Sentences with phrase «great subcontinent»

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The history of the church in Asia in the 13th and 14th centuries outside the subcontinent of India to the south, says Moffett, was dominated by the political power and traditions of three great Mongol conquerors, Hulegu, Kublai and Timor (better known as Tamerlane).

The other crossed the Khyber pass and entered the land of India, gradually fanning out to cover the greater part of that vast subcontinent, but losing, in the course of its southern movement, much of its original character.

What is odd is India's decision to continue — even reinforce — the Partition, which it has always lamented as a great calamity, visited on the subcontinent by the religious politics of the Muslim League and the «divide and rule» parting shot of the departing British.

Keay brings to this captivating story about the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India his steeping in the subcontinent's past (India: A History), his attuned descriptions of its landscapes and climate, and an elegant style that brings to life the personalities of the surveyors, making a once - obscure story cover - to - cover reading.

These routes are great if you have Colombo as an origin or destination, or if you have Colombo as the transit point for two separate tickets, but they're not so great if you're trying to get between two points on the subcontinent.

«The increased frequency will provide greater convenience and more options to business and leisure travelers throughout the Texas region, and will also cater to the huge travel market from India and the subcontinent to and from our Dallas / Fort Worth gateway and beyond.»

Volume Eleven was, for those knowledgeable of Mohaiemen's previous explorations, perhaps the more familiar of the two, delving into the ambiguities of South Asia's modern history — and, more broadly, that of the troubled twentieth century — via his reading of a Bengali great - uncle's writings of the 1930s, which displayed a disturbing sympathy for Hitlerian Germany as a potential counterweight to the English colonizer on the Indian subcontinent.

The GCMs don't yet have enough spatial resolution to handle multiple major climatic transitions in small areas, but the models are presently accurate enough to draw conclusions for large climatic regions like «the desert Southwest,» or «the Great Plains,» «the Indian subcontinent,» or «the African savanna.»

I'll update the post once the Mi Mix 2S makes its way to the subcontinent; but for now, the S8 + is still a great option.

Diwali kicks off the festival shopping season in the subcontinent, and it's likely Amazon will offer another instalment of its Great Indian Sale around that time, making it the ideal platform to launch Alexa in the country.