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if a forced de-peg had happened, it would have given the impetus for India to take stock of the Gold present in the country and directly go to the US and make a deal with them to link Indian Gold and the economy with USD. So the part of India which was at war with Britain, would magically make a de...

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the value of the parity between the Sterling and Rupee was decided by Britain, not by India. so, inherently it was designed to profit UK, even if it meant a disadvantage to India. if the rupee was taken off the peg, British economy would have collapsed overnight. this is not an exaggeration. the Em...

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In our hind-sight we blame him and criticize him not supporting the violent revolutionaries (earlier threads). Would that not have given rise to the possibility of multiple regions -some with British some against, some cooperating others looking for themselves? Excellent question. The British had a...

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I had quoted earlier material to show that JLN had already swung towards an opposition to any power sharing with Jinnah as representative/claimant of Muslims. I had added Menon's claims about "converting Sardar" in this connection too. Menon was close to JLN . Menon does not talk of havin...

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Importance of Africa for Indian agro-business Africa is better in terms of productivity, costs, taxes, duty-free access to European markets because of their least developed country status, and lower transportation costs owing to the geographical proximity to our main markets in Europe. A rose from ...

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Importance of Laos Laos's $7.5 billion economy is 790 times smaller than China's, a 14th of the size of Vietnam's, and roughly two percent of Thailand -- but it has more than doubled since 2006, as has GDP per capita, which jumped from $600 to $1,200, according to World Bank data. A $7 billion Chin...

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Yeah, let the pukes divide and disintegrate on their own: ANP supports Seraiki province but opposes Hazara province “We, in the ANP, are opposed to new provinces where there is no feasible population and the area of the proposed (federating) unit such as the Hazara districts is also not feasible.” H...

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Food security bill will kill farming – Himachal CM

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Do yoga. This particular pose will aid digestion, massage the internal organs, improve posture and perhaps help in keeping the stomach flat. Regular exercise and healthy eating also.

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Pakistan urged to share Durand Line map The head of the U.S. Central Command is urging Pakistan to share a map of its facilities and installations near the Afghan border to help avert episodes like the one that killed 24 Pakistani forces last month. Mattis directed Allen, commander of NATO's Intern...

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Popular Tamil actor Seeman among 400 arrested following protests over Mullaperiyar

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U.S. Prepares for a Curtailed Relationship With Pakistan: NY Times “We’ve closed the chapter on the post-9/11 period,” said a senior United States official, who requested anonymity to avoid antagonizing Pakistani officials. “Pakistan has told us very clearly that they are re-evaluating the entire r...

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Pakistan, China sign currency swap agreement : However, industry insiders suspect that China will later convert the arrangement into a loan as it has expressed little interest in trading in Pakistani currency. They said Pakistan had also proposed China to buy its treasury bills with the swap money,...

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x-post India-Pacific strategic environment: IDSA Before lifting the Uranium ban, Australia had floated the idea of a trilateral strategic dialogue with India and the US in October 2011. The idea was proposed to India through high-level diplomatic channels on the lines of the then proposed India-US-J...

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x-post India-Pacific strategic environment: IDSA Before lifting the Uranium ban, Australia had floated the idea of a trilateral strategic dialogue with India and the US in October 2011. The idea was proposed to India through high-level diplomatic channels on the lines of the then proposed India-US-J...

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India-Pacific strategic environment: IDSA Before lifting the Uranium ban, Australia had floated the idea of a trilateral strategic dialogue with India and the US in October 2011. The idea was proposed to India through high-level diplomatic channels on the lines of the then proposed India-US-Japan t...

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U.S. Pauses Airstrikes in Pakistan The 33-day pause is the longest since the program began in 2004, according to the Long War Journal, a website that tracks the strikes. Javed Ashraf Qazi, the defense committee chief, said he believed the pause in attacks was because the U.S. "does not want to...

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Baluchistan can no longer run with Pakistan Sardar Attaullah Mengal claimed that Balochistan could no longer run with Pakistan since unrest and a sense of deprivation were prevailing among the students. He said: “If Nawaz Sharif had the power to check the army, he would not have been thrown to Saud...

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liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu

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SOG Rajasthan arrests govt employee spying for ISI : The clerk, Pawan Kumar Sharma (25), working at the SDM office in Suratgarh town in Sriganganagar district, used to forward information to his Pakistani handlers regarding army exercise in the area in which the permission of district administratio...

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It speaks volumes for Jadunath Sarkar's impact as a historian that his works still arouse different reactions among different people. Whenever I recommend his books to fellow Rajputs, they complain of his bias against them. Meanwhile a modern American writer Jason Freitag studies these same works an...

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Sarkar was a product of his time. Go through his books about Marathas and you see him parroting British propaganda quiet frequently. That Jadunath Sarkar was a "colonial" historian or that he parroted British propaganda is the line normally taken by leftist crackpots.......Sarkar actually...

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Looking at the above wikipedia link, it would appear that Jadunath Sarkar was the Romila Thapar of his time when it comes to matters related to Marathas. Couldn't find anything in that wikipedia link to justify this statement. Sarkar gave praise where it was due (Shivaji, Baji Rao, Mahadji Sindhia)...

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Pakistan learnt no lessons in forty years since surrender we immediately forgot that the East Pakistan debacle was primarily caused by the unwillingness of the powers in Pakistan to allow the East Pakistanis to remain part of Pakistan on an equal footing — let us not forget that the six points of M...

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Rajasthan, Gujarat draw battle lines over Mahi waters Tak says Gujarat did not take Rajasthan into confidence before launching the project as stipulated in an agreement signed between the two states in 1966. The MP told TOI, "Of the 1.29 million acre feet (MAF) of water in Kadana dam on the ri...

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Maharaja Sher Singh's baradari in Lahore becomes 'waste dump' According to historian Surinder Kochhar, there was a tomb of Maharaja Sher Singh which also remains neglected and had become a place of shelter for stray dogs and cats. He said Maharaja Sher Singh was shot dead here by Ajit Singh, a rela...

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Niira Radia shuts shop

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Why Delhi replaced Calcutta as capital In early 1911, an eight-member committee was constituted by the Governor General, Lord Hardinge of Penhurst, to look into the viability of Calcutta continuing as the capital of the British empire in India. The panel, which had only one Indian member in Saiyid ...

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Sexual abuse of Pashtun women in IDP camps women in camps were forced to have sexual intercourse in exchange for food and non-food items. Girls and widows were at greater risk. “A security officer forced me to have sex in exchange for cooking oil and pulses when I was collecting food at the main en...

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How Bad Is the Euro? Ask Iceland : Iceland has toyed with idea of joining the euro for a number of years, but after the krona plummeted during the country's economic implosion in 2008, the idea gained more urgency. Now the tiny nation has an application pending to join the euro. But the Progressive...

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India trip reaps $60M in investments for US state of Maryland

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Bumper potato crop effect on the economy The WB state government on Thursday announced it would offer subsidies for export of potatoes after it failed to find takers for nearly 6 lakh tonne of the crop lying in cold storage units. However, the question that immediately cropped up regarding export w...

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US House-Senate negotiating panel to freeze $700 million aid to Pakistan Pakistan is one of the largest recipients of U.S. foreign aid, and the cutback announced is only a small proportion of the billions in civil and military assistance it gets a year. But it could presage greater cuts as calls gr...

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Pakistani businessman rapes mother-in-law in pak occupied J&K

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Platinum Jubliee Session of the Indian History Congress at Punjabi University Patiala

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Pakistan is under badmash generals Pakistan military generals, who were solidly behind bin Laden, are punishing the democratic government of President Asif Ali Zardari and his favorite former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, for disagreeing with their military strategy in Afghanista...

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To be a Baloch is to embrace death What is happening in the largest province of the country remains behind a veil of secrecy. There are some who dare to speak, but only if their privacy is protected. For “to be a Baloch openly is to embrace death,” says one such woman. In 2008, she says she was for...

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Sindh is Punjab's brother and Punjab is Sindh's brother: Nawaz Sharif Sporting a Sindhi ajrak and topi, the PML-N chief was addressing a rally in Larkana, where he vowed that he would keep coming to help his “Sindhi brothers” as he had done in the past. “Pakistan’s condition would have been better ...

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krisna wrote:Nalwa and Ranjit Singh showed how a mixture of ferocity, valour and compassion could tame Afghanistan.

"Afghanistan" should actually read "The Pashtun tribes living along the Indus River" and not the wider country of Afghanistan, which continued to be under its own rulers.

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http://tribune.com.pk/story/303597/shia-sunni-reconciliation/ Of particular note was the ritualistic invective (tabarra) that evolved during this period, which was hurled on those companions of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) who Shias consider to be ‘enemies’ of inherited succession, such as Hazrat Umar (...

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