RANCHI

ränˈchē, city (1991 pop. 614,795), capital of Jharkhand state, E central India. It is a district administrative center and a health resort, 2,128 ft (647 m) above sea level, in a region of tea plantations and rich coal deposits. There is an airport with connections to Calcutta and Delhi. The city houses one of the largest machine-tool factories in India, and the Univ. of Ranchi is there.

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books on: Ranchi  - 131 results

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Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order
Book by Michael Adas; University of North Carolina Press, 1979
Subjects: Colonies--Case Studies, Indigenous Peoples--Case Studies, Millennialism--Case Studies, Protest Movements--Case Studies
...panic among the lowland migrant population, which was concentrated in major towns, like Khunti, and in the district capital, Ranchi. For a time it appeared that other hill peoples would join the Mundas and the rising would spread over much of the central...
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Decentring the Indian Nation
Book by Andrew Wyatt, John Zavos; Frank Cass, 2003
Subjects: Central-Local Government Relations--India, Decentralization In Government--India, Nationalism--India, Regionalism--Political Aspects--India
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Soviet Foreign Aid
Book by Marshall I. Goldman; Praeger, 1967
Subjects: Economic Assistance, Soviet--Developing Countries, Soviet Union--Foreign Economic Relations
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Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums
Book by Michael M. Ames; University of British Columbia Press, 1992
Subjects: Anthropological Museums And Collections, Museums--Social Aspects
...Museums, the Public and Anthropology in the Ranchi University Anthropology Series Concept...Grateful acknowledgment is also made to Ranchi University and Concept Publishing Company...of the Department of Anthropology at Ranchi University, who kindly invited me to...
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India and Pakistan: A General and Regional Geography
Book by O. H. K. Spate; Methuen, 1954
Subjects: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
...reaches 3500 ft in the Hazaribagh Range, but most of it the Ranchi Plateau is a peneplane at rather more than 2000 ft with a few...sandstone ridges striking E/W in a synclinal trough; and S of the Ranchi Plateau is a corridor at just over 1000 ft leading from the...
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journal articles on: Ranchi  - 12 results

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"Secure This Excellent Class of Labour:": Gender and Race in Labor Recruitment for British Indian Tea Plantations
Journal article by Piya Chatterjee; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 27, 1995
Subjects: Asia, Asia--Intellectual Life, Asia--Politics And Government
...Recruitment for British Indian Tea Plantations Between Ranchi and Calcutta, the rail car overturned. Many many people lost...that in the 1890s the British intensified recruitment around Ranchi to siphon away the prophets alarming popularity (Field notes...
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'Keeping the State Away': Democracy, Politics, and the State in India's Jharkhand./<>: Democratie, Politique et Etat Dans le Jharkhand Indien
Journal article by Alpa Shah; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects: Anthropology--Analysis, Democracy--Analysis, Democracy--India, Jharkhand, India--Political aspects
...kilometres from Jharkhands capital city, Ranchi, and reached from the administrative town...studying for his BA in Anthropology at Ranchi University, had read accounts of the lost...larger areas, and because the Tapu MP is in Ranchi and not in Bero, they are almost insignificant...
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Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India
Journal article by Daniel J. Rycroft; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 10, 2004
Subjects: Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Publications, 2003, pounds sterling39.99 (cloth) To celebrate Martyrs Day on 9 June 2000--the centenary of Birsa Mundas death at Ranchi jail--the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS, Association of Hindu Volunteers) produced a semi-iconic poster of tribal Indias most...
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Velars, Uvulars, and the North Dravidian Hypothesis
Journal article by David W. Mcalpin; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 123, 2003
Subjects: Language and languages--Research
...states of India. The core area is the Ranchi plateau in the Chota Nagpur region centered on the adjacent districts of Ranchi (Bihar), Raigarh (Madhya Pradesh...Some dialects, including the standard Ranchi ones, also umlaut the low vowel a/a...
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Strangely Familiar: The Uncanny Poetics of Giovanni Pascoli
Journal article by Maria Truglio; The Romanic Review, Vol. 97, 2006
Subjects: Pascoli, Giovanni--Criticism and interpretation, Pascoli, Giovanni--Works, Poetic techniques--Analysis, Poetics--Analysis, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works
...strada molle di pioggia, al risonar dun passo fuggono ranchi ranchi i piccolini di qualche bodda ... (11. 138-154...
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Billboards on the Garden Wall
Magazine article by Carl Pope; Sierra, Vol. 84, January 1999
Subjects: Environmental protection--Analysis, Environmentalists--Personal narratives
...of their ills. I asked a shopkeeper in the provincial city of Ranchi what had changed since I left. "Oh, there are way too many people...pollution have skyrocketed. Now we are even changing the climate." Ranchi currently has a million people, up from 150,000 in my time...
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Getting It Right
Magazine article; Sierra, Vol. 85, January 2000
Subjects: Environmental protection--Planning, Environmentalists--Forecasts, Twenty-first century--Environmental aspects
...where I served as a Peace Corps volunteer some 30 years ago. Ranchi, once a bucolic hill station of a few hundred thousand, now...same concerns we hear from Sierra Club members. If Main Street Ranchi is this close to Main Street America, something profound has...


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Two Asylum Inmates a Mystery
Newspaper article by Azizur Rahman; The Washington Times, October 9, 2000
Two asylum inmates a mystery by Azizur Rahman RANCHI, India - Wearing the yellow pajama uniform of inmates at Asias oldest mental asylum here, Mr. Chen is unusually quiet, not responding...
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Two Chinese Prisoners from '62 War Repatriated
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 28, 2003
...the Central Institute of Psychiatry CIP, a mental asylum in Ranchi in eastern India, where they had remained until their release...back to China, said Pradeep Kumar, the deputy commissioner of Ranchi. "It turned out to be a long haul because the records showing...
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Thirty Die in Mine Blast
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), September 8, 2006
Subjects: Bharat Coking Coal Ltd., Coal industry--Casualties, Explosions--Casualties
...miners, but hopes are bleak, said Partho Bhattacharya, chairman of the Bharat Coking Coal Ltd, which owns the mine. The explosion and leak occurred on Wednesday night at the mine, located around 95 miles west of Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand state.
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India Idol Dhoni So Sweet on Football; ENGLANDA Smash Hit: Dhoni Holds the Record One-Day International Score by a wicketkeeperPicture: REUTERS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 18, 2007
...generation, but his pre-eminence is under threat. In fact, the Little Master may have already been ousted by the Ranchi Rambo -Ranchi being his home and the capital city of his province. Dhonis name ischanted with most gusto; Dhoni is the one whom...
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DOC GETS BEATEN UP IN SURGERY; Staff Shocked at Attack
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), December 1, 2007
Subjects: Surgery
...a chance to use it. "He is a pretty big guy so the attacker must have used a lot of force." Dr Rai, who studied medicine at Ranchi University in India, has worked at the practice - Dr Singh and Partners in the Clydebank Medical Centre, - for three years...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ranchi  - 2 results

 
 
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Ranchi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
RANCHI ran che, city (1991 pop. 614,795), capital of Jharkhand state, E central India. It is a district administrative center...connections to Kolkata (Calcutta) and Delhi. The city houses one of the largest machine-tool factories in India, and the Univ. of Ranchi is there. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed...
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Jharkhand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...now forms its northern border. Other bordering states are Chhattisgarh (W), West Bengal (E), and Orissa (S). The capital is Ranchi . Part of the Chotanagpur plateau and a generally hilly region, Jharkhand rises to its greatest height (4,480 ft/1,365 m) in...


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