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Robert Harbold McDowell (May 23, 1894 – June 2, 1980) was an American historian and intelligence officer who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. McDowell, an expert on the Near East , was a professor of Balkan history at the University of Michigan .
Gupta was born on 5 February 1902 in Bhurewal village, which is in the present-day's Naraingarh subdistrict of Ambala district, Haryana, India.After completing his higher education at Lahore, he became University of the Punjab's first Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree holder and the first Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) holder in History discipline in 1937 and 1944 respectively. [1]
A Modern History of the Kurds is a history of the Kurdish people, written by David McDowall and published by I.B.Tauris in 1996 (hardback first edition). [1] The work is a history of the Kurdish people from the 19th century to the present.
Robert Brendan McDowell MRIA [1] (14 September 1913 – 29 August 2011) [2] [3] was an Irish historian. He was a Fellow Emeritus and a former Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin. He was born in Belfast. He was referred to colloquially as "RB", "McDowell" or "the White Rabbit".
In 1842, the land became part of McDowell County, named for Joseph "Pleasant Gardens" McDowell, who died on May 18, 1795. [3] [4] Recent historical analysis and research on the remaining property indicates that the Pleasant Gardens plantation house was built between 1812 and 1826 by Joseph McDowell's third son James Moffett McDowell (1791-1854).
The name Macdowall is from the district of Galloway which itself was named after the Galli or Gaelic settlers of the seventh and eighth centuries. [3] There are many legends surrounding the foundation of the princedom of Galloway and even historian Alexander Nisbet narrated that Dovall of Galloway killed Nothatus the Tyrant in 230 BC. [3]
The Xavier Centre of Historical Research is a Jesuit history research centre located in Alto Porvorim, Goa in India. It was founded in the late 1970s and its first director was John Correia Afonso SJ. After John Correia Afonso, Dr. Teotonio R. de Souza was the next director of the Centre (1979–1994).
Professor M. P. Gupta is an Indian academic. He is serving as the Chair Person of the Modi Foundation at the IIT Delhi . Gupta has provided mentorship for 30 Doctoral theses and collaborated on 22 sponsored and consultancy projects with a cumulative value exceeding 5 crores. [ 1 ]