Word: landlordism
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...husband Dhanraj, 26, used to walk together to the well for a bath, the villagers of Saton Dharampur would sigh at the grace of this "pair of swans," as they were called. He was tall and handsome. She was lovely, with smooth skin and sloping eyes. The local landlord, Arjun Singh, noticed Kuchchi's beauty too. One day last month he approached her as she cut wheat in his fields and offered her two bullocks and other favors if she would sleep with him. Dhanraj angrily told Singh to leave his wife alone. That evening, two of the landlord...
...would have been just another in a long list of brutalities committed against India's untouchables, the lowest of the low in the country's rigid caste structure. But the event took place in the Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh, the constituency of Prime Minister V.P. Singh, and the landlord is a Thakur, a member of the same upper caste as the nation's leader. Eager to embarrass the Prime Minister, the opposition Congress (I) Party has turned the plight of Kuchchi Devi into the country's leading cause celebre...
...asked about Harvard's development i.e., purchasing policies," said Sean T. Buffington '91, a noncouncil member who is backing the resolution. "We have asked about Harvard's role as a landlord. We have asked about Harvard's role in rent-control...
Since September members of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA) have attended every council meeting in an effort to insert a landlord's perspective into the generally pro-tenant debate...
Although both landlord and tenant organizations were represented on the committee, the two groups could not reach a consensus. So the report contains only the recommendations of the chair, Assistant City Manager Michael Rosenberg...