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... India “ sufficiency for all before there is superfluity for some " . They , and those that marched with them were working very much within the Gandhian tradition of non - violent protest , just as they were guided by Gandhian precepts ...
... India “ sufficiency for all before there is superfluity for some " . They , and those that marched with them were working very much within the Gandhian tradition of non - violent protest , just as they were guided by Gandhian precepts ...
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... India's dam building orgy , the main accent being on its economic implications . According to the author , by 1979 the Indian Government had spent about $ 8,000 million on dams ( 105,560 million rupees ) . This programme is supposed to ...
... India's dam building orgy , the main accent being on its economic implications . According to the author , by 1979 the Indian Government had spent about $ 8,000 million on dams ( 105,560 million rupees ) . This programme is supposed to ...
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... INDIA - STUMBLING TOWARDS CATASTROPHE . Todd Nachowitz , in Cultural Survival Quarterly , Vol . 12 , No. 2 , 1988 ... India's dam building experience . One of the main opposition objectors , Mr Saklani has emphasized that the area has a ...
... INDIA - STUMBLING TOWARDS CATASTROPHE . Todd Nachowitz , in Cultural Survival Quarterly , Vol . 12 , No. 2 , 1988 ... India's dam building experience . One of the main opposition objectors , Mr Saklani has emphasized that the area has a ...
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