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− | ''The perforated sheet'' Adaam Aziz returns to Kashmir (5) '''Ghandi returns to India in 1915'''
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− | ''Mercurochrome ''Aadam examines his future wife through a perforated sheet (26)
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− | Sees her face when she has a headache (28)
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− | They marry and move to Amritzar
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− | Public and peaceful mourning over the continuing presence of the British (37)
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− | April 13th 1919: peaceful protests, Aadam sneezes and stumbles, rescued by his nose
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− | '''Jallianwallah Bagh massacre. Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer and his troops open fire on unarmed croud'''
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− | ''Hit the spittoon'' Public optimism, cause: Mian Abdullah’s Free Islamic Convocation.
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− | Assassinated, end of optimism (50)
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− | His secretary Nadir Khan flees and finds shelter in Aadam’s house (62)
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− | ''Under the carpet'' Marriage of Mumtaz and Nadir Khan (72)
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− | 1946: Mumtaz marries Ahmed
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− | …atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945)
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− | A public announcement Mumtaz / Amina falls in love with her husband little by little (87)
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− | ''Tick, tock'' August 15th: Birth of Saleem (156)
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− | Mary Pareira switches the real son of Amina and Ahmed with the son of Vanita and William Methwold (157) “Birth” of India
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Revision as of 20:27, 1 February 2010
Expert Group on History
KIM
cf. page 46: Indian Mutiny 1857-8
Indians first war of independence
Result: housecleaning of the Indian administration, the direct rule
cf. page 108: The Big War 1878-1880
Second Afghan war
The first of three Interventions of the British Empire in Afghanistan to save their supremacy and stop the Russian expansion = Great Game
The Great Game was an expression for the battle between Great Britain and Russia for the dominance over Central Asia during 1813 - 1947. It came into mainstream consciousness becasue of the novel.
SALMAN RUSHDIE - MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN (1981)
File:Example.jpg