? It is no one's claim that all the data available to nuclear testers in South Asia (including Pakistan , just in case someone thought otherwise) is available to outside observers. It follows, therefore, that the one with more data on an event is ...
- 25 Jun 2002 01:27
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism
- Replies: 33
- Views: 27868
Re: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism
Originally posted by Sunil Sainis: Pakistan has two basic tendencies; an explosive tendency and an implosive tendency. When the explosive tendency dominates, Pakistan exports violence to other regions of the world. As India and Afghanistan are right next to it, they have faced the brunt of this. If...
- 20 Jun 2002 11:18
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism
- Replies: 33
- Views: 27868
Re: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism
Gen Pervez Musharraf has to prove himself not only in his relations with India, as it keeps insisting, but much more in regard to Pakistan, itself—by standing up to it like a Momin This will tell how they will take the next step. The next step would be roping in the sole moral protecter of the Momi...
- 20 Jun 2002 02:18
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism
- Replies: 33
- Views: 27868
Re: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism
Relavent to Indo-pak context The word 'peace,' for example, implies to a Muslim the extension of the Dar al-Islam -- or 'House of Islam' -- to the entire world," explained Tibi, who is also a research scholar at Harvard University. "This is completely different from the Enlightenment conce...
- 13 Jun 2002 11:34
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
- Replies: 114
- Views: 76011
Re: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
Dude, unless this guy was congenitally braindead, it looks like he was warned about his imminent arrest by the Pakistanis. This nonsense about the `false passport detention' and the subsequent release should have at the very least told him to cancel all his planned contacts and appointments. Sunil,...
- 13 Jun 2002 04:28
- Forum: News Folders Archive
- Topic: Indian Army - News Folder - June 2002
- Replies: 55
- Views: 9413
- 13 Jun 2002 03:33
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
- Replies: 114
- Views: 76011
Re: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
At the very least it merits the question why was Padilla not turned over to US agencies in Pakistan itself? why did they wait for this chump to board an airplane and then arrest him immediately at O'hare.. why not just let him move around in the country and gather his men and then arrest everyone? ...
- 11 Jun 2002 10:45
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
- Replies: 114
- Views: 76011
Re: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
Is there any Latino dissatisfaction against the gringo here with this Jose guy? To fulfill his plan he did the best thing currently available - to join the clan after conversion and take a established course in nuke terrorism. Any body see this?
- 11 Jun 2002 00:12
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
- Replies: 114
- Views: 76011
Re: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
I think it is a pressure tactic for the Amry of Islam in TSP before Rumsfeld reaches Pak.
- 06 Jun 2002 03:10
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: The Definition of Worlds
- Replies: 24
- Views: 25283
Re: The Definition of Worlds
Several words used interchangebly Third Bloc ( geopolitical based) Third World ( social indicators based ) Developing country ( economy based with a healthy GDP growth) Emerging market ( economy turning to a market based and integrating with the leading economies ( India)) Low/semi industrialized ( ...
- 10 May 2002 05:49
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Parakram II: all services excercise on western front
- Replies: 173
- Views: 103041
Re: Parakram II: all services excercise on western front
The Pakistanis Of late have shown an increasing interest in acquiring a submarine based second strike capability. This will enormously complicate things if GoI is in fact thinking like Vikram. IMHO it is unrealistic to entertain the notion that a sea based deterrent can be mounted by a force that c...
- 04 May 2002 02:12
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Parakram II: all services excercise on western front
- Replies: 173
- Views: 103041
Re: Parakram II: all services excercise on western front
Is this news anything to do with PkII or the news of strategic command? India, U.S. to conduct first joint military exercise By Rezaul H. Laskar, Indo-Asian News Service http://in.news.yahoo.com/020503/43/1n82i.html New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) India and the U.S. will conduct their first joint military e...
- 27 Apr 2002 06:20
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Indianness - a (simple?) survey
- Replies: 117
- Views: 76447
Re: Indianness - a (simple?) survey
Personally, I find the whole intellectual movement behind Indian Islamism and its related pan-Islamism very fascinating in its psychology I have been researching this movement for some time and actually is the reason for the schrezophrinic character of Pakistan. Read Maulana Maududi ( 1903-1979)( h...
- 26 Apr 2002 02:40
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: IAF Organizational/Functional Structure
- Replies: 71
- Views: 42384
Re: IAF Organizational/Functional Structure
One minor question, possibly a techie's distraction -- transmitting video stream, would that have been via the JTIDS backbone? Wow -- what sort of data-transfer rates does it support, do you know (and are you allowed to tell, without having to kill us afterwards)? Latest issue of Foriegn Affairs ha...
- 26 Apr 2002 02:04
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Can India re-Value the Rupee?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 56631
Re: Can India re-Value the Rupee?
Another reason why disinvestment would be helpful, is that most of the non-performing industries tend to be concentrated in the northen belt (along with the textile factories in MAH). The northen belt is a non-performer in the current economic environment. By disinvestment, these economies would be...
- 18 Apr 2002 03:38
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
- Replies: 86
- Views: 65065
Re: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
All the rulers and nobles who subscribed to this were considered aryavartha All the kings in the south considered themselves as Aryans.Apparently, in those days morality, honor and justice were prized.
- 13 Apr 2002 03:58
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
- Replies: 86
- Views: 65065
Re: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
The most recent episode of sudden sea-level rise that Anderson discerns occurred about 2000 B.C., when global climate was presumably similar to present conditions. His work indicates that sea level may have jumped considerably in just a few centuries. But so far Anderson has been unable to establis...
- 12 Apr 2002 05:30
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
- Replies: 86
- Views: 65065
- 12 Apr 2002 05:16
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
- Replies: 86
- Views: 65065
Re: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
Between 17,000 years ago and 7000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, terrible things happened to the world our ancestors lived in. Great ice caps over northern Europe and north America melted down, huge floods ripped across the earth, sea-level rose by more than 100 metres, and about 25 mill...
- 12 Apr 2002 05:06
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
- Replies: 86
- Views: 65065
Re: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
How long ago? When were these strange, man-made structures above sea level? After 1993, the structures lapsed back into obscurity because the NIO had insufficient funds for further investigation. But in February 2000, Graham Hancock, a best-selling author internationally renowned for his unorthodox ...
- 07 Feb 2002 12:29
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
- Replies: 241
- Views: 82452
Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> Kgaon<p>The other point is that the Pak elite lack a mechanism for the exchange of power. Instead, power shifts on a subtle basis based on intangibles such as status, who's perceived to be "up" at a give...
- 06 Feb 2002 22:17
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
- Replies: 241
- Views: 82452
Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
Arun here it is.<p>Japanese rocket fails to release satellite <p> AP [ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2002 10:57:08 AM ] <p>OKYO: Japanese space officials acknowledged on Tuesday that the H-2A rocket failed to release one of the two satellites it was carrying after blasting off the day before.<p>The Institut...
- 06 Feb 2002 05:24
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
- Replies: 241
- Views: 82452
Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
Arun_S we need some expert opinion on this Japan launch and test probe. Looks like th probe experiment is a university class experiment. How are they getting orders from only two tests. Off course lot of clout is used in these contracts?<p> http://www1.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1880365...
- 01 Feb 2002 11:11
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
- Replies: 241
- Views: 82452
- 25 Jan 2002 11:47
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
- Replies: 227
- Views: 82847
Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
India flexes muscles with missile test <p>The test on the eve of India's most important national celebration was meant to send a message to the world and Indians that New Delhi is resolved in the standoff with Pakistan, analysts said. <p>"Making this test today sends out a very powerful signal...
- 25 Jan 2002 11:23
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
- Replies: 227
- Views: 82847
Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
Arun, The question I have is does this test tell the world that this is a solid fuel mobile based missile that can be launched in very short time.
- 25 Jan 2002 08:49
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
- Replies: 227
- Views: 82847
Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
No TSP cant even open its test site right now.
I think there is a rift growing between US and TSP since last few weeks.
I think there is a rift growing between US and TSP since last few weeks.
- 25 Jan 2002 04:35
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 47770
Re: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
Partition <p>Sir, — Apropos the article `The man who divided India upsets Pakistan' (Dec. 7). Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been excessively blamed for what turned out to be the catastrophe of Partition. The fact was that the division was half-baked and incomplete. For Jinnah and a number of Muslim leader...
- 18 Jan 2002 22:06
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: T-72s in Chechnya, From Armour Magazine
- Replies: 254
- Views: 69874
Re: T-72s in Chechnya, From Armour Magazine
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> GOI/MOD should come out with a clear statement on the status of Arjun. Ambiguity on their part, repeated hankerings in the press about the "failed MBT program", and to top it all the CAG reports keep the...
- 17 Jan 2002 22:54
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: The Road to World Power
- Replies: 120
- Views: 79488
Re: The Road to World Power
Envisioning A New India: The Prahalad Prescription The challenge before us is daunting. What should we do and where we do we begin? CK Prahalad spoke recently at a CII Summit in Bangalore. The following is taken from a note on the CII website on Prahalad's talk:<p>Domestic companies should consider ...
- 09 Jan 2002 02:40
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 47770
Re: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
The Partition debate <P><BR>Sir, - I am amazed that Mushirul Hasan should be surprised (The Partition debate, Jan. 2- 3) that Partition led to widespread violence. The Indian state was a living reality and an organic unit in 1947. That its cutting up should lead to much bleeding was as natural and i...
- 06 Jan 2002 16:29
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 47770
Re: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
EXAMPLE<P><BR>TO:<P>The Hon. Tony Blair<BR>Prime Minister of The UK<BR>C/o AskBlair@yahoogroups.com<P>Honorable Prime Minister:<P>Greetings.<P>This is in response to your position on Kashmir. When Pakistan was created <BR>by His Majesty's Government in 1947, his government was wise in letting the <B...
- 06 Jan 2002 16:18
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 47770
Re: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
Some Important Events Enlisted:<BR>> <BR>> 1949, October 17: Article 370 of the Union<BR>> Constitution adopted.<BR>> <BR>> 1952, July 24: Prime Minister Nehru announced<BR>> special<BR>> position for J&K under Delhi Agreement; Parliament<BR>> told Kashmir's accession to India is complete in law...