• Thomas George Percival Spear OBE (1901–1982) was a British historian of modern South Asia, in particular of its colonial period. He taught at both Cambridge...
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    nicknamed Squirrel, who is Percival. The 2022 short novel "Spear" by Nicola Griffith is a retelling of the story of Percival. Its protagonist, Peretur...
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    Percival Spear (1901–1982), British historian of South Asia Percival Green Spencer (1864–1913), British pioneering balloonist and parachutist Percival Hopkins...
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    thought it to be about 500,000. In addition, there was what historian Percival Spear has called "an involuntary exchange of population," which might be of...
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  • doi:10.2307/2943581. JSTOR 2943581. The History of India, vol.2, T.G.Percival Spear, Penguin (1990) ISBN 0-14-013836-6 India: A History, John Keay, Grove/Atlantic...
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    of vegetation is astonishing ... Sheikh Mohamad Ikram; Thomas George Percival Spear (1955), The cultural heritage of Pakistan, Oxford University Press,...
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    Holkars, Bhonsles and the Peshwa gave up arms by 1818. British historian Percival Spear describes 1818 as a watershed year in the history of India, saying that...
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    Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-99039-8. Percival Spear (1990) [First published 1965]. A History of India. Vol. 2. Penguin Books...
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    economic historian Immanuel Wallerstein, citing evidence from Irfan Habib, Percival Spear, and Ashok Desai, per-capita agricultural output and standards of consumption...
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    world." The Oxford History of India, Vincent A. Smith (3rd edition, ed. Percival Spear), 1967, p. 838. Hoskote, Ranjit (29 September 2004). "The last of Indian...
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