On a warm Fourth of July morning 77 years ago, two British battleships slipped into the Mediterranean harbor of Mers El Kebir. At the personal orders of the prime minister and with two-dozen ...
The International Film Series continues at International House, 10 College Park in Davis, on the first and third Fridays of the month, September through May. The films are sponsored by the United ...
Around three million people are estimated to have died during the Bengal famine of 1943, a calamity that scarred the last years of British rule in India. A drought, war expenditures but above all poor ...
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From anti-colonial to pre-independence struggles: Rabindranath Tagore’s songs in the time of famine
In 1940s Bengal, famine and war displaced Rabindrasangeet (the corpus of songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore that synthesises lyrical poetry and music and occupies a central place within Bengali ...
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