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Rail Tourism in India and Pakistan (from the site of Salman Rashid)

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Rashid Faridi

Railways is among the more enduring legacies of the British Raj in the subcontinent. There is virtually an inexhaustible body of extremely interesting lore and history of the building of this great system of transportation discussed in a few excellent books and … Continue reading →

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Tourism Planning: Some Thoughts

Posted on April 14, 2018 by Rashid Faridi

The nature and scope of tourism planning continues to be primary and in its infancy, because most government officials and tourism industry practitioners harbour their own definitions and parameters of the task. Tourism planning is multi-dimensional and is purposely integrative.The … Continue reading →

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Magnets of Social Exclusion

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Rashid Faridi

Social exclusion is the process in which individuals or people are systematically blocked from (or denied full access to) various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social … Continue reading →

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Mughals Made India Rich

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Rashid Faridi

Unlike Europeans, the Mughals came to India as conquerors but remained as Indians not colonists. They subsumed their identity as well as the group’s identity with India and became inseparable from it, says professor Mukhia, giving rise to an enduring … Continue reading →

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