A Life of Our TimesOrient BlackSwan, 1998 - 637 من الصفحات This book deals with the author s work in the administrative services, under the British and in the Indian administrative services. After Independence, the author, an ICS officer, continued to work in the Indian administration and was often deputed to foreign missions. His memoirs give us an insight about several critical moments in Indian and world history. |
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... took Hitler's fulminations at all seriously - not the British establishment , newspapers , Oxford dons or students . A famous debate on the question of war took place at the Oxford Union , the subject being : ' Resolved that this House ...
... took Hitler's fulminations at all seriously - not the British establishment , newspapers , Oxford dons or students . A famous debate on the question of war took place at the Oxford Union , the subject being : ' Resolved that this House ...
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... took up a writing pad to scribble notes in clerk - like fashion , uttering not a word throughout . Stalin lit a papyrus ( a Russian cigarette only half - filled with tobacco ) and chain - smoked all the time . I took out my ' dhobi book ...
... took up a writing pad to scribble notes in clerk - like fashion , uttering not a word throughout . Stalin lit a papyrus ( a Russian cigarette only half - filled with tobacco ) and chain - smoked all the time . I took out my ' dhobi book ...
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... took up the matter themselves . Morarji Desai came to Rawalpindi , which had then become the temporary capital . The meetings took place in a company guest house , where we were also all housed , and lasted some two or three days ...
... took up the matter themselves . Morarji Desai came to Rawalpindi , which had then become the temporary capital . The meetings took place in a company guest house , where we were also all housed , and lasted some two or three days ...
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Going Through the Paces | 32 |
Clodhopping Collector | 51 |
Changing of the Guard | 71 |
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