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PARTING OF THE WAYS.(analysis of the causes of boundary dispute between India and Pakistan)
History Today; 3/1/2000; Chester, Lucy; 1686 words
; ... boundary-making warn against relying solely on maps and stress the importance of field surveys. Unfortunately ... statistics, the testimony of interested parties, and maps, without ever having seen -- let alone surveyed -- the areas to be divided. Maps display only selected, and sometimes ...
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Army to help quell violence in India
Chicago Sun-Times; 12/4/1986; 294 words
; ... the president of the powerful Sikh religious parliament called the Sikh Temple Management Committee. The other areas declared disturbed in Punjab are in Gurdaspur, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Ferozepore, Faridkot and Ludhiana districts.
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Trudging Through The Jungle
The Washington Post; 12/21/2004; Lorraine adams; 772 words
; ... consequences for women in a stereotypically exotic India. This is clear at the outset, when just-married Isabel arrives in Ferozepore. She and her grouchy groom happen on the murder of a British woman by a husband enraged over her affair with a Bengali. As ...
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Silenced for half a century She had always been told her grandmother had died in India, but Carolyn Slaughter broke through a web of family lies to discover a frail but sane old lady living in a west London asylum
The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/29/2004; Carolyn Slaughter; 1805 words
; ... to heel since Queen Victoria's time. They lived in this remote and dangerous region on an army cantonment in a place called Ferozepore, and it was here that my mother and her two brothers were born. Ivan described this as a miserable and brutal time. "Concerning ...
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Riddle In The Glacial Ice Thirty-seven years after the IAF's worst air crash in Lahaul and Spiti, an army team retrieves some wreckage in a unique salvage exercise at 16,000 ft, reviving hopes of solving the mystery
India Today; 10/31/2005; Ramesh Vinayak; 1179 words
; ... the remains. After an unsuccessful attempt in 2004, the mission Punar Uthan (resurrection), undertaken by a team from the Ferozepore-based Golden Arrow Division, had better luck this year. It located the exact site of the crash-spread over roughly 4 sq km ...
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The invention of Pakistan: how the British Raj Sundered.
World Policy Journal; 3/22/2003; Meyer, Karl E.; 9439 words
; ... history. Radcliffe was given a pile of maps, figures from a 1943 census, and the ... set- tling the fate Of millions. The maps at his disposal were out of date And ... The most important reversal involved Ferozepore, an area of some four hundred square ... of Bikaner. Forewarned by a leak of ...
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