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After more than six decades of development planning, the majority of India's population,especially those living in villages, continue to wait for access to energy forms that enable them to switch on an electric light bulb and to cook food on a clean stove in a smokeless kitchen. India is a country of extreme economic and social contrasts, a situation that poses sustainability and development problems of varying magnitudes linked to its scale and geographical diversity. The rapidly growing economy, while bringing prosperity at the aggregate level, has also created social imbalances and inequities including in access to, and use of, resources. One of the outcomes of, and indeed a contributor to, economic growth has been an unprecedented increase in demand for energy. Embedded in meeting future energy demands is the challenge of providing access to modern energy carriers in rural India, an unfinished aspect of India's development vision since 1947. Nearly 77 million rural households (approximately half of the rural households in India) have no access to electricity and about 120 million households (about 80% of the rural total) use biomass energy for cooking. It is recognised that the level of energy access in rural India is similar to, and in some cases even lower than, that of some of the poorest countries of the world. India faces the challenge of lifting low-capacity end-users out of energy poverty while pursuing its energy policy reforms. Therefore, the central focus of this dissertation is the impact on energy access by lowcapacity end-users of the shifts in the policy framework of India's energy sector.

I. Purpose of the inquiry -- One History of Asylum and Basis for Its Grant -- II. History of asylum -- III. Basis for the grant of asylum -- Two Asylum from the Viewpoint of the Individual -- IV. The Individual's position in international law with respect to asylum -- V. Asylum as a human right -- VI. The international political refugee -- Three Asylum from the Viewpoint of States -- Sub-Part A. Territorial Asylum -- VII. Rights and duties of states granting territorial asylum -- VIII. The political offense -- Sub-Part B. Non-Territorial Asylum -- IX. The forms of non-territorial asylum -- X. Diplomatic asylum -- XI. Consular asylum -- XII. Maritime asylum -- Four Conclusion -- XIII. Summary and conclusions.

Die bewaffneten Gruppen in Nagaland und Assam, die zum Teil schon seit den 1950er Jahren einen mehr oder minder virulenten Guerillakrieg gegen die indische Zentralregierung führen, haben sich in ihren Zielsetzungen, Koalitionen und in der Verhandlungsbereitschaft gegenüber den Behörden deutlich gewandelt. Während sich auch viele Parameter verändert haben - die Basis wurde eher städtisch als ländlich, der blühende Waffenhandel der Region machte die Guerillas von ausländischer Unterstützung bei der Waffenbeschaffung unabhängiger, die Bedeutung des islamischen Fundamentalismus stieg- ist eines der Grundprobleme, die fehlende wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsperspektive aufgrund der abgeschlossenen geographischen Lage der nordostindischen Staaten geblieben. Verstärkt werden die ökonomischen Schwierigkeiten durch die kontinuierliche starke Zuwanderung von Menschen aus Bangladesh. (IFSH-Pll)