Tag: Jawaharlal Nehru
The Second Elizabethan Age Has Ended
The first Elizabethan era ended on March 24, 1603, when 69-year-old Queen Elizabeth I died in her sleep at Richmond Palace. “This morning, about three o’clock, her Majesty departed from this life, mildly like a lamb, easily like a ripe apple from the tree,” the lawyer John Manningham wrote in his diary. Elizabeth I’s 45-year reign was a “golden age,” a course of events that no one would have predicted at her birth. She had survived her mother’s execution,
Was Narendra Modi mir nimmt
New Delhi ist mehr Es ist über 2.000 Jahre alt und diente als Zentrum mehrerer Imperien und Königreiche, was es zu einem der ältesten ununterbrochen bewohnten Orte der Welt macht. Im 17. Jahrhundert war das heutige Alt-Delhi die Hauptstadt des Mogulreiches. Die Briten, die später kamen, errichteten ihre Hauptstadt in Kalkutta (heute Kalkutta), bevor sie schließlich beschlossen, sie zurück zu verlegen. 1911 legte König George V. den Grundstein für eine neue Hauptstadt, die in Delhi gebaut werden sollte –
The Hinduization of India Is Nearly Complete
When the British withdrew from the Indian subcontinent in 1947, paving the way for the independence of the newly partitioned nations of India and Pakistan, the Muslims of the region had a choice. They could resettle in Pakistan, where they would be among a Muslim majority, or remain in India, where they would live as a minority in a majority-Hindu but constitutionally secular state.
For Shah Alam Khan, whose great-grandparents were among the roughly 35 million Muslims who opted
America Has Never Really Understood India
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resurrected Cold War hostilities, harkening back to a world in which the United States saw itself pitted in a Manichaean struggle, facing a choice between good and evil. The U.S. is using similar rhetoric today to persuade countries to isolate and punish Moscow. President Joe Biden has garnered support among his NATO allies to impose crippling sanctions on Russia, but his efforts elsewhere have been only partially successful. Australia and Japan—which, along with the