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  1. Solar Mamas: Why Poverty? (2013)

    Director
    Mona Eldaief; Jehane Noujam
    Subject
    Development studies; Women’s studies

    Are women better at getting out of poverty than men? This documentary, produced by the Why Poverty multimedia project, tells the story of Rafea, a middle-aged woman from a poor community, who is selected to...

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  2. Reel Histories: The Film and Oral History Collections of the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    Talk given by Dr Kevin Greenbank at the Royal Asiatic Society, South London, illustrated with film clips.

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  3. Last Days of the Raj (2007)

    Subject
    History

    This drama-documentary, filmed entirely on location in India, charts the events of six traumatic months in 1947 that saw the end of the British Raj. Lord Louis Mountbatten arrived in India in March 1947 as...

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  4. Tradition Vs Tourism in Ladakh (2007)

    Subject
    Geography; Travel & tourism

    A video excerpt from a film by Dan Schreiber exploring the tension between tradition and tourism in a Ladakh, a remote region of Northern India. Originally featured as part of the US television programme...

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  5. India: A Pound of Flesh - Selling Kidneys to Survive (2006)

    Subject
    Development studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    DVD

    Samantha Grant heads to Chennai in southern India to explore the illicit kidney trade. Travelling between India’s high-tech center of Bangalore and the slums to the south, Grant spoke to government...

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  6. Sahib, The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 (2006)

    Subject
    History; Military Science

    Audio recording of a lecture given by military historian Professor Richard Holmes, examining Indian soldiering in peace and war. He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how...

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  7. Drowned out (2004)

    Director
    Fanny Armstrong
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes + over 240 minutes of extras), £100.00

    Shot over three years with no budget or electricity, DROWNED OUT tells the true story of one family’s inspired stand against the destruction of their land, homes and culture. The people of Jalsindhi in...

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  8. Living Shakespeare (Film, Video)

    Producer
    Jonathan Wells
    Subject
    Drama

    Living Shakespeare is a collection of filmed essays commissioned by the British Council as part of the Shakespeare Lives project which celebrates Shakespeare’s influence on culture, language, education and...

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