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 · 8 December 1985 English

The foreign ministers of the seven founding Member States – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – signed the Declaration on South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 March 1985 English

This Act provides for the reservation of certain articles for exclusive production by handlooms. It prohibits the production of articles exclusively reserved for handlooms, by other means. It gives the …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 December 1984 English

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on December 10, 1984. The Convention entered into force on June …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 25 March 1981

The government of India appointed the Working Group on Health for All by 2000 A.D. on July 18, 1980, with Kripa Narain – secretary at the Ministry of Health and …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 31 December 1980

“There is equality only among equals. To equate unequals is to perpetuate inequality” – so begins the first part (Volumes I and II) of the Report of the Backward Classes …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 31 December 1980

“There is equality only among equals. To equate unequals is to perpetuate inequality” — so begins this first part (Volumes I and II), released on December 31, 1980, of the …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 December 1980 English

The National Security Act was enacted by the Parliament of India on December 27, 1980. It empowers the central and state governments to keep a person under ‘preventive detention’ in …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 December 1980 English

The Forest (Conservation) Act was passed on October 25, 1980. It contains five sections which set forth regulations concerning forest conservation and matters related to it. It aims to restrict …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 May 1980 English

The government of India’s Planning Commission appointed the Working Group on Population Policy on October 20, 1978, with Dr. V.A. Pai Panandiker (then, director at the Centre for Policy Research, …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 December 1979 English

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the 4,462-word Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women on December 18, 1979. It came into force on September 3, …