Silver was the codename for the only quintuple spy of the Second World War, spying for the Italians, Germans, Japanese, Soviets and the British. The Germans awarded him the Iron Cross, Germany s highest military decoration, and paid him 2.5 million in today s money. In reality Silver deceived the Nazis on behalf of the Soviets and the British. ......
Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West
In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: 'You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook.' Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers stationed in British India and the U.S. West commanded considerable influence, as Verity McInnis reveals in ......
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
Honorable Mention, Hamid Naficy Iranian Studies Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis, they slowly lost contact with their ancestral land until the nineteenth century, when steam-powered sea travel, the increased ......
The book examines how South Asia can best adapt to climate change. The region's governments are undertaking large-scale programs to build climate-resilient infrastructure and disaster preparedness systems.
Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
Can we write women's authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women's creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this postcolonial region? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore these questions from a uniquely comparative perspective, delving ......
Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
Can we write women's authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women's creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this postcolonial region? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore these questions from a uniquely comparative perspective, delving ......
Early essays by a legendary freedom fighter and Indian intellectual "The state, the government machinery is just a weapon in the hands of the ruling class to further and safeguard its interest. We want to snatch and handle it to utilize it for the consummation of our ideal, that is, social reconstruction on a new, that is, Marxist, basis." - ......
Early essays by a legendary freedom fighter and Indian intellectual "The state, the government machinery is just a weapon in the hands of the ruling class to further and safeguard its interest. We want to snatch and handle it to utilize it for the consummation of our ideal, that is, social reconstruction on a new, that is, Marxist, basis." - ......
