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  2. Guild - Wikipedia

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    The medieval guild was established by charters or letters patent or similar authority by the city or the ruler and normally held a monopoly on trade in its craft within the city in which it operated: handicraft workers were forbidden by law to run any business if they were not members of a guild, and only masters were allowed to be members of a ...

  3. Licence Raj - Wikipedia

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    The Licence Raj or Permit Raj (rāj, meaning "rule" in Hindi) [1] is a pejorative for the system of strict government control and regulation of the Indian economy that was in place from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Under this system, businesses in India were required to obtain licences from the government in order to operate, and these ...

  4. HathiTrust - Wikipedia

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    A federal court ruled against the Authors Guild in October 2012, finding that HathiTrust's use of books scanned by Google was fair use under US law. [13] The court's opinion relied on the transformativeness doctrine of federal copyright law, holding that HathiTrust had transformed the copyrighted works without infringing on the copyright ...

  5. List of books banned in India - Wikipedia

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    The book is a fictionalized and humorous account of Indian bureaucracy and economic policies. [19] 1960 The Lotus and the Robot: Arthur Koestler: This book contains the author's experiences in India and Japan. The book was highly critical of the cultures of both nations. [20] The book was banned for its negative portrayal of Gandhi. [21] 1962

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  7. Censorship in India - Wikipedia

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    Censorship in India has taken various forms throughout its history. Although de jure the Constitution of India guarantees freedom of expression, [1] de facto there are various restrictions on content, with an official view towards "maintaining communal and religious harmony", given the history of communal tension in the nation.

  8. Trade guilds of South India - Wikipedia

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    Sankarappadi guild and Saliya Nagarattar guild: were specialised merchant guilds that functioned in urban centres. [15] Manigramam guild: flourished in Tamil Nadu in the Pallava and Chola periods and was active in South-east Asia. [16] Nakara guild: also known as Nagara and Nakaramu. [17] They were a body of Vaishya devotees of Nakaresvara.

  9. Allarde Decree - Wikipedia

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    The Allarde Decree was a decree adopted by the French National Constituent Assembly on March 2, 1791, and formally enacted on March 17, 1791. Named after Pierre d'Allarde, the decree abolished the rights and privileges of guilds and introduced the principle of freedom of trade and industry in France.