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Personification Of A Nation's Tragedy

J. Enoch Powell LORD LLOYD AND THE DECLINE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE by John Charmley Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £18 T he break-up of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the first world......

The Violence And Drama Of India

Anita Desai KINGDOM'S END AND OTHER STORIES by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated by Khalid Hasan Verso, £11.95 T hose whose idea of India is taken from her art and literature, the......