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How many other Amirs are wasting away in our gulags?
Anthony Papa: Governor-Elect Cuomo Right on Point: Shut Down Half-Empty Prisons Anthony Papa 2010
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How many other Amirs are wasting away in our gulags?
Anthony Papa: Governor-Elect Cuomo Right on Point: Shut Down Half-Empty Prisons Anthony Papa 2010
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Shikarpur was then under the political purview of the Sind Amirs who were generally not cooperating with the increasing colonial inundation of the Indus. 48
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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In September 1836, the Governor General of India selected Burnes "to conduct a commercial mission to the countries bordering the Indus, with a view to completing the reopening of that river on the basis of treaties lately concluded with powers possessing territory along its banks" (the Amirs of Sind, primarily); see again "Trevelyan's Note on Trade of Cabul," NAI, Foreign P.C.,
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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How many other Amirs are wasting away in our gulags?
Anthony Papa: Governor-Elect Cuomo Right on Point: Shut Down Half-Empty Prisons Anthony Papa 2010
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How many other Amirs are wasting away in our gulags?
Anthony Papa: Governor-Elect Cuomo Right on Point: Shut Down Half-Empty Prisons Anthony Papa 2010
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So not a few of the Amirs of Sind were analphabetic and seemed rather proud of it: “a Baloch cannot write, but he always carries a signet-ring.”
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Every day, Counting the Amirs gives us another person or thing named Omer, Amira, etc.
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We were kindly looked upon by one Sultan, a sick and decrepid Eunuch, who having served five Amirs, was allowed to remain in the palace.
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It was a cynical piece of work, in which Ellenborough goaded the Sind Amirs by forcing an unacceptable treaty on them; when this provoked an attack by the Baluchi warriors, Sir Charles Napier promptly conquered the country, winning the battles of Miani and Hyderabad.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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