The Raj, was for 90 years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and exploitation it developed over the centuries into what has been called benign autocracy."

A fascinating history of the religious fanatics that would come to be known as the founding fathers of Islamic terrorism and who set down the intellectual roots of Al Queda.

India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In a wide-ranging, multi-layered journey of discovery that is as much about Britain's entanglement with India as it as about India's distant past, Charles Allen tells the story of the man who was arguably the greatest ruler India has ever known.

Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world. Close by are the sources of four mighty rivers: the sacred Ganges, the Indus, the Sutlej and Tsangpo-Brahmaputra. For centuries Kailas remained an enigma to the outside world. Then a succession of remarkable men took up the challenge of penetrating the hostile, frozen wastelands beyond the Western...

Drawing extensively on the men's diaries, journals and letters, this text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier.

This book offers concrete advice and handy examples to sharpen your writing skills. Filled with sample letters, memos, and reports (also available on an accompanying disk with workbook), this book will help you successfully attack your in?basket. The writing samples are organized according to the particular audience you want to reach: faculty and staff, parents, central office, peers, local community, etc.