He was born into a landowning family in what is now Tamil Nadu, in southern India.
Similarly the Akali Dal, in Punjab, which long relied on prosperous and landowning jats, reached out to dalits.
They did so in mid-2005, when shares of landowning companies reached their zenith.
Big landowning groups like the National Trust for Scotland and the John Muir Trust have closed their properties to the public.
Real democracy has never thrived here, at least in part because the landowning class remains the principal social base from which politicians emerge.
Saloth Sar, as the onetime school-teacher was known before he assumed his infamous nom de guerre, was born into a landowning family around 1925.
Parliament is dominated by the big landowning families, who think their job is to provide for the tribes and clans who vote for them.
Before WWI and the 1917 Communist coup, signs of a vibrant civil society in Russia, including an independent judiciary and a landowning peasantry, had begun to emerge.
The archive of more than 1, 000 letters - most in the British Library - is written by three generations of the Norfolk landowning-family over a period of 70 years.
His love of English had begun in boyhood and was crowned with his long tenure at St Xavier's College in Calcutta, to which his landowning family had come from the Punjab.
The Left government led by Jyoti Basu that came to power in 1977 vanquished Bengal's landowning elite with reforms ensuring security of tenure to over 1.5 million sharecroppers and redistributing land among peasants.
Landowning farmers were beginning to replace peasant communes.
After two decades of plunder under Ferdinand Marcos, six years of ineptness under Aquino (scion of one of the country's biggest landowning families) and six years of pro-big business policies under Ramos, the small people may finally have their say.
Azhar, who traveled to India in 1992 to help anti-Indian militants in Kashmir, belongs to a rich landowning family in Pakistan, according to Indian security officials: He was arrested in 1994 by Indian security in Anantnag, a small town in the region.
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