postindependence

The division has been a major factor in postindependence politics.

Russian Language Vote on Saturday Has Latvia Tense Niclas Rolander 2012

"A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth (1,488 pages), on the other hand, is both long and big — it's about an Indian mother looking for a husband for her daughter, but it's also about identity, family, religion, politics and language in postindependence India.

The Quest for Big Books 2010

Indeed, in some French circles, it was believed that the “Anglo-Saxons,” as well as Signor Mattei of Italy, were colluding with the rebels to gain preferential access to the Saharan petroleum in a postindependence Algeria.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Piramal Life's struggles reflect the strain between the waning bureaucracy of the license Raj -- which takes its name from India's postindependence socialist era -- and modern Indian businesses racing to exploit opportunities that opened up with the country's recent rapid growth.

India's Red Tape Foils Drug Firms 2008

Indeed, one of the most striking facts he reports is the extent to which those leading the charge to institutionalize radicalism in Indonesia today are directly linked to postindependence rebellions and failed extremist movements from the past.

Unfriendly Fanatics C. Holland Taylor 2008

Indeed, in some French circles, it was believed that the “Anglo-Saxons,” as well as Signor Mattei of Italy, were colluding with the rebels to gain preferential access to the Saharan petroleum in a postindependence Algeria.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

In chapter 1, "Mapping Magude," I examine the history of the Magude area as it has been represented, or mapped, in the bodies of evidence other scholars have used to reconstruct the past in this corner of southern Africa: archaeology; travel accounts; ethnography; colonial and missionary documents; postindependence political, academic, and humanitarian discourses; and the oral testimony and clan traditions of local men.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Following local conventions of place-naming, women divided the physical landscape into units delineated and named according to the person or entity using them at the time, whether an ethnic group, a clan, a chief, a commercial farmer, or even the state (e.g. postindependence state farms referred to as "ka Xitatari," "the state's place").

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

But the postindependence return of settler land differed from the missionary scheme in another way.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Finally, during my second trip to Mozambique, when I was working principally on land issues, I spent a total of about two weeks working in the archives of the provincial and national offices of the Direcção Nacional de Geografia e Cadastre (DINAGECA), where I found a wealth of documentary material related to land concessions and rural land politics during the colonial and postindependence periods (e.g., cadastral registers and maps, technical reports, surveys, correspondence).

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005