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10.
Gurnah,
Admiring Silence
, p. 131.

11.
Gurnah,
Paradise
, p. 174.

12.
Abdulrazak Gurnah,
Desertion
(New York: Anchor, 2005), p. 212.

13.
Gurnah,
Admiring Silence
, pp. 69, 144, 121, 150.

14.
Gurnah,
Desertion
, p. 256.

15.
Gurnah,
Admiring Silence
, pp. 67, 134.

16.
Gurnah,
Desertion
, pp. 110, 225.

17.
Sunil Gangopadhyay,
Those Days
, trans. Aruna Chakravarti (New York: Penguin, 1981, 1997), p. 7.

18.
Richard M. Eaton,
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 60, 167–68.

R
OBERT
D. K
APLAN
is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington and a national correspondent for
The Atlantic
. He was recently the Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. His twelve previous books include
Balkan Ghosts, Eastward to Tartary
, and
Warrior Politics
. He is a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board.