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Can you explain how the land-owning minority benefits from improvements in a way that the non-land-owning majority does not?
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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Their jhuggi, just next to the Malibu Towers, is built on a plot of land owned by a Jat -- a member of the predominant, land-owning caste in Haryana, the state of which Gurgaon is a part -- whom they call Pehelvan ( "wrestler") and pay 600 Rupees a month for the right to live there illegally.
Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games Parvez Sharma 2010
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When our nation was founded, votes were largely reserved for the land-owning elite.
Reshma Saujani: The Participatory Revolution Reshma Saujani 2011
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Can you explain how the land-owning minority benefits from improvements in a way that the non-land-owning majority does not?
Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011
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When our nation was founded, votes were largely reserved for the land-owning elite.
Reshma Saujani: The Participatory Revolution Reshma Saujani 2011
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When our nation was founded, votes were largely reserved for the land-owning elite.
Reshma Saujani: The Participatory Revolution Reshma Saujani 2011
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In order to have success here you have to have the support from land-owning elders, Piddock said.
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How could a District land-owning white dude – being denied representation – exist?
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In the video, several sides, including Zapatista supporting spokespeople, including various indigenous leaders AND wealthy Chiapaneco land-owning mestizmos were interviewed as to the current conflict.
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When our nation was founded, votes were largely reserved for the land-owning elite.
Reshma Saujani: The Participatory Revolution Reshma Saujani 2011
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