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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 277–290.
Published: 01 August 2020
... to understand this transformation in—and decentering of—the modern state's authority, we consider the multiple sources of legal authority claimed by the East India Company (1600–1757) and the way in which it positioned its legal and political legitimacy in relation to multiple and often competing centers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Mona Damluji As the most widely circulated cinematic portrait of Abadan under full administration of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the AIOC film Persian Story offers an exceptional opportunity to examine the ways in which the British company linked the idea of modernity to the image...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 24–32.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Michael H. Fisher Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 -
Persian Professor in Britain: Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim
at the East India Company's College, 1826-44...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 317–326.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Rebecca Gruskin Abstract In the 1920s and 1930s, the French colonial phosphate mining company in Gafsa, Tunisia, used X-ray images to decide which of its workers’ injuries were fake and which were real. Through an analysis of X-ray photography in Gafsa, this article argues that a capacious history...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Reem Alissa This article highlights the role of oil as an agent of political, social, and cultural change at the level of the everyday urban experience by introducing the company town as a modern architectural and urban prototype that has been largely neglected in the study of the Middle East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 May 2013
... factors that shaped both the trajectory of urban development and its political implications. One of these factors was the presence of many foreign, especially British, workers and executives of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC). The company’s size also meant that a large number of the city’s residents...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 423–440.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of Kenya retaining the majority stake in the company. This was followed by the company going “public” in 2008 through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). In exploring these transformations, this article demonstrates that privatization was not a singular event but turned on the production of divisibility...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 59–74.
Published: 01 May 2013
... as the producers and recipients of these messages and images: Manama’s young people and the city’s entrepreneurs, the public relations strategists of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and the Bahrain government, the expatriate housewives, and the indigenous oil workers. The article begins with a discussion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 404–419.
Published: 01 August 2022
... militant in colonial India. From 1818, the East India Company secured its sovereignty by designating as deviant or permissible a host of itinerant figures in and around South Asia. In police records, court transcripts, and legislative archives, pilgrims with links to Arabia accordingly began appearing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 515–527.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Purnima Dhavan This article examines two early-nineteenth-century Punjabi histories to demonstrate how these texts reflect ruptures in the recording and reordering of Sikh historical memories in the decades prior to colonization. An awareness of the East India Company's interest in the records...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 206–219.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Can Nacar In 1883, the Ottoman government granted a tobacco monopoly to a foreign company called the Régie. The Régie opened its largest factory in the Cibali district of Istanbul in 1884. Nacar’s study examines strikes and unionization efforts in the Cibali factory at the turn of the century...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 492–504.
Published: 01 December 2015
... small drawings, which are scanned and digitally altered. The article then focuses on The Last Post (2010), which marked a radical departure in the artist's animation practice. The Last Post deals with the history of colonial struggle and the legacy of the British East India Company in South and East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Natalie Koch Abstract In 2014 the largest dairy company in the Middle East, Almarai, purchased a farm near Vicksburg, Arizona, to grow alfalfa as feed for cattle in Saudi Arabia. Almarai is headquartered at Al Kharj farms, just outside of Riyadh, where it has a herd of more than 93,000 milk cows...
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in “This Camp Is Full of Hujaj !”: Claims to Land and the Built Environment in a Contested Palestinian Refugee Camp in Amman
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 4. Image of electricity meter boxes installed by the Jordanian Electric Power Company. Photograph by the author, 2019.
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. 1690 map of Bombay and Salsette. Sam Thornton, hydrographer, East India Company. Note the fishing stakes visible at the mouth of the harbor, above Bombay and below Coronja/Karanja village. Map accessible at https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-543499 .
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 303–314.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of and diverse peoples coming under their rule. In
people from India living in Britain. These legal 1757 the East India Company’s army had gained
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and moral debates had signifi cant consequences power over territory and population about three
Africa...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (2): 20–26.
Published: 01 August 1981
..., The United Provinces, The Punjab, etc. Their History, People, Commerce, and Natural Resources London: Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company. Early I'ndustriat Entreprenuers: The Bhatias
Cynthia...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 487–494.
Published: 01 December 2008
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tinued to take advice from the same sources which had, I thought, poisoned the judgment of the and
Labour Party—the bureaucracy of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, the Ministry of Fuel and Power, Africa...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 88–112.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., the
rises in salaries of multinational companies and sub-
presumed beneficiaries of liberalization. Such an
sequently of Indian companies. This has placed new
analysis is particularly significant given the ways...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 May 2013
... to the nationalization of the various
petroleum industries in the 1970s and 1980s, they propose an ethnographic reading of oil as the principal
agent of urban change in two main contexts: the new company towns and labor camps that proliferated
around the oil fields at the onset of oil exploitation, and the old...
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