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The Black Winter of 1860–61: War, Famine, and the Political Ecology of Disasters in Qajar Iran
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 24–48.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., of the processes explained here were central in the making of disasters elsewhere in the Middle East. The factors that brought about these unfortunate episodes in the region were interconnected and had local, regional, and above all global dimensions. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 food scarcity...
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The Question of Famines: A Critical Analysis of the McAlpin Thesis
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 May 1985
...?”, The Journal of Asian Studies , vol. XLIII no. 3 . Arnold , D. , ( 1984 ). “Review of Greenough, P.R.: Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–44“, Modern Asian Studies , vol. 18 part 3. Arnold , D. , (forthcoming). “Review of McAlpin, M.B.: Subject to Famine: Food Crises...
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Desert Geopolitics: Arizona, Arabia, and an Arid-Lands Response to the Territorial Trap
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 May 2021
... actors imagine the “desert” as a naturalized site of scarcity, but also of opportunity to build politically and economically useful bridges between the two regions. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 desert geopolitics agriculture empire Saudi Arabia Arizona US Southwest...
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Land Reform in Pakistan: A Critical Issue for Future Development?
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (2): 36–52.
Published: 01 August 1981
...Salman Aziz; Thomas Gray Copyright Regents of the University of California 1981 BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams , Dale W. 1973 “The Economics of Land Reform” Food Research Institute Studies In Agricultural Economics, Trade, and Development , Vol. XII , No. 2 . Allauddin , Talat...
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Ephemerality
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 24–34.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and open: not overdetermined by theorizations of its biopolitics through the terms of scarcity and exceptionalism. The Dadaab complex has become the largest-ever hosting establishment for refugees, yet it has been absent from ordinary maps for much of the period since it was installed. The settlement...
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How War Shaped Egypt's National Bread Loaf
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 May 2017
... toward consuming “mixed” bread and toward the black market and military courts themselves. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Egypt World War II food agriculture colonialism The research for this article was made possible by support from a US State Department Bureau of Educational...
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Review Essay: Feasible Socialism and Revolutionary Projects for the Twentieth Century
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (2): 25–34.
Published: 01 August 1985
... situation at the time. Now, in the
scattered about his voluminous works. Nove finds many of last decades of the twentieth century, the implications of
Marx's assumptions about communist society to be utopian population growth and the absolute scarcity of some natural
and of little practical...
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Plastics and Agriculture in the Desert Frontier
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 86–102.
Published: 01 May 2017
... commodity production within the global food system or corporate food regime problematizes reemerging “greening the desert” narratives that parade the latest greening technical feats as a solution to securing food production in a warming planet. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 horticulture...
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Modernizing Peasants and “Master Farmers”: Progressive Agriculture in Early Independent India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 May 2017
... pastoral romanticism than to tural growth from the Grow More Food cam- a pervasive agrarian ethic promulgated by India s paign to the efforts to remake Indian diets along central and provincial governments in the first lines of scarcity these crop competitions were several decades of Indian...
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Reflections on Reconciliation and Revolution
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 538–540.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... What Baghi's statements reflect is the scarcity of these conditions. She has little regard for the Taliban's pardon other than as a self-legitimating technique of power. In her comments, moreover, far from admitting to wrongdoing, Baghi suggests that the preponderance of the violations lay...
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The South Asian Diaspora in Tanzania: A History Retold
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 62–80.
Published: 01 August 1996
..., insurance companies,
3500 Asians remained on the two islands.74 Hindus and major food-processing and milling industries
who had close relatives or friends in India, departed were nationalized. Licenses of large scale Asian ex-
port-import traders...
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What Storytellers Were Worth in Mughal India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 570–587.
Published: 01 December 2017
... to Nineteenth Centuries .” Unpublished manuscript , 2005 . Microsoft Word document, on file with the author . Schofield Katherine Butler . “ If Music Be the Food of Love: Masculinity and Eroticism in the Mughal Mehfil .” In Love in South Asia: A Cultural History , by Orsini Francesca , 61...
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Life Cycle of Bangladeshi Muslim Women and Their Role in the Rural Economy
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (1): 10–16.
Published: 01 May 1981
...; but such changes also mean
less control of available economic resources. Women lose a source of in•
come, however small, and this reduces their ability to provide food and care
for their families. This marginalization of women in the labor force is
in turn reflected...
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He's No Good: Sexual Division of Labor and Habitus among Nepal's Marpha Thakali
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 81–89.
Published: 01 August 1993
..., serving them food
animal husbandry and agriculture (Vinding, 1984), and drink, and washing their plates in an expression
but the limits on cultivation imposed by a scarcity both of affinal affection and of the subordinate rela-
of water have always compelled the Thakali to tionship between...
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Sacred Cows and Secular History: Cow Protection Debates in Colonial North India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 297–311.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., scarcity, and
mous influence on cow protection discourse. In famine.21 These arguments were often linked
this pamphlet Swami Dayanand presented the to dire consequences for the Hindu jati¯ or race:
case for cow protection and laid down guidelines a paper of 1893 asserted that because of cow...
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Green Revolution in Kerala: A Discourse on Technology and Nature
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 109–118.
Published: 01 August 1995
... tropical re-
not have a major impact in Kerala. This is shown by gions. Parameters such as the seasonal availability of
the stagnation of the total production and the (per- sunlight are now considered as limiting factors on the
hectare) productivity of the major food crop (rice) of effectiveness...
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Modernization of Agriculture and the Monetization of a Village Economy in Deccan Maharashtra, India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1983) 3 (2): 15–30.
Published: 01 August 1983
... for her
for casual day labor. In 1982, because of acid tongue. They had long, 12- to 14-
this scarcity of male labor at peak demand hour workdays and were often fed left-over
periods in the agricultural cycle, men food and bread that was specially made...
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South Asian Nationalism in an East African Context: The Case of Tanganyika, 1914–1956
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 24–39.
Published: 01 August 1999
... depended on keeping long
of the lack of arable land but “because of the cost of hours. Shop assistants secured a 54-hour work week
food and lack of wages to pay for it The war in 1932 and a 48-hour work week in 1945, though
brought scarcity in commodities and unprecedented enforcement...
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Environment and Development: The Case of the Sardar Sarovar Project
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 96–103.
Published: 01 August 1992
... for compensatory af- viable and long-term solution to Gujarat’s severe water
forestation have been submitted. The basic problem is scarcity. (The case for the SSP is presented in AU
that equivalent non-forest land for compensatory AhaNamda, 1991; No Cancelling Tomw,1992;
afforestation as required...
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When God Provides: Welfare, Orthodox Practice, and Precarity in Lebanon
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2025) 45 (1): 135–149.
Published: 01 May 2025
... activity. A young girl's surgery was paid for through the intercession of a donor unaware of her particular case. Donations from the Gulf arrived right when the center was struggling financially. Intertwined with bitter laments over the dollar rate, scarcity of public services, and food costs, such stories...
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