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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Bengal"”.
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Land system in Bengal
… the attitude of the - various coumunities of Bengal towards land. In the second part, I propose to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the system. - In the third I shall examine what reforms should be effected to improve the situation of all concerned."
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Microbial transformation of arsenic in Bengal floodplain
Presence of arsenic in paddy soils in Bangladesh has become a major concern, with Holocene soils reported to have higher levels of arsenic compared to Pleistocene. However, to date there is limited data on how geomorphology, land use and soil microbes drive bioavailability of arsenic in the paddy …
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Shakespeare studies in Colonial Bengal : The early phase.
Shakespeare was formally introduced in Colonial Bengal when Hindu College was established in 1817. This thesis highlights how in the midst of running controversy between Orientalists and Anglicists, amidst intense rivalry between Christian missionaries and orthodox Hindus, Hindu College pioneered …
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Stratified and stirred: Monsoon freshwater in the Bay of Bengal
… These dynamics are investigated in the Bay of Bengal, motivated by the upper ocean’s potentially coupled interactions with Monsoon winds and convection. The region’s excess precipitation and runoff generates strong salinity gradients that typically set density fronts and stratification in the …
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The Bengal army and the outbreak of the Indian mutiny
This thesis is a study of the Bengal Army from c. 1800 to c. 1870. Its central aim is to explain why the majority of the Bengal Army's native troops mutinied in 1857. It begins by comparing the pre-mutiny trends in the Bengal Army to those in its sister armies of Madras and Bombay: in particular …
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Stratified and stirred : monsoon freshwater in the Bay of Bengal
… These dynamics are investigated in the Bay of Bengal, motivated by the upper ocean's potentially coupled interactions with Monsoon winds and convection. The region's excess precipitation and runoff generates strong salinity gradients that typically set density fronts and stratification in the …
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A housing pattern for present day rural West Bengal, India
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1955.
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“Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal
… of neoliberalism in India in general and in West Bengal specifically constrain or contribute to women’s rights advocacy on the part of women’s rights NGOs? Further, the study has situated the three NGOs within their history, culture, and political and economic context, all widely recognized as …
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Patchwork jacket and loincloth: An ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal
… is an ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal, a specific group of people who are mendicant religious musicians and whose religious beliefs and practices are expressed in their songs. Since Rabindranath Tagore called the attention of the public to the richness of the Baul songs and their …
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The political study of nature--socio-ecological transformation of a North Bengal region
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies, 1987.
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Roots of change : front line workers and forest policy reform in West Bengal
… forest policy reform in the Indian state of West Bengal. In 1989, the Government of West Bengal adopted a policy of involving local communities in the protection and management of state owned forest lands, generally called Joint Forest Management (JFM). Through JFM considerable progress has been …
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Social Production of Hygiene: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism in Late Colonial Bengal and India
My dissertation shows how hygiene became a powerful cultural mechanism and was at the heart of nationalist imaginings of the domestic (family, community, and society at large). What is crucial to understand is not only how the emerging ideologies of a nation were intricately tied to health, …
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