Authors: Robin Jeffrey
Congress Party,
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Constitution of India,
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consumer goods,
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consumer practices,
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consumerism,
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Consuming Technologies
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consumption,
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copper,
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; cost of,
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crime,
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Crossette, Barbara,
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Cumberland, Duke of,
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cyber-utopianism,
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Cyrillic,
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Daal Mandi,
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dak
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Dalits,
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Dashashvamedh Ghat,
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Defence, Minister of,
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Delhi police,
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Delhi Public School,
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Delhi,
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see also
New Delhi
Deloche, Jean,
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Denmark,
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Desai, Ashok,
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Dev D
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Devanagari,
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Deve Gowda, H. D.,
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Dharmasutra
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Dhirubhai Ambani Entrepreneurs (DAE),
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dhobis
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diabetes,
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diesel,
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Dinesh Lal,
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Diwali,
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DMK,
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
dogs,
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see also
Cheeka
domestication,
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n;
see also
consumer practices
Donner, Jonathan,
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,
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Dupleix,
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East India Company,
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Economic Weekly
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Economist
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Egypt,
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EKO,
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Election Commission of India (ECI),
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electronic waste,
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‘emergency’ 1975,
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employment in telecom: estimate of,
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; women and,
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Engels, Friedrich,
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English,
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Escobari, Marcela X.,
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Essar,
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Vodafone, Hutchison
Estrada, President Joseph,
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Europe,
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e-waste,
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Facebook,
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farmers,
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; mobiles and,
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Fast Moving Consumer
Goods (FMCG),
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
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Filipinos,
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Finland,
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First Gulf War,
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First World War,
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Fischer, Claude S.,
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fishermen,
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Five Year Plans,
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flash mobs,
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Fly,
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footwear,
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see also
shoes
Forbes
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Ford, Henry,
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Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, The
,
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Foucault, Michel,
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Foxconn,
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France,
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gaming,
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Gandhi, Indira,
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Gandhi, M. K.,
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Gandhi, Rajiv,
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Ganesh,
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Ganga River,
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garibi hatao
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GDP: share of agriculture in,
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Geekani, Syed Abdul Rehman,
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gender relations,
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Genghis Khan,
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Germany,
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Ghaffar Market,
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Ghana,
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ghatwar
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Giridharadas, Anand,
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Glasgow,
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global village,
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Goa,
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Global Positioning Technology,
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Gods Must Be Crazy, The
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Gondi,
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Google Earth,
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Gorakhpur,
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gossip,
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Gram Vaani,
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Grandmother’s Tale, The
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Grewal, David Singh,
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grey markets,
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Gross Domestic Product,
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Global System for Mobile communications (GSM),
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