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region: India
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Elections in India
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Elections in India was launched by Datanet India in September, 2012 and parliament constituency-wise election data, since independence, for all the 543 parliament and 4120 state assembly constituencies in India. The company is a non-partisan company and offers free information to the research community with the website.
Democracy, Governance, Political reforms, Political Science, Politics, Public administration, Society
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Times of India (1838-2010)
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The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper, the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation with its first edition published in 1838 and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation. The Times of India issued its first […]
Read moreAsian newspapers – India
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Via PressReader’s collection you can read a number of Asian newspapers and magazines on the day they are published. In the new version PressReader it is possible to set your own account and customize the outlook of PressReader by choosing specific countries, newspapers and topics. You can also set up e-mail alerts. PressReader user guide […]
Read moreOpen Government Data (OGD) Platform India
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Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India – data.gov.in – is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. It intends to increase transparency […]
Read moreOpen Index Initiative: search engine for Indian social science literature
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Open Index Initiative is a modest attempt by the IGIDR library staff [Mumbai, India] to develop an online and searchable bibliographic database for most of the Indian Social Science literature and resources available in Indian libraries. OII indexes selected Indian social science Journals and working papers/discussion papers/occassional Papers, and thesis/dissertations emanating from Indian social science […]
Read moreCensus of India
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The Indian Census is the most credible source of information on Demography (Population characteristics), Economic Activity, Literacy and Education, Housing & Household Amenities, Urbanisation, Fertility and Mortality, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Language, Religion, Migration, Disability and many other socio-cultural and demographic data since 1872. Census 2011 will be the 15th National Census of the […]
Read moreModernization & Effeminization in India: Kerala Cashew Workers since 1930
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Anna Lindberg 2005 The South Indian state of Kerala is well known for its progressive policy, high social indicators, and comparatively high women’s status. Processes of modernization, however, have had an ambiguous impact on women. This study of female cashew factory workers in Kerala combines meticulous historical investigation with anthropological research, including a wealth of […]
Read moreOther Landscapes: Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India South India
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Deborah Sutton 2009 Due to India’s inhospitable climate and vastness of the native population, European settlement was never seriously considered apart from in selected upland areas with cooler climates and sparse native populations. One such area was the Nilgiri Hills of South India which, from the early 19th century, saw concerted efforts at European colonization […]
Read moreGendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting and Recognizing Women and Men
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Helle Rydstrøm 2010 Global processes with flows in money, commodities and people have made it increasingly varied and has blurred what it means to be a female or male in Asia today. Socio-economic and cultural patterns in Asia intersect with one another and, in doing so, they translate into power relations that create both possibilities […]
Read moreAll Religions Merge in Tranquebar: religious Coexistence and Social Cohesion South India
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Oluf Schönbeck (with Peter B. Andersen) 2012 With globalization helping those who assert incompatible differences between their respective faiths, clashes of faith are increasingly common in different parts of the world. As a result, the study of religious conflict is also increasing. This book reverses that perspective by addressing a case of peaceful religious coexistence […]
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