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Hančáková, Aneta. "Hospodářské vztahy mezi Českou republikou a Indií s přihlédnutím ke kulturním odlišnostem." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124636.
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The aim of this thesis is to introduce business environment in India to the Czech businessmen and to the public. The thesis shall answer the questions like what are opportunities and threats of the Indian business environment, how culture influences business negotiations with Indian counterparties and if India is the perspective country for the Czech exporters and investors.
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Durdana, Benazir. "Muslim India in Anglo-Indian fiction /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487944660930967.
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Hořínková, Daniela. "Sociální a kulturní aspekty managementu Indie." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-10352.
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Goal of this diploma thesis is to indentify social and cultural aspects of management and the work environment in India. It is concerned with perception of the indian management and work environment of the indian companies by representatives of the czech culture. The thesis analyses problematic areas in the communication and interaction of both cultures. The problems are different peception of time, time managemnt, strategic planning, autoritative leading, formal communication, motivating and different view on emancipation. The result of the research are few advices to representatives of both cultures regarding problematic areas which are mentioned above, for example manager training, teambuildings, etc.
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Edwards, K. "Out of India? : re-presenting the Indian diaspora." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598786.
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The approach taken is based in post-structuralist and post-colonialist thinking and the substantive content explores a genealogy of knowledge about three hegemonic signifiers, pertaining to the identity of members of the Indian diaspora. The signifiers explored are ‘British Indian’, ‘Non-Resident Indian’ and ‘Global Indian’. The perspective adopted has been influenced by research which falls under the rubric of ‘critical geopolitics’. Reflecting this influence, diasporic identities, as defined in this thesis, develop as a result of political practice and as a form of discourse. The thesis draws on Foucaudian-informed discourse analysis to interrogate sights (visions), sites (locations) and cites (texts) contributing to the social construction of diasporic identities and the role of geographical (sociospatial) knowledge in that social construction. The thesis draws on both historical and contemporary sources and adopts a comparative analytical framework. Historical sources, examined to explore the ‘formal’ geopolitical visions of a diasporic intellectual and to unpack contemporaneous, ‘popular’ constructions of diasporic identity, include: Indian Opinion, the newspaper first published in 1904 which was edited by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi until 1914, during his sojourn as a ‘British Indian’ in South Africa; his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth and its companion volume Satyagraha in South Africa. Contemporary sources, examined to explore ‘practical’ and ‘popular’ geographical visions, include interviews with actors and political elites, investigating, amongst other things, the India Investment Centre’s ‘practical’ involvement with ‘Non-Resident Indians’ from 1991-1998. The main source examined to explore ‘popular’ visions of these diasporic identities is the influential news weekly India Today. Key findings indicate the significance of narratives containing values and beliefs about forms of ‘capital’ in re-presentations of diasporic identities.
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Lal, Ramji. "Political India, 1935-1942 : anatomy of Indian politics /." Delhi : Ajanta publications, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35748296f.
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Bernardini, Elena. "Interrogating installation art from India." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.664613.
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Augustová, Pavla. "Regionální diferenciace Indické republiky." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-136330.
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Thesis "Regional differentiation of the Republic of India" is focused on the analysis of regional differentiations within particular Indian states and territories and as well as on the analysis of economic indicators and state of the Indian economy as a whole. In order to analyze the indicators at national level, the thesis includes direct comparison with the indicators of the Chinese economy, which is India's main trading partner and competitor in the Asian region at the same time. The results of economic, demographic and socio-economic analysis are summarized in the final chapter of the thesis. The main goal of the thesis is to outline the perspectives in moderating economic differentiations of India and to design solutions to mitigate these differentiations.
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Goslinga-Roy, Gillian. "The ethnography of a South Indian god : virgin birth, spirit possession, and the prose of the modern world /." Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Ramaswami, Siri. "Dance sculpture as a visual motif of the sacred and the secular: a comparative study of the BelurCennakesava and the Halebidu Hoysalesvara temples." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31240926.
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Songate, Joelouis L. "A historical study of the changes in the Hmar society of Manipur resulting from the introduction of Christianity 1910-1935." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Dučayová, Miroslava. "Kultúrne špecifiká Indie, obchodné vzťahy s ČR a možnosti ich rozšírenia." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-136276.
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This thesis analyzes the development and current state of the Indian economy, its strengths but also weaknesses that prevent further development. Included is the development of the economy since independence in 1947 till present, current development of the most important macroeconomic indicators and the structure of the economy. The second part analyzes involvement of India in foreign trade and FDI inflows into the country. Next chapter analyzes the trade relations of India and the Czech Republic. Evaluates the importance of mutual business partnership and defines additional opportunities and promising sectors for Czech exporters and entrepreneurs in order to expand trade relations. The last chapter describes specific cultural traits that influence doing business in India. Defines the basis of culture, which should lead to its better understanding and gives specific advices for successful trading in the country.
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Chaplain, Josefina. "Gendered visions postcolonial Indian art." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31223928.
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Kaushik, Bhaumik. "The emergence of the Bombay film industry : 1913-1936." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391049.
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Arun, Asim Kumar. "ISIS threat to India : how should India respond?" Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60305.
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This thesis traces the evolution of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its present geopolitical extent and identifies the major trends and strategic directions. It examines the official pronouncements about its intentions regarding India and analyses the threat and proposes a policy prescription. Today’s terrorist organizations, including ISIS, publish online magazines and videos stating their policies, strategies and, tactics. These original voices were studied to understand them. The US invasion of Iraq (2003) and the subsequent failure in creating a “democratic government” acceptable to the powerful Sunni minority led to strife and sectarian violence. Radical Islamists and leftover elements of Saddam Hussain’s military got together and created large scale insurgency eventually leading to the declaration of a “Caliphate” calling out to all the Muslims in the world to accept it and join the effort to extend it. Less than 30 Indians as compared to a total of 25,000 are known to have migrated to ISIS area. Even with all its aberrations, India’s resilience as a syncretic and inclusive society renders hijrat (migration) an unattractive option. But coming together of radicalized youth into a small terror modules and striking nearer home is a real and probable threat. To protect itself, India should follow policies that integrate its Muslim community into the social mainstream. To prevent its people from getting radicalized through exposure to ISIS propaganda, the counter radicalization effort needs to be strengthened. The few persons who are known to have been radicalized but have not undertaken any kind of violence could be considered for softer deradicalization methods. By involving their family, friends and, community it is possible to bring these people back into normal domestic life. Attacks can still happen and the capability to deal with them must be enhanced by creating interdiction capabilities at the state and district levels. Finally, international terror requires measures across countries for which mechanisms for international cooperation must be created so that information, intelligence and, evidence flow seamlessly.Arts, Faculty of
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Hasseler, Theresa A. ""Myself in India" : the memsahib figure in colonial India /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9364.
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Barley, Alexandra Fiona. "At home in India : geographies of home in contemporary indian novels." Thesis, Durham University, 2007. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1327/.
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This thesis explores the geographies ofhome in contemporary Indian literature in English through an in-depth reading ofmainstream Indian novels by a number ofprominent writers including Anita Desai, Amit Chaudhuri, Shobha De, Shama Futehally, Raj Kamal Jha, Pankaj Mishra, Jaishree Misra, and Rohinton Mistry. Concepts ofhome are explored including identity, self, nation, and how these are reflected in the narratives and genre ofthe novels. Chapter one introduces the thesis by outlining the thematic focus and reviewing the literature on home. Chapter two outlines the reading strategies used in the thesis: concepts ofworldliness and affiliation, to examine the discourses ofhome in the novels. These provide the foundation for the subsequent exploration ofhome in the novels in chapters three, four and five, where each chapter considers 'home' at different scales: self, family, nation and diaspora. Chapter three examines the conflict of identity between the self and the nation in the novels showing the failure of the home. Chapter four considers the family and addresses how the Indian middle classes are adapting to changes in Indian society such as globalisation, and economic and cultural changes. These novels in this chapter demonstrate the ambiyalence ofthe old middle class towards these changes expressed as feelings offear and nostalgia. Chapter five explores how particular groups experience displacement and marginalisation in the nation on the grounds ofcaste, gender and religion. The focus of the novels in this chapter is on the 'State ofEmergency' in the 1970s and the Hindu nationalism of the 1980s and 1990s rendering the changing political situation in India textually. Chapter six focuses on how the gendered discourses ofdaughter, wife and mother place limitations on the spatial mobilities ofthe female protagonists. Through attention to themes of courtship and marriage, the chapter also considers how these Indian novels destabilise the genre ofdomestic novels by portraying protagonists going against the grain ofdomestic discourses by not marrying, or by divorcing. Finally, the conclusion in Chapter Seven draws together these different threads ofhome by placing them in the wider South Asian context in literature and film, and ends with an examination of the film Monsoon Wedding showing how domestic themes are captured on screen.
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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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Scott, Gemma. "Emerging from the Emergency : women in Indira Gandhi's India, 1975-1977." Thesis, Keele University, 2018. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4594/.
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India’s State of Emergency (1975-1977) is a critical period in the independent nation’s history. The government’s suspension of democratic norms and its institution of many, now infamous repressive measures have been the subject of much commentary. However, scholars have not examined Emergency politics from a gendered perspective. Women’s participation in support for and resistance to the regime and their experiences of its programmes are notably absent from historiography. This thesis addresses this gap and argues that a gendered perspective enhances our understanding of this critical period in India’s political history. It assesses the importance of gendered narratives and women to the regime’s dominant political discourses. I also analyse women’s experiences of Emergency measures, particularly the regime’s coercive sterilisation programme and use of preventive detention to repress dissent. I explore how gendered power relations and women’s status affected the implementation of these measures and people’s attempts to negotiate and resist them. The thesis also highlights several ways in which women actively supported the Emergency agenda and participated in organised resistance, focusing on the manifestation of these activities in particular spaces. I utilise a diverse collection of sources, innovative methodologies and theoretical perspectives in order to bring these histories, which have hitherto been completely absent from the historiography of these events, to light.
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Strachey, Antonia. "The Princely States v British India : fiscal history, public policy and development in modern India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4bceba59-198a-4be8-b405-b9448fd70126.
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This dissertation examines how direct versus indirect rule shaped late colonial India through government finance. Fiscal policy has hitherto been overlooked in the literature on Indian economic history. This thesis considers how revenues were raised and spent in the Princely States compared with British India, and the welfare outcomes associated with these fiscal decisions. Part One examines the fiscal framework through the neglected public accounts. The key finding is that while the systems of taxation were broadly similar in both types of administration, patterns of public expenditure were dramatically different. The large Princely States spent more public revenue on social expenditure. This was made possible by lower proportionate expenditure on security and defence. Part one charts these trends empirically and unearths political and institutional reasons for the differences in fiscal policy between directly and indirectly ruled India. Part Two examines welfare. The study goes beyond previous anthropometric scholarship by assessing the impact of institutions and policies on biological living standards, deploying a new database of adult male heights in South India. Puzzlingly, heights were slightly lower in the Princely States, traditionally lauded for being more responsive to the needs of their populations, especially those of low status. The resolution to the conundrum is found in poorer initial conditions, and caste dynamics. Higher social expenditure and reduced height inequality occurred simultaneously in the States from the 1910s, suggesting policies directed at low status groups within the Princely States may have been successful. I also examine the consequences of Britain's policy of constructing an extensive rail network across the country. Importantly, the impact of railways differed by caste. Railways were good for High Caste groups, and bad for low status Dalit and Tribal groups. This suggests that railways served to reinforce the existing caste distinctions in access to resources and net nutrition.
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Sargent, Marilyn Jane. "Indian English: Is it "bad" or "baboo" or is it Indianized so that it is able to deal with the unique subject matter of India?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/563.
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Goswami, Minakshi. "The Concept of Mind and its Role in Indian Epistemology: A Critical Study." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2491.
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Parmar, Hiteshkumar Chimanlal. "Strabo and India." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23448.
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Scholarship on Strabo’s Geography has long noticed that the procedure adopted by the author in his account of India is inconsistent with the method he follows elsewhere (Puskás 1993). On the one hand, it has been argued that, while describing the subcontinent, the author quotes so extensively from his sources that he allows practically no space for his own reasoning. Such a writing strategy is unlike the practice he normally adopts (Dueck 2000:180-6). On the other hand, after stressing that the geographical writing may only draw on reliable sources and that the reports on India are unreliable (Geography, 2.1.9 C 70), Strabo writes his own account on the subcontinent by drawing on authors he deemed untrustworthy (Geography, 15.1.1-73 C 685-720). This procedure clearly shifts from the method he follows across his work. However, very few studies have been dedicated exclusively to the matter and this thesis proposes to fill the lacuna. In fact, within Strabonian studies, one trend has tended to analyse individual regions described in Geography (Andreotti 1999), while another has examined themes permeating the book (Clarke 2001 and Engels 1998). The description of India has been widely used to reconstruct relevant aspects of ancient history (Karttunen 1997 and Parker 2008). However, little attention has been paid to the author’s conception of India, which will be the main focus of this thesis. By analysing what Strabo selected from his sources and by considering a network of concepts pervading his work, we will see that apparent inconsistencies serve a number of purposes. In Chapter 1, it will be argued that the inclusion or omission of a given detail related to India was relevant for the political agenda underlying the text. In view of the literature produced at the time and the data made available today by the archaeological research on Indo-Roman trade, Strabo’s account shares the ideology underlying the Res Gestae Divi Augusti. Yet, at times, his text lies between a panegyric and a satire of the Roman Empire. Chapter 2 will show that the author creates an image of India that served to support the aforementioned political agenda. By portraying native kings in association with luxury and corruption, the text refers to traditional Greek conception of the East and this has a bearing on the depiction of the Roman Empire. In Chapter 3, we will see that Strabo’s description addresses ethical questions that were left unsolved by Greek philosophical schools at the time, namely, education for women and the relationship between the philosophical way of life and political compromise. Within this setting of philosophical reflection, the text provides a sound set of moral illustrations, exempla, complete with brief autobiographical remarks.
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Subramanian, Jeyanthi. "Key characteristics of teaching practices of an Indian mathematics teacher in Chennai, India." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45442873.
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Bhattacharyya, Anouska. "Indian Insanes: Lunacy in the 'Native' Asylums of Colonial India, 1858-1912." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11204.
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The new Government of India did not introduce legislation for `native' lunacy in colonial India as a measure of social control after the uprisings of 1857-8; discussions about Indian insanes had already occurred in 1856, following asylum and pauper reform in Victorian England. With the 1858 Lunacy Acts, native lunatic asylums occupied an unsteady position between judicial and medical branches of this government. British officers were too constrained by their inexperience of asylums and of India to be effective superintendents and impose a coherent psychiatry within. They relied on their subordinate staff who were recruited from the communities that surrounded each asylum. Alongside staff and patients, the asylums were populated by tea sellers, local visitors, janitors, cooks and holy men, all of whom presented alternate and complementary ideas about the treatment and care of Indian insanes. By 1912, these asylums had been transformed into archetypal colonial institutions, strict with psychiatric doctrine and filled with Western-trained Indian doctors who entertained no alternate belief systems in these colonial spaces. How did these fluid and heterogeneous spaces become the archetypes of colonial power?History of Science
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Surendran, Gitanjali. ""The Indian Discovery of Buddhism": Buddhist Revival in India, c. 1890-1956." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11168.
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This dissertation examines attempts at the revival of Buddhism in India from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Typically, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism in 1956 is seen as the start of the neo-Buddhist movement in India. I see this important post-colonial moment as an endpoint in a larger trajectory of efforts at reviving Buddhism in India. The term "revival" itself arose as a result of a particular understanding of Indian history as having had a Buddhist phase in the distant past. Buddhism is also seen in the historiography as a British colonial discovery (or "recovery") for their Indian subjects viz. a range of archaeological and philological endeavors starting in the early decades of the nineteenth century. I argue that there was a quite prolific Indian discourse on Buddhism starting from the late nineteenth century that segued into secret histories of cosmopolitanism, modernity, nationalism and caste radicalism in India. In this context I examine a constellation of figures including the Sri Lankan Buddhist ideologue and activist Anagarika Dharmapala, Buddhist studies scholars like Beni Madhab Barua, the Hindi writer, socialist, and sometime Buddhist monk Rahula Sankrityayana, the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru and Ambedkar himself among others, to explicate how Buddhism was constructed and deployed in the service of these ideologies and pervaded both liberal and radical Indian thought formations. In the process, Buddhism came to be characterized as both a universal and national religion, as the first modern faith system long before the actual advent of the modern age, as a system of ethics that espoused liberal values, an ethos of gender and caste equality, and independent and rational thinking, as a veritable civil religion for a new nation, and as a liberation theology for Dalits in India and indeed for the entire nation. My dissertation is about the people, networks, ideas and things that made this possible.History
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Schreiber, Raphael, and Moisin Monica Bota. "Rebranding “Made in India” through Cultural Sustainability : Exploring and Expanding Indian Perspectives." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-25395.
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This exploratory study is a first attempt to translate the Indian cultural context from a socio-cultural, and legal perspective by identifying the values attributed to Indian textile craftsmanship by Indian textile and fashion stakeholders, and how their perspective is influenced by the global recognition and perception of Indian textile crafts and connotation of “Made in India”. At the same time the study investigates the meaning of “sustainability” in the Indian cultural context, in relation to textile craftsmanship, and how this relates to the Western concept of “sustainability”. Through field research in conjunction with a series of in-depth unstructured interviews, this study reveals that Cultural Sustainability is the dominating narrative in the Indian cultural context due to the prevalence of culturally embedded sustainability practices and the role of textile craftsmanship in sustaining livelihood, being a unique exercise of positioning Indian textile craftsmanship within a framework of cultural heritage as a valuable source of knowledge for sustainable practices in the fashion and textile industry. Unique about this study are the India-centric approach combined with the ethnicity of the subjects interviewed - who are, without exception, Indian nationals, whose work, voice and reputation are shaping India's contemporary textile craft -sustainability narrative (being referred to as the “Indian textiles and fashion elite”) and the framing of traditional craftsmanship from a legal perspective, introducing the notion of legal protection of traditional textile knowledge and traditional cultural expressions.
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Sahai, Nupur. "COUNSELORS’ PERCEPTIONS OF INTEGRATING INDIAN/EASTERN AND WESTERN COUNSELING APPROACHES IN INDIA." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1381.
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This qualitative study was designed to investigate Asian Indian counselors’ lived experiences of integrating Indian/Eastern and Western counseling approaches in India and their perceptions of the adequacy of training provided to them. Scholars have documented the growing disillusionment with applicability of Western theories in India (e.g., Misra & Paranjpe, 2012) and argued how insights of traditional Indian origin can contribute to the understanding of psychological issues (e.g., Arulmani, 2007). However, several challenges in training programs for counselors and psychologists in India have been noted (Dalal, 2008). Also, there is a lack of empirical research on the integration of Indian/Eastern and Western approaches. To fill this gap in the literature, I conducted a phenomenological study with counselors in India. The participants (N = 8; age range: 25-52 years) all identified as female counselors working in a metropolitan/urban area in India with clinical experiences ranging from eight months to 20 years. Individual interviews with each participant and follow-up interviews with two of them were conducted. The interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA; Smith & Osborn, 2008) method was followed for data collection and analysis. Peer debriefing, member check, and external audit were conducted. Results from this study provide insights into how counselors adapted Western counseling theories to the Indian context, incorporated indigenous concepts in counseling, attempted to integrate Indian/Eastern and Western approaches, experienced challenges in counseling and training, and suggested ways to overcome these challenges. Implications for clinical practice, training, and policy are discussed.
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Favaro, Marta <1992>. "Indian Consumer Behavior: The Case Study of Maggi Noodles and Nestlé India." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/9257.
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“You are what you eat” is a common notion that characterizes the cultures worldwide.
Starting from this phrase, we are going to describe the Indian Consumer Behavior with a particular interest in the case of Maggi Noodles, one of the most loved brand in India, by Nestlé. The first chapter explains the main characteristics of the emerging Indian market with the aim to understand why it is considered one of the most complex in the world. A relevant finding discovered is the following: There is no single India, by considering and contrasting both the consumers’ and market’s perspective. It is given a general perspective of Indian Consumer Behavior by following the concept that “Consumer India offers as much pain as gain” (Bijapurkar, 2008). Moreover, the main Indian values are mentioned with some examples: family orientation, saving orientation, child centrality and food habits. In particular, an entire paragraph is dedicated to better understanding the diverse food and eating habits in the Indian culture. Another interesting aspect discussed is the consumer health from an Indian perspective. In the ancient times, Indian believed that “Everything that exists in the universe, the macrocosm, exists in the microcosm of the human body”. However, due to the changing lifestyle, they have replaced the fresh and healthy food made by their labour intensive preparation, with the ready to eat food which is considered more convenient and tasty. Going ahead with the business case, 2015 has been an unexpected year for Nestlé India. Maggi Noodles, which is a product that is in the Indian hearts, was recalled from the market. FSSAI took a sample from a retail shop in UP (Uttar Pradesh) and after some test analysis, it has been discovered that the product had inside MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) and quantity of lead, both beyond the permissible limits. Thanks to the interview with the Marketing Manager of Nestlé India, it has been possible to see the way in which the Company has worked on the Maggi brand over the years. Moreover, it is dedicated a section for getting why the advertisement in India targets the children and why the micro package is common in the Indian consumption pattern. Finally, through the questionnaires and the interviews taken in loco at IIM Lucknow (India), we have analyzed the behavior of the consumers during and after the controversy by segmenting the market into students and workers. How much important is eating healthy food in their daily life? Did they switch to another brand? Are they still eating Maggi?
Through a quantitative and a qualitative analysis, we are going to report the results of this study that have been statistically tested by using the t-test tool.
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Mu¨hlan, Eberhard. "Family structures among Adivasis in India : a description and comparison of family structures and lives within the patrilineal tribe of Saoras in Orissa and the matrilineal tribe of Khasis in Meghalaya, India." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683361.
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Jensen, Rosie. "India in London : performing India on the exhibition stage, 1851-1914." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33593.
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In India in London I explore the numerous ways that Indian identity was being corporeally represented in Victorian London. Unlike other colonial identities who were also exhibited throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the exhibition of India in London routinely included a range of ‘authentic’ performers and entertainments, including native artisans, ethnological models of tribal and caste groups, snake charmers, conjurers, contortionists, nautch girls (Indian dancers), and theatrical spectacles. By exploring the presentations and interpretations of these embodied forms of display, I attend to the exhibition of a colonised culture that although broadly branded ‘premodern’ was also being acknowledged as an ancient and artistic civilisation and therefore could not be fully situated into an inferior category. By paying attention to contradictions such as these, I urge that, in the context of exhibiting peoples, white imperial power manifested not only through ‘savages’ but also through cultures that were more ambivalently comprehended. Therefore, while detailed evaluations of these entertainments join to and expand the scholarship that deals with the exhibition of peoples, I also show that the exhibition of India importantly accounts for the tenacious and creative strategies of the imperial ethos. Furthermore, by understanding exhibitions during this period as theatrical sites, which involved the participation of a British audience, I argue that Indian identity was partly being produced in, by and for the public imagination. In this thesis I largely explore the relationship between display and imperialism and consider how this relationship ensued through embodied, varied and performative ways of viewing, knowing, racialising, historicising and gendering India in the urban metropolis. However, by responding to the contentions and contradictions of performance, I also show that exhibited India in its assorted forms resided in numerous, often conflating, sometimes competing powers, including imperialism, entertainment, science, capitalism and nationalism in the Indian context. India as exhibition is consequently significant not only for its contribution to imperial discourse-making, but also for its disobediences to the hegemonic script. An argument thus develops in the pages to follow that although the exhibition of Indian bodies reflected, produced and promoted an image of India that the British Empire relied upon in order to succeed, they also rebounded within discourses that critiqued. Most interestingly, it is through these ambiguities that the making of imperial ideology in popular culture, the instability of British-Indian relations and the eventual downfall of the Raj can be charted. It is here that my most significant contribution lies.
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Popplewell, Richard James. "British Intelligence and Indian 'subversion' : the surveillance of Indian revolutionaries in India and abroad, 1904-1920." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272359.
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Chowdhury, Khairul Haque. "Three Bangladeshi plays considered in postcolonial context." Access E-Book Access E-Book, 1999. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20010919.141455/index.html.
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Angelova, Iliyana. "Baptist Christianity and the politics of identity among the Sumi Naga of Nagaland, northeast India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:653e1bad-b11b-42be-994c-b4e7c396d12c.
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This doctoral thesis explores the entanglement of religion and identity politics in the Indo-Burma borderlands and the indigenisation of Christianity there through grassroots processes of cultural revivalism. The ethnographic focus is on the Sumi Naga from the state of Nagaland in Northeast India. While the Sumi started converting to Baptist Christianity at the beginning of the twentieth century, conversion rates accelerated especially in the 1950s and again in the 1970s when two evangelical revivals swept across the lands of the Sumi and resulted in their conversion en masse. Significantly, these Great Revivals coincided in time with the most turbulent political history of this borderland region, as the Sumi, alongside all other Naga, were waging an armed struggle against the Indian nation-state for their right to self-determination and independence. While this struggle is now largely being fought with political rather than military means, it remains ideologically motivated by Naga perceptions of their distinct ethnic identity, history and culture compared to the rest of India. Baptist Christianity has played a central role in shaping and sustaining these perceptions. Over the past several decades following the Second Great Revival in the 1970s there has been a movement from within Sumi society to reconstruct and redefine their identity by drawing heavily on both their contemporary religion (Baptist Christianity) and their 'good' pre-Christian culture, which had been demonised and rejected in the course of earlier conversions. Discourses have been circulating in public space on the urgent need to reconceptualise collective Sumi identity by reviving, or preserving, those aspects of pre-Christian Sumi culture that are perceived as 'good' and constitutive of Sumi-ness but are currently 'under threat' of being gradually lost to modernity and foreign influences. These discourses are directly linked to processes of cultural revivalism across Nagaland, which have been motivated by a sense of the perceived loss of 'good' cultural heritage and cultural roots. This thesis is an ethnographic study of these processes of identity (re)construction within a Sumi Naga community. It sets out to examine the ways in which Baptist Christianity is central to everyday life in a Sumi village and how it plays an important role in forging group cohesion and solidarity through ritual practice and various forms of fellowship. The thesis then proceeds to study the phenomenon of cultural revivalism in both its discursive and practical manifestations. The thesis argues that the cultural revival has not reduced the centrality of Baptist Christianity to Sumi self-ascriptions and perceptions of identity, but is rather thought to have enriched it and given it a stronger cultural foundation. Hence, a Sumi Naga Christianity is being created which is perceived as unique, indigenous and distinct in its own right. The thesis attempts to explore the essence of this vernacular Christianity against the backdrop of its specific historical, economic, political and spiritual context and the all-encompassing Naga struggle against the Indian nation-state. In pursuing these issues, the thesis locates itself within debates on the intersection between religion and identity politics, which prevail in many contemporary contributions to the anthropology of Christianity.
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Arulmani, Gideon. "Mindsets and career choices : an intervention study for high school boys from low socio-economic status backgrounds." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326997.
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Mandal, Sangeeta. "Judicial review under indian constitution: its reach and contents." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2014. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/2639.
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McGetchin, Douglas T. "The Sanskrit Reich : translating ancient India for modern Germans, 1790-1914 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3055791.
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STANBURY, PAMELA COOK. "PROCESSES OF VILLAGE COMMUNITY FORMATION IN AN AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENT SCHEME: THE INDIRA GANDHI NAHAR PROJECT, INDIA." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184165.
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Anthropological research conducted in the Indira Gandhi Nahar Project area of the western Indian state of Rajasthan during 1984-1985 assessed the impact of agricultural land settlement planning on village community formation. The large-scale project, begun in 1957, has brought irrigation water to the extremely arid Thar desert and has brought irrigation water to the extremely arid Thar desert and has dramatically altered the social and physical landscape. Significant efforts have been made by the Government of Rajasthan to select settlers from the poor and landless population, as part of a social welfare policy, allocate agricultural land to them and create new settler communities. A single village, one of the earliest established by the project, was selected for the study of community formation. Historical and contemporary data were collected on five themes: (1) the settler household, (2) kinship, (3) patronage, (4) institution building, and (5) socieconomic stratification. For each theme area, a series of questions were asked regarding the impact of settlement planning. Although settlement planning has been a major influence on the study village, research revealed that settlers arrived under highly diverse circumstances and played diverse roles in the process of community growth. Research also revealed that the village community has maintained some traditional features of Indian social organization in the face of great upheaval associated with settlement. Both the indigenous families and some of the earliest unplanned settlers have developed large local kinship networks, assumed positions of wealth in a hierarchical caste system, and have been involved in building political institutions based on a stratified system. They have also been responsible for attracting later settlers, including both landless agriculturalists and, to a limited extent, service workers. The settlers selected according to settlement policies have not developed extensive kin networks and have been less active in institution building and developing patronage relationships.
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Superle, Michelle. "Inside and Out : Representations of India, Indianness, and the New Indian Girl in Contemporary, English-language Children s Novels in India nad the Diaspora." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506523.
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Shourie, Shiva. "Land Grabbing : Media discourses on land acquisition in India and by India." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-345986.
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To this day, land is a source of survival for billions of people around the globe. However, industrialization and the rush for natural resources has immensely commodified land. As colonialization in the past was based on the violent and forceful confiscation of lands, modern day colonialism called as neo-colonialism, operates by the domination of powerful countries over less-developed countries through economic or political influence and control. Hence, land stealing popularly known as land grabbing, in modern times is done most of the times by the native governments themselves for the national and international capitalists by adopting the strategy of neo-liberalism which in simpler terms, supports privatization by allowing freedom of trade, capital and investments. Land grabbing over the last couple of years has come under utmost scrutiny as it has impacted millions of rural people in Asia and Africa. Nonetheless, this study does not aim to examine the phenomenon of land grabbing itself rather focuses on exploring how two countries- India and Ethiopia, affected by land grabbing are presented by the media. A total number of twenty-five news articles are analysed by using discourse analysis as the method, and discourse, ideology and postcolonial theory as the theoretical framework. The results drawn from the articles showed that the media presented the issue in a bold manner by unveiling the darker side of the governments and capitalism. The study served the purpose as well as the aim of comprehending the media´s understanding of the phenomenon and the entities involved in it.
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Siegel, Benjamin Robert. "Independent India of Plenty: Food, Hunger, and Nation-Building in Modern India." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11598.
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This dissertation situates debates over food procurement, provision, and hunger as the key economic and social contestations structuring the late colonial and postcolonial Indian state. It juxtaposes the visions of national statesmen against those advanced by party organizers, scientists, housewives, journalists, and international development workers and diplomats. Examining their promises and plans - and the global contexts in which they were made - this project demonstrates how India's "food question" mediated fundamental arguments over citizenship, governance, and the proper relationship between individuals, groups, and the state.History
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Ghimire, Bishnu. "Imagining India from the Margins: Liberalism and Hybridity in Late Colonial India." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1334344362.
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Tiwari, Atul Kumar. "Environmental justice in India: a select contribution of Supreme Court of India." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/277.
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Vora, Kalindi. "Miss India USA 2001: Flexible Practices, Creative Consumption, and Transnationality in Indian America." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7088.
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In Miss India USA, an event that represents Indian ethnicity as imagined by the mainstream Indian community, we can find a representation of the true dynamic processes of self-definition that are occurring in Indian America. By looking for evidence that the 'ideal' of Miss India USA is a construction based on the interests of what turns out to be only one voice among many in the community, we can start to look for evidence of other voices in the pageant. These are revealed in the ways that contestants fail to meet the ideal of 'Miss India USA' and instead perform other versions of Indian identity on stage. This thesis argues that discussions of the transnational Indian community as a diaspora homogenize it in a way that hides alternate forms of Indian identity that themselves share transnational affiliations besides those of the mainstream community highlighted by the notion of 'diaspora.' Miss India USA reveals that individuals in diaspora utilize transnational affiliations to create a multiplicity of identities that can only be understood in the context of both these particular affiliations and the locality of the individual. New enunciations of race and ethnicity in the context of America are found in Miss India USA, as are practices of flexible citizenship by contestants who wish to use their cultural capital of 'Indian-ness' to access transnational career opportunities. This thesis argues that by recognizing diaspora as constituted by multiple practices of creativity and flexibility with both ideological and material capital, the nature of events like Miss India USA 2001 as sites of multiple Indian identities and the transnational ties that constitute them can be acknowledged as part of a diaspora.vii 138 leaves
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Persad, Rajesh Surendra. "A Passage from India: The East Indian Indenture Experience in Trinidad 1845-1885." NCSU, 2008. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08132008-104154/.
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The purpose of this research has been to analyze the social relationships that developed during the formative years of East Indian indenture system in the Trinidad. This work is an attempt to explore how the East Indian indentured immigrants in Trinidad individually and collectively navigated through the experience of servitude to form a collective identity and become established in a foreign land as they evolved from transient laborers to permanent settlers. Without the Indian laborers the sugar industry and the islandâs prosperity faced ruin while the perceived prosperity of the Indians inspired resentment. Caught between the worlds of freedom and unfreedom, the Indians sought to establish themselves within Trinidadâs society.
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Srivastava, Gaurav 1974. "Indian streets outside India : the construction of identity in Southall and Jackson Heights." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70367.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-108).
This is a study of how street businesses owned by immigrant Indians in London and New York City construct an identity for themselves, and then lend that to the streets on which they operate. The research is conducted at Southall, a neighbourhood in West London, and at Jackson Heights in Queens, New York City. The former served as the original receiving area for rural Sikhs migrating from Punjab in the 1950s. The latter is a twenty-year-old congregation of Indian businesses in Queens. I pose two questions. First, how have street businesses owned by Indian immigrants adapted inherited physical environments? Second, are such adaptations a deliberate attempt at asserting ethnonationalist identities, while simultaneously or independently furthering economic self-interests? My research aims to establish that in the process of earning a livelihood, immigrant Indian businesspeople construct identities and aesthetics that primarily further economic self-interests, and that these are often then mistakenly believed to be their attempts at 'establishing culture'. When the unit of analysis is the individual business, economic self interest predominates all decisions of identity. There are different sets of circumstances in which Indian immigrant businesses advertise, surrender or disguise an Indian identity. I will also establish that the differing profiles of the Indian immigrants to the US and UK explains the contrasting births and growth trajectories of the businesses in Southall and Jackson Heights.
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Nandi, Swaralipi. "Narrating The New India: Globalization And Marginality In Post-Millennium Indian Anglophone Novels." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1342390183.
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Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor. "The Smithsonian Beside Itself: Exhibiting Indian Americans in the Era of New India." University of Minnesota Press, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625791.
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Zimik, Mathanmi. "Communicating the Gospel to the Meitei through their social networks." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Mukherjee, Prasanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay Constance Lincoln. "Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) of India /." : American Institute of Indian Studies, 1993. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=1881570266.
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Dasgupta, Rajaram. "Nutritional planning in India." New Delhi : Navrang, 1989. http://books.google.com/books?id=jKvgAAAAMAAJ.
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