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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 44–53.
Published: 01 May 1990
... . New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company. Saklani , A. ( 1987 ). The History of a Himalayan Princely State . Delhi: Durga Publications. Sanwal , M. ( 1986 ). “ The Social Forestry Design Framework: The Hill Areas of Uttar Pradesh ,” London: ODI. Singh , O.P. ( 1983 ). “The UP...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 610–620.
Published: 01 December 2010
... and branches intertwined as one. At the bottom of these trees are usually placed several reliefs of intertwined serpents, an image very similar to that of Hermes/Mercury's caduceus. It is also a common practice in Tamil Nadu to place at the bottom of an abandoned termite hill milk, eggs, and bananas to honor...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 246–262.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Radhika Govindrajan The translocation of captured monkeys from lowlands to rural hill areas in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand has become an incendiary social and political issue over the last five years. This essay asks what the recent outpouring of intense emotions and arguments around...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 67–85.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Robert A. Hill © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 2 (1994) Ethiopian Stories: George S. Schuyler and literary Pan-Africanism in the 1930s’ Robert A. Hill Addis Ababa and the Caribbean...
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Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 3. Revised proposal of the president's estate, Islamabad. The president's house is now placed at top of the hill, model 1963–66. Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. More
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 35–44.
Published: 01 August 1993
..., such frameworks for rural development will again as new road construction and the establishment of change, but the new forms have yet to emerge. hill towns as service and market centers, link the While the success of the centralized rural devel- rural systems with the wider political economy and opment...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 August 1996
... would expect to find in its institutions a reflection of the population, in the Hills and the Plains, there of traditional Hindu attitudes toward Muslims. One were people who were not sumtuni (regular) Hindus. would be tempted to see Nepal as a kind of museum According to the criteria used...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (2): 33–37.
Published: 01 August 1984
... and Sylhet where it was known as nankar. While the tebagha movement (two-thirds share) in Bengal is far better known, the tanka struggle involving minorities (hill• tribals) is not as well known. The struggle which first began in 1937 ended only when the zamindari...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 521–537.
Published: 01 August 2011
... Anglo-­Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymo- to Ana Alonso, Rudi Gaudio, Jane H. Hill, and Brian Silverstein for logical, Historical, Geographical, and Discursive,” Journal of the their incisive guidance, critiques, and suggestions...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 434–443.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in colonial circles as the foremost authority on the Nagas. He was intimately involved in Naga affairs at a crucial period of their history. He was the deputy commissioner of the Naga Hills District—the most important colonial official on the ground—for an extended period of time including when the Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 59–66.
Published: 01 August 1993
... walk away. spontaneous settlement from hill regions the Ta- to More commonly, individuals have left the village to rai. He reviews theories of migration, and discusses seek wage labor in India, Assam, Sikkim...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 23–34.
Published: 01 August 1993
... Shrestha [1990:20-2 13 challenges this no- The increasing population pressure on the coun- tion, pointing to higher grain yields in the hills).l” try’s agricultural land base is exacerbated by The Tarai produces most of Nepal’s commercial concentrated landownership (Table 1). Farms under...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 488–493.
Published: 01 December 2020
... governed by status and tradition, to modern ones governed by contractual exchange relationship. 21 In Northeast India, this distinction became the foundation for the colonial distinction between “hills” and “valleys” that devised different systems of property and governance for the fertile valleys...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 99–117.
Published: 01 May 1997
... . The Growth of the Modern West Indies . London: MacGibbon and Kee. Mandle , Jay . 1989 . “British Caribbean Economic History,” in Franklin W. Knight and Colin A. Palmer, eds., The Modern Caribbean , pp. 229 –58. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Manley , Michael . 1975...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 671–678.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005 . Heath Shirley Brice . Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1983 . Hill...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 67–80.
Published: 01 August 1993
... complex, that is, perhaps, the price ese rulers were willing to exchange hill peasants for of taking citizen’s lives seriously in debates about things they wanted from the British. The things sovereignty, national identity and the international they wanted included, at different times, assurances...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 637–644.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of the New Imperialism . New York : Henry Holt , 2007 . Herring George C. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975 . 4th ed. New York : McGraw-Hill , 2001 . Hunt Michael H. The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 159–160.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Gei- clude Lives in Between: The Experience of Marginality ger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press, in a Century of Emancipation (Hill and Wang, 1999); 1998) and the coeditor of Insider / Outsider: Ameri- Hotel Bolivia...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 222–223.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., , L’Harmattan, 2001 L’Harmattan, more recentIn Buddhism in Taiwan: Religion and the and inTaiwan:Buddhism Religion The View from Mars Hill...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 507–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Figure 3. Revised proposal of the president's estate, Islamabad. The president's house is now placed at top of the hill, model 1963–66. Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ...
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