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India is a postcolonial Third World country, rather a conglomerate of diverse nations, who either became parts of a 'mega nation' at the time of the Partition, by default; or were coerced into joining the artificial, fractured entity. Kashmir, Hyderabad, Goa, Mysore, and several other princely states are examples of territories grabbed by New Delhi. The real India--as opposed to the so-called 'Shining India'-is where about 70% people are neglected and about 35% people are below poverty line. The Seven Sisters in the northeast (Arunachal, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura) are completely different from the rest of the country, both in economic and political terms. Rest of the world looks at India as 1.3-billion-man market. Interestingly, while educated and well-versed Indian strategic thinkers do not believe their country has the potentials to become a superpower, ever, sections of Indian politicians and Hindu nationalists - suffering from the delusion of grandeur - want their country to become an empire, as it once existed in the ancient period, stretching, broadly speaking, from Afghanistan to Indonesia, as also dreamt by Nehru. However, while India cannot make peace with itself, with its own diverse nations - some nurturing centrifugal tendencies - its BJP-RSS supported hegemonic 'Akhand Bharat' designs in the neighbouring countries are bound to backfire. Seemingly, India will have to cede some territories to China in the south of the disputed McMohan Line, eventually! In any case, India, since the first electoral victory by the proponents of Hindutva Fascism under Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1998, and especially since the second round of victory under Narendra Modi in 2014, has almost become a totalitarian Hindu State with the façade of parliamentary democracy. Amendments of citizenship laws, the National Register of Citizens (NRC), 2003 and the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 are grossly prejudiced against Indian Muslims. Millions of them have already been earmarked as intruders from Bangladesh and Pakistan. The marginalization of Muslims in India - like the Nazi social exclusion of the Jews in Germany - is the first major step towards India's transformation into a full-fledged proto-fascist country. Meanwhile, the ongoing violent physical attacks on Muslims and demonizing Islam and India's Muslim rulers have become the norms in Modi's India. The Hindutva fascists not only publicly declare to undo the Partition of 1947, but also have virtually turned Bangladesh into a client state by installing the pro-Indian puppet regime under the Awami League of Sheikh Hasina in 2008. It goes without saying that the Hasina-led Awami regime, while being a bootlicking Indian lackey, is an utterly corrupt, overwhelmingly oppressive, and widely election-rigging fascist regime at home in Bangladesh. The combined result is an unfailing demonstration that the long-term consequences of the rise of Hindutva fascism are going to be disastrous not only for India, but also the smaller neighbours like Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Burma, and Sri Lanka.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standardused by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishmentsfor the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statisticaldata related to the U.S. business economy. It is a joint work between theUntied States, Canada, and Mexico that allows a high level of comparabilitybetween the countries. The NAICS officially replaced the SIC (StandardIndustrial Classification) system in 1997.The publisher has included the SBA Size Standards Table as an appendixat the back of this book to assist users of the data.

The Augsburg Confession: The Confession Of Faith: Which Was Submitted To His Imperial Majesty Charles V At The Diet Of Augsburg In The Year 1530 Translated By F. Bente And W. H. T. Dau (From Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books Of The Ev. Lutheran Church)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

This book is a fun and accessible guide to foreign television series that were later broadcast in or adapted for the U.S., including popular favorites such as The Office and Doctor Who. Entries include details regarding the cast, genre, episodes, US and foreign networks, broadcast dates, storylines, trivia, and even unaired pilots.

This book examines in detail every Broadway musical which opened during the 1910s. It includes cast and credits, plot, critical reviews, London productions, recordings, published scripts, and film versions. The book also features extensive commentary for 300 musicals which opened during the decade.