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Courage and Conviction: An Autobiography
Table of contents :
About the BookPage 3
About the AuthorPage 4
Book InformationPage 5
CopyrightPage 6
DedicationPage 8
ContentsPage 10
Prologue: The Moment of TruthPage 12
Part I: The Formative YearsPage 15
1. The BeginningPage 17
2. The Formative YearsPage 33
3. 2 Rajput and the Bangladesh WarPage 51
Part II: Through the RanksPage 87
4. Guns and RosesPage 89
5. A Different WorldPage
6. In High PlacesPage
7. IPKF and the Unconventional WarPage
8. A King’s LifePage
9. ResurrectionPage
Part III: Life at the TopPage
Command and ControlPage
The Sun Also RisesPage
Chief of Army StaffPage
Epilogue: Reclaim IndiaPage
AcknowledgmentsPage
IndexPage
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About the book General V. K. Singh served in the Indian Army for forty-two years, retiring as ledare of Army Staff on 31 May His distinguished career saw him on the front lines of combat in the Indo-Pak War of which led to the creation of Bangladesh and in Sri La
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Life of Sri Aurobindo
CHAPTER II
Childhood and Education
Sri Aurobindo was born around a.m., that is about twenty-four minutes before sunrise, on 15 August His birth took place in the house of Barrister Monmohun Ghose, in Calcutta.! The name of Monmohun Ghose's wife was Swarnalata, just as it was the name of K.D. Ghose's wife. Dr. Ghose and Monmohun Ghose were very great friends and so were the Swarnalatas.
Between and Aurobindo apparently stayed at Rangpur, where his father was serving. Occasionally the family used to go to Deoghar to stay with Swarnalata's father, Rajnarayan Bose. Aurobindo did not know Bengali for these first five years. There were a butler and a nurse in the house, and he used to talk with them in broken English and similar Hindusthani. Sj. Rajnarayan Bose was a patriot and a great exponent of Indian culture, but his views had no effect upon his son-in-law, K. D. Ghose, who had decided to give all his children a thoroughly English education. He believed,
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Amalgamation, North and South
Sacramento Daily Union
Volume 24, Number ()
page 4, column 2
Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection
Driven from every other position by the force of argument or the force of facts, the advocates of a doomed system flourish before the eyes of the ignorant the bugbear of amalgamation. Amalgamation, they urge, is the natural result of entertaining sentiments hostile to slavery. The Marysville Express returns to the charge, quoting that eminent statistician, Voorhees of Indiana, to show that in proportion to the negro population of the North there is at the present time a frightful excess of quadroons, mulattoes and octoroons in the free States over the slave States. &#;Voorhees proved,&#; says the Express, &#;by reference to these unerring statistics [these of the census], that in the number of mixed bloods was much greater in the free States than in , in proportion to the unmixed black population&#;thus showing that as abolitionism ha