Author: Population Census Organisation (Pakistan)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
1981 Census Report of Pakistan
Author: Population Census Organisation (Pakistan)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Statistical Atlas of Gujarat
Author: District Census Handbook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gandhinagar (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Census Mapping Survey
Author: Prithvish NagPublisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Country reports, with reference to selected countries from all the continents.
The Pakistan National Bibliography
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Communalism and Sexual Violence in India
Author: Megha KumarPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786730685
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Sexual violence has been a regular feature of communal conflict in India since independence in 1947. The Partition riots, which saw the brutal victimization of thousands of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh women, have so far dominated academic discussions of communal violence. This book examines the specific conditions motivating sexual crimes against women based on three of the deadliest riots that occurred in Ahmedabad city, Gujarat, in 1969, 1985 and 2002. Using an in-depth, grassroots-level analysis, Megha Kumar moves away from the predominant academic view that sees Hindu nationalist ideology as responsible for encouraging attacks on women. Instead, gendered communal violence is shown to be governed by the interaction of an elite ideology and the unique economic, social and political dynamics at work in each instance of conflict. Using government reports, Hindu nationalist publications and civil society commentaries, as well as interviews with activists, politicians and riot survivors, the book offers new insights into the factors and ideologies involved in communal violence, as well as the conditions that work to prevent sexual violence in certain riot contexts.The Politics of Sexual Violence in India will be valuable for academic researchers, Human Rights organizations, NGOs working with survivors of sexual violence and for those involved with community development and urban grassroots activism.
No One Had a Tongue to Speak
Author: Utpal SandesaraPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1616144327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Indian state of Gujarat, the two mile-long Machhu Dam-II disintegrated. The waters released from the dam’s massive reservoir rushed through the heavily populated downstream area, devastating the industrial city of Morbi and its surrounding agricultural villages. As the torrent’s thirty-foot-tall leading edge cut its way through the Machhu River valley, massive bridges gave way, factories crumbled, and thousands of houses collapsed. While no firm figure has ever been set on the disaster’s final death count, estimates in the flood’s wake ran as high as 25,000. Despite the enormous scale of the devastation, few people today have ever heard of this terrible event. This book tells, for the first time, the suspenseful and multifaceted story of the Machhu dam disaster. Based on over 130 interviews and extensive archival research, the authors recount the disaster and its aftermath in vivid firsthand detail. The book presents important findings culled from formerly classified government documents that reveal the long-hidden failures that culminated in one of the deadliest floods in history. The authors follow characters whose lives were interrupted and forever altered by the flood; provide vivid first-hand descriptions of the disaster and its aftermath; and shed light on the never-completed judicial investigation into the dam’s collapse.
General Population Tables, Series 5, Gujarat
Author: Additions and Accessions
Author: University of Durham. Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Documentation CentrePublisher:
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India
Author: Tommaso BobbioPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317514009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Urbanisation is rapidly changing the geographic and social landscape of India, and indeed Asia as a whole. Issues of collective violence, urban poverty and discrimination become crucial factors in the redefinition of citizenship not only in legal terms, but also in a cultural and socio-economic dimension. While Indian cities are becoming the centres of a culture of exclusion against vulnerable social groups, a long-term perspective is essential to understand the patterns that shaped the space, politics, economy and culture of contemporary metropolises. This book takes a critical, longer-term view of India’s economic transition. The idea that urban growth goes hand in hand with the modernisation of the country does not account for the fact that increasingly higher portions of the urban population are comprised of lower-income groups, casual labourers and slum dwellers. Using the case study of Ahmedabad, this book investigates the history of city and of its people over the twentieth century. It analyses the contrasting relationship between urban authorities and the inhabitants of Ahmedabad and examines instances of antagonism and negotiation – amongst people, groups and between the people and the public authority – that have continuously shaped, transformed and redefined life in the city. This book offers an important tool for understanding the bigger context of the conflicts, the social and cultural issues that accompanied the broader process of urbanisation in contemporary India. It will be of interest to scholars of Urban History, studies of collective violence and South Asian Studies.