The Black Celts: An Ancient African Civilization In Ireland And Britain

by Ahmed Ali

Genres: History

181 pages

About the author

Ahmed Ali (1910 in New Delhi – 14 January 1994 in Karachi) (Urdu: احمد علی ‎) was a Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar. His writings include Twilight in Delhi (1940), his first novel.

Born in Delhi, British India, Ahmed Ali was educated at Aligarh and Lucknow universities, graduating with first-class and first in the order of merit in both B.A. (Honours), 1930 and M.A. English, 1931. He taught at leading Indian universities including Lucknow and Allahabad from 1932–46 and joined the Bengal Senior Educational Service as professor and head of the English Department at Presidency College, Calcutta (1944–47). Ali was the BBC's Representative and Director in India during 1942–45. During the Partition of India, he was the British Council Visiting Professor to the University of China in Nanking as appointed by the British government of India. When he tried to return to India in 1948, K. P. S. Menon (then India's ambassador to China) did not let him and he was forced to move to Pakistan.

In 1948, he moved to Karachi. Later, he was appointed Director of Foreign Publicity, Government of Pakistan. At the behest of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, he joined the Pakistan Foreign Service in 1950. He went to China as Pakistan's first envoy and established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic in 1951.

Reviews

[Ray]

I have been hunting this book for over 2 years. Finally located it at a rare book store in Pennsylvania.

[Jbondandrews · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting book though I felt as there should be more information especially more up to date information and more books written on the topic.

[Yasmin · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very interesting theory and so much more could have been written than 180 pages. I would have liked the authors to have gone into more detail and to have provided more sources from the material collected. Unfortunately as this was a low cost publication a few words have become so worn that the print is very light and in a couple of places have disappeared altogether. The authors also followed an old pattern of not adding the quoted material into the bibliography. It was a little beyond my ken to use a lot of blood quantum, skull sizes, etc. to use as sources. I had also wished that the material used in the bibliography could have added publication and years of publications. The language comparisons were key to me in the theory--why is there a mountain range, part of Snowdonia, in Wales called Idris?

[Parris McGhee-Bey Jr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Caleb Smith · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was the worst attempt I've ever seen to try and take credit for European innovation. This is the real form of cultural appropriation. The man who wrote this should be ashamed to call himself an author.