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2018
What challenges did India face at independence? When India achieved independence from Britain on August 15, 1947, it faced a daunting situation. Its population of 345 million was largely poor and uneducated. Average life expectancy was just thirty-two years.
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What challenges did India face at independence? When India achieved independence from Britain on August 15, 1947, it faced a daunting situation. Its population of 345 million was largely poor and uneducated. Average life expectancy was just thirty-two years.
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2014
Advances in information and communication technology seem to promise a revolution in politics. Social media appear to overcome the perceived limitations of representative democracy, allowing more direct and democratic politics less influenced by “elites.” In this chapter, the authors note the nature of this promised revolution, arguing that e ...
Kane, J, Patapan, H
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Advances in information and communication technology seem to promise a revolution in politics. Social media appear to overcome the perceived limitations of representative democracy, allowing more direct and democratic politics less influenced by “elites.” In this chapter, the authors note the nature of this promised revolution, arguing that e ...
Kane, J, Patapan, H
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2017
As a result of his classical training in the Honours School of Literæ Humaniores at Oxford, Oscar Wilde drew frequently on the works of Plato for inspiration, especially the Republic. The idea of a New Republic and its philosophy resonated profoundly with Wilde—so much so that the philosophical questions raised in Plato’s Republic become the central ...
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As a result of his classical training in the Honours School of Literæ Humaniores at Oxford, Oscar Wilde drew frequently on the works of Plato for inspiration, especially the Republic. The idea of a New Republic and its philosophy resonated profoundly with Wilde—so much so that the philosophical questions raised in Plato’s Republic become the central ...
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Index on Censorship, 1996
Lord Justice Scott's exposure of the secrecy and duplicity that characterised the UK government's arms deals with Iraq should have come as no surprise to a society in which, acording to a French journalist working in London, the 'culture of secrecy' is endemic and reaches out well beyond the confines of Parliament to operate as the most powerful form ...
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Lord Justice Scott's exposure of the secrecy and duplicity that characterised the UK government's arms deals with Iraq should have come as no surprise to a society in which, acording to a French journalist working in London, the 'culture of secrecy' is endemic and reaches out well beyond the confines of Parliament to operate as the most powerful form ...
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A New Police for a New Republic
This chapter assesses how postwar reforms promised a reevaluation of the relationship between France and Algeria, a moment of change that also influenced policing. Attempts to resuscitate the image of the French police, tarnished by association with the Vichy regime, prompted institutional changes in Marseille and Algiers.openaire +1 more source
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 1985
In January of 1984, opposition political parties in Brazil organized a public campaign to demand direct popular elections for the President ofthe Republic. During the next three months an estimated eight million people took to the streets throughout the country.
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In January of 1984, opposition political parties in Brazil organized a public campaign to demand direct popular elections for the President ofthe Republic. During the next three months an estimated eight million people took to the streets throughout the country.
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The Foundations of the New Republic
1968To most Germans the defeat of the Spartakist rising seemed to be a victory for moderation and legality. Ebert, who personified both these qualities, achieved another important objective on 19 January, when Germany went to the polls to elect a Constituent National Assembly. The elections were held in an atmosphere of crisis.
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