People's Archive of Rural India - Library

People's Archive of Rural India - Library

The CounterMedia Trust

The PARI Library brings reports and information on rural India to a single location for students, researchers and other readers. It includes official as well as independent reports, out-of-print books, rare documents and reviewed research articles.


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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 December 1990 English

The United Nations General Assembly adopted this Convention on December 18, 1990. It has 13 signatories and 55 countries have ratified or acceded to it. (Signatories are qualified to ratify, …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 November 1989 English

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1989. The Convention has one signatory – the United States – and 196 …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 11 September 1989 English

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989 (amended in 2015 to include stricter prosecution for “new offences”) aims to prevent specific atrocities (see Factoids) against backward …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 30 June 1989

The government of India appointed the High Power Committee on Nursing and Nursing Profession on July 29, 1987, with Sarojini Varadappan – a social activist from Tamil Nadu – as …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1988

The Indian Nation in 1942, a collection of essays edited by Gyanendra Pandey, takes an in-depth look at the Quit India Movement, its causes and consequences, and reactions to it …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1988

“A lot has been written about Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj… In spite of this, one cannot say for sure that the image of Shivaji and his times emerging from this and …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 1987 English

This article was published in The Journal of Asian Studies in November 1987. (The journal is published by Cambridge University Press for the Association for Asian Studies, headquartered in Michigan, …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1987 English

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, government of India set up the Expert Committee for Health Manpower Planning, Production and Management in May, 1986. Its chair, Prof. J. S. …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 23 December 1986

The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, prohibits children from working in certain occupations and regulates their conditions of work in others (including permitted working hours, rest and holidays). …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 23 May 1986 English

The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, provides for the protection and improvement of the environment, and for ‘matters connected therewith’.The environment includes water, air and land, and the relationship between water, …