La India

Not-so-indomitable Afghanistan?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 461 words; ...small army to garrison it, he left a stable province, through which he received reinforcements and communications while in India. Almost alone among his conquered provinces, Afghanistan never rose in revolt while he was alive. John Harrison POTOMAC...

From the Dieppe raid.(What We Learned ...)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 1107 words; Although Lord Louis Mountbatten oversaw India's postwar independence from Britain and was later murdered in a headline-grabbing IRA bombing, history best remembers him...

Drogo the last castle: tucked onto the edge of Dartmoor, with central heating.
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 1746 words; ...to spare, classical lines, lie designed and built Drogo Castle over the same period that he designed and built New Delhi, India's shining new colonial capital, so that these two commissions stand as the starting point of his new approach. It was this...

The adventure of flying Fitz: the celebrated copilot of the first airplane to cross the Atlantic from east to west, James Fitzmaurice ended up a forgotten hero caught between two worlds.(Biography)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 4054 words; ...May 1921. He was posted to No. 25 Squadron, flying Sopwith Snipe fighters. Notified soon after of an imminent transfer to India, Fitz faced a dilemma. He was a married man and the father of a baby daughter, in a service that frowned on marriage before...

Slumdog comprador: coming to terms with the Slumdog phenomenon.(GLOBAL CINEMA)
CineAction; 12/22/2009; 7374 words; ...a film made by a Western director about India gains critical acclaim in the West, two...much more realistic version of life in India than films traditionally have." (4...in addressing the 'social ills' of India. (8) Here we begin to see the emergence...