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Sedert 1967 zijn in India de Naxalieten actief, een maoistische guerillabeweging die het geweld niet schuwt en inmiddels ongeveer een kwart van het land onder controle heeft gebracht. Ook in enkele...
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An International Workshop organized by Association of Indian Labour Historians (India) under the SEPHIS Programme and the International Institute of Social History
The workshop was held to discuss...
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Since 1996 the International Institute of Social History has been actively collecting material on the social history of Bengal, an important area in Asia. This region, inhabited by some 200 million...
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"Shroff, Money dealer, Hindoo, Delhi", sitting on his table in front of a Muslim customer. 'Their trade is the exchange of money, the giving change for rupees in pyce or copper coin, and for pyce in...
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Individual wage payments in India. The same event as ill. 4, but now from a distance, showing the large tent under which the payment takes place, as well as the hundreds of workers waiting.
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Payday of salt pan workers at Kharaghoda on the Rann of Kutch (Gujarat, Western India), 1919. Under the tent to the right and the left tables at which the British managers are seated, making sure...
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IndiaSince September 2010, collection policy specially focuses on preservation of written and oral sources that describe and explain the lives of workers, non-workers and labour relations in Manipur...
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The actual collection work of the South Asia Desk is carried out in North-East India, Sri Lanka and South India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.The South Asia Desk at Ranchi then sorts out and processes...
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The IISH South Asia Desk in Ranchi, India, is active since September 2010.It aims to cover India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh, whereas the eastern part of Asia is covered by IISH...
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A Study of Industrial Labour in Post-Colonial India - Jan Breman1. Constituting labour2. A Deficient Workforce3. Rejection of the Commitment Concept4. Factory Workers as Dominant Class in the Urban...
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