He was born into a landowning family in what is now Tamil Nadu, in southern India.

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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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They did so in mid-2005, when shares of landowning companies reached their zenith.

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Big landowning groups like the National Trust for Scotland and the John Muir Trust have closed their properties to the public.

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Parliament is dominated by the big landowning families, who think their job is to provide for the tribes and clans who vote for them.

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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.

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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.

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Landowning farmers were beginning to replace peasant communes.

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