On the eve of Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was then known, regaining its freedom and independence after 150 years of British colonial rule and 443 years of colonial subjection, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, ...

Kirkpatrick had gone out to India full of ambition, intent on making his name in the subjection of a nation; but instead it was he who was conquered, not by an army but by a Hyderabadi noblewoman ...