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Fransson, Lisa. "Gujarat Film Center." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-135464.
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Saleemi, Sanna. "Adaptation strategies among farmers in the Gujrat and Jhelum districts, Pakistan." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131121.
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Climate change imposes major threats for farming communities in South Asia as increased temperatures and changes in precipitation impact yields. Local farmers in Pakistan are facing similar challenges and the country has already been highly affected by climate change. Further, local knowledge is increasingly being recognized as an important complement to quantitative climate data. There is a need to go beyond the quantitative results in climate change research, and ground proof these data by including local experiences. Many farmers around the world are experiencing climate change and are responding to these with various adaptation strategies. This study examines climate change in the Gujrat and Jhelum districts in the Punjab province in Pakistan, how local farmers perceive climate change and what adaptation strategies local farmers have implemented. The study also intends to examine the main constraints to adaptation by incorporating expert views to analyze issues and gaps in the system. The results show increased temperatures and decreased precipitation in the study region between 1975-2014. Farmer surveys indicate that a majority of the farmers perceive these changes and have applied different adaptation strategies as a response. These strategies mainly consist of: changing planting/sowing time and increased irrigation using groundwater. A third form of response to smaller yields and decreased income was alternative off- farm jobs, as an additional income. Expert interviews reveal contradictions of implementation of climate change adaptation policies along with contrasting responses to the farmers regarding institutional efforts to support the local farmers. These results show how lack of institutional support is hindering effective, successful and long-term adaptation for these farming communities.
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Dhattiwala, Raheel. "Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat, 2002 : political logic, spatial configuration, and communal cooperation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669731.
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This thesis uses a mixed methods approach to investigate the different levels of Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat (western India) in 2002 when at least a thousand Muslims were killed. An original dataset of killings is compiled to analyse macrospatial variation in the violence across towns and rural areas of Gujarat. Data collected from 21 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Ahmedabad city is used to investigate microspatial variation across three neighbourhoods with varying levels of violence.Macrospatial analysis discusses the link between political authority and its capacity to instigate ethnic violence as a response to electoral calculations and identifies the mechanisms by which violence against Muslims was orchestrated by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Ethnographic findings demonstrate the importance of ecological strategies adopted by attackers and targets during the course of attack and urge a re-examination of the intuitive association of spatial proximity with greater interethnic contact. Findings also reveal methods of enforcement used by legitimate and illegitimate institutions of a peaceful slum neighbourhood in resolving commitment problems of cooperation. Finally, the thesis examines the aftermath of the violence, more specifically a political phenomenon of Muslims of Gujarat supporting the BJP nine years after the brutal violence.Methodologically, the main contribution of this thesis is in bridging the quantitative and ethnographic traditions in the sociology of ethnic violence to make possible the linking, and disentangling, of macrolevel risk factors associated with violence from microlevel factors. Findings of the thesis hopefully provide a better understanding of ethnic violence in multi-ethnic democracies and a roadmap of policy-making for India as it continues to struggle with ethnic strife.
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Chaudhry, Rajive. "Development of design & technology package for cost effective housing in Gujrat." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65047.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 129).
Purpose: Improve quality of life in rural areas through intervention of infrastructure and housing improvement. Provide methods of building better and cost-effective houses at a quicker pace. Devise strategies of withdrawing support to avoid dependency by the villagers on the program, while transferring skills and technology to facilitate self-administration. Procedure: List observations from field studies and available reports. Identify built form, building types, materials of construction, skilled labor and environmental conditions. Analyze space utilization patterns and structural efficiency of major systems and building types in selected villages. Assess the priorities and affordability of households of different economic classes. Summarize the problems and potentials. Recommendations: Strategies for improvements in housing and infrastructure. Develop a design and technology package for cost-effective housing to improve quality of life.
by Rajive Chaudhry.
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Jhala, Yadvendradev V. "Habitat and population dynamics of wolves and blackbuck in Velavadar National Park, Gujarat." Diss., This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-134147/.
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Sheikh, Samira. "State and society in Gujarat, c. 1200-1500 : the making of a region." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9d9736d6-dc29-4911-833d-d30786199a3f.
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The present work closely traces the emergence of a distinctively Gujarati political and cultural world by the fifteenth century, arguing that many of the political, administrative, cultural and religious institutions that are evident in modern Gujarat came into being when the region was unified by force and consensus under the Sultans of Gujarat. The western province of Gujarat with its extensive coastline became, from the eighth century, the hub of a vibrant network of trade that stretched from the Red Sea to Indonesia and over land to Central Asia and the borders of China. The ports and cities of Gujarat drew merchants, mercenaries, religious figures and fortune-seekers from the Arab world and neighbouring south Asian provinces. Gujarat' s general prosperity also attracted mass migrations of pastoralist groups from the north. Unlike previous studies that have tended to treat trade and politics as separate categories with distinct histories, the present research charts the evolving Gujarati political order by juxtaposing political control with networks of trade, religion and contestation over resources. Large parts of Gujarat were conquered in the late thirteenth century by the armies of the Turkic Sultans of Delhi. With the dissolution of the Delhi Sultanate in the late fourteenth century, the governor of Gujarat declared his sovereignty and inaugurated a line of independent Sultans of Gujarat who continued in power until defeated by the Mughal ruler Akbar in 1572. From the late twelfth century, Gujarat was the site of proselytising activities of various denominations of missionaries. By the fifteenth century, a wide variety of religious interests were competing for patrons, converts and resources. The highly evolved trading networks radiating out from Gujarat from the eighth century required pragmatic accommodation with successive political formations. Correspondingly, claimants to political power were heavily dependent upon merchants, traders and financiers for military supplies, and in return, offered the trading groups security and patronage. The constantly negotiated relationship between trade and politics was closely linked to the evolution of sects and castes, Hindu, Muslim and Jain. Trade and politics were increasingly organised and expressed in sectarian or community terms. In keeping with some recent literature, my studies suggest that community affiliations in this period were often negotiable and linked to changing status. The study ends in the late fifteenth century when the Portuguese arrived off the coast of Gujarat. Soon there were new alignments of identity and power as the pastoralist frontier politics of the previous period began to give way to settled Rajput courts, complete with bureaucracies, chroniclers and priests. The Sultans of Gujarat were now paramount in the region: wealthy patrons of merchants and religious figures, they were unrivalled in north India for their control of manpower, war animals and weaponry.
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Dagli, Kinjal J. "The Gujarat carnage of 2002 a rhetorical analysis /." Click here for download, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1212795411&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Chand, Inglis Megha. "Reimagining tradition : the Sompura hereditary temple architects of Gujarat." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/94669/.
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By examining the shifting working practices of the Sompura community of hereditary temple architects of western India my thesis argues that the nature of their work culture invested in their architectural and textual production is far more critical, innovative, heterogeneous and fluid than how it is portrayed in post-colonial knowledge located within the disciplinary bounds of architecture and art history. Through unchartered empirical investigation, which uses ‘cultural translation’ as a framework for analysis, the thesis highlights their creative negotiations and struggles with modernity between the late 19th and early 21st - century. Whether it is modern historical consciousness, notions of ‘antiquity’, nationalist ideas of hereditary craftsmen and tradition, changing patronage, global economy or technology, the Sompuras in their concrete and ‘present’ practices, translate all these as well as their long architectural lineage in specific inviolable modes. These query notions of a ‘fossilised’ tradition viewed through historical frameworks; the agency of ‘ritual’ untouched by capitalist processes and binary oppositions such as ‘east vs west’ or ‘traditional vs modern’. The publications of Narmadashankar M. Sompura (1883-1956) and P.O. Sompura (1896-1978), are analysed as transformations of both modern notions of antiquity and history and indigenous practices. The restoration of medieval ruins of Ranakpur and Dilwara temples in the early and mid-twentieth century by master builder Amritlal Mulshankar Trivedi (1910-2005) are explored as negotiations with western European ideas of history and conservation. The contingent relations between practice and codified knowledges are explored through oral histories concerning transnational case studies in the UK, whereas a variety of qualities and affects are seen as transforming capitalist processes and relations in modern carving factories, deploying a range of hand intensive, machine and digital technologies for a global dispersal. The thesis uses a variety of extra disciplinary methodologies such as oral history, close reading of family archives, along with a range of architecture and texts by the Sompuras and their medieval ancestors. It demonstrates that the Sompuras, believed to be carriers of a dynamic architectural tradition, have creatively and dynamically negotiated change by translating and transforming both their pre-existing cultures of work, as well as modern and global paradigms.
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Desai, Govind. "Vocational higher secondary education in Gujarat : a critical evaluation." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30856.
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Over the last thirty years there has been a vigorous debate on the role of vocational education in developing societies. Critics have asserted that vocational education cannot deliver the economic and social benefits claimed for it. Despite the debate vocational education has continued to expand. India has followed the example of other developing societies with national plans for the extensive implementation of a programme of vocational education at the higher secondary level. The target was that by 1995 25% of the students in higher secondary education should be in the vocational stream. However progress has been slow and there has been considerable variation between states. In order to examine the problems of implementing vocational education this study examines the progress made in one state, Gujarat. It draws on examination of official statistics, documents and interviews with officials. The major part of the study is a comprehensive survey of the perceptions of the major stakeholders in vocational education - the Principals, the Teachers, the Students, Ex-students and Employers. The thesis examines the implications of the findings for the broad debate on the role of higher secondary vocational education in developing societies and more specifically for developments in India and Gujarat. A series of recommendations relating to areas such as the selection of schools and vocational courses, their management structure and staffing and their curriculum are made.
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Myrczik, Janina Eva Maria. "The capitalist spirit in the business elite in Gujarat." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19500.
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Mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte nach der wirtschaftlichen Liberalisierung Indiens kam es zur Herausbildung einer neuen Kultur des Unternehmergeistes, eines kapitalistischen Geistes. Sie umfasst die Wiederbelebung traditioneller wie auch das Entstehen angeblich moderner Werte. Die Kultur des Unternehmergeistes bezog sich vorwiegend auf die aufstrebende Mittelschicht des Landes. Diese Arbeitet erforscht wie der kapitalistische Geist in der Wirtschaftselite im indischen Bundesstaat Gujarat entsteht. Das Ziel der Forschung liegt in der Erklärung von Ungleichzeitigkeit im kapitalistischen Geist. Gujarat bietet sich als Region für eine solche Analyse an, da der Staat sowohl über wirtschaftliche Traditionen verfügt wie auch eine starke wirtschaftliche Öffnung erfährt. Den kapitalistischen Geist fasse ich als kapitalistisches Ethos im Anschluss an Pierre Bourdieus Konzept des Habitus. In Kombination mit Boike Rehbeins Konzept der Soziokultur, welches nebeneinander bestehende Lagen mit unterschiedlichen sozio-historischem Ursprüngen in einer Gesellschaft erklärt, gehe ich der Forschungsfrage nach dem Entstehen des kapitalistischen Geistes nach. Die Forschung wurde mittels der Dokumentarischen Methode mit qualitativen Interviews mit der Wirtschaftselite in Gujarat durchgeführt.
Dem kapitalistischen Ethos in der Wirtschaftselite in Gujarat liegen drei Soziokulturen zugrunde, die mit der Britischen Kolonialzeit und Industrialisierung (1850-1947), mit der Zeit der eingeschränkten Wirtschaft (1947-1991) und mit der wirtschaftlichen Liberalisierung (1991) entstanden. Das kapitalistische Ethos wird in den Soziokulturen verschiedentlich interpretiert.
Ich habe drei kapitalistische Ethoi rekonstruiert: das Mahajan Ethos, das Nehruvianische Ethos und das Neoliberale Ethos.Almost two decades after India’s economic liberalization, scholars found the emergence of a new moral order. This new enterprise culture, or capitalist spirit, entailed the revival of traditional as well the formation of putatively modern values. While this enterprise culture accounted mostly to the emerging middle class in the country, similar changes were observed at the core of industrial capitalism: management styles, which remained unstudied sociologically. This thesis investigates how the capitalist spirit in the business elite in the Indian state of Gujarat emerges. The purpose of this study is to explain the emergence of asynchronicity in the capitalist spirit. Studying the business elite in a state with a stronghold in business traditions as well as a stark economic liberalization contributes to the above mentioned studies. Based on literature review I argue for the capitalist spirit as capitalist ethos, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus concept in combination with Boike Rehbein ‘s concept of socioculture, which explains coexisting layers in societies of different socio-historical origins. This research interest was operationalized with the documentary method, conducting qualitative interviews with the top business leaders in Gujarat. In this study, the capitalist ethos in the business elite in Gujarat emerges in three sociocultures that arose with British colonialism and industrialization (1850-1947), with the restricted economy (1947-1991), and with economic liberalization (1991). The capitalist ethos is differently interpreted in the sociocultures and therefore gains different meaning. I reconstructed the three capitalist ethoi of the Mahajan Ethos, the Nehruvian Ethos and the Neoliberal Ethos, respectively.
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Shankar, Jui. "Understanding Hindus' and Muslims' solutions for peace in Gujarat, India." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1379127.
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This research explored Indians' definitions of peace and their solutions for peace between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, India. The study also focused on peacebuilding efforts after the Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002.Members of a local NGO collaborated on the project by acting as gatekeepers in the field. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in Hindi with twenty-nine adult men and women (20 to 64 years old) from both the Hindu and Muslim communities. To develop an understanding of the social context of each community, the researcher initiated conversations and walks around the communities with three key informants and she also conducted participatory mapping of the communities.Data analyses of the transcribed interviews was performed by two coders using the Grounded Theory approach in the target language, i.e., Hindi. Four main themes emerged: (1) descriptions of the community, (2) perceptions of relationships Hindus and Muslims, (3) peace and solutions for peace, and (4) hopes for the future. Smaller specific categories were captured under these broader themes.Based on the data analyses, analytic matrices representing the relationships between these categories and the two main research questions were generated. These matrices were developed drawing from data obtained during participants' interviews, conversations with key informants, the researcher's field observations, participatory mapping, and the available literature.Relying on the conceptual frameworks generated from the data, participants' definitions of peace and their solutions for peace in their community were elaborated. Participants' defined peace as the absence of both direct (e.g., physical violence) and structural (e.g., unemployment, crime rates) violence. Further, their solutions for peace incorporated direct (e.g., absence of physical violence) and structural (e.g., opportunities for employment) peacebuilding as ways- to promote non-violence in their communities. The analytic matrices derived from this study provided strong evidence to suggest participants' definitions of peace and their solutions for peace could contribute to peacebuilding between Hindus and Muslims in the communities in Gujarat targeted for this project. Implications for employing peacebuilding strategies to resolve conflict between other individuals are offered, as are recommendations for investigating solutions designed to facilitate peace and limitations of this study.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Martinez, Saavedra Beatriz. "Shaping the 'community' : Hindu nationalist imagination in Gujarat, 1880-1950." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57285/.
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The concern of this research is the nature of the Hindu nationalist ideology in the western Indian state of Gujarat from 1880 to 1950 since this period is crucial in forging a relationship between Hindu and Muslim communities based on mutual suspicion. The attempt is to shed light on the way a fundamentalist ideology is configured in increasingly exclusivist terms whereby minorities in the subcontinent were gradually granted a marginal citizenship subordinated to a Hindu cultural mainstream. The deconstruction of the nationalistic discourses of some representative individual figures and groups -the Arya Samaj, the Hindu Mahasabha, K.M. Munshi and Vallabhbhai Patel- allowed unravelling a trajectory of this ideology identifying its major fluctuations. The focus on Gujarati nationalism of Hindu tradition as opposed to a rather exceptional Gandhian nationalism and its commitment to non-violence made possible to explain the current political culture in India nowadays that inherited the legacy of the agitational politics of those years. Along with the historiographical analysis of these discourses, the research explores the mobilizational strategies accompanying the ideological dimension. The political campaigns of these actors were fundamental in spreading a communal consciousness that enabled a history of perennial confrontation between Hindus and Muslims, an aspect whose origin can be traced in the colonial historiography on India. In this sense, the research aims not only at being a contribution to the academic debate on the formation of a national consciousness in Gujarat, but also attempts to elucidate the motivations behind communal violence grounded on the circulation of stereotypes and their exploitation. The study contributes to the understanding of contemporary violence as a result of a gradual communalization of politics and daily life that imbibes from the distortion of the historical paradigms that by the end of the nineteenth century still coped with multiculturalism.
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Kapadia, Aparna. "Text, power, and kingship in medieval Gujarat, c. 1398-1511." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2009. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28731/.
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Despite the growing interest in the region of Gujarat, its pre-colonial history remains a neglected area of research. The dissertation is an attempt at redressing this gap, as well as at developing an understanding of the role of literary culture in the making of local polities in pre-modern South Asia. The dissertation explores the relationship between literary texts and political power. It specifically focuses on the fifteenth century, which coincides with the rise of the regional sultanate, which, along with the sultanates of Malwa, Deccan, and the kingdoms of Mewad and Marwar, emerged as an important power in the politics of South Asia in this period. As the sultans consolidated their influence in Gujarat, they were forced to negotiate with a variety of locally powerful chieftains. These negotiations lie at the heart of the narratives studied here. Organised as a series of case studies, the main body of the dissertation focuses on epic poems in Old Gujarati and Sanskrit produced in the courts of these chieftains, as well as an epic poem from the court of Sultan Mahmud Begada (1458-1511). In the latter part of the dissertation, the focus shifts to another literary terrain, also associated with the warrior elite of Gujarat. It analyses the oral 'bardic' narratives as presented by Alexander Forbes (1821-1865) in his Ras Mala: Hindoo Annals of the Province of Goozerat in Western India (1856). Through the analysis of these narratives from the medieval and colonial periods, the dissertation considers different aspects of power and kingship as constructed in the literary traditions of Old Gujarati and Sanskrit, Aparna Kapadia SOAS, London 2009.
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Chazot, Pascal. "Co-naissance de la connaissance : unvoyage au sein des processus d'apprentissage à l'école internationale Mahatma Gandhi, en Inde." Paris 13, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA131026.
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La thèse étudie les processus oeuvrant à la co-construction d’une culture épistémologique et ses effets équilibrants thérapeutiques, dans une école expérimentale en Inde, basée sur une pédagogie innovante centrée sur le plaisir d’apprendre. Elle pose l’apprentissage comme acte global au sein de l’espace pédagogique et met à jour le nécessité d’activer corps et mouvement de l’apprenant en synergie avec ses actes de parole et de pensée. La formation des enseignants doit aussi se faire par un acte global. D’abord, une approche culturelle de la relation maître-élève, à partir d’un mythe indien, conduit à la découverte du complexe d’Ekalavya, issu d’une angoisse liée au besoin de respect. Ensuite, une approche analytique d’une formation de formateurs met à jour un schème d’apprentissage dynamique : action-concept-mot, créant une chaîne de construction de savoirs, où les ressources, produites par l’apprenant en fonction de ses besoins, forment la trame d’une pédagogie par ressources généréesThe thesis studies the processes that lead to the co-construction of an epistemological culture and its harmonizing and therapeutic effect, in an experimental school in India that is based on an innovative pedagogy centred on the pleasure in learning. It postulates learning as a holistic act within the pedagogic space and emphasizes the need to activate body and movement of the learner in synergy with the acts of speech and thought. The training of teacher-student relation based on an Indian myth leads to the discovery of the complex of Ekalavya, born of an anxiety linked to the need for respect. Next, an analytical approach of a teacher training puts forth a dynamic schema; action-concept-word, creating a chain of construction of knowledge, wherein the resources produced by the learner according to her needs, form the framework of a pedagogy of generated resources learning
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Kothari, Uma. "Women's work and rural transformation in India : a study from Gujarat." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19023.
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This thesis is based on fieldwork carried out in 1986-1988 in Sera, a village in south Gujarat, India. The research considers women's work and focuses on differentiation; that is, which women carry out which tasks. This is a rural area which has recently undergone substantial agricultural change with a shift from cotton to sugar cane production. It is characterised by high in-migration of seasonal labourers and out-migration of women at the time of marriage and of upper caste members migrating abroad. In order to examine women's work and position within this context, a framework has been constructed which distinguishes between forms of work and between women from different socio-economic positions. This theoretical classification, utilised empirically, is based on distinctions between women and between tasks. As far as tasks are concerned, divisions are made between those which are paid and unpaid and those which are agricultural and domestic. In addition, differences are made between women from households of different caste and class position, the organisation and structure of their household and life-cycle changes of individual women. Women from the Patidar landholding caste are seen to face very different experiences from those of the predominantly landless Halpati caste. Beyond the study of these two polarised groups, the thesis further considers class distinctions within each caste in order to understand the rationale behind household strategies in their allocation of labour. Furthermore, the work that women are required to perform and their relationship with other members of their household are also seen as partly determined by the stage in a woman's life-cycle and the composition of her household. When looking at the kinds of work undertaken by different categories of women, a variety of forms of control emerge. Thus, the nature of individual women's involvement in work activities condition and are conditioned by their position within their households and outside the home. The sources of their oppression and the extent to which women have control over their own lives is examined through their work activities. The theoretical framework and empiricial data presented in this thesis are brought together to show how the different conditions of subordination experienced by Patidar and Halpati women are constructed and what implications they have on their present and future position.
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SIM, JUYEON. "Socioecological Transformation and the History of Indian Cotton, Gujarat, Western India." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354684.
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Landscape management is often referred to as a holistic concept, which deals with large-scale processes and multidisciplinary manners in regards to natural resource use with ecological and livelihood considerations. Seen in this light, landscape transformation should be understood within the context of the human-nature relationship, viewing human activities and their institutions as an essential part of the system rather than as external agents. When it comes to the landscape planning and management related to cotton farming in Gujarat, there has been diversity of interest groups such as local communities, governments, corporations and non-governmental organisations. In the present study, I examine two case studies of cotton production pertaining to the Gujarat region in order to study the opportunities and challenges faced by local farmers in the process of developing agriculture. In the first case study on Cotton Improvement Program in the nineteenth century, I highlight the socioecological consequences of the colonial cotton project and how it relates to the social dynamics of networks and agricultural landscape management. The second case study examines current debates regarding the social, economic and environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) cotton on India’s social and natural landscape. This thesis emphasises that there are recursive motifs between the two case studies in terms of the local resistances, power relations and possible environmental effects, which can be explained through the state of ‘global core’ and ‘periphery’, and partly the framework of ecologically unequal exchange. The analysis of recurring patterns concludes that exploring the narratives of local experiences offers a number of significant details that show complex power dynamics manifested through constant struggles and resistances by ‘peripheral agent’.
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Khan, Jamal Ahmad. "Ex-post cost-benefit analysis of village woodlots of Gujarat, India." Thesis, Bangor University, 1993. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/expost-costbenefit-analysis-of-village-woodlots-of-gujarat-india(963f9ac2-27a0-45e4-b835-f1bb94bb9622).html.
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Patel, Viresh. "Changing contours of sociality : youth, education, and generational relations in rural Gujarat, India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6eb3bb2b-59e5-4b58-94ea-f316b41da5ff.
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This thesis draws on eleven months of ethnographic fieldwork to examine the everyday lives of young people aged between 16 and 30 years in rural Gujarat, India. It is shaped around four standalone articles that examine the spatial aspects of young men and women's secondary and higher education, and employment strategies. Taken both individually and collectively, the articles employ a conceptual framework of relationality in order to critically examine the complexity of young people's everyday lives. Relationality crosses spatial scales, from the individual body though to intersecting with processes of globalization. My analysis interrogates these scalar connections within and across different spaces, and the ways in which these spaces produce, reinforce, and transform relations of power, difference, and identity. In doing so it makes a series of critical contributions to ongoing debates about educated unemployed youth, geographies of friendship, youth transitions and imagined futures, and young people's mobilities. The thesis reflects on "the everyday" as a locus of social change and continuity, focusing on a first generation of formally educated young men and women from socioeconomically marginalized Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Caste, and Scheduled Tribe populations in rural Gujarat. Among this demographic, and in part a consequence of ongoing structural transformations to India's education sector, families are increasingly prolonging the formal education of their offspring as they pursue projects of social reform. In a context where education manifestly cannot guarantee a smooth transition into secure employment, a relational approach that places an emphasis on the quality and nature of connections and relationships provides a valuable framework for understanding young people's lives. My work forwards three broader arguments in relation to this emergent generation of educated young people from marginalized communities. Firstly, I argue for greater empirical and theoretical attention to young people's movements within and across space in order to fully theorize age as a social relation. Related to this my analysis supports the case for a multi-sited methodological approach in order to locate young people within the significant social relations that shape their everyday lives. Secondly, the scale of the everyday offers productive insights into how the political and economic changes associated with liberalization in contemporary India are affecting marginalized populations. Rather than focusing on processes occurring within educational institutions, the thesis takes a broader focus to examine how young people conceive of, value, and mobilize their formal education in their daily lives. Finally, attention to both inter- and intra-generational relations as significant and influential to young people's everyday lives foregrounds the breadth of social relations that bear down upon the social, cultural, and economic aspirations of youth in contemporary rural India.
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Nitin, Kumar Srivastava. "Occupation-based Risk Reduction Approaches for Climate-related Hazards in Gujarat, India." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/199484.
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Commissariat, Shazneen. "The Aftermath of Rape in Gujarat: The Dialectics of Voice and Silence." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485117.
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Sharma, Mohan Lal. "Valuation techniques of protected areas : a case study of Gir, Gujarat, India." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427389.
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Chaturvedi, Vinayak. "Colonial power and agrarian politics in Kheda district (Gujarat), c. 1890-1930." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272310.
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Raje, Gauri. "Remembering displacement : hunger and marginalisation in three resettled villages of south Gujarat." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2005. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1194/.
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Dams have had significant impact on the hinterlands of the regions in which they are built. Since the 1980s, there has been a growing body of empirical literature that has critiqued the fallout of dams on populations residing in the catchment areas and face uncertain futures due to inadequate or lack of rehabilitation policies that do not consider the long-term impact of the displacement on the economic, social and political lives of the affected population. Due to such encompassing effects, dams have long been the points of critique for environmentalists and social activists in the countries of the South. In south Asia, the Narmada dam controversy raised questions of displacement and water politics in the decade of the 1990s specifically but raised larger questions on the nature of adivasi relations with the Indian state, and the nature of development and paradigms of progress in the region. However, there are few studies in the field of anthropology or displacement studies that have examined the relationship between development projects and how these are remembered among those adversely affected by them. Based on fieldwork over 8 months, this thesis seeks to explore the different ways in which displacement due to the Ukai dam in the south Gujarat region of India is remembered by a group of 3 adivasi villages. It focuses specifically on the perception of the displaced adivasis and contexts and creation of the varying memories of displacement across social status, gender and generations in these three villages. In remembering the processes of disempowerment among displaced groups, the different groups of adivasis articulate the hunger and marginalisation that pervades their everyday lives. This thesis attempts to look at this fibre of social suffering and how this is experienced and lived out by the displaced villagers 30 years after the event of being displaced due to the dam. Through the focus on remembering displacement, the thesis attempts to examine the process through which pre-existing hierarchies are strengthened in the postdisplacement period and the disempowerment experienced by some of those already living on the margins in the pre-dam socio-economic and political structures. By focusing on the different memories and experiences of disempowerment from a long-term perspective, the thesis calls into question the singularity of an `impoverished community' and the role of development projects in exacerbating pre-existing hierarchies rather than transforming them.
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Patel, Kirtan. "Weaving a Religious Community: Monasticism, Authority, and Theology in Gujarat, 1830-1905." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7244.
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This thesis demonstrates the intersection of caste, doctrine, religious authority and monasticism in the Swaminarayan sampradāy, a Hindu devotional tradition founded by Sahajānand Svāmī. Religious traditions affected indirectly or minimally by colonialism or the nationalist struggle have seldom been rigorously studied. This thesis brings attention to the Swaminarayan sampradāy to highlight how pervasive societal discourses like that of caste and internal doctrinal developments, impacted religious developments concerning authority, hierarchy, and power. The reification of a doctrine and the creation of a theological office, coupled with the deification of a monk, Guṇātītānand Svāmī, and his low-caste disciple Prāgjī manifested a fractious environment in which theology, authority and ideas about monasticism came to be contested. Theological ideas drove Prāgjī’s developing community, who adapted their devotion to Prāgjī as a result of stifling institutional politics and a modernizing Gujarat. Prāgjī’s incessant preaching, distinct theological beliefs and own budding community, which adored him, changed the course of Swaminarayan Hinduism in western India.
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Shah, Tauqeer Hussain [Verfasser], and Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Sökefeld. "The role of agents in organization of irregular migration from District Gujrat, Pakistan to Europe / Tauqeer Hussain Shah ; Betreuer: Martin Sökefeld." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1228271011/34.
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Andharia, Janki B. "Women's experiences of a survival strategy : commoditisation of folk embroidery in Gujarat, India." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357213.
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McDougal, Topher L. (Topher Leinberger). "Law of the landless : the Dalit bid for land redistribution in Gujarat, India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39853.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-110).
This study examines how government's implementation of land reforms in Gujarat, India informs Dalit (i.e., 'Outcaste') activism for land redistribution. It takes as a case study the Navsarjan Trust (or simply Navsarjan), a non-profit group that advocates for Dalit land rights in Surendranagar district, Gujarat. I contend that the Dalit land movement has implicitly recognized a complex reality: the outcomes of state policy on the ground are the products of a struggle between competing caste interests located within a nested hierarchy of local government institutions. I argue that Navsarjan's strategy is to modify the strength of the links between levels in this nested game--oftentimes by allowing Dalit land appeals to bypass lower, less progressive levels of government in favor of higher ones--in order to produce favorable results for the Dalit land rights movement. This strategy explodes the myth of a monolithic, intransigent state, and portrays government rather as a framework that structures social struggle. Section 1 argues that land redistribution is seen by the Dalit activist movement as a means of verticalizing horizontal ethnic stratifications. In Section 2, I quantitatively analyze the role and effects of local government offices charged with the implementation of land reform legislation.
(cont.) I argue that the hierarchy of local government constitutes a nested battleground, on which the interests of Dalits and the upper-castes vie for influence. In Section 3, I examine Navsarjan's tactics in the land redistribution movement. I argue that the organization's success is largely due to its dual role as both agitator and embedded bureaucratic facilitator within the government hierarchy. I then examine qualitative evidence that could complement (and point up shortcomings of) Section 2's quantitative analysis. I conclude by examining avenues for future research and making policy recommendations for Navsarjan and for the state.
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Sayegh, Tracy 1976. "Corporate involvement in disaster response and recovery : an analysis of the Gujarat Earthquake." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17708.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-114).
Disaster vulnerability is a serious issue in developing countries where globalization, development patterns, poverty and environmental degradation are placing more people at risk to natural disasters. Recent appeals for greater multi-sectoral collaboration to tackle complex disaster situations have raised the need for private sector participation in disaster management. The private sector is already beginning to play more engaged roles in disaster response and recovery on a voluntary basis, yet limited understanding currently exists about their activities in this area. Given the problem of rising vulnerability to natural disasters and the emergence of increased private sector involvement in disaster activities, this thesis seeks to understand: 1) why firms become involved in disaster response and recovery on voluntary (i.e. philanthropic) terms; and 2) the nature and implementation of corporate initiatives in this context. To illustrate private sector motivations and roles in the disaster response and recovery, the study focused on corporate responses to the Gujarat Earthquake in India in 2001. The research was informed by concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The analysis produced three sets of findings, based on in-depth interviews with national and multinational companies which responded to the Gujarat Earthquake. The research indicates that corporations are motivated to become involved in disaster response and recovery based on six organizational factors: social values, disaster sensitivity, internal organization, external pressures, and perceived benefits.
(cont.) These dimensions expand our prior understanding of corporate motivations which focuses primarily on organizational benefits and stakeholder expectations, and introduces the critical influences of social values, commitment to philanthropy, and resource availability and relevancy. The research also identifies differences in the nature of response versus recovery initiatives. In terms of disaster response, companies pursued unilateral disaster response activities, often implementing large-scale, top-down relief and infrastructure-oriented initiatives. Corporations coordinate with the government and leverage their internal resources for response, but do not emphasize community participation in their approach. In contrast, recovery initiatives were focused on participatory, community-oriented reconstruction and livelihood-generating programs. Recovery efforts tended to be structured as formal, collaborative partnerships with NGOs, wherein both parties play complementary roles in implementation. The analysis further reveals the differences between national and multinational corporate efforts in disaster response and recovery.
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Kumar, Megha. "Communal riots, sexual violence and Hindu nationalism in post-independence Gujarat (1969-2002)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2b06b4e0-afac-4571-ab46-44968d36b17c.
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In much existing literature the incidence of sexual violence during Hindu-Muslim conflict has been attributed to the militant ideology of Hindu nationalism. This thesis interrogates this view. It first examines the ideological framework laid down by the founding ideologues of the Hindu nationalist movement with respect to sexual violence. I argue that a justification of sexual violence against Muslim women is at the core of their ideology. In order to examine how this ideology has contributed to the actual incidents, this thesis studies the episodes of Hindu-Muslim violence that occurred in 1969, 1985, 1992 and 2002 in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. An examination of these episodes shows that sexual violence against Muslim women, in both extreme and less extreme forms, were significantly motivated by Hindu nationalist ideology. However, in addition to this ideology, patriarchal ideas that serve to normalize sexual violence as ‘sex’ and sanction its infliction to maintain gendered hierarchies also motivated such crimes. Moreover, this thesis argues that the manifestation of Hindu nationalist and patriarchal motivations in acts of sexual violence was enabled by the breakdown of neighbourhood ties between Hindus and Muslims in 1969 and 2002. By contrast, during the 1985 and 1992 riots Hindus and Muslims strengthened neighbourhood ties despite extensive communal mobilization, which seems to have prevented the perpetration of extreme sexual violence against Muslim women. Thus, by providing a comprehensive analysis of the contribution of Hindu nationalist ideology, and arguing for the significance of the patriarchal ideas and neighbourhood ties in the infliction of sexual violence during conflict, this study contributes to and departs from the existing literature.
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García-Granero, Fos Juan José. "From gathering to farming in semi-arid Northern Gujarat (India): a multi-proxy approach." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/351960.
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Understanding how human societies adapted to past environmental and climatic variability is fundamental to face present and future climatic events, particularly in highly vulnerable arid and semi-arid regions. Northern Gujarat (northwestern India) is a semi-arid ecotone where high intra- and inter-annual precipitation variability has a great impact on the availability of resources and, consequently, on human populations that depend upon them. The main aim of this thesis is to understand how and why plant-related subsistence strategies changed throughout the Holocene in northern Gujarat, with special emphasis on the transition from gathering to farming. This study considers macro and microbotanical remains from two hunter-gatherer occupations (Vaharvo Timbo and the Mesolithic levels at Loteshwar) and two agro-pastoral camps (Datrana IV and the Anarta levels at Loteshwar) to understand how early and middle Holocene populations interacted with the environment in terms of livelihood strategies. Moreover, archaeobotanical remains from one late Holocene urban settlement (Shikarpur) are also analysed to ascertain how urban societies exploited this semi-arid environment in terms of plant acquisition and consumption. The results show that hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited northern Gujarat during the early-mid (semi)permanent water bodies, including grasses, pulses, sedges, tubers and sesame. Holocene exploited a wide range of wild plants originating from The progressive weakening of the Indian Summer Monsoon ca. 7000 years ago compelled human populations to adopt semi-nomadic pastoralism and plant cultivation, which resulted in the domestication of several small millet species, pulses and sesame. With the advent of settled urban life in the late Holocene the inhabitants of northern Gujarat developed a more intensive land-use strategy involving a cereal-pulse intercropping agricultural system. This study is an illustrative example of human adaptation to climatic and environmental changes in semi-arid regions. From a methodological perspective, the results of this thesis show that an integrated multi-proxy approach, in which several botanical proxies and a broad-spectrum sampling strategy are used together, is the best possible way to explore diet and plant use strategies in past societies. Future research will integrate archaeobotanical data in a multi-disciplinary perspective to help designing sustainable land use strategies in northern Gujarat and other marginal areas worldwide.Aquesta tesi s’ha dut a terme en el marc del projecte NoGAP (North Gujarat Archaeological Project), un acord de col·laboració entre el grup de recerca CaSEs (Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics) del Departament d’Arqueologia i Antropologia de la Institució Milà i Fontanals del Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (IMF-CISC, Barcelona), i el Departament d’Arqueologia i Història Antiga de la Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSUB, Vadodara, Índia). Les mostres arqueològiques analitzades com a part d’aquesta tesi doctoral provenen de tres excavacions desenvolupades dins el marc del projecte NoGAP (Loteswar al 2009, Datrana IV al 2010 i Vaharvo Timbo al 2011), i una excavació del Departament d’Arqueologia i Història Antiga de la MSUB (Shikarpur al 2012). El treball de laboratori es dugué a terme majoritàriament al laboratori BioGeoPal de la IMF-CSIC. Aquesta tesi es presenta com a compendi de sis articles publicats a revistes de reconegut prestigi internacional. Alguns dels articles són metodològics i d’altres es centren en un cas d’estudi, però tots tenen una mateixa finalitat: entendre el paper dels recursos vegetals en la subsistència de les poblacions que ocuparen el Gujarat del Nord durant l’holocè. Dos d’aquests articles versen sobre la identificació de mills petits (el principal cultiu al Gujarat del nord durant la prehistòria) al registre arqueològic mitjançant l’estudi de col·leccions de referència de plantes modernes, i estan publicats a Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (Madella et al. 2013) i Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (García-Granero et al. enviat per publicació a). Els altres quatre articles discuteixen els resultats de l’anàlisi de les restes arqueobotàniques dels quatre jaciments mencionats, i estan publicats a Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (García-Granero et al. 2015), Current Anthropology (García-Granero et al. en premsa), Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (García-Granero et al. enviat per publicació b) i de nou Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (García-Granero et al. enviat per publicació c). Aquesta tesi està organitzada en dues parts principals: la Introducció (Capítols 1-4) i la Discussió (Capítols 5-7). La Introducció inclou la Presentació de la tesi (Capítol 1), les Preguntes de la Recerca (Capítol 2), el Marc de la Recerca (Capítol 3) i els Materials i Mètodes emprats (Capítol 4); mentre que la Discussió inclou els Resultats Principals (Capítol 5), la Discussió d’aquests resultats (Capítol 6) i les Conclusions (Capítol 7). Els sis articles que formen part d’aquesta tesi es presenten a continuació, ja sigui en format final (articles publicats) o adaptats a l’estil de la resta de la tesi (articles encara en procés de revisió/publicació). Finalment, s’inclouen una sèrie d’apèndixs amb les dades en brut de les anàlisis arqueobotàniques
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Chandani, Farah. "Women's involvement in water supply and sanitation, a case study of rural Gujarat, India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58328.pdf.
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Spaulding, Frank Charles. "The Gujars of Islamabad: a study in the social construction of local ethnic identities /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487854314872416.
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Nath, Yogini. "Prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among college students in Gujurat, India." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40790.
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Research on suicidal behaviors from non-Western countries is limited, and knowledge from Western studies may not be suitable for developing appropriate intervention strategies in other cultures. An understanding of the sociocultural context within which suicidal behaviors take place can provide valuable insight into the processes that contribute to risk of suicide. The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence and identify correlates of suicide ideation and suicide attempt in a population of college age youth in India. The cross-sectional study took place in Ahmedabad, the largest city in the western state of Gujarat. A total of 1,817 undergraduate college students aged 18-24 years completed a questionnaire with self-report measures assessing suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in the past 12 months and over their lifetime, as well as potential risk factors. Independent risk factors were identified through logistic regression models. Overall, 11.7% of youth reported suicidal thoughts in their lifetime, and 4.0% reported lifetime suicide attempts. Results indicate that suicidal behaviors were significantly associated with economic stress, illness or mental health problems of a family member, experiences of caste discrimination or caste conflict, religious or political conflict, and depressive symptoms. The findings underscore the importance of sociocultural factors in determining vulnerability to suicidal behaviors in the Indian context and point to the need for culturally appropriate and locally informed approaches in mental health service delivery.Force est de constater que la recherche sur les comportements suicidaires dans les pays non occidentaux ne revêt qu’une valeur limitée. Ainsi, les conclusions d’études occidentales ne peuvent pas toujours être transposées à d’autres cultures et servir à l’élaboration de stratégies d’intervention au sein de ces différentes cultures. Or, la compréhension du contexte socioculturel dans lequel les comportements suicidaires interviennent peut fournir de précieux renseignements sur les processus qui contribuent au risque de les comportements suicidaires. Le but de la présente étude était d’estimer la prévalence et identifier les corrélats de l’idéation suicidaire et des tentatives de suicide au sein d’une population de jeunes collégiens indiens. L’étude transversale a été menée à Ahmedabad, la plus grande ville de l’Ouest de l’État du Gujarat. Un total de 1817 étudiants de premier cycle âgés entre 18 à 24 ans ont rempli un questionnaire comportant des mesures auto déclarées évaluant les pensées suicidaires et les tentatives de suicide au cours des 12 derniers mois et tout au long de leur vie, ainsi que des facteurs de risque potentiels. En outre, des facteurs de risque indépendants ont été identifiés à l’aide de modèles de régression logistique. Globalement, 11,7% des jeunes ont rapportés avoir entretenu des pensées suicidaires au cours de leur vie, et 4,0% ont déclaré avoir fait une tentative de suicide durant leur vie. Les résultats indiquent que les comportements suicidaires sont associés de façon significative au stress économique, à la maladie ou aux problèmes de santé mentale d’un membre de la famille, aux expériences de discrimination de castes ou aux conflits parmi les castes, aux conflits religieux ou politiques, et aux symptômes dépressifs. Les résultats soulignent l’importance des facteurs socioculturels dans la détermination de la vulnérabilité au les comportements suicida
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Halani, Laila. "Discourses of religion and development : agency, empowerment and choices for Muslim women in Gujerat, India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417037.
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Nattress, Pauline R. "The impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on Patidar women in the Kheda district of Gujarat." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.290474.
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Yenneti, Komalirani. "'Social justice and solar energy implementation' : a case study of Charanaka Solar Park, Gujarat, India." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4962/.
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In the recent years, social issues around renewable energy implementation have been gaining prominence both in developed and developing countries. Though researchers across different disciplines in developed countries have started dealing with this issue, there is a lack of theoretical or empirical research in developing countries. This research from a pluralistic perspective and using the case study of ‘Charanaka Solar Park’ qualitatively analyses the relationship between ‘justice’ and solar energy implementation in India. The justice framework used in this thesis corresponds to the theoretical knowledge on a) procedural justice and b) distributional justice principles based in social, environmental, and energy justice literatures. The application of multiple theories of justice proved to be significant and useful instrument for analysing controversies over implementation of solar (renewable) energy policies. The results of this research have provided new insights into how social justice issues, such as recognition of marginalised communities, equal and democratic participation, and just distribution of project outcomes, are strongly interconnected to implementation of ‘environmentally good’ projects. Following the findings of this research, recommendations for policymakers and practitioners are proposed and pathways for future research are outlined.
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Roy, Pallavi. "The political economy of growth under clientelism : an analysis of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Pakistan." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2013. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18261/.
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Pandya, Kiran. "Agrarian structure, new technology and labour absorption in Indian agriculture : an empirical investigation of Gujarat." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336068.
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Kissopoulos, Lisa. "Nationalist Conflict and Elite Manipulation in Serbia and India." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186753678.
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Hansen, Christopher Joshi. "A bottom-up model of electricity reform for developing countries : a case study of Gujarat, India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dd6fd7af-b664-4fab-acc6-2be9efacf498.
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In many developing countries, the electricity system is too weak to meet growing demand and the availability and reliability of generating capacity is inadequate. Protracted mismanagement, political interference, subsidised pricing, and corruption all undermine the ability of developing electricity supply industries to finance and deliver service or attract new private investment. Power sector reform is an acute need in developing countries where implementation of a top-down liberalisation approach has been pursued without adequately considering the social, political and economic conditions. The conventional response to low levels of electricity sector investment has been from the top-down: aim to create competitive electricity markets by encouraging new entry into the generation sector and by breaking up vertically integrated power companies. Using a case study from Gujarat, India, this thesis argues for an alternative approach—utilise distributed generation (DG) and captive power capacity (self-generation) of industry to reshape the generation and distribution sectors from the bottom-up. The thesis examines the economic viability of distributed generation in a rural setting and captive power for industrial use in Gujarat, India, taking into account the economic, technical and political factors that shape investment decisions. In India, 40 percent of the population still does not have an electricity connection, but an array of new energy technologies for small-scale electricity generation near the site of use may provide a new development path. The bottom-up model enables rapid addition of generation capacity to a system struggling to meet demand while increasing competition in the power market. The thesis concludes that more power from independent and industrial sources will best harness the financial and engineer resources of the Indian electricity supply industry (ESI) and ultimately benefit the economy. The solution proposed is not suggested as an optimal policy programme, but instead is advanced as the best of the feasible options available within current political and economic constraints.
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Hasan, Farhat. "State and local power relations in the towns of Gujarat, Surat and Cambay, c.1572-1740." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603835.
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This work seeks to make an exploratory study of the Mughal state in its local context, as a 'process' in constant negotiation with the local power relations. Unlike most studies on the Mughals, it looks at the state not from the perspective of the imperial center, but of the localities. This shift in perspective entails a preference of 'process' over 'form', of the petty officials and the local power-holders over the jagirdars and the high nobles, of the forms of local power over the imperial grid, and, indeed, of local conflicts and struggles over imperial stability. In short, what the study is primarily concerned with its the local experience of imperial sovereignty. But, this experience emerges through intricate levels of inter-connectedness between the imperial sovereignty and local power relations. And, as we unravel the layers of these connections, we shall be examining the question of the extent to which the system of rule, in its 'everyday form', involved and represented the local system of power. Within our micro-level perspective, we hope, perhaps ambitiously, to rescue the Mughal state from the prevailing structural, homeostatic manner in which it has been depicted in the work on the subject. But, even though we hope to set right the current imbalance that has been caused by the undue influence of the structural-functionalist approach, we do recognize the importance of that approach and its significance in studying the political system. Our own study relies on the forms of power, the state obviously being one such form. We also include in our analysis the local structures of authority and power, on the assumption that these structures were important elements in power relations.
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Heitmeyer, Carolyn M. "Identity and difference in a Muslim community in central Gujarat, India following the 2002 communal violence." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2009. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2355/.
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The broad aim of the thesis is to examine the impact of class, caste and religious identity in constructing notions of Muslim identity in a small town in central Gujarat, India and to challenge wider assumptions about the primacy of religious identity in ordering sociality in 'everyday life' in the region following the large-scale violence against the Muslim minority in 2002. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic research, the thesis engages with debates about the impact of violence on inter-ethnic relations and the construction of a minority identity. My research focuses particularly on the Muslim Sunni Vohras in the town of Mahemdabad, a community whose language, residential patterns, dress and kinship system defy, both locally as well as more generally, dualistic notions of what constitutes 'Hindu'/'Muslim' modes of conduct. As a merchant group, Sunni Vohras in the town have traditionally maintained closer ties with local Hindu merchants rather than other Muslims with whom they commonly eschew close affiliation. Through an analysis of various spheres such as kinship, gender, religious practice and local politics, the thesis examines how different notions of 'Muslim identity' are at once predicated on an opposition to 'Hindu identity' but likewise how competing definitions are brandished as a means of establishing status and honour. On a wider level, the thesis presents an examination of how 'everyday coexistence' between different religious groups in the town following the 2002 violence and the way in which such coexistence is sustained and managed through informal networks. Unlike nearby cities, the town in which research was conducted had not previously experienced wide-scale attacks in the past and prided itself on the 'communal harmony' between Hindus and Muslims. The thesis argues that the ongoing salience of caste and class links between the two communities constitute a central factor in explaining how, despite the wider social and political context, religious identity has not succeeded in trumping previous forms of social stratification.
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Naz, Farhat [Verfasser]. "Socio-Cultural Implications of the Community-Based Water Management : A Case Study of Gujarat, India / Farhat Naz." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2011. http://d-nb.info/101621927X/34.
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Ranson, Michael Kent. "The consequences of health insurance for the informal sector : two non-governmental, non-profit schemes in Gujarat." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2003. http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/682316/.
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Policy makers generally see community-based health insurance as a means of improving access to expensive medical care, particularly among the poor and preventing indebtedness secondary to medical expenidures. However, there is a paucity of empirical evidence on the impact of CBHI, and how its impact is influenced by a scheme's design, management and context. This research examined the cconornic and social impact of two CBHI schemes in Gujarat, India, and explored potential determinants of impact. A case study approach was employed. Data were collected using a variety of methodologies: a cross-sectional household survey,a review of insurance scheme utilisation data, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews. The CBHI schemes had achieved minor successes. Both provided financial protection to those who actually used the schemes and one of the schemes was successful in including the poor. These successes, however, were overwhelmed by very low rates, of utilisation. Demand for membership in the schemes was determined in part by their strong links with larger parent organisations (a dairy co-operative and a worker's union) and by other services that were packaged with the health insurance. Factors responsible for low rates of health insurance utilisation included a lack of awareness among members of the schemes and their benefits, and perceived problems with the cost. quality and or accessibility of benefits provided. The findings support a cautious approach among those wishing, to foster CBHI in developing countries. Schemes should not be expected to contribute rapidly to broad health system goals. Consistent with past research on CBHI. this study finds that scheme design and management are of utmost importance in determining whether or not the scheme will have the desired impact. Specific areas are identified where government might intervene to optimise the impact of a CBHI scheme.
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Maucort, Delphine. "Étude des vêtements de l'Inde du nord : deuil (sog) et extase (sokh) des Bhopâ-Rebârî du Gujarat." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100020.
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Semi-nomades du Gujarat (Inde), les Bhopâ-Rebarî portent des vêtements aux couleurs et aux formes les distinguant des autres groupes régionaux. Cette étude décrit l'ensemble du processus technique de leur fabrication qui commence par le choix des matières et se poursuit par le filage, le tissage, la teinture ou l'impression, la coupe et l'assemblage mais aussi le recyclage textile. Chaque étape se présente comme la spécialité d'une caste et relie le groupe à l'ensemble des représentations hindoues du monde et de l'ordre socio-cosmique. Ainsi, progressivement sanscritisés, les Bhopâ utilisent des v^etements qui marquent les statuts sociaux conformes aux lois brahmaniques. Néanmois, ils les identifient aussi comme les prêtres-devins de Mâtâjî et comme les grands dévots en deuil de Krsna. A la mode au Gujarat et dans le monde de l'"ethnic chic", ces vêtements sont aujourd'hui considérés comme ceux de la tradition indienne et deviennent alors de vrais "faux anthentiques"Semi nomad in Gujarat (India), the Bhopas-Rebaris are wearing clothes with colors and forms different from other regional groups. This study describe all their technical conception process, begining with material choice then proceeding with spinning, weaving, dying or printing, cutting and gathering and also textile recycling. Each stage is considered as one caste speciality and link the group with all the hindou representation of the world and socio-cosmic order. So, progressively sanscritised, the Bhopas are using clothes showing the social status, conformed in the brahmanic laws. Nevertheless, it identifie also the Bhopas as the Mâtâjî diviners priests and as the great sorrowing Krsna devouts. Subject of fashion in Gujarat and in the world of "ethnic chic", those clothes are now considered as traditional indian and become true "false authentic"
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Bhagavan, Manu Belur. "Sovereign spheres : princes, education and empire in colonial India /." New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400296194.
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Cecilia, i. Conesa Francesc. "Prospeccions geoarqueològiques i aplicacions de la teledetecció en regions semiàrides: el cas d’estudi del Gujarat del Nord, Índia." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401424.
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Aquesta tesi doctoral integra dades provinents de la geoarqueologia i de la teledetecció per contextualitzar, en una perspectiva multiescalar i multitemporal, el registre arqueològic d’ambients àrids i semiàrids amb les dinàmiques hidrològiques, geomorfològiques i socioecològiques que han modelat el paisatge fins als nostres dies.
El cas d’estudi del Gujarat del Nord ofereix un escenari ideal per a l’estudi d’aquestes dinàmiques a llarg termini. Tot i ser una de les regions més àrides de l’Índia, la regió també és altament sensible a la variabilitat de les precipitacions del monsó del sud-oest. Les poblacions que ocuparen aquest territori durant l’Holocè (caçadors-recol·lectors, grups agrícoles i pastorals i comunitats en contacte amb la Civilització de la Vall de l’Indus) han deixat un registre arqueològic exposat a la superfície de dunes fòssils. Tot sovint aquestes evidències es recullen durant prospeccions d’abast local i se’n estudia la tipologia material. En moltes ocasions, però, no es consideren els actors i factors que intervenen en la formació i modificació tant del paisatge com del palimpsest d’evidències mixtes que sovint caracteritza el registre arqueològic en espais oberts.
En aquest estudi s’han utilitzat imatges multiespectrals, imatges de radar SAR, mapes topogràfics i fotografies històriques CORONA en diverses escales d’anàlisi. La distribució i visibilitat del registre arqueològic s’ha contextualitzat amb la fisiografia regional, l’impacte del monsó en els recursos hídrics i els influxos antròpics que, sobretot durant els últims 50 anys, han alterat profundament el paisatge i la preservació de les evidències arqueològiques. Finalment, la recerca redueix l’escala d’observació amb una proposta de prospecció intrajaciment que permet una exploració alternativa al palimpsest arqueològic a partir de l’anàlisi espacial i la classificació de signatures fisicoquímiques preservades en el sediment superficial de dunes fòssils.This PhD dissertation integrates geoarchaeological and Earth Observation data in a multiscale and multitemporal perspective to contextualise and better understand the archaeological record of drylands in relation with the main hydrological, geomorphological and socio-ecological dynamics that have shaped the landscape to the present day. The case study of North Gujarat offers ideal settings for the study of long-term landscape dynamics. Being one of the driest regions in India, Gujarat is strongly sensitive to changes in the Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation patterns. The populations that inhabited the region through the Holocene (i.e. hunter-gatherers, agro-pastoral groups and urban groups related to the Indus Valley Civilisation) have left an archaeological record exposed on the surface of fossilised sand dunes. These evidences are collected during field explorations for further typological analyses. However, most of these studies do not evaluate the actors and factors involved in the formation and modification of both the landscape as well as the mixed archaeological palimpsest that often characterises open-air archaeology. This study includes multi-scale observations of multiespectral and radar SAR imagery, historical topographic maps and CORONA photographs. The distribution and visibility of the archaeological record is discussed in the light of regional physiographical traits, monsoonal water dynamics and the impact of present day anthropic activities and land use change. Finally, this research scales down the previous observations with a methodological approach aimed at refining survey methods for the classification of archaeological surface palimpsests by means of the spatial analysis and classification of physico-chemical proxies from surface scatters.
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Vangani, Ruchi [Verfasser]. "Water, sanitation and agriculture linkages: impact on health and nutrition outcomes in peri-urban Gujarat, India / Ruchi Vangani." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1173898581/34.
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Myrczik, Janina Eva Maria [Verfasser], Boike [Gutachter] Rehbein, and Markus [Gutachter] Pohlmann. "The capitalist spirit in the business elite in Gujarat / Janina Eva Maria Myrczik ; Gutachter: Boike Rehbein, Markus Pohlmann." Berlin : Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1175994596/34.
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Myrczik, Janina [Verfasser], Boike [Gutachter] Rehbein, and Markus [Gutachter] Pohlmann. "The capitalist spirit in the business elite in Gujarat / Janina Eva Maria Myrczik ; Gutachter: Boike Rehbein, Markus Pohlmann." Berlin : Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1175994596/34.
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