Pakistan Tobacco Company’s launch ad for the Three Castles cigarette brand in the 1950s. The ad uses a quote from fictional Spanish romantic and libertine Don Juan in the copy. Photo: Askari Khan. A 1956 handbill of Pakistan’s first ‘beauty cream’ brand, Tibet Snow. The pack and bot...
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predominantly inPakistanandIndia. It is the official state language of Pakistan and is also officially recognized, or “scheduled,” in the constitution of India. Significant speechcommunitiesexist in theUnited Arab Emirates, theUnited Kingdom, and theUnited Statesas well. Notably, Urdu andHindiare...
When did the British Raj begin and end? What was the role of the British monarchy during the British Raj? Show more British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. The raj succeeded management of the ...
South Asian History and Culture (SAHC) is a multidisciplinary journal that provides an integrated perspective on the field of South Asian studies. The journal brings together research on South Asia in the humanities and social sciences, and provides scholars with a platform covering, but not restric...
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The Triple Alliance was Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. The Triple Entente was Britain, France and Russia. The Triple Alliance The alliance between Germany and Austria was natural. Both spoke the same language – German – and had a similar culture. Austria was in political trouble in the...
Croydon Radical History. Newsletter No. 5. April 2023.Editorial – Borough of Culture, Publications & Archival Work; Peasants Revolt 1381; People; Miscellaneous; Petitions to Parliament; Freemasonry in the 1840s; Temperance 1841; Dr Daniel Percival Wildbore and the Weller Estate in the 1850s; Te...
But it is literally excising the Soviet formation of the culture from its history books; one university history test had just 1 question of 850 dealing with the years 1924 to 1991. Ethnic Relations. The Soviet-defined borders left Uzbeks, Kyrgiz, Tajiks, and others on both sides of ...
Two historians, forty years apart, both looking at the same set of archival papers and research and coming out with two wildly different understandings. ‘An Alias for Mr’ Mary Diana Dods was born around 1790, gendered female at birth, they were the illegitimate child of George Douglas, ...