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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 463–472.
Published: 01 December 2010
... continued to serve as a market for the Central Eurasian horse trade. But as the city's irrigation canals deteriorated and its environs became a swamp, it was visited by repeated outbreaks of cholera and malaria, until the city was abandoned for the nearby shrine town of Mazar-e Sharif in the mid-nineteenth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 9–15.
Published: 01 August 1999
... on the island of charts, and photographs in addition to his written Pemba in the Zanzibar Protectorate got a whiff of text.* His report is intriguing. The DO’S journey from something unusual going on in the mangrove swamps Wete town, where the main economic activity was the that clung to the creeks...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 66–68.
Published: 01 May 1990
..., mainly for export. The monoculture of towards solidarity. shellfish is not unlike that of cotton, soya-bean or cas- sava, in that it takes place on land which had hitherto been used for growing food crops, or in mangrove STOP THIS DESTRUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT swamps which are natural nursery...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 249–261.
Published: 01 December 2023
... land was not very suitable because they were drained swamps with heavy soil that required special preparation and constant care. Competition for irrigation water led some growers to channel new amounts from faraway springs that contained high levels of salt and did not suit the banana plants. Experts...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 477–483.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., and The Greek influence on Rotimi’s tragedies, espe- Swamp Dwellers: “The short plays are as intensely cially his The Gods Are Not to Blame ), while disturbing and as intimately enjoyable as his full Osofisan’s dramatic works have often been length drama. In fact, I...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 May 2010
... . . . if we go in for reservations on commu- dal family romance to oblivi0n, giving the “last word” Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post- nal and caste basis we (will) swamp the bright and to the legal authority...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 10–15.
Published: 01 August 1996
... answer to these The issue began to be hotly debated. The press and questions. The argument was advanced that Muslims public platforms were used by the protagonists of the were a minority and they would be swamped by the two languages, and the agitation seemed to draw a Hindu majority in free...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1982) 2 (1): 19–28.
Published: 01 May 1982
... for the Chinese and Japanese laborers available wages of those who worked in his "gang". for seasonal work, and "the widespread Much as Japanese labor was used to desire to break the monopoly control of develop waste lands and drain swamps in the labor supply...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 347–354.
Published: 01 December 2021
... foreigners into natives by planting trees and draining swamps, simultaneously licensing foreign counsels to act through them extraterritorialy. 6 If Jews and Parsis were “service nomads,” we might ask what exactly they were servicing. Slezkine assumes an initial difference between Mercurians...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 465–482.
Published: 01 December 2016
... on the performance of sta- cutta, unless it was an undrained swamp cost- 10, WBSA. The report tabulates the rising cost tistics in representing a problem of governance ing almost £4,500 an acre as compared to £200...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 262–271.
Published: 01 August 2010
... these examples? We can see that a scrutiny of swamp many other political identities, and this in Imperialism and Nationalism gender/patriarchal relations, proprieties, and goes for both the “West...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 192–203.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., with An Angus Reid poll of April 2000 indicated the white population being particularly hostile that, of all Canadians, British Columbians were toward Asian immigrants, as whites feared that the least likely to believe in God and the least they would be swamped by what they defined likely to say...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (2): 38–45.
Published: 01 August 1986
... to the country as Towards the end of the 1920's the world-wide economic Osons of the soil'" (ibid, 1985). It asserted that the Sinhala depression had set in and there was the threat of mass un- people were in danger of being swamped by aliens who were employment in Sri Lanka as well...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 11–22.
Published: 01 August 1987
... ers, the bourgeoisie was able to arouse the chauvinist bogey early phase chose the first option and there are several key that the Kandyans would be politically "swamped" by Indi• issues in which it took an uncompromising, non-chauvinist...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 104–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and History Review 28 , no. 1 ( 2010 ): 1 – 38 . Bhattacharyya Debjani . Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . Bhattacharya Debjani . “ Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law, and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 407–420.
Published: 01 December 2020
... political or environmental frontier zones or borderlands where state sovereignty as such remained ambivalent and could be improvised. This third category often overlapped with the above, as geographical distance and environmental friction (hills, forest, swamp, desert) in part explains why minor states were...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 536–550.
Published: 01 December 2024
... into the obscure earth from which they had long since emerged, here the reverse applied. Railroads, bridges, canals, and harbors were seen to rise, step by step, frame by frame, from jungles and swamps, from rock, mud, and sand. It was this visible, almost tangible, sense of progress as an unfolding temporal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 199–213.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of the Bush administration as it tary actions in Chechnya, and discredit his Chechen waded into the business of “draining the swamp of Muslim adversaries all in one blow. In the new terrorism” in Afghanistan with a single-mindedness world order, armed Muslim groups of all orienta- that resembled Putin’s...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 146–162.
Published: 01 May 2022
...-Avicennan model of disease etiology, certain environments were believed to be more conducive to afflictions; swamps and marshy lands, dead bodies, and decomposing matter were thought to release disease-inducing miasma into the air. Thus, regulations of public health directly targeted urban filth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 25–38.
Published: 01 August 1996
... psychosis of being and a clouding of judgments on the centuries-old swamped by Hindu nationalism. Shaikh Abdullah’s identity crisis of an ethnic nationality with a distinct expulsion as the Prime Minister of Jammu and Central Asian and Persian ethos. For this reason Kashmir in 1953 and his...