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Colonial-era law that could land ‘dancing groom’ in jail. What was Dramatic Performances Act Modi cited
Abolished in 2017, the 1876 law let authorities ban plays, arrest performers, and seize props if deemed seditious, obscene, ...
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Benjamin Franklin set out to conquer climate in the colonial era
An Unintended American Revolution,” Harvard professor Joyce E. Chaplin reveals how this relatively modest invention ...
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Germany's colonial era: Battling oblivion with art
Another visitor explained where he primarily still sees the influence of the colonial era today. "Our entire consumer world is based on the fact that we were able to enrich ourselves well from the ...
What was the colonial-era Dramatic Performances Act, mentioned by PM Narendra Modi?
The 1876 law had been declared unconstitutional by the Allahabad High Court in 1956, and had not been used since then. The ...
Digitization as the key to processing colonial natural history collections
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has published a commentary in Nature Reviews ...