ΕΛΛΗΝΟ-ΙΝΔΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ & ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗΣ
Hellenic-Indian Society for Culture & Development
Giorgos Halkias At the turn of the century, Tibet remained one of the last uncontrolled regions in the ‘Great Game’ between Russia and Britain keen to increasing their respective strongholds in Central and Inner Asia. Tibet’s invasion in 1949 by the Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China was not the only one in the …
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The Presidential Decree 83/2004 by which the Department of Turkish and Asian studies is established in the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was published in the Official Journal of the Hellenic Republic (Government Gazette) issue A 65/2-03-2004. The beginning of the department’s educational function and the introduction of the first students …
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Introduction by Demetrios Th. Vassiliades In “A Chronicle of the Greeks in India – 1750-1950”, Dione Marcos-Dodis, who was born in Karachi and grew up in Calcutta, researches and records the way of life that her family, relatives and friends led during their sojourn in India. They were part of a little known but, nevertheless, important emigration movement …
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