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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
India has the largest number of young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in the world; a total of 356 million. Its youth grow up in a wide variety of conditions ranging from wealth and privilege to extreme poverty and servitude. Featured is an overview of the country, as well as insights into how India s youth experience home and family, education and work, social life, and more.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In August 1756 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army--what we would now call an act of involuntary privatization. The East India Company's founding charter authorized it to "wage war" and it had always used violence to gain its ends. But the creation of this new government...
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