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Urdu and Punjabi: A Zero-Sum Game of Languages in 19th-century Colonial Punjab — Kamal Ki Baatein

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Lucknow: the Awadhi ‘heartland’.

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Fatima Sughra 1931-2017: A forgotten heroine

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Freedom and Fear: India and Pakistan at 70

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