Holmes Of The Raj

Author : Vithal Rajan
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184002508

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Holmes of the Raj by Vithal Rajan Pdf

It is 1888. As Central Asia reels under the intrigues of the Great Game, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson sail to India on a secret mission in the service of Empire. The accountant of a Hindu monastery has been brutally murdered, and the head priest is the prime suspect. But as both detective and doctor soon discover, their Indian autumn has only just begun. They are plunged into a series of adventures that take them from Madras and Pondicherry to the princely courts of Hyderabad, the uncharted jungles of the Central Provinces, pine-scented Nainital, and the bustling metropolis of Calcutta. Even as Holmes unravels sinister plots, Watson busies himself helping Ronald Ross track the malaria parasite and advising a schoolboy called Dhyan Chand on the finer points of hockey. The six stories in Holmes of the Raj are delightful vignettes of life and politics in colonial India. Vithal Rajan breathes life into historical characters, as Holmes and Watson meet Lord Ripon, Madame Blavatsky, Francis Younghusband, Kipling and Kim himself, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Ramanujan, Motilal Nehru, Tagore, Jinnah, and many, many others. Sprightly, colourful, and remarkably faithful to Conan Doyle, this is an unforgettable collection.

Author : Vithal Rajan
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1434825892

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Holmes of the Raj by Vithal Rajan Pdf

An 'Orientalist' piece of fiction, written tongue incheek, about the Raj at the height of its power in the late 19th century, with Holmes and Watson appropriating themselves leadership in several fields, whether it is politics, religion, medicine, or even cricket or mathematics. The Great Detective and the intrepid Doctor meet not only captains of empire - such as Lord Ripon, Viceroy Lansdowne, Captain Younghusband and Dr. Ronald Ross - and modem Indian leaders - such as Motilal Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah - but also Kipling's characters, Kim and Mowgli, embedded in everybody's collective literary memory. Inpassing, they expose the true identity of Jack the Ripper, send Professor Moriarty to an ashram, and foil General Dyer's attempt on Annie Besant's life.

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007370344

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Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 by Richard Holmes Pdf

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.

Author : Kyllikki Ruokonen,Manohar Lal
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8170224373

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India Information Sources, Economics and Business by Kyllikki Ruokonen,Manohar Lal Pdf

Subject bibliography of selected reference sources.

Author : Pradeep Sebastian
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789350093634

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The Groaning Shelf by Pradeep Sebastian Pdf

Notes from a bibliophile on the lure of rare and first editions, the beauty of dust jackets, the thrill of browsing in antiquarian bookshops, the bibliomania of book thieves, movies about books, and the inner life of a reader. The Groaning Shelf is not so much a book about books as a book about books about books. These little essays capture the drama of bookish obsession, the joys and snares of the bookish life and the pleasures of bibliophily.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Plant viruses
ISBN : UVA:X030491483

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Plant Pests of Importance to North American Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Halbert Houston Thornberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951D006139650

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Index of Plant Virus Diseases by Halbert Houston Thornberry Pdf

Set includes revised editions of some issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : IND:32000005639606

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The National union catalog, 1968-1972 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fred W. Blaisdell,J. M. Dunleavy,Marion Ashton Smith,Robert Jay Marty,Charles A. Rindt,John Fedkiw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
ISBN : UIUC:30112019248142

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Directory of Professional Workers in State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Other Cooperating State Institutions by Fred W. Blaisdell,J. M. Dunleavy,Marion Ashton Smith,Robert Jay Marty,Charles A. Rindt,John Fedkiw Pdf

Author : S. P. Agrawal,Pushpa Rani Sharma
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8170224179

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Communication Informatics and Librarianship in India by S. P. Agrawal,Pushpa Rani Sharma Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : WISC:89015291966

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National Union Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Author : Andrew Bielenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317878124

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The Irish Diaspora by Andrew Bielenberg Pdf

This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On each of these, there is a number of more specialist articles by historians, demographers, economists, sociologists and geographers. The inter-disciplinary approach of the book, with a strong historical and modern focus, provides the first comprehensive survey of the topic.

Author : Kathleen L. Sheppard
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739174180

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The Life of Margaret Alice Murray by Kathleen L. Sheppard Pdf

The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology is the first book-length biography of Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963), one of the first women to practice archeology. Despite Murray’s numerous professional successes, her career has received little attention because she has been overshadowed by her mentor, Sir Flinders Petrie. This oversight has obscured the significance of her career including her fieldwork, the students she trained, her administration of the pioneering Egyptology Department at University College London (UCL), and her published works. Rather than focusing on Murray’s involvement in Petrie’s archaeological program, Kathleen L. Sheppard treats Murray as a practicing scientist with theories, ideas, and accomplishments of her own. This book analyzes the life and career of Margaret Alice Murray as a teacher, excavator, scholar, and popularizer of Egyptology, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, and more. Sheppard also analyzes areas outside of Murray’s archaeology career, including her involvement in the suffrage movement, her work in folklore and witchcraft studies, and her life after her official retirement from UCL.

Author : S. P. Agrawal,Pushpa Rani Sharma
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Communication
ISBN : 8170224950

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Subject Guide to Communication, Informatics and Librarianship in India by S. P. Agrawal,Pushpa Rani Sharma Pdf

Author : Niyasi Serdar Sariciftci
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814518215

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Primary Photoexcitations in Conjugated Polymers: Molecular Exciton Versus Semiconductor Band Model by Niyasi Serdar Sariciftci Pdf

This volume concentrates on the controversy within the scientific community over how to explain, understand and describe the photophysics/photochemistry of this class of materials. This controvery is of such a fundamental nature that the solution of the problem might be in a unification of the semiconductor and metal physics with the molecular quantum chemistry. Thus, a wide-ranging and comprehensive discussion of this very crucial issue has not been written down yet. This volume brings together the most prominent scientists specializing in this controversial topic. Each contributor addresses the opponents' arguments. After short introductory chapters, the contributors discuss their own speciality area and compare the results with both models and explain their position on why one of the models is more appropriate. Special emphasis is given to comparative discussions with other conjugated molecular systems as well as inorganic semiconductors. Contents:Correlations in Conjugated Polymers (Z G Soos et al.)Nature of the Primary Photo-Excitations in Poly(Arylene-Vinylenes): Bound Neutral Excitons or Charged Polaron Pairs (A J Heeger)Excitons in Conjugated Polymers (H Bässler)Intramolecular Excitons and Intermolecular Polaron Pairs as Primary Photoexcitations in Conjugated Polymers (E Conwell)Excitonic Effects in the Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers (S Abe)Bound Polaron Pair Formation in Poly(Phenylenevinylenes) (L Rothberg)Luminescence Efficiency and Time-Dependence: Insights into the Nature of the Emitting Species in Conjugated Polymers (I D W Samuel et al.)Mechanism of Carrier Generation in the Class of Low Mobility Materials: Transient Photoconductivity and Photoluminescence at High Electric Fields (D Moses)Photoluminescence Spectroscopy as a Probe for Disorder and Excitonic Effects in Organic and Inorganic Semiconductors (U Lemmer & E O Göbel)Spectroscopy on Conjugated Polymer Devices (V Dyakonov)Spin-Dependent Recombination Processes in π-Conjugated Polymers (P A Lane et al.)Electroabsorption Spectroscopy on π-Conjugated Polymers (G Weiser & Á Horváth)The Role of Excitons in Charge Carrier Production in Polysilanes (R G Kepler & Z G Soos)Theory of Excitons and Biexcitons in π-Conjugated Polymers (S Mazumdar & M Chandross)Ultrafast Relaxation in Conjugated Polymers (T Kobayashi)Are Bipolarons Photogenerated in PPV? (E Conwell)Do Bipolarons Exist in Doped or Photoirradiated Conjugated Polymers? — An Analysis Based on Studies of Model Compounds (Y Furukawa)Photoexcitations in Conjugated Oligomers (R A J Janssen)Excited States in Poly(Paraphenylenevinylene) and Related Oligomers: Theoretical Investigation of Their Relation to Electrical and Optical Properties (D Beljonne et al.)Ultrafast Photoinduced Absorption in Nondegenerate Ground-State Conjugated Polymers: Signatures of Excited States (D W McBranch & M B Sinclair) Readership: Researchers and graduate students in the field of physics and chemistry of conjugated, conducting polymers and physical chemistry. keywords: