The Orphan of India
Title | The Orphan of India PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon Maas |
Publisher | Bookouture |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2017-06-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1786811790 |
The Orphan Keeper
Title | The Orphan Keeper PDF eBook |
Author | Camron Wright |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780606407441 |
Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells th
Weakest on Earth
Title | Weakest on Earth PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789385436871 |
Defeat is an Orphan
Title | Defeat is an Orphan PDF eBook |
Author | Myra MacDonald |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1849046417 |
When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on an intense competition that had begun with Partition. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger military. But the shield offered by nuclear weapons also encouraged a reckless reliance by Pakistan on militant proxies even as jihadis spun out of control within and beyond its borders. In the years that followed, Pakistan would lose decisively to India, sacrificing its own domestic stability in a failed attempt to assert its claim to Kashmir and influence events in Afghanistan.Defeat is an Orphan tracks the defining episodes in the relationship between India and Pakistan from 1998, from bitter conflict in the mountains to military confrontation in the plains, from the hijacking of an Indian airliner to the Mumbai attacks. It is a frank history of an enduringly bitter relationship, set against the background of Islamist militancy in Pakistan and India's economic leap forward.
Orphans of the Storm
Title | Orphans of the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Saros Cowasjee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Tragic Orphans
Title | Tragic Orphans PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Vadivella Belle |
Publisher | Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2016-05-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9814620955 |
In 1938, noting that the bulk of the Indian population formed a "e;landless proletariat"e; and despairing of the ability of the factionalized Indian community to unite in pursuit of common objectives, activist K.A. Neelakanda Ayer forecast that the fate of Indians in Malaya would be to become "e;Tragic orphans"e; of whom India has forgotten and Malaya looks down upon with contempt"e;. Ayer's words continue to resonate; as a minority group in a nation dominated politically by colonially derived narratives of "e;race"e; and ethnicity and riven by the imperatives of religion, the general trajectory of the economically and politically impotent Indian community has been one of increasing irrelevance. This book explores the history of the modern Indian presence in Malaysia, and traces the vital role played by the Indian community in the construction of contemporary Malaysia. In this comprehensive new study, Carl Vadivella Belle offers fresh insights on the Indian experience spanning the period from the colonial recruitment of Indian labour to the post-Merdeka political, economic and social marginalization of Indians. While recent Indian challenges to the political status quo - a regime described as that of "e;benign neglect"e; - promoted Indian hopes of reform, change and uplift, the author concludes that the dictates of political discourse permeated by the ideologies of communalism offer limited prospects for meaningful change.
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Title | The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Gordon |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2011-02-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674061713 |
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."