Thoroughly modern revolutionaries: the JVP in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka's Janatha Vikmuthi Peramuna (JVP) or People's Liberation Front was a left-wing group that led armed revolts against the government in 1971 and in 1987-89. After the second uprising the government stamped out the JVP entirely. The JVP, which drew most of its support from Sinhalese Buddhists, typified recent trends among Third World revolutionary parties because it depended on a comparatively affluent urban population and because it emphasized local and regional problems rather than the colonial and Cold War issues that had previously been the main concern of revolutionaries.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1993
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The thin end of the wedge: medical relativities as a paradigm of early modern Indian-European relations
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The close connection between ancient medical customs of India and Europe form a basis for the forging of modern Indian-European relations. Medical practitioners of Europe and India exchanged different methods of cure for diseases such as epilepsy, stone formation, paralysis, apoplexy, dropsy, malignant fever and other life threatening diseases. This exchange of medical practices can at times prove detrimental, as was proved when the Indians resorted to the medical treatment of bleeding the patients, which earlier had been discarded by the Europeans.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1995
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Technology transfer in modern China: the case of railway enterprise (1876-1937)
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The development of railways in China from 1876-1937 was far more rapid than the development of the rest of the economy and occurred despite a lack of government investment. Western technology and capital provided efficient institutional management which enabled the railway to become China's largest industrial enterprise by 1933. The personnel who came to work for China's railroads brought with them professional skills which were transmitted throughout the rest of the economy in later years.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1993
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