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Journal articles on the topic "Indians movies"
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Si, Aung. "A diachronic investigation of Hindi–English code-switching, using Bollywood film scripts." International Journal of Bilingualism 15, no. 4 (January 7, 2011): 388–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006910379300.
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Code-switching (CS) between an Indian language and (Indian) English is, and has long been, a normal feature of everyday speech in urban Indian society. Although much has been written about the status and role of English, and about the sociological variables associated with English usage in India, there have been, to date, no studies explicitly investigating changes in CS patterns over time. Bollywood movies are a rich source of information on the speech patterns of urban Indians throughout most of India’s post-independence history. CS patterns in Bollywood movies (from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) were therefore investigated in this study, by means of lexical transcripts of the dialogues between characters of equivalent age and socioeconomic status. A survey of seven movie dialogues revealed that CS can be accomplished through a range of syntactic and morphological strategies. Quantitative analyses showed a massive increase in the overall use of English over this period, a trend particularly evident among young speakers. Moreover, the complexity of CS increased over the period under consideration, with ‘alternations’ at clause boundaries increasing in frequency at the expense of single-word ‘insertions’.
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Rehman, Sharaf N. "Om Puri: The man who presented the real faces of the subcontinent of India." Asian Cinema 31, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 269–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ac_00028_7.
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The Indian film industry continues to turn out between 1600 and 2000 films every year, making it the largest movie-producing country in the world. Yet, it would be a challenge for an average European or American moviegoer to name a film actor from the Indian subcontinent. Naming the films may be easier. For instance, millennials may be able to name Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Generation X crowd may mention Gandhi (1982) and the older audiences may recall The Party (1968) and Ganga Din (1939) as movies about the Indians and India. It was not until the movie Gandhi that Indian actors were allowed to play as Indians. Sam Jaffe and Abner Biberman played as Indians in Ganga Din; Peter Sellers was the Indian actor in The Party, and Shirley MacLaine was the Princess Aouda in Around the World in 80 Days (1956). It is reasonable to assume that many film viewers may be unfamiliar with Om Puri, an actor who played in over 325 films in India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States, and made films in English, Bengali, Punjabi and Tamil languages. Om Puri passed away in 2017. His name may be unfamiliar, but his face and his work as an actor will remain unforgettable. Between Gandhi (1982) and Viceroy’s House (2017), Puri acted in two dozen films in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. This article discusses Puri’s work in popular Hindi cinema, in Indian Parallel Cinema, and European and North American films.
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Michael, Noela, Sreejith Balasubramanian, Ian Michael, and Anestis Fotiadis. "Underlying motivating factors for movie-induced tourism among Emiratis and Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates." Tourism and Hospitality Research 20, no. 4 (March 26, 2020): 435–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1467358420914355.
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This study explores the underlying motivating factors of Emiratis and Indian expatriates to visit destinations featured in movies. The results revealed a five-factor structure for Indians: novelty, fantasy-driven, personal connection, prestige and movie connection, vis-à-vis a three-factor structure for Emiratis: novelty, fantasy-driven and personal connection with the movie location. An analyses of variance analysis (ANOVA) showed significant differences in the individual mean scores of items, with the exception of novelty. Regarding gender, while no significant differences were found between the male and female Indian expatriate populations across all factors and underlying items, differences for some items were observed between male and female Emiratis, with male participants demonstrating higher motivation than female participants. These findings support the notion that the underlying factors influencing movie-induced tourism differ between cultures, while the influence of gender was found to be limited. Overall, the study enhances the understanding of practitioners and policymakers tasked with attracting tourists to movie destinations.
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Gupta, Annie. "THE REPRESENTATION OF GULF BETWEEN DIFFERENT CULTURES AND DESIRES - A CRAZY SPECTACLE, THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY." International Journal of Advanced Research 10, no. 08 (August 31, 2022): 383–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/15190.
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Globalization has made understanding of cultural diversity more important. However, one challenge caused by cultural diversity is the existence of cultural stereotypes since stereotyping can lead to prejudice and discrimination. Literary works and movies sometimes depict the stereotypes of certain race and ethnicity. Authors and directors embed similar negative features to them hence it becomes a justification that those races and ethnicities truly have such negative features. India being one of the most curious literary sites to the comparatists, due to its linguistic polyphony and cultural syncretism, it is like a dream of the West. Europeans often represent the Orient (Asian people) by negative features in their works. The aim of this paper is to examine the stereotypical portrayals of the Indians and the French in Lasse Hallströms The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) movie, based on an eponymous novel by Morais (2010), by using Saids Orientalism and Bals focalization theories. The researcher used qualitative-descriptive method in reference to Mikos (2014) movies analysis method. The finding reveals the director presents Indian and French in a contrast way in which one is regarded as inferior and the other as superior. Furthermore, it is also found that the relation between them is similar to the relations between the Orient and the Occident, which are argued by Said (1978) as a kind of relationship which distinguishes self and other, that is filled with power and domination. Moreover, all the stereotypical images are represented through French characters (character-bound focalization or internal focalization) which put Indian society as object of focalization argued by Bal (2014).
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Nagar, Komal. "Consumer Response to Brand Placement in Movies: Investigating the Brand-Event Fit." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 41, no. 2 (May 24, 2016): 149–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090916642678.
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Executive Summary Movies offer the perfect media site for placement of brands as part of the emerging marketing strategy. Although attempts to analyse brand placements have been made in the past, the same needs more attention in the Indian context. Given the exposure of Indian audiences to both national and international entertainment industry, it is only reasonable to expect the entertainment event context to have an impact on consumers’ evaluation of the brands placed in each context. The present research attempts to extend the applicability of the idea of fit, which was till now largely confined to sponsorship and subjects it to the exploration of finding a fit between brands and specific events, in particular, movies. Because the link between country of origin of the entertainment event (national/international) and brand, placement is a relevant area of speculation, the present research aims to study this relationship within the national/international context. Results of an experimental study among 120 respondents are as follows: Brands placed in a national event will create more positive brand evaluations in terms of positive attitude towards the placed brand and intention to purchase than brands that are placed in an international event. When the presence of a brand is consistent with the context in which it is placed, it would evoke more positive attitudes and behaviour than an incongruent placement. Evaluation of results further reveals that although a brand that fits well with the context in which it is placed generates a positive evaluation of the placed brand, the condition of a brand-event misfit in a Hollywood context will create more negative evaluations among the Indian audiences than if such a disconnect appeared in a Hindi film. In other words, a brand may have more to lose in case of a misfit with the international entertainment event than with a national entertainment event. Based on the findings of the present study, it is suggested that multinational brands must look at the Indian movies as a suitable medium for reaching out to the prospective buyers as Indians have become consumers of global brands and thus pose to be a huge market for global brands.
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Carpenter, Kristen A., Sonia K. Katyal, and Angela R. Riley. "Clarifying Cultural Property." International Journal of Cultural Property 17, no. 3 (August 2010): 581–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739110000317.
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Author Stephenie Meyer forever altered the cultural existence of Quileute Indians when she wrote them into her Twilight novels. Now a veritable global phenomenon complete with books, movies, and affiliated merchandise, the Twilight series depicts young, male members of the tribe as vampire-fighting werewolves who ferociously defend a peace and territorial treaty made with local bloodsuckers. In reality, the Quileute Tribe consists of approximately 700 Indians, many of whom live on a remote reservation in the pacific Northwest, a tiny parcel of the once vast Quileute territory. Since Twilight's unprecedented international success, the Quileute have been overwhelmed with fans and entrepreneurs, all grasping, quite literally in some cases, for their own piece of the Quileute.
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Lutz, Hartmut. "“Indians” and native Americans in the movies: A history of stereotypes, distortions, and displacements." Visual Anthropology 3, no. 1 (January 1990): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08949468.1990.9966521.
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Toka, Karolina. "Progression or Stagnancy? Portraying Native Americans in Michael Apted’s Thunderheart (1992)." Ad Americam 22 (March 28, 2021): 87–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/adamericam.22.2021.22.06.
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Progression or Stagnancy? Portraying Native Americans in Michael Apted’s Thunderheart (1992)
As argued by Wilcomb Washburn, no other ethnic group has been misrepresented in media and popular culture to such extent as the Native Americans (2010). Movies that shaped their image did so by crystallizing stereotypes and misconceptions, through which indigenous peoples have been perceived until the present day. Thomas Edison’s vignettes, early westerns, as well as subsequent motion pictures of the 1960s and 1970s strengthened the stereotypes of the vanishing Indians, bloodthirsty savages, and their noble alter ego. The 1990s brought about a revival of the western in its new, revisionist form, mainly due to the achievements of the American Indian Movement. This paper argues that the movie Thunderheart (1992) by Michael Apted — albeit belonging to that ostensibly revolutionary current — continues to reproduce various well established stereotypes in the portrayal of the Native Americans . It examines significantachievements of this partly liberal motion picture, as well as its failures and faults. Thisarticle argues that Thunderheart departs from traditional, dualistic portrayals of Native Americans as bloodthirsty and noble savages and manages to present a revisionist version of historical events; at the same time, it fails to omit numerous Hollywood clichés, such as stereotypical representation of native spirituality, formation of an “Indian identity”, and “othering” of the Native Americans, which contributes to their further alienation and cultural appropriation. This paper provides an insightful analysis of the movie, drawing on scholarship in the field of cultural and indigenous studies in order to lay bare the ambivalence towards indigenous people in the United States, that is reflected in the movie industry. Moreover, it indicates towards the commodification of native culture, as well as the perception of Native Americans as primitive and inferior, allowing to classify Thunderheartas an unfortunate product of colonialism.
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Saxena, Rochak, and Mukshita Dhrangadharia. "Hindi Cinema and Society: A study on the perception of Indian youth." Journal of Communication and Management 2, no. 01 (March 18, 2023): 67–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.58966/jcm20232111.
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For Indians, Cinema has remained integral since its inception in society. Films have evolved from black- and-white to color; from several reels to a single showreel; from no animations to varied forms and techniques; and from single-screen theatres to multiplexes/multiple screens too. The researchers have chosen the social drama genre from the spectrum of diverse genres to study. The researchers are curious to know the perception of youth towards the mentioned genre, especially those who belong to the age group of 18 to 23 years. This research aims to study whether or not movies belonging to the social drama genre make the desired impact on society against social evils. With the ever-increasing number of social issues in the country, even during the present pandemic situation, this study holds significance in trying to know if one of the empowering tools of the Indian society for generating awareness is empowering or forbidding. The present study is conducted by keeping “Bollywood” (Hindi cinema) in the nucleus because of the researchers’ zealous fondness towards Hindi movies. Because of the unprecedented times of the Covid-19 pandemic, the data for the research have been collected using Google forms and combined with the data of 200 respondents, majorly from, but not limited to, the Western part of India. The study findings interestingly unveil that the majority of the youth believe the social issues are majorly seen in the middle economic class of Indian society. The majority also does not agree or is neutral with the statement that the social drama Hindi films could bring the desired change in society.
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Salwathura, A. N. "EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT OF 'HINGLISH' LANGUAGE WITHIN THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 8, no. 11 (November 24, 2020): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v8.i11.2020.2278.
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Hindi is the official language of India which is spoken by around 350 million of people in India. Hindi and English have an incestuous relationship ever since India became colonized. Since then, Hindi began to mix with English and became famous as ‘Hinglish’ in Indian society. ‘British-Raj’ is considered as the first Hinglish word which was used in the colonial period and now Hinglish has become a common phenomenon practice in India in day-to-day life. Due to the popularity of Hindi movies and television, Hinglish has been spread beyond the metropolitan areas in India. Therefore, it is expected to examine the impact of using Hinglish by Hindi speaking people in India on the existence of standard Hindi language. The language spoken in North India and the language used in media were utilized as primary resource. Books, magazines, journal articles related to Hindi language were used as secondary resources. This paper highlights that Hinglish has been acquired a big demand in Indian society and now it is hard to eliminate this trend which has largely affected the day-to-day communication of Indians. This paper emphasizes that the extensive use of Hinglish by the Hindi speaking people in India has become a huge challenge for the existence and the values of standard the Hindi language.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Indians movies"
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Black, Liza. "Picturing Indians : American Indians in movies, 1941-1960 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10418.
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Bah, Alpha Amadou. "Guru Dutt : Contributions à l'art cinématographique d'un artiste légendaire." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Montpellier 3, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022MON30025.
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L'Assoiffé (Pyaasa, 1957), Fleurs de papier (Kaagaz Ke Phool, 1959) et Le Maître, la maîtresse et l'esclave (Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, 1962) sont les trois films les plus célèbres, les plus connus et analysés de Guru Dutt. Cette thèse a pour ambition d'élargir le champ des possibles en convoquant sa totalité filmique. Légendaire, mythique, personnel, sincère, autodestructeur, désir de vie et ou de mort… tels sont les qualificatifs qu'on trouve dans la littérature cinématographique pour désigner Guru Dutt et son œuvre. L'intérêt pour l'Inde et son cinéma viennent d'un constat : il y a peu de films indiens distribués en France alors que l'Inde est le premier pays producteur de films au monde. Alors qui est Guru Dutt ? Quelle est sa contribution au cinéma ? Comment a-t-il porté le mélodrame à une dimension épique ? Pourquoi aujourd'hui les jeunes cinéastes qui, à la suite de Satyajit Ray, commencent maintenant à ébranler le système, se référent à lui comme un précurseur, un maître ? Cette thèse entend mettre en lumière les apports cinéphilico-filmiques de cet auteur pour comprendre le cinéma indien par le prisme de son œuvre par une approche socio-historique et phénoménologique nous permettant de retracer l'itinéraire du plus grand cinéaste populaire, musical que l'Inde ait jamais élevé. De sorte que l'œuvre de Guru Dutt, qui a passé avec succès l'épreuve du temps, n'a plus aujourd'hui qu'à franchir l'épreuve de l'espaceThirsty (Pyaasa, 1957), Paper Flowers (Kaagaz Ke Phool, 1959) and The Master, the Mistress and the Slave (Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, 1962) are the three most famous, well-known and analyzed films by Guru Dutt. This thesis aims to broaden the field of possibilities by summoning its filmic totality. Legendary, mythical, personal, sincere, self-destructive, desire for life and or death... these are the qualifiers found in cinematographic literature to designate Guru Dutt and his work. The interest in India and its cinema stems from an observation : there are few Indian films distributed in France, whereas India is the leading film-producing country in the world. Who is Guru Dutt ? What is his contribution to cinema ? How did he take melodrama to an epic dimension ? Why today do the young filmmakers who, following Satyajit Ray, are now beginning to shake up the system, refer to him as a precursor, a master ? This thesis intends to highlight the cinephilico-filmic contributions of this author to understand Indian cinema through the prism of his work through a socio-historical and phenomenological approach allowing us to retrace the itinerary of the greatest popular, musical filmmaker that the India has ever brought up. So that the work of Guru Dutt, which has successfully passed the test of time, now only has to pass the test of space
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D'souza, Ryan A. "Representations of Indian Christians in Bollywood Movies." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7772.
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This dissertation uses discursive formation as the methodological approach to examine representations of Indian Christians in eleven Bollywood movies released during the 2004-2014 decade. The decade witnessed the exit and eventual re-entry of the Hindu Right, and the citizenry during that period experienced centrist, liberal, and secular governance. Since the present of Indian Christianity is inextricable from a colonial past, and Bollywood emerges in response to colonialism, a postcolonial intervention in methodology and theory is undertaken. A postcolonial perspective illuminates the discourses that enable the formation of the postcolonial nation, i.e., the ways a nation imagines its culture, people, traditions, boundaries, and Others. There is a suggested relationship between the representations of Indian Christians in Bollywood movies and the decade of secular governance because the analysis is approached from the position that culture and media produce and re-produce each other. The representations of Christians in Bollywood movies are a product of contemporary and historical cultural, legal, political, and social discourses. This dissertation demonstrates that representations of Christians as hypersexual women and emasculated men within an emergent Hindu modernity discursively constructs India as a Hindu nation, and Christians as the westernized Other. The theoretical contributions pertain to belonging in the nation through homonationalism and hypersexualization; the relationship between democratic representations and media; the postcolonial ambivalent identity of the Bollywood industry because of way it represents Indian Christians in response to colonialism; and the Indian Christian community’s postcolonial identity as a way to make sense of their contemporary and historical identity.
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Williamson, Raya. "A Movement for Authenticity: American Indian Representations in Film, 1990 to Present." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494330075140438.
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Girier, Jean-Philippe. "De la déconstruction du mythe de la femme soumise à la construction de la femme agent dans la littérature et le cinéma indiens contemporains." Thesis, Antilles, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ANTI0382.
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La littérature et le cinéma Indiens contemporains s’inscrivent dans une dynamique qui va de pair avec les profondes mutations socio-économiques qui touchent l’Inde depuis la fin des années mille neuf cent quatre vingt. En effet, de nombreux romans et films se caractérisent par une liberté d’expression qui aborde de nombreux sujets autrefois considérés comme tabous. Le vent du renouveau qui balaie l’Inde est également marqué par l’augmentation du nombre d’auteures et de réalisatrices qui placent la femme au coeur de leurs récits et de leurs intrigues. Ainsi, l’objectif de cette étude est de montrer d’une part, comment l’image de la femme Indienne passive et soumise a été construite pendant le long processus de colonisation, d’autre part, comment la littérature et le cinéma contemporains tentent de réhabiliter la place de la femme dans l’histoire afin de construire une représentation nouvelle et dynamique qui symbolise la femme Indienne des années deux mille. Les romans respectifs d’Anita Nair et de Githa Hariharan, Compartiment pour dames et Les Mille visages de la nuit, tout comme les films Fire, Water de Deepa Mehta ainsi que Le Mariage des moussons de Mira Nair s’inscrivent dans un mouvement de résistance où l’agentivité des héroïnes témoigne de la volonté et de la difficulté de s’affranchir de trois siècles de mise à la marge. Dans une première partie, nous proposons de parcourir l'histoire, celle qui a attribué à l'homme des capacités supérieures à celles de la femme, lui conférant par extension une autorité, un pouvoir de domination. Cette approche historique et sociologique permet de comprendre comment ont été construits les liens qui unissent l'humain et le divin en Inde. Notre regard se posera également sur les bouleversements conséquents engendrés par la colonisation britannique. Cette période de l'histoire de l’Inde sera analysée afin de mettre en évidence les modes opératoires par lesquels l’empire britannique est parvenu à imposer un mode de vie fidèle à sa vision du monde tout en excluant les femmes des sphères décisionnelles afin de les « consigner » dans l'espace domestique. La seconde partie de la thèse analyse l'espace familial, devenu le lieu par excellence de reproduction des postulats androcentriques. Cet espace privé sera observé de près et nous nous engagerons dans une démarche qui combine psychanalyse et sociologie afin de démontrer l’importance de la construction du féminin dans le processus de déconstruction identitaire. Nous porterons une attention particulière au rôle jouer par la mère dans le processus de reproduction. La position ambivalente qu’elle occupe conduit souvent à une fragmentation entre l’être physique, l’être social et l’être psychique. La psyché devient alors un espace habité par le doute et la peur tout en étant l'ultime refuge de réconfort. Ce décentrement entre le corps et l'esprit nous emmènera dans le domaine de la psychosomatique, là où le rêve est le lieu privilégié de la reconstruction psychique. Nous observerons également les stratégies utilisées par les romancières et les cinéastes afin d’entamer le processus de reconstruction identitaire de leurs héroïnes. La troisième partie s'intéresse au cinéma et à la littérature à travers leur complémentarité. Dans un premier temps, nous retracerons l’histoire du cinéma de la marge et nous soulignerons son caractère engagé qui le différencie de certains cinémas populaires tels que bollywood. Par la suite, nous effectuons un rapprochement entre le roman et son adaptation au cinéma afin de mettre en évidence la complémentarité des oeuvres ainsi que la notion de solidarité qui représente un point essentiel dans ce travail collaboratif. En effet, les cinéastes de la diaspora que sont Deepa Mehta et Mira Nair, ont développé une approche militante et solidaire que l’on retrouve aussi bien dans l’écriture du script que dans le choix des acteurs et des actricesContemporary Indian literature and cinema are part of a dynamic that goes hand in hand with the profound socio-economic changes that have affected India since the end of the nineteen eighties. Indeed, many novels and films are characterized by a freedom of expression that touches on many subjects that were once considered taboo. The wind of renewal sweeping India is also marked by the increase in the number of writers and directors who place women at the heart of their stories and intrigues. Thus, the objective of this study is to show, on the one hand, how the image of the passive and submissive Indian woman was constructed during the long process of colonization, on the other hand, how contemporary literature and cinema attempt to rehabilitate the place of women in history in order to build a new and dynamic representation which symbolizes the Indian woman of the 2000s. The respective novels of Anita Nair and Githa Hariharan, Ladies' Compartment and The Thousand Faces of the Night, as well as the films Fire, Water by Deepa Mehta as well as The Marriage of the monsoons by Mira Nair are part of a resistance movement. where the agency of the heroines testifies to the will and the difficulty of freeing oneself from three centuries of marginalization.In the first part, we propose to walk through the history, that which attributed to the man capacities superior to those of the woman, conferring upon him by extension an authority, a power of domination. This historical and sociological approach allows us to understand how the links which unite the human and the divine in India were built. Our gaze will also focus on the consequent upheavals engendered by British colonization. This period of Indian history will be analyzed in order to highlight the modus operandi by which the British Empire succeeded in imposing a lifestyle faithful to its vision of the world while excluding women from decision-making spheres in order to "consign" them in the domestic space.The second part of the thesis analyzes the family space, which has become the place par excellence for the reproduction of androcentric postulates. This private space will be closely observed and we will engage in an approach that combines psychoanalysis and sociology in order to demonstrate the importance of the construction of the feminine in the process of identity deconstruction. We will pay particular attention to the role played by the mother in the reproductive process. The ambivalent position it occupies often leads to a fragmentation between the physical being, the social being and the psychic being. The psyche then becomes a space inhabited by doubt and fear while being the ultimate refuge of comfort. This shift between body and mind will take us to the field of psychosomatics, where dreams are the privileged place for psychic reconstruction. We will also observe the strategies used by novelists and filmmakers to begin the process of rebuilding the identity of their heroines.The third part focuses on cinema and literature through their complementarity. First, we will retrace the history of cinema from the sidelines and highlight its committed character that sets it apart from some popular cinemas such as Bollywood. Subsequently, we make a connection between the novel and its adaptation to the cinema in order to highlight the complementarity of the works as well as the notion of solidarity which represents an essential point in this collaborative work. Indeed, diaspora filmmakers Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair have developed an activist and united approach that can be found both in the writing of the script and in the choice of actors and actresses. This activism will be illustrated by examples that highlight the many instances of agency staged in order to build a dynamic image of women in India
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Curtis, Emily A. "Movies under the stars : a history and inventory of drive-in theaters in the Indianapolis area." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041913.
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The drive-in theater was a phenomenon unique and prosperous in 1950s America. At the height of their popularity, there were over 4,000 drive-in theaters located across the United States. Their great success came because they were suitable to the mindset of the time-they provided a place for a family to be together without dress code, babysitter, or parking problems, and without having to leave their beloved cars. Construction of 23 drive-in theaters occurred in the Indianapolis area between 1940 and 1974. These varied in size and location, but all contained the essential ingredients-a large concession stand, children's playground, and any other gimmick that would gather their audiences before sunset.By the mid-1960s, the drive-in theater industry began a steady decline which has continued to present. The drive-in theater always faced obstacles, including weather, insects, seasons, and poor technical quality of both picture and sound. Adding to this was the change in the American mindset, increased opposition from community moralists, and especially, the rise in property values.This creative project documents the general history of drive-in theaters across the United States, takes a closer look at the drive-in theaters in the Indianapolis area, and records them in an inventory.Department of Architecture
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Kvet, Bryan W. "Red and White on the Silver Screen: The Shifting Meaning and Use of American Indians in Hollywood Films from the 1930s to the 1970s." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1449250157.
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Manirajah, Sanggeet Mithra. "Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Role of Gandhian Economic Philosophy in India's Development." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/397.
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India has seen unrivaled economic growth since it embarked on its neoliberal reforms in 1990. However, accompanying this growth in income and wealth is an increase in social and economic inequalities among its population. This thesis will look at the impact of the neoliberal agenda on India’s population, particularly on its rural and marginalized poor, and show how this growth and development has been predatory in nature, benefitting a small minority at the expense of a large majority of the population who are experiencing poverty, unemployment and the loss of livelihoods as a result. This paper argues that Gandhian economic philosophy - in particular, the emphasis on localization and decentralization – has a central role to play in the development agenda of India, and is fundamental in correcting this imbalance. By drawing on Gandhi’s economic philosophy and present-day grassroots movements and initiatives that are echoing his core principles, this paper argues for the localization of power in the form of participatory governance to achieve rural revitalization, poverty eradication and radical empowerment. Fundamental for this to happen are appropriate forms and systems of governance at the local level; the creation of livelihoods through and within the local community; and incorporating local traditional and indigenous knowledge into development strategies.
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Merchant, Zain Farook. "A study on the depiction of drug usage, alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking in movies and its perceived effect on a young audience. A comparative study of American and Indian cinema and their respective Audiences." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4826.
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This study analyzes the depiction of drug usage, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption in
movies in terms of character stereotyping and typecasting. Because movies are focused on making money they are being used as marketing tools by alcohol and cigarette conglomerates (Grube, 2004). The study also explores youth perception of such content and tries to determine the behavioral implications or influence of such content on young children. The goal of this research is to analyze the social cognitive influence of movies on the youth and the effects of censorship in movies today. The research compares this effect in the two largest movie markets - the American market (Hollywood) and the Indian market (Bollywood) and the effect of these depictions on the youth to see whether this issue warrants a global understanding and awareness. The aim of this study is to understand the nature of the movie markets and the depiction of such content in movies. It analyses the issue solely from the perspective of a youth audience to better understand how the youth today perceive movies and to see if depiction of cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and drug usage has a positive or negative effect on the youth audience. A part of the analysis of the study is to also better understand censorship techniques employed for both movie markets to see if they are effective or need to be improved upon. Finally the study asks the question of social responsibility and whether movies and movie stars have a responsibility to maintain higher censorship standards or they are merely depiction art through the medium and should not be held accountable for their depictions on screen.
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Chilibeck, Gillian. "Moving mountains through women's movements : the"feminization" of development discourse and practice in the Indian Himalayas." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82696.
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This thesis examines the varied and contradictory ideas about rural women and their needs that are produced and circulate within development discourses and projects. It pays particular attention to the multiple actors involved in the production of such ideas and the relations of power that determine which ideas gain authority. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh, India, it looks at women's participation in three different development projects: a women's savings and credit group, a broad-based development NGO, and the women's village organizations (mahila mandals ). These case studies demonstrate how development organizations engage with local gender meanings, often working to reinforce or even exploit inequalities, rather than challenge them. As women are targeted by such projects, they creatively receive, shape, and negotiate the ideas and representations that they encounter about themselves. These encounters limit, and sometimes foster, women's potential for new political identities and agency.
Books on the topic "Indians movies"
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Making the white man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood movies. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2005.
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Fontes, Ron. Squanto, A Warrior's Tale: A novel. Mahwah, N.J: Troll Associates, 1994.
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Darian, Adina. The Indian world and its movies. Bucharest: [publisher not identified], 2009.
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Understanding Indian movies: Culture, cognition, and cinematic imagination. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
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Narwekar, Sanjit. Crafting movies: Exploring Hindi mainstream cinema. Mumbai: Mindscape, 2000.
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Body moves. New York: Aphrodisia/Kensington Pub., 2008.
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Bala Joban: The first Indian movie in Trinidad (1935). La Romaine, Trinidad: Caribbean Educational Publishers, 2014.
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Campbell, Black, Kahn James, and MacGregor Rob, eds. The adventures of Indiana Jones. New York: Lucas Books, 2008.
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Thomas, Jane Resh. Courage at Indian Deep. New York: Clarion Books, 1993.
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Mitos y cuentos chiquitanos, guarayos, movimas y mosetenes. La Paz, Bolivia: Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Carrera de Literatura, 2011.
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Shah, Mihir, and P. S. Vijayshankar. "Symbiosis of Water and Agricultural Transformation in India." In India Studies in Business and Economics, 109–52. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0763-0_5.
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AbstractThis chapter develops the argument for twin propositions: (a) that the crisis in Indian agriculture cannot be resolved without a paradigm shift in water management and governance, and (b) that India’s water crisis requires a paradigm shift in agriculture. If three water-intensive crops use up 80% of agricultural water, the basic water needs of the country, for drinking water or protective irrigation, cannot be met. The paper sets out how this paradigm shift can be effected between 2020 to 2030—by shifting cropping patterns towards crops suited to each agroecological region, moving from monoculture to poly-cultural crop biodiversity, widespread adoption of water-saving seeds and technologies, a decisive move towards natural farming and greater emphasis on soil structure and green water. At the same time, we advocate protection of India’s catchment areas, a shift towards participatory approaches to water management, while building trans-disciplinarity and overcoming hydro-schizophrenia in water governance.
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Balabantaray, Subhra Rajat, and Jayaram Singh Samal. "Indian Movies’ Impact on World Culture and Society." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs, 635–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44556-0_185.
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Balabantaray, Subhra Rajat, and Jayaram Singh Samal. "Indian Movies’ Impact on World Culture and Society." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs, 1–8. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13895-0_185-1.
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Gopalan, Lalitha. "Road Movie." In Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India, 261–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54096-8_6.
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Shah, Manjari, Dharti Takwani, Pooja Sharma, and Rajalakshmi Sriram. "Pitaji, Papa and Paa: Reflections of Fathering in Hindi Movies." In Fathering in India, 169–85. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1715-6_11.
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Flint, Kate. "Indians, Modernity, and History." In The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930, 288–96. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691203188.003.0011.
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This chapter assesses how attitudes started to shift at the beginning of the twentieth century—partly under the influence of Western movies, partly as modernist writers and artists started to idealize the Indian for their own ends, and as other wannabe Indians, most notably Grey Owl, began to develop the association of Indianness with environmental preservation. It also looks at some contemporary writing by native peoples—especially James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko—that aims to reappropriate nineteenth-century transatlantic history in a range of imaginative ways. By writing this fiction today, both Silko and Welch reclaim and rewrite the possibilities inherent for native peoples in the late nineteenth century. In so doing, they demonstrate that despite the importance, then and now, of tradition as both concept and practice within Indian society, identity, and modes of thought, it stands not isolated from modernity, but rather in mediation and dialogue with it. At a time when critical attention within American studies has increasingly turned toward imperialism and transnationalism, to explore the importance of the transatlantic Indian is to provide an important reminder that the internal colonial relations of the United States cannot be separated from these other trajectories.
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Fox, Brian. "The New World Presses." In James Joyce's America, 61–105. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814023.003.0002.
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Chapter 2 examines allusions to American popular culture in Joyce’s work. A potentially voluminous subject given the sheer range of references, the chapter narrows it down to areas which show a continued engagement across Joyce’s works. One of the most significant examples of this is blackface minstrelsy. Indeed, Joyce, it would appear, is particularly drawn to a specific kind of American popular culture, one with a strong sense of a connection with a history of colonialism, empire, and race. Within this framework, Joyce appropriates and renegotiates Irish relations to not only blackface minstrels, but also the Mutt and Jeff comic strip, Hollywood movies, Broadway musicals, cowboys and Indians, jazz, flappers, speakeasies, and myriad other markers of American popular culture.
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"Notes." In Understanding Indian Movies, 259–64. University of Texas Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/717862-009.
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"Introduction. Indian Movies and the People Who Love Them: Universality and Cultural Particularity in the Cinema." In Understanding Indian Movies, 1–13. University of Texas Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/717862-002.
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"Chapter Four. “So, What’s the Deal with All the Singing?”: The Cognitive Universality of the Hindi Musical (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham . . .)." In Understanding Indian Movies, 160–93. University of Texas Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/717862-006.
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Vollmann, Ralf, and Soon Tek Wooi. "The Indian Hakkas of Vienna." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.4-2.
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Hakka emigration has created many smaller communities worldwide; where some groups continued their migratory journey. One such example is the Hakkas, who first migrated to Calcutta and then moved on to Vienna and Toronto, clustering in a close-knit social network. In various sessions, Viennese Hakkas of all age groups were interviewed for their lifestories and linguistic practices. (a) The linguistic competence of the migrants includes Hakka, English and Indian (Hindi, Ben¬gali) but often rather little German; Hakka is important at the workplace (Chinese restaurants) and is transmitted in families; Indian helps establish professional relationships with Indian migrants. (b) The social network is rather closed to Hakka friends from Calcutta or from other places. All Hakkas closely cooperate and usually have only few outside contacts. They consider Calcutta as their old homeland to which they return for Chinese New Year. (c) The younger generation consists of weak speakers of Hakka who are fully integrated into Austrian culture, but also maintain contacts to Toronto and love to visit friends and family in India. To conclude, the Indian Hakkas of Vienna are an interesting example of a two-step migration which first converted some Chinese into Indians, and then planted this Indian subgroup into Europe.
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S.P., Anusha. "Keynote Speech: Technologies for Smart Transportation." In International Web Conference in Civil Engineering for a Sustainable Planet. AIJR Publisher, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.112.keynote3.
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The application of ITS is in an infant stage in India. The traffic stream in the western countries are lane based in nature with the major traffic composition including cars and a fewer percentage of trucks, which makes the data collection from the detectors less challenging. However, the Indian traffic being composed of different varieties of vehicles such as two-wheelers, three-wheelers, cars, buses and trucks moving without any lane disciplines makes the data collection a challenging task. Identification of suitable sensors for data collection under Indian traffic conditions by itself is a challenge. Numerous researches are currently being carried out to analyse the effectiveness of sensors for data collection under Indian traffic conditions such as Bluetooth sensors, Wi-Fi sensors, RFID sensors etc.
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Wang, Jian, Lulu Chen, and Yuanyuan Cai. "Baahubali: The Beginning, a Hamlet in Indian Movie." In 2017 International Conference on Society Science (ICoSS 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icoss-17.2017.34.
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Amaranti, P., R. Mau, and J. Tedesco. "Rottnest Island, Indian Ocean: moving towards sustainability." In SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING 2013. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/sdp130321.
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Hanagudu, Harish. "Biogas Fired Industrial Gas Turbines: A Technological and Potential Assessment." In ASME 1993 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/93-gt-224.
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This paper reviews the advantages, technical considerations and application of biogas fired Industrial Gas Turbines, and suggests strategies for improving the regeneration of electricity in cane sugar distilleries. Biogas is produced by the anaerobic treatment of waste by the Indian Distillery and allied alcohol based industries. Treatment of waste has been made mandatory and all distilleries in India are setting up such units. With the generation of biogas, the Indian Distillery has found a novel way of converting waste into energy. Traditionally, the biogas obtained was fired in boilers to generate steam. Steam could be used for process or to drive a back-pressure steam turbine. A few small units also considered installing dual fuel reciprocating engines. Recently, a trend setting project of firing biogas directly in a gas turbine to produce electricity and subsequently utilize the hot exhaust gases in a waste heat recovery boiler is being proposed. There are distinct advantages in selecting the gas turbine route over other competing prime movers.
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Sinha, Nitesh, and Raj Kishore. "Deepwater Pipeline Challenges." In ASME 2015 India International Oil and Gas Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/iogpc2015-7932.
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With the ever-increasing demand of energy in the country, the Indian exploration and production is now compelled to move into deepwater frontiers. The country’s energy reserve is getting exhausted with drying shallow water assets and the mainland is already overwhelmed with the pressure of sustaining the world’s second largest population. Therefore, “the upstream oil and gas fraternity of the country” has to now enter “less explored” Indian deepwater block which has already started with the launch of the NELP block by the government. Although, the world has moved into deepwater long back, the Indian industry is still developing the ways and means to tackle the challenges involved in deep water. This paper presents the insights into design and installation of deepwater pipelines along with case study of Middle East to India Deepwater Pipeline (MEIDP) of M/s SAGE, which shall be laid at a maximum water depth of 3450 m. This paper broadly elucidates the challenges in designing the deepwater pipelines such as requirement of thick-walled line pipes to sustain collapse due to external over-pressure and tensile stresses generated due to installation forces, pipeline route selection and optimization, geo-hazard assessment & mitigation, design against fault line crossings/ seismic design, free span, repair systems, seabed intervention etc. It also covers the additional manufacturing & testing requirements including tighter tolerances for line pipes suitable for deepwater installations. It also highlights the deepwater installation capabilities of Pipe lay Barges for the laying of pipeline in the deepwater to ultra-deep waters along with new evolving testing and commissioning philosophies. This paper intends to bring awareness among the “oil and gas fraternity” regarding challenges involved in deep water pipelines with respect to design, installation etc.
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Biswas, Sovan, and R. Venkatesh Babu. "Short Local Trajectory based moving anomaly detection." In the 2014 Indian Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2683483.2683556.
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Gijare, Sumant, Karthick K, Simhachalam Juttu, Sukrut Thipse, Akbar Badusha, and Jan Melin. "Development of Mission Profile Based Simulation Methodology for Fuel Consumption Prediction and Validation for Light, Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicles." In FISITA World Congress 2021. FISITA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46720/f2020-epv-047.
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"The very main objective for any innovative process to begin is the necessity. In doing so, the need of the automobile sector is mainly focused on passenger safety, comfort, reliability and above all the most defining factor would be to reduce fuel consumption (FC). In view of the Paris climate agreement in December 2015 and India’s commitment towards the ratification of the agreement to reduce the emission intensity of the GDP by 33%-35% by 2030 below 2005 levels and to create a cumulative carbon sink of 2.5 to 3.0 billion CO2 equivalent by 2030 about 36% compared to the 1990's levels, it is imperative to lay down strong policies and procedure to curb the fuel consumption and thereby reducing the carbon foot print. The growing imports on crude oil and the increasing CO2 emission per capita activity are major concern for authorities. In India one of the key sector which is responsible for the Greenhouse Gas Emission(GHG) contribution is transportation sector, of which road transportation alone contributes nearly 73% of overall GHG’s emission. Further bifurcation, it was found that the highest contribution of CO2 emission is from commercial vehicles, although the sales figures for this segment just hover around 4% of the overall annual sales volume of all vehicles. In view of the above factors, the regulation to bring a very robust methodology for the CO2 monitoring of commercial vehicle above Gross Vehicle Weight of 3.5-ton and possibility of making it a mandatory procedure is in progress. The fuel consumption measurement approach by simulation methodology shall be a substitute for the present legislation on constant speed fuel consumption (CSFC) where, the FC test would be carried only for defined speeds of 40,50 and 60 km/hr. As most of the countries like US, EU, Japan, China and Canada have moved towards mission profile based simulation for FC certification. India has also initiated the measures for simulation based FC prediction. As a precursor for simulation based FC prediction, in this paper we have followed a methodology which is comparable to the present FC prediction and monitoring procedure available in Europe. This pilot project involves strenuous testing of all the individual components of a vehicle as per defined methodology. With these inputs, we carried out simulation and compared with the real world fuel consumption. The results of the study revealed variations in the simulation compared to on-road test results. These deviations were due to the default table values in the software that are in-built which are more suited for the European conditions than for Indian conditions. To make the simulation tool more compatible with Indian driving and road conditions, it is proposed to have detailed study on vehicle acceleration limit, deceleration limit, gear shift pattern, driver behavior, auxiliary power consumption and above all, to formulate India specific mission profile which would be more relevant for bringing a more holistic fuel consumption prediction approach by simulation methodology."
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Vogelmann, Lucas Graebin, Gabriela Giehl Kirinus, and Alan da Cruz Mafalda. "From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: brand building through posters from George Lucas movies." In 6th Information Design International Conference. São Paulo: Editora Edgard Blücher, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5151/designpro-cidi-18.
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Tripathi, Ankita, and Shrawan Kumar Trivedi. "Sentiment analyis of Indian movie review with various feature selection techniques." In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computer Applications (ICACA). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icaca.2016.7887947.
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Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William Kerr. Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities? Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17992.
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Deepak, Baindur. Urban transport in India: Moving Towards Equity and Sustainability. Indian Institute for Human Settlements, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.24943/9789387315082.
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Yilmaz, Ihsan, and Raja M. Ali Saleem. https://www.populismstudies.org/hindutva-civilizational-populist-bjps-enforcement-of-digital-authoritarianism-in-india/. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55271/pp0017.
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The largest democracy in the world is now moving towards authoritarianism under the Hindutva civilizational populist prime minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s rule. This article focuses on digital rights in India that have seen a sharp decline in recent years. It explores the transformation of the internet and social media, from a relatively open and liberal space to a restricted one. This survey of India’s digital landscape finds that the rise of civilizational populist Modi and his eight years long rule have led to an upsurge in digital surveillance and control and has fostered an environment of online harassment and bullying for those who are critical of the BJP’s views and politics. The article uses a four-level framework (Full Network, Sub-Network, Proxies, and Network Nodes) to explore digital authoritarianism by the BJP government. At each of these levels, the Hindutva populist government has closed avenues of open discussion and exchange of views by enforcing new rules and regulations.
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Barnhardt, Sharon, Erica Field, and Rohini Pande. Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21419.
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Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy. Is there a market for multi-peril crop insurance in developing countries moving beyond subsidies? Evidence from India. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133198.
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Raju, Saraswati, and Ann Leonard. Men as Supportive Partners in Reproductive Health: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality. Population Council, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh2000.1040.
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This book builds on presentations of the Workshop on Men as Supportive Partners in Reproductive and Sexual Health held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1998. By analyzing the experiences of nongovernmental organizations across India, this publication reviews important concerns that should inform the discourse on male partnership. The previous views of reaching men as contraceptive users and removing them as impediments to women’s efforts to control fertility are too limited. The argument is not whether men and women should use family planning, but rather the extent to which men can become supportive of women’s reproductive and sexual rights and actively take part in responsible and healthy reproductive behavior. Applied research is needed to learn how to stimulate and support positive and healthy sexual partnerships between women and men. It is important to demonstrate that contraceptive safety and continuation, safer sexual behaviors, use of reproductive health services, reduction in morbidity and mortality, and other health outcomes can be improved through the positive involvement of men as supportive partners and responsible parents. This publication provides a wealth of information on male partnership issues.
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Nafakh, Abdullah Jalal, Franklin Vargas Davila, Yunchang Zhang, Jon D. Fricker, and Dulcy M. Abraham. Safety and Mobility Analysis of Rolling Slowdown for Work Zones: Comparison with Full Closure. Purdue University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317380.
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There are times when the traffic lanes through a work zone must be kept clear for activities such as placing overhead beams, erecting overhead signs, and installing power lines, and other temporary roadway work activities. As an alternative to a full road closure, a rolling slowdown can typically provide up to 30 minutes to complete such activities without bringing approaching traffic to a complete halt. Using data from recent rolling slowdowns and full closures carried on the Indiana interstate network and a simulation approach, this study compares rolling slowdowns to full closures from safety and mobility standpoints. The study suggests that while rolling slowdowns are more impactful in terms of travel times, they are a safer option than full closures as they often form a forward moving shockwave causing, lower hard braking rates, and consequently a lower probability of causing a crash.
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Islam, Asiya, and Preeti Manchanda. Gender Inequalities in Digital India: A survey on digital literacy, access, and use. Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit), January 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.20919/mcuu2363.
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This paper reports the main findings from a survey on gender inequalities in digital literacy, use, and access among youth (18-25 years) in three parts of India – Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar. In addition to gender, the survey was attentive to other inequalities too in its enquiry about the location (urban/rural), caste, household income, and education level of the respondents. This paper largely presents inequalities of gender as they intersect with urban/rural location since other variables, while important, yielded smaller numbers that need further careful analysis. The survey was informed by various contemporary developments – global growth in the use of digital technology for education, employment, and everyday lives; Covid-19 pandemic that has accelerated this growth; and the Digital India programme that aims to empower citizens through digital skilling. The survey, then, set out to explore the nature and implications of social inequalities in a society moving towards digital empowerment. The survey findings reveal overwhelming dependence among young people on smartphones for internet access and that entertainment and social media are the top uses of the internet. The survey also finds that women, particularly in rural areas, are less likely than men to exclusively own smartphones. That is, the smartphones that women have access to tend to be ‘household phones’, shared with other members of the family. This has consequences for the time and purposes that women are able to use smartphones and internet for. Based on these findings, the paper proposes avenues for further research on intersectional inequalities in digital literacy, access, and use. It also suggests policy interventions to maximise the potential of digital technology for education and employment, with specific attention to gender inequalities.
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Konstantinou, Theodora, Diala Haddad, Akhil Prasad, Ethan Wright, Konstantina Gkritza, Dionysios Aliprantis, Steven Pekarek, and John E. Haddock. Feasibility Study and Design of In-Road Electric Vehicle Charging Technologies. Purdue University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317353.
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Electric Roadways (ERs) or Dynamic Wireless Charging (DWC) lanes offer an alternative dynamic and wireless charging method that has the potential of giving electric vehicles (EV) limitless range while they are moving. Heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) are expected to be early adopters of the DWC technology due to the higher benefits offered to these vehicles that are traveling on fixed routes. The goal of this project was to assess the feasibility of ERs in Indiana and design a test bed for in-road EV charging technologies. The most suitable locations for implementing DWC lanes were identified on interstates that are characterized by high truck traffic. Using I-65 S as a case study, it was found that DWC can be economically feasible for the developer and competitive for the EV owner at high and medium future projections of EV market penetration levels. However, the existing substations are unlikely to serve future DWC needs for HDVs. Thus, consideration should be given to substation expansion to support EVs as market penetration expands. Implementing the DWC technology on interstates and jointly with major pavement preservation activities is recommended. Large scale deployment can significantly reduce the high initial investment. Renewable energy resources (solar and wind) deployed in the vicinity of ERs can reduce the electricity costs and associated greenhouse gas emissions.
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Yilmaz, Ihsan, Raja M. Ali Saleem, Mahmoud Pargoo, Syaza Shukri, Idznursham Ismail, and Kainat Shakil. Religious Populism, Cyberspace and Digital Authoritarianism in Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey. European Center for Populism Studies, January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55271/5jchdy.
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Turkey, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia span one of the longest continuously inhabited regions of the world. Centuries of cultural infusion have ensured these societies are highly heterogeneous. As plural polities, they are ripe for the kind of freedoms that liberal democracy can guarantee. However, despite having multi-party electoral systems, these countries have recently moved toward populist authoritarianism. Populism —once considered a distinctively Latin American problem that only seldom reared its head in other parts of the world— has now found a home in almost every corner of the planet. Moreover, it has latched on to religion, which, as history reminds us, has an unparalleled power to mobilize crowds. This report explores the unique nexus between faith and populism in our era and offers an insight into how cyberspace and offline politics have become highly intertwined to create a hyper-reality in which socio-political events are taking place. The report focuses, in particular, on the role of religious populism in digital space as a catalyst for undemocratic politics in the five Asian countries we have selected as our case studies. The focus on the West Asian and South Asian cases is an opportunity to examine authoritarian religious populists in power, whereas the East Asian countries showcase powerful authoritarian religious populist forces outside parliament. This report compares internet governance in each of these countries under three categories: obstacles to access, limits on content, and violations of user rights. These are the digital toolkits that authorities use to govern digital space. Our case selection and research focus have allowed us to undertake a comparative analysis of different types of online restrictions in these countries that constrain space foropposition and democratic voices while simultaneously making room for authoritarian religious populist narratives to arise and flourish. The report finds that surveillance, censorship, disinformation campaigns, internet shutdowns, and cyber-attacks—along with targeted arrests and violence spreading from digital space—are common features of digital authoritarianism. In each case, it is also found that religious populist forces co-opt political actors in their control of cyberspace. The situational analysis from five countries indicates that religion’s role in digital authoritarianism is quite evident, adding to the layer of nationalism. Most of the leaders in power use religious justifications for curbs on the internet. Religious leaders support these laws as a means to restrict “moral ills” such as blasphemy, pornography, and the like. This evident “religious populism” seems to be a major driver of policy changes that are limiting civil liberties in the name of “the people.” In the end, the reasons for restricting digital space are not purely religious but draw on religious themes with populist language in a mixed and hybrid fashion. Some common themes found in all the case studies shed light on the role of digital space in shaping politics and society offline and vice versa. The key findings of our survey are as follows: The future of (especially) fragile democracies is highly intertwined with digital space. There is an undeniable nexus between faith and populism which offers an insight into how cyberspace and politics offline have become highly intertwined. Religion and politics have merged in these five countries to shape cyber governance. The cyber governance policies of populist rulers mirror their undemocratic, repressive, populist, and authoritarian policies offline. As a result, populist authoritarianism in the non-digital world has increasingly come to colonize cyberspace, and events online are more and more playing a role in shaping politics offline. “Morality” is a common theme used to justify the need for increasingly draconian digital laws and the active monopolization of cyberspace by government actors. Islamist and Hindutva trolls feel an unprecedented sense of cyber empowerment, hurling abuse without physically seeing the consequences or experiencing the emotional and psychological damage inflicted on their victims.