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This personal narrative about life in a remote desert region of western India tells of how love of place and love of person find their equilibrium in a world far removed from modernity. Yet this small, distant land of kingship and pastoral life is rapidly being eroded by the new India of commerce and industrialization. The author describes how an ancient society is transformed by the culture of consumption where the lyrical beauty of balance, exchange and loyalty is translated into a single market economy. The people and places of post-Partition Kacch, where even the land and value systems of a lately independent India now appear in a nostalgic light, are described in detail. This is a record of private emotion and physical terrain, of traditions and of profound social practice.
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Il Trattato delle Trascrizioni, diretto dal Prof. Gabrielli e dal Prof. Gazzoni, è strutturato in tre volumi: il primo (diviso in due tomi) in tema di trascrizione di atti e sentenze, il secondo sulle domande giudiziali e, infine, il terzo con scritti in materia di trascrizione di prestigiosi studiosi del settore. Il secondo volume tratta in maniera completa e approfondita la disciplina della trascrizione delle domande giudiziali, attraverso il commento di altissimo profilo scientifico da parte dei maggiori esperti in materia. Oltre ad affrontare le questioni di carattere generale, gli Autori analizzano tutte le ipotesti previste dal nostro ordinamento di trascrizione di domande giudiziali ...
Urbanisation is rapidly changing the geographic and social landscape of India, and indeed Asia as a whole. Issues of collective violence, urban poverty and discrimination become crucial factors in the redefinition of citizenship not only in legal terms, but also in a cultural and socio-economic dimension. While Indian cities are becoming the centres of a culture of exclusion against vulnerable social groups, a long-term perspective is essential to understand the patterns that shaped the space, politics, economy and culture of contemporary metropolises. This book takes a critical, longer-term view of India’s economic transition. The idea that urban growth goes hand in hand with the modernis...
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