Alexandra George

Social Ferment in India (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This study explores the nature and circumstances of India's social unrest in the 1980s. The author provides an analysis of the widespread corruption among politicians and in most strata of the government machinery, the blatant discrepancy between legislation ostensibly designed to protect minorities and their actual treatments by higher castes, the administration and the jurisdiction at the time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474291125
• Artikelnr.: 45699350

Autorenporträt

Alexandra George is an author, international journalist, translator and trilingual international communications specialist with over 15 years experience in international organizations (UN, EU and OSCE) working in press and public affairs. Postings include the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), Russia, Ukraine, Caucasus, Central Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and East and West Africa. Her books include Escape from Ward Six: Russia Facing Past and Present (UPA, Md., 1998) and she also has numerous publications and published translated works, including Velasquez (Parksktone/Aurora, 1996) and Moscow Times, Moscow, op eds. As a journalist she previously reported from South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. She was Assistant Editor/Far East for the Economist Intelligence Unit, London, and the Regional Southeast Asia correspondent for Business International/The Economist Group, based in Bangkok. She reported for the Financial Times Middle East Markets and her articles have appeared in the Financial Times, Economist Development Report, Far Eastern Economic Review, Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique and Spectator. She has two post-graduate degrees from Columbia University, New York.