Hoshang merchant autobiography rangers

An Autobiography 333pp Hamish Hamilton (London) csd £12.95.
In The Man Who Would Be Queen: Autobiographical Fictions Hoshang Merchant writes—“The art of living is the art of creating life-fictions” (196).
Hoshang Merchant" on the first book, "Ink Dries Anand Vishwanadha Great reviews for my autobiography with a reincarnational twist.

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1650 Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America: By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts published in London.

1773Phillis Wheatley, a slave, publishes Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. During the American Revolution she wrote to George Washington, who thanked her, praised her poetry, and invited her to his headquarters.

1791 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is published in Paris, in French. Ben Franklin’sAutobiography appears in London, for the first time in English, two years later. Had it been published in America, the Europeans would have laughed. The American experiment isn’t going to last, anyway.

Franklin, the practical man, the scientist, and America’s true founding father, weighs in on poetry: it’s frivolous.

1794 Samuel Coleridge and Robert Southey make plans to go to Pennsylvania in a communal living experiment, but their personalities clash and the plan is aborted. Southey becomes British Poet Laureate twenty years later.

1803 William Blake, author of “Ame

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Title - Author

Abercrombie, Joe The Heroes

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Americanah

Adiga, Aravind Selection Day

Aitken, Adam One Hundred Letters Home

Aitken, Graeme The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing

Aitkin, Don The Second Chair

Al Muderis, Munjed Walking Free

Alameddine, Rabih An Unnecessary Woman

Alameddine, Rabih The Angel of History

Alameddine, Rabih The Storyteller, Or, the Hakawati

Aldrich, Robert Gay Life Stories

Alexander, Todd Pictures of Us

Alexander, Todd Tom Houghton

Allington, Patrick Figurehead

Allinson, Miles Fever of Animals

Altman, Dennis Queer Wars

Altman, Dennis The End of the Homosexual?

Amsterdam, Steven K. The Easy Way Out

Amsterdam, Steven K. What the Family Needed

Anderson, Boyd Ludo

Anderson, Kevin J. The Edge of the World (Terra Incognita)

Anderson, Kevin J. The Map of All Things

Anderson, Laurie Halse The Impossible Knife of Memory

Anderton, Jo Suited (Angry Robot)

Andren, Peter The Andren Report

Annan, Kofi A. Interventions :

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Image & Narrative contributed by Krishan Lal, Kenya with help from his son Dileep Nagpal

This image is of my wife’s relatives in Kenya as a reference to the narrative below.

In the late 19^th century, an enterprising and adventurous Parsi Indian Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee left Karachi (now Pakistan) and sailed to Australia. As a house-to-house hawker, he managed to gain some knowledge of the English language and eventually migrated to East Africa in 1890. There, he established contact with British investors who were looking for some help to manage the planned Uganda Railways. After five years, Jeevanjee was awarded the contract to recruit Indian labourers from Punjab, to build the Uganda Railways in Kenya and the IBEAC (Imperial British East Africa Company) began building the railways construction from Kilindini Harbour, Mombasa.

Beginning 1891, thousands of the Indian ‘coolies‘ (today this word is considered a racial slur in many African countries), mainly Sikhs & Punjabis, were recruited for a three-year-contract to build Kenya