...Ayesha Jalal Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy Bounded by the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean the vast South Asian subcontinent contains a teeming population that constitutes a fifth of humanity. Boasting one of the world's oldest civilizations it has had a tumultuous modern history. In the living museum of the subcontinent's history there are paradoxes galore. A common heritage and environment notwithstanding, South Asia presents a picture of social complexity, economic disparity, cultural diversity and political heterogeneity. This course will examine the formation and the shifting contours of the rich mosaic of modern South Asia. A semester's study permits an analytical rather than a comprehensive survey of the society, economy and politics of the subcontinent. Beginning with a rapid overview of India's premodern and early modern history, the bulk of the course will concentrate on the changes and continuities during two centuries of British rule from the mideighteenth to the midtwentieth centuries. A short concluding segment will be devoted to postindependence developments. Primarily a lecture course, time will be available at the end of each class for questions and discussion. It is important to read ahead in order to participate in some of the major debates in South Asian history and historiography. The following books have been ordered for purchase at the College Bookstore: Required: 1) Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern...
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...Curriculum vitae of A.K.M. Abdur Rauf11/1, D block, Mirpur-2, Dhaka-1216.Mob no : 01716-153106e-mail : rauf_for11@yahoo.com | | | Career objective | To explore the challenges and opportunities of real office environment and to work alone and with other to achieve personal as well as organization goal with merit, diversity and commitment. I would like to be in such a position where taking challenges are the order of the day. I want to implement new thoughts and ideas and also wish to be a team leader and win the laurel for my Organization. Academic Qualification | Degree | University/ Institution | Passing year | Result | Major Subject | EMBA | Dhaka University | _ | Enrolled | International Business | B. Sc (Hons.) in Forestry | Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet | 2009 | 3.47 out of 4.00 | Forestry | HSC | Govt. Azizul Haque College, Bogra | 2003 | 3.70 out of 5.00 | Science | SSC | Palli Unnayan Academy Laboratory High School, Bogra | 2000 | First DivisionMark obtained-81% | Science | Scholarship | The merit scholarship was offered for being one of the top four students within the faculty of Agriculture and mineral Science based on first year and was also offered based on second year examination result studying B.Sc (Hon’s) during University of SUST session 2003-04. Skill...
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...Can There Be a Kurdistan The Kurdish people of southwest Asia represent one of the largest ethnic groups in the world with no sovereign state to call their own. With the breakup of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the desire to create an independent Kurdish state has intensified and created conflicts between the Kurds and the modern states of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. The Kurds’ aspiration of creating a new ethnic state in the Middle East has only served to further destabilize an already unstable region. But to prevent future turmoil, the creation of a new nation-state could be a necessary precaution. The dream of a Kurdish homeland is an old one, but after thousands of years, whether or not it can be achieved remains far from certain. The Kurdish people represent a distinct ethnic population within the Middle East. Unlike most of their surrounding neighbors, they are of neither of Turkic nor Arabic descent (Global Security, “Kurdish Conflict”). They are ethnically and linguistically distant relatives of the neighboring Persians, but have for millennia have maintained a unique cultural identity inhabiting a area from the Zagros Mountains to the eastern Taurus Mountains and part of the Mesopotamian plain (Black). Though they can trace their origins in the region back over 25 centuries to the Empire of the Medes, the Kurds can claim only brief and scattered moments of independence (Global Security, “Kurdish Conflict”). One such moment occurred relatively...
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...DEPOSIT WILL BE RETURNED IN FULL TO MR. MOUHAMMED HOSSAIN JALAL AHMED, AS SIGNED BELOW SHOULD MR. MOUHAMMED HOSSAIN FOR ANY REASON NOT BUY THE MALE GYR/PEREGRINES FOR SEASON 2015 THEN THE DEPOSIT IS TO STAY WITH BLUE FALCON-MARK ROBB SIGNED: …………………………………… MOUHAMMED HOSSAIN JALAL AHMED SIGNED …………………………………… MARK ROBB DATE: ……………………………………… DEPOSIT BLUE FALCON-MARK ROBB THIS IS A DEPOSIT OF 7000 BRITTISH POUND FOR ALL THE MALE GYR FALCONS THAT IS TO BE PRODUCED FOR SEASON 2015. SHULD ABOVE PARTY FOR ANY REASON NOT PRODUCES THE FALCONS THEN THE DEPOSIT WILL BE RETURNED IN FULL TO MR. MOUHAMMED HOSSAIN JALAL AHMED, AS SIGNED BELOW SHOULD MR. MOUHAMMED HOSSAIN FOR ANY REASON NOT BUY THE MALE GYR FALCONS FOR SEASON 2015 THEN THE DEPOSIT IS TO STAY WITH BLUE FALCON-MARK ROBB SIGNED: …………………………………… MOUHAMMED HOSSAIN JALAL AHMED SIGNED …………………………………… MARK ROBB DATE: ……………………………………… DEPOSIT BLUE FALCON-MARK ROBB THIS IS A DEPOSIT OF 7000 BRITTISH POUND FOR ALL THE FEMALE GYR/PEREGRINES THAT IS TO BE PRODUCED FOR SEASON 2015. SHULD ABOVE PARTY FOR ANY REASON NOT PRODUCES THE FALCONS THEN THE DEPOSIT WILL BE RETURNED IN FULL TO MR. MOUHAMMED HOSSAIN JALAL AHMED, AS SIGNED BELOW SHOULD MR. MOUHAMMED HOSSAIN FOR ANY REASON NOT BUY THE FEMALE GYR/PEREGRINES FOR SEASON 2015 THEN THE DEPOSIT IS TO STAY WITH BLUE FALCON-MARK ROBB SIGNED: …………………………………… MOUHAMMED HOSSAIN JALAL AHMED SIGNED …………………………………… MARK ROBB DATE:...
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...we need to be walking in a garden to know it. The body itself is a screen to shield and partially reveal the light that’s blazing inside your presence. Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what’s hidden. Study them, and enjoy this being washed with a secret we sometimes know, and then not. -Jalal ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi STORY WATER A story is like water that you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet, and it cleans you! Very few can sit down in the middle of the fire itself like a salamander or Abraham. We need intermediaries. A feeling of fullness comes, but usually it takes some bread to bring it. Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. The body itself is a screen to shield and partially reveal the light that’s blazing inside your presence. Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what’s hidden. Study them, and enjoy this being washed with a secret we sometimes know, and then not. -Jalal ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi EDITORIAL Jalal ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi, a 13th century Persian Muslim poet, theologian and Sufi mystic wrote the poem, Story Water, describing how we interact with reality through a medium. A story is a medium reflecting life’s realities, bridging relations, communicating insights, uncovering truths and hoping for transformation. This newsletter is a compilation...
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...Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar (Urdu: جلال الدین محمد اکبر Hunterian Jalāl ud-Dīn Muḥammad Akbar), also known as Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam or Akbar the Great (14 October 1542 – 27 October 1605),[2][3] was the third Mughal Emperor. He was of Timurid descent; the son of Emperor Humayun, and the grandson of the Mughal Emperor Zaheeruddin Muhammad Babur, the ruler who founded the Mughal dynasty in India. At the end of his reign in 1605 the Mughal empire covered most of northern and central India. He is most appreciated for having a liberal outlook on all faiths and beliefs and during his era, culture and art reached a zenith as compared to his predecessors. Akbar was 13 years old when he ascended the Mughal throne in Delhi (February 1556), following the death of his father Humayun.[4] During his reign, he eliminated military threats from the powerful Pashtun descendants of Sher Shah Suri, and at the Second Battle of Panipat he decisively defeated the newly self-declared Hindu king Hemu.[5][6] It took him nearly two more decades to consolidate his power and bring all the parts of northern and central India into his direct realm. He influenced the whole of the Indian Subcontinent as he ruled a greater part of it as an emperor. As an emperor, Akbar solidified his rule by pursuing diplomacy with the powerful Hindu Rajput caste, and by marrying Rajput princesses.[5][7] Akbar's reign significantly influenced art and culture in the country. He was a great patron of art and architecture...
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...MAWLANA JALAL-UL-DIN BALKHI “RUMI” Jalal-Ul-Din Muhammad Balkhi also known as Rumi is one of the world’s most well-known philosophers. He was born in the city of Balkh, 30th of September, 1207, but spent most of his time abroad and died in Konya, Turkey 17th of December 1275. Rumi studied Islamic Law in Syria and had sustainable knowledge in fields of public speaking, Sufism, and poetry (Qemar). He was thought by the best scholars of his time, he learned poetry and Sufism from his father Bahudin Balkhi and his mentor Burhanudin Termizi. Rumi adopted a significant interest in literature and philosophy. He wrote two famous poems, Masnavi and Divan-I Kabir (The Great Collection of Poems). The first poem, Masnavi adopts its name from music where it is flowing in rhythm. Rumi wrote 18 couplets and dictated the rest.He told many stories of his own, but also borrowed from Arabic, Persian, Jewish sources, Quran and Hadith. Masnavi was completed in 14 years and arranged in 6 chapters which was written by Rumi himself. The writings was naturally and unplanned, it was like a theater, a play show involving many characteristics (Whinfield). The second famous poem Rumi wrote was Divan-I Kabir (The Great Collection of Poems), it is also called Divan-I Shams due to its last couplets. Divan-I Kabir contained 35,000 couplets about love and spiritual joy and was dictated in ecstasy and whirling. Rumi had several writings, he wrote Fifi Ma Fih (What is in it is in it) it contained 71 talks and lectures...
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...PAPER 28 THE HISTORY OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT FROM THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY READING LIST: 2012-13 C. A. Bayly cab1002@cam.ac.uk 1 The History of The Indian Subcontinent From The Late Eighteenth Century To The Present Day A fifth of the world's population lives in the Indian subcontinent. While today the region’s place in the global world order is widely recognised, this is in fact only the most recent chapter in a longer history. This paper offers an understanding of the part played by the Indian subcontinent role and its people in the making of the modern world. From the decline of the great empire of the Mughals and the rise of British hegemony, to the rise of nationalism, the coming of independence and partition, the consolidation of new nation states despite regional wars and conflicts, and the emergence of India as the largest democracy in the world, this paper is a comprehensive and analytical survey of the subcontinent's modern history. The dynamic and complex relationships between changing forms of political power and religious identities, economic transformations, and social and cultural change are studied in the period from 1757 to 2007. In normal circumstances students will be given 6 supervisions in groups of 1 or 2. Key themes and brief overview: The paper begins by examining the rise of British power in the context of economic developments indigenous to southern Asia; it analyses the role played by Indian polities and social groups...
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...Industry View on Academic Programme Development: An Empirical Study Suhaidah Hussain1*, Jalal Hanaysha2, Mohd Syahril Ibrahim3 1&2Faculty of Business & Management, International College of Automotive (ICAM), 26607 Pekan Pahang, Malaysia, 2Faculty Legal Department, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. ABSTRACT Automotive education trend in Malaysia is rapidly growing in both skills and academic based qualifications. There are various programmes offered by public and private educational institutions. The offers of these programmes are relevant to the automotive industry demand in Malaysia. The upstream and downstream process of automotive and service industry covers the production of automotive components, manufacturing, assembly, distribution and inspection. This study is conducted on Automotive Education Institution (“AEI”) in East Coast Malaysia which offers diplomas and undergraduates academic programmes in Engineering and Technology, in addition to Business and Management. The objective of this study is to acquire the automotive and services industry feedback prior to the development of new academic programmes. In developing new programmes for future offerings, a survey was conducted among the subsidiary companies of the automotive conglomerate in Malaysia. A survey method was used for collecting the data from 16 subsidiary companies totalling of 323 respondents from various positions. The findings indicated that AEI has the...
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...China and India during the medieval era. Susana Gutierrez His/276 April 30, 2014 John Randall. China and India during the medieval era Most of the tribes of Eurasia were nomads with no real laws or a set place to live the simple move from place to place once they run out of resources for them and their herds of animals which was their livelihood. The nomadic lifestyle these tribes had made it difficult to avoid conflict with other tribal communities the way they manage their social and political laws was through family name, clans and tribal confederation. In their search for greener pastures sometimes they would fight for the same resources. The community that lost would move far away or make allies with another tribes to be stronger against all other to avoid extinction or slavery. The way they acquire goods was trading with other communities when they could not get it, they would use force and violence raids were a common against other nomad groups, but farms were not spare either. The farmers were no contest for the nomads such as the Xiongnu. One of the reasons China built the great wall. The Turks frequently exploited China and fought often amongst themselves. In history of Sui Dynasty tells us how the Turks rather fight each other than to live peacefully amongst each other, but the Turks run into the Tang Dynasty in china and disappear shortly after. In the 8th century the Vighors decided to create a new society in Mongolia and...
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...The African Diaspora across Europe and Asia The study of the African Diaspora is a relatively focused topic, in general focusing on the Atlantic Slave Trade and those who were enslaved in the Americas. Of particular interest to many recent historians is the fact that black Africans have been experiencing forced settlement outside of Africa for centuries prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade. Slaves have established a presence in many different urban and rural areas of the world including, Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Europe. Ibn Khaldun has been quoted, “history is information about human social organization and that there were two basic forms of human social organization: urban and rural.” Through urban and rural settings, one can understand the development of African slavery outside of the Africa and excluding the Americas. In ancient times Africans traveled as merchants, sailors, soldiers, and adventurers across the Red and Mediterranean Seas and the Indian Ocean. Africans and Arabs long interacted in the urban areas of Egypt, the Sudan, and across the Red Sea and shared common values and customs. The Arabian Peninsula seems to have the earliest African contact, with Ethiopian traders settling on the peninsula long before the Romans came. Not much is known how these slaves were captured but they were seemingly traded along the Horn of Africa, in urban trading post set up by traders. Furthermore, during the expansion of Islam after the 7th century AD, ushered in...
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...Toufic, Jalal. "Exerpts." In Distracted. Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill ;, 1991. 1-4. Toufic captures a position of receptance and projection in a process of creation. Through a dialogue between aphorism and the act of editing he explores the idea of “untimely collaboration”. To edit is to rest, as in a less “edited” work implies a “restless” piece. Although, an aphorist writer does not completely indicate a restless writer. An aphoristic writer edits, but without the “intermingling of tenses in the aphorism”. A form of tangible expression, is always received by someone. He believes in the idea of expressed ideas to declare its existence in the universe the moment they are exposed to one other than the creator himself. However, ideas do not remain constant, stubborn to its tense, but...
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...CWL230 Light Breeze by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi Light Breeze By Rumi translated by: Coleman Barks As regards feeling pain, like a hand cut in battle, consider the body a robe you wear. When you meet someone you love, do you kiss their clothes? Search out who's inside. Union with God is sweeter than body comforts. We have hands and feet different from these. Sometimes in dream we see them. That is not illusion. It's seeing truly. You do have a spirit body; don't dread leaving the physical one. Sometimes someone feels this truth so strongly that he or she can live in mountain solitude totally refreshed. The worried, heroic doings of men and women seem weary and futile to dervishes enjoying the light breeze of spirt. Light Breeze by Rumi translated by: unknown translator As regards feeling pain, like a hand cut, consider the body a robe throw over yourself. When you meet someone you love, do you kiss their clothes? Search out who's inside. Union with God is sweeter than body comforts. We have hands and feet different from these. Sometimes in dream we see them. That is not mirage. It's seeing what is real. You do have a spirit body; don't dread leaving the physical one. Sometimes someone feels this truth so strongly that he or she can live in mountain solitude totally refreshed. The worried, heroic doings of men and women seem weary and futile to dervishes enjoying the light breeze of spirit. Translation Questions: 1...
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...Nahim Jalal September 19, 2015 PHIL 305 Business Ethics - Munoz Imperatives. There is a lot when it comes to the differences of categorical and hypothetical imperatives. The best way to sum up a hypothetical imperative is that its a desired action that means to something else that a possibility will happen or willed. In page 64, Kant further explains further that hypothetical imperative is the imperative of nonmoral. A hypothetical imperative can help when you need to reach a goal. Some examples i can use from the book are on page 64: “If you wish to do well in school, study!” Not everybody attends school nor has to study, which is a hypothetical statement. An example I can use from a life event, I love football. I practiced hard, I was able to play well. The work you put in, you end up putting out the results. Again not everyone has to play football, but not everyone has to train to be good, some are just lucky. How ever moral law is not stated in hypothetical imperatives. Kant then explains that categorical imperative is the imperative of morality. Categorical imperative states formal actions and provides criteria that the three aspects of categorical imperative must have in order to be moral. A few examples can be, I read on page 64, “Thou shalt not kill”, which is a moral norm. You are not allowed to kill anyone because it is against the moral norm. One example I thought about, is if lying is always allowed and acceptable then there will never be a truth. That...
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...Introduction Selling weapons to foreign militaries has many aspects, and many of us come at it from different perspectives and experiences. I was exposed to an aspect of foreign military sales—as it relates to a tactical level set of tasks—in my capacity as an Ammunition Officer in the Middle East. This article will attempt to define the program, provide some background on its origins, and then highlight my tactical level interface with it to help shed more light on the program from that perspective. What is FMS? Foreign Military Sales (FMS) is used by the United States as means to achieve strategic security cooperation with foreign nations. One of those nations is Iraq, where the United States uses FMS programs as a diplomatic and military instrument of national power to influence political-military action, and train the forces within the borders, to include Iraqi Security Forces and Peshmerga Kurds. The Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq runs the FMS program under U.S. Chief of Mission-Baghdad authority with the oversight and advice from personnel in Washington, D.C., including the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The U.S. FMS program originated from the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (ACDA) and U.S. Foreign Assistance Act (USFAA) of 1961. The purpose of the ACA is to control and reduce the worldwide population of destructive armaments, including nuclear weapons, and prevent another world war. On the...
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