Definitions
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- noun A
revolution inIndia orPakistan .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What had happened, she insisted, was an inqilab, a revolution, an uprising of the working people against inequality.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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In one of I-voice most prominent tracks, the constant promises of revolution, inqilab, is chided as inkilab, which might translate as something akin to the ravings of a mad dog.
Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2010
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He knew important Q words that don’t require a u: faqir, inqilab, qadi, qaid, qintar.
RUBY LU, BRAVE and true Lenore Look 2004
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He knew important Q words that don’t require a u: faqir, inqilab, qadi, qaid, qintar.
RUBY LU, BRAVE and true Lenore Look 2004
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He knew important Q words that don’t require a u: faqir, inqilab, qadi, qaid, qintar.
RUBY LU, BRAVE and true Lenore Look 2004
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▪ the appeal to the mass of poor people (in Iran termed the mostazafin) against the corrupt, foreign-linked, elite (the mostakbarin) ▪ the cult of the leader - Khomeini's official and entirely secular state title was rahbar inqilab va bonyadgozar i jumhuri yi islami (leader of the revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic) ▪ mobilising nationalist sentiment in a country that had been unilaterally invaded, by Russia and Britain, in both world wars
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