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From a reader in Rome

Chrestomather Mar 29, 2013 0 Comments

  Through the marvelous works you are publishing (books and blog on the web side) I'm learning very much about certain parts of the history that were completely unknow to…

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From a Correspondent with Bhojpuri Connections

Chrestomather Mar 25, 2013 0 Comments

    May 2012 Dear Mr Ghosh It was a privilege to hear you speak at the Greewich Maritime Museum in late February. We spoke very briefly as you were…

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István Perczel and India’s Syriac Heritage

Chrestomather Mar 22, 2013 4 Comments

    I wrote about Dr István Perczel, of the Central European University in Budapest, in my post of April 9, 2012 (‘Hungarian Scholar Finds Bonanza in Kerala Archive’ -…

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Captain Frederick Marryat and the British Museum Buddha

Chrestomather Mar 18, 2013 3 Comments

  Rupert Arrowsmith is an art historian and author  of Global Modernism: Early Twentieth Century Art and Literature in Tokyo, Shanghai, Calcutta, Bombay and London (I reviewed the book on…

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From a Trinbagonian reader

Chrestomather Mar 15, 2013 3 Comments

    Oy good sir, As a lover of Naipaul and a London-born Trinbagonian, I think your article on Naipaul is note-perfect. I had to write immediately to tell you…

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Shared Sorrows – 18

Chrestomather Mar 10, 2013 2 Comments

    Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18 - 18   On November 26th Sisir and his comrades reached Tripoli; and on December…

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Shared Sorrows – 17

Chrestomather Mar 6, 2013 0 Comments

    Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18 - 17   Sisir Sarbadhikari went to the station early to wait for the train…

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Shared Sorrows – 16

Chrestomather Mar 3, 2013 0 Comments

    Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18 - 16   Aroundthe end of  October 1918, when it was clear that Germany and…

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