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"Years ago," reports the Australian-based Purari Action Group, "the people tried
to transform the proposed resettlement areas into rice terraces and found this to
be an impossibility."18 Moreover, the compensation they were promised for the ...
"Years ago," reports the Australian-based Purari Action Group, "the people tried
to transform the proposed resettlement areas into rice terraces and found this to
be an impossibility."18 Moreover, the compensation they were promised for the ...
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sands of people from different ethnic backgrounds — speaking different
languages, worshipping different gods, and following widely different social
customs — were resettled together without any regard for those differences. "The
complex ...
sands of people from different ethnic backgrounds — speaking different
languages, worshipping different gods, and following widely different social
customs — were resettled together without any regard for those differences. "The
complex ...
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See FAO Upper Bari Doab Canal, seepage from, 65 Upper Baro River, 204
Upper Mazaruni Scheme: border dispute and, 250; housing and, 42; loss of tribal
lands from, 29-30; resettlement and, 20-21, 25 Upper Ohio River drainage basins
, ...
See FAO Upper Bari Doab Canal, seepage from, 65 Upper Baro River, 204
Upper Mazaruni Scheme: border dispute and, 250; housing and, 42; loss of tribal
lands from, 29-30; resettlement and, 20-21, 25 Upper Ohio River drainage basins
, ...
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BEFORE THE FLOOD | 17 |
AFTER THE FLOOD | 51 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
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