precipitation from monsoons. The failure of these monsoons can lead to a series of droughts‚ lack of better prices‚ and exploitation of the farmers by middlemen‚ all of which have led to a series of suicides committed by farmers across India.[1] History[edit] Significant reporting on suicides among farmers in India began in the 1990s In the 1990s India woke up to a spate of farmers suicides. One of the major reporters of these suicides was the Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu‚ P. Sainath. The first state where
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Analysis of "Revolt of Mother’" In Mary Wilkins Freeman’s "The Revolt of Mother’" Mother is the typical woman of the late 1890s‚ who was brought up to be subservient to men‚ as was common during the era. America was a completely patriarchal society at the end of the nineteenth century. Women had always been perceived as lesser beings than men; women were thought to be less intelligent‚ weaker‚ and generally less important than men. "The Revolt of Mother’" was written just around the time
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REVIEW ARTICLES Impact of Tourism Development on the Economy and Health of Third World Nations Anna Hundt International tourism has quickly become one of the most important economic industries in the world.’+ In the 1950s and 1960s‚the most popular destinations for tourists from developed nations were other developed nations. However‚ as international travel gained popularity‚ tourists became more “savvy” and more cost-conscious‚ and they began malung “intercultural” excursions to underdeveloped
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Cultural Conflict and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680‚ a reader is able to grasp an in depth understanding of the various factors that led to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Apart from Bowden’s research‚ I have obtained other information from different authors and have been able to come up with a general assumption as to why this event occurred in the history of our country. Based upon the knowledge of various authors‚ I have come up with the following statement. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was brought about by the
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Babakian Revolt One of the strongest manifestations of discontent was the Babakian (also known as the Khorramid) mutiny. At its core‚ it was a peasant rebellion against feudal injustice. Nonetheless‚ it transmuted into an ideological movement‚ adopting Mazedist religious canons and resurrecting an earlier struggle against Sassanid rulers. Khorramids‚ an advanced offshoot of Mazdeism‚ opposed slavery. It promoted communal ownership of agricultural land and promoted women’s rights. They were extremely
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Summary The Demerara Slave Revolt The 1823 slave revolt in Demarara‚ Guyana‚ started on a sugar plantation called “Plantation Success”- on the east coast of the colony on August 23. It spread throughout the nearby area to involve slaves from at least fifty-five plantations. In total‚ around ten thousand of the approximately seventy-five thousand slaves who lived in the colony rose in violent rebellion against their oppressors. The revolt would have been even larger‚ however‚ had the slaves succeeded
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Introduction The Revolt of 1857‚ commonly called as the Sepoy Revolt‚ was the first organised revolt against British rule in India. It was the culmination of the manifold grievances that Indians had against the East India Companys rule. It was to a great extent a popular revolt led by exiled princes and displaced landlords. The revolt was largely confined to North and Central India. The revolt failed due to various reasons‚ including lack of organised planning on the part of the rebels and superior
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Causes of War of Independence It is now an admitted fact that th mass uprising of the people of Indo-Pakistan against the British rule in 1857 was not a spontaneous reaction of alien rule but the emption of the volcano of discontent which had kept smoldering for about a century. The causes of the War of Independence were political‚ economic‚ religious‚ social and military. (A). Political Causes The English East India company got strongly implanted in the Sub-Continent after its historic victory
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chaos to Europe during their shocking revolt. Once nobles realized that the peasants wanted increased wages‚ they began to pass laws to try to stop them. The Statue of Laborers‚ passed in 1351‚ stopped peasants from taking advantage of the
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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI MA IN ARMED CONFLICT AND PEACE STUDIES CHS 560: DIPLOMACY WAR AND WARFARE IN EASTERN AFRICA TERM PAPER: MAJI MAJI REBELLION ODHIAMBO PAULINE ADHIAMBO: C50/72182/2008 FEBRUARY 2009 Introduction East Africa today is made up of Kenya‚ Uganda‚ Tanzania‚ Rwanda and Burundi. Kenya‚ Uganda and Tanzania consist of about 636‚707 square miles of land surface and roughly 42‚207 square miles of water or swamps. Tanzania (Tanganyika merged with Zanzibar in 1964) forms
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