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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 71–87.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Owain Lawson Abstract This article writes engineers into the history of Lebanese political-economic thought. Historians of Lebanon's postindependence period have emphasized how a narrow, elite “consortium” espoused a national ideology that authorized laissez-faire monetary and trade policies...
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Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 5. A plaque dedicated to a General Reserve Engineering Force officer killed in a landslide. Still from Road to Leh (dir. Gopal Datt, 1968). More
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Figure 9. Unshod local laborers, hired by the General Reserve Engineering Force, sheltering along the side of the road during the dynamiting of the mountain face. Still from Border Roads (dir. P. B. Pendharkar, 1965). More
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 239–256.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Abigail Judge Kret The Peoples’ Friendship University was opened in Moscow in 1960 to educate young people from Asia, Africa, and Latin America in medicine, agriculture, engineering, mathematics and science, and law. In addition to being a unique site of Second World-Third World encounter...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 454–475.
Published: 01 December 2014
... infrastructural technologies of the colonial state—revealed a uniform sense of the state as a particular kind of engine of “development,” the far more messy political economy of electrification displayed a mixed understanding of both governance and the state’s role in the economy. © 2014 by Duke University...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 543–554.
Published: 01 December 2012
...S. Satish Kumar Kumar’s essay explores Indian classical music and the language in which it is conceived, apprehended, and received. He seeks to understand the historical processes that have gone into engineering the changes not just in the form of Indian classical music but also in, perhaps, its...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 440–453.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Kilgour Frederick Gridley . Engineering in History . 1956. Reprint , Mineola, NY : Dover , 1990 . Kuhn Thomas S. “ Energy Conservation as an Example of Simultaneous Discovery .” In Critical Problems in the History of Science: Proceedings of the Institute of the History of Science, 1957...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 497–517.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Infrastructure Fails , edited by Graham Stephen , 131 – 44 . London : Routledge , 2010 . McKinsey and Company . Vision Mumbai: Transforming Mumbai into a World-Class City . Mumbai , 2003 . Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Department of Hydraulic Engineering . “ White Paper presented...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (2): 279–302.
Published: 01 August 2006
... engineering (BS, University of Georgia, 1962; of Tehran was getting less than two thousand or PhD, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, around that much. This was a quantum jump over what was customarily paid...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 353–366.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Engin Deniz Akarli Duke University Press 2006 1985), 86–105. 1985), cial Characteristics Karpat, Journal ofMiddle East Studies Century,” Nineteenth inthe Istanbul of Population Shaw, “The Stanford with Compare 781. 1994), Press, University Cambridge (Cambridge: Quataert...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 541–564.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Figure 5. A plaque dedicated to a General Reserve Engineering Force officer killed in a landslide. Still from Road to Leh (dir. Gopal Datt, 1968). ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 36–46.
Published: 01 August 1995
..., Kordofan and Darfur Society, Mograt partments were engineering, mechanical, traffic, ac- Cooperative Society, and al-Bawga Men’s Society, counts, hotel and catering, stores, and police. just to name a few.19 These were charitable organi- zations, whose main function was to provide eco- The nature...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 64–67.
Published: 01 August 1987
... of an Investigation,’ Economic and Political Weekly 21 , No. 22 (May 31): 949 –952. Engineer , Asghar Ali. 1986 . ‘Engulfed in Communal Fire,’ Economic and Political Weekly 21 , No. 23 (June 7): 994 –997. Engineer , Asghar Ali. 1986 . ‘Gujarat Communal Violence and Police Terror...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 31–45.
Published: 01 May 1999
...). Monthly Journal and Report, published by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, London. Monthly Labor Review, published by the US Department of Labor. Moodie , T.D. 1994 . Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press). O'Brien , H.H. 1919...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 437–445.
Published: 01 December 2017
... was in the invisible, and vice 30. De Boeck and Plissart, Kinshasa, 155. 31. Yeoh, Introduction: Representation, 5. 32. Sardar, The Consumption of Kuala Lumpur; see also Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Fac- tish Gods. 33. Barker, Engineers and Political Dreams ; Mrázek, The Engineers of Happy Land. See also Nye...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 35–49.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... cal phenomena in the upper atmosphere. In 1969 Space was not an obvious priority for newly Sarabhai engineered the formation of the Indian independent India, but scientific elites such as Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which laid Sarabhai employed...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 134–141.
Published: 01 May 2017
... contributed to the reduction of funding for scholarship in the humanities. Historically, universi- ties have been the strongholds for the production of knowledge in humanities fields, in relative freedom from engineered state control, but also in relative freedom from market forces. Today, however, largely...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 25–39.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of socioenvironmental engineer- clude that there is a need to extend work on ing is a meaningful contribution that requires these themes. While I do not have the space to further consideration by state theorists. discuss all...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 70–74.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Asghar Ali Engineer Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1988 South Asia Bulletin, volume 8 (1988) Shiv Sew - Protector of Hinduism or Menace to Minorities Asghar Ali Engineer The Shiv Sena is very much in the news these days. The communal character...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 16–23.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Asghar Ali Engineer © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 2 (1994) Communal Violence and the Role of law Enforcement Agencies Asghar Ali Engineer The role of the police in communal riots has be- most visible part...