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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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Implications of new guidelines for assessment and certification of disability in mental illness in India. [PDF]

open access: yesIndian J Psychiatry
John A   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rylands v Fletcher Redux: Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell is the most significant development in the law of Rylands v Fletcher for decades. Rejecting the view that the rule is merely a sub‐species of private nuisance, the Committee reconstructed it as an independent rule of strict liability governing harm caused by ...
Marco Cappelletti
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Consideration Without Economic Duress: Reframing the Analysis of Contractual Modifications

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Prevailing approaches to the contractual enforceability of modifications revise or dispense with the requirement of consideration and invoke economic duress to rule out unfair, inequitable, or bad faith modifications. Enforceability turns effectively on the absence of economic duress. But economic duress is a doctrine of avoidance.
Peter Benson
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
wiley   +1 more source

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