Sultan Khan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sultan Khan write by Daniel King. This book was released on 2020-04-08. Sultan Khan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hardly anyone paid attention when Sultan Khan arrived in London on April 26, 1929. A humble servant from a village in the Punjab, Khan had little formal education and barely spoke English. He had learned the rules of Western chess only three years earlier, yet within a few months he created a sensation by becoming the British Empire champion. Sultan Khan was taken to England by Sir Umar Hayat Khan, an Indian nobleman and politician who used his servant’s successes to promote his own interests in the turbulent years before India gained independence. Sultan Khan remained in Europe for the best part of five years, competing with the leading chess players of the era, including World Champion Alexander Alekhine and former World Champion Jose Raoul Capablanca. His unorthodox style often stunned his opponents, as Daniel King explains in his examination of the key games and tournaments in Khan’s career. Daniel King has uncovered a wealth of new facts about Khan, as well as dozens of previously unknown games. For the first time he tells the full story of how Khan, a Muslim outsider, was received in Europe, of his successes in the chess world and his return to obscurity after his departure for India in 1933.
The Best Games of Mir Sultan Khan
The Best Games of Mir Sultan Khan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Best Games of Mir Sultan Khan write by R. N. Coles. This book was released on 2003-10-01. The Best Games of Mir Sultan Khan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the height of the British Empire, the chess loving Indian servant, Sultan Khan, arrived in the imperial capital as part of the feudal retinue of Sir Umar, his high caste master. While Sir Umar deliberated in the rarefied atmosphere of London conferences, with British panjandra, on the future of the Raj, his retainer started to take on the British elite at chess. Sweeping all before him, the Indian genius entered the international arena where, playing top board for the British Empire team, he defeated grandmasters, such as Rubinstein.
The Bookseller Of Kabul
The Bookseller Of Kabul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bookseller Of Kabul write by Åsne Seierstad. This book was released on 2008-09-04. The Bookseller Of Kabul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other . . . compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMES For more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. A committed Muslim, Khan is passionate in his love of books and hatred of censorship. Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there and the year after she lived with an Afghan family for several months. We learn of proposals and marriages, suppression and abuse of power, crime and punishment. The result is a gripping and moving portrait of a family, and a clear-eyed assessment of a country struggling to free itself from history. 'Fascinating . . . A portrait of people struggling to survive in the most brutal circumstances' DAILY MAIL
The Life and Works of Sultan Alauddin Khalji
The Life and Works of Sultan Alauddin Khalji - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life and Works of Sultan Alauddin Khalji write by Ghulam Sarwar Khan Niazi. This book was released on 1992. The Life and Works of Sultan Alauddin Khalji available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pre-Moghul Muslim Presence In The Sub-Continent Is Very Important From Many Angles. In This Phase The Basic Structure Of An Efficient Administ¬Ration Evolved And From This Point Of View Alaudin Khilji Holds A Cardinal Importance. His Administration Result¬Ed In The Prosperity Of His Subjects And Kept His Treasury Filled. Literature And Learning, Art And Architecture And Public Morality Reached A New Peak.It Is A Deplorable Irony Of Time That We Do Not Possess An Accurate And Detailed Historical Record Of The Achievements Of Such A Great Ruler. Sultan Ala-Ud-Din Has Not Been Dealt Fairly By The Historians For One Reason Or The Other. It Was Necessary To Present This Great Sultan In His True Colours. Dr. Ghulam Sarwar Khan Niazi, The Author Of This Book Has Carefully Examined The Accounts Of All Known Contemporary And Early Writers And Has Drawn A Picture Of The Sultan, Based On True And Accepted Facts Provided By Contemporary Historians, Which Is, To Say The Least, Different. The Freshness Of The Point Of View Emerges From A Genuine Erudition And Scholarly Perception Of The Subject.
500 Master Games of Chess
500 Master Games of Chess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 500 Master Games of Chess write by Dr. S. Tartakower. This book was released on 2012-04-30. 500 Master Games of Chess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vast collection of great chess games from 1798 through 1938, with much hard-to-find material. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!
