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  1. Suits and Savages: Why the World Bank Won’t Save the World (2000 Video)

    Director
    Dylan Howitt; Zoe Young
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 38 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) institutions

    Examines issues surrounding indigenous land rights and the displacement of people and wildlife in the name of development. Focuses on a conservation project in the Nagarhole National Park in southern India,...

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  2. India Inhales (2000)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

    Every day in India, another 55,000 children start smoking - compared to the 3,000 children who take up the habit in the USA, where numbers are falling. Tobacco is one of India’s favourite pastimes: Indians...

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  3. Untouchable? (2000)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

    Veerasamy lives in a small village in southern India where all the inhabiants are dalits - outcasts or ‘untouchables’ as they’re known in India. But even among the dalits, there are divisions, and...

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  4. Forgotten Volunteers, The (1999 Video)

    Producer
    Paul Elston
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Over two million Indians fought for Britain in World War 2 in campaigns from Egypt to the Far East. Althoguh subjected to some of the most brutal attacks on the Allies and decorated for bravery, they were...

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  5. Gothic in India: Bombay Railway Station (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Victorian Gothic Revival-style Victoria Terminus Train Station in Bombay was built as an expression of British power and wealth in India, but it also reflects a meeting point of two cultures. Its...

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  6. Village Voices: 40 Years of Rural Transformation in South India (1999 Video)

    Director
    Beate Engelbrecht
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: DM85 (+p&p)

    Examines rural development by observing the different developmental paths of two villages, following the introduction of an irrigation system begun in the 1930s in the Mysore district in South India. An...

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  7. Women and Allegory: Gender and Sculpture in Two Societies (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Contrasts representations of women in Indian and French sculpture. Compares religious images from the ninth-century temples at Khajuraho in India with Dalou’s secular ‘The Triumph of the Republic’,...

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  8. Ancient Civilisations (6 Parts) (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 30 min., 1999 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p) each

    Series looking at how the ancient civilisations in China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and meso-America originated, what sustained them and why they fell.

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  9. Serindia: The Forgotten Oases of the Silk Roads (1998 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    A multimedia exploration of the experiences of explorers who discovered the last of the forgotten civilisations: Serindia, the sacred land of Buddhism. Once the heart of a flourishing silk trade, it was...

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  10. Strange Spirit (1998 Video)

    Director
    Rebecca McClen Novick; Ronny Novick
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Tibetan exiles in refugee communities in northern India tell their stories of invasion, occupation, resistance, imprisonment and torture from the first battles in 1950 up to the present.

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