These letters begin with Nehru's postcards and messages to his baby daughter and with her first effort at the age of six. They are plentiful, because Nehru was often away from home, not only on political business but also in prison. During this time Indira was growing up, experiencing different kinds of schools, in India and then in Europe, and finally the university life in Oxford. She told he…
I was twenty. A wintry dawn filled the sky above the low buildings of Shino-In, a small Buddhist temple forming part of the main monastery complex of the Shingon sect situated at the top of Mount Koya in Japan. In the silent room of tatami mats, plastered walls and paper windows, beside my futon, my tea, left in a cup from the night before, had frozen solid. I had not slept much; it had been to…
We wish to give special thanks to the following for their aid in helping this book comes about: The of Information in Muscat, the Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in Paris. Mr Philippe de aet who were kind enough to read these texts before publication and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Department of Tourism, the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture, the Chambers of Commerce and Ind…
Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean with an area of 3,572 square miles, lying 40 miles south of Turkey, 77 miles west of Syria, 30o miles north of the Arab Republic of Egypt and 650 miles south-east of Greece. Two ranges of mountains, Troödos in the south and Pendadaktilos in the north, border the dry Messaoria plain which extends from Morphou Bay to Famagusta. The highest …
Every nation, of course, has its own peculiarities and distinctive facets. Down the ages, however, Russia has suffered more than most from attempts simply to superimpose Western values and to transplant Western experience into a country that has followed its own route, on the fringes of Europe and Asia, Christendom and Islam, ever since Prince Vladimir of Kievan Rus chose the Orthodox Church of…
The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Taking readers from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges- in kinship and writing-that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vi…
Salikan Hardjo (1910-1993) devoted his entire life to representing the interests of his people, the Surinamese Javanese. He was born on Java and grew up in Suriname since 1920 as the son of Javanese contract workers. In the 1930s, under the pseudonym Bok Sark, he wrote fierce articles against the colonial administration and the way in which Javanese contract workers were treated in Suriname. Af…
This book is not a traditional symposium in which each writer submits a chapter or chapters on a particular geographical area of the region. Rather, it is a work in which each scholar can take equal pride in the entire production because it was a joint intellectual pursuit.
Pol Pot is an extraordinarily challenging subject, for no modern revolutionary leader has so purposefully, and successfully, left so little trace. And he certainly deserves his enigmatic reputation: an indifferent student, he became a gifted teacher; an amiable mediocrity as a youth, he led (leads) one of the world's toughest guerrilla organizations; described by all who knew him as polite, cha…
Buku ini berisi tentang sejarang perjuangan Bangsa Indonesia melawan penjajah. Terkandung segala duka derita Bangsa Indonesia pada masa itu yang telah mengantarkan nikmat dan martabat Bangsa Indonesia yang merdeka.