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Colonial Figures: Memories of Street Traders in the Colonial and Early Post-colonial Periods [PDF]
, 2012 This article explores post-colonial memories about street traders among individuals who lived in the former colony of the Dutch East Indies. It argues that these narratives romanticize the relationship between Europeans and indigenous peoples.
Gibbings, Sheri Lynn, Steijlen, Fridus
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Lexical evolution rates by automated stability measure
, 2009 Phylogenetic trees can be reconstructed from the matrix which contains the distances between all pairs of languages in a family. Recently, we proposed a new method which uses normalized Levenshtein distances among words with same meaning and averages on ...
Bakker D +13 more
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Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the ...
Matthew Castle +4 more
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Substratum Influence on (Rig-Vedic) Sanskrit? [PDF]
, 1975 published or submitted for publicationis peer ...
Hock, Hans Henrich
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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Humours and their Legacy in Early Buddhist Medicine
History of Science in South AsiaIn this paper, I analyze the Buddhist humoral theory primarily presented in the suttas of the Pāli Canon through a comparative study with other medical theories developed within the Indo-European tradition, specifically Hippocratic and Āyurvedic ...
Federico Divino
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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50/50 by 2020: poverty and redistributive politics in post-independence Fiji [PDF]
, 2015 The affirmative action program launched by the Fiji Government in 2002 espoused a '50/50 by 2020' vision; that is, by the year 2020, some 50 per cent of all economic activities would be owned by the indigenous population.
Chand, Satish
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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KEY METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF MODERN INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES
Записки з романо-германської філології, 2022 Стаття мiстить розгорнутий критичний аналiз деяких найбiльш важливих методологiчних проблем сучасного порiвняльно-iсторичного мовознавства та iндоєвропеїстики в цiлому. Наводиться ряд мiркувань з приводу того, як саме перегляд концептуальних пiдходiв, що дiють, здатен змiнити уяву щодо принципових можливостей та перспектив розвитку ...
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