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Aurangzeb | Biography, Accomplishments, History, Family, & Facts

Aurangzeb, also spelled Aurangzib, Arabic Awrangzīb, kingly title ʿĀlamgīr, original name Muḥī al-Dīn Muḥammad, (born November 3, 1618, Dhod, Malwa [India] died March 3, 1707), emperor of India from 1658 to 1707, the last of the great Mughal emperors. Under him the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent, although his policies helped lead to its dissolution. Aurangzeb was the third son of the emperor Shah Jahān and Mumtaz Mahal (for whom the Taj Mahal was built). He grew up as a serious-minded and devout youth, wedded to the Muslim orthodoxy of the day and free from the royal Mughal traits of ....

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Indian English is a Prakrit, not a creole, says linguist Peggy Mohan


Indian English is a Prakrit, not a creole, says linguist Peggy Mohan
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Her new book speaks of how Indian languages evolved via generations of migratory patterns
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Peggy Mohan has a Ph.D in linguistics from the University of Michigan. She has taught at JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Howard University in Washington D.C.
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Her new book speaks of how Indian languages evolved via generations of migratory patterns
Migration has shaped the arc of Indian history in myriad ways, from the day the Vedic Aryans first alighted from their chariots to the arrival of Namboothiri Brahmins in Kerala to the Persianised Turkic conquerors of the Middle Ages. For linguist Peggy Mohan, all this finds a strong echo in the evolution of the subcontinent’s languages. In her new book, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India Through Its Languages ....

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Turkey should stand up for Uyghurs and refuse to ratify China extradition treaty


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Turkey should stand up for Uyghurs and refuse to ratify China extradition treaty
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Last week, China ratified an extradition treaty with Turkey and if Ankara follows suit the pact will become law, potentially putting thousands of Uyghurs living in Turkey at risk. China has pursued an aggressive worldwide campaign to sign such agreements as part of extraterritorial legal and extra-legal arrangements that weaken international human rights norms.
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When I first travelled to Turkey a decade ago it was to research the Uyghur diaspora in Istanbul. While Uyghurs, as Central Asian Turks, have an ancient history of trade and settlement in the region of modern-day Turkey, in the 20th century Turkey became a safe haven for Uyghurs fleeing Chinese persecution. ....

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