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 · 17 July 1951 English

The Representation of the People Act, 1951, pertains to the conduct of elections for the Houses of Parliament and the Houses of the Legislature of each state, from the notification …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 January 1950

The 73-word Preamble to the Constitution of India outlines the ideals that must guide Indian democracy. Together with the Directive Principles of State Policy, it provides the context in which …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 January 1950 English

This 1057-word document is fundamental to Indian democracy and governance. It was adopted by the Indian Constitution on November 26, 1949, and came into force two months later, on January …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 2 December 1949 English

The United Nations General Assembly approved the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others on December 2, 1949.The Convention …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 1949 English

The Constituent Assembly drafted the Constitution of India from 1946 to 1950. It sat for the first time on December 9, 1946, and in two years and 11 months, it …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 31 January 1949 Hindi

Munshi Premchand was the pen name of Hindi and Urdu writer Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava (1880-1936), born to Ajaiblal and Anandi Devi in Lamhi, a village near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1949

Munshi Premchand was the pen name of Hindi and Urdu writer Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava (1880-1936), born to Ajaiblal and Anandi Devi in Lamhi, a village near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 December 1948 English

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris on December 10, 1948. Its Preamble stated, for the first time in global history, “that the …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 November 1948 English

The Constituent Assembly drafted the Constitution of India from 1946-1950. It sat for the first time on December 6, 1946, and in two years and 11 months, it met for …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 November 1948 English

The Constituent Assembly drafted the Constitution of India from 1946-1950. It sat for the first time on December 6, 1946, and in two years and 11 months, it met for …