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 · 4 February 1897 English

The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, aims to provide for the prevention of the spread of ‘Dangerous Epidemic Diseases’. This 773-word legislation was adopted when India was under British rule, in …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 July 1893 English

The 1891 Census was conducted under the supervision of Jervoise Athelstane Baines, then the census commissioner of British India. Baines joined the Indian Civil Service in 1870 and was the …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1887 English

Pundita Ramabai’s landmark book The High Caste Hindu Woman, was published by J. B. Rodgers Printing Co., Philadelphia, in 1887. It has an introduction by Rachel L. Bodley (Dean of …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 March 1881 English

“Without education wisdom was lost; without wisdom morals were lost; without morals development was lost; without development wealth was lost; without wealth the Shudras were ruined; so much has happened …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 February 1881 English

This report on the 1881 census of British India says that it was “the first synchronous enumeration attempted for all of India.” A previous census had been conducted for the …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1875 English

The Memorandum on the Census of British India of 1871-72 was written by Henry Waterfield, a civil servant of that era. Waterfield worked for 44 years with the India Office, …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 1860 English

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 was a comprehensive criminal code of India introduced during the British rule. It was replaced in 2023 by the Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita (BNS) which …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 22 January 1855 English

“O learned pundits, fold up your selfish priestcraft and stop the prattle of your hollow wisdom and listen to what I have to say.”This is an English translation of a …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust English

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, published the Crime in India 2020 report on September 15, 2021. The report …


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This study was published in February 2017 by the Kerala Development Society (KDS), a policy and development research organisation based in New Delhi. Carried out in collaboration with the National …