Men have a monopoly in public speaking, landowning rights, and religious rituals. |
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As they moved from place to place they were met with the organised violence of a landowning class defending its interests with hired guns. |
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He was from a Scottish landowning family, and after serving in the Peninsular War he returned to Britain to the life of a country gentleman. |
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In the south, where aristocrats sponsored the first settlements, a landowning elite held sway over an impoverished population. |
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Formal education used to be of little significance among ruling and landowning Rajput clans. |
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Concentration on two quite different local societies yields important insights into the relations between partisan loyalties, landowning, rural social class, and ethnicity. |
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They are landowning animal herders who have done well economically in north India in recent years, in part thanks to positive discrimination. |
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Similarly the Akali Dal, in Punjab, which long relied on prosperous and landowning jats, reached out to dalits. |
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Many of those who gathered around Jinnah were from the feudal landowning class, and tribal leaders. |
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During the 18th century, the new landowning class gradually developed some appreciation of the visual arts. |
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Disraeli inherited a British Conservative Party that was a political club for the landowning class. |
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If a landowning nobility was to prosper, it was well advised to diversify out of land and reap some of the gain of financial, commercial, and industrial growth. |
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Their departure in 1607 opened the way for the plantation of Ulster by a new English and Scottish landowning class. |
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The ethnic conflicts, in Chad as in Darfur, between long-settled landowning groups and newcomers with no traditional rights to land. |
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There, too, a large peasantry had been brutally exploited by a landowning class derived from the old feudal nobility. |
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The same group took collective action to settle a dispute with the landowning class in the village, and in the context of the local elections. |
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Both nations eventually developed more democratic and egalitarian institutions than their highly concentrated landowning counterparts. |
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The landowning class in England felt severely threatened by the riots, and responded with harsh punitive measures. |
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Toryism became identified with Anglicanism and the squirearchy and Whiggism with the aristocratic, landowning families and the financial interests of the wealthy middle classes. |
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Real democracy has never thrived here, at least in part because the landowning class remains the principal social base from which politicians emerge. |
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Descended from the Junker, Prussia's aristocratic landowning class, Bismarck hated parliamentary democracy and championed the dominance of the monarchy and aristocracy. |
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The unconcealed intention was also for these landowning lords to get help from the monks to clear their lands, and attract a bigger number of peasant farmers to cultivate them and pay taxes. |
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The Shudra varna includes a wide spectrum of endogamous status groups with dominant, landowning groups at one end of the scale and near-untouchables at the other. |
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Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. |
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In the agricultural sector, high grain prices and rising land values improved the lot of peasant proprietors, but the greatest beneficiaries were landowning nobles and urban patricians with investments in agriculture. |
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The Mediterranean Basin has from ancient times witnessed State ownership, as in the Egypt of the Pharaohs, and feudal tenure, as in Greece, but also private landowning. |
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Germany's farmers had been freed to some degree from many obligations and dues owed to the landowning aristocracy, but they were often desperately poor, earning barely enough to survive. |
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Foresna-Zurgaia was created in 1992 because there was a need for an association that would bring together all small woodland owners and landowning public organisations. |
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Supporting the JAC is an Executive which is a smaller body made up of representatives of the JAC and from farming and landowning interests, business charities and parishes. |
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Gradually political power shifted away from the old Tory and Whig landowning classes towards the new industrialists. |
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The landowning classes saw the rise in wage levels as a sign of social upheaval and insubordination, and reacted with coercion. |
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The landowning citizens of the county will object to the increased property tax, but those who rent won't care. |
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The landowning interest in the Party, under its leaderWilliam Miles MP for East Somerset, had called upon Disraeli to lead the Party. |
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Thegns, the local landowning elites, either fought with the royal housecarls or attached themselves to the forces of an earl or other magnate. |
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Charles Jennens was born around 1700, into a prosperous landowning family whose lands and properties in Warwickshire and Leicestershire he eventually inherited. |
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