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20 produkter
Politics, Women and Well-Being
How Kerala became 'a Model'
Inbunden, 1992
3145 kr
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In 1990, Kerala on the southwestern coast has India's lowest infant mortality, longest life expectancy and highest female literacy. India's 'problem state' of the 1950s has become 'the Kerala model'. The collapse of a matrilineal social structure and a rigid caste system contributed to widespread …
What’s Happening to India?
Punjab, Ethnic Conflict, and the Test for Federalism
Inbunden, 1994
1128 kr
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Updated to cover events between 1986 and 1992, including the destruction of the mosque at Ayodhya in December 1992, the book analyses the secessionist crisis in Punjab which led to Indira Gandhi's murder and examines larger themes of ethnic conflict and threats to Indian unity. The Punjab example …
What’s Happening to India?
Punjab, Ethnic Conflict, and the Test for Federalism
Häftad, 1994
1128 kr
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Updated to cover events between 1986 and 1992, including the destruction of the mosque at Ayodhya in December 1992, the book analyses the secessionist crisis in Punjab which led to Indira Gandhi's murder and examines larger themes of ethnic conflict and threats to Indian unity. The Punjab example …
Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
Why Some Subside and Others Don’t
Av Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the …
R.A.T.
A Cadence Turing Mystery
E-bok, 2022
57 kr
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The system is falling apart. Political turmoil leaves no one''s life untouched, including captain of industry Chance Hale and detective-story-obsessed android Cadence Turing. Recently reunited after successfully solving the murder of Chance''s father, the pair struggle to find their footing in a …
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A Cadence Turing Mystery
E-bok, 2021
51 kr
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Chance Hale is more interested in running around with fascinating women than following in his father''s footsteps as head of the billion-dollar tech company Halcyon Enterprises. Called home for an important announcement, Chance seeks to liven up the weekend retreat by bringing along the first …
Waste of a Nation
Garbage and Growth in India
Inbunden, 2018
300 kr
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In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside the new economies and ecologies of consumer …
Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
Why Some Subside and Others Don’t
Av Anthony Regan, Robin Jeffrey m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
883 kr
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Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the …
Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
Why Some Subside and Others Don’t
Av Anthony Regan, Robin Jeffrey m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
864 kr
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Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the …
Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
Why Some Subside and Others Don’t
Av Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
747 kr
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Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the …
Politics, Women and Well-Being
How Kerala became ''a Model''
E-bok, 2016
4251 kr
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In 1990, Kerala on the southwestern coast has India''s lowest infant mortality, longest life expectancy and highest female literacy. India''s ''problem state'' of the 1950s has become ''the Kerala model''. The collapse of a matrilineal social structure and a rigid caste system contributed to …
What's Happening to India?
Punjab, Ethnic Conflict, and the Test for Federalism
E-bok, 2016
1550 kr
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Updated to cover events between 1986 and 1992, including the destruction of the mosque at Ayodhya in December 1992, the book analyses the secessionist crisis in Punjab which led to Indira Gandhi''s murder and examines larger themes of ethnic conflict and threats to Indian unity. The Punjab example …
Great Indian Phone Book
How Cheap Mobile Phones Change Business, Politics and Daily Life
Häftad, 2013
206 kr
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The cheap mobile phone is arguably the most significant personal communications device in history. In India, where caste hierarchy has reinforced power for generations, the disruptive potential of the mobile phone is even more striking than elsewhere. In 2001, India had 35 million telephones, only …
Decline of Nair Dominance
Society and Politics in Travancore 1847-1908
Inbunden, 2023
1071 kr
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This book tells the story of how a longstanding matrilineal society, in which women provided the reference point for the control of property, began to crumble in the late nineteenth century, eaten away by the demands of a modernized state and ridiculed by foreign missionaries and Hindu critics from …
