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“Welcome to the IHBT Cyber World,” ➝. Also, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was a product of the early post-independence development project. The CSIR came into being in 1942 when the urgent need for supplies towards World War 2 revealed India’s shortfall of industrial commodities. The CSIR is an independent centrally funded body that has been crucial in setting the tone of scientific research in the post-World War 2 period. See Ateya Khorakiwala, “A Black Carpet of Bitumen; Public Works as Research, India c. 1960” (Unpublished).
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Question answer session of a talk given by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi entitled Dadaab: Architecture and History in a Refugee Camp, JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, July 31, 2018.
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The immense cultural history of bamboo use in Asia is outside of the scope of this paper, but an overview of the uses of bamboo can be found in G. K. Ghosh, Bamboo: The Wonderful Grass (APH Publishing, 2008).
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A pandal is a combination of an awning of posts and cladding (for instance bamboo and cloth) made to create a temporary shelter, under which a large group of people can meet. Jawaharlal Nehru, The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru Volume 2, eds. S. Gopal and Uma Iyengar, vol. 2 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003), 720.
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While fifteen thousand people died in the 1881 thingtam, there are no good estimates of mortality for the corresponding 1910-1912 the mautam. See Sajal Nag, “Bamboo, Rats and Famines: Famine Relief and Perceptions of British Paternalism in the Mizo Hills (India),” Environment and History 5, no. 2 (1999): 245–252; and Ken Aplin and James Lalsiamliana, “Chronicle and Impacts If the 2005-09 Mautam in Mizoram,” in Rodent Outbreaks: Ecology and Impacts (International Rice Research Institute, 2010), 24.
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