This paper discuses rivalry for the throne of Dergé between 1890 and 1940. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, internecine feuds created a power vacuum serious enough to invite

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From 1907 to 1911, some 4,000 commoners from the Sichuan Basin ventured west. Enticed by promises of large tracts of uncultivated land and three years of free rent, seeds, animals, and farm implements

Om Prakash is Professor of Economic History at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. Among lots of Professional Honours, he was awarded the Royal Decoration “Knight in the

The rise of cost-effectiveness evidence in global health: contingencies of ‘context’ and the politics of contingency  The development and implementation of health policies in developing countries

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Klaus VON BEYME is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg and was President of the International Political Science Association from 1982 to 1985. His Major research

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In recent years, increasingly sophisticated work has traced the remarkable changes in early twentieth-century state-building along China's southwestern and Tibetan borderlands. During this same period

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