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One of the key issues of the year is a simple one. Across Europe all listed companies will have to carry out their financial reporting under the rules promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Board by the year 2005. This means that 2004, given that comparative figures will have to be shown in 2005, is the crunch time. But it is not only Europe. Countries right around the world have latched onto the initiative and are following suit. The question is how far this movement towards harmonizing global financial reporting can move. The stumbling block, like so much in the business world

Recent historiography of India has focused much needed attention on rural economy and society. The literature has dealt with a number of issues, such as merchants, credit, impact of communications, land-tenure (revenue), rural politics, rich peasants and general essays on the 'agrarian structure' of various regions of the sub-continent. In many of the studies a common theme emerges. It is suggested that with the establishment of an integrated market economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries rural wealth and power tended to concentrate in the hands of relatively few rich peasants or a rural elite. In the case of south India, the contention of increased rural stratification on these lines is most convincingly put forth by David Washbrook and Christopher Baker in a series of articles and books. The present analysis will concentrate on Washbrooks' writings in reference to the agrarian structure of the 'dry' districts. His works provide the most comprehensive and coherent statement of the 'rural magnate' interpretation of agrarian organization.

"Contains 20 full-color tactical maps and accounts of key battles, including the Siege of Yorktown (1781), the amphibious assault on Valdivia (1820), the battle of Isly (1844), the defence of the Alamo (1836), the retreat from Kabul (1842), Little Big Horn (1876), Omdurman (1898), and many more"--Back jacket